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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday May 02 2017, @02:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the me-want dept.

The Verge reports that Lego is to offer a kit for building a model Saturn V rocket.

[...] looks amazing because it’s not just the rocket: it’s an entire Apollo mission in a box. The Saturn V splits into its three stages, while the Command and Lunar Modules are nestled at the top. There’s even parts for the Command Capsule to land in the ocean, although you’re on your own if you want an aircraft carrier to pick up your crew. Fittingly, the set is made up of 1,969 individual pieces (the year the US first landed on the Moon), and it’s the tallest toy the company’s ever made, standing at a meter tall, or 110th the size of the original Saturn V rocket.

[...] The set is scheduled for release on June 1st, and will retail for $119.99 in the US (€119.99 in Europe and £109.99 in the UK).

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 02 2017, @12:47PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 02 2017, @12:47PM (#502770)

    I had the Revell plastic model kit in the 70s/80s whatever it was. Amazon claims it sells for $60 today. I recognize the amazon 2017 pix of the somewhat unrealistic looking base the model sits on as being the exact plastic model I had in the 80s. Things move slow in plastic model world perhaps they're still using the same styrene plastic injection molds...

    Note that 1/144 scale is pretty small for something like a car. Its about 12mm miniature wargaming equivalent size, warhammer 40K is about twice that size. Its close to but not exactly N scale model railroad ratio. So you can hold a little N scale 0-4-0 steam engine locomotive in your hand and its the size of a meatball or a flash drive (well, sorta) and you're thinking a 1/144 saturn V is going to be kinda small. Well, it turns out the Saturn V was so frigging gigantic that a 1/144 saturn V is about a meter or yard long. So no you can't balance it cutely on top of your monitor or sit it next to your mini-tower case, its pretty substantial.

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  • (Score: 2) by captain_nifty on Tuesday May 02 2017, @05:15PM (1 child)

    by captain_nifty (4252) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @05:15PM (#502958)

    Yeah Saturn 5's were gigantic.

    I once thought about building one out of my own Legos and figured out that at the Lego mini-figure scale (~1:45) it would be about 8 feet tall, so I decides to build something else.

    As for the price, this kit is around ~2000 pieces so $120 is actually pretty good deal, about $0.06 per piece, on average Lego sets sell for around $0.10 per piece.

    I'm actually thinking about buying 2, one for play, and one to sell in a few years. Unopened Lego sets usually go up in value, especially if they are desirable to collectors as this one is likely to be.

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 02 2017, @06:22PM

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 02 2017, @06:22PM (#503006)

      Unopened Lego sets usually go up in value,

      cool, but be careful, thats really boomer or genx, my kids didn't do as much lego as I did, first because electronics and second because the prices are ridiculous, so its not like when I was a kid and we got three sets per christmas or whatever.

      You might sell it to another parent but when my kids generation grows up I don't think you're going to squeeze a mortgage payment out of them or $10K or whatever prices have been going at to boomers.

      Kind of like investing in baseball cards, that had its day and my kids respond to baseball cards with a pretty resounding kid version of WTF.

      None the less, it still is pretty cool.