FR News: Life-Size X-Wing Graces Parisian Skies

After a successful appearance at the QWARTZ mall in Paris, this space fighter is now being exhibited alongside fighter craft of a more Earthly variety at the International Paris Air Show from June 17th to 23rd.

Come and take control of the legendary #Xwing built in real size by the @LEGO_Group for the #ParisAirShow! ??#PAS19 #SalonDuBourget #StarWars pic.twitter.com/ag6xOcz3OH

— Paris Air Show (@salondubourget) June 17, 2019

Weighing in at more than 3 metric tons and comprising of 1.5 million bricks, this full-scale version of 75218 X-Wing Starfighter took 2,500 hours over 3 months to build and measures nine by ten metres.

This isn’t the first time LEGO have upscaled an X-Wing set, with the most recent occurence taking place in Australia for the May The 4th Be With You festivies, and in 2013 when a version of the (now retired) 9493 X-Wing Starfighter was rolled out at New York’s Times Square to mark the launch of the Yoda Chronicles series on TV.

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