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Re: Architectural Wonders theme
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 13 May 1999 10:56:57 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Kevin Wilson writes:
> I think others later in this thread are right that minifig scale Large
> Building sets are probably impractical. But we're not necessarily
> talking large buildings here. There are famous small buildings in the
> world which could be done to minifig scale, as could the "historic
> domestic architecture" example generally.
Yes- and as far as larger buildings, selective compression goes a long, long
way.
Sure, the doors to Notre Dame are REALLY BIG, but if we use the regular "Large
Arched Wooden Castle Doors", it's still a realy big door. And yeah, the towers
are really, say, 30 minifigs high, but built at 15, they're still tall...
Granted, you can only take it so far- I doubt the Houses if Parliament in
London would ever be a likely candidate for the whole treatment- but it does
open the playing field a bit.
Oooh! Or, the sets could have the pieces for the facade, but instructions
"suggesting" a more complete building....
eric
eric
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| (...) That's true about the puzzle size. However, I'm not so sure about the building size in a lego set. Look at the difference between Karim and others' tiny SW models and Lego's minifig scale SW models. The microfig models still capture the (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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