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Build Your Own Imperial Star Destroyer
tashanna writes "I got an e-mail from my brother with a link to this. Someone has built an Imperial Star Destroyer model from the original Star Wars movie that's appropriately-sized for the 4" action figures. The guy made it with an armory, bridge, cell bay, computer room, engineering (split over 2 levels), Darth Vader's chamber, conference room, troop rest room, medical bay and it measures 2 meters, by 1.5 meters, by 1 meter and is for sale on Ebay. There are interior photos on the eBay site. Ummm... WOW!"
That's not Imperial, that's butter!
Comes with the Chewbacca Defense system!
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1)Waste hours of life building scale star-destroyer model. /. with link to auction
2)Post star-destroyer for sale on ebay.
3)Post story on
4)PROFIT!!!!
Now before you mod me flamebait, realize this is a joke, and dammit I want one of these, but am both too poor and too lazy to ever have one.
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Pissing off Kuat Drive Yards by copying their patended ship design seems like a real bad idea.
He should have waited until we have atleast one orbital defense platform up.
All I gotta do is come up with some sort of geeky spin on a complete set of Mama's Family videotapes and I'll finally get these goddamned things off my hands.
You, sir, have hit the nail on the head.
I couldn't put my fingers on exactly what it was that was missing!
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But it doesn't have a Mr. Coffee or Mr. Radar! Damn you, Lone Star!!
But where does Barbie fit in?
Yes! Now us (boys) men can take our (dolls) collectable figurines and (play) display them in a scale size (doll-house) terrarium!
I think this guy might be quite clever. He's using eBay to host pics, for free, that can withstand a slashdotting! Of course he doesn't want to sell it, there's no way he can get anywhere near what his time and effort that went into is worth.
I read the summery and was like, "What is a Star Wars"?!?! Then I was relieved to see you had a link so I could easily find out more about those Star Wars.
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What gave you that idea? The picture of the kid next to it, the 4" Star Wars dolls shown inside the Star Destroyer, or the text indicating that it was made for play?
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On my 25th birthday I got a Death Star replica from my friends. It was built from an inflatable bathball and a large plastic bag. Unfortunetaly it was destroyed by some rebels armed with alcohol a couple of months later. Anyway, while it was still intact I used it to threaten my roommates when they "forgot" to do their dishes.
Not to mention that if that model is in scale with 4" toys, that's the biggest 5 year old in the world.
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Step 1) Get Yourself and 25,000 metric tons of steel into space.
Step 2) Start Welding.
Step 3) ??????
Step 4) PROFIT!
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Ahh X-wings boast 4 laser cannon and two front mounted photon torpedo tubes, two x-wings would match it if it had 8 turbolasers.
Did anyone else read his background on the ship. He's calling it a super-star destroyer, saying it's the one Vader hunted down Leia's Corillian Corvette with in ANH, this is incorrect, Vader grabbed Leia in an "Imperial Class Star Destroyer" The older, smaller versions were called "Victory Class Star Destroyers" and were only a half kilometer long. The "Super Class Star Destroyer" you see plunging into the second death star in ROTJ is Vader's Capital ship and is close to 5 kilometers in length.
Geez people, get your facts straight =)
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# someone might want to... I dunno... shoot a
# torpedo down there or something.
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Whats worse - buying this, or not buying it because its techically the wrong size?
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And don't forget all the contract labor that has to put financial interests before their own safety, who, as it turns out, made the wrong choice and became victims of a war they had no part in.
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It's a space station!
He calls it a "scale" replica...considering a Star Destroyer is supposed to be 1.6 kilometers long, those little model people are what, 500 feet tall?
Why do you think he is selling it? He realizes he seriously fucked up the scale and dimensions. He's trying to unload this piece of shit to get money for more materials to build a new one that isn't such a royal embarrassment.
If it had 8 laser cannons, two X-wings would outgun it, lol.
Well, you see ordinarily this would be true, but not in this dipshit's world. Realizing his first screw up, he built a scaled version of an X-Wing that only has 2 CO2 powered BB guns on the bow. 8 lasers vs. 2 BB guns... thats about to scale I guess.
He's getting the money to move out of his mother's basement
A Star Destroyer made for 4" action figures? How bout one made for 4' actual people. I won't be interested in buying one until I can sit my own hyperbolic chamber and mentally kill people.
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Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I guess Nigel Tufnel sketched it out on a napkin for him. :-)
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It's about time we get a link posted here that you can visit without being the first 5 people to see the post.
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