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."

Comments

Lego show

[Sean Johnson]

I once went to the mall and saw a lego show where they had all these cool things made. A statue of liberty model about 4-5 ft high stands out in my mind. 'Twas a wee little boy of about ten or eleven. It made my own lego creations back home seem like nothing. I was soo proud of my own lego creations until that day. I was thinking, maybe if I make some cooler stuff, these guys would let me work for them making this stuff. Yes, at one point in my childhood I wanted to build with legos as a career. Didn't every young boy at one point or another?

Death Star

[Uncle Gropey]

It's not Lego(R), but check out this Death Star that some guy made.

Re:Small Scale Death Star II? As opposed to what?

[kfg]

I predate the American availability of Lego. So for me it was first Lincoln Logs and then Erector Sets (in fact Gilbert made up a good deal of my childhood. You could go into a regular dept. store and buy jars of chemicals and frogs and scalpels to cut 'em open and stuff. All without parental permission or anything. People didn't worry about their kid swallowing a bolt or pickled frog back then).

So the Erector set is my real love. You learn real engineering principles. I first met Lego when I had younger cousins.

I agree with the "cheating" though. I mean, what's the point? Lego is for building things, not just to have a lousy model.

KFG

Re:Small Scale Death Star II? As opposed to what?

[irhtfp]

When I was a little squeaker, my aunt worked at a lego factory. The legos that would fall off the line would be swept up, put in bags, and sold to the employees for next to nothing. I have a whole trunk full of 'em!

They were all mismatched, every color and shape, but they were all just blocks (1s, 2s, 4s, etc.) along with a few of those angled roof blocks and some wheels, the old kind you pushed into the special blocks with holes on the side. I built EVERYTHING with them (except doll furniture).

Later on, I got a police station for Christmas and I was all WTF! (or the analogous six year old phrase). I just couldn't understand what all those little special pieces were for. I built the station once, took out all the basic blocks and threw them in the trunk, then put the kit away and haven't touched it since.

I still have them. My kids love them. And I have no doubt their kids will too!

Re:Girlfriend?

[cptgrudge]

I'm guessing he doesn't have a girlfriend.

Actually, from reading on his site, he does have a girlfriend, plus a six-figure salary as a lawyer. But he might give it all up, move from New York to California, and take a sixth of the pay to be a Lego Master Builder.

That's dedication.

Here is the article that he talks of his dreams of Lego.