hey Adam Savage here I have a clean beautiful brown paper work surface I'm
in my cave that can mean only one thing it's time for a one-day build and
today's one day build it's a quick one it is number one actually gonna take
place in a day number two it involves two of my favorite things in the world
one is NASA hence the helmet behind me and the
second thing is Legos the greatest story ever made yes it's time for me to build
the Apollo 11 lunar lander ah this is a beautiful kit I got excited the moment I
saw that Lego was releasing this and several friends of mine have already
built this and sent me pictures it's time for me to join in the fun so here
we go it's gonna be some some Lego building some storytelling and
definitely some building
this part of the equation is always the part that takes way longer than we want
it to so you feel like you're not making progress right you are you also start to
get a feel for the structure you start to see like every Lego build the
engineers of every Lego construction choose certain engineering techniques
for getting strange shapes and long curves and other things it's always
fascinating to see what pieces keep showing up to aid and abet that
engineering solution my exactitude of my nolan is always a battle between the
part of me that wants to do it perfectly and the part of me that just wants to do
it too just enough so i can start to build one of the things that's nifty
about Lego builds in general is that there's almost always even numbers of
pieces except for certain constructions the Yellow Submarine all odd numbers of
pieces all threes and fives and 7s well these prime numbers was totally
disconcerting
one thing I discovered in building with Norman will was that if you put parts
that are similar too close together so you can't tell that they're separate
parts you can actually get really bone as you be looking for a smaller thing
just that sometimes you can build things almost too closely all right it's not
the prettiest nulling I've ever done but in the interest of speed and expediency
it's going to be where we begin so let's take off show you oh it's black
oh there Gray's are really hard to tell apart I'm just gonna say it okay yeah
I'm not assembling the astronaut until last okay
on empty it's got a round table that's fabulous
right oh we've got a flag did they have a flag I'm putting that down last okay
that's going later okay now we are on to the actual lander itself so here we go
first thing is one of these the systemic thinking that Lego requires is a deeply
pleasurable kind of thinking for me it's uh harkens back to young me okay boink
boink boink and page 68 is done wait a sec wait a sec wait a sec what am I
missing ah I see what I'm missing okay
this is like meditation right yes this yes there we go now we're on it my
friend Sasha sent me a picture of her Lunar Lander that she built last week
and I was like ah so jealous want to jump on mine Oh neato oh that's cool
nice little bridge cabin in the center here like this yes they do
oh yeah and they clip in no way that's crazy look at that rink click look they
even right click click I would love at some point to interview a Lego designer
and find out how much they wake up in the middle of the night and go oh I know
the part I need I'm so sure that happens the lunar lander carried both fuel and
an oxidizer to ignite the hypergolic fuels since it is not possible to use
fuel that an oxidizer in space that and that and these are like fuel tanks and
they said oh that's it's like this and they sit like there oh that is beautiful
engineering oh look at that oh my hat is off to you unknown lego designer and
your team Oh beautiful so lovely ok moving on
yay first sticker okay so that goes there that goes there that goes there
and this whole thing that's a laser reflector oh right it's the
retroreflector haha I built one of those for
Mythbusters that's so funny by the way everyone in the world should
have a good pair of tweezers I particularly like tweezerman tweezers
they have the finest points and I've pulled out a lot of deep splinters with
those puppies okay so so I worked on um I worked on the film
space cowboys with Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland James Garner and at
ILM we made really one of the most accurate Space Shuttle models that I
think has ever been built for a movie it's a beautiful model and
we did a lot of camera testing to figure out what was the best looking gold right
you can't just use normal gold you got to do camera tests to make sure that the
gold you choose looks great on camera it's got to look like it doesn't matter
what it looks like in person it only matters what it looks like to the camera
and so we tried all these different gold foils to discover that the gold foil
that looked at the most realistic and looked at most like NASA gold is the
same gold foil they wrap Rolo candies and which means we bought cases in cases
in cases of roll Rolo candies caramel chocolate candies and then carefully
removed all the chocolate flattened out their wrappers and gave those to the
painters and the scenic people and to me to do all the detail work it also meant
that for like years in the ilm model shop we had row lows in the break room
for anyone who wanted to ruin their appetite I have eaten more row lows in
my time and I have a sweet tooth but I think I reached my limit but I still use
the when I do space modeling I still use the Rolo wrappers because to me it's
just what looks the most correct okay now
oh my god oh my god those are the landing legs I mean that's so cool I
tell you as I build this I'm thinking about Tom sacks and I think Tom you got
to build this set since you built your own LEM you got to build this one it's
pretty amazing great beauty all right rules passed mildly away and
whisper to their souls to go while some of their sad friends do say the breath
goes now and some say no so let us melt and make no noise no tear floods nor
sigh tempest Smoove tore profanation of our joys to tell the laity of our love
dull sublunary lovers love whose solace scents cannot admit absence because it
does remove those things which elementadd it but we to by a love so
much refined and door not yet a breach but an expansion like gold to Airy
thinness beat what am i I know this poem almost by heart simply because I've read
it so many times
oh my God look at that it's totally coming together no way it's
like the control panel oh my god and then this guy connects up to the other
side of this oh look at that they've done the inside you didn't even need to
see the inside and yet you can amazing
that guy yep he's planting the flag and this guy is coming down the ladder
that's buzz-buzz says hello he's action-oriented and here we are ha
ha that is a gorgeous gorgeous bottle that is really really beautiful my hat
is off to the lego engineers that did these the retrorockets are gorgeous that
is a very very satisfying build and a fine and wonderful addition to my apollo
shelf I should go on a Lego shelf Apollo shelf or a Lego shelf maybe Legos
I'm not sure I've got one of each ladies and gentlemen I bring to you Legos
Apollo 11 moon lander Lego build speed build we did that in two and a half
hours flat yeah you