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LEGOLAND mid June update
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Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:52:36 GMT
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We visited LLCA on Sunday June 21. It was the space themed weekend featuring the
debut of the new Florida section of Miniland that includes a KSC area and the
Daytona Speedway. They also had astronauts, a
guess-the-number-of-bricks-win-a-trip-trip-to-NASA contest, new rides (the water
balloon launchers are cool!), new PAB stock, and a tent sale.
The tent sale features most of the My Own Train cars plus the Metroliner at 50%
off (so they are not sold out yet!). Amazingly, they also had bricks! They were
priced at $20 to fill and zip shut a PAB large size bag. We figure 666 2x4s fit
in a bag, so that’s about $0.03 a brick. Unfortunately, the only 2x4s were
yellow and used, but still a good deal. Most of the other bricks were new, but
featured mostly orange (steep and low slope normal and inverted roof bricks,
1x2s, 1x3s). They also had Hailfire Droids and the Saturn V kits (which are a
fabulous collection of cylinders).
The contest was frustrating because there were only 3 days of entries to compete
against and I doubt there were 1000 entries, but only kids 3-12 were allowed to
enter (they didn’t mention that in the flyer we received in the mail).
The KSC Miniland island is carved out of a hillside. Oddly, the stuff seemed
made at different scales so that the shuttle was not only too big for the VAB,
but too big for the door of its gantry. They didn’t use that fabulous mobile
launch erector that sat in the model shop for months about a year ago. Be sure
to look for the Martian in cyrogenic storage.
PAB had almost 10 Technic bricks to choose from (blue, black, white in many
sizes) and restocked the old light and dark gray, although there were no 2x4s of
the old colors.
There was a nice full size LEGO model of the Mars rover on display. Don’t think
it’s permanent.
The 48x48 mosaics are on sale all summer for $20, which is a great deal
considering that 48x48 1x1 plates cost less than $0.01 each that way if you
consider the large gray baseplate to be free!
They had the most boats running I can remember and put out a fair number of
replacment models, but the overall amount of working animation still seems like
50% of what was designed. None of the Florida animation was working yet, which
is a big deal for the speedway since it features racing cars.
-Ted
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| (...) I'd imagine it just isn't feasible/desirable to build a more properly scaled VAB, nor is sacrificing the resolution of the shuttle stack/pad. Keep in mind just how much the VAB dwarfs the orbiter stack: (URL) there is some fabulous work here (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.legoland)
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