[OT] Monte Cook Finishes Lego Star Destoyer


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It's groovy cool. But why is it held together with magnets? Aren't legos strong enough anymore on their own? I remember fiddling with a newer set one of my cousin's kids had, and it didn't seem to stick together nearly as well as the sets I had when I was younger. For $300, I would want like the best designed model that them Lego engineers could think of, and then a little better than that.

These days, the only thing about Lego I would actually consider getting is the mini figures. They're just cool and as someone said, they make nifty minis for gaming.
 

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Want to see some really impressive Lego sculptures that didn't come from instruction books? Go to The Brickshelf. Specifically check out the mecha section and the umm... Cankerworm!

Custom Star Wars Legos? Try From Bricks To Bothans.

Not there's anything wrong with the official Lego sets, somebody had to think them up and I'm usually impressed by how they get from A to B using as few parts and as few custom parts as possible.
 

Norfleet said:
It's neat, but it's not art. I mean, come on, it came designed to do that, with an instruction manual of how to put it together. Where's the challenge, the artistry?

When I was a teenager, I put together this huge, highly-detailed model of the Millennium Falcon. I spent days and days putting that thing together, using an instruction manual. Then, when it came time for the finishing touches, I decided to get creative and do some things that were not in the manual. One of the those things I did - the last thing I did, as it turned out - was to use a cigarette lighter to replicate scorch marks on the model's surface, to show Han's close-calls with Imperial blaster cannons. But the model caught on fire!

Ah, woe was me. Days and days to build, but only seconds to ruin.

:(
 


Back when I was a teen I built a models of the Perry Rhodan Space Ships, buying parts once a week from my pocket money. All in all I worked 6 months on the biggest space ship.

I am sorely tempted to buy the Star Destroyer, but I have no room for my own models and I don't want 300 bucks sitting in my cellar gathering dust.
 

As a kid, I was into Transformers and Legos. My schtick was building Transformers out of Legos. I had my own batch of Insecticons, Autobots, and jet Decepticons. I wish I still had them around.
 

*wandering around on the starships page, http://www.merzo.net/*

What an incredible species we are . . . capable of such beautiful dreams, and such terrible nightmares.

With regards to Jodie Foster. : ]

-S
 


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