totm aug 2022 Lego Thread!

[SunlitZelkova]

19 minutes ago, Geonovast said:

I don't want this.

But I also don't want to not have all the NASA sets.

I have the same dilemma with Star Wars sets lol.

[TheSaint]

9 hours ago, Geonovast said:

I don't want this.

But I also don't want to not have all the NASA sets.

Tell you what, Lego. When SLS actually starts flying people to the Moon, I'll buy your set.

[The Aziz]

It ain't Saturn

But it has the launch tower.

But yeah I'm not gonna buy something that has done a single flight.

Where my Ariane 5?

[Kerbalsaurus]

You can build a LEGO Starship, but the moment it’s done it explodes.

[Kerb24]

Anyone know if the SLS is at the same scale as the Saturn V? I'm going to get it either way.

[SunlitZelkova]

3 minutes ago, Kerb24 said:

Anyone know if the SLS is at the same scale as the Saturn V? I'm going to get it either way.

It’s not. It’s smaller. Saturn V is about 1:110, and SLS is 1:160 I think.

[DDE]

[SunlitZelkova]

On 6/15/2024 at 1:05 AM, DDE said:

It would be very interesting to find out when this change took place, and why.

I also wonder if it actually happened at all. The three things shown in that picture, Legos, what looks like a mobile suit type plastic model, and an action figure, are questionable as toys. Lego could pass as an artistic form of plastic model (indeed when I restarted buying Lego Star Wars, initially I justified it due to a “lack of plastic models about Star Wars” because I was still felt I needed to be publicly beholden to the popular complex that Legos are for kids), while plastic models are made by people of all ages and the action figures adults often buy are so detailed and expensive it’s questionable if they are toys or just premade models.

In addition, even if the product is also played with by children, it doesn’t mean adults can’t do it too. No one talks about the NBA as “adults playing a schoolyard pastime and people cheering them like little kids at an afterschool match.”

I’d also be interested if there is any parallel between the rise of toy purchases from adults and the “de-nerdification”/main-streamization of comic book stories. I first heard of that particular phenomena in regards to the popularity of the MCU but maybe it goes as far back as the Nolan Batman trilogy.

[Nuke]

i still have my lego but i cant exactly crawl on the floor and dig for parts like i did when i was 12.

[The Aziz]

Use a table? A bed? Any level-ish surface above ground?

[Geonovast]

On 6/18/2024 at 10:28 AM, Nuke said:

i still have my lego but i cant exactly crawl on the floor and dig for parts like i did when i was 12.

This isn't my picture, but we had two of these tables when I was a kid.  We called it a "dump table"... and it turns out that's the actual name for it.

[Nuke]

would work if this apartment wasnt small, where everything is tight and needs to accommidate a wheel chair user. we cant even get a couch in here. i could set something up in my room but id have to give up my electronics workbench.

Edited June 24 by Nuke

[adsii1970]

On 6/17/2024 at 2:37 AM, SunlitZelkova said:

It would be very interesting to find out when this change took place, and why.

It's probably because they have way cooler stuff out now than when I was a kid. When I was younger, the Lego packs didn't even have wheels, wings, or mini-figs! Now, there are all kinds of shapes, sizes, and sorts of Lego bricks out there. Even Star Wars-themed Lego sets! I cannot even imagine what my room would have looked like had they had those when I was 7 or 8 years old!

On 6/18/2024 at 10:28 AM, Nuke said:

i still have my lego but i cant exactly crawl on the floor and dig for parts like i did when i was 12.

This here. I can get down to pick them up, but it's a little difficult. It's the dining room table for me most of the time.

 

[AlamoVampire]

Soon Ill be adding to my NASA Lego collection with the Artemis set. I have the Saturn V, 2 Apollo 11 Lunar Module sets, The ISS, and Shuttle Discovery. Im looking forward to adding it to my collection. I may catalogue the parts for the pad itself and scale up to build a pad for the Saturn V.

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[Kimera Industries]

As a few of you know I have moved recently (therefore my Legos are in storage) but I am working on collecting all of the space sets. I'm saving up for the lunar rover, Discovery shuttle, and SLS. If I work through all of those I'm keeping my eye on the Concord.

[Kerbalsaurus]

I used the older LEGO City Mars Sets, specifically the shuttle and rocket, and made my own shuttle-booster amalgamation.

Looking at it, I don’t think it would actually fly all too well, but it’s still kinda cool looking nonetheless.

I also touched the LEGO VAB I made last year. I added some details to the roof, moved the side hangar to the other side, and fixed up that odd looking rocket. I think it looks a little better now.

[Kimera Industries]

On 8/25/2024 at 12:50 PM, Kerbalsaurus said:

SNIP

That is so cool! I have the same sets, I want to try that as soon as I can.

For the same launch vehicle (the SLS looking one) I turned the capsule into an adapter for the Utility Shuttle from 2015. It looks kind of like Dyna-Soar.

I have the full space shuttle from the 2015 line of space sets as well, and I made extensive modifications to the orbiter to look more accurate. The entire bottom is now black, unlike the patchy grey-black it used to be, and the entire vertical stabilizer has been replaced with a custom design. I also made the entire payload bay interior larger, which involved taking the model apart and putting it back together again.

[The Aziz]

Bought and built the Discovery shuttle. Holy hell personal piece count record, 2354pcs in just 9 hours.

The only trouble is, it doesn't fit in any furniture I currently own. So for now it's collecting dust on the top of the showcase where my Saturn V stands.

[Kimera Industries]

From Unit 663, a moon of the planet Storage, several artifacts have been excavated from the moon's unusual cardboard regolith.

Left to right: Blacktron 2 modified ship, Blacktron 2 (mostly recreated) ship, Psyche spacecraft MOC, Cassini-inspired MOC (has 2 detachable probes, and the Huygens lander has a sample-return rocket), and a general rocket of my own design.

[Nuke]

at one point i think i owned all the blacktron, even the older ones with the alternate color scheme. i gave my space lego to my sister, and she proceeded to lose them. i regret keeping my space and technic separated. i still have the former.

[AlamoVampire]

I was working on the Artemis set prior to losing my Momma. The box with rest of the parts bags is just to my left while the pieces to the bag set Im currently on remain stashed with the set thats already built to that step elsewhere. Ive been unable to bring myself to resume work on it. 
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[RedAl1en1]

On 11/7/2023 at 2:15 AM, The Aziz said:

Oh hai, another Percy owner

I also haz!

Also i am so sorry for your loss @AlamoVampire.

Edited October 15 by RedAl1en1

[Iapetus7342]

On 10/15/2024 at 5:11 AM, Kimera Industries said:

From Unit 663, a moon of the planet Storage, several artifacts have been excavated from the moon's unusual cardboard regolith.

Left to right: Blacktron 2 modified ship, Blacktron 2 (mostly recreated) ship, Psyche spacecraft MOC, Cassini-inspired MOC (has 2 detachable probes, and the Huygens lander has a sample-return rocket), and a general rocket of my own design.

Cool! (also what inspired you to strap a sample return rocket to Huygens?)

[Kimera Industries]

On 10/31/2024 at 10:35 AM, Iapetus7342 said:

Cool! (also what inspired you to strap a sample return rocket to Huygens?)

The rocket is only two pieces, and the Huygens probe itself is rather chunky. I actually plan to slim it down soon, removing lots of unneeded parts. I put the tiny rocket on because I had room, I guess. The probe also has a tiny sampler arm, as well as a camera mounted on a small boom. I built the whole spacecraft shortly after reading Stephen Baxter's Titan, which features the Cassini mission. (Brief summary: potential signs of life detected by Huygens probe inspire crewed mission to Titan. It was published in 1997, the year of Cassini's launch.) I made it without any real rhyme or reason, but over time and as I've improved it I've built lore around it. Since you've got me going, I'll give you the whole spiel: 

The spacecraft is Cassini, but from a reality other than our own. In this one, Cassini is built more capable and stronger, as well as with a highly advanced Huygens lander and a small detachable probe (more on that later). In this alternate universe, Cassini arrives at Saturn in the 2010s. In order to make the mission work funding-wise, the Curiosity rover is delayed to 2020, taking the place of Perseverance, and various other missions are cancelled. (This is actually a theme Baxter explores in his book Voyage: humans make it to Mars in the eighties, but all other missions are canceled to allocate funding for the project, meaning our knowledge of even Mars itself is rudimentary.)

Bonestell: Cassini's full name is Cassini-Huygens-Bonestell. Bonestell is a small probe which is detached first, and orbits partially within the Phoebe ring around Saturn. A tiny RTG keeps it going, and it also generates electricity from the statically charged particles orbiting Saturn. Its primary purpose is as a backup relay for Huygens. It's named after a sci-fi painter who has a very famous painting, Saturn as seen from Titan, 1944, which is startlingly accurate (disregarding Titan, the inaccurate depiction is understandable given knowledge known at the time.) I got the idea from Giotto, an ESA spacecraft that studied Halley's Comet and is named after a painter who painted the comet.

Huygens: Huygens lands on Titan, but the firmware issues in the real Cassini exist in the alternate Cassini as well. However, in the alternate timeline, these issues are never detected and Cassini is unable to listen to any of Huygens' transmissions. Only the small probe and the DSN record its signal as it is transmitted. Fortunately, the Huygens lander, built by an advanced ESA, has a backup in case the signal is lost but the lander still functions: the sample-return rocket. It has room for three small surface samples collected by the sample arm. If the lander's batteries survive for as long as intended and the takeoff proceeds nominally, the rocket's rudimentary computer will have a copy of all data recorded by the lander during its descent until the time of the rocket's separation from the lander. Even if the rocket fails in its rendezvous with Cassini, it will have transmitted all the recorded data to a now-fixed and ready-to-listen Cassini. The rocket successfully lifts off from Titan, and skipping Titan orbit heads strait into Saturn orbit, where Cassini can fine-tune a rendezvous. The rocket is then picked up by a small robotic arm, docked, refueled, and attached to another stage. The added stage kicks it out of Saturn orbit with help from gravity assists, and the original stage is saved for course corrections. Numerous gravity assists are used to slow it down for its arrival at Earth. The sample canisters are the most sterilized objects ever produced, and along with the sample arm are designed to hold liquid as well, in case Huygens landed in a methane lake. (It didn't. Titan's lakes are at its poles.) 

Afterlife Phase: Cassini is now on its own (Bonestell didn't last long). It makes plentiful observations of Saturn and its moons, just like the real Cassini. Its mission at Saturn lasts longer, however, before it enters its Grand Finale phase. Like the real thing, this means several close passes between the planet and its rings, before plummeting into Saturn to prevent contaminating Saturn's moons that could hold life. What is most unexpected, however, is that Cassini survives the dip into Saturn's atmosphere, chalked up to inaccurate estimations of its density and distribution, as well as a seconds-too-short (by accident) deorbit burn. The new "Afterlife" phase of the mission begins, as the engineers make use of what's left of the spacecraft's systems. It's not much: a small camera designed to take selfies of the spacecraft itself (hidden behind the HGA during the brief reentry), various science instruments shielded by the bus, and a crippled propulsion system. The short mission extension will last for three or four orbits, and will be used to observe Enceladus, which is the only moon readily accessible in Cassini's now-shortened orbit. Or, however long the spacecraft lasts. In its final weeks, it suffers a catastrophic propulsion system explosion, assorted equipment failures, and all while using what battery power it has left after the RTGs were destroyed. But the discoveries it makes at Enceladus change the course of human history forever...

I've toyed with using this as the basis for a novella or short story, but the only concrete plans I have would be to make a forum mission report about my KSP replica of it. Oof, I hope this monolith of text isn't too off-topic for this thread, but it's kinda relevant, I guess. Lore for my Lego MOCs is half the reason I build them.

[DDE]

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