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Just spreading the good news! If you haven’t heard about it yet.
The Theed Hangar Battle is featured in the new DK Lego Star Wars The Visual
Dictionary. Turn to page 127 to view it along with other fan creations...
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Set was revealed at Lipno Point Event in Czech Republic.
LEGO® StarWars™ set 10236 Ewok™ Village
Ages 12+. 1,990 pieces.
Recreate classic scenes at the Ewok™ Village!
US $249.99 CA $299.99 DE 249.99€ UK 199.99 £ DK 2,099.00 DKK
Travel to Endor™ and visit the treetop home of the Ewoks. Just like in Star
Wars™: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, this recreation of the Ewoks’ forest
dwelling is packed with cool functions, including the tree-trunk hideout, secret
Lightsaber stash, spider web, net traps, slide, catapults and an elevating
throne. Use the rammer function to take out the Scout Trooper’s speeder - just
like in the movie! Realistic details include rope walkways, vine and leaf
elements, kitchen, food storage area, bedroom and a planning room.
The Ewok Village set is the perfect addition to your LEGO® Star Wars collection.
Includes R2-D2™and 16 minifigures with weapons: Luke Skywalker™, Princess Leia™,
Han Solo™, Chewbacca™, C-3PO™, 2 Rebel soldiers, 5 Ewoks™ (including Wicket™,
Teebo™, Chief Chirpa™ and Logray™), 2 Scout Troopers and 2 Stormtroopers™.
• Includes R2-D2™ and 16 minifigures: Luke Skywalker™, Princess Leia™, Han
Solo™, Chewbacca™, C-3PO™, 2 Rebel soldiers, 5 Ewoks™, 2 Scout™ Troopers™ and 2
Stormtroopers™.
• Features tree-trunk hideout and secret Lightsaber stash, spider web and net
traps, slide, catapults, elevating throne, speeder rammer function, kitchen,
food storage area, bedroom and a planning room. Speeder also included.
• Weapons include a Lightsaber, 3 blaster pistols, 2 blasters, 2 blaster rifles,
2 spears, bow and a crossbow and also includes 2 staffs.
• Collect hard-to-find Endor Princess Leia, C-3PO, Luke, Han Solo and Wicket
Ewok minifigures.
• Measures over 1” (35cm) high, 21” (55cm) wide and 13” (35cm) deep.
• Sale release date September 2013.
• LEGO Designer Video
YouTube.com
Press Release info from LEGO.
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Abner Finley wrote:
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The World’s Largest LEGO Model Is A Life-Size X-Wing - Video
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While this is a great model, I’m not sure it can claim to be the world’s largest
- in most dimensions it probably is, but it’s definitely not the tallest, not by
a long way:
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The World’s Largest LEGO Model Is A Life-Size X-Wing - Video
By Corinne Iozzio
May 23, 2013
This morning, LEGO opened up a gigantic box in Times Square. Inside: a
full-scale replica of an X-wing fighter made entirely of LEGO bricks. It’s the
single-largest LEGO sculpture in history, claiming more than 5.3 million bricks
and weighing nearly 46,000 pounds. Last week, far away from the mayhem of
midtown Manhattan, we had the chance to preview the sculpture, learn about the
engineering that goes into a project of its scale, and (most importantly) sit in
the cockpit and high-five LEGO Luke Skywalker.
We met with Erik Varszegi, a LEGO Master Builder based at the company’s U.S.
headquarters in Connecticut, in a hanger at Ronkonkoma airport on Long Island.
Varszegi is one of 32 builders who spent a combined 17,336 hours constructing
the model (that’s about four months, if you do the math).
Here’s how they do it:
Every LEGO model starts as a computer model. Designers use a proprietary
software called LEGO Brick Builder. The software first draws a grid over any
3-D object (a tank, a plane, the Death Star), and then it reinterprets that grid
as LEGO bricks. Corners are corners, while contours and curves become slowly
sloping staircases of bricks.
The X-wing fighter, which stands 11 feet tall with a wingspan of 43 feet, is a
precise 42-times scale model of the same kit you can buy at Toys ‘R’ Us. That
means for every one-by-one Lego peg on the kit, there’s a 42-by-42 square on the
sculpture. (And yes, there is a raised “LEGO” logo on each of those gigantic
pegs.)
This model has an added complication: after its time in NYC, the X-wing will
travel cross-country to LEGOLAND in California, a state with a set of stringent
seismic standards. The computer models help designers plan an intricate steel
infrastructure that will ensure the X-wing won’t shatter in a quake. It’s also
strong enough for you to sit in the cockpit or perch atop one of the engines.
After the steel substructure is complete, builders go about constructing the
model one layer at a time. A temp-to-perm solvent binds the bricks
together—after they’ve been clicked together. Builders put a dollop of glue
inside each of the holes on the underside of a brick; the glue cures overnight,
reacting with the plastic to fuse the two together permanently. Mistakes do
happen, Varszegi admits, so if they catch a mistake the next morning, they can
pry apart bricks with a little elbow grease and perhaps a flathead screwdriver.
The team also added some (literal) bells and whistles to the final sculpture.
The engines have lights and speakers, and so they light up and cycle through a
pre-programmed series of launch and battle sounds. Not to be outdone, R2D2 also
chimes in.
For projects of this scale, LEGO maintains a facility in Kladno, Czech Republic.
Once it’s completed, the fighter breaks down into 14 separate pieces that are
packed in custom shipping containers and delivered by boat. For the move to
Times Square, it was separated into four segments and was loaded onto trucks.
The X-wing unseats the Herobot 9000 robot at the Mall of America as the largest
LEGO sculpture in the world. Though ‘bot stands about 34 feet tall, it has
slightly less than 3 million bricks and is grossly outweighed by the X-wing’s
tonnage. “It’s almost too big,” said Varszegi “from far enough away, you can’t
really tell it’s LEGO.” Sorry Erik, to us that’s the best part.
Video and images from:
POPSCI.COM
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