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    Stargate Lego Wants To Crash Your Collection

    The Zombie Apocalypse — in Legos
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/14/09

    In reply to Stargate Lego Wants To Crash Your Collection
    I much prefer the motorized, possibly miniland-scale stargate that someone else built.
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    Image of fraying fraying
    01/13/09

    In reply to Stargate Lego Wants To Crash Your Collection
    That's a lovely big black cock right there.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    01/13/09

    In reply to Stargate Lego Wants To Crash Your Collection
    Thor!


    BUDDY!

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    Image of Torley Torley
    01/13/09

    In reply to Stargate Lego Wants To Crash Your Collection
    Does it come with a little Thor figurine modded from a Lego-person?


    I like the effort. But this design looks monotonous. Where's the giblets? (I think I've got the wrong word. What's that term used to denote all the detail given to scifi ships and such?)

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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    01/13/09

    @Torley: I dunno. Asgard ships aren't really doodad-y. They're more streamlined than say, the Daedalus, which has TONS of doodads.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/14/09

    @Torley:
    The word you're thinking of (at least in terms of LEGO construction, if not in a more general sense) is some variation on "greebles", or "greebling". Mention that term to an AFOL, and they will know exactly what you mean.
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    Image of Torley Torley
    01/14/09

    @Purple Dave: Big up! Thanks!


    Asgard ships still do have certain embossed texture which is tough to represent with Legos, perhaps.

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/14/09

    @Torley:
    Maybe with traditional studs-up brick and plate construction, but a working knowledge of SNOT (Studs Not On Top) construction techniques and some of the more useful decorative elements, you'd be surprised what can be accomplished in that same scale. It should be possible to build that ship, at that same size, without a single LEGO stud being visible anywhere on the surface of the ship. It would probably increase the cost to build, and the piece-count would skyrocket, but any intentional texture wouldn't be muddied up by the grid pattern formed by all those visible studs.
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    01/13/09

    In reply to Stargate Lego Wants To Crash Your Collection
    How on earth would you ship that thing? Unless the winning bidder gets 20 boxes of unassembled lego and an "instruction manual"
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    01/13/09

    @alphanumeric1971: I think the article said it's "pick-up only."


    I agree. I wouldn't want to ship that thing.

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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    01/13/09

    In reply to Stargate Lego Wants To Crash Your Collection
    Holy sheet. Too much time on your hands, I think. Still, I find it somewhat shiny, and I have the sudden urge to pet it.
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    Image of Alchemistmerlin Alchemistmerlin
    01/13/09

    @meirelle wants an F-15:


    "Too much time on your hands"


    Dear GOD people leaving comments on blogs need to stop saying this.

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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    01/13/09

    @Alchemistmerlin: ...shut up. I'm at work. I am UTILIZING MY TIME. :P
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    Image of arachnophilia arachnophilia
    01/13/09

    In reply to Stargate Lego Wants To Crash Your Collection
    is it just me, or are those beliskners more than a little phallic?
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    01/13/09

    @arachnophilia: That's what happens when the Asgard can no longer sexually reproduce. Everything becomes Freudian. Poor Asgard. :(
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