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."

Comments

Problem

[girlintraining]

The wings don't lock into the attack position. My nerd rage knows no bounds.

Re:Problem

[bill_mcgonigle]

wings

I think you mean S-foils.

You can turn in your nerd card at the door.

Re:Problem

[girlintraining]

I think you mean S-foils.You can turn in your nerd card at the door.

"S-foils, also known as Strike foils or Stability foils, and on occasion as X-foils,[1] were movable wings..."

You can turn in your engineering card at the door.

Re:Problem

[Dahamma]

So during the Battle of Hoth when they were seen in atmospheric flight... they were purely ornamental?

Since they (along with most other spacefaring ships) were shown taking off and landing vertically, yeah, pretty much. Actually, the silly canonical explanation is they were for heat dissipation and "stabilization", just like the TIE fighter's "radiators" (which are clearly useless as airfoils).

Though given this thread is arguing engineering principles in one of the most unscientific major sci-fi series in recent history, I think we can all safely claim various levels of pathetic nerddom. Sigh.

Re:Glue

[kcmastrpc]

nonsense. the force is holding this one together.

Re:Seems legit. . .

[mooingyak]

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.

This pathetic blog link got greenlit?

[l0ungeb0y]

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

Re:Seems legit. . .

[mooingyak]

Dunno what counts for you, but here's a few:

Cnet

gizmodo

Starwars.com

Re:Glue

[girlintraining]

nonsense. the force is holding this one together.

I see no duct tape in the pictures. I think you're mistaken.

Crappy Antialiasing

[VorpalRodent]

Let me just say that they are doing a horrible job at antialiasing. I looked at those pictures, and there's jaggies all over.