The INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - built with LEGO®! We can be hopeful that the LEGO® folks are onboard after the public campaign to give a generation of kids a remarkable project to build.
The LEGO® Review Begins
This project qualifies for the First 2015 Review, which includes projects that reach 10,000 supporters between early January and early May.
Lego Ideas 21321 International Space Station Speed Build
The review is a thorough process and from its start, and can take several months. When finished, we make a "go/no go" decision to develop and sell a product based on the International Space Station project.
When the review is complete, we will inform you of our decision. If green-lit, this project goes into the longest phase of the project; the Development phase. During this time, LEGO® model designers refine the product and develop it for release, we create the product materials (box, instructions, marketing), and get everything ready for a production run. This also takes several months.
We will post follow-up information and our decision here.
Will this project become real: ideas.lego.com
MAIN FACTS:
- Current configuration (without Nauka - will be subject to upgrades soon!)
- Modular concept: You can freely reconfigurate the station to your own ideas (might come with additional pieces to cover upcoming upgrades of the original station)
- Comes with 2 Soyuz and 2 Progress capsules
- Including astronauts and cosmonauts minifigures
PLAYABLE FEATURES:
- Turn the solar panels to always catch the best sun!
- Turn the radiator elements to best shade the habited modules and get rid of their heat
- Reconfigure the ELC racks to your needs
- Grab spare parts from the ESP racks
- Control the famous Canadarm to manoeuvre equipment and support the astronouts
- Attatch the OBSS to the Canadarm to do inspections of the stations hull
- Attatch the Dextre to help the Canadarm doing it's work
- Upgrade the station along with the upgrades of the real one
- Play the building of the station - that was quite some re-arranging to do!
- Soyuz/Progress capsules can now be departed into the three components of these vessels. Play return to earth with them!
MODEL SIZE:
- Featured model size: XL slightly more than 1000 pieces (stand not included. would be feasible, but ugly. probably best, to hang it from the ceiling)
POSSIBLE EXTENTIONS (for illustration):
- A Space Shuttle based on the deceased model 3367 (but heavily modified) could be attached to the PMA-Docking port (like the real one used to do)
- The Hubble space telescope is possible in the same scale (fits in the Shuttle's cargo bay)
- As it turns out, the rocket of set 3368 can be used to lift the Soyuz capsules to the ISS
- MIR and the upcoming Chineese Space Station may be included in the manual. There are enough bricks to build them alternatively!
- expect more to come!
