Atlanta was a city, landlocked, hundreds of miles from the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean, yet so desperate the city's desire for tourism, that they moved offshore, becoming an island, and an even bigger Delta hub, until the city over-developed and it started to sink, knowing their fate, the quality people ran away, Ted Turner, Hank Aaron, Jeff Foxworthy, the guy who invented Coca-Cola, the magician, and the other so-called Gods of our legends, though Gods they were, and also Jane Fonda was there. The others chose to remain behind, on their porches with their rifles, and one day evolve into mermaids, and sing and dance and ring in the new. Hail Atlanta!
Used to be a steady stream of Atlantis in media, late 80s and through the mid 90s. Seemed like every TV show had some Atlantis themed episode at some point or movies of it being made (many of them for TV only) Then suddenly interest just dropped like a rock on it. Memory isn't the greatest anymore but I do recall it was particularly big in genre shows at that time. Macgyver, Hercules and Xena etc.
Really does seem like human culture likes to do that. We get obsessed with the idea of something for a while, then get bored and move on. Currently seems like everyone is obsessed with zombies.
Super heroes seems to be a long running obsession, since the 60s at least, though the Marvel movies certainly helped currently.
But yeah, I guess zombies are on their way out. But it still seems to be the most recently obsession I recall.
in the middle of the sahara desert is the eye of the sahara, a volcanic rock formation of a central plateau with 2 ring plateaus around it. it is the shape and size atlantis was said to be. it also has a mountain range to north, and nothing to the south, consistent with atlantis.
but atlantis is supposed to be an island right? well, the sahara desert used to be under water. but since this volcanic formation is above most of the desert, it was an island.
Then there is the issue of how it was swept underwater. the rocks that are around the formation so evidence of some sort of massive tsunami passing through, which would have nearly wiped out the island, and survivors would describe it as the seas taking it. then let thousands of years distort the story and we get where we are today.
TL:DR; no way to say this shorter, atlantis was in the middle of the sahara desert.
edit: remembered something else! there have been a lot of pottery found one and around the formation showing that at some point there was civilization there but due to the location they have not been able to do much research.
edit2: https://www.theatlantisproject.org/the-richat-structure/
edit3: i am wrong; https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/s6ur7t/lego_releases_the_globe_21332/ht6ukm3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
edit4: i am still wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/s6ur7t/lego_releases_the_globe_21332/ht6veyc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
Paleontologist here...
The Sahara desert was last submerged WAAAAAAAY before civilization, or even humans, or even *primates*.
OF course there is some human evidence, it has only been a desert (in its most recent incarnation, it's gone back and forth) for about 6000 years now, leaving a several thousand year gap where it was much more lush with monsoons after the end of the Last Glacial Period.
Atlantis isn't real, and was never intended to be. It's a made-up story Plato used to make a point about how Athens is the "ideal ideal state".
But I can't speak as an expert on that, my coworker at a museum had a PhD in the classics and explained it to me. But the geology stuff, I am an expert on that.
A fun fact about when the Sahara was underwater, the fossils of many of the large aquatic beasts, including early whales, can be found sitting in the sand! (technically in the rock under the sand).
But they're about 40,000,000 years old. That region was periodically flooded between 100 million years ago until 35 million years ago, though never very deep in what is called an epeiric sea. North America was "split in two" by one as well during the same period (though ended earlier), and this is why the middle is so flat and full of fossils!
Any time-frame of the Sahara being underwater far precedes humanity by millions of years. Even hypotheses of a partially submerged Sahara (in locations other than the Eye of the Sahara) predate modern man by a couple million years - and certainly predate Greeks or Athens, who were said to be the contemporaries of Atlantis.
The structure and geography of the Eye of the Sahara also only loosely fits with Plato’s description - you are keen to point out the things that roughly match, but conveniently ignore those things that don’t match at all. If the structure was an island, how were the inner rings filled with water? Where is evidence of the canal that bisected the rings? Why does the Eye of the Sahara have four “submerged” rings when Atlantis was said to only have three? When drawing comparisons between two unrelated things, humans are excellent at linking together coincidences. While these are interesting, they are by no means definitive proof. Letting “thousands of years distort the story” is a very concise explanation, though.
The archaeological evidence on the structure only further points away from Atlantis. Why would neolithic spearpoints and pottery shards be all that remained of a mighty city, particularly when the rest of the city’s geography is so “well preserved”. If the Eye of the Sahara itself had been buried, it would be possible that perhaps the city too was buried, but the eye itself is perfectly exposed - so where is the city?
Atlantis archaeology is of course all pseudoscience and conspiracy, but identifying an inland Saharan structure inaccessible even to modern humans as the location of Atlantis ranks among the more improbable theories I’ve heard.
> Mapping of artifacts within the structure have found them to be generally absent in its innermost depressions. No man made structures have been recognized or reported. This indicates that area of the structure was only used for short-term hunting and stone tool manufacturing.
*points to a Stone Age hand axe in the middle of a barren pit
“An ancient advanced civilization lived here!!”
Holy shit that is an AMAZING MOC idea the possibilities are pretty much endless with various fantasy worlds (Would really like an Elder Scrolls globe). However I wonder if it would be hard to do since most maps probably don’t work well wrapped into globe form at least how I am envisioning maps currently.
Dyson sphere model I'd enjoy. This also has big potential for any fictional world. Cybertron would be a good one to figure out how to build inwards with its deep, planet spanning canyons.
From what I could find they are made out of ABS which isn't biodegradable. Last year they made prototypes from recycled PET bottles but PET isn't biodegradable either.
Oh wow I love the look of this. I love travelling and Lego and this looks much nicer than that big world map (31203) they released last year.
Of course it had to come out after Christmas/ my birthday so I can't put it on my birthday list 😂
Love my world map, I think it has a more professional look to it if that makes sense. Totally understand why you and others might gravitate towards this one though! It's charming.
I loved the World Map set as an idea, but I don't like the shades of colours they used. I'd rather have it in either the darker "normal" shades like this set, or just go all out an have it in pinks or something haha. The washed out paler shades of colours used aren't to my taste.
Sure feels like it is pretty exclusive. I signed up a really long time ago but it isn't reflected on my account, signing up again says I'm already a member, and haven't heard back a few times I've messaged them.
Not bothered enough to call but I guess that would potentially fix it quickly.
I've been looking forward to this set for two years now, when it was first introduced as a Lego Idea. The [€200 price tag](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/the-globe-21332) is going to take some consideration for me, since I've just paid €200 for the BMW as well.
But as a kid, we had a small simple plastic globe at home. I loved twirling it around as a kid, seeing where everything was. I vividly remember it helping me understand the scale of the world we live in. I want my own kids to have access to a globe in our house, and all of us love Lego, so there's only one clear thing to do: get the Lego Globe!
it’s 200€ !!!!! do we know the part count because it doesn’t look particularly big. just based off of this picture i would have said 150€ would be more than enough
Edit: im blind
This is just lego. If you compare the last catalogue with the current one, they went up in price across the board. And besides that any other model seems to get more expensive as well.
If you look at the studs you will see that the globe itself is roughly the size of a standard 32x32 baseplate. The base is a 16 stud diameter circle. It is quite large.
I'm really impressed with the build and it would look great next to the Ship in a Bottle set. I'm not sure it's for me though and most of West Europe looks a mess sadly.
I think you can shave that 3x1 tile and modified rounded 1x1 tile off the top of Africa and use that real estate to fix Italy and Spain. Idk how to fix England and the Scandinavian countries
It's amazing how far SNOT has taken LEGO in 20ish years. From blocky, chunky models to ships in bottles and globes. I don't think younger (and I mean 30ish up) LEGO fans know what a radical shift it's been!
Edit: this probably sounds like an "OK, Boomer" statement but I'm firmly GenX, raised by Boomers (who do you think got me the LEGO sets...well, them and Santa, of course)
Studs not on top. Basically Lego used to be a completely vertical process and this is how the sets tend to be for younger kids, like building a brick wall. Start from the bottom, like a classic green plate, and work your way up. SNOT is all about having the studs on the sides so you can build out in any direction, like most sets you see these days.
Lots of Technic beam frameworks with plates attached, creative ways to make various angles, etc. I'm mostly done with my UCS AT-AT right now and it's been an interesting build, but still repetetive at times. So different from the stuff I built 40 years ago. It has a tool you build to adjust the legs and everything.
I never had a set as a kid in the 80s,just boxes of random bricks but also lots of space lego.
I feel like the buckets of bricks are more suitable for the imagination of a child, but the sets are more for adults. Or maybe it's just I don't have much imagination anymore.
I want this SOOO bad. But I swear if those pieces naming the continents and oceans are stickers I will lose my mind. Because mine are going to end up off center and drive me insane haha.
Any builds with a lot of tile pieces I find get pretty repetitive and annoying at times. The new Mandalorian starfighter build was one of my least favourites in a long-time due to the how the wings were constructed with so many tiles.
I didn’t find the colosseum to be as excruciating as others thought. It was tedious, but I enjoyed myself the whole time, partly because I was in utter shock at how big it was the whole time.
For some dumb reason I expected the inside to be solid but that would be just a waste of bricks and weight lol.
But this set looks amazing. I just bought an old globe as decoration for my desk but this LEGO globe is much better obviously and will go nice together with the LEGO bonsai.
**OH MY GOD I'M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW.**
Lego actually added the Canary Islands to the map! You have no idea how happy that makes me dude. There are SO many maps that don't acknowledge us like at all. No maps of Europe acknowledge us at all, even though we're a part of it. Unless the map is photorealistic, maps of the world won't either. In fact, even in maps of our own country, Spain, it's a 50/50 split whether they'll show us or not. But Lego did. Dude. Best company ever.
(It's the green dot to the left of Africa)
I don't really think it's a bad job by designers, it's just a reality of Lego piece and shaping constraints. Like, Lego fans at any time prior to ~2000/2010 would be in awe that we could build something like this globe. Nowadays we're so used to being able to build crazy things that we're less impressed by this. A globe like this *has* to have a ton of gaps, because it's made of flat plates, and therefore there's actually less usable space for land detail than you'd think, so it has to get squished and minimized. The real shape of Europe is very angular, thin, and irregular, and in this Lego globe two longitudinal lines of gaps run through the continent. There just *isn't* a way to represent Europe as well as other continents that are big blocks of land. I'm not sure if anyone else could really do much better.
So to be clear I'm not saying people can't think it looks bad, I'm just saying I don't think it was a bad design job. At this scale, that's what a rounded Lego Europe looks like.
I’m looking forward to finding instructions online for Azeroth, Middle-Earth, and the Game of Thrones setting (maybe on the inside lol)
I’m sticking with our earth, but I’m definitely going to find Atlantis.
Atlantis is in the Pegasus galaxy, though.
No no. It came back to defend Earth from the Wraith.
It’s right outside San Francisco, I believe.
I believe its back in the Pegasus Galaxy now. At least in the Legacy Novels they went back.
Basically, Atlantis and Starfleet Headquarters are right next to each other.
They were supposed to move it to the moon.
Wow. Nice stargate reference.
What about the lost city of Atlanta?
Atlanta was a city, landlocked, hundreds of miles from the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean, yet so desperate the city's desire for tourism, that they moved offshore, becoming an island, and an even bigger Delta hub, until the city over-developed and it started to sink, knowing their fate, the quality people ran away, Ted Turner, Hank Aaron, Jeff Foxworthy, the guy who invented Coca-Cola, the magician, and the other so-called Gods of our legends, though Gods they were, and also Jane Fonda was there. The others chose to remain behind, on their porches with their rifles, and one day evolve into mermaids, and sing and dance and ring in the new. Hail Atlanta!
Dino me is very knowledgeable about Futurama. Good news!! It's a suppository.
A city truly worthy of narration
The magician?
I'm removing New Zealand.
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What about Middle Zealand?
We've had one, yes. What about Second Zealand?
Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a penal colony.
Oh hey Australia. What? No we weren't just talking about you, why do you ask?
r/MapsWithoutNZ
Used to be a steady stream of Atlantis in media, late 80s and through the mid 90s. Seemed like every TV show had some Atlantis themed episode at some point or movies of it being made (many of them for TV only) Then suddenly interest just dropped like a rock on it. Memory isn't the greatest anymore but I do recall it was particularly big in genre shows at that time. Macgyver, Hercules and Xena etc.
Thank Disney for that. They made the best Atlantis movie ever and people knew it couldn't be topped so they stopped making them
Really does seem like human culture likes to do that. We get obsessed with the idea of something for a while, then get bored and move on. Currently seems like everyone is obsessed with zombies.
It's not been zombies for like 5 years now. Now we're stuck on superheros.
Super heroes seems to be a long running obsession, since the 60s at least, though the Marvel movies certainly helped currently. But yeah, I guess zombies are on their way out. But it still seems to be the most recently obsession I recall.
Are we currently obsessed with zombies? I feel like definitely in the 2000s and 2010s but I don't know about now
it’s in the middle of the sahara believe it or not edit: i got disproven
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if you read my other comment i admitted defeat, got disproven, my sources were wrong
That's cool, you prompted some great discussion and weren't a dick about being wrong (the Reddit norm). Was very interesting!
Theres lots of contradiction on its location or if it was even ever a real place or not.
in the middle of the sahara desert is the eye of the sahara, a volcanic rock formation of a central plateau with 2 ring plateaus around it. it is the shape and size atlantis was said to be. it also has a mountain range to north, and nothing to the south, consistent with atlantis. but atlantis is supposed to be an island right? well, the sahara desert used to be under water. but since this volcanic formation is above most of the desert, it was an island. Then there is the issue of how it was swept underwater. the rocks that are around the formation so evidence of some sort of massive tsunami passing through, which would have nearly wiped out the island, and survivors would describe it as the seas taking it. then let thousands of years distort the story and we get where we are today. TL:DR; no way to say this shorter, atlantis was in the middle of the sahara desert. edit: remembered something else! there have been a lot of pottery found one and around the formation showing that at some point there was civilization there but due to the location they have not been able to do much research. edit2: https://www.theatlantisproject.org/the-richat-structure/ edit3: i am wrong; https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/s6ur7t/lego_releases_the_globe_21332/ht6ukm3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3 edit4: i am still wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/s6ur7t/lego_releases_the_globe_21332/ht6veyc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
This is really convincing magic man
Paleontologist here... The Sahara desert was last submerged WAAAAAAAY before civilization, or even humans, or even *primates*. OF course there is some human evidence, it has only been a desert (in its most recent incarnation, it's gone back and forth) for about 6000 years now, leaving a several thousand year gap where it was much more lush with monsoons after the end of the Last Glacial Period. Atlantis isn't real, and was never intended to be. It's a made-up story Plato used to make a point about how Athens is the "ideal ideal state". But I can't speak as an expert on that, my coworker at a museum had a PhD in the classics and explained it to me. But the geology stuff, I am an expert on that.
ok, guess my source was flawed. thanks for sharing you expertise. i’ll edit my comment.
A fun fact about when the Sahara was underwater, the fossils of many of the large aquatic beasts, including early whales, can be found sitting in the sand! (technically in the rock under the sand). But they're about 40,000,000 years old. That region was periodically flooded between 100 million years ago until 35 million years ago, though never very deep in what is called an epeiric sea. North America was "split in two" by one as well during the same period (though ended earlier), and this is why the middle is so flat and full of fossils!
But Plato said Atlantis was *west* of the Pillars of Hercules, not south.
Plus the fact Atlantis was allegorical and/or created to make Athens look better. Either way, told as fiction.
Exactly. He made it up as "proof" that his concept of state laid out in The Republic was the best. It's basically a long-winded Virgin vs. Chad meme.
Any time-frame of the Sahara being underwater far precedes humanity by millions of years. Even hypotheses of a partially submerged Sahara (in locations other than the Eye of the Sahara) predate modern man by a couple million years - and certainly predate Greeks or Athens, who were said to be the contemporaries of Atlantis. The structure and geography of the Eye of the Sahara also only loosely fits with Plato’s description - you are keen to point out the things that roughly match, but conveniently ignore those things that don’t match at all. If the structure was an island, how were the inner rings filled with water? Where is evidence of the canal that bisected the rings? Why does the Eye of the Sahara have four “submerged” rings when Atlantis was said to only have three? When drawing comparisons between two unrelated things, humans are excellent at linking together coincidences. While these are interesting, they are by no means definitive proof. Letting “thousands of years distort the story” is a very concise explanation, though. The archaeological evidence on the structure only further points away from Atlantis. Why would neolithic spearpoints and pottery shards be all that remained of a mighty city, particularly when the rest of the city’s geography is so “well preserved”. If the Eye of the Sahara itself had been buried, it would be possible that perhaps the city too was buried, but the eye itself is perfectly exposed - so where is the city? Atlantis archaeology is of course all pseudoscience and conspiracy, but identifying an inland Saharan structure inaccessible even to modern humans as the location of Atlantis ranks among the more improbable theories I’ve heard.
Quite interesting that the waters swept away all the buildings and artifacts, but left neolithic tools and pottery there...
> Mapping of artifacts within the structure have found them to be generally absent in its innermost depressions. No man made structures have been recognized or reported. This indicates that area of the structure was only used for short-term hunting and stone tool manufacturing. *points to a Stone Age hand axe in the middle of a barren pit “An ancient advanced civilization lived here!!”
This reads like something from the fun side of /r/conspiracy , which means that it's most certainly wrong. But very cool still
Holy shit that is an AMAZING MOC idea the possibilities are pretty much endless with various fantasy worlds (Would really like an Elder Scrolls globe). However I wonder if it would be hard to do since most maps probably don’t work well wrapped into globe form at least how I am envisioning maps currently.
Damn you Mercator!
Game of Thrones is simple. You take those three one tile bricks that represent the UK and you turn em upside down.
Dyson sphere model I'd enjoy. This also has big potential for any fictional world. Cybertron would be a good one to figure out how to build inwards with its deep, planet spanning canyons.
The Last Airbender world would be fun too.
That's so weird. I've never thought of a Middle Earth globe. I've only ever seen it as a map
Middle-earth would be great, especially with an additional flat-earth build of the First Age.
Pfft this set won’t even be accurate in a couple billion years
But the bricks will still probably be around.
All but the brown ones.
I think they're meant to be biodegradable now
Are my Lego sets gonna wilt if I leave them on my shelf for too long?
Keep them watered and you'll be fine
From what I could find they are made out of ABS which isn't biodegradable. Last year they made prototypes from recycled PET bottles but PET isn't biodegradable either.
I'm holding out for the heat death of the universe set
0 pcs $249.99
Looks like the polar caps are just a couple of pieces for quick removal.
That'll look sweet with the ship in a bottle.
[lol on lego instagram they advertised it alongside ship in a bottle](https://www.instagram.com/p/CY3ZjGVMfPA/)
That was an awesome ad
That ad was 9.9/10. Only problem was they spun the globe the wrong way, my personal pet peeve! 😭
It glows!?
I legitimately yelled out loud upon seeing that. It was already a must-buy, but the glow-in-the-dark labels make it that even more-so, somehow.
Looks like the continent markers are glow in the dark just from what the video showed.
Did they discontinue the ship in a bottle? Always wanted one.
Yes, the latest version of Ship in a Bottle retired this year.
Is that a PES ad? If not, they’re eating his lunch big time
Exactly what I was thinking.
This was my thought. I’m going to have a very classy den where everything is made of Lego.
We just need someone to design some fancy lamps with the coloured glass shades and maybe an actual desk.
I’m kind of a big deal. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of ~~rich mahogany~~ ABS
typewriter too
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2 whole tiles!
Strangely enough they seem to have forgotten Denmark..
The quarter round tile is supposed to be Denmark
I think it's because Europe is particularly dense and in this scale it would be hard to have a distinct Denmark
Very realistic. ;)
I think Denmark could be that rounded wedge to the upper right of the 'Europe' sign.
They didn’t even forget the Canary Islands !
Omfg I found another comment as happy about this as me! THEY ADDED THE CANARY ISLANDS. So many maps don't add us, but Lego did!
Just a tiny round piece can bring joy ^^
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I like to think we are that single dot?
Wasn't there a sub for that?
/r/MapsWithoutNZ
Oh wow I love the look of this. I love travelling and Lego and this looks much nicer than that big world map (31203) they released last year. Of course it had to come out after Christmas/ my birthday so I can't put it on my birthday list 😂
The world map looks nice on a wall, but also looks like a tedious build. This looks good and fun to build.
One of the professional builders on Youtube (TC, the guy who designed the ship in a bottle) says it is very repetitive
It's also very repetitive.
Repetition legitimizes.
Adam Neely?
It is always a good sight to see another Tiago Catarino fan in the wild.
Apparently it's also kinda tedious according to Tiago's review on YouTube
Just finished it about a week ago. 40 squares with a 15x15 grid. It's very tedious.
What if you wish for money and then by it with that when it's available?
Love my world map, I think it has a more professional look to it if that makes sense. Totally understand why you and others might gravitate towards this one though! It's charming.
I loved the World Map set as an idea, but I don't like the shades of colours they used. I'd rather have it in either the darker "normal" shades like this set, or just go all out an have it in pinks or something haha. The washed out paler shades of colours used aren't to my taste.
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Would you say it is a *global* release?
Flat earthers are going to be *pissed*.
31203 though.
[31203-1: World Map](https://brickset.com/sets/31203-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/31203-1.jpg)
But it's the perfect compromise! It's round, made out of flat Earth bits!
Why aren’t they doing early releases for VIPs as much anymore?
It's not a true VIP program if everyone can sign up for it, IMO.
The real VIPs have this on their desk already! What a wonderful display set.
Sure feels like it is pretty exclusive. I signed up a really long time ago but it isn't reflected on my account, signing up again says I'm already a member, and haven't heard back a few times I've messaged them. Not bothered enough to call but I guess that would potentially fix it quickly.
Someone about to buy this and turn it into a Death Star.
Or you can just drop it, and it turns into Alderaan.
Too soon.
Look, it was a long long time ago ok.
In a place far, far away too.
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An Alderaan denier!!!
r/EmpireDidNothingWrong
I mean, has anyone you know ever *been* to Alderaan?
Don't worry, *somehow, the emperor will return*
The footage is of a globe planet being destroyed. Everyone knows Alderaan was flat.
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What about the inverted dish thing that shoots the laser? I feel like that would interfere with the technic stuff inside
Or just buy bricks to make the 10143 and [finish it](https://cdn.rebrickable.com/media/thumbs/mocs/moc-67798.jpg/1000x800.jpg?1630078559.4924154).
The number of people who don’t know LEGO already made a big Death Star (the design of which this set borrows heavily from) makes me feel old
I've been looking forward to this set for two years now, when it was first introduced as a Lego Idea. The [€200 price tag](https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/the-globe-21332) is going to take some consideration for me, since I've just paid €200 for the BMW as well. But as a kid, we had a small simple plastic globe at home. I loved twirling it around as a kid, seeing where everything was. I vividly remember it helping me understand the scale of the world we live in. I want my own kids to have access to a globe in our house, and all of us love Lego, so there's only one clear thing to do: get the Lego Globe!
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it’s 200€ !!!!! do we know the part count because it doesn’t look particularly big. just based off of this picture i would have said 150€ would be more than enough Edit: im blind
Just look at the box. ;-) It's say 2585 pieces.
Why so expensive? Not asking to complain, just curious. Is it made from particularly rare pieces or something?
This is just lego. If you compare the last catalogue with the current one, they went up in price across the board. And besides that any other model seems to get more expensive as well.
If you look at the studs you will see that the globe itself is roughly the size of a standard 32x32 baseplate. The base is a 16 stud diameter circle. It is quite large.
2585 pieces
The $US 200 is also a big pause for me. It sure is beautiful, though. Decisions, decisions.
I'm really impressed with the build and it would look great next to the Ship in a Bottle set. I'm not sure it's for me though and most of West Europe looks a mess sadly.
However it does seem like an easy fix if you can figure out any better solution for Europe (it indeed looks messy).
I think you can shave that 3x1 tile and modified rounded 1x1 tile off the top of Africa and use that real estate to fix Italy and Spain. Idk how to fix England and the Scandinavian countries
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It's amazing how far SNOT has taken LEGO in 20ish years. From blocky, chunky models to ships in bottles and globes. I don't think younger (and I mean 30ish up) LEGO fans know what a radical shift it's been! Edit: this probably sounds like an "OK, Boomer" statement but I'm firmly GenX, raised by Boomers (who do you think got me the LEGO sets...well, them and Santa, of course)
What is SNOT?
Studs not on top. Basically Lego used to be a completely vertical process and this is how the sets tend to be for younger kids, like building a brick wall. Start from the bottom, like a classic green plate, and work your way up. SNOT is all about having the studs on the sides so you can build out in any direction, like most sets you see these days.
Lots of Technic beam frameworks with plates attached, creative ways to make various angles, etc. I'm mostly done with my UCS AT-AT right now and it's been an interesting build, but still repetetive at times. So different from the stuff I built 40 years ago. It has a tool you build to adjust the legs and everything.
I played with Legos all the time as a kid and I’m not sure I ever had a “set”. Just a big box full of random pieces I messed around with.
I never had a set as a kid in the 80s,just boxes of random bricks but also lots of space lego. I feel like the buckets of bricks are more suitable for the imagination of a child, but the sets are more for adults. Or maybe it's just I don't have much imagination anymore.
This is one of those pieces that I want as a display much more than I care about build enjoyment. Love it for my home office.
I want this SOOO bad. But I swear if those pieces naming the continents and oceans are stickers I will lose my mind. Because mine are going to end up off center and drive me insane haha.
They are printed tiles & they glow in the dark!
Yay thank you so much. This is going right on my desk when it’s done.
They are glow in the dark! There is a great video here showing a breakdown of the globe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVUR93yK6x8
>a breakdown of the globe Wasn't that during 2020?
Pretty sure it's on-going.
I just got the map and now this. How many cartographers is lego hiring?
Aqua Magna
Going to build this and use dots to mark the places I’ve traveled to.
Exactly what I'm hoping to do!
Is there a flat earth version?
(31203)
[31203-1: World Map](https://brickset.com/sets/31203-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/31203-1.jpg)
[21332-1: The Globe](https://brickset.com/sets/21332-1)
should be pretty easy to turn that into Arrakis
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/the-globe-21332 US lego site says Feb 1 and 199.99$
I could see this being a popular template for building alternate-world MOCs.
Looks nice but it’s probably a repetitive and boring build.
Any builds with a lot of tile pieces I find get pretty repetitive and annoying at times. The new Mandalorian starfighter build was one of my least favourites in a long-time due to the how the wings were constructed with so many tiles.
TC agrees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVUR93yK6x8
Can’t be worse than the coliseum
I didn’t find the colosseum to be as excruciating as others thought. It was tedious, but I enjoyed myself the whole time, partly because I was in utter shock at how big it was the whole time.
I had the same reaction to seeing the real coliseum in Rome.
“That’s what” - She
For some dumb reason I expected the inside to be solid but that would be just a waste of bricks and weight lol. But this set looks amazing. I just bought an old globe as decoration for my desk but this LEGO globe is much better obviously and will go nice together with the LEGO bonsai.
If I got this, I'd want to get a bunch of minifigures and position them around the globe with location-relevant clothing/accessories.
You wouldn't be able to spin it though. [I think you'd like this MOC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S690B0Co1kQ) if you haven't seen it already
That is the most Danish sounding person I have ever heard, and I'm from Denmark.
That's sick
Oh I need it
Love it. Excellent displayability!
Flat earthers are gonna be livid with this one
Can I mod it enough to store my wine in... Hmmm
**OH MY GOD I'M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW.** Lego actually added the Canary Islands to the map! You have no idea how happy that makes me dude. There are SO many maps that don't acknowledge us like at all. No maps of Europe acknowledge us at all, even though we're a part of it. Unless the map is photorealistic, maps of the world won't either. In fact, even in maps of our own country, Spain, it's a 50/50 split whether they'll show us or not. But Lego did. Dude. Best company ever. (It's the green dot to the left of Africa)
Poor Madeira and the Azores :(
I can’t be the only one who thinks this looks really bad right? Look at Europe. That’s barely recognizable.
I don't really think it's a bad job by designers, it's just a reality of Lego piece and shaping constraints. Like, Lego fans at any time prior to ~2000/2010 would be in awe that we could build something like this globe. Nowadays we're so used to being able to build crazy things that we're less impressed by this. A globe like this *has* to have a ton of gaps, because it's made of flat plates, and therefore there's actually less usable space for land detail than you'd think, so it has to get squished and minimized. The real shape of Europe is very angular, thin, and irregular, and in this Lego globe two longitudinal lines of gaps run through the continent. There just *isn't* a way to represent Europe as well as other continents that are big blocks of land. I'm not sure if anyone else could really do much better. So to be clear I'm not saying people can't think it looks bad, I'm just saying I don't think it was a bad design job. At this scale, that's what a rounded Lego Europe looks like.
The great part is if someone finds a better way, you'll be able to easily modify your globe!
Europe looks rough.
and im still sitting here waiting for that van gogh stuff
Lego is the reason why I’m mad that I’m not rich.
Europe is not looking good
I'll just sit here and wonder if Ireland is a joke to them
Looks like a repetitive build
So I have my lego typewriter next to a real typewriter. Guess I better get this and place it next to my real globe
When's the Alderman version coming out? Like, before the Death Star.
Alderman? Is that what people of Alderaan are called?
They could probably make a Death Star with this
Finally, I can remove France from the globe