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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?
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.
It's in Times Square. Not exactly an obscure location.
Also, totally visible from my desk, which for once made having offices in Times Square not suck.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
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/
Then may I suggest links to some legitimate press coverage, rather than a link to an obscure blog no one goes to with a low resolution photo?
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
Dunno what counts for you, but here's a few:
Cnet
gizmodo
Starwars.com
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Yeah, I already googled it. I feel like an idiot.
It's in Times Square. Not exactly an obscure location.
Also, totally visible from my desk, which for once made having offices in Times Square not suck.
You have a job where you can see times square from your desk and you say it sucks? I would trade your view for mine of a black topped parking lot and a building on the other side of it for yours any day of the week, so would millions of others who don't get to see times square of all places.
You need to appreciate what you have.
You have a job where you can see times square from your desk and you say it sucks? I would trade your view for mine of a black topped parking lot and a building on the other side of it for yours any day of the week, so would millions of others who don't get to see times square of all places.
You need to appreciate what you have.
And you what you have. I would take you up on that trade in a heartbeat.
The only plus is that I moved to the opposite side of the building so I'm not facing the giant flashing Nasdaq billboard all day long. There are flashing lights everywhere, it's very crowded, and the food is mediocre and expensive. I've worked in a few different parts of Manhattan and this is by far the shittiest.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
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.
It's in Times Square. Not exactly an obscure location.
Also, totally visible from my desk, which for once made having offices in Times Square not suck.
You have a job where you can see times square from your desk and you say it sucks? I would trade your view for mine of a black topped parking lot and a building on the other side of it for yours any day of the week, so would millions of others who don't get to see times square of all places.
You need to appreciate what you have.
Lucky! The pair of ye. The only view I have is from whatever webcam I happen to browse to.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I work near Penn Station and it's pretty terrible but not nearly as bad asTimes Square. The obnoxious lights, the swarms of tourists, the constant noise. I know a few people who work overlooking Times Square and while it's a nice place to visit, you wouldn't want to deal with that every day. Plus to top it all off, everything around there is a tourist trap. There's practically no good food around (it's almost all chains since not many small places can afford the rent) and all of the prices are ridiculously jacked up. The best offices I've seen are around Chelsea and the West Village, and any place that overlooks the park.
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
LEGO House
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You guys get to look out windows?
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These are the links I was looking for.
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All I can see from my window is a flower-strewn meadow, a hill, a forest, a wind turbine, an orchard. And it's all mine.
Times Square? Black-top parking lot? You can keep them.
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.
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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Yes but the picture is what pros would call a bad picture: to give a relative idea of the height / width of the thing, they should have included a man for instance into he picture..
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Definitively photoshopped!
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.
You guys get to look out windows?
Yeah. Corporate policy. Everyone is forced to use Windows.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
It is made from large Lego bricks ... made from Lego bricks.
I also thought that the picture in the article was photoshopped, until I saw close-up pictures of each "brick" being jagged.
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The best offices I've seen are around Chelsea and the West Village, and any place that overlooks the park.
We only moved to Times Square about 6 months ago. We were in Chelsea before that, and I absolutely miss that office.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Sounds kinda like the Adobe, Microsoft, and (coming soon) NSA campuses in Lehi. Less forest and more snowcapped mountains though.
"The Adobe Updater must update itself before it can check for updates. Would you like to update the Adobe Updater now?"
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)