posted 12-15-2011 12:37 PM               

Editor's note: LEGO CUUSOO is a website where people can share and vote for fan-created LEGO sets. If 10,000 people or more support a particular model, LEGO may choose to produce it as a commercial product.

The second model to receive enough votes and be chosen by LEGO to be sold recreates JAXA's Hayabusa asteroid sample return probe.

Many LEGO fans have been inspired by space history. This thread is dedicated to those models seeking votes on CUUSOO.

posted 12-15-2011 01:50 PM               

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
The second model to receive enough votes and be chosen by LEGO to be sold recreates JAXA's Hayabusa asteroid sample return probe.

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posted 12-15-2011 02:01 PM               

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Originally posted by cspg:
What was the first one?

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posted 01-18-2012 10:56 AM               

Behind the Scenes: LEGO CUUSOO Hayabusa being packed at the factory in Billund, Denmark

The second LEGO CUUSOO product, Hayabusa, is making its way from the warehouse in Denmark to Japan for release in the Japanese market. Here's a little behind-the-scenes look at the boxes being packed. Exclusives are packed in a smaller factory, which as you can see, the packing is still done by hand.

posted 01-18-2012 11:12 AM               

It seemed that the Bandai model was not of great appeal, could it be the price?

posted 03-02-2012 11:28 AM               

LEGO launches asteroid spacecraft model chosen by fans

The world's first spacecraft to collect samples from the surface of an asteroid and return them to Earth, Japan's Hayabusa mission probe, is now available as a LEGO toy thanks to a homemade model and its thousands of fans.

The Denmark-based LEGO Group announced Friday (March 2) that its Hayabusa 369-piece building set has now gone on sale in Japan. A limited number of the sets will be made available worldwide through LEGO's online store at a date still be decided for later this year. The model retails for $49.

posted 03-03-2012 07:00 PM               

I'm in Tokyo on business and was wandering around a shopping area here (Venus Fort) and came across a Lego store that had these on the shelf.

posted 03-03-2012 07:50 PM               

It's a fun build, in part because the step-by-step instruction book also includes sidebars about the science instruments and other equipment you're building.

posted 08-19-2012 12:06 AM               

LEGO may make Mars rover Curiosity toy after 10,000 fans vote

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took a giant leap this weekend toward becoming an official LEGO toy.

Early Saturday morning (Aug. 18), a do-it-yourself model of the car-size, six-wheeled rover that is now on the Red Planet received its 10,000th vote of support on the LEGO CUUSOO website. The model of Curiosity, which features a working "rocker-bogie" wheel suspension, was designed by a mechanical engineer who helped build the real rover.

"What a cool Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover model and a very timely LEGO CUUSOO project!" wrote the LEGO CUUSOO team on the page profiling the model. "Congratulations on achieving 10,000 supporters. We now officially advance this project to the Review phase."