This 13-foot Lego Death Star is made from 500,000 bricks 02.15.2015 :: 11:32AM EST The official Lego S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier? It’s pretty massive, but it was dwarfed by a five-foot fan-made Enterprise. This gigantic Death Star, however, could swallow that starship whole. It’s the latest addition to the Star Wars Miniland at Legoland California. It measures 13 feet tall (presumably including its base, unless that construction worker up there is very, very tall) and required more than half a million bricks to create. How much does it weigh? Just shy of a ton. A jaw-dropping 1,900 pounds, which explains the need for a massive crane to hoist it into place a section at a time. Let’s put that into perspective. The Death Star set that you buy from the Lego Store seems pretty big when you pick up the box, but it’s only 3,800 pieces. Fully assembled, it measures about 16 inches. If the Miniland Death Star was hollow, you’d easily be able to fit a couple thousands dollars’ worth of those quaint little retail models inside it.
The rest of Legoland’s Star Wars Miniland is just as impressive. Other dioramas on display features locations from each of the six films, including the Mos Eisley Cantina, Theed Palace, Endor, and Hoth. Fortunately for the Rebel Alliance, this particular Death Star is not fully operational and it never will be. I’m sure the minifig inhabitants of Alderaan are incredibly relieved. Construction is due to be completed within the next several weeks. Legoland’s pegged March 5th as the date that they’ll bring their epic Death Star online. subscribe to our newsletter: Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.Star Wars™ Death Star Tree Topper With Lights That's no moon—it's the ultimate tree topper for any Star Wars™ fan. Expertly crafted to resemble the Empire's armored space station, this Death Star's design won't pull you in with a tractor beam, but it will capture your attention with its awesome light and sound features!
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Most of us were used to buying platforms ranging from CiscoWorks to HP OpenView (oops, Business Technology Optimization Software) or now Cisco’s NSO, so it’s natural that we’re trying to map this confusing new world into old patterns, leading to interesting discussions like the one I had during one of my workshops: Q: Is Ansible an inventory tool? A: Well, Ansible does need inventory of managed devices to do its work, and you can use it to collect information on modules, line cards, software releases, or serial numbers of managed devices. However, while I’m sure it would be possible to do a network discovery with Ansible, I wouldn’t. There must be better tools out there for that job. We’ll cover this use case in Week 2 (Easy Wins) of Building Network Automation Solutions online course. Q: So is Ansible a configuration management tool? A: You can definitely use Ansible to collect configurations from managed devices, but most people prefer RANCID as it supports more platforms.
Furthermore, neither RANCID nor Ansible will provide a version control system; you could use SVN or Git for that. Q: So where would I use Ansible? A: You could use Ansible whenever there’s something that needs to be executed in parallel on numerous devices. That could be software upgrade, configuration change, collecting of inventory data, troubleshooting... Q: Didn’t you just say Ansible isn’t an inventory or configuration management tool? After a while I finally got the right analogy to explain the difference: Network automation tools that the Build-It people (aka Network Toolsmiths) talk about are like Lego bricks. You can use them in a large variety of scenarios, but like every good Lego Master Builder you have to understand where and when to use individual bricks to get the job done. You can build almost anything with them, but it does require a significant amount of integration work and occasional programming to make the bricks nobody produced yet.
If you want to be in the Build-It camp (and I would strongly recommend you to spend some time there), you’ll find a great overview of network automation components in the Network Automation Tools webinar, and if you feel you need some help putting them together we’ll do just that in the Building Network Automation Solutions online course. Traditional $vendor platforms are like a Lego DeathStar built and glued together by Lord Business. It looks great (even more so in polished PowerPoint), but you can’t dismantle it and build a Millenial Falcon out of its components. Which one is better? There’s no right answer - as always, it depends, this time mostly on where you want to spend the money: on paying vendor engineers (after paying their sales and marketing teams) or your own engineers. It also depends on your size and budget - small organizations prefer to build things (because they don’t have the budget to buy the $platforms) as do some large organizations (because it’s cheaper to build than to buy zillion of licenses), resulting in another U-curve.