Like four years ago, Lego released a Millennium Falcon model that was, well, crap.
So, this spring, Lego made good, and released another Millennium Falcon, which, I think we can all agree, is much more creative and better looking, yes?
Well, this one guy got his set ... and then started adding to it. That picture above is his modified interior! Cool, huh?
Notice that the modified Falcon features TWO gun stations. The interior photo here shows the interior detail of the gun-station.
Probably MOST coolest (I'm droolin') is what he did to the cockpit. In the original Lego cockpit, Chewie "sits" one peg behind Han, and they sit directly on a plate. In this modification, both Chewie & Han sit side by side, and have chairs! Hoorah!
Awesome, eh? Click here for the entire Brickshelf Gallery.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
What is that last picture?
Posted by Kazeite (Member # 970) on :
Guess
And, this helmet, is, like, all wrong, man! The blast shield was white, not black, and it had a heart-like symbol on it, instead of Rebel Alliance logo. And Falcon doesn't have orange chairs in cockpit Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
You have to ask? Hint: this isn't Star Trek.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Who is this lame LEGO-builder that portrays Luke painstakingly shitting in some sort of toilet but fails to add Chewie penetrating Leia's arm socket!! Duh?!
Posted by deadcujo (Member # 13) on :
Why is Luke straining so hard on the toilet? He has the Force on his side, after all.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Constipation leads to anger. Anger leads to straining. Straining leads to haemorrhoids. . .
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Why is Luke straining so hard on the toilet? He has the Force on his side, after all."
Well, if he's dressed in his outfit from Tatooine, and he's on the Millennium Falcon, it must be before he went to Dagobah. So he doesn't really know much about the Force. I mean, look how hard he had to concentrate just to extract a lightsaber from where it fell into some snow.
Or maybe the Force is the whole problem. Maybe Obi-Wan is in the next room, messing with him.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Mabye Han just taped some plastic-wrap over the toilet as a joke for the dumb kid from tatooine.
Really, I recall when building things from Lego required some imagination: now it's just a really poor model kit at best with so many custom pieces unique to only that particular overpriced lego set. Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
A "good ol' days" about Lego. Now our generation truly has taken over the world! The sixth seal is broken.
Coincidentallistically, the Simpsons-ep I caught yesternight was about the family going to Blocko-land.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
With my all-time favorite Simpsons song! "Dancin' away my hunger pains....movin' my feet so my stomach wont hurt....I'm kinda like Jesus, but not in a sacreligous waaay..." Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Snay, where can I buy just a "regular" set of Legos cheaply?
I neeed them for casting in resin. Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
You can buy generic bricks from the lego site
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
The only unique pieces on this set are the two 1/2 canopy pieces that form the cockpit.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
"He has the Force on his side, after all."
You don't know the power of the Dark Side. At all. B)
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Legos legos everywhere.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: Jason:
The only unique pieces on this set are the two 1/2 canopy pieces that form the cockpit.
THe guns and the blue glowy engine part look pretty unique to me (though it's been years since I acrually had any Legos, so I could be in error).
Thanks Snay and Boh for the tips on the generix Legos. Toys R Us (Who, incidentally will no longer sell toys at all next year in favor of baby crap and video games) only had the giant lego sets.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
Isn't Babys R Us a seperate store?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
If, on the other hand, you're speaking of this gun, you'll notice it is made of regular Lego parts. He's used the "binoculars" to connect "generic tool."
The "blue glowy engine part" is a repainted hose. It's been around for a few years (at the minimum, from Lego's first Falcon release).
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Cute... realistic weapons for your Legos...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Captain Boh: Isn't Babys R Us a seperate store?
I read that they were folded back into the main company in a scaleback move.
No temp positions are being offered for the Christmas season here in south Florida it seems: a friend of mine has temped there for several years now during the season but not this year.
Posted by liverpoollucan (Member # 1584) on :
You know untill i visited that link to the lego site and saw people selling lego bricks and buying pieces like they were gold bars, i actually had a little faith in the intelligence of the population. Oh my that is possibly the saddest thing i have ever seen Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
quote:I recall when building things from Lego required some imagination: now it's just a really poor model kit at best with so many custom pieces unique to only that particular overpriced lego set.
My feelings exactly. Most of my Lego Sets date back to the late 70s to mid 80s. In those days, you could turn any model into anything else. Nowadays you buy, say, a helicopter and you get hardly any pieces you could use to build something different. As far as the Star Wars models are concerned, the best counter-example is the Star Destroyer #10030. Sure, it seems expensive, yet you get thousands of generic grey pieces which you can use to build anything from the BTTF DeLorean time machine to the Ent NX-01.
That's what I call a universally great model - no pun intended...
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