Star Wars enthusiast builds a LEGO docking bay for the Millennium Falcon

Star Wars has captured the imagination of millions with its storyline, the message and most importantly, the graphics and imagery. Lego building blocks too have captured such a vivid and avid fan following over the years with creators and builders making life-sized models with its bricks. The combination of Star Wars and Lego blocks therefore will be irresistible to any fan. And that is what exactly happened with a builder who calls himself Dave aka F2. Using the popular Lego blocks, he made the legendary Millennium Falcon Docking bay 32, straight out of the Star Wars movie. David Wagner received accolades aplomb for his creative (ad)venture.

Toy Millenium Falcon dockyard bay designed by David Wagnerer

The construction began from scratch. Armed with some Google images and some screen-shots from the movie, the builder made his orders to Lego. The first parts arrived and the prototyping of walls began in June. The complete project required about 10,500 bricks which cost a whooping €1,000. It took four months of intensive labor from the builder to get erected. All the parts were ordered via Brinklink. A host of LED lights have gone into the construction too.

Things did not go smoothly always! The first order itself got wrong. All the bricks ordered were grey in color. Even as work began, David's wife pointed out to him the fact that a grey Millennium Falcon would not stand out prominently if it was surrounded by a grey diorama. And thus, a complete reorder seemed top be in order! Dark grey blocks were then obtained which now proves to be a splendid idea.

The diorama of Docking Bay 327 was immortalized by the scene from the Star Wars movie where Obi-Wan battles Darth Vader. It has now been further idolized by this German builder who has masterminded its construction. The Docking Bay is built on a wooden plate which is 90cm x 100 cm in dimensions. Thus, it measures about a meter in all directions and is impressive to say the least.

It all started as an inspiration that came a couple of years ago. The builder was inspired to make a home to display what he considered the best ever made Star Wars Lego set. Years of careful planning and preparation made him choose the Docking Bay 327 and its diorama in particular for the construction.

The prototyping was done using MLCAD and LDD. It was done in a modular fashion with David knitting parts of the bay separately before joining all the modules together. He was not much of a Lego addict as much as he was a Star Wars one. But now, that has changed. With his newly acquired Lego addiction adding to his previously existing one, David now plans to make a hangar sometime in the near future.

via: Gizmodo