...Interior Details
(Page Three)
Okay, so the front half of the Hall came together pretty well. The scale was consistent with the exterior, there was comfy seating, computers, and Justice. But if you were to walk into the Hall of Justice, this is the view you'd see:
There are some real problems with this sketch, particularly if you're an obsessive geek trying to convert a nearly forty year old television show into LEGO bricks. The first is the roof. See those clearly labeled windows? Well, they're supposed to be around the edge of the dome on the roof. Even allowing for a very goofy perspective, it would appear that the entire length of the hall fits in that dome - with at least the back 1/3rd of it cut off for the "Large Hangar/Garage" as indicated by the door on the rear of the Hall.
In "reality", working from the door-to-exterior mapping, the dome only reaches to the far edge of the central table.
Do you begin to see my problem? According to the source material, the interior of the Hall is about six times bigger than the exterior. It'd have to be - with the main interior taking up the full exterior length, where the heck did Batman park the Batmobile? Where did Wonder Woman stash her Invisible Jet? Or Superman park that goofy spacecraft with the retractable hands of his?
What did the Super Friends do with all the empty space in the main room, anyway? I suspect that Zan and Jana rented it out to the wedding receptions on the weekends.
Anyway, I decided to compromise and have the rear of my hall end in a big hangar door. Batman can deal with oil stains from parking the Batmobile on the carpet. Bruce Wayne's a billionaire. He can afford the cleaning bills.
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The above two shots show the door in "operation". In the cartoon this door would occasionally appear as a giant Bat-shaped hole as the Batmobile roared out. I decided to wuss out and just stick with the approximation of the interior detail rather than go for the Bat-exit. Besides, I bet that having a Bat-Exit really pissed Aquaman off.
Here's a more "aerial" shot of the rear of the hall. If you look closely you can see a break in the floor midway through the top triangle. That's the division between the grey base plate that holds the main Hall interior and the front facade and the smaller base plates that make up the garage door area. The back area actually "steps up" roughly a 1/3th of a brick as those are normal plates attached to green base plates (necessary to make the back wall flush with the side walls)
One last shot of the interior. You can see from the discoloration of the bricks on the side and back walls that I was nearing the bottom of my collection of 2x4 white bricks. Kind of makes me wish that they had gone all out with a Red-White-and-Blue color theme. Red and Blue, at least, don't show the weight of years.
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