The talented and creative Nicola Stocchi has created the Planet Express ship — the Futurama spacecraft built by Professor Farnsworth and used by Bender, Fry, and Leela to deliver packages all across the galaxy — with Lego building blocks. His version of Old Bessie features a turntable turret, a mechanism to bring down the cargo elevator, and a UCS plate.
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“I love the animated series and also the spaceship design, so it was a pleasure for me to accept this challenge and start the project,” Stocchi explained. “It was difficult for the curved profile, that is not simple to create with Lego bricks.
“This is a big model: the ship counts 5112 parts and the total length is almost 1 m. For this reason it needs a very strong inner structure, as you can see from one of the pics in the album. It was totally built using Lego Digital Designer. For the moment there are no minifigs, but hopefully they could be added in the future.”
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Hatched from the mind of The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Futurama blasts contemporary culture and science fiction alike with an animated comedy barrage. Hapless NYC pizza guy Philip J. Fry (voiced by Billy West) makes a fateful delivery to a cryonics lab on New Year’s Eve, 1999 when he’s accidentally flash-frozen until the next millennium. Reawakened in 31st century New New York, he finds work at his great-great-etc. grandnephew’s Planet Express delivery service. Together with his hedonist robot buddy Bender (voiced by John DiMaggio) and cyclopsian love interest Leela (voiced by Katey Sagal), Fry travels to the farthest reaches of the universe. Along the way they discover strange alien life forms, velour-clad lotharios, freaky mutants, intergalactic conspiracies and the disembodied heads of celebrities throughout the ages.
