It is the 2nd set to feature gear shifters and one of the first with the FOS system. It was one of the first sets to introduce Thick Liftarms, slowly starting the age of studless designs. With 1366 parts, it passes the 8880-1 Technic Super Car by 20 parts, making it the biggest Technic set at the time. Objectively, this is still an amazing set. I rather sleep in an alley with this set next to me, than having a house without my space shuttle. If I ever really get into financial problems, and need to sell everything to keep a roof over my head, this one stays. I don't remember the exact time, but I must have built for at least 2 days. But it was mine! That night, I put the set on my nightstand, so I would be sure the next morning it wasn't a dream. The payment took a while, counting a load of coins. It took more than a year, saving up birthday-money, earnings from my paper-route and buying no other LEGO, but eventually the glorious day came! I still remember going to the toy store, Speelgoedwinkel De Speelboom in Goor, the Netherlands, walking in, picking up the set and placing it on the counter. I don't know the exact price anymore, Brickset says $158,-, in my head it was somewhere high in the 200 Dutch guldens, so max €150,- now. My autism with accompanying obsessions probably played a role. I don't exactly know how or why it happened, but I decided that this set needed to be in my possession. Money was tight growing up, and this was looking to be another one of those 'never-gonna-happen'-things, of which the list was getting pretty long. This was the perfect combo! Such a massive, beautiful set, with so many functions and new things to drool over in the toy store. I was still heavily interested in everything that took place outside of the atmosphere, and I was at peak Technic interest. The 8480-1 Space Shuttle came at the perfect time for me as a 13 year old kid. Especially great personal memories, what might play a role in naming this the best set ever. This is the single greatest set LEGO has ever released! What can I say. Kathy Sullivan gave her expert view on the future of space exploration to LEGO, including: “the biggest barriers to space tourism in the next 30 years is the safety and costs elements, if we can break through these the general public really could take a trip to space in the future.NOTE: This review was written before the release of the 10283-1 NASA Discovery Space Shuttle. With 32% thinking it will involve very expensive and exclusive journeys into the atmosphereĭr.
Kathy Sullivan said, “I was thrilled to see the space shuttle in LEGO form, and was very impressed by the amount of intricate detail they have managed to recreate from the module where we used to sleep and eat through to what we called the “milk stalls” on the telescope. Both also come with a display plaque which features key data from the mission.Ĭommenting on the set, Dr.
The new LEGO NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, which was developed in collaboration with NASA, is a complex 2,354 piece build that pays homage to this pioneering moment in space history and marks the 40th anniversary since the first Space Shuttle flight on 12th of April 1981. The set, aimed at adults, features the Discovery orbiter with functional landing gear, payload bay doors, elevons and rudder and the famous Hubble Space Telescope, which can either be folded and contained within the payload bay or expanded with solar array and displayed separately.
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