Posted February 24, 201213 yr I'm not worthy!!! But I sure got a kick out of this! Enjoy... Edit: Well it's minifig scale but 1:1 got your attention!
February 24, 201213 yr Well, the title is misleading in many ways (I thought these were instructions on how to replicate the Death Star set somehow), but the article sure is interesting! Thanks!
February 24, 201213 yr Author Well, the title is misleading in many ways (I thought these were instructions on how to replicate the Death Star set somehow), but the article sure is interesting! Thanks! Yeah I know. I was just trying to avoid a big 'SCIENCE/MATHS' content warning in the topic header and pull in a few extra patrons...
February 24, 201213 yr Someone should put this up on Cuusoo just to mess with LEGO. All jokes aside those are some impressive figures, and math.
February 24, 201213 yr Someone should put this up on Cuusoo just to mess with LEGO. All jokes aside those are some impressive figures, and math. It really should be on Cuusoo!
February 24, 201213 yr WHat is funny and cool is I actually had done the math on this a while back whilst my friend and I watched the original trilogy. I gathered scaling information on real life to minifigure size and then went in search of the standard listed size for the Death Star. I remember part of my estimation was like 26 football fields in Diameter
February 24, 201213 yr What a ridiculously cool article!! I'm a WIRED subscriber, and I love some of the things they come up with. I'll have to show my wife this, she teaches middle school math and would love the way they used math here.
February 24, 201213 yr Decided to search for the biggest Lego Death Star so far but most seem about the same size, a few feet across (including the one in the banner image on the forum). They must have made bigger ones for trade shows... Haven't they?
February 24, 201213 yr It really should be on Cuusoo! . Maybe every person who votes should have to contribute 100 bricks towards it.
February 24, 201213 yr Awesome read! I enjoy so much when people combine Lego and Math. Thanks. Edited February 24, 201213 yr by johnnyvgoode
February 24, 201213 yr . Maybe every person who votes should have to contribute 100 bricks towards it. It wouldn't be enough!
February 25, 201213 yr This is great! I would love for someone to take up this challenge! When I become a Trillionaire, I will build a space station for me to live in, or buy the ISS. Use Lego S@H to deliver a billion light bley 2x4 bricks and get to work. You think Lego would ship them to me?! Jamie
February 27, 201212 yr Cool article! However it was the second Death Star that (according to canon) is 160km in diameter. The first Death Star is "only" 120km in diameter...
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