The instruction manual has a few pages at the end showing the real vehicle alongside the LEGO model inspired by it, known as the Habitable Mobility Platform, which NASA refers to as a mobile home allowing for longer excursions away from the base camp. It would be quite possible to rig this up on your own, however, since a 2×2 section of the bottom is transparent. I do wish the set included some mechanism to get the rock to light up from inside though, because the transparent portions are really cool when light shines through. Given that one of the purposes of the Artemis mission is to find usable water on the moon, the blue represents ice rather than minerals. The original asteroid rock was introduced with the Town Space Port line in 1999, but this new one is instead a geode, dual molded in dark grey and trans light blue. There’s not a lot in the way of new or recolored parts, but the one does stand out: a new design for the 4×4 split rock element. You’ll also get the updated logo on a trio of 2x2x2/3 slopes, which are the set’s only new printed elements apart from the minifigures. LEGO has employed variations on this logo for most of the Town/City space themes, but this latest one hearkens a little closer to the original than some previous versions, swapping out the gold planet for a two-tone blue orb. The sticker sheet is reflective with shiny gold for a few solar panels and mirrored silver for the flag, which bears the new City space line’s emblem, an updated version of the Classic Space logo that originated in the 1970s and has been a fan favorite ever since. Around back are the typical play features exposition, along with more Artemis renderings and a blurb showing how these two sets are meant to connect with each other via a docking port.Ħ0348 Lunar Roving Vehicle contains just three numbered bags, along with a loose sticker sheet and the instruction manual. But they also have an interesting inset panel on the lower corner that shows a bit of NASA renderings of the real Artemis project. Like other recent City sets, the boxes feature the blue brick wall in the upper left. Unboxing the set and contents: 60348 Lunar Roving Vehicle Providing TBB with products for review guarantees neither coverage nor positive reviews. The LEGO Group provided The Brothers Brick with early copies of these sets for review. Today we’re looking at two sets in the middle of the range, 60348 Lunar Roving Vehicle with 275 pieces ( US $39.99 | CAN $49.99 | UK £24.99), and 60350 Lunar Research Base with 786 pieces ( US $119.99 | CAN $149.99 | UK £89.99). This latest wave is inspired by NASA’s Artemis project, the planned mission to return to the moon by 2025 (the first Artemis I unmanned mission is planned for this spring).
Real-world space has long been one of the recurring City themes, along with firefighters and police and construction, with the first space shuttle set launching in 1990. So I was excited when LEGO reached out to us about reviewing the latest wave of LEGO City sets, which focus on space exploration. But these days, between Star Wars and Ideas and massive Creator Expert sets and all the other cool themes I enjoy, I don’t often get the opportunity to build City sets. He used one of the detailed models of Fermi as a basis for the design.When I was a kid, the LEGO City line was one of my favorites (though it was called Town back then). If you build one yourself ( and you certainly can) you'll discover many more. The details are exquisite: there's a tiny GBM (both the NaI and BGO detectors), high gain and low gain antennas, star trackers (yea, they're on the wrong side - artistic license), thermal radiators, various electronics boxes, and a cut-out in the LAT showing a pair-production event. It's hard to find a scientist or engineer that doesn't have fond memories of losing themselves in a pile of LEGO (and some of those memories are from the very recent past).Ī few years ago, one of the graduate students working on Fermi ( he's now a post-doctoral researcher at MPI) lost himself in a pile of LEGO and recreated the entire Fermi satellite. This is somewhat similar to dumping out a giant bin of LEGO, thinking up a crazy design, and then using those multi-colored bricks to construct something that didn't exist before. One of the incredibly rewarding parts of developing a mission is seeing your ideas and designs move from paper to a real-world device.
This process included hundreds of engineers, scientists, managers, and other folks. But it took many years of planning, thinking, developing, and building before it got to that point. By now we all know that Fermi was launched 10 years ago.
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