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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2220 Joined: 5 Jan 2008     | Epic. I will always love these things. Seriously, they're like, 60 years old or something, and it's pretty much proven its longevity with people making these sort of things all the time. There will never be a better toy. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3697 Joined: 18 Dec 2007    | Oh Star Wars. I thought you meant David Hasselhoff. That would just be strange. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3177 Joined: 1 Nov 2007     |
Me too. I'm kind of disappointed. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1800 Joined: 8 Apr 2008    | Wait. Lego held a contest for four years? That's both epic and strange. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 436 Joined: 22 May 2008   | Lego is awesome however I still i can't help but feel sorry for the guy who isolated and nerdy enough to spend all that time and effort on a star wars scene. |
BANNED  Posts: 2505 Joined: 19 Aug 2008   | That is awesome! I wish I had the time to make something like that! User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4269 Joined: 13 Aug 2008    |
But then wouldn't that be "Fan makes massive Lego Hoff" instead? $3000 dollars is a hell of a lot to spend on Lego. At first I saw the picture and thought "Well it's not that impressive." But then I saw the other pictures, with the two AT-ATs. I would ridicule them for wasting their time making it. But the truth of the matter is I'm just jealous that they have that and I don't. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1546 Joined: 31 Aug 2008    | I'm wondering how the hell he got to the contest without it all breaking to pieces in his arms...Did he hire some sort of psychokinetic ninjas to lift it for him and then carry it with their minds to the convention? Edit: I would hate to step on that one. |
On the Record  Posts: 5483 Joined: 13 Aug 2008   |
I somehow doubt that he brought it to anywhere. Normally with these things they send in pictures, or Lego sends judges. They've made some pretty crazy stuff over the years out of Legos. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1800 Joined: 8 Apr 2008 | So what was the grand prize anyway? I can't find it on the site, and I'd laugh my ass off if it was less than $3,000 |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 575 Joined: 21 Jun 2008   | Colour me incredibly impressed, the amount of referencing and hours that went into that. Mind blowing. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 73 Joined: 16 Dec 2008   | As I was strolling through Walmart a couple weeks ago they had a life-sized lego Jango Fett on display. I thought that was pretty impressive. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2707 Joined: 20 Jul 2008     | Damn that's impressive. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2622 Joined: 20 Jul 2008     | Makes me want to crack out the Lego blocks once again. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 90 Joined: 5 Nov 2008   | I have a massive Lego fox in my back yard. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 731 Joined: 12 Dec 2007    | Now that's some serious lego-building right there. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3871 Joined: 7 Nov 2007  | Someone needs a life. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 582 Joined: 5 Feb 2008  |
Damn it not again! Just when I think I have found a life sized lego effigy of the 'Hoff' eating burgers while catatonic it turns out to be another bloody starwars playset, A good one mind you. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 800 Joined: 25 Nov 2008    | 50 Sq. Feet is crazy. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 978 Joined: 25 Sep 2008    | .. All we get to see are these 200x200 pixel pictures? And just four of them? Taken with a MyFirstDigitalCamera? The representation of this grand epic 50 square feet prize is a bit underwhelming. Edit: Here we go.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/23575410@N05/ |
Research Manager  Posts: 234 Joined: 28 Oct 2005   | This is quite cool. |
BANNED  Posts: 3486 Joined: 25 Aug 2008   | This is both saddening and awesome! By god that is.... epic. Now, I want a full 3D Lego representation of DaVinci's Last Supper. User was banned for: The Second Annual Escapist Election: Part 1: Presidential Primaries. (Permanent) |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 606 Joined: 18 Mar 2009  | Its only about time they made this. Next project. A near life-sized death star |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 744 Joined: 21 May 2009  | Mine is a wasted life. I could've been living out my dreams like this guy. EDIT: Well damn, posting in a necrothread. Does this make me dirty? |
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Fan Makes Massive Lego Hoth
Lego. Is there anything it can't do? Probably, but recreating one of the most epic battles in the Star Wars canon isn't one of them.
Star Wars fan and Lego aficionado Mark Borlasse spent four years and $3,000 building the diorama, which is packed full of little details like illuminated Bacta tanks, a working hangar door and even tiny minifig footprints.
The scene, made up of around 60,000 Lego bricks and covering fifty square feet, was the Grand Prize winner of the recent Lego Star Wars Building Challenge.
Travellers Tales, eat your heart out!
Source: Gizmodo
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