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This is comedy4cast, episode 871, Megabuild Lotsaparts.
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Comedy4cast is taking this time to provide you with some interesting,
yet totally useless odd news.
In fact, 2 Odd New stories that we think deserve each other.
So, let's have some fun with Odd News Times Twos.
LEGO Group recently released a Technic set of the Koenigsegg Shadair's Spear.
If that sentence sounds like refrigerator magnet poetry gone mad, let me explain.
Technic is a product line by LEGO.
Instead of including just the usual pieces you don't want to step on in the dark,
each set features additional interconnecting plastic rods and parts.
This way, LEGO can create advanced models of working vehicles and machines.
For example, some LEGO Technic sets include a working model that demonstrates
how the moon orbits the Earth and how they both orbit the sun.
They're still working on the Spiral Galaxy Expansion Pack.
There's also a deep-sea research sub with working propeller and grabber arm.
But the James Cameron action figure is sold separately.
One popular Technic line is the Ultimate Car Concept series,
and LEGO just added a Technic version of a concept car by Koenigsegg,
a Swedish avant-garde megacar and technology company.
The megacar in question is the Shadair's Spear.
You'll build the car's functioning 9-speed transmission, the V8 engine,
suspension, and on, and on, and on.
[ CLICKING OF LEGO BRICS BUILDS TO A CRESCENDO ]
Interested? What if I tell you the set costs $450?
Okay, what if I said the set comes with 4,104 parts?
Still not afraid? Did I mention the Builds Manual?
Part 1 is 496 pages long, and Part 2 is 480 pages long.
Whew, it doesn't get much more complicated than that.
Well, until we get to our second story, Swiss luxury watch and clock manufacturer
Vacheron Constantin directs your attention to The Berkley Grand,
the world's most complicated pocket watch. Literally.
In the world of timepieces, a complication is a function of the watch,
like the basic function of telling the time, or a stopwatch feature,
or having a revolving dial that tells the day of the week.
But the Berkeley Grand takes the idea to an absurd level by featuring a record-breaking
63 complications, including the world's first perpetual Chinese calendar.
Accurate through the year 2200. That calendar alone includes 11 individual calendars.
There's also a world time indicator, second time zone — northern or southern hemisphere,
Gregorian perpetual calendar functions,
a sky chart, split second chronograph, alarms, a Westminster carillon chime
with a way to set nighttime silence hours, and probably an espresso machine.
I'm not sure. It was really hard to get through all these specs.
The watch has 31 hands and close to 2,900 parts.
As you may have guessed, the Berkley Grand is not a very practical watch to
carry around in your pocket.
It weighs over two pounds and is two inches thick.
The price? Actually, the watch was commissioned, so no price is listed.
But we're thinking somewhere north of $50. So it seems the major thing that
can distinguish the Vacheron Constantin Berkley Grand watch from the Technic.
Koenigsegg Sidair's Spear LEGO set
is the fact that the watch is a standard, full-sized functioning machine.
Well, the LEGO team said, hold my brick separator and watch this.
Using 327,906 LEGO elements,
they built a full-size, drivable version of the Sedair's Spear.
Then drove it up Goodwood Hillclimb, a motorsport course in England,
achieving a top speed of over 68 miles an hour.
[ RACE CAR SPEEDS BY ]
So what did we learn today? Apparently, the LEGO Group can make anything full-size.
So personally, I can't wait to hear the brick count when the full-size version
of that Earth, Moon, and Sun set comes out.
[ THOUSANDS OF LEGO BRICKS SPILL OUT OF PACKAGES ]
We're going to need a pretty big dining table for that build.
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Original script voices and original music by me, Clinton Alvord.
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