It amazes me how much Lego has done with this thing using STOCK parts. I really have yet to come across anything "custom". In previous "Collectors' Edition" Star Wars Lego I've assembled, there's always been SOME custom stuff (even if it was just "the cockpit glass" on the X-Wing and Tie Fighter). But, the Star Destroyer is just very impressive to me (so far anyway) in that I haven't come across anything that was created "just to make it work".
It's also definitely imposing. As I sit in my living room and look over at it, it's impossible to tell it's Lego (except, obviously, where I can see the innards). But what I see of the portside edge and bottom looks like "an imposing ship ready to plunder your world" grin.
I've had to start giving serious consideration to the question of "where is this bitch going when you're done with it, dude?" The current contender looks like it may be "on top of my entertainment center", which means it might very well look like the Imperials are doing a flyby of my TV set. :)
Everywhere else that I can think of that I could put it is within the range of places "the cats are known to mess around on", and this definitely should be up and out of their way if I want it to survive.
I need to try and get it done before Saturday night (ha!) because that's when I've got my posse coming over for some D&D, and I have no idea where they'll sit if that thing is still sitting there.
I had someone ask "why are you posting to your blog so much about this thing?" .. mainly because a couple regular readers complained that they wanted pictures (Dan!) and since they couldn't afford one of these themselves, there's more than one person enjoying vicariously the experience of assembling it through watching my assembly of it. Plus it really is an interestingly large Lego project to watch it come together (it's not the Lego Desk or anything, but still)
> there's more than one person enjoying vicariously the experience of assembling it
And that would be me for sure. :-)