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This X-Wing Fighter is the largest LEGO model ever created. It is amazing. Astounding! Feel free to nerdgasm, jump around the room, bounce off the walls, and then return to read on.

LEGO built this 1:1 scale model of the X-Wing fighter from 5,335,200 bricks. It’s as big as the real thing, and can hold Rebel pilots – even Porkins. This X-Wing reproduces the official $60 LEGO 9493 X-Wing Fighter.

That one is a mere 560-pieces and a few inches long. Yawn. This one has over five million pieces and it’s 11-feet-tall, 43-feet-long, with a 44-foot wingspan and weighs nearly 46,000 pounds. Just like the real X-Wing. Oh, and it took over 17,000 person-hours to build it.

LEGO created it to help celebrate the launch of a three-part LEGO Star Wars animated series, called The Yoda Chronicles, set to premiere on the Cartoon Network this May 29th.

The engines even light up and produce a roar. Best of all you can see it for yourself if you are in Times Square, where it is currently on display for the next couple of days before it heads out to LEGOLAND California.

Head over to CoolThings for more images and video of this amazing creation.

[via LEGO, MightyMega and CoolThings]

One of the things you learn in the world of geekdom is that any time you slap some horizontally-chasing red LEDs into something, it’s instantly transformed into Cylon technology. But I always thought if you did it to the front of a vehicle, it’s a reference to Knight Rider’s K.I.T.T. Well, either way, this hack is pretty cool.

DIYer Chris Knight (no not Peter Brady) got his hands on a 25 “pixel” LED light strip and decided he needed a place to install it. What better place but the front grill of his silver Jeep Wrangler?

They’re controlled by Cool Neon’s new Total Control Lighting Developer’s Shield Box which is a fancy name for an all-in-one programmable Seeduino box. It took a whole bunch of drilling to get the lights installed in the grill, but it looks pretty slick now that it’s complete. Check it out in action in the video clip below:

As a bonus, the LEDs he used can actually change colors, so here’s his Jeep putting on a little light show:

Whether you think it looks like a Cylon or K.I.T.T., you owe it to yourself to check out the full build details over on Instructables. Now about that hood, Chris…

If you are what you eat, then these adorable Jabba The Hutt cookies will make you look just like Jabba if you eat enough. But who cares? It’s not as if you can control yourself when faced with a Star Wars cookie. You see a Star Wars cookie, you eat it! End of story. End of cookie.

These cookies from Semi Sweet Designs make even Jabba look super cute. The baker has even created a template and written very specific instructions so you can make these Jabba cookies on your own.

You’ll need sugar cookie dough, icing, and a desire to eat them as they come out of the oven, leaving none for the rest of your family and friends.

[via That’s Nerdalicious]

We would all love to have our own Millenium Falcon, but the truth is, we just don’t have the parking space for it. Or the billions of dollars it would take to create one. However, you can build your own metallic Millennium Falcon from scratch. A tiny version, at least.

This Star Wars Metallic Nano Puzzle is made from ultra-fine laser cut metal which can be assembled step by step into a palm-sized metal model. You just remove the parts from the metal sheet and bend and fold them like papercraft art.

To assemble the model, you just need is a pair of scissors, tweezers, needle-nose pliers, and plenty of patience. The Millennium Falcon measures 72mm. It is only $16 (USD) over at Strapya World.

[via Damn Geeky]

I’m really looking forward to seeing Star Trek: Into Darkness when it comes out this week. I’ve even got tickets to the Wednesday night IMAX advance screening. That said, there’s still nothing quite like The Original Series. Sure, Kirk and McCoy could be pretty cheesy, but that’s part of what made it so classic. Now, you can travel back in time to an even earlier incarnation of Kirk, Spock and Scotty.

The crew of the Enterprise looks just a little bit more intimidating in this shirt designed by Captain RibMan for Design by Humans. Though I have to say their tiny hands are still impractical for much of anything besides holding a phaser. Can you imagine trying to use a tricorder with those things? And forget about fitting onto the bridge of the Enterprise.

So hop in the transporter ask Scotty to beam you back in time to grab your shirt over at Design by Humans for $24(USD).