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Re: LEGOLAND mid June update
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lugnet.legoland
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Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:44:06 GMT
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In lugnet.legoland, Ted Michon wrote:
> 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.
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:
http://gallery.spaceref.com/us-spaceflight/STS035/10063903.html
Overall there is some fabulous work here (especially the NASCAR and KSC rocket
garden stuff)
On the other hand is it just me, or is the modeling detail on the Explorer
shuttle ( http://members.telering.at/seits/fotos/shuttle.jpg ) really
disappointing? And what's with that hatch and jumbo tires?
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=799685
Spencer
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| (...) Spencer- Making models always sacrifices detail, especially in LEGO, but maintaining common scale at least provides a sense of how everything works together. The VAB is the world's largest building, and shrinking it relative to the shuttle (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.legoland)
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| | LEGOLAND mid June update
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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-...ip-to-NASA contest, (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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