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	Star Wars Masterpiece in Lego

lizsku

12-21-2008 2:29 PM

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Four years in the making costing only $3000

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/74ba3933-db80-4919-b235-ef44706c3726/94CFFA96-03FB-4327-9150-E8284A628F17/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gizmodo.com/5115177/60000+piece-lego-star-wars-hoth-diorama-features-leds-footprints" href="http://gizmodo.com/5115177/60000+piece-lego-star-wars-hoth-diorama-features-leds-footprints" style="font-size: 11px;">gizmodo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5115177/60000+piece-lego-star-wars-hoth-diorama-features-leds-footprints"><H1><A href="http://gizmodo.com/5115177/60000+piece-lego-star-wars-hoth-diorama-features-leds-footprints">60,000-Piece Lego Star Wars Hoth Diorama Features LEDs, Footprints</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5115177/60000+piece-lego-star-wars-hoth-diorama-features-leds-footprints"><DIV class="post-byline">
By <CITE><A title="Click here to read posts written by JACK LOFTUS" href="http://gizmodo.com/people/J B Cougar/posts/" rel="nofollow">Jack Loftus</A></CITE>,
<A href="" rel="nofollow">12:30 PM</A> on Sun Dec 21 2008,
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5115177/60000+piece-lego-star-wars-hoth-diorama-features-leds-footprints"><P><IMG width="335" height="500" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/Hoth.jpg" />Not only is this Lego Star Wars diorama of the ice world Hoth fun to look at, it's got some gadgety goodness inside too. Oh, and footprints. Tons of tiny minifig footprints.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5115177/60000+piece-lego-star-wars-hoth-diorama-features-leds-footprints"><P>As the headline says, the 5′X10′ diorama is comprised of 60,000 Lego bricks. It cost creator Mark Borlase about $3,000 and four years of construction time to complete.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5115177/60000+piece-lego-star-wars-hoth-diorama-features-leds-footprints"><P><IMG width="500" height="335" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/3093782025_2fb28f6f3e.jpg" />There's also the 50 LED lights that illuminate the Echo Base hangar and bacta tank with a soothing blue. Motorized AT-AT wenches and a fully operational hanger door top off this gorgeous pile of eye candy.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5115177/60000+piece-lego-star-wars-hoth-diorama-features-leds-footprints"><P><IMG width="500" height="335" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/3107022362_ac39a69d51.jpg" />And according to the block heads over at Brothers Brick the diorama also won the recent "Star Wars building challenge" and was featured in the official LEGO Magazine.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gizmodo.com/5115177/60000+piece-lego-star-wars-hoth-diorama-features-leds-footprints"><P><IMG width="500" height="335" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/Hoth_01.jpg" />Impressive. Most impressive [<A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23575410@N05/">Flickr Set</A> via <A href="http://www.brothers-brick.com/2008/12/19/hoth-base-diorama/">Brothers Brick</A>]</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/94CFFA96-03FB-4327-9150-E8284A628F17/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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