Cool that they did it successfully, but damn what an annoying and uninformative video.
I thought this was going to be an utter failure, then I thought "wait a sec, that beard looks familiar......"
Glad they got hooked up with NAR to make this happen instead of trying something.......unwise...on their own.
The expressions on John Lyngdal's face are priceless while they're bouncing around, and John Hochheimer looks like he's worried they'll break his launch controller
It would be nice to know *any* of the many, many pertinent details. Unfortunately the video seems to be have been made for (and by?) caffeine-addled juveniles.You can't get much better than the top 2 honcho's in the NAR and AIAA (an Estes owner, too). Would be nice to know what motor they used and if the escape tower was intact on landing. It sounds like the Lego conversion is not that difficult.
Good catch, that was one of the details I was wondering about. I would seriously love to see a build thread or build video on these things, there's lots of interesting stuff going on.If you put the video on full screen and stop it in a few key places you can see clear fins that go to the top of the engine fairings
The LEGO YouTube channel is probably not targeting the typical rocketry community demographic so much, but rather they are catering to their 7 million subscribers.
This video was too obnoxious to really watch. The hosts were annoying, the production was silly, the sound effects were dumb, and the whole thing just struck me as "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" more than anything remotely serious.
If they didn't argue about glue for 20mins, how real can it be? :-DUm, you know that the target market for Lego products is young children, right?
This is great publicity for the hobby and the NAR. Let's not gripe that it wasn't handled with the reverence of a Ken Burns documentary.
James
Um, you know that the target market for Lego products is young children, right?
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