starting with the Lego Death Star:

10/25/2009 6:19:47 PM

seriously? That's the best you could come up with?

10/25/2009 6:46:22 PM

[Edited on October 25, 2009 at 6:53 PM. Reason : moar]

10/25/2009 6:49:00 PM

10/25/2009 6:59:39 PM

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"That's the best you could come up with?"

Actually I came across it looking for something completely unrelated and decided to make a thread about it. Still, in rational kid-scale terms, a Lego Death Star is pretty F'n awesome.

10/25/2009 7:00:29 PM

that star destroyer is pretty badass imo

10/25/2009 7:08:32 PM

Here is the mini-figure scale version of the lego death star



$400 in the lego store

10/25/2009 7:50:54 PM

bitchin

10/25/2009 7:52:54 PM

i have these



and i'm getting these soon



they're all about 14" tall and they connect together to make one long street. the blue one with the short carport side, "market street", is one of the custom factory ones. it fits in with the others well.

i also have the batman tumbler


i want to get the medieval town and the farm/barn ones one day too.

10/25/2009 8:13:49 PM

^i want that firehouse too.

im trying to get it for christmas if i can convince my family to drop $150 on it

10/25/2009 8:51:32 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html




And the follow-up:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/09/22/james-mays-lego-house-has-been-demolished-try-not-to-cry/

10/25/2009 8:59:10 PM

^ I like your name, Mappy

10/25/2009 8:59:35 PM

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"Here is the mini-figure scale version of the lego death star"

that is not a mini figure scale...

mini figure scale = one lego man 2 inches = 6ft or even 2 meters if you want to shrink it down more which means you go by about 2.5 % of the "original" size (actually less than that as the figures are under 2 inches and = less than 2 meters)

teh death star (from A New Hope) is 160km in diameter = 4000+ meters in minifig scale.

so you can't ever really make one...

10/25/2009 9:20:39 PM

I was thinking that same thing, but I didn't want to be the bringer of technicalities. But yeah were talking roughly 2 miles in diameter for a Lego man scale death star. Which kinda makes me wonder what all was supposed to make it need to be so damn big.

10/25/2009 9:43:39 PM

^^ok right obviously the model is not to scale if a mini-fig is supposed to represent the size of a human in the movie compared to the death star.

but if you actually made one to accurate scale, where the model is proportionate to a lego guy if he was a human, it would be enormous



...and way more than $400

[Edited on October 25, 2009 at 9:46 PM. Reason : .]

10/25/2009 9:45:00 PM

I got one of these sets for $4 at the flea market next to my apartment, I don't really buy legos any more, but for $4 I couldn't not get it. The guy had to not know its shelf value.

10/25/2009 9:59:31 PM

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"but if you actually made one to accurate scale, where the model is proportionate to a lego guy if he was a human, it would be enormous ...and way more than $400"

yep

10/25/2009 10:06:49 PM

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"i also have the batman tumbler"

Wow. Have you seen how much those go for on eBay these days? I had wanted to get one for one of my friends' birthday last year, but it was WAY out of my price range. I wonder if it'd be cheaper to find the instructions online and then buy the parts individually?

10/25/2009 10:32:40 PM

holy shit

i had no clue that was a james may orchestration

10/25/2009 10:33:15 PM

^^^^my experience with buying legos at flea markets is that people jack up the prices..and usually thats on a shoebox full of assorted pieces, half of which are Mega blox


so your 4 dollar set is a steal

[Edited on October 25, 2009 at 10:35 PM. Reason : .]

10/25/2009 10:34:51 PM

message_topic.aspx?topic=565489

http://www.geocities.jp/jun_brick/yamato_m.html

[Edited on October 25, 2009 at 11:03 PM. Reason : .]

10/25/2009 11:02:11 PM

^^ it was opened, but i only needed to pull a round 2x2 dot plate and 2 rods from my collection to build it.

10/25/2009 11:06:59 PM

^^ Jesus (or an appropriate replacement Shinto deity)

10/26/2009 4:55:44 PM

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"Wow. Have you seen how much those go for on eBay these days? I had wanted to get one for one of my friends' birthday last year, but it was WAY out of my price range. I wonder if it'd be cheaper to find the instructions online and then buy the parts individually?"

when i was at a real lego store last (not the one in crabtree), they had plenty. i don't know if the crabtree store has them, i guess not.

HOLY SHIT why are they so expensive now?!?! i'll have to keep that in mind if i get strapped for cash.

i can make copies of the instructions for you.

damn it i wish i hadn't thrown the box out. i just did that a few weeks ago too!

[Edited on October 26, 2009 at 5:24 PM. Reason : oh well]

10/26/2009 5:23:21 PM

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"May slept in the house on Friday night, on ‘the most uncomfortable bed I’ve ever slept in’ – when he also discovered the house was not waterproof."

10/26/2009 5:28:39 PM

10/26/2009 6:22:05 PM

http://gizmodo.com/5260864/crazy-guy-making-huge-minifig-scale-lego-corellian-corvette

12 foot+ rebel blockade runner model, to scale



[Edited on October 26, 2009 at 6:52 PM. Reason : s]

10/26/2009 6:51:36 PM

this thread needs more pics!

10/26/2009 7:25:21 PM

I concur.

10/26/2009 7:28:49 PM

10/27/2009 10:43:31 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ut5ND3agI
Plans http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=2741872
Parts List http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/blakbird/Renders/MOCs/V-8/parts_list.pdf

10/27/2009 5:10:53 PM

10/27/2009 5:15:07 PM