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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:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! by FidelCatsro · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes , but you know how many problems are caused by people not RTFM .
    That said , LEGO models like this are just collectors pieces for display(I have about 50), I make other models from my spare LEGOs going by models and so on this is where the real fun is. Designing and building your own .
    If you pay 300 (I have seen this kit go for anything from 200-400 roughly) then your not going to want to risk losing pieces

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  2. Here's Why ? by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Have you ever wondered why geeks do all kinds of impossible and silly things ?. It's my theory that geeks without any problems will create some of his own - like I don't have my own star destroyer made out of lego or my kernel should blink SOS using keyboard lights when it oops() (etc..). My programming guru has recently taken up buidling models too - crazy I tell ya !.

    Considering how cool the dark side is recently - I'd have thought someone would've built the death star too - with a Nuetrino torpedos here in neon ?.

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  3. Re:Try it for yourself! by mcbevin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    3104 pieces at 1 piece per second is 51 minutes something. So 46 minutes is quicker than 1 piece per second - if thats for one person thats crazy.

  4. Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! by Inda · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was expecting something different...

    It would have been more interesting if they started at the bottom and glued the first section to the table. They could have made a time-lapse animation of it being built a few pieces at a time.

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  5. Video.. with music! by Hyperhaplo · · Score: 1, Interesting

    http://01792.org/halo/art/uploaded/Lego_music.wmv

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  6. Somebody set up us the bomb! by core_dump_0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anyone catch the "All Your Base" T-shirt the guy was wearing? I'm surprised nobody mentioned it here!

    Anyway, awesome video!