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Dave's Lego AT-AT
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I've always loved the AT-AT. It was probably my favorite vehicle from the entirety of Star Wars-- so I suppose it was only a matter of time until I built one. The suprising thing is... I've built three.

So let's roll back the clock. The year was 1995. I had somewhat recently just gotten back into my Lego obsession. One day, deep within my secret Lego Laboratory (often referred to as "my room"), I made a foot. Actually, I was just fooling around with bricks, and realized that what I had just made LOOKED like a foot. An AT-AT foot. After all, it was somewhat round, and had 4 prong-like 'toes' protruding from it... but most importantly of all, it looked like it was an AT-AT foot in scale with Lego minifigures. "Wow," I thought. "Wouldn't it be cool if I could build the WHOLE thing?" Well, I did. It strained my supply of grey bricks down to non-existant, and required my first order from Lego Shop @ Home. And when it was done, I was so pleased. In reality it was rather silly looking. What I had constructed was a large, blocky testament to grey bricks. But I liked it. And that's what counted.

Then back in April of 1999, I got inspired again. I looked at the pictures of the 1st AT-AT and said "I KNOW I can do better than THAT!" And so again, I tried. This time, I actually went by blueprints (or tried to) rather than gut instinct. When I was done, again, I was beautifully proud. This time, it was still rather block-ish, but it was detailed, and was a little more to scale than the previous one had been.

Now meanwhile, I had just been discovering that I was not the only freak in the world to love Lego. I had been exploring other people's Lego websites, and checking out other people's creations. But for the life of me, I couldn't find another Lego AT-AT. This made me all the prouder. I was apparently first! So I set about taking pictures, setting up scenery, etc., and preparing for my own Lego page.

Of course, immanent doom awaited me. One day, while happily browsing other people's Lego websites, I came across one "Shaun Sullivan"'s site, showing his Lego AT-ST. When I came to, I was still happy, because anything built that well to minifig scale simply HAD to be a dream. But my computer monitor did not concur. "Look, Dave! It wasn't a dream!" it yelled at me. Trying to maintain my 'cool', I mused to myself "Well... at least nobody's done a Lego AT-AT before. I can still be first at that!" But I had to be sure. For two days, I performed net-searches, trying desparately not to find another Lego AT-AT. Then the world ended. I ran into a post to LUGNET written by the mysterious "Shaun Sullivan". In it, he remarked that he was in the process of building his own Lego AT-AT, which would be finished in a few months. I had to be flown to a hospital in Bombay to revive me from the shock.

Upon my return to the States, I realized my 2nd and would-be final AT-AT was still not good enough. I had known I could improve it, but I hadn't really wanted to bother. But it was clear that a better level of modelling would be needed. The 2nd AT-AT fell, and a new one began.

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