(Awesome) Non-Fiction Super SmartNote

This weeks Non-Fiction SmartNote is on an amazing topic. Something that I can regretfully say most kids have had experiences with as kids. Legos®! I return my focus this week back to Wired Magazine , a (according to Wikipedia) is "a full-color monthly American magazine and online periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics." I am mostly interested in it for the technology piece. Anyway, this structure is to date one of the largerst and heavyest at that and it specs of weighing 23-tons and using over 5.3 million Lego® bricks. If you are unaware of what an X-Wing is you should go watch some Star-Wars. But basically is a plane Luke Skywalker flew to blow up the death star.
Thats what it looks like in the movie but here is the Lego® build.

Its wing span is 43 feet! That is about 2 feet larger than the wing span of the X-Wing in the movie according to this website. I just found it amazing that people go into work every day to build something as impressive as this. Though you may not be a Star-Wars fan, you should still have some respect for the 32 people that built the X-Wing. I believe, from a news report on ABC that I saw you can sit inside this and it comes with its own R2-D2. They unveiled it this memorial day weekend in New York City and at the end of this year Luke's X-Wing will be shipped in 3 different pieces to LegoLand California where the west coast will be able to see it.