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Lego throws its own Hail Mary

theregister·Richard Speed·25 days ago
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Offbeat Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price Lego has released a set to coincide with the Project Hail Mary movie, and it's a clever bit of Technic-style engineering, even if the price is a little high. Usually, we only look at Lego builds of real objects – think Concorde and the recent Artemis set. However, having enjoyed Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary (the book more than the film), I was keen to see what Lego had done with its license. The answer is: it's good, but a bit pricey. The completed Project Hail Mary set The 830-piece set comprises a model of the eponymous spacecraft, a minifig-scale Ryland Grace, and Lego's version of the Rocky character. It also, thankfully, does not have the stickers that have blighted recent Lego sets. This set is not cheap, though Lego has at least invested in some pre-printed components rather than making customers fiddle with sticky transfers that invariably end up looking awful. Lego lists the set's age as 18+, which I'd quibble with.…

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