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.