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Re: Now here's a big one.
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:47:02 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Adrian Drake writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Tim Courtney writes:
> > In lugnet.lego.direct, Adrian Drake writes:
> > > How about a UCS International Space Station? Now that would be fun.
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> > Oooo... I wonder how big that would be minifig scale[1]? I'd love to see a
> > minifig scale set like that built with UCS quality and part quantities :-)
> > And a true minifig scale Space Shuttle to go with it (sold separately)
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> > -Tim
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> > [1] Naturally, minifig scale means 8-wide train scale ;-)
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> Really frickin' huge :) The station is 240 feet across the solar arrays,
> 146 feet long, and 90 feet high. Using an extremely rough minifig scale
> conversion of 1:40, we're talking 6 feet by 3.6 feet by 2.3 feet. That
> would cover a tabletop area about 4 times the size of the ISD set.
Cool!
Of course, they could go modular with it - you can build the set in the
phases of construction :-)
Hey, we can dream, right? Brad, you listening? ;-)
-Tim
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| "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:H85IuE.LMG@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) :-) (...) I *love* this idea. In fact, TLC and NASA have a "deal" anyway (TLC is using it to promote imagination) and TLC even when as far to match (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Really frickin' huge :) The station is 240 feet across the solar arrays, 146 feet long, and 90 feet high. Using an extremely rough minifig scale conversion of 1:40, we're talking 6 feet by 3.6 feet by 2.3 feet. That would cover a tabletop area (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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