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Re: Your LEGO Dream Set?
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Date: 
Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:20:20 GMT
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In lugnet.ambassadors, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.ambassadors, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
   In lugnet.ambassadors, John Cooper wrote:
   In lugnet.ambassadors, Nelson Yrizarry wrote:
  
What would be your LEGO Dream Set?

I’ll stick with the answer I posted to a similar thread about a year ago:

Globe model kit (18” - 24” diameter) with stand.

I’ll second this as well. The last survey for S@H that the Ambassadors did included many recommendations for a globe, and I was quite disappointed the suggestion for it didn’t make it into the final report to S@H. So maybe this time it’ll get further.

Honestly, with this and this, what more does one need?

A design incorporating plates in addition to bricks. This would offer:

1) better resolution to the continents

2) a more refined spherical shape



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  Re: Your LEGO Dream Set?
 
(...) (URL) You asked for it, you got it, Toyota!> Corey hasn't posted instructions for this particular globe, but maybe he could be convinced to do so. Or to create for sale. I'd buy a set of instructions. Now take a look at (URL)! Cool, yes? I (...) (18 years ago, 27-Nov-06, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
  Re: Your LEGO Dream Set?
 
(...) As well as keeping the price down by using (theoretically) less-expensive plates vs. more-expensive bricks. If it's huge and costs $500, nobody will buy it, but if it's a regular-size globe like you see in schools, I can see that going for (...) (18 years ago, 27-Nov-06, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
  Re: Your LEGO Dream Set?
 
(...) I really like the shape of (URL) globe. -Joel (18 years ago, 27-Nov-06, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)

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  Re: Your LEGO Dream Set?
 
(...) Honestly, with (URL) this> and (URL) this>, what more does one need? (I'm building one:-) JOHN (18 years ago, 27-Nov-06, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)

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