I have found the best webpage ever - STARSHIP DIMSENSIONS! (pixel-fixed scale models of cool stuff!)

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http://www.merzo.net/

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

the TARDIS is like one pixel

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.merzo.net/images/2mppswspaceslug.gif

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

DEATH BLOSSOM!

http://www.merzo.net/images/10ppmlaststarfightergunstar.gif

― Dale the Panopticalist (cprek), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

you're right that is one of the best sites EVER

― PVC (peeveecee), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ROFFLE @ Warrior Bugs

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 13 August 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sure the site was linked to on here before, or i found it some other way, anyway - what is the best starship ever?

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/~banksp/Rec/TTABooks/2kFrhalf.jpg

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/~banksp/Rec/TTABooks/StrLrhalf.jpg

i bought this on eBay, it's friggin' ace

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that where you make a 3D model in paper?

If it is, I will gladly kill for it.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

no it's just pretty pictures

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the biggest starship you made out of Lego? i made one about a metre long and 20cm high when i was 9 (this is like fishing stories for nerds)

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

There is another copy for sale:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=273&item=7915337756&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

― Davel (Davel), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. That's a fuck load of lego. Was it a shell? Or did it work? And is your real name David Lyall.

I had this model cut out thing in a book - it was brilliant, and I was short on patience and didn't do it. I remain gutted to this day.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ROFFLE @ "source" of "various humanoids"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

not only spaceships:

http://www.merzo.net/images/1mppKingKong.gif

King Kong
Height: 12.5m
(Approximate)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I had no idea that Godzilla was so much bigger!

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh lordy, the geek pr0n content of that site. I may faint with excitement.

Are those Stewart Cowely covers by whatsisfacec, Chris Foss? Classic style.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I got kind of tired of building large spacecraft with room for the little people in them, they ended up being too big to be fun, so I ditched the people and just started creating 'scale models' of gigantic space battleships and trade vessels with various clever color schemes indicative of their allegiance (the RED and BLACK Empire! the BLUE and WHITE Federation! the YELLOW and BLUE Republic! the GRAY and CLEAR ships that don't want any trouble but invariably end up hauling a MacGuffin which is sought after by all the other ones ner ner).

It is probably a good thing puberty arrived when it did or I would have wound up building ships with docking hangars for other ships etc. and writing lenghty detailed write-ups in a customized database discussing the features of each one.

Er.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 13 August 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i paid a bit more than £2 for mine :|

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

LEGO SPACECRAFT MOTHERFUCKERS

― TOMBOT, Friday, 13 August 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr BOT, is this like an AA meeting for you?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

only when the spaceships breakdown.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

WE BUILT THESE CITIES IN SPACCE

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Full info on Terran Trade Authority books:
http://www.geocities.com/~banksp/Rec/TTABooks/TTABooks.html

I lusted after one of those books when a young youth. Bought one (Spacecraft 2000-2100 AD) from a 2nd hand internet bookshop recently. Instant confusing anticlimactic nostalgia!

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 13 August 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh I have the Spacecraft 2000-2100 one but I'm still on the lookout for the one about Space Wrecks

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Lego was the medium which bound all my other toys together into the same universe. Without the Galactic Rift Portal (and the smaller-scale PortaPortals Snake-Eyes and Cobra Commander developed in unison [during the brief Joe/Cobra pact, a union sparked to retaliate against the rising threat of the Gobots]), GI Joe would've made it out of the solar system (the Defiant was a noble effort, but was not made for extended deep space travel). Of course, they probably would've never encountered the Andromedan Demon Ponies (my sister's My Little Ponies + sharpee + me & my best friend being 8 years old and awake at 4 in the morning + need for new supervillain, as Will [afforementioned best friend], had managed to off Megatron [supreme chancellor of the Villain Empire] with a cigarette lighter earlier that day) either, and thus the human race would've never gone extinct. In retrospect it seems I often abused my power, possibly to the detriment of all toy civilization.

I came of age in a time ripe for innovation in the field of lego spacecraft engineering. The invention of the long clear ones, the x-wing style space windshield pieces, the big wheels (perfect for landing gear), etc. I really wish I had taken pictures of some of them, the GI Joe Intergalactic Transport, the Gobot Destroyer, Bumblebee's Time Travel Flyer, etc. I weep for the lost documentation of my childhood's greatest endeavors.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

GI Joe would've made it

er, they wouldN'T have

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

haha you had Gobots...WEDGIE

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend joel had the better part of a finished basement entirely devoted to legos. We played a long never-ending game with them much akin to a storytelling RPG. There were as many as 4 kingdoms with currencies and property laws and stuff at one point!

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, we totally had currencies (especially after the pirate lego series with the gold coins).

Now that I mention the pirate series I remember the moment my lego universe jumped the shark: when starships started having SAILS.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Well if they were light sails then that's alright. If not, boo.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 13 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

BUMP

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Friday, 13 August 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

when starships started having SAILS.

http://solarsails.jpl.nasa.gov/images/l1-main-graphic.jpg

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Friday, 13 August 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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