Bit-tech builds the LEGO Super Star Destroyer

LEGO Super Star Destroyer - Box Two

Day two of the build started with the classic find-where-we-went-wrong-game which, after a half hour reached its conclusion. Nowhere, it turns out - apparently LEGO just provide you with some extra bits for kicks. Interesting that they don’t mention this in the instructions; they just leave you to find this out by going back and meticulously checking your perfect work against the instructions. Funny joke LEGO, real funny, you want to give us that half hour of our life back?


Stage two of the build (still from box one), which again took us just under two hours, is arguably more rewarding than the first, as it’s where the model starts to gain height and structural strength. This is thanks to the spine that you add to the centre of the build. You also construct a smaller pair of brightly coloured beams that run down each of the wings of the craft. These attach at about eight separate points however; we needed about four sets of hands and almost as many sets of eyes to make sure each connection was correct as they all attach at once.

By this stage of the build we were also talking in fluent LEGO speak (pass me a fourer; I need a fat eighter; where are the black knobs?) but its hard going at times. One of the problems is the repetition, which is as a result of the symmetrical nature of the model - you slog through one huge component, gleefully attach it, then are asked to start on an ever so slightly different mirror image.


It’s a problem that persists through the third stage of the build (for which we needed to open up box two), a stage that can be encapsulated in a single word - grey, many many shades of grey. Oh, and maybe some black, just for variation.

Despite its lack of visual razzmatazz the third stage was fun to make, as rather than making one huge thing, you’re making smaller bits to attach to the now complete base. We alternated who was making and who was finding (with Empire on in the background for whoever wasn’t doing anything) which kept things fun and challenging.


You also get to make the centrepiece of the model, which is a LEGO sized version of the bridge that’s hidden in the centre of the hull. This comes complete with stickers for all the wall-mounted computers, and allows you to recreate the bounty hunter scene from the movie, though, Boba Fett will be conspicuous by his absence. You also bulk the rear of the model with a seemingly never ending amount of tiny nobs, clips, buttons and other sticky-outty bits. After another two hour run, we were done. Bed once again - tomorrow, the display stand.