Must have!

[Zelgadis 638]

*Drool*

http://toysnbricks.com/lego-10221-super-star-destroyer-press-release/

ISF

[EyeofMobius 27]

I Love LEGO and miss my stash terribly most days.

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Indeed.

ISF was salivating all over my MSN connection about it this afternoon.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Hm, neither my advanced vocabulary nor CAPs seem like they'll sufficiently express just how awesome I think that is. In a few years, once NMUSpidey Jr. can properly appreciate it... IT WILL BE MINE.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Why wait for spring? Do it now.

I am in my second childhood, so I may just see if I can find one for my Wow! shelf. It can live with my deadly accurate Irish Red and White Setter statuette, and my couple of bronzes I bought an an art sale about 40 years ago.

[Odainsaker 2,133]

It even comes with attendant Star Destroyers for the scale armada:

It's too cute...die, rebel scum!

But this would put fear into even Lego Darth Vader:

Omigosh! Lego heika, banzai!

[hamsterTK 93]

Lol. LEGO came out with an urban transit series recently. It had a modern light rail vehicle(not on rails), a bus, a bike sharing station, etc.

I'm always amazed at how they make those models with curving faces, like the hull of that ship. I think I know how its done but it must've taken a lot of planning to make everything match up. Nowadays you can find LEGO cad-type programs where you snap 3d bricks together though.

  Edited June 23, 2011 by hamsterTK  

[Ocram's Razr 963]

NICE! COOL!

[Duke87 1,070]

It's quite interesting how many things which used to just be kids' toys are nowadays blatantly marketed to adults. Lego, Barbie dolls, baseball cards...

Santa isn't going to be leaving this under anyone's tree. This is serious collector's business!

[s.i.X 13]

Adults in the 1980s and 1990s didn't have too many toys to market to them. Today's adults grew up with everything from Lego to Supersoakers and N64.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

When I was a kid in the 1940s, the big thing was Meccano. I had quite a lot of it, but one of my high-school chums (1950s) had a set that was big enough to build a gigantic traveling crane that worked, and he was rich enough to have electric motors. It was a blast. Took up about a quarter of his room. He had to counterweight the boom with house bricks.

My sister had a large set of minibrix when she sort of outgrew her dolls.

  Edited June 23, 2011 by A Nonny Moose  

[Larks2242 251]

Wow, that ship is massive.

[Joe 90 358]

Awesomeness. All of it

Something else those of you on the left side of the pond might not have seen - James May's Toy Stories. Its a BBC series where James May of Top Gear fame brings new life to old toys, but on an obscene scale like the 1:1 Spitfire model:

Also features a life-size lego house, 23m meccano bridge, 3-mile slot-car track, 10-mile model railway...

It looks like its all on Youtube too