NASA Apollo Saturn V - LEGO Ideas - RARE & DISCONTINUED - 21309

Description: Make history with the LEGO® NASA Apollo Saturn V, the first rocket to put people on the Moon! Build the 3 stages of this stunning meter-high rocket and display it on the stand or launch into orbit. Offload the S-IC and S-II sections, dock the lunar lander with the command service module, and complete a successful Moon landing mission! The set also includes 3 stands to display the model horizontally, 3 new-for-June-2017 astronaut microfigures for role-play recreations of the Moon landings, plus a booklet about the manned Apollo missions and the fan designers of this educational and inspirational LEGO Ideas set. Coming in at a piece count of 1,969 (a nod to its successful mission in 1969 to take the first astronauts to the moon), it’s immediately clear that even at microscale, there’s plenty of detail and complexity built into the model. And that’s immediately apparent from the very first set of numbered bags. What may seem like a long black and white cylinder is in fact a multi-directional construction, and a particular achievement of both the fan designer who conceived the initial model, and the LEGO design team who were given just six weeks to turn it into a consumer-friendly official set. Right along the interior shaft to the rocket is a circular build skilfully achieved with what is otherwise fundamentally a square building system, and every step of the build process is fascinating for it. At the same time, for the solidity and relative simplicity the completed model achieves in appearance and exterior construction, there’s still likely more expertise and intuition that has gone into 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V than can really be understood or realized. The Saturn V remains an iconic vehicle in the history of space travel. It’s the only launch vehicle to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit, it’s the tallest, heaviest and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and across four years of operations and 13 flights, it took 24 astronauts to the moon. Alongside such a distinguished place in history, the rocket holds an equally unique place in design, from the shape of its bodywork to the black-and-white colouring and the red ‘USA’ and American flag painted on. There’s nothing that came before that looked anything like it, and nothing that has come since. Importantly, everything that makes the Saturn V an icon of time, history and design is captured within 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V. Its functionality as a rocket has been loving recreated in numerous details and in how the model breaks into three to reflect the lift-off sequence; its history in transporting astronauts to where no man has gone before is shown in the mini lunar lander and command module; and its truly one-of-a-kind, awe-inspiring design is wonderfully reflected across a large and imposing LEGO model. Everything about 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V is authentic and impressive. It’s a fantastic set to build, it looks great on display and it captures everything you would hope that it could about an iconic vehicle from NASA’s Apollo program.

Price: 199 USD

Location: Cookstown, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-11-27T11:26:26.000Z

Shipping Cost: N/A USD