Verne Bunsen
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A lot of non-guitar-related pursuits have been tossed about here in the Off Topic section, but I can't say I've ever seen........ Legos. So here's some. My wife caught me ogling the new Saturn V kit in one of my sons catalogs, so she found it in stock somewhere and ordered it for my birthday. Cool! Even the box is huge. Banana for scale:
(TL/DR: Spaceship! Neat pictures of the finished product can be found on page 3 of this thread)
If you'd like more information about the Saturn V rocket, the good people at XKCD have gone to the trouble of explaining it "using only the ten hundred words people use the most often". Which is brilliant.
(As an aside, it's worth spending some time at XKCD. Wonderful stuff...)
My son and I started putting it together tonight. It has a whopping 12 bags containing a total of almost 2000 pieces. Which is rather a lot. The finished product will top out at 40" tall! Also the manual is about as thick as the white pages (am I dating myself with that reference, or do they still print phonebooks?).
Today is Wednesday and I've got to head out of town on Tuesday, so that gives us 6 days to knock out 12 bags of Legos. So we're shooting for 2 bags every evening starting tonight. Should oughtta be do-able I think.
The first two bags went something like this:
My son was quick to tell me that if we did 3 bags each night instead, we could finish in just four days. But alas, it bedtime for Bonzo...
(TL/DR: Spaceship! Neat pictures of the finished product can be found on page 3 of this thread)
If you'd like more information about the Saturn V rocket, the good people at XKCD have gone to the trouble of explaining it "using only the ten hundred words people use the most often". Which is brilliant.
(As an aside, it's worth spending some time at XKCD. Wonderful stuff...)
My son and I started putting it together tonight. It has a whopping 12 bags containing a total of almost 2000 pieces. Which is rather a lot. The finished product will top out at 40" tall! Also the manual is about as thick as the white pages (am I dating myself with that reference, or do they still print phonebooks?).
Today is Wednesday and I've got to head out of town on Tuesday, so that gives us 6 days to knock out 12 bags of Legos. So we're shooting for 2 bags every evening starting tonight. Should oughtta be do-able I think.
The first two bags went something like this:
My son was quick to tell me that if we did 3 bags each night instead, we could finish in just four days. But alas, it bedtime for Bonzo...