On Mastodon, @bullware sent me something amazing.
This is a concept put together by Terauma on the LEGO Ideas website, which collects projects designed by the community for voting. Some of these projects become reality, with the designer earning royalties. You know I voted before I even published this post.
At least these versions of NASA’s new rocket won’t be hamstrung by years of delay … probably.
A huge congratulations to Jaijai Lewis (aka LEGO The Office) as his The Office recreation has been selected as the next LEGO Ideas sets. This is a super interesting and entertaining television show that we feel is universally known and loved and Jaijai’s creation captures all the details of that story so well. It’s also very apparent to us how much desire there has been for a set like this after numerous submissions reaching review over the years. This time we had the opportunity and we jumped on it.
This morning, a new LEGO space shuttle went on sale:
This model honors STS-31, the flight that put the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit for the very first time. I love the way the LEGO Hubble looks.
collectSPACE interviewed LEGO designer Milan Madge, who led the project that has resulted in my latest LEGO purchase. It’s a great read, but this bit jumped out at me in particular:
The thing that really inspired that scale was the Hubble Space Telescope and the STS-31 mission because normally, when we do a space shuttle, the payload bay is kind of, well, I don’t want to say an afterthought, but it’s often smaller than it should be because of the constraints of working with LEGO bricks.
This looks great. It goes on sale February 1 for $69.99, and yes, I’ll be ordering one.
Jason Kottke just linked to this Wired video looking at LEGOLAND’s model shop. It features more than 3 million LEGO bricks in 70 colors.
LEGO periodically approves community-designed projects for official creation. This time around, a Beatles tribute and a 1-meter tall Saturn V rocket have been approved. I’ll be very interested in the second.
Andrew Liszewski at Gizmodo has linked to an amazing Lego Ideas project:
Number 5, a.k.a. Johnny Five, is the hero of the Short Circuit movies. Number 5 was one of five prototype robots, but after being struck by lightning gained a sense of awareness and free will. The multitude of his expressive abilities, combined with a youthful demeanor and thirst for knowledge (need more input!), made him an instant favorite with audiences in the 80’s.
I’ve been keeping my eye on this LEGO Ideas project page for a while:
This year is the 45 years Apollo 11 Moon-landing anniversary.
What a perfect time to present you the Saturn-V rocket which took the Apollo 11 crew to the moon out of Lego!
The whole Lego rocket is about 1 meter/130 studs high (aprox. 1:110 scale), has 1179 bricks and lots of features:
- removable 1st rocket-stage with the main rocket engine
- removable 2nd rocket-stage with rocket engine
- removable 3rd rocket-stage with the Apollo spacecraft
- Apollo spacecraft with the “Eagle” Lunar Lander and the Lunar Orbiter
- the rescue rocket on top of the whole spacecraft
- two minifigure astronauts on the Moon for displaying
The project has reached 10,000 votes, meaning it will be considered by the toymaker for possible production.
As the owner of a LEGO DMC-12, this little video really made me smile.
This is how I plan to roll around WWDC next year.