With Christmas just around the corner, it’s time to get searching for the best gifts for your friends and family members who love everything space-related. Who knows where their imaginations could take them?
Here are the 10 best space toys for aspiring intergalactic explorers this Christmas!
The impact that the Boeing™ 747™ and NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise had on space exploration really can’t be understated. With the LEGO® Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, you can pay tribute to the craft that helped shape the future of space travel through groundbreaking flight and landing tests. The 747 has an elegant fuselage design, deployable 18-wheel landing gear and a shuttle mounting system, while the NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise model comes with an attachable tail cone, plus detachable engines and landing gear that can be stowed in its cargo bay. A stand with information plaques for each model completes this captivating space-centric display.
Join us on an epic venture to the Moon! This Lunar Outpost® Moon rover set features an all-terrain rover with suspension, four-wheel steering, solar panels and a rotating arm. Your space-loving kids will have hours of fun using the smaller mining rover to collect regolith (lunar rock) samples to store in the container. This set is an engaging and challenging build that will give STEM-obsessed kids a chance to dream about life on the surface of the Moon.
We love science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and, in this new set from LEGO® Ideas, we’re celebrating the discoveries and the people who have advanced human capability and changed the world. It’s based on an open encyclopedia bursting with mini builds that symbolize groundbreaking discoveries, including a 3D replica of a carbon atom that floats upwards, a rotating DNA strand, an early car, a home computer, the NASA Voyager Probe with the Golden Record and much more. There are minifigures of famous scientists Marie Curie (née Skłodowska), George Washington Carver and Sir Isaac Newton to complete a perfect STEM-centered gift and a celebration of human ingenuity all in one. Eureka!
Relax this Christmas by creating the LEGO Art The Milky Way Galaxy brick-built artwork – the perfect home décor holiday gift idea for creative adults.
This 3,091-piece wall art features a 3D effect of incredible depth and texture and includes some of the Milky Way’s most famous points of interest, including Trappist-1, The Pleiades, The Crab Nebula and The Pillars of Creation.
This space-themed gift idea is made with 5 different panels, each with its own building instructions booklet, so a group of friends can create together, and you can scan a QR code to access fascinating content about the Milky Way.
Give this LEGO Icons NASA Artemis Space Launch System building set as a Christmas gift to the space enthusiast in your life.
The 3,601-piece set for adults offers LEGO and space fans an immersive project to create an imposing premium model, which can be proudly displayed on a shelf or table.
This NASA-inspired LEGO replica includes retractable launch tower umbilicals, rocket support and crew bridge, detachable solid-fuel boosters and separating rocket stages.
The set also includes a model of the Orion spacecraft with foldout solar panels, which can be placed inside the rocket or on a separate display stand, and a printed plaque.
Surprise kids aged 10 and up at Christmas with this LEGO Technic™ Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit building set – a fun and educational gift to help them learn about the solar system.
The interactive set makes it easy to understand the orbit of the Earth and the Moon, the Earth’s gravitational pull and how the rotations affect the seasons. Cool features include a crankshaft that kids can turn to create the rotations. There are also months and moon phases to show the progress of the Earth, Sun and Moon throughout the year.
The 526-piece set is great for building together with family and friends during the holiday period and you can download the LEGO Builder app to guide you through all the steps.
Space fans aged 10 and up will love playing out intergalactic adventures with the LEGO Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance.
It comes packed with features that help kids learn more about the NASA Perseverance rover and its companion robot helicopter Ingenuity, including 360° steering and a movable arm. It also has a fully articulated suspension that lets the vehicle maintain traction on all 6 wheels across uneven surfaces, plus exciting elements including a power unit, antennae and cameras.
The set is great for building together with family and friends – download the LEGO Builder app for a guide to completing the build as a team.
Blast off into space and explore new planets with this LEGO Creator 3in1 Space Astronaut building set, which offers 3 cool building options. Designed for kids aged 9 and up, the set makes a great holiday gift for little builders with a passion for space.
The astronaut figure includes a detachable jet propulsion backpack, posable legs, feet, arms and fingers and a golden opening visor with a seat inside for a minifigure (not included). Kids can then use the same bricks to build a futuristic space dog with posable legs and tail, or a space viper jet with a seat for a minifigure (not included) to pilot it.
All 3 models can be made with the LEGO Builder app and come with stands for display.
Can’t pick which STEM-centered set to buy as a gift? With the LEGO® Creator Space Robot, you get three sets in one. First, you can build a supercool Space Robot on tracks with a jetpack and a balloon. Then, with the same bricks, you can rebuild it into a space dog with a metal bone and a flying disc or turn it into a space rocket for more intergalactic adventures. There’s a light brick to illuminate each model. These 3-in-1 transforming sets boost imaginative play and offer hours of fun.
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