LEGO 60349 City Lunar Space Station, NASA Inspired Building Toy, Model Set With Docking Capsule, Labs And 5 Astronaut Minifigures

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On the contrary, there’s immense play value in this set, from a detachable spaceship, a detailed multi-levelled interior, the ability to simulate catching a rogue asteroid, or doing external maintenance and repair. You’ll have fun building it, and younger fans will enjoy playing with it for sure. This LEGO City outer space toy for 6+ year olds can be given as a birthday or any-other-day gift for kids who are into space exploration This LEGO space set includes a step-by-step printed building guide and interactive digital building instructions. Available in the free LEGO Building Instructions app for smartphones and tablets, the digital guide comes with intuitive zoom and rotate tools that allow kids to visualise each model from all angles as they build.

He comes with a hairpiece that is new for 2022, but owing to its design precludes an alternate expression. This suit also features the new logo too. You’ll notice handles in various locations inside and out – this is to help simulate microgravity, enabling you to pose your minifigures in various gravity-defying positions. The large living room area has a food dispenser, currently offering a banana, and a couple of workstations, one of which showcases an experiment with growing flora in space. Perhaps white screens in the lower section would make more sense from the “sleeping” quarters point of view. The screen part actually currently appears in white in 10274 Ghostbusters ECTO-1, so I wonder whether this was a design objective to limit the number of parts in different colours within the set. There are some fun possibilities for playing here. The minifigures can be posed floating about inside the lab, attached by bar handles. You could make vignettes of experiments being undertaken both outside the space station and within utilising the asteroid, the amoeba tiles and the various tools and accessories provided. Our astronauts in EVA suits can do “necessary” maintenance tasks… or take space walks. Once all the sections are connected, the overall size of the model is impressive, and it’s weighty too. I have to say this impressed both my son and I.

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Is this good value? Is it enough? This is a generously proportioned set and I have to say after I ran a database query to see what else you can get from the 2022 assortment for similar money - I’m beginning to think that this is just the sort of value you can expect in today’s market. Actually, whether you’ll play with it as an outpost or spaceship, the 2019’s version could come in handy if you happen to own one. Since both sets use the same part to connect different sections of the base together, they are compatible, and you can indeed combine both stations with only very minor adjustments, helping you create a more substantial outpost.

There is an alternate expression, a sleeping face, a now familiar part that has featured in many previous sets, but is still an appropriate feature to have available for creating scenes or role-playing. An alternate hairpiece is also provided to replace the helmet. This feature has become almost standard in sets I’ve bought in the last year or so. The Space station is an important stepping stone, making regular trips to the lunar surface more manageable and hopefully in the longer term putting us a step closer to Mars. It’s definitely exciting, intriguing and inspiring stuff. Just the sort of thing I want to encourage my kids to play with.Five minifigures make up the crew, only one of whom is named: Rivera, the shuttle pilot. You’re free to christen the others however you please. The outfits are definitely the highlight of the show. For kids, I suspect this sort of thing can make a great "story starter" for more emotionally-driven storytelling, and an opportunity to explore internal forms of conflict rather than just external ones (like safely navigating to and from the lunar surface or repairing equipment malfunctions), and can provide character-specific motivations when those sorts of external conflicts DO arise.