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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monte At Home" data-source="post: 874920" data-attributes="member: 1335">The extra parts when into building the base, and a to-scale Rebel blockade runner ship. Pretty nifty.This was the first large Lego set that I've ever paid attention to the directions (I built a TIE fighter and an X-wing according to the directions, but they were nothing compared to this). Most of my Legos come from castle sets and the plain old builder sets (just tubs full of basic bricks) and go into a series of large boxes from which I make big fantasy dioramas that have twice covered that table you see in the picture. That's a lot of fun. I'm not sure if I would call building the Star Destroyer fun. Nice to have it finished, though.(Back in the old days of TSR--not WotC--when we all had very large work areas, I would set up the dioramas there. No room for that at WotC, though, so I had to bring it all home.)Oh, and the reason the large panels are held on with magnets is to allow you to get at the inside if something goes wrong without disassembling much. It is fragile, but that's no strike against Lego bricks--this thing isn't at all what the bricks were meant to do. As for the engineering of it, as someone who's messed around with Legos for years, I'm amazed at what the designer(s) created. It's not perfect, but it's still incredibly well engineered.</blockquote>