This set inventory has been obtained from LEGO Customer Services replacement parts page. Important note: We do not control this inventory and cannot currently make changes to it. Use it as a guide to the contents of the set, or to find out part numbers when requesting replacements. Download the inventory as a CSV file » inventory for this set »The link to this page may be incorrect or out of date.2. You may have bookmarked a page that has moved. I just finished up the Death Star set, and while it comes with the usual smattering of leftover pieces, I've got two pieces numbered 4255629 (shown below) that never got used. I've scanned the manual three times now and just can't see where I missed the pieces. Were they just included for decorating at my leisure, or is there a specific page that shows where to use them? The piece looks like this: There is one going in the small blue trolley on page 4. These pages don't show parts inventories, and the part is partly hidden, so it's very easy to overlook.
The other one is an extra, as explained in comment.Browse other questions tagged building star-wars or ask your own question.To my knowledge, there are 3 Death Star sets that LEGO has:From 2008 (and still available!), the 10188 Death Star with 3803 pieces:From 2005, the 10143 Death Star with 3441 pieces:From 2012, the 9676 Death Star, with a piddly 65 pieces:The smallest one is pretty quick to build, obviously. It's basically 2 large hemispheres that snap together, with 2 extra pieces on the top and bottom. As it turns out, I happen to have timed myself when I built that set, and the whole thing (with the TIE Interceptor) took me 00:03:42 to build, starting from when I first tore open the outer packaging.The other 2 I've never built. But, I've timed myself building similarly large sets, to test my build speed (I would build as fast as I could, and pause the timer if I took a break) Assuming the same ratio of pieces per second (and assuming this ratio aligns roughly with my largest timed build), it would likely take me about 05:11:39 to build the UCS Death Star from 2005
, and 05:44:26 for the 2008 Death Star playset.I expect it would take most people longer, since I'm not only an experienced LEGO builder, but also because that's based on building "as fast as possible", rather than at a nice leisurely pace.Inspired by this awesome estimation of the cost to build a Death Star. I won’t tell you their estimate; you will have to click the link to find out yourselves. Then there was a discussion I had with some friends. We came to the conclusion that the Lego Millennium Falcon was so cool because it was to the proper scale for Lego mini figs. No, we are not talking about the Millennium Falcon on the Lego store; this older one that they don’t sell anymore (the Ultimate version). Just like the Lego Falcon they made a Lego version of the Death Star, but it wasn’t to scale. Yes, they do make another version of the Death Star, but they don’t even try to pretend it is to scale. First, how big is the REAL Death Star? Well, there were two (Episode IV and Episode VI).
Apparently, these two Death Stars were not the same size. According to Wookiepedia, the first Death Star had a diameter of 160 km. Need the dimensions of a mini fig? The internet is here for you. That site appears to say the height of a mini fig is 38.6 mm tall. If I assume an average human height of 1.77 meters, this would mean the scale of the mini fig is: So, a to-scale Lego Death Star (first version) would be 0.022 times the diameter of the REAL Death Star. This would put the diameter of the Lego Death Star at 3.52 km. That’s a pretty big Lego model. This is what it would look like next to the world’s tallest buildings. (The tallest one is around 600 meters.) I told you it was huge. If the scale version of the Death Star came in a set, how many pieces would it have? The first question we need to answer (we will answer it together) is: what will be on the inside of the Lego Death Star? There will have to be some things in there to make it support the outside.
Probably if you want a scale model of the Death Star, you want everything. Garbage compactor and all. So, assuming the inside of the model has structure I need to get an estimate for the density. Let’s go back to the Ultimate Millennium Falcon model. , the model has 5,195 pieces. It has dimensions of 84 cm x 56 cm x 21 cm. If I assume this is rectangular-ish, I can determine the Lego piece-density: This is just an estimate, but one I am fairly happy with. Sure there are some large pieces in the Millennium Falcon model but there are also some small ones. I guess it is possible the Death Star would have a lower piece density (if it has more larger pieces). Using this density and the volume of the Ultimate Death Star model, I can get the number of pieces in the set. Maybe the Ultimate Death Star has more large pieces in the set. Let estimate there would be 1014 pieces in the set. Just to be safe. Really, I mean mass — but I like “weigh” in the title better.
So, for this, I need the mass density of a Lego set. The Ultimate Millennium Falcon is listed at a shipping weight of 24.2 pounds. Of course this must include the box and the instructions, so maybe the pieces would weigh around 21 pounds (9.5 kg). This would give a mass density of 96.2 kg/m3. Just a quick check on the Lego Death Star II, it has a mass density of about 85 kg/m3 — and it isn’t even complete. Let me just go with a density of 90 kg/m3. With this density (mass density) my Super Ultimate Lego Death Star will have a mass of: I don’t know what to say about the mass. This is going to be a stretch. But here is a graph of the price of different Lego sets as a function of the number of pieces (from a very old post): If I assume the function stays linear for up to 1015 pieces (which would be odd to not give some sort of large set discount), then I get about $0.098 USD per piece. So, for all the pieces this would cost about 9.8 x 1012 US dollars, yes almost 10 trillion dollars.
Really, this is your only option if you want to build something like this. The biggest problem on the surface of the Earth would be supporting the thing. Suppose I build a base to hold it up that is about 0.3 km across. All of the weight of the Death Star would have to be supported on top of this. This would be a compressive pressure of about 2.4 x 108 N/m2. Just for a comparison, granite (Engineering Toolbox) has a maximum compressive strength of 1.3 x 108 N/m2. So, we are talking about some structural failures here. If you put it in orbit, you don’t have to worry about this compressive strength problem. Also, you could move around to different parts of the model to build it. Here are some other questions that I didn’t get around to answering: That should keep you busy for a while. Oh, I noticed that a few more of the Lego Star Wars models were not to scale. This needs to be fixed. Just when you thought everything was over, it keeps going. What if this Lego set were indeed in orbit around the Earth?