LEGO City Space Lunar Space Station 60227 Building Set with Toy Shuttle

We gave this lego set to our grandson for Christmas! He loves it!

Excellent set, full of surprises! The pizza maker in a space station and use of a light brick were big wins for our 10 year old.

Best price for this model space station. My 5 year old built it entirely himself and just loves it!

for my 6 year old grandson, he loved it. Looks cool. Nice number of pieces and reasonable price.

With exploration missions to Mars and the renewed space race to return to the Moon, space has become exciting again. Add to that recent news about missions from the European Space Agency (ESA), China, Israel, and India, and the commercialization by SpaceX and Blue Origin, and one can only see why children (and adults) are dreaming of becoming astronauts. Then, of course, there is the International Space Station (ISA), a joint project by multiple agencies and agreement between governments. When LEGO released this Lunar Space Station kit, my son and I were beyond excited. We already own and love the "Apollo Saturn V" (21309) and "Apollo 11 Lunar Lander" (10266), and the station would be a perfect complement. With 412 pieces, it took us about 2 hours to build together, though it could likely be assembled non-stop in 1.5 hours. The space station is modular and can be connected in different ways -- and also importantly -- be taken apart to pretend-play with various components. For instance, the solar panels can be detached as a standalone satellite, and the shuttle (with opening cockpit) can be undocked to house an astronaut. There are 2 astronaut (one with an exterior space suit) and 2 station crew mini figures included, and a droid/robot that can fly through the empty vacuum to perform exterior repairs and maintenance (or fight off evil aliens headed towards the ISA!) Within the modular space station, there is a section for an astronaut to sleep in, a kitchen to bake pizzas (of course, that is not advisable in real life!), and a research station to study moon and earth rocks. What's neat about the latter is that it comes with a battery-operated light brick that literally lights up the 2 included geode pieces for research. This set demonstrates very well why a modular design is helpful and important in the expansion, maintenance, and replacement of an orbiting/flying object that is constantly hit by dangerous radiation coming from the Universe and our own Sun. It truly is an educational tool that happens to also be very fun, stoking the imagination of a budding astronaut. Overall, my son and I love this space station kit. Couple it with the other Lego sets, and the universe becomes the limit. Apologies for the pun!

I ordered this online and to my delight, it arrived super fast. No problem whatsoever with the delivery nor package. I was also happy to see it's a pretty big lego box. My son will be excited to receive this for xmas.

We haven't opened this as it's a birthday gift for our grandson, but it looks wonderful! No damage to the box on it's arrival.

I abject to the Pizza Kitchen in the module. I am 70 years old, I remember the first astronauts The space race wasn't something to be made fun of. I was building this lego and it bothered me to build in a pizza kitchen when so many wonderful men and women lost their lives in the pursuit for actual space exploration. I'm from the U.S.A. They were our HEROS. Oh, am I supposed to open a window and launch a pizza at a UFO before I know if he is friendly or not?

The price went down $10 a few days after I bought it.

This set it missing a lot of pieces. Im only on bag 2 and theres already five pieces missing. Im very careful when I open the bags and place them in a tray. Right now it looks more like the place is falling apart then anything. This seems to be happening a lot when my LEGO sets. For how much these sets cost I might move to a different building blocks brand.