Nebuchadnezzar Hovership

01/24/2002

Like most geeks, I love the Matrix. I realized that nobody had ever made (as far as I know) a Matrix based creation. I had the idea to do the Nebuchadnezzar, Morpheus' hovership from the movie. I've been thinking about doing it for about 3 months now, but finally decided to go ahead with it. It has a reasonably complete interior, featuring a cockpit, the core with 7 seats, and the main operator console on the main deck, and two subdecks. The first subdeck has the crew quarters with 8 bunks, and Neo's quarters. The second subdeck has the mess hall. I left off a number of features due to space constraints, including an outer hatch, the hatch that winches Neo in, and that extra little room (I suppose it's the galley) next to the mess hall. There should also be some storage rooms, and an engine room, but since I had no idea where they'd go, I didn't put them in. Some of the more interesting exterior features include 20 hoverpods mounted all over the ship, a gun turret just behind the cockpit on the roof, two gun and sensor turrets mounted under the cockpit, a handful of spotlights on the front end, and multiple sensor antennae all over the place. Of course I also had to make the crew as well, but it's sort of difficult to make the plain costumes that everybody wears aboard the Nebuchadnezzar with the limits of the pieces I have, without modifying any of them. I also made this before Lego started making differently skinned minifigs, so the colors aren't accurate. Oh well. The Nebuchadnezzar took a couple of weeks of pretty rigorous building to complete. It measures 124 studs long (about 40 inches) about 36 studs wide (12 inches), and 40 or so bricks tall (17 inches) from the lowest hoverpod to the top of the tallest antennae. It has, as I mentioned before, 4 internal decks. There are 5 removeable panels that reveal the interior, one of which is held on with magnets. There are more slopes and hinges in this creation than any I've ever made before. It's a little crazy :) There are a lot of pictures. I also included the only three pictures I could find online of the outside of the ship. These (and repeated viewings of the movie) are what I based everything on. Enjoy!