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(io9) Spiffy Guy builds 19-foot-tall Apollo 11 model using 120,000 Legos, hides droids on it   (io9.com) divider line 20
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ipsofacto
2012-01-13 08:42:17 PM
You know, Legos are just too damn expensive to let kids play with them.
 
Forgot_my_password_again
2012-01-13 09:00:33 PM
nope, those weren't the droids I was looking for
 
mactobain [TotalFark]
2012-01-13 09:21:26 PM
I'm a complete lego dork, but I could never snap that many white bricks together.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2012-01-13 09:25:31 PM
Why would you call that a model of Apollo 11? That's a Saturn V with a launch tower that just happens to have an Apollo capsule on it. The capsule is a very minor part.
 
hogans
2012-01-13 09:35:25 PM
Forgot_my_password_again: nope, those weren't the droids I was looking for

www.jeffbots.com

Indeed. Hector here would have been more appropriate, being off by only two revisions.
 
FuturePastNow
2012-01-13 09:37:51 PM
A minifig-scale Saturn V. Jesus. Some LEGO builders are nuts.
 
IMSwim80
2012-01-13 09:49:48 PM
WANT!!
 
Dear Jerk
2012-01-13 09:54:16 PM
Repetitive bulk models are so Mega Bloks. Lego is about detail and piece-interaction these days.
 
halfwaytoheaven
2012-01-13 10:02:46 PM
And he included a compartment for dry ice, apparently. Nice effect.
 
rhiannon [TotalFark]
2012-01-13 10:50:45 PM
Dear Jerk: Repetitive bulk models are so Mega Bloks. Lego is about detail and piece-interaction these days.

No, a model is about detail. Legos are about Legos.
 
zato_ichi
2012-01-13 11:07:20 PM
fark Lego. Can't do anything but build the kit they sell you, and then, they don't have the goddamn common courtesy to give you proper storage for it. Even the lunchmeat I buy has a resealable Tupperware package.
 
Occam's Chainsaw [TotalFark]
2012-01-14 02:46:03 AM
zato_ichi: Can't do anything but build the kit they sell you

Then buy the kit you want.

zato_ichi: Even the lunchmeat I buy has a resealable Tupperware package.

Then have a ham sammich, build your LEGO set, and put the bricks in the now-empty container when you're done.

Seriously, are you still working on proficiency with doorknobs and shower faucets?
 
Impeesa
2012-01-14 06:58:50 AM
zato_ichi: fark Lego. Can't do anything but build the kit they sell you,

If you're completely terrible at building, sure. Here's some people that aren't.
 
capitulating fromage masticating simian
2012-01-14 10:31:32 AM
zato_ichi: fark Lego. Can't do anything but build the kit they sell you, and then, they don't have the goddamn common courtesy to give you proper storage for it. Even the lunchmeat I buy has a resealable Tupperware package.

I admit I can remember the last time I saw Lego in a store that wasn't packaged to build specific things, but you can get tubs of generic blocks, door archways, windows and such on-line.
 
capitulating fromage masticating simian
2012-01-14 10:32:11 AM
*can't remember
 
wildstarr [TotalFark]
2012-01-14 12:12:38 PM
capitulating fromage masticating simian: zato_ichi: fark Lego. Can't do anything but build the kit they sell you, and then, they don't have the goddamn common courtesy to give you proper storage for it. Even the lunchmeat I buy has a resealable Tupperware package.

I admit I can remember the last time I saw Lego in a store that wasn't packaged to build specific things, but you can get tubs of generic blocks, door archways, windows and such on-line.

If you're lucky enough to have a Lego store in your area you can buy individual bricks. But it's still god awful expensive. Anywhere from 10 cents to 30 cents a brick.

Also, why don't they mention the cost in these Lego sculptures? They always mention number of bricks and hours to build but never cost.
 
ABQGOD
2012-01-14 12:50:40 PM
capitulating fromage masticating simian: I admit I can remember the last time I saw Lego in a store that wasn't packaged to build specific things, but you can get tubs of generic blocks, door archways, windows and such on-line.

You can get pretty much any brick, color, quantity that you want by searching the thousands of stores at BrickLink (new window)
 
Erik_Emune
2012-01-14 02:21:17 PM
zato_ichi: fark Lego. Can't do anything but build the kit they sell you

Ehm - no. You build the kit, look at it for 20 minutes. The take it apart and build something else. Combining it with the bits from your other kits.
 
Virtuoso80
2012-01-14 02:45:33 PM
I hope, one day, to find the will and determination to put this much effort into one thing. And I also hope that one thing is more productive and useful than building a big-ass Lego model.

/But hey, I've never made a Fark headline, so who am I to judge.
 
maddogdelta
2012-01-15 01:02:24 PM
But can it do this? (new window)
 
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