Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you!
LEGO and Star Wars. They go together like milk and cookies. Since shortly before the 1999 release of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (shudder), LEGO and Star Wars have been making beautiful music together, fulfilling the dreams of lightsaber-wielding fanatics everywhere and opening the floodgates to other licensed LEGO properties — which these days range from Minecraft to Jurassic World and all sorts of fun stuff in between.
So what better way to celebrate May the 4th could there be than to build the world's biggest LEGO Millennium Falcon?
That's exactly what Dan and Chris Steininger — the only LEGO Master Builder team in the world who are father and son — did. Way down under in Melbourne, Australia, the Steininger boys spent the entire weekend assembling a massive, 16-foot-wide, 9-foot-high Millennium Falcon entirely out of LEGO bricks. The public build, which incorporated help from passers-by who were asked to contribute by building larger blocks out of regular-sized bricks, also included a pair of TIE Fighters "chasing" the Falcon.
The Falcon model is impressive, as you can see from the photos. The time-lapse video below shows it being put together as well. The Falcon required 250,000 LEGO bricks while the two TIE Fighters, each 6-feet-high, required 80,000 bricks.
Dan Steininger has been a LEGO Master Builder for 21 years; his son Dan has been certified and working alongside him for the last five years.
We're a little disappointed that their Falcon build has such a heavily pixelated look; we would rather have seen something more detailed and realistic.
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