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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. heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    i swear i saw the guy eat a piece. in frame 3857.

    1. Re:heh by BlackMesaLabs · · Score: 5, Funny

      In frame 313, you can clearly see his head move BACK, and to the LEFT!
      BACK, and to the LEFT!
      BACK, and to the LEFT!!

  2. Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! by Hungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This would have been far more interesting if:
    A) it had not come as a kit with all the parts in neat little bags
    B) They had not kept looking at the instructions.

    Putting together legos using the manuals really doesn't take that much does it? Now a to scale ISD out of 3m expanding foam carved with a hot wire and plumbed with LEDs .. now that would be cool AND you could float it on a pond.

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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. Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Do you know how many Bothans died for those plans? They damn well BETTER use them!

    3. Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! by ciroknight · · Score: 4, Funny

      *clears throat*, excuse me? I just clearly watched a video of them doing it in less than five minutes. So that whole "record" thing is wrong ;)

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  3. Benny Hill by njcoder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone else start humming the theme song for the Benny Hill show while watching this?

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    1. Re:Benny Hill by SamMichaels · · Score: 4, Funny

      Anyone else start humming the theme song for the Benny Hill show while watching this?

      I expected Tux to come out of the back room, smash it to pieces, and then see the 3 of them chasing each other around for 3 of the 4 minutes.

      That gives me an idea for a new sketch...

  4. Nice by ATAMAH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational /. battle station

  5. Ice cream.. by Paska · · Score: 5, Funny

    These guys like their ice cream a little too much, they got down a whole entire bowl in 1 second flat.

  6. Web server destroyed before your very eyes by gkwok · · Score: 5, Funny

    These people spent 10 hours constructing their very own Imperial II-class Star Destroyer from LEGO...and we spent 10 seconds taking down any server brave enough to offer movies of it.

  7. 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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  8. Re:Very nice by yobbo · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's what I thought when they dropped all the bags on the table. I thought they were drugs :(

  9. Fun but... old? by The+Grey+Clone · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks really fun, however, it's from 2003. We're a little late, guys. There is a girl, though. I'm going to go watch it again.

  10. The headline could be better by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I watched the video.

    I couldn't help thinking that that was what I'd have been like if it wasn't for my girlfriend's constant vigilance...

    I kept on looking for someone holding a gun to their heads but I don't think there were any.

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

    Mirror of the "huge" movie

  12. Shameless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I watched the video, found it very amazing and interesting, and at the end was incredibly impressed.

    Then, I watched it again, and this time I actually watched them build the ISD, rather than simply stare at the breasts on the RHS of the screen.

  13. 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)

  14. That's nothing by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I once assembled some flat pack furniture in less than three days.

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  15. i want my 5 minutes back! by Hes+Nikke · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ok.. so lego has a kit to make a star destroyer... yawn

    if they had made it out of generic bricks it *MIGHT* be interesting, but in the mean time.... i want my 5 minutes back... and i'm sure they want here 11 hours back.

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  16. Re:Very nice by ciroknight · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed.. Three mirrors on a Slashdot story. That's gotta be some kind of record!

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  17. That's no moon! by Maavin · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and no Deathstar, either.

    sorry..

    I once built "Airwolf" out of standard Lego bricks. That was nice. Until my cat tried its "landing capabilities", off the bookshelf... oh, well..

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  18. Re:/,-ed by lxs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately, because I'm at work I've got Windows XP, which doesn't support playing back video.

    Congratulations! You have first Windows XP-N post! Now go back to work.

  19. The bigger news... by Vladan · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the bigger news is that he convinced a woman to join him in this endeavour or maybe that he was able to concentrate on building a plastic replica toy after she agreed

  20. I'm so torn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Part of me is thinking, "These people must have no life. Imagine spending so much money on that."

    But another part of me is going INSANE with jealousy.

  21. Stealth by martalli · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lucky for them they weren't building a stealth fighter in 2003. Think of the trouble they would be in now!

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