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The Building of the Lego Millennium Falcon: The Definitive Movie
12:40PM Jesus Diaz | Yes. It’s finished—but I didn’t do the video. I couldn’t compete with the genius and patience of David Gunstensen, who sent me the only Lego Millennium Falcon construction stop motion movie you need to watch. More »
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How To: Origami Millennium Falcon
9:00PM Brian Lam | Wired’s January issue contains this origami Millennium Falcon tutorial. Even better, the creator, Philip Schulz, has a website full of origami directions almost every ship in the imperial and rebel fleet. [HappyMagPie via Wired] More »
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Modded Millennium Falcon Can Pass for Real Movie Prop
2:09AM Jesus Diaz | Giz reader Peter Clute saw the impressive Hasbro Millennium Falcon and instead of just buying it to play and go all pew-pew with it, he decided to make it better, painting new wear and tear details, and adding a motion sensor and infrared sensor, and a load of extra LEDs. The results are impressive: More »
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Guest Review: Millennium Falcon Legacy Edition by Heroes Producer Jesse Alexander
4:24AM Brian Lam | The only thing cooler than a review of the new Millennium Falcon toy? A review of the Millennium Falcon toy by geek storyteller Jesse Alexander, who has worked on Giz favourites like Heroes, Alias and Lost. P.S. I think that’s an Emmy on his desk. More of Jesse’s impressions, below: More »
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Millennium Falcon Cake Can’t Hyperspace, But is Best Birthday Cake Ever
9:41PM Kit Eaton | This Millennium Falcon was never going to do the Kessel Run… but it might just qualify as the most awesome birthday cake ever made. I mean, look at the detail! Made by Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, one lucky guy received it this weekend… and can you guess his generous brother’s profession? Yup, you were close: it’s as a sysadmin. I just hope he appreciated it, since I know an armload of people who’d weep with joy if this arrived on their birthday. Particularly if it were cunningly combined with LED birthday candles for special lighting effects. There’s another pic below, if you haven’t seen enough. More »
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First Peek at Hasbro’s Relaunched Millennium Falcon
10:15PM Gizmodo US Edition | This, is Hasbro’s new Millennium Falcon, unveiled to ExtremeTech’s Brian Heater in a Manhattan hotel yesterday. The only reason the toy giant reworked it was because the original mold broke, which made us chuckle. Thirty percent larger than the original, it’s got room for up to 18 action figures—and Han and Chewy (the only two characters I like) are thrown in for free. You can hear the late Sir Alec Guinness’ disembodied voice Obi-wanning it, and dazzle yourself with the flashing lights, but cross your legs, Star Wars fans, because it’s not out until July. There’s also a whole bunch of Clone Wars merch on its way, including an AT-TE walker and some helmets, check out ExtremeTech for a video of that in action. [ExtremeTech] More »
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How to Love a LEGO Lunatic
1:00AM Addy Dugdale | At a party once, Jesus was asked if he were a leg man or a tit man. The answer is neither. He’s a LEGO man. Well, to be honest, he’s all three, but rather like faith, hope and charity, the greatest of my husband’s loves is LEGO. I’m not bitter. The colourful, benippled bricks have just been around rather longer than I have. That’s not to say LEGO has never caused problems in our relationship. When it did, though, I came up with the following 10-point solution to cope.
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