Lego officially rocks

The Jazz Intern · Post by **The Jazz Intern** » 2005-09-09 04:21pm

LEGO MADE A LEGO DEATHSTAR! OMG!!!!
Lego officially rocks. I would provide an image, but it was in the magazine and not avalable in any store. It includes a stardestroyer to scale. Its just over 3,100 pieces.
LEGO ROXXXORS!!!!

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-09-09 04:25pm

*Turns firehose on Jazz* Cool it, boyo...

We've heard.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-09-09 04:27pm

Damn and here I thought most violations were just idiot trolls.

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The Jazz Intern · Post by **The Jazz Intern** » 2005-09-09 04:36pm

Sorry about the happiness.

Okay, Now I have a question. Acording to the magazine it was an Imperator to scale, but the engines are red, and the shape suggests an executor. I can't tell sizes, (haven't been here enough

) But which is it?
Also, they got the size wrong! they used 100 kilometers!

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2005-09-09 04:58pm

Aren you going to need to buy two or three of them to make a complete one?

Because it would kind of suck if you couldn't at least make a complete Death Star.

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-09-09 04:58pm

It's an Executor. Grossly out of proportion as well; I believe 18 km or thereabouts is the prevailing estimate. Of course, unless they want to start making micro-Legos, I don't think they could include one that size

Dark Primus · Post by **Dark Primus** » 2005-09-09 05:39pm

LOL to me the SSD looks like a Landspeeder

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba · Post by **Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba** » 2005-09-09 05:40pm

neoolong wrote:Aren you going to need to buy two or three of them to make a complete one?

Because it would kind of suck if you couldn't at least make a complete Death Star.

Of course, if you bought two or three it would mean you could make, like 3 superlasers on it. And if anyone accuses me of wank when the opic in question concerns Lego, I will be thoroughly amused.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-09-09 05:42pm

It's an Executor. Grossly out of proportion as well

The plaque says the DSII is "160 km", so it's not terribly out of scale.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2005-09-09 05:43pm

Bounty wrote:
It's an Executor. Grossly out of proportion as well
The plaque says the DSII is "160 km", so it's not terribly out of scale.

Yeah, 740 km off is a pretty small error.

RThurmont · Post by **RThurmont** » 2005-09-09 10:21pm

The 160km estimate is, obviously enough, based on a lot of the EU material, which grossly understated the size of the DS2. It's very hard, though, unless you're actually paying attention and trying to study it, to see the relevance of the DS2 to the DS1 in terms of size, heck, I believed the 160km figure for many years.

The 900km figure of course, is more exciting, and explains why the DS2 was able to operate when only partially finished, whereas even the outwardly complete DS1 was not pronounced "fully operational" until at least a third of the way through ANH.

In any event, some of those Lego designs are amazing. The Cloud City set piece seems a bit eerie though, you have to wonder, does it come with the torture device used on Han Solo and the other dark bits from that sequence?

Anomie · Post by **Anomie** » 2005-09-09 10:29pm

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba wrote:Of course, if you bought two or three it would mean you could make, like 3 superlasers on it. And if anyone accuses me of wank when the opic in question concerns Lego, I will be thoroughly amused.

Under-wank!

You need to buy eight, and have one model with a SuperLaser in each quadrent on each hemisphere! Eight SuperLasers on a single battlestation, now that's wank! Even with legos.

wilfulton · Post by **wilfulton** » 2005-09-10 03:34pm

Anomie wrote:
Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba wrote:Of course, if you bought two or three it would mean you could make, like 3 superlasers on it. And if anyone accuses me of wank when the opic in question concerns Lego, I will be thoroughly amused.
Under-wank!

You need to buy eight, and have one model with a SuperLaser in each quadrent on each hemisphere! Eight SuperLasers on a single battlestation, now that's wank! Even with legos.

You got $2400 to spend on wankage?

(and that's before shipping!)

wilfulton · Post by **wilfulton** » 2005-09-10 03:52pm

Well, no hiding it forever, I'm about to be branded a heretic, but oh well.

I am actually very disappointed with these larger lego sets. When I found out that it was making a death star, I at first thought it might happen, but then I bought the 3100 piece star destroyer (which was the one I really wanted, and was the only one out at the time) and was very disappointed. The damn thing did not hold together under its own weight, which was a source of much upset to me. In the end I tore the ISD apart and used the pieces to start making ships and vehicles for my other fic, with the post-apocalyptic solar system.

The Armor decks of the ISD were held on by magnets, and lego magnets are not the most powerful things in the world, considering their size. In addition, there were only, if I recall correctly, four studs securing the decks to the outside of the ship's frame, which is way too few for something of that size and weight. I would have lined the damn frame with connectors for the decks. I wasn't too happy about how the bridge tower and the tiered decks below it also simply sat on top of the ship, and had to be taken off before I could even pick up the damn thing to move it off my coffee table. If I didn't (even tried grabbing it by the stand to move it), the sucker would just fall apart.

I was also tired of constantly having to put the engines back on, replace the plates surrounding the engines because they kept falling off every time the armor deck would smack my coffee table, I couldn't even exercise in my living room without the son of a bitch dropping.

Looking at how the death star is built, I wouldn't be surprised that some of those hemispheres were likewise held on by magnets. Maybe the structure would be more sound, but I would not hold my breath. I miss classic lego, and I miss futuron, magnetron, blacktron, et al. Those were the days. And I greatly miss those days.

The Jazz Intern · Post by **The Jazz Intern** » 2005-09-10 10:50pm

I'm gonna guess no magnets, since they have better pieces more suited for the job, like a chsir shaped one.

Golan III · Post by **Golan III** » 2005-09-11 09:05am

my guess: superglue, not magnets holding the box art models together...

back when I was a kid, I had to build my star wars stuff from scratch. it was pretty tough!

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2005-09-12 06:10pm

Me? I'm still looking for cheap Lego-ISD's on Ebay... Need two to build my FireFox-Class Victory-SD

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2005-09-13 12:59pm

The Jazz Intern wrote:LEGO MADE A LEGO DEATHSTAR! OMG!!!!
Lego officially rocks. I would provide an image, but it was in the magazine and not avalable in any store. It includes a stardestroyer to scale. Its just over 3,100 pieces.
LEGO ROXXXORS!!!!

Awesome! Too bad it's the size of Texas!

All the children in the world couldn't build that thing, it'd take a thousand elementary schools with more building power than I've ever...

The Jazz Intern · Post by **The Jazz Intern** » 2005-09-14 09:39pm

Actually, not. I built the mellenium faclon (origional, and since I had tried it with out the instructions a long time ago) in about an hour. That model mighttake about a week

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2005-09-14 09:43pm

Oh, I was thinking something more to scale with those little lego men.

Dangermouse · Post by **Dangermouse** » 2005-09-14 11:50pm

The most amazing Lego Star Wars Creation I have ever seen:

Lego Super Star Destroyer / Command Ship

wilfulton wrote:The Armor decks of the ISD were held on by magnets, and lego magnets are not the most powerful things in the world, considering their size. In addition, there were only, if I recall correctly, four studs securing the decks to the outside of the ship's frame, which is way too few for something of that size and weight. I would have lined the damn frame with connectors for the decks. I wasn't too happy about how the bridge tower and the tiered decks below it also simply sat on top of the ship, and had to be taken off before I could even pick up the damn thing to move it off my coffee table. If I didn't (even tried grabbing it by the stand to move it), the sucker would just fall apart. Mad I was also tired of constantly having to put the engines back on, replace the plates surrounding the engines because they kept falling off every time the armor deck would smack my coffee table, I couldn't even exercise in my living room without the son of a bitch dropping. Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad

That is disappointing because it looks like an amazing model. I am surprised they made it so fragile; do the other ultimate collectors series models suffer from this?

wilfulton wrote:I miss classic lego, and I miss futuron, magnetron, blacktron, et al. Those were the days. And I greatly miss those days.

Yeah, Classic Space with the scuba-like air tanks and open face helmets rocked. The Castle series with the Lion Knights and the Blue Falcon Knights were also pretty good. I never liked Town.

RThurmont · Post by **RThurmont** » 2005-09-15 12:46am

It's a bit sad that Lego lacks the courage to continue to produce its own unique sci-fi toy line, and instead resorts to alliances with other brands like Star Wars. That, combined with the obvious quality problems inherent in using magnets rather than direct interconnection to secure the components indicates a lack of vision, creativity and discipline at Lego. If this continues, over time they will start to alienate their target market, unless kids are so stupid or un-brand saavy that they continue buying it regardless.....

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2005-09-15 09:42am

True dat. They obviously are shamelessly cashing-in big time.

I'm pretty old school. I loved the lego men, don't get me wrong, but when they first came out I thought Lego was trying to imitate "PlayMobile."

The first lego people I remember playing with were in a school-house setting, they were yellow-faced and had jointed arms and stick on heads (about the size of a typical lego person's torso) and stick on hair. Their hands were ball-socket type and had a single "nub" (whatever you call those individual pegs on a lego that stick to other lego surfaces) and hole in it to insert pole like objects. Their limbs were crazy, you could make them into an octopus or insect person quite easily.

My baby brother then got a Duplo (large size legos) set that had a lego guy with it that looked a lot like the eventual stock lego man would be (although he had a peach colored face and more detailed expression), only much larger and his legs were one segment, so he could sit down, but not "walk".

The lego sets in that time period tended to go away from pure creativity towards "making nice finished products" for construction, like model kits. That killed some of the creativity by giving you more "ready made" stuff. I guess it was nice for those of us who had less time to put together interesting things and wanted to keep them once they were put together. The same kind of thing happened with Tinker Toys. What started out as a lot of wooden spools and sticks ended up into a largely plastic set of easily broken gizmos for making certain projects. I wonder what happened to lincoln logs?

Nuts 'n' Bolts was another great one. Sure you couldn't do anywhere near the kinds of stuff you could do with lego or whatnot, but you could make some cool swords that would actually stand up to some goodnatured fencing in the backyard (don't tell mom & dad!).

drachefly · Post by **drachefly** » 2005-09-15 12:42pm

Dangermouse wrote:I never liked Town.

The airliner was good. Aside from that, yeah...

And really, Blacktron should return. Go out, Lego, and make your own stuff! Make stuff that was made to be made of Lego!

Rahvin · Post by **Rahvin** » 2005-09-15 02:41pm

Yeah, Blacktron ruled.

I don't remember what it was called, but there was a Police set that was really cool...Space Police maybe?

They all came with little detachable prison cells, and as I recall were some of the first lego sets to actually look like they had weapons.

I'm disappointed to hear about the Star Destroyer, though. I've long wanted to get one of those monsters, but if it holds together as poorly as mentioned earlier, I won't bother dropping that much cash.

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