Apr 4 200965,000 Piece LEGO Shuttle On Launch Pad
It may look real, but that's actually a 65,000 piece LEGO shuttle complete with launch pad and naked alien sluts, minus the naked alien sluts. It took two guys over 1,590 hours to complete and even has flashing lights and sound effects to simulate a launch.
Part of the "Nasu Space Center," it appeared as a scene in Nasu Highland Park, an amusement park in Japan.
The duo who assembled it are said to be participating in an event to top the tallest LEGO tower ever built, an accolade which is currently held by LEGO enthusiasts in Vienna, who constructed a tower over 96 feet tall.
Awesome. And as a guy who has tried to build a functional rocket out of LEGO blocks himself, I've got to hand it to these guys: sex is mad overrated. Am I right, guys? High-fi.... actually, a nod will do.
Hit the jump for two more pictures and a horrible quality video of a launch in action.
Insane 65,000-brick LEGO space shuttle may as well be the real thing [dvice]
Thanks to Jess, who tried to stuff the thing with fireworks and blast off to outerspace but ended up in the hospital with 3rd degree burns.
Reader Comments
1. scurl - April 4, 2009 6:57 PM
this reminds me of the time that i made a house out of lego's. it took me 4 months, cost about $500,000, and used over 15 legos. it burnt down 3 days before i was to move in though.
2. jo - April 4, 2009 7:01 PM
WHAT! that's crazy... i'm brian fellows.
3. Darth - April 4, 2009 7:02 PM
It's probably all about low fuel consumption.
4. Ryan - April 4, 2009 7:05 PM
Wow!
Lego should make this a set!
Along with all those other mega-huge lego things that cost thousands of dollars.
5. JJtoob - April 4, 2009 7:14 PM
Wherever they get the money and time, I must go.
6. His Huge Greatness Himself - April 4, 2009 7:23 PM
Is my babe here?
7. nikeforces - April 4, 2009 7:51 PM
Yeah that awsemoe idea there. does it come with monkey also
8. NastyBedazzler - April 4, 2009 8:10 PM
There's no way to gauge the size of this thing. Is it five feet tall? Fifty feet tall? What the hell is it?
9. Mary Mactavish - April 4, 2009 9:43 PM
The minifigs are standing way too close. That could be dangerous. They'd melt into little puddles when the Legoshuttle launches for real.
10. Just Wondering... - April 4, 2009 10:29 PM
Where's the Space Bat???
The Space Shuttle really isn't complete w/o it, you know...
11. james - April 4, 2009 10:32 PM
needs more space bat
12. Aser - April 4, 2009 10:35 PM
NastyBedazzler: its life size duh
13. chris - April 5, 2009 12:09 AM
did anyone else hear darth vader at the end?
14. Sadelis - April 5, 2009 5:54 AM
meh, i could do that in like... five minutes. with play-doh and toothpicks. and absinth...
15. Sadelis - April 5, 2009 5:57 AM
@13 And yeah, i heard vader breathing! it was the "hoop" but not the "puur".
And yes, that makes sense.
16. p200 - April 5, 2009 7:41 AM
that's right - Vader couldn' hold his breath long enough..
17. Daisy - April 5, 2009 11:12 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max tried to launch a shuttle when the ambient conditions were well below freezing. The SRB failed at the O ring, crashing the shuttle, allowing a substitute teacher in NH to have a job for the rest of the year.
18. tissue - April 5, 2009 11:37 AM
heh. sex overrated + high five...er...nvm. = epix
19. whatever - April 5, 2009 4:31 PM
GOD DAMIT "Daisy" STFU !!!
20. Watch - April 5, 2009 5:34 PM
BITCHIN!!!!!! DAISY STFU AND GET OFF TEH INTERNETZ!!!!!11111
21. Zippy - April 5, 2009 9:08 PM
Dude, those Lego people standing on the launch pad totally got fake melted.
Maybe if NASA had hired these guys to build the shuttle out of Legos, they wouldn't have had so many problems over the years with those damn heat-resistant tiles falling off the bottom of it.
22. Cheeseycom - April 6, 2009 12:55 AM
Wow.. this reminds me of the time about 10 years ago when I went to Lego Land in the UK, and THEY ALREADY HAD ONE OF THESE.
23. catch22 - April 6, 2009 11:03 AM
and to think these guys get paid to do this stuff
24. ackbar - September 1, 2009 9:33 PM
When it says lift off it doesn't even launch.