{"id":5693,"date":"2004-01-23T06:40:31","date_gmt":"2004-01-23T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/01\/23\/lego-my-solo.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T18:05:57","slug":"lego_my_solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/23\/lego_my_solo.html","title":{"rendered":"Lego my Solo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Like a brick\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/sololego.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" class=\"right\" \/>From the <i>People with Too Much Time on Their Hands (and Thank Goodness)<\/i> file, we have Han Solo in Carbonite.  In Lego.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanbrickartist.com\/archives\/000018.html\">Life-sized<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">It took about 10,000 bricks, almost all dark gray, and about three months of on and off building. I built the sculpture so it can break down easily into smaller parts, thus making it mobile. Because, like most people, I like to take large sculptures of people frozen in carbonite with me whenever I travel.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostofaflea.com\/archives\/001323.html\">GoaF<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the People with Too Much Time on Their Hands (and Thank Goodness) file, we have Han Solo in Carbonite. In Lego. Life-sized. It took about 10,000 bricks, almost all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25749,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/the-carbonite-of-their-character.html","url_meta":{"origin":5693,"position":0},"title":"The Carbonite of Their Character","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Jan-12 7:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"With all due respect to the man (if not to the artist), I found this very, very funny. #ddtbReshared post from +Steve Rayman ChevroletEnjoy and share!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6978,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/19\/hitting_the_bri.html","url_meta":{"origin":5693,"position":1},"title":"Hitting the bricks","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Nov-04 12:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lego has been in financial trouble of late, and it's not getting any better. Hopefully some of the radical steps they're looking at will save the company. I have a...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":50130,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/19\/parts-is-parts.html","url_meta":{"origin":5693,"position":2},"title":"Parts is Parts","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Apr-15 11:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Check the box. xkcd: Lego [[A girl and her father are putting away Lego bricks.]] Father: When you take apart a Lego house and mix the pieces into the bin, where does the house go? Girl: It's in the bin. Father: No, those are just pieces. They could become spaceships\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32648,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/not-your-local-toy-stores-harry-potter-lego.html","url_meta":{"origin":5693,"position":3},"title":"Not your local toy store&#39;s Harry Potter LEGO","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Feb-13 10:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"What's remarkable about this is not the exteriors (which are pretty cool) but the interior work. Fantastic. 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