So how cool is this??? It was just unveiled in Times Square....a fighter jet from Star Wars!
No, I am not a huge star wars fan...altho the hubby is and has all the movies at home, but what I am impressed the most with...is that it is Legos. Those very things that inhabit my livingroom...that I step on..vaccum up...cuss over and still buy more...were able to build that.
And all this time I have been impressed with little things like a lego home and lego "car" the kids have built. This just upped the bar for them! :)
The mad geniuses at Legos have created a full-scale X-wing fighter made from more than 5 million bricks—the most ever used to build a model. It's currently on display in New York City's Times Square.
The X-wing, for those who didn't study under Professor Yoda, was the ship that destroyed the (first) Death Star in the original "Star Wars."
Gizmodo reports that the behemoth 1:1 scale model, based on Legos' $60 X-wing set, is 11 feet tall and 43 feet long with a wingspan of 44 feet.
The X-wing will hang out in New York for a few days before being transported to the West Coast, where it will reside at Legoland in San Diego.
Thirty-two model builders worked on the fighter. It took more than 17,000 hours to complete and weighs approximately 45,980 pounds, according to Wired.
