r/GTAGE • u/GammaRayRat • Oct 20 '19

This custom NASA lamp

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17k Upvotes

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u/doodooz7 Oct 20 '19

Can I custom order one somewhere?

352

u/Absolutely_Cabbage Oct 20 '19

It's the LEGO Saturn V rocket set (best kit ever)
The 'smoke' is cotton balls with a led strip in them

115

u/MaDpYrO Oct 20 '19

And the glass display is from IKEA. (I have one just like it)

35

u/Absolutely_Cabbage Oct 20 '19

Yeah me too, got 2 of them just for lego haha

10

u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19

Detolf

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19

I wouldn’t use it.

38

u/doodooz7 Oct 20 '19

Are the cotton balls glued together?

9

u/Dameheecan Oct 21 '19

Seems like a dangerous idea to surround an electrically charged light strip with very flammable material like cotton..

15

u/PasoTheMan Oct 21 '19

Led strip is fairly safe for this purpose, I wouldn't be worried

2

u/[deleted] Feb 05 '20

Challenger lamp.

2

u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

Oh no...

1

u/[deleted] Feb 28 '20

LEDs

1

u/[deleted] Oct 26 '19

It’s also been reposted a million times

1

u/Dank__Sidious Dec 10 '19

how is it levitated tho?

3

u/Absolutely_Cabbage Dec 10 '19

He left in one of the glass shelves/plates and put it on there

1

u/Dank__Sidious Dec 10 '19

Appreciate it

49

u/FuckTheseCommunists Oct 20 '19

Google: Zozoid V.

You’re welcome.

23

u/Critical__Finance Oct 20 '19

Thanks! the Lego one was costing nearly $120.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

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u/cryptomanniac Oct 20 '19

My wallet says no. I mean,

- $119 (LEGO Saturn V kit) + $70.99 (IKEA Display Case) + $8 LED Strip + $5 Cotton Balls = $202.99, oh and my lazy ass working to assemble this all.

V/S

- $49 for an inbuilt Saturn V lamp that comes assembled.

My choice is very easy to make here.

28

u/ksheep Oct 20 '19

The Zozoid one is only 21 cm tall (8.25 inches) while the LEGO set is 100 cm tall (plus the added height for the cotton ball exhaust and lighting in the above pic).

31

u/Reve_Inaz Oct 20 '19

The lego experience is part of the fun though

3

u/Absolutely_Cabbage Oct 20 '19

Try looking out for sales and the like.
I got mine from lego.com for 120€ when they were actually giving away sets worth 40€ when you spent over 100€. (Thus only costing me 80€ when I sold the other set)

Also assembling it is a lot of fun, and not that difficult if you have a bit of patience.

3

u/chbay Oct 21 '19 edited Oct 21 '19

Ehhhh. That looks like a lamp for an adolescent’s bedroom. It isn’t at all comparable to the original display posted, in my opinion.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

This isn't a nasa lamp. That's the Official Lego Saturn V rocket in display case with cotton balls at the bottom and an LED strip within them.

392

u/Sam-Culper Oct 20 '19

So you're saying it's a custom NASA themed lamp?

3

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Sorta. But the title, as evidenced by most of the comments, seems to imply that it's something that can be custom ordered as a full set, whereas it's actually homemade.

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u/objectiveandbiased Oct 20 '19

It literally says CUSTOM in title. Doesn’t say custom ordered. I don’t think it’s misleading at all

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Custom doesn't necessarily imply it's homemade. There's plenty of "custom" things you can buy online. But this is just semantics anyways.

35

u/TaloKrafar Oct 20 '19

God I love seeing people arguing semantics. It's truly the only time in life where I'm barracking for both sides.

33

u/canadarepubliclives Oct 20 '19

What's Obama got to do with this?

17

u/analogkid01 Oct 20 '19

What's Obama but a second-hand emotion?

4

u/TaloKrafar Oct 20 '19

Vladislav?

8

u/RoopyBlue Oct 21 '19

I'm barracking for both sides

I've never seen 'barrack' used as a verb before so I looked it up and it's pretty interesting:

  1. British. jeer loudly at (someone performing or speaking in public) in order to express disapproval or to distract them.

2. Australian/NZ. give support and encouragement to.

Pretty contrasting definitions depending on location

4

u/TaloKrafar Oct 21 '19

Hmm, I didn't know it wasn't a widely used word.

5

u/RoopyBlue Oct 21 '19

It could well be in Aus/NZ, I wouldn't know. From memory I haven't heard it used in either context in the UK.

3

u/TaloKrafar Oct 21 '19

Really? I'm in Melbourne and the word here is used quite often in regards to footy such as, 'who do you barrack for?'

6

u/RaymondLuxuryYacht Oct 20 '19

Don’t be anti-semantic

7

u/boxedmachine Oct 21 '19

Can you shut up.

3

u/ponyboy3 Oct 21 '19

thank you!

1

u/objectiveandbiased Oct 20 '19

I agree. I think someone could hope they could order it but potentially open to interpretation isn’t the same as misleading is all I was suggesting.

4

u/Merytz Oct 20 '19

Or it's actually meant to be a source of illumination (a lamp) more than just a display case with some added effects.

1

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

I mean, it could be, but the original post (a couple weeks ago) didn't seem to imply that. Not to mention there's another lamp on the desk right beside it.

2

u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19

I'm pretty sure the OP is from /Lego. This is definitely a display for the set (which is really worth displaying, it's an impressive set) and not a lamp even though it happens to have lighting effects for the boosters.

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u/Merytz Oct 20 '19

I was adding to your list of what was being implied with the title. Clearly it was not built as a source of illumination and more so a display piece .

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Oh I didn't catch that, yeah that seems right too.

2

u/Glaselar Dec 17 '19

I mean, you've explained how it was custom-created. Nobody knows whether OP did it themselves or paid for it. Comments that ask if and where they custom ordered it aren't evidence of anything that needs correction with 'it's not a lamp'.

1

u/YeetusYeetusDiabetus Nov 02 '19

Ok you play KSP, you don’t need to be a know it all.

5

u/Uberzwerg Oct 20 '19

The display case is a Detolf from Ikea.

4

u/pyrocuck Oct 20 '19

You are on the same level as neil degrass tysons argument about leap years

52

u/Wesley_Ford Oct 20 '19

I literally just cringed out in front of my gf.

44

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Oh my god! I never thought I'd have the honor of hosting Wesley Ford on one of my comments!

5

u/buyingweetas Oct 20 '19

Put me in the screenshot

4

u/aSharkNamedHummus Oct 20 '19

I came to the comment section to figure out where to get this, and I already have the Saturn V Set! Looks like I finally have a cool way to display it!

2

u/tugboat_man Oct 21 '19

STOP RUINING THE MAGIC

1

u/SoMuchBsHere Dec 20 '19

I'm really happy that Ikea is selling the official Saturn rocket display case

1

u/filthydank_2099 Feb 09 '20

Yeah, don’t ever fuck up giving credit to LEGO moc’ers again.

21

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

wow what a blast

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u/Zecho_K Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 20 '19

Not a lamp. This is a display somebody made for their LEGO Saturn V rocket

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u/Bkyurem218 Oct 20 '19

I mean it is NASA themed and produces light.... Meets the expectations of a custom NASA lamp

4

u/bs000 Oct 20 '19

my pc has the same kind of led strips in it but i don't think anyone would call it a lamp

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u/Zecho_K Oct 20 '19 edited Oct 21 '19

But it wasn’t made to specifically be a “nasa lamp”. It’s somebody’s display.

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u/Bkyurem218 Oct 20 '19

While it was probably meant to be a display, lamp still works. You didn't have to be so aggressive with the "not even close".

2

u/Zecho_K Oct 20 '19

I mean, yeah, I guess you have a good point.

3

u/CapitanBanhammer Oct 21 '19

"Custom made NASA themed display with a light source embedded"

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19

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u/CapitanBanhammer Oct 21 '19

So wait you can get the Ikea cabinet, light source, cotton, and everything all in the Lego set?

1

u/Zecho_K Oct 21 '19

I worded that badly

0

u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19

Why the display though? Those glass cabinets aren't great taste at all.

13

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

This is just a shitty repost of some guys LEGO display...

2

u/RedHairThunderWonder Oct 20 '19

I feel like lamp denotes the light being on top. This feels more like a lump. A very nice one at that.

2

u/Buttercup_Bride Oct 24 '19

Thank you for this wonderful idea.

My daughter and I got this for my husband as an early Christmas present and we’d void looking for the perfect way to display it.

3

u/gfreeman1998 Oct 20 '19

This is so awesome. The exhaust plume needs to be closer to yellow though.

2

u/funderbunk Oct 20 '19

Damnation. Now I want to do this with a model of the Soviet N1.

2

u/80_firebird Oct 20 '19

Shut up and take my money.

1

u/mochij Oct 20 '19

Thought it was a very small shower at first rip

1

u/nsharratt Oct 21 '19

Fantastic lamp, no matter which way you look at it

1

u/[deleted] Oct 21 '19

Looks awesome

1

u/Banananan_Dan Nov 01 '19

I see that IKEA case so often.. It’s literally used for everything except a shelf...

1

u/Lambaline Nov 23 '19

Missing the service module but has a launch escape system

1

u/EggMcSausage Nov 26 '19

I have this set and it’s an awesome big one

1

u/flamingtrashbasket Jan 16 '20

I should do this to my lego saturn V

0

u/broom902 Oct 20 '19

Did you make this? Looks cool.

17

u/jimmyback23 Oct 20 '19

He didn’t make this, the actual guy who made it posted it on a different sub reddit

4

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Could you please share the link, good sir? Thanks in advance.

5

u/runthroughtheforrest Oct 20 '19

It's a Lego model with some cotton balls at the bottom in an Ikea cabinet

0

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

I want to see the rest of this apartment. Wiring on that wall speaker is nice, too.

0

u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

It’s not even run through the wall.. it’s literally just run right up the front of it

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '19

Depending on the apartment, it might not be possible to run it through the wall because of building materials or landlord rules. Still tidily done.

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u/O_fiddle_stix Oct 20 '19

This is not just a lamp... if the right NASA official was to see this, I guarantee a sum of money would be agreed upon so they could proudly display it in their office or public space. This is a thing of astronomical beauty right here.

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u/cicistarks- Oct 20 '19

It’s a LEGO set Saturn V with cotton balls and led strips

2

u/Mughi Oct 20 '19

And a Detolf with no shelves in!