Lego Made a Life-Sized X-Wing Fighter With 5.3 Million Pieces (VIDEO)

This might be the biggest waste of time and money I've ever seen. And I'm in love with it.

The fine folks at Lego created a life-sized replica of an X-Wing Fighter from Star Wars, complete with a R2 Unit. The ship weighs 46,000 pounds, and contains 5.3 million Lego bricks. It took 32 people a combined total of 17,000 hours to put this together, because using that time and energy to fight poverty would have been boring.

This monument to Geekdom is now sitting in Times Square where it's being used to promote Cartoon Network's new series The Yoda Chronicles, which premieres next Wednesday. Next week, it will be packed up and shipped to LEGOLAND near San Diego, where it will be on display for the next year. Personally, I'll hold out on visiting LEGOLAND until they build a life-sized Star Destroyer. (Source)