So let's say you have 70,000 legos... (dialup warning)

[progressoid]

http://io9.com/5931903/seven+foot-long-minifig+scale-serenity-model-is-a-lego-masterpiece

Adrian Drake spent 475 hours over the course of 21 months to build this painstakingly accurate model of Firefly's Serenity entirely out of Lego bricks. The result is this 135-pound, seven-foot long, 70,000-brick beauty that looks especially shiny paired with its minifig crew.

Drake debuted his minifig-scale Serenity today at Brickfair in Chantilly, Virginia. He used the Quantum Mechanix blueprints for the ship as his starting point, converting the design to Lego to make it as accurate as possible. The ship doesn't just look great on the outside; it also contains all of the compartments from the set except the engine room, which proved impossible to build while maintaining structural integrity of the ship. The cargo bay and drive light up, both engines rotate, the wings swing out, and Inara's shuttle detaches. It's an incredible feat of Lego engineering

Lots of pics on his flickr page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brickfrenzy/sets/72157630914408000/with/7717701618/

[MrScorpio]

1. GeekGasm! nt

[Cheap_Trick]

2. Shiny! nt

[Scuba]

3. 70,000 legos and no girlfriend.

[progressoid]

5. Maybe yes, maybe no...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/repoort/5052098132/in/photosof-brickfrenzy/

[Orrex]

12. Why is that always the response?

Every single time someone engages in something that takes time and effort, some clever soul immediately has to insult that person.

God forbid we appreciate the beauty of the design or the quality of the finished project. Certainly our practiced cynicism forbids us to say anything positive about it. Nope. Much better to attack the person whose hobby doesn't match our own.



This is nothing against you particularly; I'm replying to you here only because you're the latest in a very long line of "shoot first" respondents. There have been many others before and many more to follow.

Nice.

[HughBeaumont]

17. Or the one I always love: "SOMEone has a lot of time on their hands!"

I don't get it. Since when did creativity and art get filed under "a waste of time"? And it's usually said by people who live on social media like it were coffee.

[TreasonousBastard]

20. Then, there's "With all the starvation and misery in the world..."

[Hayabusa]

4. Shiny!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. Nerdtastic!!

[sarge43]

7. I'll be in my bunk

Well, someone had to say it.

[progressoid]

8. Heh heh heh

[FloridaJudy]

14. A man walks down the street

...in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.

[sarge43]

16. More so because Mom made it.

Bless Drake for including Wash's dinosaur. He's obviously a true Browncoat.

[FloridaJudy]

23. He'd *have* to be

To put all that together. Did he include Kaylee's pretty dress with all the ruffles, though?

BTW, I found the knitting pattern for the cunning hat online:
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=19076.20

[GoneOffShore]

9. Wonder if he'll do Red Dwarf next.

[rppper]

10. What to do with hundreds of thousands of Legos...

The Japanese battleship Yamato

[Angleae]

11. Like this?

[rppper]

13. Awesome!

The way they created it literally from the keel up and the framing....both creations are incredible...

[progressoid]

18. Whoa!

I had to Google that.

DAMN.

[FloridaJudy]

15. That's gorram impressive

I want it!

[Bucky]

19. If it was truly "painstakingly accurate" he would've shoved a long Leggo through Wash.

[RiffRandell]

21. We probably have close to that number in my house.

Not kidding. My son is almost 12 and has been collecting sets since kindergarten. This is the first year he didn't put any on his xmas list. We have alien, Star Wars, city, Spongebob, Raiders of the Lost Ark and other sets I can't even think of. The only one still together is this huge Star Wars ship.

We did see this cute story on the news recently where this boy saved up for 2 years for a Lego train set, went to buy it only to discover it was discontinued. He wrote the company a letter and they sent him one as the going price on Ebay were a couple hundred dollars more.

[kwassa]

22. but what you really need is Towering Ambition

http://brianboidin.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/lego-architecture/

The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., is home to a stunning exhibition, entitled “LEGO Architecture: Towering Ambition,” featuring LEGO models of the world’s most recognizable buildings that took 15.5 million bricks to construct. Three new models were recently added to the original fifteen already on display. Those fifteen structures were created by LEGO certified professional Adam Reed Tucker — one of only eleven LEGO certified professionals in the world – with each model taking about 200 hours to complete. The buildings include iconic skyscrapers like the Empire State Building, the John Hancock Center, the Petronas Towers and the Burj Khalifa. The exhibition is scheduled to run until September 3rd so be sure to check it out if you’re in the Washington, D.C., area