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Meet the 23-Ton X-Wing, the World's Largest Lego Model
First time accepted submitter awaissoft writes "There's big, then there's really big, and then there's colossal, which might be a good word to use when describing a near 46,000-pound Lego X-Wing that made a triumphant debut Thursday in New York's Times Square. The full-size replica, about 42 times the size of the Lego Star Wars X-Wing set available on store shelves, celebrates the debut of Cartoon Network's The Yoda Chronicles, which premieres on May 29 at 8 p.m. It took a small army of 32 Lego master builders, housed in a facility in the Czech Republic, to build the 45,980-pound, or 23-ton, Lego ship. It stands 11 feet high and 43 feet long, and contains more than 5 million Lego pieces."
The wings don't lock into the attack position. My nerd rage knows no bounds.
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I bet it's glued together - no Lego model that heavy could support its own weight. Cheat!
but does it run CrunchBang Linux?
I'm sure this is a real thing someone actually did and not just a poor photoshop someone did to try to increase the traffic to their blog.
Looks blocky, like they were modeling after a small Lego model kit rather than an X-Wing as portray in the movies.
How much did Disney pay for this blatant slashvertisement?
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This is quite possibly the most pointless blogspam ever. At least provide a link to a reputable outlet.
As mentioned it's been glued or a metal substructure. At 23 tons it's no easy piece
to move; displaying it will always be an effort and great expense. I see it being
very easy to break (not being involved in it's construction) as it has a large
unsupported extension.
Not wishing to offend those who enjoyed building it I'm sure, but what's to become of it.
Only place it could go would be to a Lego museum and LO I find there's one in the planning
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/24/danish_architecture_firm_tapped_to_design_worlds_first_lego_museum_partner/
Seems the editors couldn't figure out submitter "awaisoft" is a pissant blogger on the awaisoft.com domain
There have been many articles about this around the Net today, and o fall of them, this one is by far the worst.
For fuck sake, the entire blog posting was copied and pasted verbatim into the summary.
Here's a real article over at PopSci with many pictures, a video and a good many more words about the project and what went into it.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-05/world%E2%80%99s-largest-lego-model-life-size-x-wing-video
Not going to bullseye any womp rats in this.
It's actually not a full-sized X-wing, but a scaled up Lego X-wing, with the little bumps of the Lego blocks and all.
Frankly, I think it's actually more fun this way than if it were a full-scale replica out of Lego. There's something "meta" about building a big Lego piece out of smaller Lego pieces.
Is there a source of pictures of it that actually show some detail and aren't messed up by a filter?
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agrees with you. who would use the term 'rotor' or 'blades'?
This is pretty awesome, but Largest LEGO model, no way
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They should auction off the rights for one person to destroy it. Oh man. Can you imagine being 8 years old again and being allowed to thrash and kick that thing? Pure joy.
seriously
I think this has been mentioned elsewhere, but if you could design a remote lego-brick-making-from-local-materials-and-then-lego-stacking robotic device or devices, & then drop the system off somewhere (Mars, the moon, etc.) in No Time At All (O.K., a year, five years, etc.) you could build a moderate-sized shelter complex. Really, the small size of the bricks just allows you to add more architectural detail, and the small size of the bricks also might = smaller robotic devices to build your moon pyramid. We're already printing buildings, so I guess my point is that the size of the brick is immaterial if you aren't in a huge hurry.
Could something like this robotic device be built and flown? If you know the destination's soil composition, have access to power (and water), yes, probably.
Worth doing? Depends. Enough devices like this and you could prebuild arcologies (or monuments to your bad self) all over the solar system without ever leaving home.
The "editors" bring the topics, and the comments provide the actual information. If you want it the other way around, Ars Technica is good. Slashdot is crowdsourcing of a sort, and in this sense works really well...
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This isn't a "Corporations are ebil" rant from the OP, this is a "I'm so smart, I can see what you can't, you morons" rant.
Why does everything these days have to be photographed with that shitty instagram 70's polaroid look ? its not cool ! Bring back decent photography pleas - i want to see some detail on that X-wing
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It will never fly.
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I work near Bryant Park and would love to take a walk over and see it if I can find out its exact location. It must be indoors somewhere there, it rained cats and dogs in midtown Manhattan yesterday.
Let me just say that they are doing a horrible job at antialiasing. I looked at those pictures, and there's jaggies all over.
Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
Some people just need to get a job.
It's small compared to the size of the lego ship they had to make to ship it from Europe to NY.
Sure enough, the cow costume was hanging up next to the superhero outfit and sailors uniform. (S,Spud)