legobear Posted March 7, 2017 Posted March 7, 2017 Yeah it's odd that we hear nothing about the release. Quote
AFOLguy1970 Posted March 7, 2017 Posted March 7, 2017 On 3/3/2017 at 10:56 PM, 22kane said: I could be completely off on this but here goes... The Space Center in Houston has a new Apollo 11 exhibit opening in October 2017 (Destination Moon) which also coincides with the Space Centers 25th anniversary (2017). Lego likes to do events... you never know. That is a long time to wait for a reveal, and of course there would be a time gap between the reveal and the actual release of the set. The Apollo 11 command module had been on display in the Smithsonian in Washington for many years. Only its location is really changing, perhaps for the anniversary. My guess for the silence and possible delay would be that Lego knows it will be a big seller (no pun intended) and are busy on big production runs in order to avoid a repeat of the Mars Rover and any other set that lasted about as long as a snowball in Florida. The design on the rocket surely would be resolved by now, so hopefully they are getting ready to release it in late Spring or early Summer. Now if Lego did want to create some more press around the project, they could have a special release at Johnson Space Center on July 20 right in front of the real Saturn V. Just saying....... Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted March 31, 2017 Author Posted March 31, 2017 The LEGO Ideas Facebook account just shared the first teaser image! This thing is going to be huge. Quote
Kjellevirus Posted March 31, 2017 Posted March 31, 2017 Ik think it will be about 100cm in hight :) the teaser image is really good looking! Quote
Littleworlds Posted March 31, 2017 Posted March 31, 2017 And just a matter of time till someone makes a launchtower for it in the same scale. Can't wait! Quote
Herky Posted March 31, 2017 Posted March 31, 2017 I agree, this looks fantastic, can't wait to see it, not sure I want to see the price, but excited to get this, and a launch tower would be icing on the cake if they did that as well. Quote
Kaanere Posted March 31, 2017 Posted March 31, 2017 Aaaand it happened. I have to search it a spot. By the way, here are some blueprints for comparison: Quote
Robert8 Posted March 31, 2017 Posted March 31, 2017 (edited) Finally some info about this set! Hope it will be unveiled soon! Edited March 31, 2017 by Robert8 Quote
Kjellevirus Posted April 1, 2017 Posted April 1, 2017 1 hour ago, dr_spock said: Any word on pricing yet? No, unfortunalely not. But Lego said on their page in the comment section of the picture that they will release more information in the upcomming weeks. Quote
VaderFan2187 Posted April 1, 2017 Posted April 1, 2017 6 hours ago, dr_spock said: Any word on pricing yet? Crazy expensive I suppose... I wouldn't be surprised if it was. Quote
BrickWild Posted April 1, 2017 Posted April 1, 2017 CAN'T WAIT! Thankfully the stages can be placed beside each other if storage is a problem! Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted April 1, 2017 Author Posted April 1, 2017 Oops, sorry - I should have responded to this a while ago, but missed it... On September 29, 2016 at 0:32 PM, Emmi said: I suppose it will be early next year ... why 2019??? We have 2016, next year 2017! Also I wonder how big their backlog of unreleased but approved projects can be ... how many Ideas sets did they release 2016 ... one, two??? They actually wound up releasing four last year: the Maze, the Caterham 720R, the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, and the Adventure Time figure set. Only the first two of those had come out when you asked your question, and the last one was originally set to come out on January 1, 2017, but got pushed up to December 26, 2016 at the last minute. Last year was the third year in a row with four Ideas sets (2014 had the Mars rover Curiosity, the Ghostbusters Ectomobile, the Exo Suit, and the Research Institute, and 2015 had the Birds, The Big Bang Theory, WALL•E, and the TARDIS from Doctor Who). This year might have had four if Adventure Time hadn't been pushed up a week into last year, but as things stand right now, it will have only two or three - this Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket in the summer (I was originally seeing July, but now it's apparently June), the Old Fishing Store in the fall, and then Women of NASA will come in the winter, either late this year or early next year. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing the reason we're getting "only" two or three this year is because both this one and the Fishing Store are so unusually large for the Ideas line, and require more development and production time than most other Ideas sets. Getting more sets each year is nice (well, at least if one can keep up with them all, I imagine), but I think it'll be worth getting slightly fewer Ideas sets in a year if it means a couple of them can be as substantial and lavish and "extra-special" as it appears these two will be. Oh, and one last thing I just realized: if this is indeed coming in June, it should be released at around the same time the next review results are announced! I think we're always going to have a backlog of at least a couple Ideas sets that have been announced but not released. Quote
thorin Posted April 4, 2017 Posted April 4, 2017 The nerd inside me had to figure out what scale we were really looking at... By taking your pictures and superimposing them into AutoCAD, then doing relative scaling based on a standard 8mm stud module, it looks like it's about 911mm or 36" tall! If the needle/tip ends up being the size it is in LEGO (because of the piece they had available to use), we would have to re-scale it based on the two conical sections. I thought that this would reduce it significantly, but based on where the cones are, it actually doesn't change much. I'm thinking we'll get a pretty decent sized rocket no matter how you slice it! Quote
Kjellevirus Posted April 4, 2017 Posted April 4, 2017 (edited) @thorin, That is going to be one huge set then! I'm very curious about the piece count. Probably arround 1500 I guess. Edited April 4, 2017 by Kjellevirus Quote
Kaanere Posted April 7, 2017 Posted April 7, 2017 Looks like the set will include microfigures, not minifigures. And I'm fine with that. Quote
nikhkin Posted April 7, 2017 Posted April 7, 2017 1 hour ago, Kaanere said: Looks like the set will include microfigures, not minifigures. And I'm fine with that. What makes you say that? The Ideas Project was of a similar scale, and suggested the inclusion of Minifigs. The Helicarrier isn't Minifig scale but includes them. A display set typically includes standard Minifigs even if the model is not in that scale. Quote
Blondie-Wan Posted April 7, 2017 Author Posted April 7, 2017 I think it's possible this set will include both minifigures and nanofigures, as the Helicarrier does. But I don't want to get hopes up to ridiculous levels, when honestly, either one would be great on its own. Quote
thorin Posted April 9, 2017 Posted April 9, 2017 Funny. I always hated the microfigures and swore I'd never buy a set that had them. But in this set i would actually PREFER them to regular minifigures. I'm getting pretty excited for this one! Quote
PrisonBrick Posted April 10, 2017 Posted April 10, 2017 Ok, it seems we got date, definitive catalogue number and a price: 06/01 (June), #21309, Euro 119,99. Quote
nikhkin Posted April 10, 2017 Posted April 10, 2017 8 minutes ago, PrisonBrick said: Ok, it seems we got date, definitive catalogue number and a price: 06/01 (June), #21309, Euro 119,99. Where did you get the price from? Quote
PrisonBrick Posted April 10, 2017 Posted April 10, 2017 22 minutes ago, nikhkin said: Where did you get the price from? From a reliable source: http://hbricks.forumcommunity.net/m/?t=59417828&st=15#entry424236781 (italian forum) Quote
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