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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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
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)
this is why Allied forces bombed Japan because they were more of a threat than the German Nazis.
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 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.
what i mean is,they(Japan) have the warrior's code infused in the early times that are more threatening.
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.
a la the machine guns in the civil war
nobody expects autom- A SPANISH INQUISITION
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_first
Read it. You might learn something.
Ummmm... Germany had been defeated by the time we bombed Japan.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
F__U__C__K Y__O__U
when?
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.
You mean the Imperial Navy, and the YAMATO _was_ there - she was Yamamoto's flagship in the main Japanese force heading for Midway.
God damn, Wikipedia. Your comprehensiveness is astounding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_order_of_battle
Geeze! I was reading for days in that!
little legoman gonna conquer all of us XD
Whoa! That Cool!!
i mean That's Cool ^_^
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
I meant the ID for the video sorry
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...
i actually spent 10 mins sitting down and sunk into deep thought how they're related. 5~7 possibilities popped in my mind.
They are both from Japan, one of them?
Speechless........................................................................well ok THIS IS AMAZING!!!!
that is absolutely amazing. god i need to buy some legos now.
sugoi...
Is this recorded on the Book of Record? what's that called again?
guinness?
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...
The sister ship Musashi was the one sunk in the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea
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.
uchuu senkan yamaatoooooo!!!!!!!
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...
I think he's planning on that. Look in the backgrounds for the S Gundam.
not to mention $$$
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?
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?