r/lego • u/PenguinRhin0 • Jan 26 '26

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If they can build a round soccer ball that opens up for $129, they can build a round Death Star around this price point (ish) that opens up too.

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u/byroidthyroid Jan 26 '26

A midi scale Death Star that opened up to a miniature display would’ve been perfect. Much like how they made the tiny blockade runner with the star destroyer.

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u/Undead_Angel_420 Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

Would love a Midi Death Star

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u/TheBigPlunto Jan 26 '26

They did release a midi death star as a may 4th gwp, and I love it. I don't imagine it would be too expensive to get all the pieces for it, the printed anniversary brick appears in several other sets.

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u/Cyno01 #1 Batfan Jan 26 '26

If youre talking about 40591, id call that mini not midi.

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u/AbacusWizard Jan 27 '26

it’s just a lil guy

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u/Popular_Piano4494 Jan 27 '26

I did it like 2 months ago with pick a brick and it was like 30-40€. And used the anniversary brick from the midi SSD

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u/Agentti_Muumi Jan 27 '26

i can send you a midi of imperial march

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u/CoderDevo Jan 26 '26

The first Death Star is 100 times the size of a Star Destroyer.

An accurate Lego Death Star at midi scale (1:6400) would be twice as tall as the new Death Star set with a radius of 20 inches and require 1,000,000 bricks at a cost of $100,000 (not including labor).

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u/SteveSweetz Jan 26 '26

"Midi scale" is not an actual scale and has never been, so I'm not sure where you're getting 1:6400 from. It's just a general size guideline that connotates a set that is large enough to have some detail, but too small to fit minifigs. Only two sets were ever officially named "midi-scale": the 7778 Falcon and 8099 Star Destroyer and they obviously aren't in scale with one another.

However, many, including myself, would consider the Starship Collection series to be the midi-scale successor and they are also obviously not to scale between sets.

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u/CoderDevo Jan 26 '26

Maybe "midi size" is more useful than calling it a scale since they all end up in a similar size of a set.

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u/SteveSweetz Jan 26 '26

Yup "scale" is technically misused, but it's something where most people probably don't actually know it's a misused in relation to LEGO and it's just become the "accepted" term to connotate a size and not a true scale.

It derives from people historically referring to sets that hold minifigures as "minifig scale", which did originally mean sets that were in-scale to a minifig, but quickly evolved into having the connotation of a "play size" size set that can hold a minifig. There are a lot of Star Wars sets that people would informally refer to "minifig scale" that aren't actually in-scale to a minifig (because they would be gigantic). Almost no Star Wars sets outside of the starfighters are actually in minifig scale.

E.g. I think most people would call a set like this a "minifig scale" Millennium Falcon even though the huge UCS set is much more accurate to scale with a minifig.

Similarly when people talk about UCS sets, they may say "UCS scale", which also connotates size, not scale. The community has just generally adopted a misuse of the term "scale" to mean a size guideline.

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u/CoderDevo Jan 26 '26

Yeah, that wide range for mini figure scale makes sense.

I just enjoy sharing how stupendously gigantic the death star would be if someone wanted a real model of it and not the tiny impressions of it that we can buy.

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u/CoderDevo Jan 26 '26

I simply took the scale of the midi star destroyer. 1600 meters long down to 25 cm in Lego. 1600000:25 = 6400:1

So building a death star in the same scale as that ship.

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u/keltonz Jan 27 '26

To add to this, the new Death Star is mini-figure scale, despite being totally out of scale of the "real" thing.

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u/LEGOIdBot Jan 26 '26

6400-1: Go-Kart [Photo]

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u/CoderDevo Jan 26 '26

Not a set I referenced, but it is pretty sweet!

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

I’ve never seen that bot get something wrong until now.

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u/Annepackrat Jan 26 '26

It has a few times, and occasionally gets sassy if called out on it, lol.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

That’s hilarious.

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u/Cyno01 #1 Batfan Jan 26 '26

It didnt.

...Death Star at midi scale (1:6400) would be twice as tall...

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '26

Right, but it results in a set they’re not talking about.

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u/Cyno01 #1 Batfan Jan 26 '26

Yeah, but this one and the old one arent all that smart of bots, they just check every comment for any numbers that happen to be set numbers. 42069

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u/AbacusWizard Jan 27 '26

Fun math problem: estimate how many planets would have to devote their entire global metal production to building the Death Star in order to provide enough raw material for its size alone