Reader Mark R. informed me, to my delight, that Luis Peña’s H.M.S. Beagle Lego kit project announced a year ago February (see here and here), has reached its goal of 10,000 votes and is now at this stage:
It’s being reviewed by Lego, and, if approved, it will be made into a commercial kit and sold in stores. This is quite an accomplishment, given that there were nearly 11,0000 projects entered; and I (and Luis) credit it largely to the votes of many readers of this website. So thank you!
But of course Lego has to approve it, and here our ability to influence them has ended. If there’s anybody who works at Lego is reading, what better way to teach kids science than to have them build their own Beagle, and to see all the people and projects involved in the 1831 expedition of that ship? Approve it!
A few scenes proposed by Luis:
Awesome! Fingers crossed!
I want one!
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Love the tortoise!
It’s the Biolegos Range™. x
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Very cool!!
Just thought of this. It should come as a boxed set with a children’s version of Origins. Maybe PCC(E) could write the adaption from the original version.
Just thought of this (2). And we could convince lego to make an action figure of PCC(E), the official author of the lego version of Origins complete with cat, cowboy boots Hawaiian surfer shirt and Texas barbecue.
“And then, Darwin and his friends encountered a TIE-Fighter?”
I wonder how many specialized pieces would be in this set? Does that affect decisions? Specialized pieces make for some gorgeous default constructions, but I found when using them that they restrict doing other things. I was always of the view that Lego is not just a way of making pre-thought of models of things, but a way to create new and unthought of ones …
I’d buy one! I love ships. And Legos are one of the very best toys of all time. I still have some from when I was a child in the 80’s.
I even bought some a few Lego sets to occupy my time 2 years ago year when I was off work convalescing for several months.
And I really want to get the Lego City Space Port…for my desk at work.
Woonderful!!
If they produce it, I’ll definitely be buying one!
Me, too, even before my granddaughters would show any interest🐸
Someone must now design a set of Galapagos Island models complete with action-figure endemics to go with Lego’s Beagle.
As Darwin would say: ‘By Jove!’
Can’t wait to buy one.
Lego needs to make other science kits.
Since people mentioned books, there are children’s books about the Voyage of the Beagle.
If this set came out 2-3 years ago, I would’ve bought it in a heartbeat.
However the ZAR (S.African Rand)has depreciated so much in the last 18 months, thanks mainly to our worthless (5 wives & 20 kids), oversexed, 4th grade educated president, Jacob Zuma, that LEGO has simply become unaffordable for someone of my income level.
P.S. the part in parentheses should be after the “oversexed”,not the “worthless”.
P.P.S. The sails look incredibly good, but extremely difficult & time consuming to build, not, but sails in the plans, would make the model very top heavy
If the design passes its final hurdles, I strongly suspect LEGO will use alternatives like printed plastic or printed fabric
I saw this a little bit ago. My son and I voted…we will buy too if it comes out and I will buy extras to give away.
Way cool! I love the ship–the chain, the capstan, the masts & sails. What’s that little guy sitting under the bowsprit?
Love Darwin’s shipboard office/lab, too. What sort of bird is “helping” him? 😀
They’ve got to have some ship’s kittehs somewhere…
Oh, good point!
And they could have some really huge rats, too!
walking on ropes
“Lines,” dear. Or hawsers.
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Oh please please please get them to produce a little Charles Darwin being sick over the side! “…one continuous puke”. 🙂
Poor Darwin. His seasickness was but one symptom of his lifetime illness, an illness due to a pathological mtDNA mutation inherited from his Wedgwood mother, resulting in cyclic vomiting and more.
Lol – kids would love it!!
May we have an Australian scene, please, but no kangaroo. (Darwin never saw a kangaroo.) A platypus, please.