LEGO City Mars Research Shuttle Building Kit 60226 273 Pieces

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Love the fun of getting all the Lego's together and seeing how family gets together to help out

I built this with my twin son and daughter (age 4). They are so excited. It was a bit too advanced for them to build on their own, but they can't stop playing with it. And building it brought me back to when I was kid playing with legos. I highly recommend this to any future Mars explorer.

I bought this for my 5-year-old son, who is totally mad for all things space at the moment. We put it together in three small sessions across a couple of days, and he was able to do almost all of the building himself with very little help. He was very proud of being able to assemble it! The end result is a great little set and really good value for money. The inclusion of a rover, geodes, two drones an two astronauts alongside the main shuttle means there is a lot of potential for imaginiative play. The builds are also fairly sturdy, although we have had issues with the boosters falling off the shuttle during play and the bay hatch catching on closing.

this Lego set is the best Lego set ever i recommend everyone to get this so please do what I do tell you right now and get this Lego set if you love space then you're in luck

I like playing with my Lego Space Shuttle. It took me a long time to finish it . I like playing with it because it is really fun and it can carry a mini drone and it show's some pictures off outer space which I can learn from.

Relaxed build over 2-3 hours with some background movie watching, then dismantled it and rebuilt it with my niece of 4 and grandfather the next day and we all had a blast! (Thrilled to bits to see my niece thoroughly enjoy her first taste of Lego!) The set design is wonderful, a number of sections I found to be particularly clever in their design and it's a delight to build. The stickers and off-axis parts like the engines and wingtips give it a ton of flair, really adding to the already existing details and the shuttle alone would make for a great display model. The inclusion of the rover and tiny drone are a pleasant bonus. Lego at this time is very much a luxury for the big kid that is me, it's something I can afford but rarely, so I'm picky with which sets I generally go for and I must say absolutely that this set is fantastic value for money. You will end up with, as mentioned, a great, and surprisingly sizeable display piece with oodles of character. Should you wish to break it back down again, there are plenty of unique and useful bricks that can augment other space sets or create something new entirely, I am still exploring the rebuildability of this set and I'm excited by the possibilities! I had to dock (pun intended) one star from the final score, as I do feel there are a few minor and/or subjective cons to this set. My first is the landing gears, I feel they're far too small (I think I am not the first to mention this) and somewhat fragile-feeling. The cockpit canopy could in my opinion be designed to affix more securely, or with some kind of hinge system (It's affixed via the white 2x2-pin wedge on the nose) as it's a touch wobbly-feeling overall. And lastly the grip of the rover's claw doesn't really interact too well with the things it's supposed to, for me at least, and it's difficult to get a good grip on the samples for example for display or play purposes and that for me does bring down its play experience *ever* so slightly. I say this after having to go hunting for a sample brick that pinged-off and under furniture! :P Overall a solid 9/10 set. Great design, satisfying build, tons of play value and great value for money makes this a worthwhile set to grab for those looking to start their City/Space collection!

When I was a child my very first lego was space 924 and 6970. I play a lot with this sets. Now I buy many sets for my 3 children but the 60226 Mars adventure is a real pleasure for my son. It is simple, clear lines, many pieces and many gadget that help with the play storyboard. A perfect set to build but awesome to play with.

Great detail and great price for the amount of merchandise.

Built with 4-year old. Fun to build, and the kit has nice science details like a drone that can scan for minerals, and a rover collecting the samples.

A combination of continuing space shuttle fever after the release of 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery and excitement over Ingenuity's flight led me to track down this older set and I'm glad I did. There's a lot to the set, to the extent that it almost feels like two separate complete sets representing two distinct Mars missions--a manned orbital mission in a space shuttle with a little payload, and an unmanned surface mission with a rover, a helicopter, and a piece of Martian terrain. Both of the "sub-sets" are very satisfying, with a surprisingly substantial rover and a shuttle that feels like a close relative of the LEGO space shuttles I grew up on in the early nineties (it loses the manipulator arm those shuttles had, but gains seating for a second astronaut and that feels like a fair trade). I found myself naming the components as I built: the Inspiration helicopter, the Materials Ascent and Return Container (MARC) container drone, the Creativity rover, and the Intrepid space shuttle. The one significant issue I ran into with the set is that the "white" paint on the shuttle canopy isn't even remotely a match for the white plastic--it's actually closer to matching the medium slate gray. I'm also a little disappointed that the rover has no intentional-looking way to transport the container drone other than just carrying it with the claw, which I'd imagine would make gathering samples tricky. Both of those are fairly minor annoyances, though, and I'm overall very pleased.