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7-Foot LEGO Replica Of The Firefly Spaceship Serenity

August 8, 2012 / engineering, eye candy, good job, great googly moogly, holy smokes, keep up the good work, labor of love, labor of more than 26 hours of screaming and yelling "JUST COME OUT OF ME ALREADY", lego, outerspace, plastic, psssssshoooooow (that's the sound a spaceship makes when it's blasting off), replica, sci-fi, show, skills, spaceship, time-consuming, wow

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I know it's hard to tell from the picture, but the full model is actually over 7-feet long (for comparison, my penis is only two-and-a-half). That's a big ship. The 135-pound replica was built by LEGOmaniac Adrian Drake over 475-hours spanning 21-months and using nearly 70,000 bricks. The interior has a bridge, crew accommodations, a dining room, and cargo bay. But that's not all!

The ship doesn't just look great on the outside; it also contains all of the compartments from the set except the engine room, which proved impossible to build while maintaining structural integrity of the ship. The cargo bay and drive light up, both engines rotate, the wings swing out, and Inara's shuttle detaches. It's an incredible feat of Lego engineering.

Good lord, an incredible feat of LEGO engineering is right! We should have gotten this guy involved in the Mars rover program. That thing would already have a Martian base set up and be preparing dinner waiting for the first astronauts to arrive. What do you say, brobro -- build me a time machine?

Hit the jump for some closeups, but be sure to check out Adrian's Flickr for the full, high-res gallery.

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Thanks to Ken, Quaddmgtech and Ashley, who aren't allowed to play with LEGO blocks anymore because they won't stop swallowing them. You too?

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There are Comments
  • Lee Tan

    Ok, I see Wash in the cockpit playing with his Dinosaurs... all it needs now is:
    Malcolm behind his shoulder,
    Kaylee in a built engine room,
    Jayne cleaning a gun,
    annnd.. I guess River doing cartwheels over some unsafe ledge

    I do like though :)

  • Shiny!

  • Sorry to use language, but: gorram shiny!

  • BillGatesIsYourDaddy

    It's about time someone did something worthwhile with Lego's

  • Saw the ship and started singing that cheesy awesome theme-song in my head.
    This thing is Pretty damned awesome!

  • Is that an AT-AT on the monitor behind the guy in the cockpit?!

  • Was thinkin' the same thing!
    (Looks like there's actually TWO.)

  • Apparently they are on Hoth.

  • Good eye! Must be from a Snow Speeder Lego Set.

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