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I'm sick of ideas about bloody Lego - so my idea is to rebuild
the Titanic out of the stuff, and use every bit of it up for
once and all.
This would be done in my home town to commemorate the
100th year anniversary of the ship's demise. Scheduled for
completion in 2012, this idea would probably
require just
about every piece of Lego on the planet. For durability, and
to allow visitors to walk about inside it, the blocks would need
to be cemented permanently in place. The entire ship would
be reconstructed, inside and out by international visiting
teams of children working in relays under supervision of a
joint consortium formed by Harland and Wolff Shipyard and
Lego. When completed it would be a permanent memorial to
the genius of those who built the original ship, those who
subsequently died when it sank, and the global family of
children who were able to make an exact replica of it. Finally,
if there are any blocks left at the end, they could start
working on that iceberg.....
lego facts
http://www.students...fj23/346/homework1/
[po, Nov 28 2005]
online lego
http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/design/
build it using this, then Lego will ship you the instructions and all the pieces [neilp, Nov 30 2005]
Noah's ark.
http://www.thebrick...ood/gn07_11-12.html
Not baked, but close enough. [Ehrm, Dec 04 2005]
Legotanic!
https://m.belfastte...tanic-40851420.html
if you wait long enough, your ideas come true [xenzag, Sep 15 2021]
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Croissant for anything built out of Lego... |
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Surely this would result in an increased production of lego, not to mention an increased rate of lego-this, lego-that conversations. |
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It would only take one good sized Mega Block burg to sink it but the maiden voyage of the Tinker Toytanic will go off without a hitch. |
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I cannot approve of using every piece of lego on the planet, I really cannot. you keep your hands off my lego. |
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I suspect it would take several Titanics to use up all the Lego on the planet. For one thing, there are several Legolands which have to be absorbed. |
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To be a truly authentic Lego structure, it has to be completely multicoloured. A rainbow Titanic! Cool! |
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It should be built in Nebraska, or Kansas or some other place that hasn't seen water for the past 100,000 years. Just to complete the absurdity quotient. |
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if we built another moon from all the lego on the planet, how big would it be? just curious. |
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Roughly the size of Wales, I think. |
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According to my calculations, mostly solid but with space for optional Death Ray. |
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So [moom] found a use for those Lego "Light & Sound" kits.... |
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<trivia>The rudder of the Titanic was built in my town, and the editor at the time of the local newspaper (the social campaigner W T Stead) was a passenger (of the non-surviving kind). |
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I'm all grown up, but I still can't le'go of Lego. |
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Is there any way we can build it entirely out of licensing tie-in legos and get those durned things off of the shelves? |
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Well as far as hollow or solid goes, it has to have places to walk on the inside. That and solid means more bricks are used. And since the purpose of Legotanic is to use all of the bricks ever made we would have to have wll the rooms, piping, and a "coal" furnice into which you can shovel chunks of black Lego (or Lego painted black). For a price of course. Not that the bricks should burn (ew stinky). |
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As a native of Wales [moom], I can expressly deny our possession of death rays or intention to create death ray programs. We are willing to let UN weapons inspectors into the country to prove this. |
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I remember excitedly making lego boats, bringing them into the bath with me, and then watching all my lego pirates drown as they sank... |
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Waterproofing lego, now did they ever do that? (Perhaps giving some bricks a rubbery external layer so that when pieced together, they form an airtight seal?) |
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Legos at the legoland displays are often glued together. I imagine that would waterproof it, too. |
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Oh yes [hidden]? Then how do you explain Dinorwig, eh? Huge man-made underground caverns, vast energy source nearby... highly suspicious, I'd say. You may have distracted the UN inspectors with your fancy cheese on toast and quaint folk ways, but I'm not fooled. |
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//cheese on toast // spot the mole! |
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I am not a mole! I am a moom. |
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Building a replica using Lego, regardless of scale, hardly qualifies as an invention. |
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what about having it sink... |
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HEy man, leave legos alone. |
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No [moom], that is just where the out of work mining addicts can let off steam. Wales doesn't, and never has possessed any weapons of mass destruction, and most certaintly could not attack England in 45 minutes. |
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xenzag: don't let the admins get you down! We've all (well, I've all) posted inappropriate or redundant stuff. Just trim the stuff that was poorly received and soldier on. |
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It's playful, but I just can't see past the critical flaws: |
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1) You don't create long term scarcity by increasing demand temporarily. In fact, quite the opposite is true. |
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2) Why would anyone want to get rid of legos? They're wonderful. I'd wish destruction on many other more annoying kids toys (things that make sounds esp.) before this. |
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oh, and i just felt nerdily compelled to say.... |
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//Wales doesn't, and never has possessed any weapons of mass destruction,// Unless you include petrol cans and English holiday cottages.
[bris] What's a snit? |
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// //Wales doesn't, and never has possessed any weapons of mass destruction,// Unless you include //
...the Welsh |
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And what about all of that forceful singing? |
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//Wales doesn't, and never has possessed any weapons of mass destruction//
Go tell that to the French nobles who spent the 100 years war picking longbow arrows out of their backsides. |
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OK, a few weapons of ass destruction
maybe... |
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//I remember excitedly making lego boats, bringing them into the bath with me, and then watching all my lego pirates drown as they sank...// |
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My children have got around this using cling-film (a.k.a. glad-wrap), but you have to ballast the hold with coins, and not have much superstructure (such as masts or rigging), or the whole thing just turns turtle. |
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See last link. Not quite the ambitious version I had
in mind, but still quite good. |
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[xenzag]; nice! Re: the 9090-piece model:
1: Will it float?
2: Will it stand up to ramming an iceberg (dead ahead)? |
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