Magnificent! LEGO UCS Falcon

Deathstalker · Post by **Deathstalker** » 2007-02-11 11:17am

UCS Falcon

Tell me this is not one of, if not the most awesome LEGO set ever offered.
Product Features
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* Dimensions: 33” long, 22” wide and 8” tall! (84cm long x 56cm wide x 21cm tall)
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* Weight: 13.23 lb (6 kg)
My God, it's full of pieces!
* 5,195 elements

The UCS Star Destroyer only has a little over 3k pieces.
If the price is less than $500 US, I'll be suprised.

(Apologies befroehand if this is wrong forum)

Lex · Post by **Lex** » 2007-02-11 01:35pm

this is fucking great

Post by **RogueIce** » 2007-02-11 02:32pm

That looks like an almost-scale model Lego set. Neato.

*tries to imagine what it'd take to create a scale model ISD in Legos*

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2007-02-11 03:11pm

RogueIce wrote:That looks like an almost-scale model Lego set. Neato.

*tries to imagine what it'd take to create a scale model ISD in Legos*

Depending on the scale and attention to detail, something on the order of 1-10K pieces should do quite nicely.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-02-11 04:44pm

Correct to scale?

That's impressive, but I bet the fan-made one is still better.

Soldier of Entropy · Post by **Soldier of Entropy** » 2007-02-11 04:47pm

darthbob88 wrote:
RogueIce wrote:That looks like an almost-scale model Lego set. Neato.

*tries to imagine what it'd take to create a scale model ISD in Legos*
Depending on the scale and attention to detail, something on the order of 1-10K pieces should do quite nicely.

I think that he means "to scale to the Millenium Falcon one."

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2007-02-11 05:01pm

Soldier of Entropy wrote:
darthbob88 wrote:
RogueIce wrote:That looks like an almost-scale model Lego set. Neato.

*tries to imagine what it'd take to create a scale model ISD in Legos*
Depending on the scale and attention to detail, something on the order of 1-10K pieces should do quite nicely.
I think that he means "to scale to the Millenium Falcon one."

Where would you put something that big? That would have to be gigantic.

How big would that be anyway?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-02-11 05:13pm

Isolder74 wrote:
Soldier of Entropy wrote:
darthbob88 wrote:Depending on the scale and attention to detail, something on the order of 1-10K pieces should do quite nicely.
I think that he means "to scale to the Millenium Falcon one."

Where would you put something that big? That would have to be gigantic.

How big would that be anyway?

A to-scale ISD for the 3 3/4" figures would be several city blocks... I'm not sure LEGO scale.

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2007-02-11 05:17pm

Isolder74 wrote:
Soldier of Entropy wrote:
darthbob88 wrote:Depending on the scale and attention to detail, something on the order of 1-10K pieces should do quite nicely.
I think that he means "to scale to the Millenium Falcon one."

Where would you put something that big? That would have to be gigantic.

How big would that be anyway?

Falcon is call it 25 meters long; ISD is call it 1600 meters, suggesting a ratio of 64:1 length. This thing is 33 inches long, so a to-scale ISD would be 2112 inches long, or about 176 feet. For those of you who use metrics, that would be ~60 meters long. For those of you who use intuitive measurements, that's mighty big.

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-02-11 05:36pm

darthbob88 wrote:
Isolder74 wrote:
Soldier of Entropy wrote: I think that he means "to scale to the Millenium Falcon one."

Where would you put something that big? That would have to be gigantic.

How big would that be anyway?
Falcon is call it 25 meters long; ISD is call it 1600 meters, suggesting a ratio of 64:1 length. This thing is 33 inches long, so a to-scale ISD would be 2112 inches long, or about 176 feet. For those of you who use metrics, that would be ~60 meters long. For those of you who use intuitive measurements, that's mighty big.

Yeah... but everyone here knows they'd want to build it.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-02-11 05:36pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Correct to scale?

Close enough, at least. Eyeballing the cockpit and boarding hatch in comparison to the mini-figs, I'd say it's just a little too small, by about 10-15% maybe. The Millennium Falcon is somewhat larger than most people think from impression.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-02-11 06:24pm

Well, LEGO could make a ISD to scale about as large as they want like that Venator Star Destroyer. I wonder who was the person who bought the damn thing at 40K USD.

Marko Dash · Post by **Marko Dash** » 2007-02-11 07:11pm

Methinks they should put a scaled ISD up at legoland.

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2007-02-11 07:19pm

General Schatten wrote:
darthbob88 wrote:"[...]a to-scale ISD would be 2112 inches long, or about 176 feet. For those of you who use metrics, that would be ~60 meters long. For those of you who use intuitive measurements, that's mighty big.
Yeah... but everyone here knows they'd want to build it.

No arguments here, but how and where will we get the equipment? I can probably find a forklift, but the crane would be trouble.

The Jazz Intern · Post by **The Jazz Intern** » 2007-02-11 10:19pm

Very, very cool. I still have an origional set

fusion · Post by **fusion** » 2007-02-11 11:51pm

Sweet! Its close to scale.
Hey lets make an Eclipse or an Excutor to the scale of the the Millennium Falcon. Hey a 1936 foot long or 586 meter long lego, its bigger than the Freedom Tower on its side or the 101 tower!

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2007-02-12 06:25am

darthbob88 wrote:
General Schatten wrote:
darthbob88 wrote:"[...]a to-scale ISD would be 2112 inches long, or about 176 feet. For those of you who use metrics, that would be ~60 meters long. For those of you who use intuitive measurements, that's mighty big.
Yeah... but everyone here knows they'd want to build it.
No arguments here, but how and where will we get the equipment? I can probably find a forklift, but the crane would be trouble.

Slave labour:D Finally, a good use for all those trekkies and creationists retards!

Deathstalker · Post by **Deathstalker** » 2007-02-12 11:14am

Lego.com UCS Falcon

Available for preorder. Priced at what everyone figured, $500 US.

Steel · Post by **Steel** » 2007-02-12 11:34am

fusion wrote:Sweet! Its close to scale.
Hey lets make an Eclipse or an Excutor to the scale of the the Millennium Falcon. Hey a 1936 foot long or 586 meter long lego, its bigger than the Freedom Tower on its side or the 101 tower!

It would also be the largest ship ever built, as it is almost twice as long as an aircraft carrier...

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2007-02-12 12:20pm

Steel wrote:
fusion wrote:Sweet! Its close to scale.
Hey lets make an Eclipse or an Excutor to the scale of the the Millennium Falcon. Hey a 1936 foot long or 586 meter long lego, its bigger than the Freedom Tower on its side or the 101 tower!
It would also be the largest ship ever built, as it is almost twice as long as an aircraft carrier...

That's a bit of an understatement; I couldn't get figures on the width of an ESD or SSD, but I have reason to believe that even a scaled-down model like this would be larger than some countries.

OT: Should I be concerned that the first result when searching Wikipedia for "Nimitz" is the class of aircraft carriers, instead of the Admiral?

Ritterin Sophia · Post by **Ritterin Sophia** » 2007-02-12 01:56pm

darthbob88 wrote:That's a bit of an understatement; I couldn't get figures on the width of an ESD or SSD, but I have reason to believe that even a scaled-down model like this would be larger than some countries.

What's this SSD you speak of, I've heard of an 8 km Executor called the Super-class that was actually a ploy to trick the Imperial Senate into designed the Executor-class.

OT: Should I be concerned that the first result when searching Wikipedia for "Nimitz" is the class of aircraft carriers, instead of the Admiral?

Well considering that the Nimitz-class CVN has more of an establishment in the here and now, I don't see why not, though I suppose it is disconcerting to find that people are more interested in the ship than the man it was named to honour.

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2007-02-12 02:11pm

General Schatten wrote:
darthbob88 wrote:That's a bit of an understatement; I couldn't get figures on the width of an ESD or SSD, but I have reason to believe that even a scaled-down model like this would be larger than some countries.
What's this SSD you speak of, I've heard of an 8 km Executor called the Super-class that was actually a ploy to trick the Imperial Senate into designed the Executor-class.

Sorry; since I was abbreviating Eclipse-class Star Dreadnought to ESD, it would have confused matters to abbreviate Executor-class to ESD as well. I would have been referring to an "ESD or ESD", which could have confused matters. Instead, I used the common, if incorrect, term of Super Star Destroyer, which I understood to be about the same as an Executor-class. Mea culpa.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-02-12 02:15pm

Wait. The Eclipse was only 16km or so long. While that is larger than most small islands, that is still smaller than the average country.

It is possible that scaled down, the Eclipse would be frightfully as large as a Nimitz.

darthbob88 · Post by **darthbob88** » 2007-02-12 03:14pm

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Wait. The Eclipse was only 16km or so long. While that is larger than most small islands, that is still smaller than the average country.

It is possible that scaled down, the Eclipse would be frightfully as large as a Nimitz.

Correct, however, I was referring to "some countries" such as Monaco or the Vatican. And after some actual research, a scaled-down version would only cover most of the Vatican or Monaco, and not all of it.

Lord Relvenous · Post by **Lord Relvenous** » 2007-02-12 06:23pm

darthbob88 wrote: And after some actual research, a scaled-down version would only cover most of the Vatican or Monaco, and not all of it.

I don't the Pope would like that scenario. Poor little Vatican. You might be small but your heart is large within you, metaphorically speaking.