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Anyways, it'd be cooler by magnitudes if it was done in the Blacktron I color scheme, but it would also likely be magnitudes more expensive to have made due to the general rarity of trans-yellow parts these days.
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ten million Lego gold coins for you, sir!
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Going by current Bricklink prices, that would cost you a bare minimum of $1 million, and that's assuming your mad rush to collect so many of them wouldn't cause the prices to skyrocket. So, it might not be worth that much to jimbob6 (he'd have a hard time unloading that many), but it'd certainly take a bite out of your pocket to accumulate.
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That work?
12/05/08
I'm impressed by the detail and size, and dedication to build something like that.
But as far as, the neat factor.. eh, it doesn't rank high.
12/06/08
Depends on how you buy them. It's possible to get some parts cheaper than normal retail prices if they're common enough and in low demand on Bricklink.
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Large spaceship MOCs often require very intricate infrastructures to be able to handle the load of their own weight when picked up (the UCS Millennium Falcon visibly changes shape when you hoist it as intended from where the dorsal gun pod normally sits, and it flexes into all kinds of crazy shapes if you pick it up any other way), but this is in the next category of spaceship MOCs. This is what would be known as a SHIP (Seriously Huge Investment in Parts), which is a term normally reserved for vessels that are a minimum of 100 studs in any one direction (96 studs is exactly 2.5' in length), and working in that size generally requires that you go one of two routes. You either build it wherever you plan to display it for the rest of its existence, or you build it so it can be broken into sections for travel. They are decidedly unswooshable in that scale, so it's not like you'd ever need to be able to pick it up in one piece. Just, you know, in predetermined pieces, and not in randomly occuring ones (when one of my fellow clubmembers built his first SHIP, he didn't realize how essential the superstructure was, and ended up having to rebuild parts of it at least _three_times_ during the same show, plus once more for sure after he got it home).
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