Lego Star Destroyer Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Check out the Lego Star Destroyer on Treasure Tables:

With 1,367 pieces and 75 steps, it took me about 3 1/2 hours to complete, this is easily the most involved Lego kit I’ve ever put together. It took me 3 1/2 hours to build, and the finished ship is two feet long.

This Star Destroyer is a smaller version (scaled for use with Lego figures) of the 3,000-piece beast Monte Cook built a couple of years back.

That's friggin cool. I want one. Amazon has it for about a hundred bucks, which seems excessive, but it's a Star Destroyer, man! How much is Imperial, ass-kicking Lego-ness worth? You can't put a price tag on that!

On the overall scale of geekiness, building one of these is as geeky as:

• filming yourself acting like Darth Maul,
• building a Millenium Falcon computer,
• calculating the amount of energy that the Death Star would be able to produce in order to destroy Alderaan,
• or wearing an embarassing Star Wars costume.

Now where did I put my hydrospanners...?