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Re: Manchester's Millyard in the news
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Date: 
Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:27:30 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, David Eaton wrote:
In lugnet.mediawatch, Eric Kingsley wrote:
Unfortunately the one thing that we just can't seem to show with photos is the
sheer scale of this project.  It is truely huge in every way possible.

The best I can do is show how a person (and an ISD!) actually compares to the
layout as a whole (the map isn't the most up-to-date version, but it's close
enough to get the idea)
http://www.suave.net/~dave/images/millyard/millyard_scale.gif

Over 97' long and more than 23' wide. Nearly twice the floorspace of my
apartment. More than 98 minifig-scale acres. Over 3,200 32x32 baseplates worth
of area.

Actaully, I wonder how it compares to the NMRA show?

The real question on everybody's mind: how many 1x2x2 classic white windows did
it take?  I guess now we know why they brought those puppies back into
production!



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(...) [...] (...) How about the number of 1x4x3 white windows frames with white window inserts! (18 years ago, 2-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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(...) The best I can do is show how a person (and an ISD!) actually compares to the layout as a whole (the map isn't the most up-to-date version, but it's close enough to get the idea) (URL) 97' long and more than 23' wide. Nearly twice the (...) (18 years ago, 1-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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