LEGO Thread, formally "[56k Unfriendly] OK So..."

[Cortexian]

This is going to take forever to build:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/1618/boxfrontdn5.jpg

Anyways, I'm going to take pictures of every completed step and then throw them into a Movie/Slide show using Adobe Premiere... But for now, here are some images of the box/first opening/layout as of now, there are 5195 (Five Thousand One Hundred Ninety Five) pieces.

Front and Right Side:
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/5568/boxfrontrighthp1.jpg

Front and Left Side:
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/1907/boxfrontleftgo0.jpg

Back Side:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7871/boxbackwl4.jpg

Bottom:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8122/boxbottomkk6.jpg

The Specs on the Box:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8651/boxspecshe6.jpg

Opening the Box:
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/7541/firsopenboxxc4.jpg

Certificate of Authenticity:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/1616/certificateofauthenticiyq4.jpg

Manual:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/769/manualdt9.jpg

Manual with my Hand for Reference:
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/3005/handmanualnx1.jpg

The Pieces with my Hand for Reference:
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3245/handboxkq8.jpg

The Layout as of now, with ONLY one of the Sub Boxes laid out:
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2918/subbox1layedoutwidenx1.jpg

SEND HELP!

[Zeph]

Hah, my best friend would love that.

[Archon23]

Reminds me of when I got my Star Destroyer (Took me a month to put together, I'm truly surprised I didn't lose a piece)

Either way good luck and looking forward to that video ;D.

[yXy BiScUt yXy]

:eek:OMG
thats crazy how would u ever finish that youd either have to be a super fan or have WAY too much time on your hands

actually youd have to have both.


good luck man

[Bad Waffle]

ill help!

[TheGhost]

Nice. I built this one a while ago:

http://cache.lego.com/images/shop/prod/10175-0000-XX-12-1.jpg

[Cortexian]

Reminds me of when I got my Star Destroyer (Took me a month to put together, I'm truly surprised I didn't lose a piece)

Either way good luck and looking forward to that video ;D.
You mean THIS Star Destroyer ;). That only had 3104 (Three Thousand One Hundred Four) pieces... Took me a week or two.
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/3932/legostardestroyeruc8.jpg

The only reason I'm not finished the Falcon is because I haven't started yet ;).

[Archon23]

I had limited time to build, would've taken me a week if I had time. Though I'll help with the Falcon :D

Personally though I want to get that motorized AT-AT.

[Cortexian]

@ TheGhost:
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/2986/legostarwarsfp2.jpg
Oh Hello Thar!

@ Archon and Laggy:
I'll send you memo's with you assigned pages. We will be a living production line:neckbeard:.

[itszutak]

I wish I still got legos as presents :smith:

Good luck!

[OmegaDragon]

Good luck and don't throw away peices that look useless (I learned that the hard way on my first one D: )

[Pope]

How did you lay down the $500?

If school wasn't outrageously priced I would totally get this.

Something you might be interested in. (http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/misc/news20070702.html)

[yXy BiScUt yXy]

[quote=Freelancer;207180]@ TheGhost:
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/2986/legostarwarsfp2.jpg



nice collection
ive always suck
at legos

[Cortexian]

How did you lay down the $500?

If school wasn't outrageously priced I would totally get this.

Something you might be interested in. (http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/misc/news20070702.html)
Christmas

and

I want the Fett one.



nice collection
ive always suck
at legos
Thats half of it, I didn't have a pic of the other cabinet >.>

[Phobias]

Too much free time.

[Cortexian]

Too much free time.
Save me.

[Con]

Dude, that's sweet. Lego is awesome.

[Reaper Man]

OMFG AM WANT :awesome:

[TPE]

My friend had the star destroyer and it got smashed by his cat jumping on it.

As much as I love legos. Something always bumps into the shelf and knocks the whole thing over and I loose the 1 of a kind piece that comes in the set that I don't have.

Plus legos are too over priced for my taste.

[Mr Buckshot]

Very Nice! I love Legos, although I unfortunately don't have Star Wars lego toys. I do have every Batman lego toy though, and I still have my Lego Police Car from 1996 (I lost the lego cop though :( it's somewhere in Singapore). And I still have an old 1980's lego set, the kind that's meant to build any kind of model limited only be imagination and number of pieces.

Too bad I don't have time, otherwise I'd gladly help with the assembly. As for the fragility of Legos, just put the models on a sturdy shelf and problem solved.

Me want the X-wing fighter.

[Cortexian]

I want the Death Star II and the Tantive IV. Then My life will be complete.

[Sel]

Heh, I built that, myself, in like, 3 hours :D

Lego is t3h fun.

[dg]

That is so awesome, man. You should post some "in progress" pictures too. I love LEGOs. :-)

[Terin]

My little sister and I built the new star destroyer in about two days. Then it broke, and pieces got lost, and it was beyond repair. =(

[legionaire45]

I've always wanted the Star Destroyer, now I want this too =(.

The only big Lego sets I have are the old Lego Technic Mars Rover and then that Space Shuttle. The rubber bands on both have long since worn out and can't find any new ones =(.

[n00b1n8R]

SEND HELP!

YOU HAVE MY BOW!

seriously though, <3 lego :D

[Cortexian]

YOU HAVE MY BOW!

seriously though, <3 lego :D
What, no Axe and selfish human, ranger of the north, old guy, and two midgets?

[BobtheGreatII]

I dig it, I saw it in my lego magazine (my subscription ran out like, 6 years ago, but I still get them, lol) Heck yes, I still play with legos every now and then.

[TeeKup]

Personally, I'd be content with a Venator class star destroyer.

[Emmzee]

Legos are awesome.

[Cortexian]

Personally, I'd be content with a Venator class star destroyer.
I'll take the Eclipse class then.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/a/a3/Eclipse-NEGVV.jpg

[n00b1n8R]

DUM DUM DUM DUM DA DUM DUM DA DUM

you were all thinking it :p

[Boba]

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/2986/legostarwarsfp2.jpg

I used to have the Slave I and the thing with three wings, but I trashed them, lulz.

[Terin]

The Slave I is pretty well done. And I think I still have most of the parts, too.

[Kalub]

DUM-DUM-DUM, DUM-DA-DUM, DUM-DA-DUM

you were all thinking it :p


FTFY and yes, I was :D

[n00b1n8R]

The Slave I is pretty well done. And I think I still have most of the parts, too.

I kind of agree. while those models look fucking awesome, much of the appeal I find in lego is the sheer modularity of it all.

make your own thing and post it, then I'll be super impressed :D

also o/ kalub.

[Cortexian]

I kind of agree. while those models look fucking awesome, much of the appeal I find in lego is the sheer modularity of it all.

make your own thing and post it, then I'll be super impressed :D

also o/ kalub.
I build tons of my own stuff, only I never have any pieces of the same color because I just throw everything into two big bins when it's in pieces... I'll take some photos and color modify them to look proper...

[Zeph]

I'll take the Eclipse class then.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/a/a3/Eclipse-NEGVV.jpg
Oiy, I hate that ship. The Dark Empire Trilogy had some very nice designs in it, but some of the stuff in there makes me wonder if Lucas even gave it the OK to be printed.

[n00b1n8R]

I build tons of my own stuff, only I never have any pieces of the same color because I just throw everything into two big bins when it's in pieces... I'll take some photos and color modify them to look proper...

don't forget to post un-filterd images!

[TeeKup]

The Eclipse? Bah

The Sovereign Class is better. :3
http://www.emperorshammer.org/images/sssd1.gif

[Cortexian]

The Eclipse? Bah

The Sovereign Class is better. :3
http://www.emperorshammer.org/images/sssd1.gif

"The Sovereign was essentially a smaller cousin to the Eclipse-class design, with fewer weapons, a slower hyperdrive, and a smaller complement of starfighters and crew. Nevertheless, the Sovereign-class ships were vastly larger than almost any other warships they might encounter, and designed to instill fear in any enemies of the Empire." (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sovereign-class_Star_Dreadnought)

I win.

[Kalub]

Your technological lore does not frighten me!

ATAT BEATS ALL

[Huero]

This makes me want more legos. >:

[Amit]

:pervert:
@ TheGhost:
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/2986/legostarwarsfp2.jpg


Give me that i/LAAT gunship and ARC-170 fighter NOW!!!


I want the Death Star II and the Tantive IV. Then My life will be complete.

Tantive IV :pervert:


Personally, I'd be content with a Venator class star destroyer.

Venator is my MOST WANTED ship of all time. A D77 Pelican TC would make sweet sex to my fingers. I want one that is an actual model that I can play with and make my own MC, Arbie, and friends episodes :awesome:


I'll take the Eclipse class then.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/a/a3/Eclipse-NEGVV.jpg

My Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer is small but totally awsome :iia: http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/amit9821/932730_20060711_screen001.jpg

[il Duce Primo]

I still have crates of legos under my bed and in my closet. My brother past them down to me and there's so many you could do whatever you wanted. He got like a new box everyweek. And for Christmas it was lego galore for him.

[Cortexian]

My Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer is small but totally awsome :iia: <pic>
The Executor-Class Is only a couple km's shorter isn't it? The Eclipse-Class is bigger in mass as well, it's HUGE.


I still have crates of legos under my bed and in my closet. My brother past them down to me and there's so many you could do whatever you wanted. He got like a new box everyweek. And for Christmas it was lego galore for him.
You must have a really big bed to fit that many pieces under it. Because if I could, I'd build a fucking 1/1 scale Imperial Class.

[Amit]

The Executor-Class Is only a couple km's shorter isn't it? The Eclipse-Class is bigger in mass as well, it's HUGE.


You must have a really big bed to fit that many pieces under it. Because if I could, I'd build a fucking 1/1 scale Imperial Class.

I call First Officer!

[teh lag]

:O lego? I have a massive stack of boxes full of pieces I color-coded waaaaay back when. I occasionally build stuff from brickcommander.com, though by "occasionally" I mean like once a year when I'm bored.

Needless to say, this is an undertaking of truly epic proportions compared to that.

[FRain]

Let's play Which Starship Is Bigger!?

Round 1

FIGHT.


SHORIYOUKEN.

[Amit]

Let's play Which Starship Is Bigger!?

Round 1

FIGHT.


SHORIYOUKEN.

We had one of these before and it didn't end well. And of all people to start it up again, you. I thought you were past your old ways.

[Cortexian]

MY Starship is bigger.

End of story.

[TeeKup]

"The Sovereign was essentially a smaller cousin to the Eclipse-class design, with fewer weapons, a slower hyperdrive, and a smaller complement of starfighters and crew. Nevertheless, the Sovereign-class ships were vastly larger than almost any other warships they might encounter, and designed to instill fear in any enemies of the Empire." (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sovereign-class_Star_Dreadnought)

I win.
Doesn't matter in my eyes, it looks sexy and is still a versatile star ship.

And btw, bigger, ISN'T always better. ;)

Wasn't there also a star ship called the Imperium? I don't remember if it was a fan creation or not. Was supposed to be 10 times bigger than an eclipse.

[Cortexian]

Doesn't matter in my eyes, it looks sexy and is still a versatile star ship.

And btw, bigger, ISN'T always better. ;)

Wasn't there also a star ship called the Imperium? I don't remember if it was a fan creation or not. Was supposed to be 10 times bigger than an eclipse.
Sounds fan created.

[Cortexian]

Also, besides my obvious double-post-bump.

This just arrived in the mail:
http://shop.lego.com/ByCategory/Product.aspx?p=10143&cn=128&d=263

I'm like... 1/4 through the Millennium Falcon atm, LEGO OVERLOAD!

[Llama Juice]

needs moar

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[Reaper Man]

That. Is. Legendary.

[Jay2645]

2006 I got the Star Destroyer for Christmas.

I superglued it, and it STILL came apart.
Mom says I made a couple design flaws, but I followed the instructions EXACTLY.

Nevertheless, I have not received the Falcon, probably due to the 500,000+ (I'm serious here) Legos sitting in my tub. Actually, my TUBS. They couldn't all fit in one.

But I have sets from the 1990's Lego city and Aqua Raiders, to the 2001 Life on Mars, to the Original Bionicles, to the first editions of the X-Wing, Y-Wing, A-Wing, TIE Fighter, Naboo Starfighter, ARC-170 Starfighter, every single one of the 9V trains (They're slowly being phased out by the less-chance-of-electrocution RC Trains), Lego Racers (I still have my original cars from the game on Lego.com), and more I can't even think of.
I have Lego Island 1 and 2 for the PC, both 100&#37; complete, Lego Racers 1 and 2 (For the PS1 and PS2, respectively) which is 100% complete, LEGOLAND (PC), also 100% complete, Lego Star Wars 1 and 2 for the PS2, and The Complete Saga for the 360 (Just got that for Christmas, haven't beaten it yet, been doing other things).

I'm 16, and I've gotten Legos from my parents since I was in Kindergarten, when I was 5.

[BobtheGreatII]

I'm gonna be 16 tomorrow, and I got my first set from my grandpa on my 3rd birthday. I wasn't exactly allowed to play with them yet... : |

[MNC]

You'll finish it within a week with a 2 hour workday. Workday as in LEGO building.

Which reminds me, I still have that AT-AT from Mindstorm that I should put together.

[Cortexian]

@ LL, my Millennium Falcon is about 5 times that size, I couldn't make a stop animation like that. I am however going to make a stop animation.

[Cortexian]

Reviving this... Lets say I stalled on the creation of this for two and a half years, no stop animation of the build because of said stall... Anyhow, I pulled the structure (about 1/3 of the entire work) out of storage and all the pieces and finished her up in the time it took to watch all six Star Wars films (had them playing for motivation). So lets assume it took me approximately 20 hours build time to finish this, I'm getting slow in my old age...

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/6232/14443350.jpg

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/4886/86167299.jpg

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/9416/92255961.jpg

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/9169/75486709.jpg

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8292/88897658.jpg

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/9665/40090104.jpg

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/2630/79863891.jpg

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1434/55757199.jpg

Finally I can get 5,195 LEGO pieces out of storage and into display haha. Now I need to bust open my UCE Death Star II (http://starwars.lego.com/en-us/Holobrick/details/10143.aspx?ctxt=themes) which is sitting unopened in the closet. That's only 3,349 pieces so it shouldn't take nearly as long! I'm pretty sure my grandparents bought me the new Imperial Shuttle (http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=10212&icmp=SHHomeT2_10212) with 2,503 pieces for Christmas as well, they know I love Star Wars LEGO... If that's the case I'll build it before the Death Star since it's to scale with the Falcon (and mini-figs) I just completed, they will look BA standing next to each other. If I can find somewhere large enough and safe enough to display them both....

[thehoodedsmack]

Nice. Love that set.

[Amit]

The only thing that has ever really bugged my about the Falcon is that the Cockpit is in such an odd area. Imagine the shields failed and it got shot off. The entire ship would be fucked. Not to mention Han and Chewie would be dead :(

[Cortexian]

Yea I know, I mean, at least one of the Corellian ships with an outboard cockpit was able to rotate it from side to side and up and down during flight/combat. The ship basically flew "around" the cockpit and it was harder/more distracting to get a shot at the cockpit... I thought it was the YT-2400 Outrider (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/YT-2400_light_freighter) but I seem to be wrong.

Here's my entire Ultimate Collection now:
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8757/97874182.jpg

[Cagerrin]

Somehow the ISD looks far better than the Falcon. Stud texturing doesn't work so well at Falcon-scale.

(also, keeping sets put together is for terrible people, build shit with them)

[Cortexian]

Ultimate Collector sets are designed to be displayed once completed, not destroyed and built into random things. I have tubs of random LEGO for that... As a matter of fact a lot of my older Star Wars sets like the original X-Wing, AT-ST, Slave-1, etc are in tubs now...

[Cagerrin]

UCS sets are designed as an easy way to get a FUCKTON of panels. Displaying Lego sets is just completely against the whole point of Lego. (non-set stuff I can understand, but if you want a Falcon to display you're probably better off buying model kits.)

[Warsaw]

Hey now. I built a Battlezone tank (NSDF Grizzly) when I was in 4th grade (that was ten years ago). I've since demolished every single set I've ever built. That tank? It's still intact.

[Cagerrin]

That was kinda my point. I can understand displaying stuff you've designed yourself(even if the subject matter isn't something you created, like Battlezone), but displaying something that someone else designed is silly.

[Cortexian]

I would never demolish any of these UCS sets, there's way to much time and effort put into building them, and they look fucking awesome already. Plus I already have a ton of custom made stuff, but since it's all technicolor it's not worth displaying haha.

Plus, UCS sets are all hollow so the majority of pieces are the detail pieces and flat panels... Pretty useless stuff when designing your own things imo.

[Cagerrin]

That all depends on how you build. Panels and "detail pieces" are quite useful. Take into consideration, for example, that the Falcon has 59 "boat tiles (http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2654)". I doubt you could get that many from any other set, and that's only one type of part. I for one tend to use a lot (http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Cagerrin/MOCs/Contrail/contrail_01.png) of boat tiles.

[Spartan094]

This thread reminds me to re-build all my bionicles I collect since they first came out until 2006 back in December of 1999 :v:

[Cortexian]

That all depends on how you build. Panels and "detail pieces" are quite useful. Take into consideration, for example, that the Falcon has 59 "boat tiles (http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=2654)". I doubt you could get that many from any other set, and that's only one type of part. I for one tend to use a lot (http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Cagerrin/MOCs/Contrail/contrail_01.png) of boat tiles.
When I custom build I build everything solid, none of my custom models have open interior space unless it's supposed to be there, for example, cargo and launch bays obviously need to be open... However all the other things I build, which are usually some type of space craft, have solid interiors for stability. That said, my use of panel pieces is generally limited to horizontal stabilization and building platforms.

[Bodzilla]

This thread reminds me to re-build all my bionicles I collect since they first came out until 2006 back in December of 1999 :v:

i used to have all of the originals :v:

[Cagerrin]

Pretty sure I have three or four of the original Toa(plus dupes) floating around in my part bins, and a half-assembled Jaga for killing bugs.

(Bohrok were the best, though)

(most of my stuff is Bionicle, which makes it a pain to build stuff that doesn't look like shit)

[Cortexian]

I never really got into Bionicle, had a couple of the original Toa and a couple of other random sets. My grandparents randomly bought these for me when I was younger.

[Warsaw]

I have all of the Bohrok, even the small ones. Best creatures of the series. I really hate what Bionicle has become.

[TeeKup]

I loved the Bohrok and the Rahkshi. So badass, also what Warsaw said. Wtf has Bionicle become?

[n00b1n8R]

Bionicle is discontinued guys, hth.

[ThePlague]

First set of them were the best :(

[Spartan094]

First set of them were the best :(
True dat. They got shitty afterwards and hated it.

[Cortexian]

I think the first set I ever got was this Aquanauts set (http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/6175_Crystal_Explorer_Sub_/_Aquanaut_DSRV_II). I then got the Neptune Discovery Lab (http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/6195_Neptune_Discovery_Lab_/_Aqua_Dome_7), Sea Sprint 9 (http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/6125_Sea_Sprint_9_/_Aquanaut_Octopod), and Crystal Crawler (http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/6145_Crystal_Crawler). I was 5 or 6 at the time but I still remember!

[Cortexian]

Finished building the Imperial Shuttle:
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/3606/legoucsimpshuttle01.jpg

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/1393/legoucsimpshuttle02.jpg

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1957/legoucsimpshuttle03.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7751/legoucsimpshuttle04.jpg

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/9539/legoucsimpshuttle05.gif

[iizahsum]

Hawt.

[n00b1n8R]

Did Luke and Vader come with it? That's a pretty cool way to date the shuttle haha

[Cortexian]

Yea they did! Unfortunately the silver handles chipped while I was inserting the red light rod. Oh well I've got like a million more saber handles.

What you all don't realize is, is that now I can recreate the scene just before the attack on the Death Star II!!!
http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/475/legoucsimpshuttle06.jpg

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/4075/legoucsimpshuttle07.jpg

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1052/legoucsimpshuttle08.jpg

[PlasbianX]

http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/2742/20101221194558842.jpg

I also have a huge jet, submarine, and carrier in my closet along with 10 large tubs of just loose legos all in my closet.

[Cortexian]

That red mech top center is pretty cool, I modified mine to be autonomous heh.

[thehoodedsmack]

Aww, damn. The Mars sets were bangin'. I'm getting the urge to go out and buy some sets.

[Cortexian]

Yea, the main Martian base with the air pressure tubes were a pretty neat idea. Even though I'm not a big fan of "specialty" LEGO pieces like that.

[PlasbianX]

I have that tube set somewhere, its just boxed up. I believe thats where the red and blue mechs came from.

[Dwood]

This guy and the house he built, but no one wants.

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

[Cortexian]

James May is awesome, this MUST have been what they were talking about that one episode where he wasn't there and the other two belittled him about having to go away and build child's toys.