It Took A Team Of Nerds 3 Days To Build LEGO’s 7K-Piece Millennium Falcon

Have you seen LEGO‘s incredibly badass-looking Star WarsMillennium Falcon‘ set yet? It is, not to put too fine a point on things, utterly batshit insane.

The updated version of LEGO’s largest commercially available set contains an eye-watering 7,541 pieces, comes with its own specially designed hand-trolley for retail stores, and carries a price tag of a whopping $1,299.99.

It also might well be one of the most unassailably cool-lookin’ things we’ve ever laid eyes on.

It doesn’t take Brian Genus to figure out that putting something like that together would be an intensely time-consuming task, but as Wired found out it’s even far and above the most pessimistic of estimates.

The tech mag set a group of employees the task of putting the dang thing together, and even with a full team of people working practically ’round-the-clock on the model, it still managed to take three whole days to finish it off.

The box itself is intimidating enough.

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But it gets worse when you crack it open. Turns out the assembly instructions for the model look less like the clumsily folded piece of glossy paper the LEGO kits of your youth had, and more like the detailed driver’s manual of the actual fucken’ Millennium Falcon.

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*whimpers*

If that alone weren’t intimidating enough, lining up the individual bags the pieces are packaged in makes the whole operation look like you’re parading a drug bust in front of the media.

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And as far as construction goes, it’s far more involved than simply snapping the pieces together; you’re more or less building the full ship from the ground up, including the supporting framework.

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In good and terrifying news, the Porgs that come with the set are both a) adorable, and b) so tiny they’re almost guaranteed to be lost unless one eye is kept on them at all times.

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Bloody hell would you look at this thing? It’s a freakin’ monster.

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It took the full team three whole days, but the damned thing finally got done. It looks so sick.

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7,541 pieces. Multiple people. Three days.

Gimme 2 Vitamin B tabs a pack of white chocolate Tim Tams and the Empire Strikes Back soundtrack on repeat and I reckon I could smash that shit out by myself in 18 hours.

Consider that a challenge, Wired.

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