The set designers have done an excellent job.
#Lego ecto 1 ideas windows#
The side windows are angled slightly, using a clever technique involving clips and bars. The sides of the body are mostly built using SNOT techniques, which keeps the tailfins nicely thin. The roof of the model can be easily removed, revealing an interior large enough to seat three of the figures (in tandem) and one or two proton packs in the back. The set’s version is impressively faithful to the original. I built my own larger scale version last year and spent a lot of time poring over photographs of details of all the equipment and lights mounted on the roof. On the set, however, the angle is just about spot on, but it does look a bit too tall.
On most, including Brent’s original, the windscreen is too steep. Ecto-1 is a popular subject and a lot of builders have built their own examples. This is a good thing in my book, but more about that later. The car in the set is a bit less smooth, but it is also a bit smaller. The 59 Cadillac is an icon of excess, known for its enormous aircraft-inspired tailfins and its ornate front, with a lot of chrome and double headlights.īrent’s original represented this look quite well and, as his own comparison picture shows, not much was lost when his design (on the left) was turned into the set (on the right).
#Lego ecto 1 ideas movie#
The real car used for the movie was a customised 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance conversion. Last week, while on a trip, I came across the set in a toy store in Germany (for €49.90 ) and decided to buy it. Pictures of the Ecto-1 set looked pretty good, however, and I was eager to have a look at the model in real life.
I think that the earlier Cuusoo Back to the Future DeLorean looked a bit disappointing compared to the design originally submitted to CUUSOO. It is imminently quotable and still funny, thirty years after it was released and the car is a moviestar in its own right. I’ve been a big fan of the movie ever since I first saw it as a child. Generally, I am not particularly interested in sets and LEGO CUUSOO/ LEGO Ideas does not do much for me personally, but I have to admit that I was stoked when I found out that the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 by Brent Waller passed the design review and that LEGO were going to turn it into a set.
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