Comments on: Build a model solar system

By: pete

pete — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:11:44 +0000

I laughed loudly at the piss poor quality of the mis bent rods supporting our planets. Laughing got louder when someone complained, or noticed, and the ad was edited.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:15:06 +0000

It would be cheaper to buy a decent telescope and see the real thing – No peeking at the sun though, page 3 will burn your eyes.

By: Billyo

Billyo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:48:12 +0000

Mind you, at least this model is built in only 52 issues, the whole thing therefore only costing £307.48!

I remember seeing one ad, it may have been for a model titanic (or something similar) came in about 250 issues at £3.99 a pop.

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:08:17 +0000

jon – someone, somewhere is reading that magazine right now…

Lin – That was very brave to admit. Thank you.

Keef – Good point, I didn’t realise the wealthy nerd market was so lucrative.

Glammer – There is nothing religious about this! I do it for my ego, nothing more!

Salvadore – Excellent, why waste time drafting a set-up when you can simply post the punchline and let everyone else do the work?

GH – What if the company goes bust halfway through?

Vikki – Ah, see point above, great minds and all that…

BBC – Are you calling us a bit ‘top-shelf’? Oh, SELF…

By: BBC

BBC — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:00:53 +0000

Our higher selves built this solar system, I’m not bothering to make a model one.

By: Vikki

Vikki — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:10:51 +0000

I love the fact that they call it a collectors item – it is, but only because you have to pay £5.99 a week to collect the bloody things. What they also fail to mention is that these magazine producers invariably fold after only a few issues, leaving you with some now useless model parts.

By: GH

GH — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:06:34 +0000

What’s even more annoying having been caught out by this sort of thing many years ago as a small child with limited pocket money, is that you have to buy every single issue for about 4 years just to be absolutely certain you’ve got all the pieces. Woe betide going on holiday for 2 weeks and missing an issue or two. And at the end of tthe day, whatever it is that you’re building is shite. You could have bought a better model, from a proper model shop, for a quarter of the price.

Fuxk ‘em all. I hope their dog gets rabies and goes all Cujo on them.

GH.

By: Salvadore Vincent

Salvadore Vincent — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:46:01 +0000

Something about Uranus.

By: Glammer

Glammer — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:45:28 +0000

No, you’re not a nerd. You just write a blog religiously every day on the internet about quantum mechanics and trains. Not nerdy at all.

By: keef

keef — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:40:02 +0000

It’s hardly surprising that it’s so expensive since in order to build yourself a model of the solar system you need a fairly sizable country estate to put it in.
On a scale of 1 inch per 100,000 miles you can represent the Sun with a bowling ball which puts Earth 26 yards away and Pluto a good half mile away.
We took the kids to Jodrell Bank years ago and they’ve got one there, the Sun is a pedestal in the car park, the outer planets are at the end of a nature trail through the garden, The kids insisted on finding them all so we ended up traipsing all over the place (in the rain I might add).
Any nerd who can afford to buy himself a country estate can buy some real bikini clad models to put in it never mind buy a magazine and hope for just a few pictures.

By: Lin

Lin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:38:55 +0000

I remember making one of these years ago, utterly boring!

By: jon

jon — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:07:05 +0000

it gets better if you look at the actual magazine in wh smith the small print at the bottom tells you its a weekly publication so that £1.99 for the first week and £5.99 every week after that who would be mad enough?!?