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Where is the canteen?
This is the best possible use of everyone’s time: Him making the Star Destroyer, and me watching the video. Imagine if all the people that went out to do violent or antisocial nonsense just went out and made a nine-foot high reproduction of Helm’s Deep out of Lego instead.
First thing I noticed: The conference room table top curves down. Where do they set their coffees, and how do they keep their pens from sliding to the floor? Or does no one take notes in space?
The gravity generators that they use on ships aren’t just on the floor, but also the work surfaces. Obviously.
The adult in me is very impressed. The child in me really wants to chuck this bad boy down some stairs and see what flies where.
While we were all partying, he studied the brick.
[adjusts glasses…]
Well actually, this specimen appears to be an example of a standard Imperial-class Star Destroyer, which was not equipped with offensive gravity well capabilities. You may be referring to the Interdictor-class Star Destroyer, which are distinguished by their four pronounced spherical gravity well projectors.
It would be foolish to build a 35,000 brick star destroyer without building the 20,000 brick escort ships.
Mr Stevens! Penne al Arrabiata if you please…
This one’s wet. And this one’s wet. And this one, and this one…
It’s not quite as big, but here’s a Millennium Falcon Lego model being destroyed:
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