The LEGO has about 1/10th of the parts of a Toyota; 3803 to be exact. If you’ve ever assembled the LEGO, or anything lego related, you know having the right parts is critical. Even more impressive is what the group over at did. This group of LEGO fans (known as My Own Creation[ers]) built a s. Coming in at around 10,000 parts it’s one of the more, if not most impressive custom models to date. As impressive as this is, it stands in the shadows of the world’s largest lego model. That impressive feat, managed by LEGO themselves was achieved in the form of a scale model of the . It came in at well over 5.3 million individual pieces. In perspective, that’s a 177 fully-assembled Toyota cars, or about 73 floors if we stacked those cars one on top of the other. Needless to say, whether you’re assembling your best attempt at a simple, square house (my own design 57 pieces in total), or the , you need high quality parts. In any of these situations, even a single part can introduce risk into your creation, risk like bringing the whole thing crumbling down, or at a minimum, force a lot of rebuilding from scratch.
In my case, not such a big deal, in the case of months of work, it’s a travesty. Unfortunately, many of us take this risk every day. Sure, most of us just dabble in LEGOs on the side. However, our day jobs consist of building high quality software products in a very similar way. The components and applications we create are used across the world, and often depend on a wide array of other components and applications. In some cases, like cars, lives depend on these creations. In others, it’s more a representation of effort and time, a labor of love, like building a scale model of an X-Wing. In either case we put a great deal of trust in the parts we use. However, there has not been a quick and easy way to see if those parts could cause failure in our final product. Internet searches and sticking our eyes to the “” can keep us abreast of the latest risk, but that’s not scaleable, and it certainly isn’t enjoyable. We’re creators, not research analysts (no offense, I appreciate the job you do).
Regardless of the case, or level of enjoyment found in endless research, no one desires to put anything less than the best quality into their creations. Worse than that, in most cases, projects can’t afford the time to research each and every component we want to use. That is, until now. A Better Way to Create Sonatype’s Nexus Firewall offers a revolutionary way to instantly give your teams access to vulnerability, license, and quality related data for the components they are consuming. In a way, it’s like being able to instantly know which of those parts in the Toyota will make it unsafe, which outdated parts have been retired from use, or which piece of that X-Wing will bring the whole model down. As we’ve coined it, it’s a that stands vigilant against parts that threaten the success of your creations. protects your entire warehouses of parts, that is your repositories, where creation begins. In most cases this is done in just a few seconds, and in the most extreme a couple minutes.
Nexus Firewall is not only a simple and easy way to identify the things that expose you to risk, it’s also a fully customizable system that allows you to specify exactly which parts you want to use, and ensure the final product, your production application, is free from known vulnerabilities, license risks, or outdated component versions. In a way, it’s like being able to guide a team to create a completely red-brick version of that X-Wing, ensure it’s free from vulnerabilities and IP risk, uses the best quality parts, and monitor for any new risks that may be identified. We invite you to see . You can then learn more about Nexus Firewall through the recent video posts ““ in our community, TheNexus. Then, we encourage you to try Nexus Firewall today, and let your teams breathe a bit easier about the pieces used in their creations, which in turn gives your organization the peace of mind you desire in your Software Supply Chain.When the Rebels need a tough starfighter, call in the Y-wing!
Drive the weapons loader into position and lift the ammo into place. Then seat the Y-Wing Pilot, lift the landing gear and take to the skies. When you reach your target, fire the shooters and turn the gearwheel to open the hatch and drop the bombs! HERE'S SOME FASCINATING VIEWING for you: Bart van Dijk's beautifully smooth animation of building a Lego Death Star. In Bart's build, 4016 individual Lego pieces come together as if by magic. SMN report: The Lego Death Star is a hefty piece of kit, weighing some 6.3 kg (14 lb) when fully assembled. Like other Lego stuff, it's not a true 'scale model' but is visually near enough to make the cut. If you like creatures with your technical equipment, there are plenty of Lego figures (below) to choose from. The AT-ST biped walker and TIE fighter are pretty nice to build, and fit neatly into the Lego Star Wars microverse. Lego offers an extremely well engineered model (below) of the Millennium Falcon, perhaps the most famous fictional spacecraft of them all.
When assembled, the Falcon is not as heavy as the Death Star, but even so it weighs in at some 2.2 kg (4.8 lb), comprised of 1330 components. Star Wars has a galaxy of equipment to choose from, and Lego tries its best to include as wide a range as possible. The ten-wheel ground assault (below) vehicle is a decent replica. The X-wing (below) is represented here in slightly updated form, as seen in The Force Awakens. Brightly coloured Lego Star Wars kits are aimed at principally at kids and collectors. But Lego also makes a series of architectural models, which are visually sleek enough to display in any adult's personal or business space. Bricks in the architectural kits come (below) in a reduced colour range, which gives them a much cooler appearance. That high-style look makes the architecture kits more suitable for both their subjects and the professionals that mostly buy them. More Star Wars stuff coming next week. Discover top brands: LEGO, Playmobil, Barbie, NERF, Sylvanian Families and more.
LEGO Star Wars 10188 Death Star Product Dimensions58.8 x 17.6 x 50.2 cm Manufacturer recommended age:14 years and up Educational Objective(s)Numeracy, Literacy & Spacial Awareness Number of Puzzle Pieces3803 97,822 in Toys & Games (See top 100) Date First Available9 Oct. 2009 Would you like to update product info? Battle inside the Death Star!Recreate the action and adventure of the Star Wars movies with the ultimate Death Star playset! This amazingly detailed battle station features an incredible array of minifigure-scale scenes, moving parts, characters and accessories from Episodes IV and VI on its multiple decks, including the Death Star control room, rotating turbolaser turrets, hangar bay with TIE Advanced starfighter, tractor beam controls, Emperor's throne room, detention block, firing laser cannon, Imperial conference chamber, droid maintenance facility, and the powerful Death Star superlaser...plus much more! Swing across the chasm with Luke and Leia, face danger in the crushing trash compactor, and duel with Darth Vader for the fate of the galaxy!
Features:Includes 24 minifigures and droids, plus all-new Dianoga trash compactor monster!Includes 6 new and exclusive minifigures and droids only found in this set : Luke Skywalker (Stormtrooper outfit), Han Solo (Stormtrooper outfit), Assassin Droid, Interrogation Droid, Death Star Droid and 2 Death Star Troopers!Also includes Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, C-3PO, R2-D2, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, Luke Skywalker (Jedi Knight), Darth Vader, Grand Moff Tarkin, Emperor Palpatine, 2 Stormtroopers, 2 Emperor's Royal Guards, R2-Q5, and mouse droid!Movie-authentic Death Star environments include the Superlaser control room and target monitor, Imperial conference chamber, TIE Advanced hangar bay with moving launch rack, Emperor's throne room, droid maintenance room, detention block, trash compactor, and much more!Rescue Princess Leia from the detention block cell, then escape through the secret hatch to the trash compactor below!Reenact the final duel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader in the Emperor's Throne Room!
Death Star measures 16" (41cm) tall and 16½" (42cm) wide!TIE Advanced measures 3½» (9cm) wide!< 75168 "Yoda's Jedi Starfighter" Building Toy LEGO Star Wars 75102 Poe's X-Wing Fighter See all 31 customer reviews See all 31 customer reviews (newest first) on Amazon.co.uk Awesome Lego Set, real collectors item. Excellent kit, but this is around £200 over the list price. Not five stars because this is a much more modular kit, so even a bright 5 year old could build it. A great item, has been well played with. It's awesome I want it in my basketI love it I want it in my basket Dont be ripped off I have requested the Death Star to be returned as box arrived opened with a couple of loose Lego pieces inside. It's too expensive to take risks with loose parts! I recently purchased this product and upon arrival, was not only shocked to find out it wasn't a small moon, but that when I assembled it there were some vents missing from one of...