Quoting Jonathan Rogers Hi Brian! Those are alot of bricks, I tried rebuilding my sets once, it was in the aftermath of the Star Wars Ep III hype. I set my mind to it, downloaded ALL the building instructions and at the end of my arduous project, I had... A lot of cool custom sets, thats right! I had found all these specific bricks and looked so deeply into the original instructions that I discoverd new and cool ways of building. Few years later, I come here and get a fairly respectable rep. It looks like your story is not too far off mine, If you truly want to build the same original, boring set, be my guest, but if you start showing off the best of your abilities, you will excell with Lego!

Quoting Shawn Purkis Looks like you got your work cut out for you.