Let’s bring in 2017 with a little joyous, geeky inspiration.
In honor of Star Trek‘s 50th anniversary, superfan Kevin J. Walter designed and built a Klingon Bird of Prey from 25,000 LEGOs. The project took him about a year and a half, and he recently shared the results with io9.
Walter constructed his own virtual design for the ship. Initially, he thought the project would require approximately 250,000 LEGOs, but he was able to streamline once he began building. He even got creative with the standard LEGO sets, using a Hobbit door for the ship’s guns and ordering other necessary sizes from Bricklink.
“I watched Star Trek very early in my childhood and this ship always inspired me,” he told io9, “All my early LEGO spaceships I built as a child were inspired by the BoP and I always tried to capture its unique style.”
You can see the finished product, the work-in-progress, and the original designs at Walter’s Flickr account.
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