Lego launches International Space Station with rotating solar panels and tiny astronauts:
It took NASA and its partners many years to assemble the International Space Station. You should be able to pull off the Lego version of the feat in much less time.
Lego announced on Tuesday it will launch an 864-piece plastic-brick version of the ISS on Feb. 1.
The ISS set includes three cargo spacecraft, two astronauts microfigures and a tiny NASA space shuttle. The space shuttle is outdated technology at this point, so you'll have to craft your own Soyuz, SpaceX Crew Dragon or Boeing Starliner to get with the times.
"The realistic set features a posable Canadarm2 and two rotating joints that coincide with eight adjustable solar panels, to replicate the out-of-this-world complexity of the real space station that orbits the Earth sixteen times a day," Lego said in a release.
The station measures out to 19 inches (49 centimeters) wide when assembled.
(Score: 3, Informative) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday January 23 2020, @05:13PM (6 children)
If I'm reading it correctly the price is only $69.99. That is rather surprising for an 864 piece kit. I remember back in the day ("the day" being the early 80s) 200 piece kits costing $125.00. Going to the link mentioned in the press release https://www.lego.com/en-us/InternationalSpaceStation [lego.com] yields a 404 right now, but this link works https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/international-space-station-21321 [lego.com] .
If I had the time to do it, today I'd get something like this instead: https://www.ebay.com/p/691186993?iid=283680462920&chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=283680462920&targetid=856845804380&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9022129&poi=&campaignid=6470719577&mkgroupid=81597521270&rlsatarget=pla-856845804380&abcId=1140476&merchantid=6296724&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6Ia5sJqa5wIVD9bACh2rdg4IEAQYAyABEgIoJ_D_BwE [ebay.com]
Or if I could afford $500-$600...
https://www.ebay.com/c/710096601 [ebay.com]
Oh, well. I can dream...
This sig for rent.
(Score: 4, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 23 2020, @05:20PM (4 children)
I saw that too, but I'm guessing that well over half of those 864 pieces are tiny solar panel parts...
If I had the money, I'd go to the ISS in person, anything less is... less.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 23 2020, @05:54PM (3 children)
FTFY
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday January 23 2020, @06:58PM
You can even get your customized lego figure with your head and place it in there. Then tell everyone you're regularly in the ISS...
Dangit... that's about $100. Now I think I have to do it....
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday January 23 2020, @06:58PM
Wups... Must not have closed the link! https://www.etsy.com/listing/637017236/your-head-on-your-favorite-super-hero?gpla=1&gao=1 [etsy.com]
This sig for rent.
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 23 2020, @09:36PM
They've got a 1:1 model in Houston that they develop procedures on. I hear tell it has cardboard panels...
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by evilcam on Friday January 24 2020, @03:23AM
This is an important post that needs to be upmodded Informative...
My wife is probably gonna have a crack at me for this purchase, but this information is exactly the kind of insight I need to spin it as an economical buy.
Thanks!!