LEGO

[GreatScawt]

Sweeeet

[Rare White Ape]

Found a hi-res box photo on Brickset.

[drew]

Fuck me. I'm already collecting pictures of the launch pad to make a design of it, when the set comes out.

[Rare White Ape]

There's also this...



https://www.democraticunderground.co...r=2012&month=2

[drew]

Fuck that. If/when I get to it, it'll be proper scale for the new set

I've got some tracks sitting in a bin that need a use anyway. I've been thinking about building that crawler for a while. This just gives justification.

(I love that it's R2 and C3PO )

[balki]

A meter tall three-stage Saturn V for $120...
...when did Lego become reasonably price?
In for one!!!

Take note of how many pieces are in the set.

I saw that it was less than 2000 pieces, then read your comment and thought you meant you were expecting it to be even more pieces.
Now i get it (you buy two and lay them down in opposite directions, right)

[Rare White Ape]

Yeah nah.

1969 is in reference to the year in which Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

[The359]

A meter tall three-stage Saturn V for $120...
...when did Lego become reasonably price?
In for one!!!

I saw that it was less than 2000 pieces, then read your comment and thought you meant you were expecting it to be even more pieces.
Now i get it (you buy two and lay them down in opposite directions, right)

I read a comment somewhere that said that the lower price may be because it's not actually something that is licensed. NASA's stuff is all public domain.

[Rare White Ape]

Get this!

The real Saturn V is 111m tall, and the Lego set is 1m tall, making it 1/111 scale.

While the real Space Shuttle in launch config is 56m tall, and the old 10213 or 10231 Shuttle Expedition sets are 44cm tall, making them roughly 1/128 scale.

That makes them almost the same scale, only 1 or 2 cm off. That is, as long as you discount the inconsistent size of some of the dimensions in the Shuttle set *cough*

I happen to already own 10231. They're going to look really good displayed together

[Rare White Ape]

Fuck me. I'm already collecting pictures of the launch pad to make a design of it, when the set comes out.

I spent a bit of time dicking around in LDD (because I'm a nerd and this is what I do at midnight on a Monday) and made a rough mock-up of the Saturn V.

If you're serious about making a launch pad, feel free to download the .lxf file for it. It's 1/2 a plate too tall because I couldn't figure out the transition between stage 2 and 3 in a hurry, and it's obviously incomplete as fuck, but it'll give you a head start.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p65dxtde5u...n%20V.lxf?dl=0