Achieving the correct angles for
Next week sees the highly-anticipated arrival of
Those obstacles were discussed by Master Model Designer César Soares in an interview with Brick Fanatics at last year’s Fan Media Days event (which can be viewed right here), with
“A big challenge was having the correct angle on the wings when you see it from the front,” explained César. “We don’t really have any elements that have the correct angle, so what we ended up doing was using our ‘friend’ gravity. This is the natural position of the wings and then I put it on some hinges and it just rests a little on a stop inside.
“It’s the perfect angle for the wings because everything we have, elements that would allow us to have that geometry, didn’t really work, so this was the best solution.”
During a recent LEGO Star Wars May the 4th livestream, César was asked if there was any risk of
“It’s very unlikely because this is no different than a slightly smaller model,” said César. “We have a few tests that we do to make sure the likelihood of that happening is very low. We’ve done wings many, many times, even at this size, and we don’t have any issues with that.”
In addition, the LEGO Star Wars ship also boasts two lightweight engines that have been constructed in such a way as to only allow
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