Star Wars M&M Mosaic
A few weeks back, I was trawling through Rebrickable, checking which Star Wars sets I hadn't build up and I came across two promo sets that I'd not found before. The first was the "Han Solo on his Tauntaun" that I built up a week or so back and documented here . The other was the altogether more crazy Star Wars M&M promo mosaic ( SWMP ) which rocks in 5462 pieces, according to Rebrickable. It's debatable whether this really a released set, as only 400 were made that they were never available to the general public. Apparently, it was a Walmart promotion event, held in different locations across the US and you could build these over 48 hours. The set is massive - it covers 6 48x48 base plates so is around 76x115cm (2.5x3.75ft for those who work in imperial). However, the whole thing distils to just 4 plate sizes (1x1, 1x2, 1x4 and 2x4), plus 169 2x2 black tiles. And there are only 9 colours too. Before you can start building,...