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Star Destroyer Built Before Your Eyes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the own-the-force-now dept.

hardcoredreamer writes "These people spent 10 hours constructing their very own Imperial II-class Star Destroyer from LEGO and capturing over 7000 frames of the process with their webcam. The images were encoded with divx5 and are available to download in a 4 minute .avi. mirror 1 , mirror 2 , mirror 3."

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  1. Re:Interesting, but... by dan+dan+the+dna+man · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice lift from wikipedia there ;) I guess that's what it's there for, plagarising for that all important +5 Informative?

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  2. huge mirror by RoceKiller · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mirror of the "huge" movie

  3. Try it for yourself! by sinneb · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=10030

    Give it a go. For as little as 360 euro's you can try to beat the 10 hours! (if you have no friend(s) - the time to beat is 20 hours)

    1. Re:Try it for yourself! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Give it a go. For as little as 360 euro's you can try to beat the 10 hours! (if you have no friend(s) - the time to beat is 20 hours)

      You must be kidding:

      http://www.legofan.org/

      "Lately we have been making quite a stir in the community, and we're not about to stop yet. Earlier this year, LEGOLAND California hosted a Star Wars® Weekend . Part of this event included 2 Imperial Star Destroyer (ISD) speed build contests. The times for the two contests, held on separate days, were 1 hour, 34 minutes and 1 hour, 21 minutes respectively. (for more information about LEGOLand California, please go to http://www.legolandca.com/"

      I think the world record for the star destroyer is somehting like 46 minutes...

  4. Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! by The+Grey+Clone · · Score: 3, Informative

    It goes for $299 on Lego.com right now. Ouch.

  5. Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! by kf6auf · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wouldn't pay more than $300 for it. But that's just me.

  6. Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! by ciroknight · · Score: 2, Informative

    Erm, the design of the model's kinda prohibitive; it has an inner framework and panels that attach to the outside. It'd be like a navel ship designer starting at the bottom and building the frame at the same time as they built the outer panels; while the ship might get built, it's horribly inefficient if the work is divided up evenly, and might not even get the same expected outcome if a problem arrised during construction.

    Of course, I'm speaking in general engineering terms, but specifically, you have to turn the thing over to attach the bottom panels. Also, while applying the larger body panels, a certain amount of force is acceptable, and too much could certainly break the model, especially if trying a bottom up approach as you pointed out.

    Don't get me wrong, it'd be hella cool, it's just not feasable :-/

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  7. Lazy by otter42 · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of those guys (the one in the dark shirt) was a slacker. He lets the other one do all the work.

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  8. Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! by leuk_he · · Score: 2, Informative

    strange, for me it shows Price: EUR 369.99 , which is considerable more then $299 (looks like they got the euro dollar ratio in reverse since 354 dollar = 299 euro ?)