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Re: LEGOLAND mid June update
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lugnet.legoland
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Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:33:12 GMT
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In lugnet.legoland, J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote:
> In lugnet.legoland, Ted Michon wrote:
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> > 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.
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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:
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
definitely takes away the wow factor. In this instance, since the Miniland
section is against a steep hillside, they might have used a scale painted
backdrop and only included a few inches of the building jutting out from the
painting. I've walked in the shadow of the real thing and its BIG. Heck, even
the threads on the mobile launch erector are big.
Did you catch the Martian in cryo freeze?
-Ted
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| (...) Sometimes. And sometimes not, if you can arrange your backdrop to be done with forced perspective, it can really bring a display to life and make it seem much bigger. c.f. some of the PNLTC displays which use it, or some MichLTC displays which (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jun-04, to lugnet.legoland)
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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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