Lego becoming recursive
Apr. 17th, 2016 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
major_clangerI recently bought a copy of Great LEGO Sets - A Visual History, a very nicely produced coffee-table book of the history of lego from the early days until 2014 or so. It's chock-full of pictures of a selection of what Lego fans and designers consider to be the pick of the sets over the years, including the Space Lego LL928 Galaxy Explorer - as I posted about recently, I found my one of these not long ago and rebuilt it.
If you buy the slipcase version of the book, not only do you get a very nice picture of the Galaxy Explorer kit on the case, but there's an extra treat - a mini Galaxy Explorer. Yes, Lego have done a kit of one of their kits.
It's a very nice looking little model, too.
Even better, it does a pretty good job of being a scale model of the original kit.
It even replicates the opening rear cargo bay of the Galaxy Explorer, with a tiny representation of the moon buggy from the original!
As you'll notice I took this on some green background, because it felt too good an opportunity to pass up to do some green-screen work. You can even use the different sizes of the kits to have a go at forced perspective:
As an aside, I noticed one area where the new mini kit is not only different from the original, but arguably slightly better-designed than it. Anyone spot it?
If you buy the slipcase version of the book, not only do you get a very nice picture of the Galaxy Explorer kit on the case, but there's an extra treat - a mini Galaxy Explorer. Yes, Lego have done a kit of one of their kits.
It's a very nice looking little model, too.
Even better, it does a pretty good job of being a scale model of the original kit.
It even replicates the opening rear cargo bay of the Galaxy Explorer, with a tiny representation of the moon buggy from the original!
As you'll notice I took this on some green background, because it felt too good an opportunity to pass up to do some green-screen work. You can even use the different sizes of the kits to have a go at forced perspective:
As an aside, I noticed one area where the new mini kit is not only different from the original, but arguably slightly better-designed than it. Anyone spot it?
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