Star Destroyer Built Before Your Eyes 235
hardcoredreamer writes "These people spent 10 hours constructing their very own Imperial II-class Star Destroyer from LEGO and capturing over 7000 frames of the process with their webcam. The images were encoded with divx5 and are available to download in a 4 minute .avi. mirror 1 , mirror 2 , mirror 3."
Re:Interesting, but... (Score:4, Informative)
huge mirror (Score:5, Informative)
Try it for yourself! (Score:5, Informative)
Give it a go. For as little as 360 euro's you can try to beat the 10 hours! (if you have no friend(s) - the time to beat is 20 hours)
Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Try it for yourself! (Score:3, Informative)
You must be kidding:
http://www.legofan.org/ [legofan.org]
"Lately we have been making quite a stir in the community, and we're not about to stop yet. Earlier this year, LEGOLAND California hosted a Star Wars® Weekend . Part of this event included 2 Imperial Star Destroyer (ISD) speed build contests. The times for the two contests, held on separate days, were 1 hour, 34 minutes and 1 hour, 21 minutes respectively. (for more information about LEGOLand California, please go to http://www.legolandca.com/ [legolandca.com]"
I think the world record for the star destroyer is somehting like 46 minutes...
Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! (Score:3, Informative)
Of course, I'm speaking in general engineering terms, but specifically, you have to turn the thing over to attach the bottom panels. Also, while applying the larger body panels, a certain amount of force is acceptable, and too much could certainly break the model, especially if trying a bottom up approach as you pointed out.
Don't get me wrong, it'd be hella cool, it's just not feasable
Lazy (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Geeks don't RTFM on the first attempt! (Score:2, Informative)