oh my jesus (diaz)

heh i got the collectors star destroyer a few years back...

it was the biggest at around 18 pounds and 3,000 pieces

took me three days to build by myself

whew...godspeed

My goodness. Thats a huge set. I'd love to get that, but I'm sure it is quite expensive, and I really don't have the space for a huge lego ship. Also, I'm not a starwars fan to begin with... if it were something unique/original I'd be more likely to get it.

I credit my love of engineering to LEGO Technic. Back when my folks were willing to spend fifty dollars (this was about oh, close to a decade ago) on a single Lego kit, it made me a very happy Homer. I built one recently, and with my almost twenty-one years of knowledge and *ahem* wordly "wisdom," I was amazed at the sheer quality of the LEGO components. I would have to agree that in this case, you get what you pay for.

A couple linkies:

My favorite building toy store:
[www.constructiontoys.com]

and something I have to say is at least as cool, if not cooler than LEGO Technic:
[www.fischertechnik.com]

Enjoy, Jesus. I'm painfully envious :3

Addy. So sorry, hope you have some good books to get you through the week. Be sure to remind him he is no longer a "single" dork.

That's good and all, but can you get it to run Linux?

But seriously though, that thing looks sweet. I'd love to get one if only to have an assload of Lego blocks to cannibalize into other projects.

To be continued? The suspense!

@nocar: yeah what he said.
Single....yeah, "single." man, you probably said it better and everything.

I like the Shining look.

HEEEEEEERE'S JESUS!

this is a great pre xmas gift. I hope you make the 1 picture an hour of your progress, and then add music by Carly Comando.

I envy you...my parents think I'm too old for LEGO and won't buy it for me anymore =[

And working to get money is not an option =[

Yikes!

How much ?

Dude, that lego set looks sooooo fun! Haha I remember when the 350 piece sets used to be the biggest thing you could buy, and I thought I was so lucky when I got the castle one out of the knights series. But still, even grown up (slightly) I gotta say Lego's are one of the best, if not the best toy that I've ever encountered.

I hope you are that stoked when you are 500 hours into it.

Isn't that bloke a bit old for this sort of thing?

I just now noticed this, but..

wtf timezone do you guys use for your posts? I'm in Jersey and its 2AM Tuesday the 18th. The times for all the comments seem right, but it says Jesus posted this 6 hours from now at 8AM today. What gives?

@warkrismagic: damn timezone eh?! always makes me confuse

Ok, so I looked up the price on this thing, only 500 dollars for the set. Needless to say, I will be buying this for me and not my kids.

This video will help picking up chicks. Especially the licking.

BTW, who's house is that? Looks too clean for a tech head.

[shop.lego.com] - 499$ and you too can time-lapse your life.

I actually built one at work about 2 months ago. Took me 9 days to finish, but was well worth the effort. People still walk into the office and ask us questions about it. Good luck with that, I was able to finish it in fewer man hours than were slated in the description, but I cannot say the same for the artists down the hall who have still not finished it (they recieved theirs a week before my group got one.)

@freakshow1: Yeah, I'm glad I'm married already. The house is the neighbours'. They had the door open, so I said to myself: "what the hell... why not?"

Jesus, good luck! PS I like to lick legos too. ;)

I'd cry just looking at that thing. There's no way I'd have the patience to build it.

This is basically me:

"Le Grille, what the hell is that?!"

@jesusdiaz: I so envy you.
I want that thing, too. But my exams are coming up.
Dammit.

I got this a couple months ago and it is a really sweet model, but the ventral hull could use some help staying attached.

Anyways, I did the full-geek thing and built mine wearing Star Wars shirts and watching Star Wars DVDs. I was able to get through all three prequel movies, both Clone Wars DVDs, and all three theatrical cuts of the original trilogy (seemed wrong to watch the remodified Special Editions when building a set that celebrates the 30th anniversary of the original Star Wars movie) on the first day of building (wearing a t-shirt of the LEGO Star Wars 2 video game box art), and the lone Droids DVD (about half the series) and R2-D2: Beneath the Dome on the second day of building (wearing a Skywalker Ranch shirt). Total build time: 18 hours, 44 minutes, not counting breaks between DVDs (used to snack, rehydrate, etc.)

The biggest hindrance in building this thing is that they bagged them for packing efficiency which means there are some parts that are bagged by themselves in a single bag, and other parts that are spread across as many as a 10-12 different bags containing two different mixes of parts. A set like this would seriously benefit from the new trend of construction-packing the parts, where each bag will be numbered based on where in the construction process you use those parts. Start with all the #1 bags, move on to the #2 bags when instructed, and so on.

I'm thinking of tearing it apart and rebuilding it next year, but I'm going to make it a lot simpler this time around by disassembling each section into its own pile, so I don't have to search for small parts that are mixed in with over 5000 other pieces. Basically, I'm interested in seeing how long it takes to just _build_ it, if you don't have to either pre-sort the parts or paw through a huge pile for five minutes while looking for the last piece you need to complete the current step so you can move on to the next one.

@Purple Dave: You win. :-)

@jesusdiaz: PurpleDave FT?... damn, that was a long read.

Saw one of these constructed in the Lego shop in Cologne a couple of days ago, that thing is friggin huge! If I remember correctly (already had me a couple Gluhwein mit Amaretto's) the box was something round 580 euro's. They also had the Death Star, Imperial Star Deystoyer, a motorized Walker from The Empire Strikes Back and a lot of other crap. (B-wings, A-wings, Return of the Jedi Walkers,...)

I smiled nice to my girlfriend...now I'm looking forward to unpacking a Death Star or a Millenium Falcon in a couple of days, hopefully... I already got me a Darth Vader keychain thingy to quench my thirst...

seperate baggies numbered for you?

LORD where's the fun in that! When i used to get the big lego sets i'd dump them all out in one big pile MUHHAHA

@nincompoop: Good luck with that line of thinking. It'll get you far.

@Purple Dave: YEAH! That's what I'm talking about.

The biggest LEGO SW set I have to date is the Hailfire Droid, which took about 2 hours to put together.
I'm staggered by the sheer size of the BOX for the Millennium Falcon. What an awesome project.

@jesusdiaz: You're a lucky man, not only for getting this set but for having somewhere to PUT the thing! IT'S HUGE!!

CONGRATS AND ENJOY!
(Could you show the extra pieces left over when you're done? That's always interesting at the end.)

@phantam: I do the same.

@strider_mt2k: Great idea!

@nincompoop: Here's another game: starts with a B and ends with R, has a lot of letters in the middle and makes "KAWABOOM" noise when I use it.

Great Video. When he sniffed and licked the Legos, I cracked up. I am sure Addy does not mind the project at all, so long as she does'nt have to help.

I like the devilish peek at the camera before the licking. Made it seem more authentic. Have fun, Jesus.

Let hope there are no dogs in the neighbors house that like to chew small plastic parts. That will definitely add a curve ball to the assembly.

I had the lego Death Star. I was about halfway done when it fell over and shattered, I haven't done much with legos since then :(

@weggles90: How about this lego:

[shop.lego.com]

@Purple Dave: Yeah, when I built the Star Destroyer, first thing I did was sort all the parts... [www.flickr.com]

captian: so many f*cking pieces! so little g-d damn time!! god i love coke!!!

You guys...

I had to re-install LEGO Creator on my PC because of this post, but only because I looked in my own LEGO box and was appalled by how anemic it looked.

LEGO Creator is about 10 bucks and good fun on a PC.

Man... I so want that lego set...I just wish it didn't cost 500$ or I would buy it in a heartbeat

Girlie got me a highly-underrated tech present for Chrismukkah:

Pajamas and time enough to use them

I know what you're thinking - how are pajamas a tech present? By themselves, they're not. But coupled with two days alone in the house during a holiday week home from work, they are the perfect accompaniment to video games.

As pathetic as a marathon gaming binge is, pajamas class it up a bit more than spending the gaming time drooling and stewing in one's own funk while clad in natty boxers and an a-frame tee. Mass Effect, Halo 3, and Call Of Duty 4 - here I come!

(I didn't say it's not pathetic - just slightly classy)

Lego is cool, but I miss playing with my Capsela.

Lego's are singlehandedly responsible for helping me give up cigarette's. If I didn't have something mindless to do for many evenings on end, I would have killed someone.

Thanks you LEGO!

I've done the Death Star. After the Christman Maul, I'll look for this one. Looks geekalicious.

I picked up the same lego set a while back and finished it in about 2 weeks. I didn't spend all my time on it. A little bit at a time. I eventually got it all finished but the weird thing is that there were a lot of extra pieces left over.

@nincompoop: no one's too old for legos @goldaar: you got to do that at WORK??? @Purple Dave: that would make it too easy. This is a set for hardcore lego gurus!