You may not be a fan of stickers in LEGO sets, but you can’t ignore the beauty of those created for the set. More than 15 years later I’m still a fan of old backpacks used in 10029 Lunar Lander set.Ĭompared to the quality and quantity of patterns and details on the lander itself, unfortunately, the design of the minifigures feels like the weakest part of the set. They look way too sci-fi and has Technic holes right behind a minifigure’s head, which looks nothing like the real life support system backpack. As for the massive helmet pieces (which is usually referred to as an underwater helmet), I don’t see them as the top pick for LEGO version of Apollo space suits. The figures in set are just a couple of generic LEGO minifigures in space suits, so it’s up to you if you want to identify them with the real astronauts.īoth figures can boast brand new torso patterns with NASA logo. The story goes that the first two humans to visit the moon were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. This is when it becomes clear that you are about to build a very detailed copy of the famous lander. What really impressed me was a side-by-side comparison of the real lunar lander and a brick-built one including notes of various parts of the spaceship. With a recent trend of enormously large sets, it’s safe to say that a 1,000-piece set is a mid-sized one, hence the box is neither bulky, nor heavy. The set consists of 1,087 pieces, includes two minifigures of astronauts and retails at US $99.99 | CAN 139.99 | UK £84.99, and is currently available with a special promotion of a commemorative LEGO Apollo 11 patch. Now celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, LEGO is taking us back to the moon with a very special LEGO Creator Expert 10266 NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander set. The memorable LEGO Discovery line-up brought us models of the most amazing human-made space ships and commemorated the landmarks of space exploration, and LEGO’s first Lunar Lander was way back in 1976. But it turns out kids (and adults, too!) are fascinated with the real spacecrafts just as much as sci-fi ones. Throughout the decades of play bizarre space sub-themes like Insectoids, Ice Planet 2002 and Spyrius have appeared. It all started with 801 Space Rocket set released just three years after the first human spaceflight in 1961. Along with Town, Castle, and Pirates, the theme of space exploration has always been one of the pillars of LEGO philosophy.
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