man. that would suck.

that's pretty annoying that each piece type didn't come in individual bags

Why are you wearing an ipod in your own house? Don't you have a radio?

@Pope John Peeps II: yes. But I can't play it when my wife is sleeping.

I can't wait to see it done!

I always enjoyed the pleasure of digging through a pile of legos to find the one I needed to continue, kind of like a jigsaw puzzle.

Something on this scale though? That would be insane to attempt. Good video!

UOFITOM: i was thinking yesterday that with that many pieces they would probably need to be packaged in building stages rather than with like parts. here's to hoping that's not the case, b/c that would suck to have to go find each piece as necessary.

@jesusdiaz: OH. I see.

you better lock your door when you leave...I may just drop by and shuffle all those legos into one giant plastic mountain on you =)

@UOFITOM I would think they did that to group pieces based on the chunk of the Falcon they go to.

Did the instructions say to sort the pieces? Eh it's more about the entertainment of constructing it anyway.

I never sorted my legos, I just looked for them as I built.
Someone buy me one and I'll see if my method is faster

Look at the manual for that thing. Looks like some of the BASIC programming books that came with computers back in the day (as I wax nostalgic).

All those Star Wars Iphone tie-ins are starting to make a whole lot of sense. I can see Jesus photoshopping himself onto the deck of the Deathstar as we speak.

@vshank:
That is what I thought as well. Each bag containing the pieces for one room, or one section of the hull... Which if that ends up being true... You may have just made this a lot harder on yourself by sorting them.

Pre Sorting will SOOOOOO Pay off.....

It will save you endless hours of searching for this or that little part over and over....

I should have one of these within the next 2 weeks, and I cannot wait to get started on it!!!

I think I will try to run some lights etc inside mine for fun effect.....

Don't build it! Blend it!

Great video, thanks for posting. Music -- is that Beyonce sampling Primal Scream?

I didn't have a table to sort out all the pieces when I pieced that together, but I can definitely imagine that it will help you immensely. The hardest part of the whole thing was finding the stupid pieces in all of the different bags, though about halfway through I was able to just tell you what piece was in which bag.

If I had sorted my bags I probably could have cut my time by a day or two (out of a 9 day project). I even wanted to do time lapse, but we just didn't have the room to leave it in one place all the time! Now to encase mine in carbonite so it will last forever.....

someone has the job of putting all the pieces INTO the bags in the first place.

Imagine.. 5,190... 5,191... 5,192.. no, wait... where was I... 5,194?? arg... and how many people want these !!!!

like a puzzle but with non-working laser guns. I wonder how many pieces in an imperial battleship. (if they make one)

what's the song in the video?

steering wheel ? ? ?

Jesus, I'm disappointed in you.

I figure if anyone could assemble the Millennium Falcon in under 12 parsecs, it would be you.

Hmmm, all sorted. Now to read the directions...

Step 1: Do not, we repeat, DO NOT sort the pieces! The pieces are together in the order they are assembled.

GAAAAAAHHHHH!

rolling stones.

you didn't want to use Ashlee Simpson's "Pieces of Me" for a soundtrack? ;)

What's the track playing? Which cut/version?
Anyone?

@ANYONE INQUIRING ABOUT THE MUSIC...
It's a fabulous mix of Amerie's 1 Thing with Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy. On the flipside, she's doing it with the Stones and Sympathy For The Devil. By P.T.A. out on Throwaway Records a couple of years back. How's that for attention to deets, eh?

@jmonty: I wish that was the case! :-) No, they are unfortunately random.

@AddyDugdale: DJ Addy to the rescue.

I really hope for your sake that those bags weren't a sorting system to begin with. I could just see the instructions saying something like "construction of rear landing gear: open bag 'C'..."

That takes some serious patience...!

The problem with building a Millennium Falcon out of LEGO is that, no matter how cool it turns out in the end, some whiny snotnose farmboy is just going to call it a piece of junk while his sister makes snarky comments about it as a poor substitute for flirting.

You obviously don't have kids, Jesus.

"Daddy? What's this pile of Legos here?"

"NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"

I would love to put one of these together, my 8-year old son and I would have a great time. My 6-year old girl (already a Star Wars fan-girl and loves Jango Fett) would want to help but might be a little out of her league. My 4-year old son, though, would steal the pieces and run.

Then, of course, I'm waiting for the video when you finish this, flying it around the house, and you drop it, shattering into exactly 5,195 pieces.

So what do you do if a piece is missing? Wallmart can't sell me a bookshelf without missing screws, A Millennium falcon has got to be way harder to box up.

As a long time and current lego enthusiast I can say without a doubt that there is a rhyme to the lego bag madness. I havent bought this but it seems weird they would abandon the assembly bag method.

Darth attacks the camera LOL

WOW Dude.

This is going to be one killer assembly process.
Do you drink coffee? -might be a good time to start.
It would be a great time to plan a movie marathon too.

I'm still jealous. It's gonna rock when it's done.

I think it's funny that even the mini-figures don't come assembeled.

Jesus, you are the man!!! You have A LOT of patience sorting those damn lego things apart. *applauds*

hahah, awesome job so far :)

Tío, A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, en serio, this is the fuckest thing I've ever seen!! Do you think we would see this Millenium Falcon here in Spain?

@AZTriGuy: I'm in the same situation, my 6 yo daughter would help a bit. my 3 yo son would just trash any efforts to proceed with the project and my 1yo boy would just be found in the corner choking on chewbacca or han.

so i gotta wait a few years for this. i should buy it and store it somewhere.

The previous Lego Falcon almost caused a domestic when it was spotted by the neigbour's grandkid.

Major bout of "I want" ensued - don't know what they'd think if they saw this one!"

Every recent Lego set I've built has been pre-packed according to their stage, as wells as each bag being numbered as per that order. I find it hard to believe that their biggest set EVAR would sway from this logic. If they were packed like that you just screwed yourself hard, sorry.

I'm so jealous, I'm drooling.

So did you count the pieces to make sure they were all there?

this might sound so corny but id rather buy it assembled hehe

This is inadvertantly the solution to giving nuclear power to other nations without reprocussions. Just give em a 100,000,000,000 piece lego recreation of nuclear reactor. "Do it your damnself"

@amiash: Don't make me call security on you.

I built my Falcon about a month ago, right after the strike started. I didn't sort, but I did separate: big architectural pieces (beams, etc) in one of the three bins that the original box was divided into, panelling in a second bin, small pieces in a third. I don't know how much it helped, but I never had any searching period longer than about 10-15 minutes. In contrast, with the Imperial Star Destroyer, which is ALL grey and pretty uniform, I had DAYS searching for individual pieces. In any case, my Falcon took about 3 weeks with several hours of building a day. I think yours will take 1/4 of that. The Falcon is, by the way, easily the best model ever created by LEGO. Can't wait to see what they come up with next year. Also can't wait until my girlfriend pulls "A Christmas Story" on me and "accidentally" smashes my Falcon.

Jesus-Are you SURE those weren't bagged logically by Lego to help make it a bit easier to assemble?

And good GAWD that's a lot of lego pieces right there...I doubt my house is big enough to sort them all like that.

Does it have the blinking light in the cockpit?

"Watch it, kid, or you're gonna find yourself floating home."

They're probably using the bags to make Minute Rice.

That's what I always think of when I see them.

Great video. My 5 yr old can't wait for episode, ur Part III, IV, V, and VI.

What song is that?

@almighty: Yeah, I'm sure. They are random.

I love the sound of hundreds, if not thousands, of legos rattling and rusttling in a big plastic bin...the cool, smooth sides, the textured tops slipping between my fingers... the little heads and wheels...

Excuse me, I need a tissue.