Designer Creates Spaceship Earth Out Of Legos Hoping The Company Will Make It a Set
Lego is always looking for new designs that create and inspire fans of all ages. This is the point of the Lego Ideas website where builders of all levels can showcase their special creations and try to get the attention of the company in the hopes that their builds become an official product!
We are excited to share one such idea that certainly caught our attention – Spaceship Earth! The amateur designer Russ Cole has created an impressive model of the iconic EPCOT attraction.
Check out how surprisingly accurate the Spaceship Earth loading area is! As you can see from the image below, inside it also tells the classic Spaceship Earth narrative about the history of the written word.
Here’s a shot of another scene involving the fall of the Roman Empire!
Key features of this build include:
- Loading area
- Cave drawings
- Young Egyptian pounding reeds flat / papyrus
- Phoenician trade and communication – boat scene
- Burning and destruction of the Library of Alexandria
- Jewish & Islamic scholars preserving recorded information
- Sleeping Monk
- Gutenberg and the first movable-type printing press
- Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
- Telephone switchboard
- Mainframe computer
- Building home computers in a garage
- Earth
Other features include:
- History of communication scenes rotate inside the geodesic sphere.
- Hand crank can be easily removed and can also be replaced with a medium Power Fuctions motor.
- Class 2 geodesic sphere, just like the real thing!
- Made up of hexagons and pentagons, the exterior could easily be built flat with 1:1 scale drawing/instructions and then connected into a sphere.
- Model is free standing and very solid on it’s three prototypical legs.
On the Lego Ideas site Cole said this about the project, “I believe this could be a challenging and educationally rewarding build as you construct the history of communication in scenes spiraling to the top of a real geodesic sphere.”
With the recent news that Spaceship Earth is closing soon to make way for a new ride that will be house inside the dome, the build above could also make the perfect collectors item! You can find out more about this Spaceship Earth project by visiting the designer here: http://twitter.com/LSpaceshipEarth
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