These huge LEGO Borg Cubes embrace 1000’s of items, intricate particulars, and a whole bunch of lights – resitance is futile.
The Borg Dice is one in every of, if not the, most fearsome warships utilized by the Borg Collective in Star Trek. These huge vessels, of which the Borg supposedly have thousands and thousands, may single-handedly struggle an entire fleet of Federation ships. Measuring roughly 3 kilometers ( 1.86 miles in the event you use a correct unit, sorry Jean-Luc) a facet. Every dice is full of weapons and defensive programs, in addition to hordes of Borg drones, making them an iconic and terrifying enemy.
On not less than two events, Borg Cubes have threatened Earth itself. The primary time was following the Battle of Wolf 359, during which a Dice destroyed 39 of 40 Federation vessels. This Dice was stopped close to Earth. As soon as once more through the occasions of Star Trek: First Contact a Dice threated Earth however was barely stopped. On this occasion, the Dice’s proved that even when destroyed, that they had backup programs that made them threats.
LEGO Borg Dice – LED Version
As a result of their iconic nature, Borg Cubes are fairly common among the many followers. A couple of has tried to deliver a Dice to life in LEGO, and immediately we’re going to take a look at a few these actually cool builds (would LEGO attraction to the Borg? Are all of us simply LEGO items to be assimilated into an amazing construct?). The primary of those builds is made by legodm.
You’ll be able to try Legodm right here; they’re a really gifted builder with a lot of cool builds. The Dice itself measures an applicable cubic yard and is manufactured from greater than 25,000 items. It additionally contains round 300 LED lights that gentle it up. That is an imposing and detailed construct that appears gorgeous.
The detailed work on this Dice is actually one thing else. Both sides seems to be each uniform and distinctive, and really true to the Dice. I additionally love that it comes with a mini Borg Sphere and a small USS Defiant. That is clearly the Dice from First Contact, and I really like that a number of particulars clearly inform us that. Exterior of that, it is a actually cool spaceship to have a look at.
Try a full video of the construct beneath. You can too watch a timelapse of the dice being constructed right here.
LEGO Borg Dice – Black Version
Our second Dice was constructed by Reddit person TheNerdyOne, who additionally goes by kyebircks. You’ll find them right here. At 9,000 items and round 16 inches a facet, its a smaller construct however nonetheless spectacular. I like builds like this one as they really feel like one you may need your self on the shelf or one thing like that. The builder has really labeled it as a “UCS Borg Dice.” this is sensible, itsT9,000 items is in step with the bigger UCS units so, I feel they nailed what they have been going for.
Whereas largely black, this construct nonetheless packs in a ton of element and appears wonderful. It doesn’t use any lights, however the neon inexperienced studs do an amazing job of simulating lights and giving it an genuine Borg Dice look. This construct additionally comes with a small to scale Enterprise-E, which is a pleasant contact. Even higher is the truth that it not solely has a Borg Sphere, but it surely suits into the facet of the Dice able to launch. I’d say extra concerning the construct… however it’s a Dice. It seems to be very cool, however is fairly cube-y.
For those who do get a Dice of your individual, keep in mind to deal with your fashions (and show circumstances) higher than Picard does!
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