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Re: Lego Death Star
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Fri, 26 May 2000 07:57:37 GMT
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Naw... I think IG-88 would look something more like
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or something like that... I am not a master at ASCII art.
I suggest we give bonus point to the person that figures out how many 2x4
bricks, laid, end to end, it would take to stretch 5 miles.
Maybe TLC will come out with a nanofig sized UCS death star... that should
only be about 50 feet in diameter. Much easier to get the bricks for
something that scale... :)
Chris
> From: Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu>
> Organization: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
> Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 06:01:52 GMT
> To: lugnet.starwars@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Lego Death Star
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> Mike McLeod wrote:
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> > snip.
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> > Arrrgggghhhhhhhhh!!!!
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> > I've created a monster
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> > ___
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> > / O \
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> > \___/
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> The interesting thing is, that ASCII rendition of the Death
> Star(s) is actually more suggestive of the following:
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> A) The head of IG-88
> B) The head of Nomad (from the ST:TOS episode)--or
> was it some other robot I'm thinking of...?
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> Anyways, a monster it is.
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> LFB
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| (...) Well, let's see... that'd be about 491,490 studs, which is about 122,873 2x4 bricks laid end to end (+/- a few, cuz at that level, even lego's tolerances will be off by a bit) But by my calculations, a minifig scale death star would only be a (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Just to give you an order of size and brick required. I did some calculation to build Khafre's pyramid. At minifig scale it would take 240,000 2x4 bricks; at technicfig scale you would need 1,080,000 2x6 bricks. And your pyramid would be (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Lego Death Star
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| (...) The interesting thing is, that ASCII rendition of the Death Star(s) is actually more suggestive of the following: A) The head of IG-88 B) The head of Nomad (from the ST:TOS episode)--or was it some other robot I'm thinking of...? Anyways, a (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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