LEGO Project Hail Mary announced!

WOW, probably my most hyped set of the year. Its my favourite book and the film looks stellar (excuse the pun)

My only gripe is it's maybe a bit small for £100 but other than that wow, knocked it out of the park.

Not a want but a need!

I never made it past the first part of the book where we watch our hero torturously figure out that he's woken up on a spaceship - the suspense of which for the reader is absolutely zero given the author saw fit to provide a diagram of the ship he's on on page one.

Bit of an odd partnership but hey, if fans of the book like it, more power to them. As a model it looks rather jumbled to me, but that minifig looks top notch. I'm a sucker for a red space suit.

Ok, I don't know the reference/book for this set, but I like it. I'll try to get it with a bit of a discount.

I'm really hoping for the murderbot diaries (All Systems Red). I haven't seen the shows but the books were unbelievable!!
but we might already have the murderbot diaries in another form, because in the book, the Graycris people wore Green, Blue, and Yellow uniforms... sound familiar?!?!

I love Andy Weir books, so this seems must have but being honest it does very little for me as I prefer minifigure scale. I am not sure this will sell well and thats makes getting a Martian set less likely, which is a shame as it has a lot of potential for Lego sets.

Amaze amaze amaze!

Happy happy happy!!!

@myth said:
"That trans clear hexagonal “artefact” is a sticker, right? I so much don’t like stickers on trans clear pieces"

I can't tell for certain (since Lego changed their render pipeline on transparency/refraction) but it appears to be a print by its limited pallet, lack of a 3D border, and how it goes basically to the edge of the element. Everything else on the set appears to be a print as well.

Given humanity's current stellar travel speed getting to Tau Ceti system would take around 70000 years so I guess the title is aptly named.

@Heriol said:
".... am I missing something? "

Yes, Lego is expensive.

Don't worry though you're very much not alone on here not realising that.

@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
... I thought Lego had a restriction on religious sets,....

Evidently not!!

@pilot63 said:
"What the hell is this new thing where the LEGO MSRP in euros is now 30% higher than in US dollars?"

Apparently in LEGOLAND $100 US equates to $180 Australian. It’s actually closer to $143.

@benbacardi said:
"The film trailer and these related announcements completely spoil one of the best reveals in a book I've read in a long time! It's such a shame, I think the film will be so much better for those going in without a clue about Rocky.

The set looks good, though!"

It also spoils the mystery at the start of the book. Agree that the best way to watch the movie for anyone having not read the book is to ignore the trailers and, oh, the reveal of this set :D

One of the Martian Lego Ideas sets could be interesting, with space buggy and habitat. Whereas not sure why this satellite looking spacecraft that few have heard off is preferred to any of the Sci-Fi spacecrafts from Space Odyssey to Alien.

This was very unexpected and quite surprising. The movie looks intriguing.

Completely oblivious about that movie, but thsi looks cool regardless. And aren't those the best sets, the ones you can like despite not caring about the source material? Could be this year's Tallneck. Well, except for its price/value, that is.....

@AustinPowers said:
" @Andrusi said:
"I know it's not the point, but the characters having their own little stand modules that can either attach to the main stand or combine into a separate little scene is really neat.

@pilot63 said:
"What the hell is this new thing where the LEGO MSRP in euros is now 30% higher than in US dollars?"

You need to check your math."
Why? At the current exchange rate it's almost exactly 30% more expensive in Euro than in US Dollars.
110 Euros currently equates to 130 US Dollars. "

Ah, I misread and thought they were saying the euro *amount* was 30% higher than the dollar amount. Clearly I shouldn't comment before I've had my caffeine.

@xoddam said:
"I hadn't quite picked up on what this movie is going to be, but having done so now because of this set, I'm very excited for it. A Lord and Miller-directed, Ryan Gosling-starring film based on a book by the author of The Martian? Sign me up!
And the set is pretty nice too."

Great book, also read Artemis (not the rocket) from Andy Weir

No minifigs (or skeletons) for his other crew members? Seriously, though, this set is a welcome surprise.

Now do The Martian, so we can have Matt Damon, Matt Damon. then Artemis book.

@Brickset Did you guys turn off the function for tracking Amazon prices? That was so useful. I used to see the current prices of "Items on my wanted list" on the right side in a small table. It's gone from my frontpage.

Looks good but again, it is too expesive for a few standard pieces and a minifig.

I am an avid reader but hadn’t read any Andy Weir until I picked up Hail Mary a couple of years ago. It was one of the most enjoyable reads I’ve ever had so I highly recommend it to everyone here. He’s only written 3 books so far but he’s batting an easy 1.0000 for me.

I’m surprised and disappointed, though, with how they’re marketing this film as one of the best aspects of the book is how the story slowly reveals itself. I’m nervously hopeful that they find a way to tell the great story. Their work on 21 Jump Street, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The LEGO Movie, and some amount of Solo gives me hope. What the Russos did to the Gray Man gives me fear.

From a LEGO perspective, I’m not sure I understand the draw of the set and certainly not the timing. It almost feels like they’re desperately trying to get ahead of a movie whirlwind with whatever they could throw together, like releasing a rudimentary Rose and Jack vignette in early 1997 just in case it hits. Time has shown us, though, that you really can’t capture that lightning in a bottle. For every My Big Fat Greek Wedding and The Greatest Showman, you get 20 A Sound of Thunder.

Seriously over-priced! It's only 9" long, about the width of a sheet of Letter or A4 paper.
It looks like there's more parts in the elaborate stand than in the actual spaceship...

Looks neat but the only reason I'm aware of the book/movie is from when this set leaked a while back. I dig sci-fi but I've heard very little about this.

The price is one thing, as many has pointed out. But 830 pieces? I really cant see where they managed to hide those.

I had never heard of this movie or book, but it sounds interesting. So that's a marketing success. I now know about it. But the set? Probably not for me.

love the book and looking forwards to the film so this is exciting

If you have not read the book, I highly recommend the audiobook. It was performed by Ray Porter and won audiobook of the year. The book itself also won multiple awards. I personally thought the story was better than The Martian.

OK, this is cool! I'm happy that other people will be able to get it.
I'm glad I was able to read the book before Rocky became an open secret/not a spoiler.

@N_cat said:
"It’s funny, the book specifically says they can’t have the crew module spin like that, it’s too small and would be too hard to include, so the whole ship splits and extends on cables and just circles a shared point.

I wonder if the change was made by the movie or if the flipping was too hard for Lego to include in an orrery like this."
I thought the front section would have looked different too, more bullet-shaped and the same diameter as the rest of the ship. Creative film license, I guess, that doesn't seem like it would detract.

@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"Anyway, it's nice to finally see a set made for us Roman Catholic AFOLs. I thought Lego had a restriction on religious sets, but here we are. Hopefully next up is a Pope Leo XIV vignette."

6026 ?

@AustinPowers said:
"What I find funny is that - once again - LEGO marketing is calling this thing "iconic".
Maybe it's just me but before this article I had never heard of this ship nor did I know the source material.

Imho something that is supposed to be "iconic" is something most people will have heard of and/or seen.

Things I would call iconic:

VW Beetle
Darth Vader
RMS Titanic
Eiffel Tower
Statue of Liberty
Big Ben
Mickey Mouse

among many others.

This ship for me fails to meet the criteria for an iconic object. "

Every set from LEGO Icons is Iconic. :o)

What they meant to say is that this set will take you on an immersive journey of creativity and exploration.

This makes me wonder how many other movies released since my stroke I've missed that I would have been interested in. I can't make it out to the theater, so don't see trailers unless they happen to be attached to be YouTube videos that I watch. Obviously I hear about a lot of them (when there's very little to do all day but browse the Internet and build Lego sets it's unavoidable), but I'd imagine that a good few still slipped by me. But anyway, I loved The Martian (both the book and the movie), and with Lord and Miller involved too, I'll probably at least end up getting the book and, if I like it enough, buying the Blu-Ray.

@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"Anyway, it's nice to finally see a set made for us Roman Catholic AFOLs. I thought Lego had a restriction on religious sets, but here we are. Hopefully next up is a Pope Leo XIV vignette."

This isn't about religion, it's about gridiron football.

@AustinPowers said:"What I find funny is that - once again - LEGO marketing is calling this thing "iconic".
Maybe it's just me but before this article I had never heard of this ship nor did I know the source material.

Imho something that is supposed to be "iconic" is something most people will have heard of and/or seen.

Things I would call iconic:

VW Beetle
Darth Vader
RMS Titanic
Eiffel Tower
Statue of Liberty
Big Ben
Mickey Mouse

among many others.

This ship for me fails to meet the criteria for an iconic object. "

Yeah, if you told me to name an iconic fictional spaceship, I wouldn't have mentioned this, even if I'd heard of it before seeing this article. I would have named the Enterprise, or the Millennium Falcon, or the Discovery One from 2001: A Space Odyssey, or the Nostromo from Alien, or something else that's been around for at least twenty years.

An icon derives from Greek and literally means "image." Modern usage in the "iconic" sense means "a sign whose form directly reflects the thing it signifies."

I understand the notion of an icon to mean something that inherently captures a large concept just by its own existence. Captain America's shield is iconic because you, the viewer, are very much able to contemplate the concept of the character just by looking at three circles and a star. Much of Star Wars is iconic because the characters and ships are synonymous of the whole concept. If you see R2-D2, you see Star Wars. If you see Darth Vader, you see Star Wars.

So anyway, a generic ship from a yet unreleased movie is difficult to call iconic. Maybe it will be, but way too premature to call it that.

The $800 Millennium Falcon? Sure, that's iconic.

Glad to see the https://brickset.com/parts/4540386/roof-tile-w-lattice-1x2x2-3 used.
Far less used than it should be nowadays.

As a comparison 21321-1 International Space Station from 2020 was £60 for 864 pieces.

@TheOtherMike said:

"This isn't about religion, it's about gridiron football."

From Wikipedia:

"Crowley often told the story of a game between Notre Dame and Georgia Tech on October 28, 1922, in which the Fighting Irish players said Hail Mary prayers together before scoring each of the touchdowns, before winning the game 13–3. According to Crowley, it was one of the team's linemen, Noble Kizer (a Presbyterian), who suggested praying before the first touchdown, which occurred on a fourth and goal play at the Georgia Tech 6-yard line during the second quarter. Quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, another of the Horsemen, threw a quick pass over the middle to Paul Castner for the score. The ritual was repeated before a third and goal play, again at Georgia Tech's 6-yard line, in the fourth quarter. This time Stuhldreher ran for a touchdown, which sealed the win for Notre Dame. After the game, Kizer exclaimed to Crowley, "Say, that Hail Mary is the best play we've got." Crowley related this story many times in public speeches beginning in the 1930s.

On November 2, 1935, with 32 seconds left in the so-called "Game of the Century" between Ohio State and Notre Dame, Irish halfback Bill Shakespeare found receiver Wayne Millner for a 19-yard, game-winning touchdown. Notre Dame head coach Elmer Layden, who had played in the 1922 Georgia Tech game, afterwards called it a "Hail Mary" play."

It doesn't look particularly good, just a lot of white cylinders so a bit like a bundle of toilet rolls. If the movie is interesting, it might be something worth having on display. But if the movie flops, then will people want it on display. If you want those cylinders, then it will be a good parts pack but doesn't seem to offer much else.

If ever a set needed a sound brick, it's this one.

@CapnRex101 said:
" @ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"Brickset yesterday: Lego should time sets to coincide with film releases.

Brickset today: ______?"

The solution is obvious: the only sets ever released for any given film should be launched on the same day as the movie and there should be no more sets produced after that. Of course, the release dates for films vary around the world and the sets' availability should reflect that, with slightly different release dates in each country.

I foresee no problems with this strategy."

I’d say that if people are not recognising the movie name or the subject says much more about the movie marketing than bricksetters…

I love it whenever Lego does a random one off licence.

So peak.

As others said, please read the book! Looking forward to the movie.

If I’m very, very lucky, this film will do well enough they finally make the Artemis film, and don’t think I haven’t noticed that the two Andy Weir books with white guys as leads got adaptations but poor Jazz is left in the cold despite being demonstrably cooler than either of them, and the set will do well enough I get a nice The Martian set *and* then an Artemis set when they make the film. Which they’ll do. Hopefully.

(Also while they’re doing lowkey but tense space-based sci fi I would like a Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty adaptation too, please.)

Anyway unless the adaptation turns out to be terrible this is probably a must-have for me. Andy Weir is a fun writer, and it’s always nice to see Campbell/Astounding Award winners do well. Especially when you voted for them.

@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"...So anyway, a generic ship from a yet unreleased movie is difficult to call iconic. Maybe it will be, but way too premature to call it that..."

I don't know, isn't it iconic? Like rain on your wedding day.

(Puts on his coat)

@AustinPowers said:
"What I find funny is that - once again - LEGO marketing is calling this thing "iconic".
Maybe it's just me but before this article I had never heard of this ship nor did I know the source material.

Imho something that is supposed to be "iconic" is something most people will have heard of and/or seen.

Things I would call iconic:

VW Beetle
Darth Vader
RMS Titanic
Eiffel Tower
Statue of Liberty
Big Ben
Mickey Mouse

among many others.

This ship for me fails to meet the criteria for an iconic object. "

Icons = anything LEGO isn't willing to commit a whole theme to.

@Hiratha said:
"I haven’t noticed that the two Andy Weir books with white guys as leads got adaptations but poor Jazz is left in the cold despite being demonstrably cooler than either of them"

Most people would rightly rank the other two books above Artemis, although I hope it is made into a film or series as well.

@SMC said:
" @Hiratha said:
"I haven’t noticed that the two Andy Weir books with white guys as leads got adaptations but poor Jazz is left in the cold despite being demonstrably cooler than either of them"

Most people would rightly rank the other two books above Artemis, although I hope it is made into a film or series as well. "

I'm concerned with the tone of the film after seeing the Hail Mary preview. But I won't give up hope. Artemis was also a great read, but I too would put it 3rd. It had an exciting Flavia-de-Luce feel.

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/alan-bradley/

@yellowcastle said:
" @ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"...So anyway, a generic ship from a yet unreleased movie is difficult to call iconic. Maybe it will be, but way too premature to call it that..."

I don't know, isn't it iconic? Like rain on your wedding day.

(Puts on his coat)"

Nailed it! Nice!

@yellowcastle said:
" @ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"...So anyway, a generic ship from a yet unreleased movie is difficult to call iconic. Maybe it will be, but way too premature to call it that..."

I don't know, isn't it iconic? Like rain on your wedding day.

(Puts on his coat)"

You have no idea how close I was to putting "dontcha think?" at the end of my post.

Please LEGO for the love of god make 2OO1 a Space Odyssey sets!
A Discovery One
EVA Pods
Moonbus
A HAL9000 panel
Bowman and Poole mini figs!
Even a Stanley Kubrick minifigure honoring THE greatest director of all time!
These would all be considered Iconic.

@legoDad42 said:
"Please LEGO for the love of god make 2OO1 a Space Odyssey sets!
A Discovery One
EVA Pods
Moonbus
A HAL9000 panel
Bowman and Poole mini figs!
Even a Stanley Kubrick minifigure honoring THE greatest director of all time!
These would all be considered Iconic.
"

Maybe too real now. :o)

This is out of nowhere but actually one of the coolest things they could've done, hands down. Very nice!

Indeed a great book!
I got hooked enough that I read the whole thing within 24 hours--which had the side effect that I don't remember a ton of the details, and could probably enjoy reading it again!

100$ = 85€, not 110€.
100$ = 74£, not 100£.

I'm worried for the guy at LEGO HQ who converts the MSRP to other currencies. Is he ok? Is he having a meltdown? Is he just drunk as of lately? Enough with this nonsense, please.

FINALLY that space helmet in RED! I've been waiting for so long.

Saw a trailer for this movie in theaters a while ago, looks interesting.

Yes, okay, but what about the REAL movie of the year? When are we getting a Melania-set?!

Neat, though if we are going for the non-minifig scale models, I'l rather we'd get both the Hail Mary and Blip 1.

I'd literally never heard of this movie, or this book until seeing this article advertising the lego set. And now, having watched both trailers, and read a synopsis of the book... Well I can see why I'd not heard of it. Seems an odd choice for lego to make this given it seems to be a niche project.

I think this set is way overpriced!
£100 for 830 small pieces?
No thanks.

@GrizBe said:
"I'd literally never heard of this movie, or this book until seeing this article advertising the lego set. And now, having watched both trailers, and read a synopsis of the book... Well I can see why I'd not heard of it. Seems an odd choice for lego to make this given it seems to be a niche project. "

It was one of the most popular books in 2021 when it came out, and it commonly ranks on lists of the top sci-fi books of the 21st century.

Needs a minifig of whatever character Milana Vayntrub plays. In fact, scrap the set and release a Characters Milana Vayntrub Played CMF series instead. And make sure it includes every version of Squirrel Girl, including the live-action version!