The Arquitens-Class Light Cruiser is one of the best Star Wars ships. Ever since its introduction in Clone Wars, that ship has been cool. It's impressive what a few little notches can do to a ship to make it special. Seeing it appear in The Mandalorian was also a moment. And it's a modified version to launch TIE Fighters because the other versions don't have a large enough slit to do that. In Rebels they can barely get a Sentinel-class Shuttle to dock just underneath, and in Mandalorian, they're flying a Lambda inside it. I'm going in hard on the Wookieepedia articles now. I also just recently rewatched Season 2 of Mando (Currently two episodes into rewatching Boba Fett) so it's all very fresh in my mind and it's exciting to see it built in LEGO so big and detailed after only just two years. That may seem like enough time, but to design, test and fail, acquire all the parts, continue to futz around with things, and then have it convention ready after a big transit with just two guys is impressive.
It's so cool to see this, sadly it shows how imposible it is to have scaled ships other then fighters or shuttles, they're just too big. But man it this awesome. Now I'd love to see more scaled ships built.
This is amazing. I didn't realize how small his ship was compared to regular Star Destroyers. When I saw the size of the tie fighters I had to look it up as they seemed huge but wow they made everything exact. Just amazing work.
Great video, what an amazing achievement. One thing that wasn't touched on at all was the cost? It must have been huge. 800,000 pieces at 10c per piece puts the LEGO alone at $80,000, plus the metal support structure, plus storage, plus transportation. Would have been nearly $100k. Crazy for one LEGO model ....
i would say it would probably be a little less because a lot of the more common pieces can be bulk ordered at 1 cent per piece but something like that is still crazy expensive, probably at minimum 20k for just the pieces + cost of shipping and thats being pretty conservative
Just discovered the channel and went to this Lego convention a few months ago. I remember seeing it as I was walking around, and it would have to be the pinnacle of the builds I saw there. Love the channel!!!
I've only just come across this vlog after seeing a very plain one which only danced over the completed exterior of the ship with 0% commentary. This is miles better! It shows just how much planning and prep has to go into being able to dis-assemble and transport a monster like this. Can't wait to see their Minifigs scale Star Destroyer!
do love me a cheeky bionicle reference thanks for sharing this! this is the coolest lego build ive ever seen, and i would have no idea it existed without stumbling on your vid.
What is fun about watching them build the ship in modules, and seeing the incomplete version of this is that it looks like it's still connected to a shipyard of a planet
The ship you showed from Rebels is an Arquitens, which is not the same as the larger Class-546 Cruiser that Moff Gideon used. Some sources say it's a variant of the Arquitens, but I think canon references treat it as its own ship since the variant would have only form in common with everything scaled up, making it completely incompatible with Arquitens structures (despite this, some sources say it's a modified version of the Arquitens which still makes no sense- scaling up a ship so that it is 151 _meters_ longer than the base model is not really a modification) This is why things aren't perfectly matched from Rebels or The Clone Wars to this MOC. You can see significantly more detail if you look up the actual model of the Class-546 Cruiser that Industrial Lights and Magic built for the Mandalorian. Edit: I don't mean to sound like I'm criticizing your reference selection. I mean to point out that a lot of differences between the image and the MOC are only because it is a slightly different ship; these guys did a fantastic job. Edit2: Disregard everything I said about the Class-546 being way bigger. The source I got the dimensions from clearly had a bad typo in it. The two ships are actually quite close in size with approximately 50 meters discrepancy. This could account for a difference in form in a much smaller section like just enlarging the ends of triangular sections or the engines.
@@thecrusaderking4835 you're right. The source I grabbed that from must have mistyped the Arquitens length as 235 instead of 325. I'll be honest, this saves the Arquitens for me- as it's no longer pointlessly being overshadowed by a ship with the same shape but just scaled up way bigger!
@@fiveoneecho yeah, i checked the wiki again and even watched a video on how the arquitens is a fairly long lived ship class. Gideon essentialy just grabbed a clone wars era arquitens, gave it the empire retrofit without downsizing and gave it a larger hanger.
@@fiveoneecho the mistake probably came from the fact that when the empire re-fitted the original arquitens they downsized it to about that size. Wich gideon then undid.
This would have given me a reason to visit that country and I can't say there's not much there that's worth seeing or putting up with the bs laws in place (plus it's too hot). Arquitens-class ships are some of my favourite ships in Star Wars so seeing this up close would have been a treat and to see all of the detail made with Lego would have helped with some design ideas on how to do greebles with Lego bricks.
As someone who grew up with legos and as an adult who enjoys prop making this makes me tear up 🥲 this is god tier and idk what else I can say other than I would love to have something this detailed I don’t care how expensive it would be, even if you had to cheat and use glue or something to give it extra strength this is so incredible that there are no words to describe it
Actually, there's a bunch of guys building a minifig-scale Star Destroyer in the same scale as this Arquitens. Eighth Fleet Project I believe, Brickvault did a video on them last year
The most impressive thing is that it doesn't look like Lego. You would not guess it's made of Lego until you look really close and you see the Lego parts
I think the splashes of color were there to show the ship's age. This light cruiser had been in use for decades by the point of the mandalorian, and shows the empire remnants can't afford to keep their ships in as good condition as they could have in their prime
You know, just once before I croak I'd like to see someone make something out of LEGO that doesn't look like it's made out of LEGO. This thing is enormous and it still looks like a toy.
I have a few questions. 1. Are there any instructions? 2. Are we gonna see this in it's republic colors? 3. Are we gonna see other capital ships at this size?
Amazing. Now I want these guys to build a mini fig scale Death Star.
LOL
That build would be the size of manhattan island
genuinely wonder how big something like that would be
@@UpsideDownCycle Brickvault did the calculations. approximately the size of Manhattan Island but as a sphere
That's physically impossible
A minifig-scale Zeppelin airship would still be longer than this which is mind blowing.
At first, I thought this was bullshit so I looked it up. Holy shit the hindenberg was huge!
Yeah, it's crazy just how immense airships were. The hangars were even bigger, some of them could store two Zeppelins at once.
@@googleuser3163 it makes sense when you think about it. The accron class airships could literally carry planes in them
I just calcuöated it, and the minifig zepelin would be 6.125m long:
Hindenburg=245m
Minifig=0,04m (4cm)
245÷0,04 is 6.125
@@randomguy2925Nice. I was going off 1ft=1stud.
The fact this is mini-fig scale is just mind blowing like it can fit a full scale Lego Tie-fighter set in it
The Arquitens-Class Light Cruiser is one of the best Star Wars ships. Ever since its introduction in Clone Wars, that ship has been cool. It's impressive what a few little notches can do to a ship to make it special. Seeing it appear in The Mandalorian was also a moment. And it's a modified version to launch TIE Fighters because the other versions don't have a large enough slit to do that. In Rebels they can barely get a Sentinel-class Shuttle to dock just underneath, and in Mandalorian, they're flying a Lambda inside it. I'm going in hard on the Wookieepedia articles now. I also just recently rewatched Season 2 of Mando (Currently two episodes into rewatching Boba Fett) so it's all very fresh in my mind and it's exciting to see it built in LEGO so big and detailed after only just two years. That may seem like enough time, but to design, test and fail, acquire all the parts, continue to futz around with things, and then have it convention ready after a big transit with just two guys is impressive.
It looks nice enough, but the design is just a Star Destroyer mixed with Consular elements.
I think Moff Gideon's version in The Mandalorian is about twice the size the ones in CW and Rebels were, but I could be wrong
The best ship design since the Venator i think.
This is not an arquitence. Remember this if you consider yourself a Star Wars fan
@@theliufamilystarconflict117 Technically it is a 546 Cruiser however the class of this crusier is still an arquitens class command cruiser.
The transportation of this must have been almost as bold an undertaking as the construction process itself! Very impressive.
Give a child 30 seconds, and that is gone
It's so cool to see this, sadly it shows how imposible it is to have scaled ships other then fighters or shuttles, they're just too big. But man it this awesome. Now I'd love to see more scaled ships built.
Full scale ics at 130m please and thank you
Kinda insane that a minifig scale star destroyer would still be the size of a skyscraper lol
@@lumbagoboi1649 not a regular Star Destroyer. converted to a minifig scale it would be about the size of 2.5 buses.
@@lumbagoboi1649 Minifigure scale Death Star would be the size of Manhattan and use more bricks than likely exist in the world
It looks good enough to use as a movie prop I think. One thing about Lego, it can pull off the Star Wars look really well with the studs alone.
This is amazing. I didn't realize how small his ship was compared to regular Star Destroyers. When I saw the size of the tie fighters I had to look it up as they seemed huge but wow they made everything exact. Just amazing work.
I can't imagine the engineering of this in planning
The build is beyond amazing, but I can't stop marveling at how they have to break down and rebuild such a massive creation to display it each time!
Great video, what an amazing achievement.
One thing that wasn't touched on at all was the cost? It must have been huge. 800,000 pieces at 10c per piece puts the LEGO alone at $80,000, plus the metal support structure, plus storage, plus transportation.
Would have been nearly $100k. Crazy for one LEGO model ....
i would say it would probably be a little less because a lot of the more common pieces can be bulk ordered at 1 cent per piece but something like that is still crazy expensive, probably at minimum 20k for just the pieces + cost of shipping and thats being pretty conservative
This is absolutely insane. Those two guys are certified geniuses
Lego should hire them and some animators to make a commercial with this or something! This build is absolutely amazing!
This is an absolutely fantastic ship Moc that was built, truly something to behold. 😲
Just discovered the channel and went to this Lego convention a few months ago. I remember seeing it as I was walking around, and it would have to be the pinnacle of the builds I saw there. Love the channel!!!
Lego Star Wars fans: Why don't they make official sets like this!?!
It was very impressive seeing it on its debut at Brixpo in Adelaide in 2022. It was huge.
This really puts to scale just how big some of these starwars structures are (when built to minifig scale) because even then, they're huge.
I think that is my favorite moc ever. Phenomenal work.
It looks better than the original. They should hire these guys to design
I can only imagine how expensive this would be if it were an actual Lego set
It's actually larger than most real-world movie props of spaceships, which is pretty crazy.
Great to see two Adelaide SBLUGers going absolutely nuts. Well done lads. This will be hard to top.
one of my favs. really stand out video as well.
Lego fans boutta be asking where the interior is
Where is it
I've only just come across this vlog after seeing a very plain one which only danced over the completed exterior of the ship with 0% commentary. This is miles better! It shows just how much planning and prep has to go into being able to dis-assemble and transport a monster like this. Can't wait to see their Minifigs scale Star Destroyer!
Absolutely astonishing, and a beautiful end result as well! 😲
„Held der Steine“: Farbseuche, herrliche Teile, Ausserirdisch Teuer, Lack gesoffen…
Next a star destroyer then a super star destroyer then the Death Star! All to mini fig scale of course!
its amazing , great work , thx for video👌👌👌👍
To quote krennic...
Oh, it's beautiful.
this is the best space ship moc ever seen to me, srsly i cant even realize how good they are at buildig with lego, amazing
"Can you guys share some of the grey plates with the rest of the Lego community?" "No."
This is absolutely gorgeous! An impressive piece built by two great builders!! Go Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺
that thing is amazing. Great work and hats off to Aaron Monagran and Martin Harris.
Literally looks cooler than the actual version from star wars.... Now that's impressive...
THAT IS CRAY IMPRESSIVE!!! Outstanding
pretty accurate to lego standards with the colour puking inside xD
I wonder if you can lift this up from the control Center like the play scale set
do love me a cheeky bionicle reference
thanks for sharing this! this is the coolest lego build ive ever seen, and i would have no idea it existed without stumbling on your vid.
It looks amazing! I myself really like cruisers, and bigger ships in Star Wars, and seeing an Imperial Light Cruiser as a Lego, amazing.
What is fun about watching them build the ship in modules, and seeing the incomplete version of this is that it looks like it's still connected to a shipyard of a planet
looks good enough to be in an actual Star wars movie, so long as you don't get close enough to see the Lego studs.
The ship you showed from Rebels is an Arquitens, which is not the same as the larger Class-546 Cruiser that Moff Gideon used. Some sources say it's a variant of the Arquitens, but I think canon references treat it as its own ship since the variant would have only form in common with everything scaled up, making it completely incompatible with Arquitens structures (despite this, some sources say it's a modified version of the Arquitens which still makes no sense- scaling up a ship so that it is 151 _meters_ longer than the base model is not really a modification) This is why things aren't perfectly matched from Rebels or The Clone Wars to this MOC.
You can see significantly more detail if you look up the actual model of the Class-546 Cruiser that Industrial Lights and Magic built for the Mandalorian.
Edit: I don't mean to sound like I'm criticizing your reference selection. I mean to point out that a lot of differences between the image and the MOC are only because it is a slightly different ship; these guys did a fantastic job.
Edit2: Disregard everything I said about the Class-546 being way bigger. The source I got the dimensions from clearly had a bad typo in it. The two ships are actually quite close in size with approximately 50 meters discrepancy. This could account for a difference in form in a much smaller section like just enlarging the ends of triangular sections or the engines.
This is not an arquitence. 🗿👍
151m? Its litteraly just 56m longer than the original 325m. The wiki is clear on that.
@@thecrusaderking4835 you're right. The source I grabbed that from must have mistyped the Arquitens length as 235 instead of 325. I'll be honest, this saves the Arquitens for me- as it's no longer pointlessly being overshadowed by a ship with the same shape but just scaled up way bigger!
@@fiveoneecho yeah, i checked the wiki again and even watched a video on how the arquitens is a fairly long lived ship class. Gideon essentialy just grabbed a clone wars era arquitens, gave it the empire retrofit without downsizing and gave it a larger hanger.
@@fiveoneecho the mistake probably came from the fact that when the empire re-fitted the original arquitens they downsized it to about that size. Wich gideon then undid.
Cheers from Colorado, U.S.A. Your aussie contributions to blowing my mind will never be forgotten. This is honestly epic.
This would have given me a reason to visit that country and I can't say there's not much there that's worth seeing or putting up with the bs laws in place (plus it's too hot). Arquitens-class ships are some of my favourite ships in Star Wars so seeing this up close would have been a treat and to see all of the detail made with Lego would have helped with some design ideas on how to do greebles with Lego bricks.
Impressive. Most impressive
Would definitely have thrown my brother into this on way past as a child
damn the inside strukture looks like all lego star wars sets XD
doing the aussies proud, this is insaaane!
😮😮😮WOW!!!👍❤️ Impressive....most Impressive..
I love minifigure scale builds.
What a color epidemic.
imagine this flex of owning a MINIFIG SCALE LIGHT Imperial Light Cruiser!
Thats huge!
The MOC is better than its source material imo, a work of art.
Aussie builders are awesome
As someone who grew up with legos and as an adult who enjoys prop making this makes me tear up 🥲 this is god tier and idk what else I can say other than I would love to have something this detailed I don’t care how expensive it would be, even if you had to cheat and use glue or something to give it extra strength this is so incredible that there are no words to describe it
Met Martin a few times, great builder
Magnifique réalisation! Maintenant j'attends avec impatience l'arrivée d'un Farragut-Class Battle Cruiser 😜
Incredible that it stays together ,amazingly detailed and perfect ratio of size compared to minifigures
The scale of this project is awesome!
Makes me wonder what a star destroyer or SSD would look like in mini figure scale.
Actually, there's a bunch of guys building a minifig-scale Star Destroyer in the same scale as this Arquitens. Eighth Fleet Project I believe, Brickvault did a video on them last year
Assuming 1:32 for minifig scale. The SSD would be around 593m!
ISD1 = 50m :D
Impressive... Most impressive
Astonishing.
2:14 I quote the hero of the Stones, Held der Steine: "Farbseuche" whichs loosely translates to akward colors inside 😂😂
The most impressive thing is that it doesn't look like Lego. You would not guess it's made of Lego until you look really close and you see the Lego parts
Lego warframe would be cool to look at
yo imagine making excalibur with bionicle pieces!
Assembling that in two days is the most impressive part
This needs to be updated with a Mythasaur skull painting
I think the splashes of color were there to show the ship's age. This light cruiser had been in use for decades by the point of the mandalorian, and shows the empire remnants can't afford to keep their ships in as good condition as they could have in their prime
Ships in sw live well enough without maintenance for many years
would love to see a MOC with reasonable size to be able to get one :p really like the design of that ship
You know, just once before I croak I'd like to see someone make something out of LEGO that doesn't look like it's made out of LEGO. This thing is enormous and it still looks like a toy.
For the Empire! Anyway, I couldn't imagine making a mistake on this, but it's wonderful.
imagine using metal technic pieces to make an extreemly strong structure to allow the builders to make some of the interior of the ship as well
This belongs in a museum.
Yo Ben!! Been a while since I’ve seen your channel. It’s absolutely blown up, well done mate 🎉🎉
I love how you do a in detail look unlike behomd the brick who only showed images and videos no voice over
I remember seeing this in person! It was amazing!
Waiting for the day they make a minifig-scale Star Destroyer
Wow, this most be; one, if not the most insane thing that lego fans have done so far.
Probably the best one I have ever seen
I went to that exact lego convention in Melbourne
Mini fig scale aircraft carrier would be awesome
I saw that when I was there its sooo cool
this was great to see in person!
How amazing would it be to be able to open it and play with minifigs inside of the ship
Now this is a UCS moc, come on lego!
Absolutely incredible
You go girl.
Oh that's beautiful
The interior is exactly what it would be as an official Lego set. Some unicorn puked a rainbow.
In Germany we call this "Farbseuche". 😄
@@Anuthal A term coined by our national Lego hero, Held der Steine. 😂
ААААА НЕВЕРОЯТНО!) будто передо мной прям потрогать можно мысленно...
Fantastic
i like that theres a few clones there 6:27
pure madness
Honestly I want a studio file or something for my minifig-scale star wars stuff collection but I think a file that big might brick my PC.
Imagine a mini figure scale super star destroyer That thing would be the length of a Building
You have something that I want and in couple moments it will be mine
Now imagine a full mini figure scale imperial star destroyer
I have a few questions.
1. Are there any instructions?
2. Are we gonna see this in it's republic colors?
3. Are we gonna see other capital ships at this size?
I am not involved in this, but I would guess. 1. Definitely not, 2. Maybe but most likely no, and 3. No.