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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.