Star Wars fans build replica Mandalorian spaceship in Siberia
- The sci-fi vessel, which stands four metres (13 feet) tall, has been made from fibreboard, metal and plastic foam
- The makers sought to meticulously recreate the spacecraft’s interior and the vessel even has a lowering ramp and a seat for Baby Yoda
Star Wars fans in Russia have built a giant replica of a spaceship from the spin-off series The Mandalorian and installed it in a park in one of the world’s coldest cities.
The model of the Razor Crest – a gunship used by the hit TV show’s mysterious bounty hunter to roam the galaxy’s outer reaches – now sits on a snow-covered hill in a park in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk.
“The ship weighs more than a tonne,” Ayaal Fyodorov, 28, said, adding that it had taken him and his cosplayer friends around three months to build it.
The sci-fi vessel, which stands four metres (13 feet) tall, has been made from fibreboard, metal and plastic foam.
The makers sought to meticulously recreate the spacecraft’s interior and the vessel even has a lowering ramp and a seat for Baby Yoda, a small creature with whom the protagonist, Din Djarin, forms an unlikely bond.
Fyodorov said he and his friends were “shocked” to see the ship getting destroyed in the series’ second season.