Your nerd-alert will surely be sounding off when you take a look at this Star Wars inspired labor of love from Florida schoolteacher Jay Hoff, who took 6 months and 30,000 LEGO pieces to re-create this stunning scene from Return of the Jedi.

Jay Hoff, a schoolteacher from Florida, has re-created a 6- foot-by-6-foot replica of the scene from Return of the Jedi where Emperor Palpatine visits the newly recommissioned Death Star in order to inspect Darth Vader’s progress.

Taking six months, consisting of 30,000 LEGO pieces and costing an estimated $2,300 to complete, the ambitious assembler pieced together this “most impressive” display for Science and Discovery day at his school, where students were asked to create their own builds and present them.

Time will tell if Mr. Hoff’s next project will require him to “double his efforts” — but regardless the force is indeed strong with this one.

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  1. Ryan Saenz at 12:43am 13th October 2011 He totally stole my idea!!! hehe
  2. jesterking at 12:00pm 12th October 2011 Maybe the teacher should spend a little less time playing with legos and more time concentrating on teaching our children? If this took 6 months for him to create, you can't tell me this didn't cut into his school time... Time where he should have been grading papers, creating criteria, or helping students... DERP!
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