# Lego Ultimate Millenium Falcon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 13, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690 "2007-07-13T18:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/21 "2007-07-14T04:24:49Z")
For those who can’t afford the LEGO version, the paper Falcon from [here](http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercraft/Gallery/Gallery.html) is pretty sweet. I haven’t tried building it yet, but the AT-AT and Star Destroyer from that site came out pretty well. Just don’t let your cats walk on them. They don’t look so good after that. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/22 "2007-07-14T08:05:31Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Yeah but what _else_ can you build with it? -FrL- [/QUOTE] Concidering the amount of pieces… A whole lot. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/23 "2007-07-14T13:16:51Z")
[QUOTE=Number] For those who can’t afford the LEGO version, the paper Falcon from [here](http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercraft/Gallery/Gallery.html) is pretty sweet. I haven’t tried building it yet, but the AT-AT and Star Destroyer from that site came out pretty well. Just don’t let your cats walk on them. They don’t look so good after that. [/QUOTE] Sweet! Have you found that a particular weight of paper stock works best? Looks like the large format printer at work is about to get a workout! My son is a couple of days from being born. He is sooooo getting a mobile made out of these bad boys! Let’s see, the Falcon, Enterprise, [BattleStar Galactica](http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_scifi.html), and the [Eagle](http://www.websamba.com/paper_eagle/eagle.html). Yep, sounds about right. Should be done in time for his 4th or 5th birthday… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/24 "2007-07-14T14:02:51Z")
[QUOTE=Mtgman] I think you’ve been whooshed. [/QUOTE] Here is my geek card, and I’ll punish myself by watching 1, 2, and 3 four times in a row. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/25 "2007-07-14T16:03:45Z")
[QUOTE=Terrifel] Hmmm… I’m not seeing any pictures of the model interior, or indeed any hint that the thing has an interior at all. It mentions that the cockpit can be opened and the ramp can be extended, but you’d think there’d be at least one picture of LEGO Ben Kenobi standing next to the LEGO holographic game table while LEGO Luke Skywalker fights off the LEGO Flying Ass-Drone. Is it even possible that the Ultimate LEGO Millenium Falcon doesn’t feature detailed interiors? That would instantly reduce its coolness quotient by about a factor of fifty. I’ve seen custom LEGO Falcons built to about that level of detail which had pretty creative solutions to interior space design. [/QUOTE] It says that it is made to minifigure scale and that minifigures can sit and man the controls. I take that to mean that there are some controls in the interior. At any rate, I don’t dig these new sets with panels at all weird angles. To me, the fascination with LEGOs was the pixelated look of things made with orthogonal blocks. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/26 "2007-07-14T17:50:36Z")
[More pictures of the falcon](http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=233228). (Scroll down for interior shots. This model seems to be a prototype) ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/27 "2007-07-14T18:55:18Z")
[QUOTE=Zakalwe] Sweet! Have you found that a particular weight of paper stock works best? [/quote] I’ve been using 24 pound Office Depot laser paper. It seems to be rigid enough for these models – the AT-AT would stand unassisted (right up until the unfortunate cat incident). There is stock made specifically for papercraft which might work better, but I have not experimented with it yet. > [@Zakalwe](#): > > My son is a couple of days from being born. He is sooooo getting a mobile made out of these bad boys! Let’s see, the Falcon, Enterprise, [BattleStar Galactica](http://jleslie48.com/gallery_models_scifi.html), and the [Eagle](http://www.websamba.com/paper_eagle/eagle.html). Cool. Thanks for the pointer to that site. There are some great-looking models on there. The Galactica is huge! Unfortunately they didn’t use .pdf for the parts pages, so it may take some fiddling to get them a uniform size. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/28 "2007-07-14T20:36:19Z")
[QUOTE=gazpacho] Do you just build them and leave them assembled? Or is there a fair amount of reuse that can be done? I am not really a lego user any more but back in the day the point was to build different things so I was never really into the kits to do very specific things. In fact I don’t think they had such things back when I played with legos. I remember building imperial walkers out of regular blocks when the movie first came out. They obviously didn’t look as cool at the at-st models they have now. [/QUOTE] I was considerately given the [Lego Arc-170 Starfighter](http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=7259) as a birthday present a couple of years ago. Offhand I’d estimate that perhaps half the pieces are generic Lego blocks, while the other half are customised pieces designed for the specific kit. Or at least are sufficiently weird that they’re nor what I’d consider legit blocks, based on what I was familiar with from extensive playing with the stuff as a kid a few decades back. There were a few kits back in the Seventies that were beginning to have specialised blocks, but it wasn’t the norm. There are a couple of suggested alternate models using subsets of the same set of bricks, but I built the Starfighter and left it like that, apart from repairs when it gets knocked over. [sub]Or, umm, crashes.[/sub] Many of these currents kits are extremely cute - and I’d love someone to buy me the Falcon - but there’s a part of me that still nostalgically insists that, dammit, they’re not proper Lego. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/29 "2007-07-17T13:30:07Z")
Two or three years ago I was watching tv with my roommate when a commercial for the Lego X-wing came on. It was November so toy commercials were all over the prime time. I sort bitched about how they didn’t have that when I was a kid. It would have been the coolest thing ever. Sure enough, he got it for me for Christmas. It has a place of honor on my shelves. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/30 "2007-07-17T17:12:14Z")
[QUOTE=bonzer] I was considerately given the [Lego Arc-170 Starfighter](http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=7259) as a birthday present a couple of years ago. Offhand I’d estimate that perhaps half the pieces are generic Lego blocks, while the other half are customised pieces designed for the specific kit. Or at least are sufficiently weird that they’re nor what I’d consider legit blocks, based on what I was familiar with from extensive playing with the stuff as a kid a few decades back. There were a few kits back in the Seventies that were beginning to have specialised blocks, but it wasn’t the norm. There are a couple of suggested alternate models using subsets of the same set of bricks, but I built the Starfighter and left it like that, apart from repairs when it gets knocked over. [sub]Or, umm, crashes.[/sub] Many of these currents kits are extremely cute - and I’d love someone to buy me the Falcon - but there’s a part of me that still nostalgically insists that, dammit, they’re not proper Lego. [/QUOTE] I’ve built the Lego Imperial Star Destroyer, and while almost none of its 3000+ pieces are the traditional 4x2 rectangle, there are also almost none that are unique to the ISD model. There are lots of “standard” lego pieces these days that are used for lots of models which are pretty far out there by several-decades-ago standards. Which is not to say that there are never 100% unique custom pieces for sets. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/31 "2007-08-08T09:08:54Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo] At any rate, I don’t dig these new sets with panels at all weird angles. To me, the fascination with LEGOs was the pixelated look of things made with orthogonal blocks. [/QUOTE] I believe the people who work for Lego have been taking cues from the fan community. The concept is called Studs Not On Top, or SNOT (don’t look at me like that, I didn’t invent the term). Take a look at some of these crazy ass fan creations and tell me they aren’t totally awesome: [the Nebuchadnezzar hovership from The Matrix](http://www.brickfrenzy.com/index.php?m=nebuchadnezzar) [a Valkyrie VF-1S from Robotech](http://www.foundrydx.com/vf1s.html#) [a custom six-legged artillery mecha](http://www3.sympatico.ca/mladenpejic/MMP.htm) [a custom bounty hunter’s spaceship](http://www.fleebnork.com/?m=neverwhere2) [a spaceship I made](http://mocpages.com/moc.php/1843) ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/32 "2007-08-08T11:55:44Z")
[QUOTE=Number] For those who can’t afford the LEGO version, the paper Falcon from [here](http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercraft/Gallery/Gallery.html) is pretty sweet. I haven’t tried building it yet, but the AT-AT and Star Destroyer from that site came out pretty well. [/QUOTE] Thanks for that link. Those look awesome. I will definitely have to try building some with my daughter (who is becoming a big SW geek). Do you have to print them on a large format paper or does normal letter/A4 paper work? ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/33 "2007-08-08T12:47:53Z")
[QUOTE=Coil] Do you have to print them on a large format paper or does normal letter/A4 paper work? [/QUOTE] Letter works fine. I don’t know about A4. I’m currently building the AT-ST using light card stock and finding it a lot easier to work with than ordinary laser paper. I’d recommend using it if possible. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/34 "2007-08-08T12:53:22Z")
Ya’all are gonna love this: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aEc8v1OWeE4/hqdefault.jpg "Lego Millenium Falcon Stop Motion") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEc8v1OWeE4) 😃 The last 30 seconds or so is the best part, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/35 "2007-08-08T13:00:02Z")
So that’s how Peter Gabriel builds the Millenium falcon. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/36 "2007-08-08T14:27:14Z")
Personally, I’m in love with the [larger](http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=8145&cn=112&d=70) [Ferrari](http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=8674&cn=112&d=70) models. They make me drool more than the cars themselves! That said, the Millenium Falcon is every kind of awesome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690/37 "2007-08-08T14:47:46Z")
NO! THAT ONE GOES THERE and THAT ONE GOES THERE! Got it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lego-ultimate-millenium-falcon/411690.md?page=1)