LEGO Ideas NASA Apollo Saturn V 92176 Outer Space Model Rocket for Kids and Adults, Science Building Kit (1969 Pieces)

I bought this for our rocket scientist 20 year old son for Christmas as a surprise. He worked on it straight away and finished building it either that night or the 26th. This thing is pretty massive. I came downstairs to find that he had placed the completed rocket on top of my kitchen cabinets with his finished International Space Station Lego kit. :)

Some background: I loved LEGO as a kid, as much for tinkering and building new things as for building sets, but it has been nearly a decade since last I built a set. But this holiday, I found I had some time to spare for something like this and, as someone who enjoys following spaceflight news and history, this set caught my eye. And wow, did this deliver. This set is at once ingeniously designed (the innards and ways the cylindrical shape and step-downs are accomplished are amazing), pretty accurate to life (not only in looks, but also in the staging), and enormous (reading the note that it was one meter long on the box did not prepare me for the awesome reality of this thing). Its also, incidentally, beautiful. LEGO has always done Space themes well, and I am happy to have experienced that that tradition has been carried forward. This is a set with a great balance between special pieces (the printed, not stickered, tiles are sparingly used exactly where theyre needed) and creatively used normal pieces is excellent. In the best LEGO way, this set repurposes many pieces for use in ways which are often surprising in order to connect at angles or represent rocketry plumbing. Some areas are so complex that only after a few pages of directions is the purpose of some of the innards fully revealed; building this set is like a drama, where sometimes I worried that here or there was an unnecessary complexity which would ultimately lead to weakness. But every time, this was disproved once the whole point of a section of building was achieved. There are a few spots where I felt like one piece could have been used in place of two or four others, in a way which suggests to me that some decisions in the construction of this set were specifically for the purpose of reaching that 1969 number exactly. Cool move. Nevertheless, completed, this thing looks effortless. So, in conclusion: I applaud the faithfulness, creativity, and value of this set, especially for the experience of building it, and Im very happy to get back into LEGO after years!

At $0.06/part and no stickers this set is an amazing value to honor the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. I dont know if I wasnt paying attention to instructions, but I struggled putting the first stage together at times and had to look up speed builds on YouTube for guidance. At a meter tall it has a massive footprint, but if you have space for it, this is one of the best sets Lego has ever released.

Been building with legos for 35+ years and this is by a wide margin the coolest lego kit Ive ever made. A surprising amount of the internal structure and components were modeled in the build and the skin was built up and attached in pretty creative ways making this a really enjoyable build and far more complex than it seems on its face. All the stages come apart and are pretty realistically modeled and the LM fits inside the clamshell on the nose and the ascent stage also removes from the descent stage on the LM. I almost want to build another one just to display a cross section version that shows off the propellant tanks and other internals. Oh, I forgot to mention. This thing is HUGE and heavy. For the price its a no brainer.

I got this for my husband. He loved it!

Always was hoping lego would bring back this set. As soon as I saw this set on Amazon, I knew I had to get it. Assembling this set was straight forward with the included build instructions (Which also doubles up as a collectible, since the beginning has a brief history of the Apollo program, the Saturn V and a typical Apollo mission profile). Some parts were challenging, but nothing a little help from my local lego store couldnt solve. Legos attention to detail on the Saturn V is absolutely superb. They managed to capture the lego version of the Saturn V just as the real Saturn V was. Everything down to the umbilical connections were captured with unwavering detail. The thing that really caught my eye is the sheer size of the lego Saturn V, which stands 39 inches (3.3ft, 1m) tall when displayed vertically, just as massive as its real life counterpart. According to unconfirmed sources, the lego model of the Saturn V is 1:110 scale. If you dont have the room to display it vertically, you can display it horizontally with the included horizontal stands. All in all I really enjoyed building the Saturn V and can now enjoy the model that sits in my room.

perfect product

Gave this to my 33 yr. old son who has become a LEGO fan. I know by the many pictures he sent at different stages of assembly that he loved this model. This model was more challenging than the Millennium Falcon Lego he put together recently

Me and the kid constructed this beauty over the course of a couple days. Had to backtrack a couple times realizing we had made some minor mistakes, but it added to the fun in my opinion. Definitely going to check out some other NASA builds.

This is the best Lego set I’ve ever seen. Got it for my 6 year old, who needed a good bit of help putting it together. It’s a little fragile, but not terribly so. The few times we thought we were short pieces, it turns out we had assembled something wrong - it was all there with a few spares for the tiny bits. Has very unique construction techniques throughout.