Tribute to Galileo Galilei revealed!
Posted by TheBrickPal,
An interesting new gift-with-purchase has been revealed on the Australian LEGO website: 40595 Tribute to Galileo Galilei!
The 307-piece set, based on the winner of an Ideas fan vote, should be available in November, although the spend threshold and duration of the offer are not yet confirmed.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments, and view more images after the break...
Update: The LEGO Ideas blog has announced that the set will be free with purchases of £130 / $130 / €130 or more from November 1st to 16th.
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Neat
Might get it second-hand, like I did with the Blacktron Cruiser.
I like it... I wish that lego made more dioramas this size for purchase
Is that a 4x4 tile behind Mr. Galileo?
Edit:
Did my research. It is 4x4 tile. Introduced in 2022.
Love those things. So far we got: Charles Dickens(2020), Amelia Earhart(2021), Jane Goodall(2022) and now Galileo Galilei(2023). There are so many more to do, I'm sure they could do 2 per year easy. Anyhow, I've got the first three and will sure try hard to get this one as well.
@ThisAndThat said:
"Is that a 4x4 tile behind Mr. Galileo?
Edit:
Did my research. It is 4x4 tile. Introduced in 2022."
https://brickset.com/parts/design-1751 indeed :)
Ugh… my fear is that they’ll make this available in early November, THEN have the Majisto promo for Black Friday… Fingers crossed we get to stack them…
Another excellent GWP... and still no shortage of Lego Exclusives on the wishlist... just as well the mortgage is paid off!
That is such a charming little play feature!
Is this the first time we have seen the earth printed on a minifig head?
The print is neat, but it looks small and unfinished to me . . . seems it could be a bit more ornate to represent a globe.
Yep, I’ll definitely be needing that :D
"Galileo Galilei. He sat in a cathedral in Pisa. He watched a lamp suspended from the ceiling as it oscillated back and forth. He used his pulse to keep time and discovered that the period of oscillation was independent of the size of the arc. A few years later he contradicted the theory that a heavier body falls faster than a lighter one. Which took some guts back in 1609, when you consider that the theory he was contradicting was Aristotle's."
—President Josiah Bartlet
@SinKiller_Nick said:
"Is this the first time we have seen the earth printed on a minifig head?
The print is neat, but it looks small and unfinished to me . . . seems it could be a bit more ornate to represent a globe. "
That printed head has been around a while now…
Crap. Bye bye money. This is a must-have for me. I really, really hope the purchase threshold is not going to be overwhelmingly high.
Love that little micro orrery and the printed head globe.
I guess the globe like from the ship in a bottle stand would’ve been too big.
I somehow hear Bohemian Rhapsody when I see this model. Specifically this part:
"I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity..."
@unslipped said:
"Ugh… my fear is that they’ll make this available in early November, THEN have the Majisto promo for Black Friday… Fingers crossed we get to stack them…"
If the rumors are true, i have bad news for you.
Looks fun. But will probably end up being used to add on to hogwarts castle. Galileo could be a hogwarts professor right?
My father "picked up" astronomy post-retirement (in truth, it's been a life-long interest that he's just never had the time to pursue), and is very much someone who appreciates where the field came from and what can still be done with the basics. Unfortunately he's not really a LEGO sort of person, but he loved the Marvin the Martian fig I gave him, so... I may give this a shot as a gift!
(And I'll try to snag one for myself off of Bricklink or something, of course)
@Murdoch17 said:
"I somehow hear Bohemian Rhapsody when I see this model. Specifically this part:
"I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity...""
And somehow that made me think of a certain movie. Maybe they just should have included an AMC Pacer in this set?
I absolutely love it, and I for one hope we can get more little scientists & genius' dioramas like this from time to time.
I'm ecstatic, can't wait to get it!
There is something strange about having a globe printed on a minifig head that I can neither pinpoint nor describe. It just weirds me out for some reason
Looks great! I would love if they did small dioramas like this for $20-25. As it stands, I won't be getting it.
@pretzemilia said:
"That is such a charming little play feature!"
Thanks for pointing it out! Your comment made me search for it: I completely missed it myself.
@Boettner_Builds said:
" @SinKiller_Nick said:
"Is this the first time we have seen the earth printed on a minifig head?
The print is neat, but it looks small and unfinished to me . . . seems it could be a bit more ornate to represent a globe. "
That printed head has been around a while now…
"
Not only has it been around for a while, there are two print runs of it. The first missed Japan and Hawaii. There was also a minifig head with the Systar stellar system from TLM2 on it.
As to this set, very nice.
Meh. Not bothered about getting this one. But I now have Bohemian Rhapsody playing in my head :/
@HOBBES said:
"Love those things. So far we got: Charles Dickens(2020), Amelia Earhart(2021), Jane Goodall(2022) and now Galileo Galilei(2023). There are so many more to do, I'm sure they could do 2 per year easy. Anyhow, I've got the first three and will sure try hard to get this one as well."
Been loving these sets too. I hope we get a Nikola Tesla one at some point. Would be pretty awesome.
@person_that_uses_brickset said:
"I like it... I wish that lego made more dioramas this size for purchase "
Do you prefer them not as Star Wars sets?
A Galileo Galilei Gallery.
@Rimefang said:
" @person_that_uses_brickset said:
"I like it... I wish that lego made more dioramas this size for purchase "
Do you prefer them not as Star Wars sets?"
I want all kinds of sets this size and cheaper Star Wars diorama collection offerings
@HOBBES said:
"Love those things. So far we got: Charles Dickens(2020), Amelia Earhart(2021), Jane Goodall(2022) and now Galileo Galilei(2023). There are so many more to do, I'm sure they could do 2 per year easy. Anyhow, I've got the first three and will sure try hard to get this one as well."
and don't forget 40579...
@WizardOfOss said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"I somehow hear Bohemian Rhapsody when I see this model. Specifically this part:
"I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity...""
And somehow that made me think of a certain movie. Maybe they just should have included an AMC Pacer in this set?"
My parents had an AMC Pacer when I was a kid. It was even light blue...no flames though sadly. But it was fun riding in the rear bubble. I was sad to see it go when they sold it.
This set is cool enough. I guess it will depend on purchase limit, but with multiple GWP coming out, this may get tricky. Especially since my LEGO budget is nonexistent now thanks to other life costs.
And who knows... Maybe even a Modular pre-order to throw into the mix to make any problem threshold!
This is the GWP I was expecting. I will buy to get 2 of them. Totally necessary in my office at the university!!
The inclusion of the cannonballs and the Tower of Pisa is simply great for history buffs. Will look to see if I can afford to pick this up for sure!
A legend of science.
Galileo's head was on the block
The crime was looking up the truth
And as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
I try to trace them to my youth...
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
King of night vision, king of insight
@StyleCounselor said:
"I call on the resting soul of Galileo"
You and me babe, how about it...
Oh no, wrong one...
Galileo Galilei said:
"Eppur si muove."
Such a nice set! A must.
And I wish they keep homaging greatest scientists of mankind.
It's so hard to understand why we can't buy them as regular sets for $29.99 or $39.99. We have to make the purchase on specific times, and it's sometimes I even have to step out of my vacation just to buy LEGO!
@Schmopiesdad said:
" @HOBBES said:
"Love those things. So far we got: Charles Dickens(2020), Amelia Earhart(2021), Jane Goodall(2022) and now Galileo Galilei(2023). There are so many more to do, I'm sure they could do 2 per year easy. Anyhow, I've got the first three and will sure try hard to get this one as well."
and don't forget 40579..."
I did not add 40579 because this was a GWP with a $600 threshold - which is a little bit ludicrous (still, there are 2000 Brickset members who managed to get one). Even recently, you could get the Gringotts extension without having to buy the Gringotts set. The mysterious ways of Lego....
I see November GWPs will also be unforgiving..
No moons of Jupiter? BOO!
@pedro_lego said:
"It's so hard to understand why we can't buy them as regular sets for $29.99 or $39.99. We have to make the purchase on specific times, and it's sometimes I even have to step out of my vacation just to buy LEGO!"
To wit.
The globe seems a bit too detailed for Galileo's time...
Guess it's not as bad an anachronism as the iPhone in the drawer, though. ;)
Historical Inaccuracy: Australia is featured on the globe, but Galileo died in 1642, about 140 years before the continent was discovered by Europeans.
I will have to get this one. Not only because I have all the sets tagged "Historic tribute" except for 40579 (10307 was just too big and expensive), but because astronomy and history (and thus, the history of astronomy) are two great loves of mine.
Head globe, they should use globe that was used in POTC theme
@Brickalili said:
"There is something strange about having a globe printed on a minifig head that I can neither pinpoint nor describe. It just weirds me out for some reason "
I felt the same, and it took me a while to figure out why: I think it's the fact that this globe isn't actually round, but features all continents on one side.
@ gsom7: If that piece is even still in production, they may have considered it too big, as @legoDad42 suggested.
@FlitzerMitDerPizza: I got one of the piece from PaB. Some of the continents are printed on one side, some on the other. Antarctica isn't on there at all, because of where the neck-hole is.
Not much people nowadays know how much Galilée brought to modern science and knowledge. How many of his works and innovative ideas have still application in our modern world. The A. Einstein of his time. He truly deserves a GWP IMO.
@HOBBES said:
"Love those things. So far we got: Charles Dickens(2020), Amelia Earhart(2021), Jane Goodall(2022) and now Galileo Galilei(2023). There are so many more to do, I'm sure they could do 2 per year easy. Anyhow, I've got the first three and will sure try hard to get this one as well."
You are missing 40291 Hans Christian Andersen.
So far Dickens was the best imho: most detailed one and great minifigures. This one looks great aswell.
Regarding Galileo's legendary experiment (c.1590) of dropping two different masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa (built 1173), alluded to the pearl-silver spheres on the left end of this vignette -- the scene is depicted at the "Terminal 21" shopping center in Pattaya, Thailand. The mall's concept is "each floor is a famous world city and the escalators are flights between them" and the three atriums contain, respectively, the Golden Gate Bridge, Eiffel Tower and Leaning Tower.
(FWIW, the six-story mall is an astonishing, over-the-top feat of themed retail entertainment. The airliner outside is the least of it: the indoor decoration surpasses that of Orlando theme parks, continued even unto the restrooms -- London Platform 9-3/4, Paris Metro, Italy Formula 1, San Francisco bakery, etc. The earlier "Terminal 21" in central Bangkok is the same idea but less intense.)
$130 spend threshold for this baby??
Heyyy…who brought the Time Machine????
@Briczk said:
" @HOBBES said:
"Love those things. So far we got: Charles Dickens(2020), Amelia Earhart(2021), Jane Goodall(2022) and now Galileo Galilei(2023). There are so many more to do, I'm sure they could do 2 per year easy. Anyhow, I've got the first three and will sure try hard to get this one as well."
You are missing 40291 Hans Christian Andersen.
So far Dickens was the best imho: most detailed one and great minifigures. This one looks great aswell. "
Despite the "Historic Tribute" tag, I don't think that 40410 actually fits within the "subtheme," since it doesn't come with a minifigure of Charles Dickens, himself. On that note, I do think that 21312 Women of NASA should be included in the subtheme/tagged list.
Weird he is displayed as an old man when he published his most important work when he was mid-forty...
ooooh i like this. but i don't think theres much i want to buy from lego atm so might just end up buying it off the secondary market
@Zink said:
"Why is he a fleshy....."
Because Galileo didn't have a yellow skin tone?
@Brickalili said:
"There is something strange about having a globe printed on a minifig head that I can neither pinpoint nor describe. It just weirds me out for some reason "
Agreed and here's why: as you look at the globe on the front box photo, Australia looks like a downturned agape mouth, while Malaysia and Papua New Guinea are the eyes with Indonesia providing a bruise under the eye of Malaysia and the Asian continent a giant head wound.
It would look great as a zombie head. 0_0
@graymattr
Well now I can’t unsee that!
@Murdoch17 said:
"I somehow hear Bohemian Rhapsody when I see this model. Specifically this part:
"I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity...""
just wanted repost that :)
Now I'm not going be able forget that...
I wish these weren't GWPs because I would be all over sets like this.
That doesn't look like the Galileo I know. Where are the nacelles?
This is really cool.
Definitely getting it...now whether I want to give 130€ to LEGO for it or 40€ to a BrickLink seller instead...that I'll have to think.
The only thing that would make this even cooler would be if LEGO had had the guts to throw in a member of the Inquisition XD
@HOBBES said:
" @Schmopiesdad said:
" @HOBBES said:
"Love those things. So far we got: Charles Dickens(2020), Amelia Earhart(2021), Jane Goodall(2022) and now Galileo Galilei(2023). There are so many more to do, I'm sure they could do 2 per year easy. Anyhow, I've got the first three and will sure try hard to get this one as well."
and don't forget 40579..."
I did not add 40579 because this was a GWP with a $600 threshold - which is a little bit ludicrous (still, there are 2000 Brickset members who managed to get one). Even recently, you could get the Gringotts extension without having to buy the Gringotts set. The mysterious ways of Lego...."
Actually, one of the major reasons why I actually bought the giant Eiffel Tower set was to get that GWP. Crazy, I know, but I really, really wanted that little office....
@missedoutagain said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"I somehow hear Bohemian Rhapsody when I see this model. Specifically this part:
"I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro, magnifico
But I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity...""
just wanted repost that :)
Now I'm not going be able forget that..."
So you're saying it will not let you go?
@bengal said:
"I absolutely love it, and I for one hope we can get more little scientists & genius' dioramas like this from time to time.
I'm ecstatic, can't wait to get it!"
Agree 100%!
That looks awesome!
@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"Historical Inaccuracy: Australia is featured on the globe, but Galileo died in 1642, about 140 years before the continent was discovered by Europeans."
That would be incorrect sir. The Dutch were sailing around and starting to explore Australia starting in 1606, well before Galileo's death. Would he have heard about these voyages to have such accurate globe? That seems unlikely. The full coast of Australia wouldn't mapped out until after James Cook's voyage at the start of the 19th century. James Cook landed in Australia in 1770 as you seem to have forgotten.
@starflyer59 said:
"I wish these weren't GWPs because I would be all over sets like this."
A lot of the GWP sets are way more interesting than retail sets. A lot more love put into them.
@starflyer59 said:
"I wish these weren't GWPs because I would be all over sets like this."
Of course there's a good chance that if sets like this didn't exist as GWPs, they wouldn't exist at all. Lego do their sums!