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Re: New WTC design prototype
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Date: 
Mon, 20 Jan 2003 04:00:04 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Sean Kenney writes:
But it would cost about $2500 per tower.  I
know I'm a loon, but even that's a bit much for me

In lugnet.build, Amy Hughes writes:
Okay, I'm a bigger loon, so I thought it might be do-able, but unless you can
get tiles a lot cheaper than I can, or I've done the calculation incorrectly,
it'd be $2500 *per side*, and that's just the tiles. Not as bad as my
minifig-scale design, but still beyond my means.

Actually, my math was only off a little, but I didn't include the black
plates. Here's the whole thing, with tiles and plates:

The facade is built in chunks that are 24 studs tall (sideways).  A chunk
uses twelve 2x2 tiles, three 2x8 plates and four 1x6 plates.  So 8 rows will
use up:
  - one pack of 2x2 tiles (96 of 100 pieces),   [ $7.00 ]
  - one pack of 2x8 plates (24 of 25 pieces) and    [  $5.00  ]
  - two thirds of a pack of 1x6 plates (32 of 50 pieces).  [  $3.30  ( =
$5.00  * 0.66)  ]

So a chunk costs $15.30.  A 64 "row" WTC would be 8 chunks, times $15.30 =
$123.  That's about 7.5 inches tall, so you'd need about 14 of those, for a
total of $1725 per side.  $6900 per tower.  (And if you include the 15% bulk
discount, = $5865.)

Yeah, I can't see sinking $12,000 into a Lego project.  Maybe someday when
I'm a bazillionaire.  Or maybe someone will fund Eric Harshbarger to sit one
next to his Eiffel Tower and Golden Gate. :) LOL.

So anyway, my version will be 3 chunks wide and 6 chunks tall.  ($275/side,
$1100/tower, pre discount)


Nice job, BTW. I look forward to seeing this done.

Thanks.  Well, it might be a while.  :(   I am unemployed right now (and
have been for 4 months) so the Lego budget is at an all-time low.  (Like,
pretty much "nothing".)  Unless I find a nice high-paying job sometime soon,
(and the tech market is so great right now) then this will take a while.

Enough moaning. :)  I'll post some pictures of the WTC plaza as I go... that
part shouldn't be too bad, since it's relatively "normal" construction.

Sean

---
Sean M. Kenney
The Brick Apple - New York City in Lego
http://www.brickapple.com



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  Re: New WTC design prototype
 
(...) Okay, I'm a bigger loon, so I thought it might be do-able, but unless you can get tiles a lot cheaper than I can, or I've done the calculation incorrectly, it'd be $2500 *per side*, and that's just the tiles. Not as bad as my minifig-scale (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jan-03, to lugnet.build)

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