Breaking the Lego building record with the Millennium Falcon

In the first bag of the set, you're just building out the skeleton for the ship and

it's a little bit hard to tell the front from the back and in one of the steps I forgot

to rotate the set around and I ended up placing a bunch of pieces in the wrong direction and

then I had to go back and undo all of those pieces. In that moment, I actually felt really worried about completing the record and I was wondering

if I should restart since I'd only been about 30 minutes into the build at that point

I really liked Star Wars as a kid and one thing I really liked from the movies was how

impressive the spaceship designs were such as the Millennium Falcon or the Star Destroyer

I also collected a lot of Lego and to this day I still enjoy building Lego in my free time

So when this Millennium Falcon set came out a couple years ago, I knew I had to get it

so I saved up for it and when I finally got it, I came across the video that Guinness

World Record made on the previous record attempt and I thought to myself, hey, it'd be pretty

cool to beat that record. This was my first time building the Millennium Falcon but before I attempted the record

I did want to do some practice runs and tried practicing with some of the smaller Lego Star

Wars sets that I had like the AT-AT which took me a little bit over an hour and that

gave me a lot of confidence for the actual record attempt. But before that, I also did some research on some of the past record holders and looking

into some of the strategies that they had into building Lego fast. The entire building process was actually really fun and I think the Lego designers

did a fantastic job of making this giant build an enjoyable process

I really enjoyed Lego to begin with so once I started this build, I kind of locked in

and I was in the zone and before I knew it, the 7 and a half hours was over

One thing though is that my fingertips and my back did hurt a lot at the end of the build

so if I ever attempt a record like this again, I'll probably want a standing desk or a better setup

And now, I keep the set on display next to my desk so I can look at it all the time