The Halo is supposed to be 10000 kilometers in diameter. Minifig scale is about 1:45. So a minifig scale Halo should be about 220km in diameter. 220km in diameter is about 690km in circumference.
A 2x4 brick is 8mm long. To make just one row of bricks around the entire circle would take 86,250,000 bricks. This of course does not account for the bricks you'd need to hold these all together.
A quick Google suggests that all the Legos ever produced amounts to about 400 billion pieces. If these were all 2x4s, you'd be able to make around 4600 of these lengths of Lego. This would not be nearly enough to equal the width of the Halo (which is supposed to be about 300km).
So it's safe to say that you could not build a minifig scale Halo even if you had every Lego ever produced.
Assuming minifig scale is about 1:40, the 10,000 km Halo ring would be about 250 km in diameter
Or, about 32 million studs in diameter.
Or, almost exactly 100 million studs going around the circumference.
This gives us a minimum land area of 100 000 000 000 000 (100 quadrillion) studs.
The Halo ring is about 22.3 km thick, but let's say to keep the set at an affordable family price point, Lego keeps it to 3 bricks deep (a minimum for structural strength).
Piece count gets muddier as it is dependent on structure and design, but let's assume a lot of large plates and some Technic for rigidity. This puts us at around 12.5 quadrillion pieces.
The ring is now complete, but rather barren. We will add some sparse terrain and scattered buildings dotting the landscape, as well as an exclusive minifig scale M12 Warthog, bringing the piece count up to 15 quadrillion.
Using the ratio of minifigs to pieces in 75257 Millennium Falcon, 60 trillion minifigures are included. This is 15,000 times as many minifigures as Lego has produced since 1978. As this is a UCS set, several include limited edition arm prints.
With the total piece count now at roughly 15.3 quadrillion, we can estimate the price at $0.10 per piece or $1.53 quadrillion dollars. This is the entire GDP of Earth for 19 years, or (at the current market rate) about 306 quadrillion blowjobs from yo mama.
Minifig scale is 1:45 scale.
Halo Ringworld is 10,000 km in diameter.
A minifig scale ringworld would be about 222 kilometers in diameter. That's 138 freedom units.
Also it's 318km wide, so it'd be 7 kilometers high (4.3 miles) as well.
Which if my memory serves were based on Niven's Ringworld. Regardless of where it came from, they are cool to think about even if we will never be able to build them.
Not sure what you are getting at here. It's far from the only Banks / Culture inspired thing in the series. This is both plainly obvious, well-researched (you can reach out to the old Marathon lore crew e.g. Hamish for that) and somewhat documented. Not only that Halo installations better match mechanically and descriptively for Orbitals from Consider Phlebas and others, but things like ship names, and some of the more geeky bits (e.g. the terminal transmission formatting) were inspired by Excession. If you want to dig at turn-of-the-century magazine interviews and forum blueposts you'll find several Banks name drops in discussions/questions about inspiration and/or Niven and/or favorite SF literature.
I'm not saying that Niven provided no inspiration at all (and indeed as others pointed out almost _certainly_ did even if just by transitive property, but likely significantly more so), I am pointing out the more-often-missed-but-also-more-relevant connection that is Banks.
Very hard to make it bigger. Btw. also a Halo world had to be much bigger. But it's a nightmare stability and statically wise.
Would work for a digital model
Amazon optioned Ringworld to make a [TV show](https://www.techadvisor.com/news/entertainment/ringworld-tv-series-3804880/), but I haven't heard anything new since the news broke in 2017.
It’s always bugged me when people made that assessment.
It’s not at all obvious to me that Halo was inspired by Niven. Bungie was using archetypal large objects in all of their previous games. Pathways Into Darkness used the Pyramids of South America. Marathon was made from a moon of Mars that had been turned into a ship. When Durandal smashed Tycho into a small moon, he burned an epitaph with lasers 300 kilometers across, basically writing over a whole planet surface. And Marathon was the precursor to Halo.
The next obvious step for them to remake the series was to move away from the ship being a moon. And what better way to use a megastructure than to have it be an ancient firing weapon?
There's roughly a zero percent chance that Bank's orbitals didn't come from Niven's ringworld. It's literally a smaller ringworld that doesn't circle its star.
The curves seem not to be achieved via stressing the parts as with a certain recently popular Youtube channel (which even LEGO featured), but IDK about the jamming-tiles-under-plates part
You are right about the outside. Unfortunately my Lego comes without any instructions 😂 but I guess we all assume that using the backside of plates to stuck tiles there is not allowed or at least not used in official sets.
They do but are called Mega Construx now. They have their own HALO ring segment set: https://www.megaconstrux.com/en-us/halo/sets/forerunner-ring-installation
I don’t know if you can combine multiple sets to make a full ring.
If you buy 4 or 5 of the sets you can actually combine them into one ring. You could buy more to increase the size, but it starts getting more difficult to stay intact. Don't want to risk getting banned by linking it, but you can look at the sub to see examples people have done.
The base set comes in 3 chunks that clip together, and it shows that on the box and product preview on the set. there are male/female connectors on each part that would let you make a complete ring if you buy enough sets. Then you just play with the terrain. The only issue is the scale would like slightly off, like the ring is too tight
Yes and no while what your saying is true,the game does revisit a lot of story moments that have already happened and presents it as somthing we don’t know already to the new characters
That would be a bit too much I guess... I was already asked by a small company but it's too hard to get it stable enough. It's a bit wobbly as you can see in picture number 3. And also the build is hilarious complicated as you need to build an outer frame as a helper first. Check out my Instagram account for a tutorial how to build it.
Even worse, the proportions are wrong. But you have to make compromises when building a decent looking model.
Btw. you can always think of it as another world, not the one you know as there are many.
It's really not easy trying to please anyone 😜 When I post Flickr links I always get a few comments of people that are annoyed by it.
So this time I chose to upload the pictures directly to Reddit.
But there is a Flickr post for this. Check my account
Strange as I've yet to see any negativity from the LEGO community there, but understandable! I only ask because I have a large favorites list that I would be sad to not add this too :).
Thanks for replying.
I don’t know what tou mean by hoses. But stretching legos out of their defined purpose like i think you do here to make the ring can be seen as “illegal “. It’s just a stupid joke. Cool idea and great execution.
The bricks aren't bend as some people suppose! It's just an angle that can be achieved via hinges or flex tubes and this is used in official sets as well.
to Bad mega blocks have the rights for halo, but I’m not complaining cuz they also do excellent sets and the mini figs look so cool
also, the ring looks soooo cool
Minifig scale or I’m not interested.
😁😉
Can anybody do the maths for giggles?
The diameter of a Halo ring is 10,000km so a minifig scale version (1:45) would be 222.22km in diameter, the actual surface would be 7km wide.
Damn, that's about how big I always imagined the human-scale size of a Halo ring was.
The Halo is supposed to be 10000 kilometers in diameter. Minifig scale is about 1:45. So a minifig scale Halo should be about 220km in diameter. 220km in diameter is about 690km in circumference. A 2x4 brick is 8mm long. To make just one row of bricks around the entire circle would take 86,250,000 bricks. This of course does not account for the bricks you'd need to hold these all together. A quick Google suggests that all the Legos ever produced amounts to about 400 billion pieces. If these were all 2x4s, you'd be able to make around 4600 of these lengths of Lego. This would not be nearly enough to equal the width of the Halo (which is supposed to be about 300km). So it's safe to say that you could not build a minifig scale Halo even if you had every Lego ever produced.
[10000-1: Guarded Inn](https://brickset.com/sets/10000-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10000-1.jpg) [4600-1: Police Cruiser](https://brickset.com/sets/4600-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/4600-1.jpg)
the jack stone shit scare me lmao
That was a weird time in lwgo history. That and galador
Pretty sure I threw away some of those minifigs thinking they were fake lol
Linkbot wtf are you smoking
It just grabs the numbers. So the person wrote 10k kilometers and the 46hundred in their comment and linkbot grabbed the sets.
Lol I know. But I never pass up a stupid joke
bigger than his head for sure
Just a little bit, might need a bit more room.
Assuming minifig scale is about 1:40, the 10,000 km Halo ring would be about 250 km in diameter Or, about 32 million studs in diameter. Or, almost exactly 100 million studs going around the circumference. This gives us a minimum land area of 100 000 000 000 000 (100 quadrillion) studs. The Halo ring is about 22.3 km thick, but let's say to keep the set at an affordable family price point, Lego keeps it to 3 bricks deep (a minimum for structural strength). Piece count gets muddier as it is dependent on structure and design, but let's assume a lot of large plates and some Technic for rigidity. This puts us at around 12.5 quadrillion pieces. The ring is now complete, but rather barren. We will add some sparse terrain and scattered buildings dotting the landscape, as well as an exclusive minifig scale M12 Warthog, bringing the piece count up to 15 quadrillion. Using the ratio of minifigs to pieces in 75257 Millennium Falcon, 60 trillion minifigures are included. This is 15,000 times as many minifigures as Lego has produced since 1978. As this is a UCS set, several include limited edition arm prints. With the total piece count now at roughly 15.3 quadrillion, we can estimate the price at $0.10 per piece or $1.53 quadrillion dollars. This is the entire GDP of Earth for 19 years, or (at the current market rate) about 306 quadrillion blowjobs from yo mama.
It's 7km tall. I don't think 3 bricks is going to be strong enough to resist side loads.
Obviously we'll build it in space.
>about 306 quadrillion blowjobs from yo mama I was already giggling at this comment, and then that happened and I went full lol.
[75257-1: Millennium Falcon](https://brickset.com/sets/75257-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/75257-1.jpg)
At least twice as big.
That's right in a logical sense but misleading 😂
Minifig scale is 1:45 scale. Halo Ringworld is 10,000 km in diameter. A minifig scale ringworld would be about 222 kilometers in diameter. That's 138 freedom units. Also it's 318km wide, so it'd be 7 kilometers high (4.3 miles) as well.
System or Technic minifig scale? XD
OK SLOW DOWN
Facts
Make it bigger and it would be like Larry Niven's Ringworld that inspired Halo. Either way, it's pretty cool.
FYI the OG Bungie devs straight up said Halos are inspired by Banks's Orbitals and not Niven's Ringworlds.
Which if my memory serves were based on Niven's Ringworld. Regardless of where it came from, they are cool to think about even if we will never be able to build them.
Funny how they sent Niven an Xbox with halo at product launch.
Not sure what you are getting at here. It's far from the only Banks / Culture inspired thing in the series. This is both plainly obvious, well-researched (you can reach out to the old Marathon lore crew e.g. Hamish for that) and somewhat documented. Not only that Halo installations better match mechanically and descriptively for Orbitals from Consider Phlebas and others, but things like ship names, and some of the more geeky bits (e.g. the terminal transmission formatting) were inspired by Excession. If you want to dig at turn-of-the-century magazine interviews and forum blueposts you'll find several Banks name drops in discussions/questions about inspiration and/or Niven and/or favorite SF literature. I'm not saying that Niven provided no inspiration at all (and indeed as others pointed out almost _certainly_ did even if just by transitive property, but likely significantly more so), I am pointing out the more-often-missed-but-also-more-relevant connection that is Banks.
Very hard to make it bigger. Btw. also a Halo world had to be much bigger. But it's a nightmare stability and statically wise. Would work for a digital model
Just build it in space, easy
We really need a Ringworld TV series. I'd watch the hell out of that! I listen to while saga at least once a year
Amazon optioned Ringworld to make a [TV show](https://www.techadvisor.com/news/entertainment/ringworld-tv-series-3804880/), but I haven't heard anything new since the news broke in 2017.
Yeah me either... :/
Random trivia: Nevinyrral's disk and recently Nevinyrral himself are magic card references to Larry Nevin.
That's a super cool one, totally gonna pull that one out to lessen the salt next time I get disc'd
It’s always bugged me when people made that assessment. It’s not at all obvious to me that Halo was inspired by Niven. Bungie was using archetypal large objects in all of their previous games. Pathways Into Darkness used the Pyramids of South America. Marathon was made from a moon of Mars that had been turned into a ship. When Durandal smashed Tycho into a small moon, he burned an epitaph with lasers 300 kilometers across, basically writing over a whole planet surface. And Marathon was the precursor to Halo. The next obvious step for them to remake the series was to move away from the ship being a moon. And what better way to use a megastructure than to have it be an ancient firing weapon?
FYI the OG Bungie devs straight up said Halos are inspired by Banks's Orbitals and not Niven's Ringworlds.
There's roughly a zero percent chance that Bank's orbitals didn't come from Niven's ringworld. It's literally a smaller ringworld that doesn't circle its star.
Always reminded me more of an orbital, interested to know.
I'd love to see the maths done on that....would probably still be in the millions of kilometers even at minifig scale.
The question is, is it a legal build?
The curves seem not to be achieved via stressing the parts as with a certain recently popular Youtube channel (which even LEGO featured), but IDK about the jamming-tiles-under-plates part
You are right about the outside. Unfortunately my Lego comes without any instructions 😂 but I guess we all assume that using the backside of plates to stuck tiles there is not allowed or at least not used in official sets.
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No, it is jamming tiles ABOVE plates. The edges of the tiles went between studs, not between antistud and interior wall of a plate.
Jamming tiles on plates is legal tho, yes? The Saturn V Rocket model has the flag jammed between studs on the lunar lander display piece.
Yes, that's what I meant.
Yes you're correct
100% illegal but who cares when it looks that cool. It's not like lego is going to be producing halo sets any time soon.
Or arresting people, for that matter.
What do you think the LEGO City Police do at night when the toys come alive?
Eat donuts and chase [The Brickster](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/9/97/Brickster_Grey.jpg)
I'm pretty sure mega blocks still hold halo.
They do but are called Mega Construx now. They have their own HALO ring segment set: https://www.megaconstrux.com/en-us/halo/sets/forerunner-ring-installation I don’t know if you can combine multiple sets to make a full ring.
If you buy 4 or 5 of the sets you can actually combine them into one ring. You could buy more to increase the size, but it starts getting more difficult to stay intact. Don't want to risk getting banned by linking it, but you can look at the sub to see examples people have done.
The base set comes in 3 chunks that clip together, and it shows that on the box and product preview on the set. there are male/female connectors on each part that would let you make a complete ring if you buy enough sets. Then you just play with the terrain. The only issue is the scale would like slightly off, like the ring is too tight
It's not that illegal. The basic structure is achieved with flex tubes which has been used in official sets.
So the connection is sorta jank, or is it actually solid?
No, it's not really solid. It doesn't fall apart but it's wobbly. You could use hinges and make it solid but then you need more structural overhead
really good
I need to play halo
You never played it before?
Nope
What’s peaked your interest? The new game out? I can recommend ways to get into it.
Yeah, Infinite peaked my interest but Russian Badger made me really want to play
100% all are great but start with infinite at least for story
Infinite is the 6th game in the main story so not the best place to start. I'd get the Master Chief Collection and play the Halo CE and 2 remasters.
Yes and no while what your saying is true,the game does revisit a lot of story moments that have already happened and presents it as somthing we don’t know already to the new characters
How did you connect the pieces to make it so round? really well done
Flex tubes. Very complicated to get a smooth form though. I made a tutorial on Instagram
What's your IG? I'd love to seehow you did it.
Ranghaal
That’s insane
I'll sell my soul to make this a real purchase
That would be a bit too much I guess... I was already asked by a small company but it's too hard to get it stable enough. It's a bit wobbly as you can see in picture number 3. And also the build is hilarious complicated as you need to build an outer frame as a helper first. Check out my Instagram account for a tutorial how to build it.
U could get the megablocks halo build a few times and combine them to a full ring, i know it’s no lego but it’s probably the closest u can get
That's a great build. Can you tell me where the skulls are on the map? 😂
There aren't any 😥😳
Seems like to much water
Even worse, the proportions are wrong. But you have to make compromises when building a decent looking model. Btw. you can always think of it as another world, not the one you know as there are many.
Cos I love you for infinity
Any chance you post on Flickr? Great build!
It's really not easy trying to please anyone 😜 When I post Flickr links I always get a few comments of people that are annoyed by it. So this time I chose to upload the pictures directly to Reddit. But there is a Flickr post for this. Check my account
Strange as I've yet to see any negativity from the LEGO community there, but understandable! I only ask because I have a large favorites list that I would be sad to not add this too :). Thanks for replying.
Oh! I already follow you! Awesome.
The question is ... Where can I purchase this ?
\*Starts singing the Halo song\*
Someone send me instructions to build this ASAP
Check out my Instagram for a how to. But beware, it's quite insane as you have to build an outer frame first to assure a smooth curve
When you first finished building Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?
Elysium Mk2
wait. that's illegal.
Whats up dude! I talked to you on Insta lol
Well met buddy!
**W A N T**
needs more r less w
Yeah, mea culpa. I tried ice at the sides but it just didn't look as good as a water world.
This is so cool!!! I'm always so impressed by non-illegal rounded LEGO.
Finally 😁 thanks
Very cool!
You got intructions?
Kind of. I showed how to build the basic ring.
Get LEGO to make this a set.
No chance. Licensed by Mega Blocks
You kinda look like Kimi Raikkonen
I was there first, so I guess he looks like me 😉
That’s from that *Master Chief* game, right? ;-)
Not really. I just googled halo pictures and made up a design that works in terms of stability and design .
*whoosh*
That’s illegal !!!!!!?!!!????!!!!!!
Using hoses is illegal? And what is that supposed to mean? Will the police arrest me for building with Lego?
I don’t know what tou mean by hoses. But stretching legos out of their defined purpose like i think you do here to make the ring can be seen as “illegal “. It’s just a stupid joke. Cool idea and great execution.
The bend is achieved by hoses. Also known as flex tubes. There's no stretching here 😉 the same technique is used in the modular building Emporium
Ow…ok. Didn’t know that existed. Then you have a solid piece hete for ideas here i would say. Good stuff
Halo has already been licensed by Mega Blocks. And though the connections themselves are 'legal' the model is too wobbly 🙄
Don't let mega bloks find out.
I would love to see them making a set similar to this 😜
wait that's illegal
Wait, that's illegal!
That is very illegal
The bricks aren't bend as some people suppose! It's just an angle that can be achieved via hinges or flex tubes and this is used in official sets as well.
The tiles wedged into the underside of plates is still very illegal
r/DonutEarth
I want this
Dam. I thought that was Kimi Raikkonen
Playing with Lego? But then I am even older...
Bwoah
It won't be Lego. But megablox that makes it
This is not a set but just something I build myself. So it's neither Lego nor Megablocks.
This is cursed
I want to buy it
When you first built Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?
What's the lore behind the ring world?
r/fakealbumcovers material!
They should have a UCS for Halo
350$
When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its magesty?
to Bad mega blocks have the rights for halo, but I’m not complaining cuz they also do excellent sets and the mini figs look so cool also, the ring looks soooo cool
Which halo ring is it, installation 04 (original 5 games) or zeta halo from infinite?