The Millennium Falcon made out of LEGO? Child’s play. Just build your own life-sized Falcon cockpit in your garage! That’s not mad, is it? I’m sure that’s an awesome thing to do.
It only required six years of effort from the Huntsville, Alabama-based team, led by Greg Dietrich and Jake Polatty. What started as a “passion project”, eventually became an obsession, according to Dietrich.
How much effort went into the cockpit? Wired’s Patrick Farrell goes into detail:
You study framegrabs like they were religious texts; you hunt down production images that show just how the original set builders, who bought airplane scrap by the truckload, modified Martin-Baker mk. IV ejection seats to turn them into the highly sought after navigation chairs in the cockpit … [Dietrich] has spent thousands of dollars making this version of the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy.
This Full Metal Replica Of Kylo Ren's TIE Silencer Was Built In 6 Weeks
I suppose building an AT-ACT wasn't good enough. Colin Furze, inventor and builder of the mad and wonderful, spent six weeks construction a replica of Kylo Ren's TIE silencer. And as you'll see in the photos below, it looks brilliant.
Read moreI don’t think it’ll be making the Kessel Run anytime soon, but as a fun piece of kit to sit in — and live out your dreams of being Han Solo — I can’t think of anything better.