Replica GunSized ReplicaDominator ReplicaTransform VideoDominator PsychoPass GifSummarized VideosCosplay PsychoGifs WorthForwardThis “Dominator” Replica Gun From The ‘Psycho Pass’ Anime Can Actually Transform [Video] HOW FREAKIN AWESOME IS THIS!!!!!!Why stop at assembling official Star Wars LEGO sets? With the high quality pieces produced by the Danish toymaker, many artists and enthusiasts have taken the construction into their own hands. We’ve found various interpretations of Star Wars in LEGO – ranging from scenes redone to model constructions made to scale – and we’ve found a few truly impressive ones. The 10,000-piece Millennium Falcon was built from scratch without manuals or instructions, and it took two months to plan and construct, with its completion around May 2015. It was put together by Titans Creations – a Singaporean LEGO MOC’cer group who would do MOCs (My Own Creation) using existing LEGO materials to create original works that isn’t provided for in LEGO manuals or building instructions.
The masterpiece sits at 144 x 144cm in length and width – 40 percent larger than the US$5,999 (~S$8,420), 5,195-piece LEGO’s Star Wars Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon set. The 10,000-piece model is built to minifig scale – meaning that the freighter will appear life-sized to LEGO’s people-figurines. If you swing by its Flickr album, you can observe its cross-section in greater detail, such as the maker’s very own addition of 24 LED lights for more realistic-looking corridors, rear thrusters and hyperdrive, and how the Han Solo and Chewbecca figurines are not sitting in their respective pilot seats (apparently, it’s a trap laid down for ardent SW fans to spot). If pictures alone aren’t enough, you’ll be pleased to know that the 10,000-piece Millennium Falcon is actually on display for a limited time – at VivoCity from 1 to 20 Dec ember 2015 – as part of the promotional campaign for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. As an added bonus, you can find a LEGO wall mural that measures 6.2 x 2.4m on-site, depicting the movie’s promotional art.
According to LEGO Singapore on their Facebook page, the mural is made from 200,000 LEGO studs (the one-unit piece, and not the four to eight-unit LEGO brick). As a photographer, shooting was second nature to Vesa Lehtimäki, but there was newfound passion when he started using his son’s favorite toys – the Star Wars LEGO sets – as subjects. Out of all the toys he has covered thus far, the Star Wars LEGO pieces appealed to him the most. It led to years of experimentation, producing various self-created Star Wars stills styled like movie scenes. His material is based off canon, but Vesa added a dramatic flair to his work – just like his Tauntaun shot above. You can view many of them on his Flickr or Instagram page, and let yourself decide on the ones that truly capture the Star Wars atmosphere best. His works caught the attention of Star Wars themselves, and it also led him to meet the production team of The Lego Movie (2014). Vesa eventually got around to compiling his works in 176-page photo book, titled Small Scenes from a Big Galaxy – which you can order on Amazon here.
If you thought that the X-wing starfighter at Changi Airport was impressive, you would be floored by the LEGO X-wing done by the toy brick company back in 2013. The life-sized X-wing was made for promoting Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles. It was on display in Times Square, New York, for the public to gawk at. So how "life-sized" is it? According to LEGO’s Facebook page, the X-wing used a whopping 5,335,200 LEGO bricks, and it took 32 designers and 17,000 hours to build. It weighs approximately 23 tonnes (23,000kg), and it was first assembled at a LEGO Model Shop in Kladno, Czech Republic, before having the completed build shipped to New York. Fortunately for us, LEGO kept most of the pictures on their Facebook page, so we still have a chance to see the construct. You could also watch the video above, which illustrates the challenge and difficulty of making the combat craft. LEGO enthusiast blog Brothers Brick mainly focuses on LEGO, yet we found not one, but two gems within the Star Wars Universe.
The blog owner(s) were recently inspired by the latest first-person-shooter video game, Star Wars Battlefront (2015), and decided to make a life-sized version of the Imperial Stormtroopers’ E-11 blaster rifle. It is scaled to the dimension of a Sterling SMG – the real-life British weapon which the blaster props from the Star Wars film were also modeled from. Brothers Bricks’ E-11 blaster features a working moving trigger, and a folding stock. Adding to that is its life-sized dimensions that make the LEGO prop look absolutely cool when posing with one. The second 1:1 LEGO blaster we found was none other than Han Solo’s DL-44 heavy blaster pistol. The pistol was a contributed piece by another group called Cult Bricks (with their Flickr page here). The maker chose a different-colored grip and tip from the canon source, but that is to help users visualize the DL-44 blaster pistol better (and we believe that because it’s so much easier to get it completed in its original, single hue).
It features a flared scope, and the ability to cock the LEGO prop gun. Coupled with its size, we’d say that it’s also a job well done, too. There are countless more Star Wars displays or props, be it LEGO or otherwise. If you have a different opinion on what is truly the best Star Wars replica (LEGO or not), let us know in the comments on our Facebook page.A model of a sentry turret from the Portal game. Features two motors and two sensors and is computerized with the Lego WeDo software. Power: electric (Power Functions) Dimensions: length 26 studs / width 18 studs / height 36 studs Weight: 0.788 kg (together with the launcher) Motors: 1 x PF Medium, 1 x micromotor I was halfway through the Portal 2 game when this idea came to me. As you probably know, there are many Lego models of the famous Portal sentry turret and other “characters” from the game, especially after the release of Portal 2, but they are usually just that – models, with zero functionality.
I had a very ambitious plans for this construction, and I’ve spent a lot of time trying to realize them in vain. Among other things, I was trying to make the turret stand on its own legs and I wanted it to have Lego cannons inside it, with ability to extend and fire. The legs turned out too weak and the body of the turret turned out too small to house all the necessary mechanics – it was just 7 studs wide. The size of the turret was determined by my decision to equip it with a studful, possibly accurate body. It was quite a challenge, as the original turret is egg-shaped. I was able to achieve the look I wanted using a variety of uncommon parts, and because of the parts it couldn’t be any bigger. This is because almost every Lego piece used for its body has no larger counterpart. If the turret was to be made bigger, I would have to use several pieces instead of each single one used here, and it would pretty much ruin the look of the model. The elements that would be extremely hard to re-create at larger scale include the eye, the hole for the eye, entire legs – even the curved slopes the major part of the body is built with don’t come in larger size.
Which pretty much means that a larger model would have to use an entirely different body. The body, which was quite a challenge to build, consists of five separate panels attached to a central studless skeleton. There are two identical extended side panels, rear panel, front panel with the eye and the proximity sensor and the top panel with the tilt sensor. It took a lot of planning to arrange them into one construction and to make it look as a whole. As for my work on the model, I have reached the point where I was able to have four Lego cannons inside it, together with a mechanism and a motor that could extend and retract them. However, I was unable to make them fire – I’ve tried a number of solutions, including most compact ones such as a string pulled by a motor. I have toyed with the idea of making only one side of the turret open, but the prototype firing mechanism I developed turned out so large, that even this was a problem. Eventually, I decided to remove the cannons from the turret and put them together as an auxiliary launcher, together with the custom laser pointer that didn’t fit inside the turret either.
This way I was able to make both sides of the turret extend and retract, and the turret could control the launcher. Building the launcher has shown yet another problem – the recoil from the four Lego cannons fired at once. It was quite significant and I had to add large stabilizers for the launcher to make it stop tipping over while firing. The number of wires coming out of the turret (total: 7) and its inability to stand on its legs made me create a stand for it. The stand supported the turret entirely, and housed the Lego WeDo USB hubs, as well as helped to arrange the wires. I was trying to make the stand look like a fragment of the Portal test chamber’s floor. The turret was connected to a computer running the Lego WeDo software, which controlled the turret. There were two Lego WeDo sensors inside the turret: a proximity sensor located in front, below the eye (I was actually trying to install it behind the eye and make it look through it, but I was unable to stop it from detecting the pieces in front of it), and a tilt sensor located inside the turret’s top panel for increased accuracy.
The side panels were extended or retracted by a micromotor rotating an axle with a simple system of levers attached to it. The launcher was controlled by PF Medium motor rotating another axle with a simple connector on it. When rotated, the connector would push the vertical beams at the back of the launcher and pull all its four cannons’ triggers back. It was a very simple mechanism, but it required large torque to work, which was one of the reasons why I was unable to fit it inside the turret with some smaller motor. The WeDo program controlling the turret is the most complex one I have created up to date. It uses the voice files of the original turret from the Portal game – I had to extract them, find the sound files of the Lego WeDo software and swap them to make it work, as the WeDo software doesn’t allow to use custom sound files. The turret is capable of recognizing direction it’s tilted in and can check if the target that appeared in front of it is still there – which is quite an achievement given the fact that the WeDo programming language doesn’t support conditional instructions.
The turret is my first MOC to use white as the primary colour. The portal 2 game theoretically introduced turrets in various colours, but the turrets we meet in the game are almost exclusively white, and the white version has become iconic since the first Portal game. Every white Lego piece the model uses was bought specifically for it, as I had no white Lego pieces in good condition (that is not yellowed). As I expected, a white model with black addition was a difficulty when it came to taking photos. I have even used a light tent with backdrops in a number of colours, but I wasn’t quite satisfied with the result. I guess I should have used a large piece of paper in some neutral colour, but I did not have one. Despite the fact that the turret did realize a whole list of ideas, I was happy with it. I liked the look of it, and I had great fun working on the video. Using the sound files from the game turned out to work very well too, and I think that even if it’s not very successful compared to my other MOCs, it’s still very good in terms of Portal-inspired Lego models.