Lego Spaceship Earth!
So, I saw this set in my latest LEGO catalogue:
So, it's just your basic battle pack, right? Well, I wanted to look a little more closely.
Right when I saw this piece, it brought to mind my favorite geosphere on the face of the planet, SpaceShip Earth in EPCOT at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
SSE's outer shell is composed of aluminum-composite triangles. Here's a close-up of the tiles:
So, if I had the time, patience, and money, I would create a sphere composed of an inner hub with several long bars expanding outward. At the end of each "branch", i would add three triangles positioned so they form a larger triangle that protrudes just like on the real SSE.
The only problem: I lack the aforementioned time, patience, and money to invest in plastic to build a model of a geosphere.
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