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The Saturn XXL
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Nassau's revenge, surely.
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Jun 6, 2019 00:43
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DrChud posted:The Saturn XXL For today's astronaut.
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Jun 6, 2019 01:06
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Dogen posted:Also doesn’t Saturn V + Saturn V = Saturn X? No, it's Saturn VV
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Jun 6, 2019 01:56
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Next up LEGO is doing a Challenger set with play features.
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Jun 6, 2019 02:00
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It is kind of strange that Mega Bloks did a rough yet still impressive minifigure-scale Space Shuttle way back when and Lego never answered with one of their own.
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Jun 6, 2019 02:08
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veni veni veni posted:Next up LEGO is doing a Challenger set with play features. The perpetual LEGO build.
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Jun 6, 2019 02:23
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"Complete with faulty O-rings, made from the same rubber as our tires! Hey, did you know that LEGO makes the most tires of any..." 
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Jun 6, 2019 02:34
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Does it include an engineer minifig screaming that it's too cold outside to launch and the o-rings are going to fail, but your mission control minifig launches anyway.
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Jun 6, 2019 02:45
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Wait that happened? I didn't know that someone tried stopping it due to the weather. drat that's hosed, why did the mission continue?
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Jun 6, 2019 02:47
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s.i.r.e. posted:Wait that happened? I didn't know that someone tried stopping it due to the weather. drat that's hosed, why did the mission continue? Hubris. NASA's leaders literally thought they could do no wrong.
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Jun 6, 2019 03:01
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s.i.r.e. posted:Wait that happened? I didn't know that someone tried stopping it due to the weather. drat that's hosed, why did the mission continue? The o-rings had a lower temperature limit of 40 degrees F. Not that they would definitely fail, but they weren't tested at colder temperatures. NASA was obsessed with having a year with a certain number of shuttle launches to prove that it was safe and reusable. They kept pushing colder and colder launches while one of the engineers who worked on the SRB kept saying it was too dangerous. On the day of the Challenger launch, Florida had a cold snap and it dropped to 18 degrees. They didn't have any test data for a bunch of components for such a low temperature. They launched anyway and one of the o-rings in the SRB failed and it exploded.
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Jun 6, 2019 03:14
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The Satin VV, which is Greek for 55
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Jun 6, 2019 04:15
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Cojawfee posted:Does it include an engineer minifig screaming that it's too cold outside to launch and the o-rings are going to fail, but your mission control minifig launches anyway. Needs a Richard Feynman minifig with a hammer, a trans blue ore nugget for ice, and one of the technic rubber bands.
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Jun 6, 2019 05:58
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veni veni veni posted:Next up LEGO is doing a Challenger set with play features. Cool! How many pieces does it have?
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Jun 6, 2019 06:22
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First of May posted:Cool! How many pieces does it have? Zero
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Jun 6, 2019 06:28
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First of May posted:Cool! How many pieces does it have? Thousands, but you'll have to travel to several locations in Texas to pick up each one.
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Jun 6, 2019 06:47
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s.i.r.e. posted:Thousands, but you'll have to travel to several locations in Texas to pick up each one. You're both wrong. It's actually a few dozen custom shrapnel pieces that you won't be able to use with any other set.
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Jun 6, 2019 06:52
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s.i.r.e. posted:Thousands, but you'll have to travel to several locations in Texas to pick up each one. That'd be the Columbia set. You'd need minifigures in scuba gear and salvage boats for the Challenger set.
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Jun 6, 2019 07:26
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BIG HEADLINE posted:It is kind of strange that Mega Bloks did a rough yet still impressive minifigure-scale Space Shuttle way back when and Lego never answered with one of their own. I can’t tell if you’re being facetious but... this? 
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Jun 6, 2019 07:49
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I just ordered Voltron, my first new set since sometime in the 90s, with all the ones I had long thrown out. Also that free rocket ride why not. I feel giddy and also weird.
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Jun 6, 2019 07:55
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The_Doctor posted:I can’t tell if you’re being facetious but... this? I meant one that'd be far larger.
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Jun 6, 2019 07:57
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Dr Christmas posted:I just ordered Voltron, my first new set since sometime in the 90s, with all the ones I had long thrown out. Also that free rocket ride why not. Thats the one that got me back into LEGO sets too, it’s a fun build and the variety of parts gives you a great idea of where LEGO is at these days with snot pieces and what not.
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Jun 6, 2019 08:02
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For the lego online; how do backorders work with the "spend over x$ and get a bonus thing"? Those are time limited, so what happens if the thing I order doesn't come back into stock until after the promo period? Does one get put aside for whenever my order ships or something? (Debating on getting the Y-Wing, but it's on backorder, I don't need it -right now- but I do want to make sure I get some little bonus with it or something if Im going to go through the trouble of getting direct from lego)
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Jun 6, 2019 12:31
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Oxyclean posted:For the lego online; how do backorders work with the "spend over x$ and get a bonus thing"? Those are time limited, so what happens if the thing I order doesn't come back into stock until after the promo period? Does one get put aside for whenever my order ships or something? They'll ship the bonus to you immediately.
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Jun 6, 2019 12:36
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Cojawfee posted:They launched anyway and one of the o-rings in the SRB failed and it exploded. space exploration pedantry: it didn't explode, the orbiter broke apart because the g-forces exceeded its load limit
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Jun 6, 2019 16:00
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The SRB's did technically explode though, they were sent self destruct commands. The "explosion" that most of us remember was caused by fuel leaking. Inside that cloud the shuttle was getting torn apart because it was near the limits of air pressure it could handle and as soon as things started twisting it tore apart.
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Jun 6, 2019 16:25
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Cloks posted:They'll ship the bonus to you immediately. Not in my experience. They put the bonus aside and ship it with the back ordered main item.
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Jun 6, 2019 16:34
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Not in my experience. They put the bonus aside and ship it with the back ordered main item. I think if any part of your order is ready to ship, they ship it and include the bonus, then ship the rest later.
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Jun 6, 2019 16:36
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Cojawfee posted:I think if any part of your order is ready to ship, they ship it and include the bonus, then ship the rest later. I've gotten a package with just a bonus in the mail so it seems inconsistent.
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Jun 6, 2019 16:52
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BIG HEADLINE posted:That'd be the Columbia set. You'd need minifigures in scuba gear and salvage boats for the Challenger set. Ahh that's right, my mistake. Either way I can't wait for both to come out. For the Challenger set they could just release the iconic cloud plume it left behind but built up in LEGO.
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Jun 6, 2019 16:57
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The_Doctor posted:I can’t tell if you’re being facetious but... this? I vastly prefer realistic classic space like this over those new futuristic city stuff they have now. To bad it will not come back
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Jun 6, 2019 17:56
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Hopper posted:I vastly prefer realistic classic space like this over those new futuristic city stuff they have now. To bad it will not come back But... they literally just released an Apollo 11 lander? 
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Jun 6, 2019 18:01
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Yes and I will buy it. But the new city space stuff is all smoke an mirrors. None of those are real and it all looks like babies first scifi the martian ripoff. It's like they are trying to make scifi space without doing full on scifi because they cant due to that star wars license banning all other scifi rumor.
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Jun 6, 2019 18:07
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That rumor has been debunked time and time again. We had Space and Star Wars running concurrently not even that long ago. The real answer is that City stuff is cyclical (we had another City Space subtheme a couple years ago) and Ninjago is more popular than another Space Police or Classic Space. And as for how the new Space sets look, these are meant to be children’s toys first and foremost. I think they look fine 
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Jun 6, 2019 18:37
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s.i.r.e. posted:Wait that happened? I didn't know that someone tried stopping it due to the weather. drat that's hosed, why did the mission continue? The story is incredibly depressing. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/21/470870426/challenger-engineer-who-warned-of-shuttle-disaster-dies
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Jun 6, 2019 19:01
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Plinkey posted:The story is incredibly depressing.  Please tell me people got prison sentences for this level of irresponsibility.
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Jun 6, 2019 19:18
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s.i.r.e. posted:
Prison sentences for corporate and government irresponsibility leading to loss of life? This isn't Soviet Russia, tovarisch.
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Jun 6, 2019 19:54
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Everybody go watch Chernobyl on HBO. Edit: BRB, Gonna go build a RBMK reactor MOC.
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Stupid question alert: does the Lunar Lander qualify for the little space ride freebie or is it a dollar short? I assume this is LEGO store only? Not anywhere?
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