Apollo 11 blasts off towards review
Posted by Huw,
Another Ideas project has just achieved 10,000 supporters: whatsuptoday and saabfan's Apollo 11 Saturn-V rocket, which celebrates the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
It's an impressive model: about 1m high and 1100 pieces.
It joins 5 other projects that have achieved support in this review period.
Thanks to Bricktech for the news.
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Having recently gone to the US and seeing this mighty rocket in real life, I think that this would make a great addition to the LEGO space collection, although to become a real product this would have to be shrunk down quite a bit to fit into the usual 500 ish pieces. Congratulations saabfan :D
^It's lately expanded to around 700, actually. Wall-E had about 680 pieces.
I love the moon landings and all, but honestly, just the lander and command module would be just fine.
Way too big, both in size and piece-count, to have any chance at passing review. Could've been a contender if the creator had only stuck to a more doable scope.
I would definitely buy this! I love everything space-related, and especially the Apollo mission. Best of luck in the review!
To paraphrase @Packer221 & @TSK15 over on the HMS Beagle post, Lego shouldn't make this in case they offend those who know NASA faked the moon landings :P
Awesome set. I'd love to get a minifig scale version of the LEM. It would go so well with my Classic Space sets from the late 70s.
I'm glad they went big on this. It is the biggest rocket ever made by man. This set does it justice.
I just hope that when Lego passes on it, saabfan will release the piece list and instructions.
Great looking design, but too big for IDEAS to pass it and with the interior detail, just not structurally solid enough.
@PicnicBasketSam, I did not realise that was the case, well hopefully this can make it past review, or the JP Explorer or both :).
Despite it's size, I think it has a ghost of a chance. It's big, but not gargantuan. Also, it's not an imitation modular. Lego seem fond of NASA partnerships, space, and vaguely educational stuff. I suspect stability issues will count against it.