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[max--phillips]

Project Hail Mary LEGO set procured!!!! I gotta finish my Dark Falcon, then I’ll be building this expeditiously.

I also got myself a lil extra treat:

I somehow missed the memo on this one and I needed a Cobb Vanth minifig in my life.

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On Nov. 1, 2020, a metro train near the city of Rotterdam crashed through the barrier at the end of the tracks and luckily landed on a whale's tail art installation. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54780430

[max--phillips]

And with that, we have The Hail Mary! Some fun details, particularly on Grace’s minifig. Here:

Glasses with his non-helmet hair configuration, and one of the things he’s holding is a tape measure!

And, I remembered: I took a video of it in action! It extends the crew compartment (which I previously misidentified as a smaller version of the ship in its extended artificial gravity mode, but that is not the case) and spins to create artificial gravity. No audio in the video btw

And some more little snippets from the direction book:

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Step 5! One more to go!!

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Step 4! The crew compartment. If I remember I’ll post a video later of the thing in motion, there’s gears n shit (as you would probably expect with the shitload of technic pieces)

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Step 3! More finger-killing technic pieces.

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Step 2! Nothing super exciting—the first several steps it looks like are for the stand for the ship.

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IT BEGINS!!!

And look at these lil annotations in the directions 😭😭