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!!!
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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'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!
