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Han Solo in Lego Carbonite
metalion writes "Nathan Sawaya built a life size replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite. It is composed of approximately 10,000 bricks and was built in approximately three months. Some sample photos are here and here. Sawaya's work also includes a mosaic of a stormtrooper and a small scale replica of the Death Star II."
I'd like to see a large scale Death Star II.
Anyway, I'm glad people still use the traditional Lego components for stuff like this. Don't get me wrong, Mindstorms is a great thing, and I'm glad Lego isn't totally giving up on it. But there's something about the more traditional Lego pieces.
No kidding... Too much time + genius + star wars geek= art
"If they existed, they would be here already." - Enrico Fermi
... that we now have two functioning probes on Mars for the first time since the Viking missions of the 1970s isn't quite as interesting to the Slashdot editors as some chucklehead with too many Legos and too much time on his hands. :(
That thing probably weighs about as much as a slab of carbonate, too.
After all, when a Lego Star Destroyer retails in Aus for AU$299 (discounted) building Han Solo must have cost a fortune.
One dude with definitely no girl (he has plenty of spare time AND money).
This might be one of the last few truly creative Lego projects.
At what point did the introduction of increasingly sophisticated and purpose-built Lego pieces diminish the creative aspects of Lego construction?
1961: First lego wheels
1964: First Lego sets to include specific building instructions
1974: Large-scale "maxi-figs" (solid bodies, poseable arms, heads w/ faces)
1978: Town sets with mini-figures, trees, signage (gas, fire station, etc)
1984: Knights, armor, swords, horses, wagon wheels, banners
1988: Pirates, cannons, tree trunks and leaves, pirate flags, alligators
1995: Aquazone, scuba gear, squids, painted canopies w/ sea-monster faces
2000-present: Bionicles, Star Wars, Spider Man, and Harry Potter sets
Another point in time? Actually, I'm not as interested in the date itself as much as the sequence of brick releases.
Oh jesus, people, quit your whining! I am so tired of everyone bitching about how special shapes are ruining lego. You know what? I *LOVE* the custom pieces. They add detail that I wouldn't be able to get otherwise.
Not when there are so many that the entire set is 8 pieces. That's stupid. But on a large set (600+ pieces), I see nothing wrong with having custom parts. Look, I love to build models. But I'm at college, and I don't have a lot of room for that. Instead, I build large lego sets. Sure, they only take a few hours, but they take a lot less space to build and are no less beautiful to me. And if the 2100-piece rebel blockade runner has a custom piece for its radar, BIG FUCKING DEAL.
That gorgeous 3000-piece star destroyer uses those "custom" magnets to hold the outer panels together. If it didn't, it'd be SOLID LEGO and weigh 42 tons. If you want to build everything out of the original shaped blocks, then every model lego sells is going to be the size of a small car.
Apparently, I'm the only one on Slashdot who feels this way. Maybe its not the most creative/inventive thing I could do with those blocks, but its fun for me.
I finally figured out why I hate custom pieces, and this is as good of a place as any to say why. If you need more of a custom piece, you usually can't just scrounge from other sets. You need to buy that same set again. The magents you refer to aren't custom. They are used in MANY sets. I have probably 30-40 of them, and I used them all the time. It's mostly the smaller sets that contain just one or two of a custom piece that really are the targets of this "backlash" or sorts. Especially when a standard piece or a combination of standard pieces could have done in place of the custom one.
Slashdot is proof that Sturgeon's Law applies to mankind.
something tells me that a lawyer with a six figure salary is very likely to get a date if he wanted to.