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Re: LEGOLAND mid June update
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lugnet.legoland
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Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:18:35 GMT
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In lugnet.legoland, Ted Michon wrote:
> 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:
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> Spencer-
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> Making models always sacrifices detail, especially in LEGO, but maintaining
> common scale at least provides a sense of how everything works together.
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 played with it.(1)
> 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.
They may have been going for selective compression, or forced perspective. The
VAB is a long ways away from the rocket garden in real life. I bet most of the
mundanes won't even notice the error.
1 - It should be noted that you're talking to the guy whose buildings were in
the forced perspective MichLTC displays that I refer to. Spencer's microfig
scale skyscrapers were the hit of those show and worked quite well used that
way.
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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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