Comments on: One big, bad mother

By: Thomas (shadow020498)

Thomas (shadow020498) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:47:51 +0000

Hi All,
nice to see that you like our ship, thank you for your nice comments.
We’re proud to be on this amazing site with our moc.
Thanks to Marco for his translation!

greetings,
Thomas Sebastian

( Excuse my bad English ^^ )

By: Tagl

Tagl — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:16:10 +0000

Thank you Tim for presenting this to a wider public. That was my intention when I sent you the mail.

For those not that good in german, I’d like to translate Thomas’ post:

Hello L(oved) L(EGO) L(overs),
after a building time of 11 month the Space Factory Lichtenfels (annotation: the Grassmann’s hometown) we have finished the Exploriens spaceship. Just in time for the “5 space ships in september”.

It’s completely furnished an playable – partially the compartments, roofs and so on are (re)moveable.
Some may eventually know a smaller version from Bricking Bavaria 08.

The hull was built between october 2007 and march 2008. From march to september we built the furniture and some modifications.
Building the interior was a bit tricky as we had to remove the panel walls (BL: 30246) we had added before the BB 08.

The captain (female) and the first officer show you round the ship.
The originally planned colonyship has finaly become a multifunctional ship. It consits of 4 modules. The middle ones can be exchanged or removed. So it is possible to fly the front module with the dinghys alone.
The crew is the captain and 11 crewmen. Every crewmember has a cabin on his own. If used as colonyship it is possible to carry the double amount of persons. The cabins have to be shared then.

Mostly this type of ship is used as colony ship. In this case it’s able to transport a complete research station to the destination planet. After deployment of the station it can be completely or partially be coupled to the station.

The hardest part was the transportation module for the base. Originally we had planned 5 modules to integrate the base into the ship. But this diddn’t look good in the end. So we desided to build the final transport modul.

It took days of trial to find a suitable solution for the main drives.

When the station was established it got visited by a strange life form. But it seemed to be friendly…

Three pics of the interior
Bridge, medical station, main reactor.

have fun
Thomas and Sebastian

Here you can find more pics with english comments:
http://festum.de/1000steine/myimages/album766

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:13:32 +0000

This is truly an epic awesome project! I’d be curious to know how much all that Lego cost *LOL*

By: Jason Bartholme

Jason Bartholme — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:39:10 +0000

Simply amazing. I would love to get some numbers from the creators, like how many bricks, how much time, where they got the bricks, etc.

By: Dean H.

Dean H. — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:44:43 +0000

Sorry, but I had to:

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa217/DesTROYer8564/tarp-30198.jpg

By the way, this is awesome.

By: Andrew Anderson

Andrew Anderson — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:30:42 +0000

This is one of the most amazing creations I have ever seen!!! The detail is fantastic. I’d love to see a Castle town in this kind of scale, that would be awesome!

By: Xiazeran

Xiazeran — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:54:59 +0000

That’s… just.. we’ll (you’ve heard it from the others already), AMAZING!

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:22:47 +0000

@&%$*#%&*@*@&%*&*$#%@ZOMGWTFBBQ!!!AWESOME!!!!

By: Exxos

Exxos — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:19:22 +0000

I can excuse a megablok…

But a k’nex 8-joint?

http://festum.de/1000steine/myimages/album421/IMG_0260

Hehe

By: Lich Barrister

Lich Barrister — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:29:34 +0000

“Cut the chatter, Red Two.”

Wow, though. Just astonishing – the pics indicate just how much forethought and planning had to have been done. Beautiful.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:33:00 +0000

Incredible! My hat is off to the builders–they did quite a job! I’m still browsing the pictures–a rather excellent thing to do on a lazy Friday at work–but I am just gob-smacked. I would love to be able to look at this up close.

“Look at the size of it!”

By: JimmytheJ

JimmytheJ — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:06:48 +0000

humana *drool*

Ok, that’s what, 3 or 4 meters? How long did that take?

By: Ramone

Ramone — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:34:35 +0000

Great Gatsby! That’s enormous!

By: Morgan19

Morgan19 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:20:44 +0000

o_O