There’s also a double-sided vinyl sheet with punch-out solar panels for Hubble. There are lots of exciting LEGO parts in the set. First up, there are three entirely new elements in the set. The most exciting to me is this 3×3 curved corner slope (part 76797), because it opens up a lot of possibilities and fills a long-missing gap in this slope family. There are just two used in the set, where they sit atop the cockpit.Īnd speaking of the cockpit, the six-stud-wide windscreen is also a new element (part 76796). It’s molded in clear but printed with the shuttle’s distinctive array of six windows.įinally, the large Technic panels that make up the payload bay doors are also a new element (part 76798). The panels are 8 studs long and have the same slope as the classic large 1圆x3 1/3 arch.Ī number of elements also appear in new colors in this set. I didn’t scour the parts list exhaustively, but here are some that I picked out. I later noticed, for instance, that the new Technic 1×1 brick with axle hole also comes in black in this set, which is also a new color for it, and the metallic silver 2×2 macaroni tile is pictured with the silver elements below. Some other parts aren’t new molds or colors but are thus far pretty rare in these colors. This set has the motherload of drum-lacquer metallic silver elements, since Hubble’s exterior is almost entirely covered in them, lending it a beautiful metallic sheen that’s not possible with silver plastic such as LEGO’s flat silver color. Only the 2×2 macaroni tile is new in this color, but all together you’ll get 109 pieces in metallic silver, including a whopping 62 of the 2×2 curved slopes. A couple of these bits are used on the shuttle, but nearly all of them are on Hubble.Īnd of course, we can’t forget about the printed elements, of which there is a pretty generous helping, and about half of them are unique to this set. It is fun seeing some old classics reappear here, such as the light grey 1×2 tiles with three rows of lights, which originated with the first wave of the Star Wars line in 1999, or that white 2×2 slope with the black grille pattern, which debuted in 1986.
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