A mildly terrifying young Brit named Jack Streat has managed to build a series of working guns, including a Lee Enfield bolt-action sniper rifle, entirely out of Lego and rubber bands. They beat the hell out of last week's printer, that's for sure.Streat, who lists himself as 15 years old on his profile, has constructed an enormous and diverse armoury of weaponry that fire either rubber bands or Lego bricks. Most are based on real-life guns, including a Steyr AUG, a Tommygun, an AK-47, a belt-fed M429 PARA, an Arctic Warfare sniper rifle, a Glock 17, a pair of semi-automatic TEC-9s, a SPAS 12 pump-action shotgun and a minigun that he calls the Obliterator.That Obliterator is battery-powered and can fire at two speeds from eight barrels. Each barrel contains 13 rubber bands, meaning that it shoots a total of 104 rounds at up to 25 per second. To help test out his creations, he's also built a target range to practice on, which pops up one of three targets at random, for you to aim at.Streat says, on his profile on Lego-building community MOCpages: "I build guns and weapons.
I hope that's evident. On my page you'll find all the stuff that I've built and uploaded in the past year, earlier than that I wasn't actually building guns!"He's also got a YouTube account with videos of all his creations in action, along with a mysterious video that promises schematics and building assistance to be provided later in the summer in conjunction with another user, which seems to be run by Streat too, LegoArmoury.I'm just glad he's on our side. He is on our side, right? Here's the pump-action shotgun in motion. Imperial Assault Hovertank™product_label_list_price_accessibility 20 Reviews123451FIND MORE PRODUCTS LIKE THISSpaceStar Wars™Seek out the rebels aboard the armor-plated Imperial Assault Hovertank! Imperial Assault Hovertank⢠Reviews - page 2As a kid, I'd often snap LEGO bricks together and make crude pistols. They didn't shoot anything, so for added realism, I would go "bang bang". Like I said, crude. If I'd seen Jack Streat's LEGO gun creations, my head would've explode.
Heck, seeing them as an adult is doing just that—ka-boom! The 17 year-old Streat earned his well-deserved internet fame by designing one-to-one scale working gun replicas made from LEGO. He's parlayed that know-how into a new book LEGO Heavy Weapons, which gives directions to make four working full-scale LEGO guns. The book has directions for brick versions of a Desert Eagle, a AKS-74U, a Jungle Carbine, and a SPAS combat shotgun. Think of it as a "greatest hits" section of a first-person shooter—but in LEGO.From what I've seen of the book, the step-by-step directions are detailed—and lengthy. For example, the LEGO Desert Eagle's how-to is around 50 pages long. Ditto for the other brick firearms' instructions.Streat provided Kotaku with his latest video (above). It gives a look at the weapons in action, as well as rendered (and fascinating) look at how the parts move and interact.For those interested in picking up LEGO Heavy Weapons, the book is up on Amazon for pre-order. There's also more info on the publisher's website.
Part 57899, also known as the Blaster Rifle or Sniper Rifle, is a LEGO piece that has appeared in numerous LEGO sets, used to represent a weapon from the Star Wars movies. This piece is made to be held in the hand of a Minifigure, thus it has been released only with Star Wars Minifigures. This piece, along with Part 58247 are used in present Star Wars sets to represent Minifigure guns. Part 57899 is a LEGO piece that was made to represent a Star Wars blaster. This part, with its more frequently released counterpart Part 58247, were made in 2007 to replace Part 4349 which assumed the role of the Star Wars blaster until this point. Part 57899 was shaped like a Star Wars Rifle, could be held in the hand of a standard Minifigure, and only came in the colour of black. Part 57899 was first released in the set 7655 Clone Troopers Battle Pack in 2007 under the Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith line. This marked the decision of the LEGO Company that they wanted a more realistic gun to be released with Minifigures, rather than the now standard Part 4349 Black Loudhailer.
In the set, Part 57899 was connected to a stand, making it resemble a mounted blaster. Two were released in the set 7659 Imperial Landing Craft, and another two were released in the set 7662 Trade Federation MTT in the same year. In the years 2008, 2009, and 2010, and 2011 this part, along with Part 58247 (its considered counterpart), became the standard blasters for the Star Wars theme, completely replacing Part 4349's role in the Star Wars sets. In 2008, five were included in the set 10188 Death Star, two in the set 7668 Rebel Scout Speeder, two in the set 7675 AT-TE Walker, two in the set 7671 AT-AP Walker, and two in the set 7672 Rogue Shadow in 2008. The Rifle also made its first, but only, appearance in a non-Star Wars set, which was 8634 Mission 5: Turbocar Chase in the Agents theme. Three Part 57899s were included in the set. In 2009, three were released in the set 8038 The Battle of Endor, two in the set 8039 Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser, two in the set 10195 Republic Dropship with AT-OT Walker, and one in the sets 8018 Armored Assault Tank (AAT), 8015 Assassin Droids Battle Pack and 7749 Echo Base.
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