Yes, I’m reposting YouTubes as a way of padding out my meager blog this week. Yeah, I know: You’ve seen better, nobody cares about this meme anymore, everyone already saw this years ago and it was old then, etc etc. In any case, this is an amazing stop-motion video of a couple of guys assembling a Millennium Falcon – including the interior and many moving parts – out of Legos.
I started to write a comment here about how I’m thankful for all of the strange people out there on the internet who toil for my amusement, but halfway through I realized I’m one of those people.
Yikes.
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I believe there are actually two Ns in “Millennium Falcon.”
JD
Impressive dedication. Very creative in the way pieces were brought into the picture frame. Great pac-man reference midway. And I liked the little piece, one of the first to arrive, which sat motionless until, about 2/3 way through, it “exploded” into about 50 pieces that were then integrated into the ship.
Why do people have to constantly nitpick at grammar and spelling… If you noticed it, you obviously understood what was trying to be said… so stop it you jurks! And yeah, thats how I spell “jurk”. Wanna fight about it?
I likd the jedi woh elevatted the ship so thei cood fiks the landign gaer.
What?
I thought they were going to drop it at the end. Very suspenseful once they started running around with it. Interesting, the way they delivered the pieces makes it much harder to figure what went into the creation of the piece. The obviously had a plan for building it, but what isn’t obvious is if they created that plan or found it. Very interesting, fun to watch.
Cool. Now I want to see them do the Enterprise.
Research has shown that providing the first and last letters are correct, and approximately the right number of letters are present, most people will figure out a spelling without really caring. [citation needed]
I actually appreciate the corrections – keeps my nose to the grindstone.
As Shamus notes, I wasn’t really nitpicking–just pointing out that he might want to correct his spelling. (Which, apparently, he did.)
Sorry that you took umbrage, Nanja Kang, since no offense was intended.
JD
That a cool video but thats the basic(ie Kids) Millennium Falcon. I want them to do a video with a Ultimate series lego set. Like this one
http://shop.lego.com/product/?p=10179&LangId=2057&ShipTo=US
Of course they probably wouldn’t be able to run around the neighborhood with this one
I’m just at work taking calls from people that should have a license to use technology. There was no offense taken. GET ME OUTA HERE! Deuce Deuce!
I just saw that video before you posted it.
I too thought they were gonna drop it at the end.
>I too thought they were gonna drop it at the end.
When I worked at Wizards of the Coast, I ran a lunchtime Star Wars RPG game, and one of my players brought in her Lego Millennium Falcon for us to use as the PCs’ ship. She even altered it to fit the floorplan I provided. I kept it on my shelf, above my monitor, every day, only taking it down for the one day a week that we played.
Then we had the Ash Wednesday earthquake. While I huddled under my desk, the Lego starship “made planetfall” in a most violent manner, shattering into hundreds of component pieces.
Then my monitor leapt off my desk and bounced off the chair I’d just been sitting in, then landed on top of the Lego ship.
I felt really bad about the damage that had been done to the ship, but the player calmly accepted the Baggie full of Lego parts, and returned the next week with a completely rebuilt (and even improved!) starship.
JD
Someone built a Lego Serenity. It’s here along with lots of other nifties.
No videos (though I haven’t checked the page in a while), but I think the Flying Spaghetti Monster Temple makes up for that.
Man I wish I had the talent(and LEGO collection) that guy has. I have tried to make my own LEGO creations and they always tend to fail. So I just stick with following the official model kits.
Shamus: “I started to write a comment here about how I'm thankful for all of the strange people out there on the internet who toil for my amusement, but halfway through I realized I'm one of those people.”
You certainly are. And thank you very much for being one of those people. You may be strange, but if so, you’re our kind of strange.
Shamus for President in 2008!
(ack. the last thing I’d wish on anyone, actually)
I’m kinda suprised they managed to even complete the ending. When I got that set I remember it was incredibly fragile. Also building it without the stop motion photography took about 4 hours.
I started to write a comment here about how I'm thankful for all of the strange people out there on the internet who toil for my amusement,
I thought the ending of the video, where they simply put their creation out on the sidewalk for some stranger to discover and wonder at, was very symbolic of that internet-toiling instinct.
This isn’t the coolest stop-motion toil I’ve run into today, however. That would be Transformers Shorts: On the Prowl.
That’s the spirit Shamus.. grind that nose for us!
Does anybody know what song that was? I didn’t see it anywhere in the comments.
And yes, Shamus: you have certainly made my corner of the Internet a more interesting place.
Anyone know who that piece of music was in the video?
anyone know what that piece of music was in the video?
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