StarWars Legos

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Loud....how long do you think it will take and did it arrive it a huge arse box with other smaller boxes in it.
 
man I would love to put the Star Destroyer together. that would take me at least a few days but it would be worth it. That triangle is huge though.
 
LM is still out to dinner, it even says so on my site. But you can still see his cam. ;)
 
Welcome back. Incase you didnt see, i added a little message while you were gone to the pic saying "LoudMusic is out to dinner." - It actually showed on top of the picture. ;)

Now it says "Look at him go!" :p
 
I ordered them from Lego's online store.

And I'm going to bed now. I can't take little gray dots any longer! (:
 
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Loud....how long do you think it will take and did it arrive it a huge arse box with other smaller boxes in it.
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Forgot to answer this.

Yes, it was in the biggest Lego box I have ever seen, with four smaller boxes inside that. The book is 226 pages, 12 x 16.5 inche pages and it has a glued spine instead of a staples spine. It's big. I'm a bit past half way now, according to page numbers. I have three of the four outer skin sections attached, and will start on the next one in the morning.

It's big, Jim, real big.

To get back onto my car obsession, I think I'll be getting the William's F1 Racer next. It's PHAT, and cheaper too (:
 
From 3pm until 7pm then from 11pm until 3am yesterday - that's eight hours. Then from 11am until 2:30pm today - another three and a half hours. So a total of 11 and a half hours, roughly. I was doing other stuff at the same time - probably a couple hours worth.

Yeah, it's BIG.
 
Wow, great job LM! :)

I used to play with Legos so much... I clearly remember putting together a mega pirate ship when I was 4 or 5 years old (took me several days)... I was so pissed at Lego though, because they messed up... they gave me a 1x4 gray brick instead of a 1x3! :p

Several years ago, I made an entire theme park out of Legos (and nothing but). I had a sort of psuedo-Superman ride (Magic Mountain, Valencia), where the car goes straight up on a large L-shaped track, then freefalls down. You wouldn't believe how incredibly difficult it was to make the (single) track! I had to use extra-long 1 width pieces, and layer them over each others' middles so that they could be gradually bent to form the L-shape. I even devised a buffer system using wheels and hydraulics to slowly bring the car to a stop at the bottom. :D Shoot, that thing was so cool...

The living room used to be Sage's Lego Room... I had Legos strewn across the entire floor. In fact, as I turn around right now, I can still see boxes of Legos everywhere.

It's really too bad that I haven't been playing with them for so long now. :( There are three main problems:

1) They're becoming increasingly expensive, especially the really good mega sets,
2) Not enough free time (dagnabbit, Jordan! :p),
3) And, I've been a little bit upset at the direction that Lego has been taking lately. I think they were at their imaginative peak several years ago, but it's gone downhill from there, aside from these huge collector's building sets. These days, when a Lego designer can't find an existing piece to fit into their design, they just make a brand new piece. Thus, these days, instead of opening a box to find a lot of similar-looking pieces, you open one to find many individual, different pieces. I really do miss the days when I thought to myself, "Wow, it's so cool how they used that piece to do that!"... not to say that Lego isn't still a great, great toy company, but it just seems like that creative spark has kind of been withering these past few years.
 
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Wow, great job LM! :)
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Thanks! Just a consumption of time and money, really.
And, I've been a little bit upset at the direction that Lego has been taking lately. I think they were at their imaginative peak several years ago, but it's gone downhill from there, aside from these huge collector's building sets. These days, when a Lego designer can't find an existing piece to fit into their design, they just make a brand new piece. Thus, these days, instead of opening a box to find a lot of similar-looking pieces, you open one to find many individual, different pieces. I really do miss the days when I thought to myself, "Wow, it's so cool how they used that piece to do that!"... not to say that Lego isn't still a great, great toy company, but it just seems like that creative spark has kind of been withering these past few years.
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I was afraid this was going to be the case with all four of my big Star Wars sets. However, it's simply not true. Off hand I can't remember any unique pieces in the Tie Interceptor or the X-Wing. All the pieces I had seen before, and many many years ago. They used a lot of Technic pieces to change the direction of the pieces, but nothing really rare or unique to the set. The same seems correct for the Rebel Blockade Runner - though I'm not totally sure that's true. I don't remember seeing the big round pannels used for the engines anywhere else, but they could easily be used for a lot of things.

The ONLY unique piece to the Star Destroyer are the radar domes. They look like golf balls - dimples and all (:

Of the four, I would say the Tie Interceptor is the most interesting to me. I think I like it because it's dark, has interesting building concepts, and is pretty stable for such a thin construction. The X-Wing is flimsey and the wings are getting droopy over time. The Rebel ship is a big brick, and the ass end of it isn't designed for durability. The Star Destroyer is just a gigantic gray triangle. The only thing that makes it cool is that it's so damn huge.

I also like that the two older models are removable from their stand. You can hold them in your hands and look at them just as they are when they're flying in space. The two new ones have attached stands - I guess this is because they're so big.

But "bang for your buck" the Tie Interceptor is cool stuff. It was $100, it's cool, and I think any Lego/Star Wars fan would be delighted to own it. The rest ... it takes a bit of a fanatic to enjoy them (: Especially for their price tags ...
 
I agree with Loud and everybody else Lego's have gotten worse and worse. They aren't developing it very well. They brought out all this Bionicle and Slizer jibberish but apparently it has taken off verywell with some really wicked creations. But this I feel isn't what Lego is about.

During 1997 or 1998 Lego decided to make Lego town models easier to build making windows and other parts consisting of 4 or more brick and made them into 1 large piece...this is wrong the pieces aren't as versatile and are just plain wrong each model can be completed without reading the instructions. Since then the models got worse and worse. Now Lego town, castle, pirates and most of all technic have come to end of an era. They were what put Lego on the map. Technic is still there but isn't at all showing mechanical features of the models no pnuematic pumps, gears, motors or anything....just pullback junk. - What is Lego thinking?

But what I am happy with is that they are bringing back some of the old sets from 80's and 90's, such as the Metro Train....the first 9V train, some really classy castle models and Main Street! (It was around before I was born - I'm 14.) I also like the fact they have these collector models for star wars but there should be more like there was with Model Team. - Oh those were the days.

I used to play with Legos so much... I clearly remember putting together a mega pirate ship when I was 4 or 5 years old (took me several days)... I was so pissed at Lego though, because they messed up... they gave me a 1x4 gray brick instead of a 1x3!
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You know Lego would've cleared that up for you! - They may have even given you a free model if you abused them hard enough...

Another thing before I go is the limited edition Santa Fe Train models - they are just as much cool as the Star Destoyer.

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Loud are the flat spots huge flat panels? - Or 2x2 tiles?


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Oh man, the Model Team was soooo cool. A friend of mine down the street had the blue and white Big Rig AND the black and red helicopter transport. They were so cool (:

Those flat areas are made to from two 6 x 14 plates which only had dots on three borders. So the flat areas are 12 x 10. Then I guess there are the smaller flat areas just made out of smaller plates with the same arangement.
 
I wish i could have gotten my hands on one of those big rigs.. They were just SOOO awesome.. I never got touch one, though. :(

I agree, LEGO has gotten lame with all this bionical crap. I go to the store to try to find the PowerPuller, and all i find is a bunch of bionical CRAP. I really dislike this.

I miss all the old Town/System sets they had. It really sucks that Lego just gave up on them.. Really bad decision on their part. :odd:
 

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