Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/03/24/wonderful-lego-nasa-apollo-11-lunar-lander.html
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First the Haunted Mansion book and now this. Why does BoingBoing* torment me just at the moment I’m trying to cut down on the wonderful clutter in my home.
Seriously, that looks awesome and the price is reasonable.
[* not the Store, the Happy Mutants]
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“This is one small kit for man…”
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I got this kit for my birthday a couple years ago (it was first released in 2019 but I’m glad it’s still available), and it’s definitely a great build. There’s lots of clever techniques involved to make the lander look good, and they clearly put a lot of thought into making it function as both a display piece and a toy. The ascent stage detaches from the descent stage cleanly, and you can also open the ascent stage up to see the interior because they used rod and clip pieces to hold the two halves together.
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ive built the london double decker bus, the james bond db5, the vw camperbus and the mustang gt… all now residing on my shelves. i thought i was done. i am not done, and this lunar lander is why.
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I’ll take a Saturn V built to the same scale please.
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Not quite that big, but the recently re-issued Apollo Saturn V kit is a full meter friggin’ tall…
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My dad had a Saturn 5 model kit, possibly Airfix, it was so cool to me as a little kid in the 70s. All the stages were separate and it was pretty big, about the size of the Lego version.
If anybody is making me a birthday list…
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It’s a shame they put so much detail into this and then just used an off the shelf spacesuit instead of making actual Apollo suits. Even a painted-on suit would look better, IMO.
Wow, looking for a photo to accompany this post, I came across this image of Buzz Aldrin’s suit with a tiny Neil Armstrong reflection. This may be my favorite Lego build ever (but that Saturn V is the one I want to own).
Edited for clarity.
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Interesting, the rerelease has a new kit number. The original (sitting on my shelf over there, still in the box, for Toddler Reasons) is 21309. Still 1969 pieces, though.
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Yup, same as the year of the Apollo 11 mission. Apparently the only difference aside from the slightly different box design is a single structural plate in the lunar lander module.
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and a 3 hour fight over which is better
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It’s got the Lunar retroreflector!!!
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Cool!
What’s the separate beige/orange piece on the left that looks like a transmission and stick shift?
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Unless the old one is made from unobtainium, I’ll take the new set for $120 USD. The old sets were going for north of $250 on the secondary market until the new set drove them down to a “mere” $160.
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I have an OG Taj Mahal you can buy for 4 BTC.
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Does it come with an NFT? I’d like to kill two forests with one stone. 
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NFT available separately for 40 BTC + one rain forest.
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