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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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nonsense. the force is holding this one together.
but does it run CrunchBang Linux?
How much did Disney pay for this blatant slashvertisement?
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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.
That is exactly what they did. It is a scaled up model of Lego set 9493. Too bad it wasn't the UCS that came out this year....
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.
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.
nonsense. the force is holding this one together.
I see no duct tape in the pictures. I think you're mistaken.
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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.
Yeah, except I can't find a white 4 block anywhere. Someone's used them all.
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This is pretty awesome, but Largest LEGO model, no way
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I was disappointed by this as well. It's more like a replica of a replica. I was hoping they made something more detailed.
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Let me just say that they are doing a horrible job at antialiasing. I looked at those pictures, and there's jaggies all over.
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You guys get to look out windows?
Yeah. Corporate policy. Everyone is forced to use Windows.
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From what I have hard, the Lego model makers use solvent to chemically weld the pieces together.
When they can get a legal permit, they use GBL -- which unfortunately would turn into the drug GHB when you add water. Otherwise they use MEK. GBL is believed by Lego to be less toxic than MEK. (Well.. you are not supposed to drink either, so this is about skin contact and fumes.)
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