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Eventually Earthlings came to the point when many were living most of their
lives away from Earth. Of course, industry and business followed. You could
find shopping centers and malls on the Moon that were almost identical to the
ones on Earth (except for the airlocks and stuff like that).
There were lots
of advantages to living in a Moonbase, but there were also a few disadvantages.
Some Earthling males discovered that things like artificial gravity fields and
differing airlock pressures could cause unwanted effects with certain parts of
their anatomy. The problem was not isolated to just humans. Males of several
alien species also experienced similar effects when living away from their home
planets for extended periods of time.
The Pfizer company was quick to
recognize this gap in the Moonbase marketplace and fill it. May I present to
you the Viagra® Moonbase Module:
The Viagra division of Pfizer wanted their Moonbase Module to have an
architectural distinction that would visually set it apart from other modules,
add unique functionality and provide a quasi-subliminal form of product
advertising. To do this they built a module with an extendable corridor. The
Viagra module has three corridor connections, one of which can extend from the
main building a full 48 studs to connect to another module that is a whole large
gray baseplate away.
One of my main goals with this module was to make it almost all that
dusty/slate blue color (“Sand” blue on Bricklink), since that’s what color
Viagra pills are...um, at least I’ve heard they’re that color.1 I also
think that that color is great for Space MOC’s. The corridor connector airlocks
proved to be a challenge with this, because of the two 1X2 Technic bricks that
I’d need for each airlock. That piece had only been made in dusty blue in that
one baby Iguanadon set, and I only had 2 of
those. However, I had 1X1 Technic bricks in that color and decided to use
those:
During the time that I was building this MOC, LEGO came out with the Alpha
Team Arctic sets. The Chill Speeder set had
2 of the dusty blue 1X2 Technic bricks, so I bought a couple of them and was
good to go. The sheer amount of dusty blue pieces for this size of MOC was also
a challenge. Most of the bricks in it are 2X4’s (over 500 of that piece).2 I
would’ve loved to have such a supply of 1X4’s; oh well.
I attempted to add a
degree of “swoosh factor” to the corridor ends themselves. To do this I used
some of those curved half wedge things. They give the upper portion of the
corridor a much sleeker look. This one uses
the pieces from Dooku’s speeder:
From the beginning I knew I wanted to build some word(s) into the side of the
extendable corridor, and I wanted it to be built out of pieces instead of
stickers. I decided on the well known “Well played” phrase that’s often used in
.Space. I copied the structure of some of the letters from a similar project by
Mark Peterson who spelled out “Santa Fe” in the side of a train car.
I had to be very careful when building the sliding corridor sections, because
they had to extend a total of exactly 48 studs--no more, no less--and the
airlock still had to end up at standard Moonbase module height. I double
checked my work often, because I didn’t want to make a mistake that would make
me have to take it apart and rebuild it. If I fully extend the corridor for
display, I have to either hook it up to another module or support the end
somehow; the extended corridor doesn’t quite support its own weight.3
There’s no interior, of course. This doesn’t really take away from the MOC
though. If there were an interior, there would be absolutely no hanky panky
going on inside. It would just be doctors filling bottles with pills and men
standing in line to buy them.
I could’ve made it a lot worse, but chose not
to be quite so crass. For instance, I was thinking of putting those little
hot dog pieces around the module as a
greeblie. When I brought this MOC to BrickFest 2004, Nick Kappatos mentioned a
couple more modifications that I could make that I’m not going to mention.4
You can view the whole
gallery here after moderation.
I realize that I may have crossed the line of
acceptable material in this post. Hopefully the MOC’s humor will overshadow
this enough that those who might have frowned at it will instead bust a gut
laughing.
David “Fuzzy” Gregory
1 - Dude, I’m 28...I need the
antidote for Viagra.
2 - Thanks goes out to the Pick-A-Brick at the
Woodfield Mall LEGO store in Schaumberg, IL for these.
3 - As Soren proved
while taking an interesting picture during teardown at BrickFest 2004
4 -
Unless you actually come to BrickFest...then I’ll tell you in person.
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| I've fallen out of the habit of responding to MOC announcements. But this one had me with the title. I love it. Good building, good humor, and good way to make all the right people angry. Well Played. (URL) Felix Greco> (19 years ago, 1-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) The logic, oh the logic, Bahahahahaaaaa haaaaaaa, some one dig up the pic of Soren “mounted” in front of the module from last year, and post it. pls. (...) Kmmmmppphhhhffffff, hahahahahahahahahaha (...) nice, oh but and hey, I thought we (...) (19 years ago, 1-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| Hey David, I must say, I admire your restraint with this module (I absolutely LOVE the sliding corridor connection!). If it had been me, I would've been too tempted to take the South Park approach and make the entire module into a giant tower with (...) (19 years ago, 2-Aug-05, to lugnet.space)
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