Hee hee, I love it! I’ve been pausing and stepping through the movie, and at one point there’s some kind of figurine on top of the Star Destroyer box. A dog?

And I love how you first try putting the URL in normal sized letters on a piece of paper, try it a few times and then there’s a rather long pause while you make the banner with the URL in big letters. :)

I love stop motion video.

that rocks! not just the model but the film, everything! rockage-central in fact!

Thank you!
You saw that little figurine? Wow. That’s only there for one keyframe. It’s a little bear-like card holder that we thought we could use to display the URL at first. But it was too small.

And you saw the URL on the piece of paper? Man. You really looked at this closely :)

That’s just too damn cool. You guys rock. I like the dinner/breakfast scene :)

Damn, I just hope you don’t exceed your bandwidth limit!

I feared for my bandwidth limit also. So I put the videos on my old university account. I just hope they don’t delete the account anytime soon.

Smart, very smart…

extreme ownage ;) especially your nichtlustig.de shirt… the one that took so long until it was ready to ship.

this is tres nifty. to make it complete, you should add the cantina scene music from a new hope. =)

I haven’t seen your movie yet, but that is way cool none the less. I’m just waiting for some enterprizing shmuck with money and time and make a modle of Vader’s yacht, the “Executor” (or is it “Exicutioner”), TO SCALE. That would make it, what, like TWELVE FEET LONG or so? Anyone game?

P.S. If you ask me, the next “Mini Modle” they should make is a tiny “Millinium Falcon” to go on the back of the bridge of the Star Destroyer! ;)

Just ordered… and YOU TWO are resposible for this
and let’s hope in my wife comprehension… :)

Heh heh :) I take that as a compliment :) Have fun assembling yours!

i am getting one for my 14th birthday. and how many pcs. are there about 10,000,000, and how long will it take me (an expert) who has been building with lego scince i was three, and who has recently finished a 10 story japanese styled building. oooo and i wonder if i can find a way to get rid of that anoying line down the center

ooo and it looks like u got a little help from someone else

10 hours? I made it alone in 7 hours.
Well it didn’t live long until I began making Super Star Destroyers, ending with the Executor:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/1549?r=846981192

Fantastic! where do I buy one from?

Extraordinary. I love it. Decent storyline, great cinematography, superb actors :)
I wanna see more.

Brilliant!! Loved the video, it was great. Gives me an idea of what I’m in store for (my own set arrived yesterday!).. although I won’t be doing a marathon build, it’ll be very piecemeal :)

Your video was pretty cool. I wish I would have thought of it when I built my Lego Star Destroyer. Having to look at is cool and all, but having something to show its creation is awesome. Anyhow, I’m glad to see that there is someone else that built is that fast. My friends don’t believe it took me 10 1/2 hours, even with an observer. Anyway, thanks for the chance to post a comment.

Glad you liked the video, Javen. It’s probably the coolest thing I’ve done in my life (yes, that’s how boring I am) so I’m still a little proud of it. And of course I’m very happy whenever somebody finds their way to my little site and tells me they like the video :)

Its really cool! im saving up right now!! but how do you move such a thing? mail me.

cool idea to make a video

i,m planning to bye the destroyer also ( it costs a fortune !

Nice!!! Good job!!!

Oh you should add some music :)

DON‘T EVER DIVORCE YOUR WIFE! SHE IS A KEEPER. The fact that she let you buy an expensive toy. Then actually help you build it, is un-real. You’re a very lucky geek.

That’s awesome!

Well, you know, actually, it’s my expensive toy. I got it for christmas and I let my boyfriend help me build it. But thanks for the compliment :)

great job on it. this reminds me of thaying the game “the sims” in the fastest gameplay mode.

I’m glad I got to watch this video for a few reasons. One is becaus it was really cool to see the ship take shape. Another is because I don’t think I’d ever take on the project myself so now I feel like I’ve completed it in a way or at least been apart of it. And lastly, legos rock my socks off :).

John, did you by chance mean the Slave 1? i don’t praticularly remember the millenium flacon hanging out on the back of a star destoryer.

Hey, nice stop motion video. Looks like one of the BSB music video when they set up a concert stage. (yes, yours were as good as the pros) and hey… nice tee-shirts you guys have o’er there. “Someone set the bomb”? and the Urinating Bear? REAL funny. Jealous you have the ‘resources’ to get yourself a BIG model such as dat. Impressed you even video taped it. Muz get me one of those ship models one day. Was kinda into planes once. (smaller n cheaper ones. hehehe…) And my boyfriend wasn’t interested. you guys are AWESOME ppl.

I have a server with 2000GB bandwidth if you want a mirror for all three sizes. I only use 500GB myself and have plenty to give away.

Diemer, John did mean the Falcon, its from the Empire Strikes back.

Check out the pic:
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/dvd/ep5/avenger3.jpg

Diemer, John did mean the Falcon, its from the Empire Strikes back.

Check out the pic:
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/dvd/ep5/avenger3.jpg

sorry for the double post

great video guys. i’ve got to get me one of those.

This is way cool, really fun to watch.

We linked to it! http://penguinproletariat.com/?p=242

Been thinkin about getting one for a long time. Now I will definitley have to! Nice video !

Very cool video. The Star Destroyer is too cool. I guess the next project is the Death Star II which comes out in September.

Now lets see if I can convince my wife that I need more Lego.

Everybody needs more Lego :)

Love it…

I did a version with music…

http://01792.org/halo/art/uploaded/Lego_music.wmv

Hope you don’t mind…

I like the few seconds of the two of you eating. It’s like the food is rapidly sublimating into the air.

Very cool, well done. Too bad I do not have place in my tiny apartment for that beast…

You guys are on slashdot…. so sorry.

Thou has been Slashdotted, so you know it’s good.

wow the girl’s hot! too bad she’s only on there for like, 1.27 seconds….

u guys should have built this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000TEXW2/qid=1120469086/sr=8-6
/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl21/002-5013531-3951262?v=glance&s=toys&n=507846
would have saved u a few minutes ;)

You know, for a home made movie there’s not really enough porn in it.
Well done on the plastic thing!

You’ve been slashdotted!
Counting down ‘till this server melts :)

-Haplo

Awesome =D

And congrats =D

Mmmmmm GermKnodel. Unless I’m vastly mistaken. Hungry now.

goes off in search of griessknockerlsuppe. which is tough, in london

Hey guys, the second, larger version doesn’t work for me. The first link downloads after a while, but then it downloads really slow and cuts out after about half way (I’m downloading with broadband, so it’s not my connection).. The second one wont download at all for me.. It means I have to be stuck with the smaller version, which I don’t want.. Any more mirrors for the larger version possible?

and then they threw my newphew into it. we call him luke.

http://www.fotodaze.com/view.php?view=1250

Hi Centipeed,

I took down the large version for now until the /. effect wears off. Don’t want to kill my server. I will see if I can put up a torrent of the large file tonight. Once that’s available I’ll post it here.

Until then we have to hope that one of the mirrors will come back.

Cheers,
E.

Centripeed: My server is very busy (about 30 downloads pr minute), so I’ve emailed Edda asking to remove the link temporaly.

A torrent would be a very good idear, it seems that the torrent for the medium version requires some sort of registration to download.

Another mirror of the medium version: http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/8641c512fe28b9a83b5866ded7511046/lego_sd_medium.avi

Heh.. Slashdot should host any files that they want to link to on their own servers. It’s not fair that they can just link to an offsite file and systematically destroy that site’s server..

Note about the torrent: Nice of you to do it (I’m sure it’s not just being done for me though!) but the only computer I can use with broadband is this one, which is a college computer, so no torrent downloads for me.. You can’t host it on a different server I am guessing? (Or find out why the Rocekiller.dk server doesn’t work?)

Cheers

Awesome replica, well done

Thats dedication for you…. looks like you needed a little help from the “force”

what was the music in milo’s version that had sound?

thanks.

Please Please Please explain the technical details of how you did the time lapse. I’m working on a similar project, and am able to get the pictures, just not stitch them together to make a movie. Any pointers would be excellent.

Sheetzam, get bmp2avi:
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/bmp2avi.html

More Michi please!!!!!

nice work guys. that is awwworsome…

Wow, great job guys. That thing is amazing.

OMG, omg.. I soooo want to buy this model.. !!

hey sheetzam, you can do the time lapse with something like premiere, the webcam software ought to name all the pictures sequentially like picture0001, picture0002, and there’s an option that will allow you to import a sequence of files, you can pick how long you want each frame to show etc. not sure if that’s the easiest way but i know it works =)

oh yeah and its 3104 pieces =D

You can also use the latest virtual dub (and any direct show filter then) to make a sequence of images into an avi. You don’t need a big expensive program like premier when a free one will do :)

Why is the torrent behind some dumb sign up first site?

Prodigem (http://prodigem.com/) provides up to 100MB without all the hassle.

kick arse, my friend was thinking about getting one (he’s got most the other star wars lego models) and after seeing this he’s definately gonna get it. nice job on the stop motion film (i love those)

btw what was the song in the version with music?

I used to have one of those on my desk at work. Some of the folks in the office bought it together (it was like $300), and spent several months building it a bit at a time. When I got there it was complete, but it kept falling apart, little by little. I was afraid to touch the thing. Finally I heard someone touched it and it fell to pieces and my boss spent like 8 hours getting it back together. I’ve since changed desks. Whew! What a project!

Marc

Oh gosh! My server is used to some high traffic but I bet I could much better adjust my httpd.conf for this high load. Alas, I am at work and basically stuck. I can't edit the files from here! Hah, I can't wait to see how much bandwidth I get to use though :]

Aaaaaargh

Jar-Jar has a sister !

And she is on the web !

You guys rock, I’ve only finished half of the inner frame because of work and other commitments, just shouldve done it all in one sitting like you did. And I linked you … http://joseandkris.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-envy-these-guys.html

Nice project, cool that you made a video with it, it may well be a while before the /. wears off, you know how it is with us geeks and star wars

What’s worse is that the torrent site they used has a delay for brand new signups to download brand new torrents. So right now the delay is 15 hours if you’re new to TorrentMatrix.

Guys,

The previous music version:-

http://01792.org/halo/art/uploaded/Lego_music.wmv
(Feel free to use, I have unlimited bandwidth)

The music is by Mylo. (http://www.mylo.tv)

“Under pressure” and it’s from “Kill rock and roll” album. Which is awesome…

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002847L8/qid=1120502860/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/202-8539633-1199036

Now buy it…!

Full credit to Esther and Michael,
“Bask in the glory of anonymous fame!”

Fantastic!
Loved it.
The music is “Drop the pressure” by Milo, and it’s a great album too.

Sorry Mylo, not Milo

Someone host a torrent of the full large version will ya? I managed to get about a third of the file today before it was taken down.

Now I have some, but not all, of the file in half decent quality and I needs to see the rest.

It is required.

Torrent the bugger someone!

torrent for large movie???

Try mirror 2 for the large movie, it’s very fast.

Your torrent doesn’t work. “Aborting the torrent as it was rejected by the tracker before connecting to any hosts. Unrecognized host”.

We have now created torrents of our own. These should work (linked in the article).

Thanks folks, Huge vid goodness coming my way. Big evil grin

Ah, nothing like the smell of fresh bandwidth in the morning. Or something.

Thanks for stress-testing my server, doodz. :) (mine is the second mirror)

Cheers!

Great vid. I’m sorry it took over 2 years for exposure. Lego could have used this publicity to move their products given how sucky the two “new” movies were.

Thanks for sharing with us.

MrKnisely

Love the video, never thought to tape when I built mine. Like the system it appears you use, one finds parts, the other builds, very nice.

Have all the UCS around my cube in work, co-workers think I’m nuts.

You gonna tape the Death Star build?

- Rocco

Most excellent! I’ll have to go through each frame to find the minifig. If you don’t mind, I’d like to pass on the link to a cool Star Wars collecting site. Awesome job. I’m still waiting to get my set…someday. This just makes me more excited to get it. Now I know for sure I’m going to video tape it too. Thanks for the inspiration!

-JMS

Nice job, cool video. Good thing about being in the UK is that the Slashdots are normally slackening off, with the mirrors available by the time I do my daily trawl.

Building that has got to have taken a lot of perseverence, nice touch with the clock - I recommend you slow down your eating or you’ll get indigestion. :P

Thanks for the chance to watch, I get to see something complete that I’d never have the patience to do myself.

—
Angus

Wow..!!

Great job you guys…

Very appropriate to see it today when we are taking our kids to Legoland tomorrow! Now we won’t be impressed with what we see there, since we know that you can build even the most complicated lego models in just about 4 minutes! ;)
Seriously, how neat to watch! I can’t imagine having 10 hours straight to do anything, save for something that requires the brain to stay awake. What exactly was it that you were eating? And shortly before that when there was nothing going on for a second or two—was that a bathroom break (the ONLY one? Or did you two trade off?) :)
I wish there was a way to set up a web cam for when we do an addition on our house! This is just way too cool! Thanks for sharing your geekiness with the rest of us (I’m one of those wives who would do this, too, btw! Thanks for being the ‘voice’ of the female Star Wars geek!)

i think the longest it ever took me to build a SW lego model was about 2-3 hours building either the TIE-bomber or the x-wing. i loved your video though, the dinner scene made me laugh..lol. can’t say i’m about to buy a star destroyer model, though (lack of space to put it), although once i was tempted to get the AT-AT walker.

well done!

How did u set up the webcam to take the pics every 5 seconds? i have a 9000pc. puzzle of the petronas towers waiting here… :-P

Cheers!

awesome :) awesome :)

fpp666,

I just used a regular webcam software. There is usually an option that lets you take a picture every __ seconds.

I had a hard time concentrating on the build.

Sorry but, I found myself just staring at her chest.

I will have to say though, both were built well. ;-)

Very nice, makes me wish I had one.

fpp666,
Try http://videocat.sf.net

Very nice.

I just love this little film. Very nice.
It reminded me of the SW III lego trailer on the lego homepage called Revenge of the Brick:
http://www.lego.com/starwars/default.aspx

eL’VeeJay

Well I’m not getting so many hits anymore. I managed to serve up almost 110GB, mostly in referrals from this page. I can only imagine what the total hit count would be…

Great job! Well made!

113gb from me. about 9k unique visitors.

Nice :) I passed along the link to my other geek friends, so expect more :p

Hi, very nice. May I enquire what webcam you are using and what software you used to do the “every 5sec” snapshot? Thank you.

I have a Logitech webcam. It’s an older model that I guess they don’t sell anymore today. It’s a QuickCam Pro 1000 I think.

For the snapshot taking I just used some freeware webcam software. Unfortunately I don’t remember the name of the software (it’s been three years you know ;). But most webcam applications out there should have this feature…

Wow!!

The video is incredible!
I just received the Lego Star Destroyer for my birthday.
I am very happy to see the final result…
Wow!!

You can add me as a mirror.

http://blog.oddessey2000.com/index.php?/archives/206-Lego-Star-Destroyer.html

I uploaded all three to my server and added links. giving FULL credit to you guys of course. these rock!

Hedosean

Thanks a lot Sean. Added you to the mirrors :)

so sweet…….just sweet.

:adore

Pretty sweet.

Oh, and BTW, in case you haven’t noticed: you’ve got a spambot problemo. >_<

hey! nice space vassel…
Edda: woot, i remember this page long long time ago dominated by Crimsonland hi-scores… do you still have some of those in your archieves? i’m looking especially for e-mail adress of keda_p, if you will find some info about him in archieves i would be grateful if you could send me an e-mail

Hey Yan,

funny that you still remember my Crimsonland phase :) Unfortunately I don’t have any contact info of keda_p. Good luck in finding it.

how high is this destroyer?
i have bought it for me and my girlfriend and want to build a glass cubboard for it. i know that it is 93 x 58 cm.

Sorry, I can’t tell you how high exactly it is since mine is currently in a partly disassembled state. It is quite high though. At least 50cm I’d say. But again, can’t say for sure right now. Sorry.