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LEGO - Ideas Women of NASA Building Set 21312
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(42 Reviews)
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Customer Reviews for LEGO - Ideas Women of NASA Building Set 21312
Customer Rating
5
Gift
on July 6, 2018
Posted by: Katen34
I think there should be more space legos!
This is great, I grew up with Dr. Sally Ride as my hero.
Great price as well.
This is great, I grew up with Dr. Sally Ride as my hero.
Great price as well.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO
Customer Rating
5
Awesome Lego set
on March 26, 2018
Posted by: worthaboutapig
I recieved this as a Christmas present & I love it. It was simple to put together & looks great with it taking pride of place on my bookcase! I would love more Lego sets like this as this is the sort of Lego I'd like to collect in the future!!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
4
Women of NASA
on December 1, 2018
Posted by: Joacim
A very nice display model to have whit legos other NASA models.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
4
on January 1, 2019
Posted by: 232afol
I really enjoyed this build because the information about the women of NASA that was included and the actual build itself. Cool pieces and connections in this set. Great buy!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
5
Very Educational Set
on November 2, 2017
Posted by: tkhuang
I am actually glad that LEGO made this set. As a long-time astronomy fan, I find this set very fun and educational. There are many female scientists who have made excellent contributions to science and technology, or even played a key role in the development of science, but are often ignored or not well-known (as for me, I actually don't know about Margaret Hamilton and Nancy G. Roman until this set came out). It is good that LEGO made this to honor these female scientists for their contributions. As for the build itself, I especially love the space shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope, and I really think LEGO designers have captured the essence of the two spacecrafts. The four minifigures have very nice and unique torso prints as well. Overall, I highly recommend this set if you are passionate about science or astronomy.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
5
Out of this world set!
on November 2, 2017
Posted by: WannaGoToSpaaaace
This is such a great little set! I knew I wanted to buy it the moment I saw the recreation of Margaret Hamilton's iconic photograph with the huge stack of code. It's a simple idea, but executed very well and looks great on my shelves.
The inclusion of the brilliant Mae Jemison (and the tiny shuttle) made this a must-have. It's absolutely fantastic to see Lego honouring the women of NASA in this way.
I missed out on the Research Institute, but this set will let me put female scientists in all my scenes, and I couldn't be happier.
The NASA theme aside, if you're looking for a variety of female minifig parts, this set is great value. Most of my other sets are overwhelmingly male, so I'm really excited to be able to widen the number of women in my collection--including a woman of colour! Thank you Lego! It really is thrilling to see sets like this. Long may it continue!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
5
Woohoo!
on November 3, 2017
Posted by: Spacerace
I've been waiting for this set in anticipation ever since it was proposed. As a woman who works for NASA, it's thrilling to see some of my heroes commemorated. I can't wait to build it and put it next to my Mars Rover!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
5
21312 Women of NASA
on November 15, 2017
Posted by: amazed78
21312 Women of NASA is the 19th Lego Ideas set, but certainly not the first to 'slip the surly bonds of Earth'. If I have counted (and understood what my eyes were seeing) correctly, four of the previous Ideas sets are somehow connected to space exploration, making this set the fifth. This particular set has 231 pieces, which means it is the second smallest of the Ideas sets to date. The mainly blue box looks like a luxury item, it seems very sturdy and looks positively glossy. The box is closed with two plastic seals. There are pictures of the set on both front and back of the box, and the back side shows actual photos of the real women on whom the four minifigures of the set are based. Unboxing the set leaves me with three unnumbered bags and a stapled instruction booklet with 68 pages. The booklet begins with an introduction of the four women of NASA: Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride (I was sad to find out she has passed away), Nancy Grace Roman and Mae Jemison. Then the fan designer, Maia Weinstock, gets to say a few words, after which is the turn of the Lego designers to be interviewed.
The build starts with all of the 4 minifigures: Margaret Hamilton has her glasses on and is attired in a knitted (?) black dress and there are black shoes with silver buckles printed on her feet. In my opinion, those shoes are fantastic! Sally Ride is wearing a medium blue NASA uniform of sorts with printed pockets and badges at the front and is taking photographs. Nancy Grace Roman is also bespectacled, has printed pearls around her neck, and is dressed in a what might be a white cardigan over a white shirt, and brick yellow trousers. Mae Jemison is attired in a bright orange spacesuit and is carrying a white helmet. All of the four torsos are dual-sided, as are all the heads, too. Margaret Hamilton's legs are both dual-molded and printed and I think her hairpiece in medium nougat (Design ID 92083) is a recolor.
After the minifigures, the build progresses to their stands: Margaret Hamilton's stand (with a stack of blue and white books and what might be a whiteboard with some notes on it) gets to be built first, then the dual stand for Mae Jemison and Sally Ride (naturally including the white, black and orange space shuttle), and the last is Nancy Grace Roman's stand with the mainly gray Hubble telescope and an image of a planetary nebula. There are 22 steps to build the first and last stands, which are the smallest, and 39 steps for the biggest stand including the shuttle, of course. None of the stands are exactly identical, but there are some similarities, such as attaching the name plates. Much to my delight, I noticed that everything is printed, there are no stickers in this set. When the build was completed, I had 13 spare parts left.
The build is very easy and quick, I made only one mistake with the corner plates of the shuttle wings. For me, the most difficult part of the build was attaching the two smaller white rockets to the orange fuel tank. It was surprisingly complicated to get the white bits to connect with those elusive black connector pegs, and I had to do it twice! But still, I loved the space shuttle and the Hubble to bits, they are such clever builds! Especially the super-detailed Hubble, which is the last thing to be built. It consists only of 20 or 21 parts, depending on whether you count in the black bar which attaches the telescope to the stand. I was glad to see the set is easy to store away when not needed: the two smaller stands are both five studs deep and the large is six studs, therefore the smaller stands fit inside the glossy box even when assembled (but with the Hubble removed), while the larger one does not. Also the quite bulky shuttle needs to lose its detachable fuel-tank-and-rocket-combo in order to fit back in the box.
Almost all of the printed pieces of this set, including the minifigure torsos, heads and the one pair of legs, are new and currently exclusive to this set. The only exception is Sally Ride's head (Element ID 6162427) which appears also in a Dimensions set (71257). This set marks the return of the black fez (6203937), previously only available in the Collectable Minifigure Series 4 (Soccer Player) and more recently in 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V, the white 1x1 round plate with a shaft (6174937) can also be found in three sets, as well as the black 1x1 plate round with horizontal shaft (6196548). I was quite surprised to find out that this is only the fourth appearance of the bright orange 2x2 round brick (6120639) with a hole for technic pins.
There were a couple of things that left me a teensy bit mystified:
1) The instructions clearly show the Hubble is displayed with the garbage can side facing the viewer, while the box art has images of the Hubble facing the other way.
2) Garbage can connection of the Hubble is a bit fragile and tends to snap off.
3) The brown coatrack attached to Margaret Hamilton's stand was a bit baffling, but after a quick internet search I see it is obviously from the black-and-white photo of her which was the inspiration for the whole stand.
4) No lens for Sally Ride's camera.
1) The instructions clearly show the Hubble is displayed with the garbage can side facing the viewer, while the box art has images of the Hubble facing the other way.
2) Garbage can connection of the Hubble is a bit fragile and tends to snap off.
3) The brown coatrack attached to Margaret Hamilton's stand was a bit baffling, but after a quick internet search I see it is obviously from the black-and-white photo of her which was the inspiration for the whole stand.
4) No lens for Sally Ride's camera.
I really like this set a lot, though it is slightly on the more expensive side. In my country it is 5 cents per piece more expensive than the Old Fishing Store. But let's face it: 21312 Women of NASA is certainly a must-have for those who love space-related Lego sets. I can see an enthusiastic builder creating an entire space-themed museum around that fantastic mini-Hubble and mini-shuttle. As a side note, I would strongly recommend doing a more thorough internet search on each of the women to find out more about their fascinating lives.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting LEGO