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A bit too small imho. Go big or go home. I want a space shuttle big enough for lego figures, and same scale space station.

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At about 1:40, the ISS would be about 2.5 meters by 1.8 meters. I doubt they would sell many, unless it were made of Lego Duplo.

Pretty sure that would be the physically largest retail set ever sold if they did the minifig scale of 1:45 (ish) [0]. Looks like they might be making it roughly microfig scale judging by the scale of the included microfigs vs the rest. I'd rather maybe double the current size for more detail and chances for little greeble details but this size does make it easy to justify even with my current set backlog.

[0] It's a little messy because minifigs are quite squat and wide compared to their height.

> microfig

Had to look that up[0], since I haven't closely been keeping up with LEGO since my childhood, and for now lack children of my own to renew interest. Interesting concept, but it doesn't look like they're still "officially" used?

EDIT: Oh, the article states that this set comes with two microfigs. My bad, I should pay closer attention next time!

[0] https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/Microfigure

I was wrong about the name the wiki seems to call what's included in the ISS set Nanofigures. Though it seems like places use both nanofig and microfig interchangeably since microfigs are discontinued.

https://rebrickable.com/parts/90398/minifig-trophy-statuette...

https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/Nanofigure

https://www.firestartoys.com/Shop/LEGO-Minifigures/LEGO-Nano...

So they're about 1:125-140. And this set is about 1:225.

Also that shuttle is absolutely not to scale. It's about 1:400.

Ah yeah I was just eyeballing it and the nanofigs did seem a bit big. It's tricky because going up just double size probably doesn't give them much chance to add more detail the way people would want and 4x would make it way too large and expensive.

Someone has done a great one though a couple years ago at 1:90~ scale (1.2 meters by .8 meters): https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/7h9f18/lego_internati...

As an AFOL that has done my fair share of MOCs, the thought of that (or at 1:40) hurts my wallet, I did a small Mars base MOC that fit on a single 32x32 baseplate and for the elements I was using to get the habitat shape I wanted I was ended up spending a little north of 95$. I wanted to make a vehicle and a rocket as well but I was looking at another 75-100$ each.

My pretty boring MOC Mars habitat and initial thoughts on how I'd go about attempting a permanent presence on Mars: https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2016/7/29/my-lego-m...

If there's anything you ever want to see in lego, just google "MOC thing/theme" MOC being 'my own creation'. Chances are pretty good that an AFOL (adult fan of lego) has either built it with real elements or at least done it in LEGO Digital Designer or the (arguably) better Studio https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.page

Also PartDesigner is great for making custom elements and importing into Studio if you don't want to be a purist https://www.bricklink.com/v3/build/partdesigner.page

That's ~5x the size of the planned ISS set. So if you scale up the set, you would need ~125x as many pieces or ~$8750 for ~100k bricks.

I suspect it'd be more spindly than that if scaled up. I'd bet it'd scale more to the 2nd than the 3rd power, so more like $1750.

I'm not capable of calculating scale of lego but just to fit one lego guy inside and being able to open up sections of the modules with hinges would be enough.

Yeah, right? I was expecting a price point around hundreds! You know, something that makes you say, that's cool, but I ain't buyin' that! (Yet)

I am hoping this is just an introductory set, and if the demand is there they would make a bigger one. I am with you. I want a detailed set. 3000+ pieces

If you wanted to do one yourself, without waiting for an official set first I'd go look at this one (and the NASA one linked in the comments) that is 1:90 scale at 1.2 meters by .8 meters: https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/7h9f18/lego_internati...

Then go download Studio and start tinkering digitally https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.page

When you got something you like, you can use studio to generate instructions and to buy the elements from sellers on Bricklink.

most lego models are to small for the size of the figures. (i mean, come on, a train that can't even seat two figures in parallel, feels totally unrealistic)

the minifigure dimensions are just completely off, so you can't expect a lot of realism here. i am happy if models are big enough that they are actually playable, and look like the real thing from the outside.

if there is one model where the scale issue is what's absolutely putting me off, it's the death-star. that thing is so far off its real dimensions that it just looks ridiculous to me.

There is a space shuttle lego set in existence that is big enough for that. It is absolutely massive - and at that scale, I think the ISS would be absolutely unwieldy.

That would require its own room, though.

Or a tall ceiling to hang it from.

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