{"id":426,"date":"2005-12-16T12:49:58","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T12:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2005-12-16T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T12:49:58","slug":"lastminute_legolicious_gift_id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/12\/16\/lastminute_legolicious_gift_id\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-Minute Lego-licious Gift Idea!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still haven’t found that perfect gift for your favorite Simple Trick and Nonsense blogger? Might I suggest a one-of-a-kind eight-foot replica of a Republic attack cruiser (as seen in Revenge of the Sith<\/i>) made entirely out of Legos?<\/p>\n


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\nThis astounding model was created with some 35,000 Lego bricks by a “Lego Master Builder” — what a job title, eh? — named Erik Varszegi. It has appeared at a number of large geek-gatherings, including Star Wars Celebration III<\/a> and the legendary San Diego Comic-Con<\/a>, and it’s currently up for auction<\/a> on eBay. Last time I checked, the bid price was a mere $24,006.99. All of the money from the final bid will go to Habitat for Humanity’s hurricane relief project, so come on, make a gesture of friendship to yours truly and contribute to a good cause. Maybe I’ll even let you come over and admire it sometime…<\/p>\n

All kidding aside, this thing fascinates me. I am simply astounded by the accuracy of this model; I had no idea you could build something so “realistic” out of Legos. Everything I ever attempted to build with them as a kid inevitably ended up as a cube, or a rectangular obelisk or something, so I can’t help but be impressed by any Lego sculpture that actually looks like something.<\/p>\n

In case you didn’t know, you can click on the photo above to see a larger version. You might also want to check out this interview<\/a> with Varszegi, which includes lots more photos along with the details of how this model was constructed. It’s almost as complex as the special-effects miniatures built for the original trilogy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still haven’t found that perfect gift for your favorite Simple Trick and Nonsense blogger? Might I suggest a one-of-a-kind eight-foot replica of a Republic attack cruiser (as seen in Revenge of the Sith) made entirely out of Legos? This astounding model was created with some 35,000 Lego bricks by a “Lego Master Builder” — what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}