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Re: The Yamato
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Date: 
Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:46:31 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
   In lugnet.space, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
   In lugnet.space, Mark Sandlin wrote:
   In lugnet.space, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
   Granted that is not much differnent than a modern day naval ship

You know it’s from Star Blazers(1) don’t you?

Never heard of Star Blazers before. I guess I am deprived. :-D

IIRC one of the defining things about Star Blazers is that the spaceships in the story actually ARE modern day naval ships (or reasonable facsimiles), made spaceworthy and lanuched. But I could be wrong.

http://www.starblazers.com/

Hope that helps.

Yeah I just got done reading some stuff from a web search, thanks for the link though. It actually is the Yamato from WWII repaired and upgraded as a space ship. Interesting. Also the model that started this thread would be about mini-fig scale. Also very interesting.

-Mike Petrucelli





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(...) At the peril of being seen as argumentative, that is not correct. In order to be minifig- scale, it would have to be between 27 and 30 *feet* in length, perhaps a touch longer. _Takao_ was 13'0" in length, and was still "compressed" by about (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.space)

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(...) IIRC one of the defining things about Star Blazers is that the spaceships in the story actually ARE modern day naval ships (or reasonable facsimiles), made spaceworthy and lanuched. But I could be wrong. (URL) that helps. (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)

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