Lego NASA Women
Via Heroic Women to Inspire Game Designers –
AMAZING NEWS: It’s official — Lego NASA Womenhas been approved by the LEGO Ideas Review Board and will soon be a real LEGO set. Everything is AWESOME!!!
Designers at LEGO are already hard at work planning the set’s ultimate look and feel. Set creator Maia Weinstock will continue posting updates as they become available, so stay tuned… As ever, THANK YOU to everyone who’s supported and cheered for this celebration of all the women who’ve contributed to NASA History!
Update: For those asking, an on-sale date is not yet determined, but will be sometime late 2017/early 2018.
Women of NASA
A big congratulations to 20tauri on becoming the next official LEGO Ideas fan designer! As a science editor and writer, with a strong personal interest for space exploration as well as the history of women in science and engineering, Maia Weinstock’s Women of NASA project was a way for her to celebrate accomplished women in the STEM professions. In particular those who’ve made a big impact through their work at NASA.We’re really excited to be able to introduce Maia’s Women of NASA set for its inspirational value as well as build and play experience.
So they didn’t make it pink. Definitely progressing.
@iknklast:
The Lego Science Institute wasn’t pink either.
Judging by how quickly that one sold out both times it was released I’m gonna have to have an itchy trigger finger on Women of NASA.
An ‘unless you’re planning on mowing it for me, get off of my bloody lawn’ moment*.
When I was a nipper, barely knee-high to a grasshopper, a LEGO set was a box containing bricks (NOT legos; LEGO make the bricks. Calling LEGO bricks legos is like calling Barbie dolls Mattels) of various sizes, shapes, and colours, plus accessory parts such as wheels, and……that was it. What those bricks ended up being was a product of a child’s imagination, and could be a different thing every day.
Nowadays, the sets are more akin to AIRFIX model kits, each one containg the parts for one specific item. All the child needs is the ability to follow a clearly laid out instruction leaflet. Imagination not required.
Am I being too cynical by suggesting that LEGO execs one day realised that selling a child one set with the potential of being a thousand different toys is stupid; there’s a lot more money to be made by selling one child a thousand sets of one toy each.
I never thought I’d see the day that LEGO dumbed-down.
‘Confused with the modern-world’ rant over.
*Absolutely not a criticism of the featured LEGO women; LEGO people always came pre-assembled. It’s solely the way the sets are marketed now as individual toys.
Acolyte of Sagan:
I’ll see your “get off my lawn” with a “the kids are alright”:
You’ll be happy to know that it is, in fact, still quite possible to take the ‘assortment of bricks’ approach to purchasing LEGO. The prefab sets are, of course, their primary money-maker these days, but you can absolutely go old-school on the purchases. The “Classic LEGO Creative Brick Box” is available at most of the big-box stores, and at LEGO stores, proper, you can even just go in and fill a bucket up with whatever size and color bricks you want–you pay for the bucket, lump-sum.
(Source: My best friend from high school has two daughters, both of whom inherited their architect mother’s love of the classic LEGO style.)
Freemage, all of a sudden the world is just a little bit brighter. Thanks :-)