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Check out these stunning images of LEGO 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery
To celebrate the recent launch of LEGO 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, Brick Fanatics heads into the cosmos with an exclusive gallery of show-stopping images. 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery is the largest space shuttle ever created by the LEGO Group, coming in as a beautifully-recreated and detailed model celebrating 40 years since the launch…
LEGO 92176 NASA Apollo Saturn V reimagined as SpaceX starship
A LEGO builder has updated 92176 NASA Apollo Saturn V to reflect a modern, upcoming mission by taking direct inspiration from SpaceX’s lunar starship. Whilst the original build for LEGO Ideas 92176 Apollo Saturn V is based on the iconic mission which saw astronauts first set foot on the moon, a future journey to the distant location…
LEGO 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery took three years to develop – and that’s a good thing
The LEGO designer behind 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery has revealed how the team spent three years developing the model, creating the perfect conditions to bring the space set to life. Speaking exclusively to Brick Fanatics, Milan Madge shed light on the development process for the LEGO Group’s latest NASA-inspired 18+ set, which benefited enormously from…
LEGO Foundation wants adults to play more
The LEGO Foundation has identified five key benefits of play for everyone, even and, perhaps especially, for adults. Within their research, the Foundation defined learning through play as an activity that is experienced as joyful, helps people find meaning in what they are doing or learning, involves active and engaged thinking, uses iterative thinking, such…
LEGO considered combining several space shuttles into one for 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery
Before settling on STS-31, the LEGO Group was leaning in a very different direction for 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery – and even considered combining multiple shuttles into a single set. That’s according to the set’s designer, Milan Madge, who told Brick Fanatics that a number of different space shuttles were ‘in scope’ at one point or…
Brick-built astronaut has lift-off on LEGO IDEAS
In the same month as we had a fleet of space-themed sets from the LEGO Group themselves, a brick-built astronaut has just floated their way over the 10,000 supporter mark. LEGO Astronaut is the 57th set to make it to the first 2021 review. Built by creator legotruman, LEGO Astronaut is a tribute to all…
LEGO 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery’s concept model was designed in just one day
The designer behind LEGO 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery says the set’s original concept model was assembled in a single day. Speaking exclusively to Brick Fanatics, Milan Madge revealed that the LEGO Group’s latest real-life space set was initially mocked up by Mike Psiaki – designer of 92176 NASA Apollo Saturn V – during one of the…
Build miniature LEGO artwork inspired by Hubble Space Telescope imagery
If the larger versions of the LEGO Group’s out-of-this-world artwork seem too difficult to recreate, then no need to worry as instructions for a smaller iteration are now online. A set of huge LEGO mosaics inspired by real images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope were recently revealed to be shown off in LEGO stores,…
LEGO really needs to get a handle on its measurements
Did you know that the Space Shuttle Discovery flew an incredible 238 kilometres across its 39 missions? That’s what the LEGO Group would have you believe, anyway. Andrew Webb pointed out on Twitter that the instruction manual for 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery describes the spacecraft as flying ‘238 kilometres’, completing ‘5,830 orbits of Earth’…
