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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.
I'm guessing he doesn't have a girlfriend.
I think this guy's work is awesome. But I can't help but be reminded of a quote from a movie I saw recently, Pirates of the Carribean:
Jack Sparrow: [looking at all the swords] Who makes all these?
Will Turner: I do! And I practice with them three hours a day!
Jack Sparrow: You need to find yourself a girl mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one, and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch are you?
(thanks imdb)
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Here is a mirror for those 2 images:
o .fibersnet.net/solo11.jpg
http://colo.fibersnet.net/solo6.jpg
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How do we know those are really legos... Maybe he pushed a giant one of these pin art things on some poor guy at Chuck E Cheese and then took a picture of his pain....
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?
>>>>>> Chewie, take the professor in the back and plug him into the hyperdrive.
It's not Lego(R), but check out this Death Star that some guy made.
My blog can kick your blog's ass
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
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!
I've made up my mind and now I've got to lie in it.
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant, next to the power of the Lego.
Learn something new.
Troi: Captain, I'm picking up hostile intentions.
Oh, wait... wrong show.
End of Line.
Here's a mirror of the referenced images:
http://unbolted.llarian.net/lego/