Lego Battleship Yamato
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Apr 9, 2009 11:29 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, History, Lego, Military, Otaku, Toys, Video Gallery
A Lego otaku indulged his twin passions gigantic battleships and plastic bricks, and six years later this is the result: the WWII super-battleship Yamato, rendered in Lego.
It is in total 6.6m long, a metre in girth at its widest, and weighs 150kg. 200,000 Lego parts went into its construction.
The Yamato, with the other ships of its class the largest and most heavily armed battleships ever built, was finally sunk by carrier borne aircraft in 1945, whilst en route to Okinawa to attack invading American armies.
You can see the full details of its construction on the creator’s homepage.
Presumably he has no plans to sail to Okinawa to expel the Americans…
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Niche hobbies in Japan never cease to wow me...
My urge for destruction is rising XD
Now I wanna break that.
Wow, impressive...
But someone had to have a loooooot of time.
just a few hours a day and a lot of focus could get it done pretty easy.
Goddamnit, this is fucking brilliant!
Holy crap that is absolutely brilliant i have ever seen for lego for a very very long time and damn its a model of the Yamato Battleship
life? where??
I shat bricks
you should reaaaally start working in a Lego factory
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/37608__468x_lego-battleship-yamato-10.jpg
#10 haha... masked lego guy
just witnessed something great!
Q_Q!!!!
where can I steal it?
I feel like breaking them into little pieces.
Lego brings back the memories.
Things like this make me wonder if I should go back to my favourite adolescent career.
cooolll~~thats all...now start building a life size gundam with legos...nya nya nya
Wow. I am impressed.
Now if only someone would make a Pillar of Autumn out of legos, with little lego pelicans, scorpions, and warthogs in the hangars.
Mega Bloks has a HALO line which includes pelicans, scorpions, warthog (both 50cal and grenade) ghosts, banshees and some other stuff.
Can't this guy hire a race queen to pose with it or something? That would make the Yamato way more appealing.
OMG. I've never really liked Lego but this is absolutely gorgeous^o^
The Graf Spee would be nice, if he's looking for something else to do after this...
Im soooo Amazed by its buauty. O and the lego men are loool.
Still waiting for Lego Battlefield, myself. But this is damned impressive. Interesting approach to hull—I would've went orthodox myself, but I suppose the specialized bricks needed would've been too costly.
IJN Yamato, legendary battleship that did not get to fight much fights. When Americans gonna receive this challenge by building similar Lego based USS Iowa? Afterall USS Iowa is designed to fight Yamato face to face.
wow. that's pretty impressive ^^
probably took more time and money to build than the real ship lol
Let's all get together and build a lego model of the Enterprise carrier! Or, heck, let's just legostruct the entire Pacific fleet!
Especially impressive that the main turret can actually rotate. Now that's what I call passion.
Impressive....
FIRE THE WAVE MOTION GUN!!!
Next stop: Space Battleship Yamato!
I just knew I had heard that song before (the first). And I found where: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3nUahhlfdw :)
it floats? ;3
Reminds me of Zipang. Interesting series while it lasted. The "lego dude" pic was a nice touch.
Nice boat!
And damn, Lego and what you can do with it if you have a little fantasy ftw :D
Wow and double wow,I'm sold.
OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD!!!
That's just amazing. 6 years? I wouldn't even hold out 1 week D:
+1
Epic
Now someone tell this guy to build an Iowa Class Battleship to match the Yamato.
I cant wait for somebody to trip and destroy this hehe... now THAT would be worth a read. I can feel the creator's fury and rage already.
lol the things huge at 6 metres in length and 1 metre wide.
it'd take a sumo to even partially damage it.
How about a Lego dive-bomber?
salute!
that's some awesome work.
hmm the flag's similar to the red alert 3 japan faction.
is that the real flag in WW2?
That's the Imperial Japanese Navy Insignia, it's still used by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force today. The yellow chrysanthemum crest on the bow of the ship is the crest of the Imperial family...
The Rising Sun Flag is the military flag of Japan. It was used as the ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the war flag of the Imperial Japanese Army until the end of World War II. It is also presently the ensign of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the war flag of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.
From wikipedia
right
lol i totally forgot about wiki
Read somewhere that the IJN actually planned for a bigger successor to the Yamato-class battleship, if not for time and material constraint. Too bad the Yamato (or its sister ship, Musashi) never get to slug it out with a worthy opponent like the Iowa-class ship... Just imagine what a titanic battle that would have been... the roar of its main guns full salvo would have enough force to throw god out of his comfy seat in heaven...
Yup, they did plan for even larger ships, as well as more of the YAMATO-class (Two more laid down, one dismantled on the slipway, one converted during construction into an aircraft carrier that, before completion, the Japanese tried to sail to another port. Bad move - SHINANO was torpedoed and sunk less than a day after being comissioned.).
Whether or not they could have built was a big question - Japan was already building as many ships as they could, and probably more than that.
Of course, the US Navy either planned or actually built 17 additional battleships in the same time frame (10 completed, two under construction, 5 with contracts and yards ready to build them.). And the US could build all they were planning for.
Anyone who thinks Japan actually had a realistic chance of winning the Pacific War might want to consider that by June 1944, the US had built more _new_ ships than the entire Imperial Japanese Navy either had or were planning to do so by that time (Correct, if Japanese had been able to sink most of US Navy at Pearl Harbor and finish building all the ships they planned without losing anything, they still would have been outnumbered by June 1944.).
Then consider how the US was building a new aircraft every 6 minutes in 1944.
They knew that too (at least Adm. Yamamoto did). They weren't trying to defeat the US militarily at Pearl Harbor. Just delay their ship building enough so that Japan could take a whole BUNCH of islands in the pacific and then try to negotiate a treaty with the US, with better terms for Japan. All the while waging a nasty war in China and Indonesia.
But I seriously doubt ANYone thought they could really take on the might of the US military and win any kind of prolonged battle.
"Hey, maybe if we slap them hard enough, in their daze they'll sue for peace!"
Ironically it was Yamamoto (The same guy who predicted that Japan can only end a war with the US in its favor by marching an army through Washington DC - which the Japanese could not.) who forced the Pearl Harbor attack on the IJN brass and insured that the US would fight the war to the end, no negotations, until one side or another surrendered.
History might have taken a different turn if the Japanese went after the British and the Dutch only and left the US alone.
japan only started the war because of their booming population and lack of space. they knew they were going to either expand or face the problem they do today. it was basically a lose-lose situation for japan. i agree with anonyous below who said that they could have left america alone. japan took singapore (i believe) in six days. that left basically all of indonesia for picking.
Wow, this is amazing..
It really is a shame that battleships became obsolete during the second world war though. Could you imagine this thing at The Battle of Jutland?
Artefact I think you forgot to change the number for the video when copying the link (from the Index MAD presumably), anyway here's the correct link you might want to edit your article:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6690810
No, Artefact MEANT to have the Index MAD on this article, because this is so related to Index.
Either that or a late April Fool's joke. Caught us when we least expected it. Very clever...
They are both from Japan, one of them?
i actually spent 10 mins sitting down and sunk into deep thought how they're related. 5~7 possibilities popped in my mind.
I meant the ID for the video sorry
little legoman gonna conquer all of us XD
Whoa! That Cool!!
i mean That's Cool ^_^
Yamato was comes in the wrong time
WWII was the time for Aircraft Carrier , not a huge battleship
If japan can build more 4~6 aircraft carrier and more Zeros , maybe american will have a hard time to finished the war (or maybe Japan split to 2 cause Soviet tried to invade japan like they invading korea's chinese)
Ridiculous. As a matter of fact in the Midway Battle the Imperial Army decided not to use the Yamato just to save fuel!!, Japan was Doomed since the very beggining, fortunely.
God damn, Wikipedia. Your comprehensiveness is astounding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_order_of_battle
Geeze! I was reading for days in that!
You mean the Imperial Navy, and the YAMATO _was_ there - she was Yamamoto's flagship in the main Japanese force heading for Midway.
F__U__C__K Y__O__U
when?
this is why Allied forces bombed Japan because they were more of a threat than the German Nazis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_first
Read it. You might learn something.
Ummmm... Germany had been defeated by the time we bombed Japan.
You're so off on that one dude. Japan was hit because they didn't have the decency to give up in a war they were obviously going to lose.
that realy doesnt mean much. in war everyone is fighting to survive theyre all equal terms. in the end one man with a minigun can take down hundreds of samurai if theyre unprepared for proper battle.
what i mean is,they(Japan) have the warrior's code infused in the early times that are more threatening.
That and we didn't have the atomic bomb ready before Hitler killed himself.
Anyway, Riot Gear is obviously under informed as apparently he has never heard of Dresden.
a la the machine guns in the civil war
nobody expects autom- A SPANISH INQUISITION
Impossible, Japan' production capabilities just could not keep up with America's.
Most of the Imperial Navy capital ships were WWI era ships and they were outgunned by newer American classes. The Yamato class was an attempt to rectify this with quality over quantity. Even so, it's not clear if they would win in a shoot out with the Iowas (American guns were better for their size).
Zeroes were superb fighters at the beginning of the war, but they were also outclassed by the end. Hellcats had ridiculously large kill ratios, partially because Japan's disregard for soldiers' lives meant they were perpetually short on experienced pilots and partially because the American planes were just superior.
A land war would be terribly bloody, but as far as the sea was concerned, the contest is not even close. Leyte Gulf was completely one-sided. At war's end the USN had over 30 Essex carriers alone. Plus the Imperial Navy was short on fuel and couldn't even operate all the ships they had.
My mistake, 32 Essexs were ordered but only 24 were actually commissioned.
Right. The same Zeroes that provided the Japanese a lopsided air superiority against the Americans earlier in the war were soon the helpless birds in the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot...
this is not entirely correct. when america went to war, there were only a few pilots that had combat experience, the Flying Tigers, and the pilots that transferred to Europe. because those pilots were serving countries other than America, the only pilots that had combat experience that acually served in the army air force were the two pilots that got off the ground at Pearl Harbor. When you say Allied pilots, you can only talk about the pacific fleet because of the Allies "Europe First" policy. no other country flew against Japan until at least 5 months before the war ended, so by then they wouldnt have made any real difference, because theyhad half of their "island hopping" goals achieved.
The Zero was a very good fighter and Allied pilots who flew captured Zero fighters all thought it was still deadly even in 1945 against even later Allied fighters, if you didn't fight correctly.
The problem was 1) the Japanese were still using it in 1944 as a first-line fighter while the Allies had newer and better fighters (Like the Corsair and Hellcat) which were generally far better than the Zero if both pilots were equal, and 2) the Allied pilots were hugely better than the Japanese ones.
Leyte Gulf? the Yamato's battlegroup was fought off by a destroyers with 5-inch guns...man, someone should build the USS Johnston...
If there really is a Valhalla then Lt. Cmdr. Ernest E. Evans and the men of the Johnston are sure as fuck there.
I'm impressed it has a full crew. Most builds of this size have no minifigs. Other than that It needs more SNOT.
loal same here, the soldiers are the most amazing part (not, but they're funny at least)
Yes, that's impressive. Monumental creation, with awesome details.
Also I'm a LEGO and Japan fan, but I've just seen the first time the phrase "LEGO otaku"... I lol'd.
That would take too much time. Definitely just getting the little lego people to stand up all like that would take time not to mention building the entire structure itself.
they're attached to the deck the same way the rest of it is put together
Speechless........................................................................well ok THIS IS AMAZING!!!!
that's amazing. just imagine how many time and effort invested into that ship.
now if they just make a 1:1 scale lego gundam...
not to mention $$$
I think he's planning on that. Look in the backgrounds for the S Gundam.
uchuu senkan yamaatoooooo!!!!!!!
sugoi...
Is this recorded on the Book of Record? what's that called again?
the ship... now it should belong to Philippines, and we would salvage all the metals and sell it while not knowing what's it's worth... If the Japanese weren't so harsh, we would have been a more Japanese influenced country like Taiwan...
Uhhh... yeah... speaking of which why the hell would we salvage some scraps of a blown up battleship? it's worth would go down due to rust anyway....
and even if japan would be "nicer" those Americans have already fooled majority of the population under their command
Read up on how the Japanese treated the natives of the lands they conquered - 'nicer' is not a term people would use. The Japanese were magnificent colonialists but that was a terrible thing for the natives.
Those 'romusha' that had to work on the Burma-Siam railroad were treated as badly as the POWs the Japanese held, which was par for the course of how Japanese viewed the natives.
The sister ship Musashi was the one sunk in the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea
guinness?