LEGO Ideas 21367 Tintin’s Moon Rocket

[Oky]

17 minutes ago, Chocolate Frog said:

Could it not be rebuilt as a larger rocket with interiors?

You’d have to scale it up significantly for it to have minifig scale interiors. 
Although, if you don’t care so much about shaping, you could make the walls flat and remove the mess of Technic beams on the inside to fill it with some small interior scenes. 

[hikouki]

I bet someone will make a MOC of the launch scaffolding on RB!

[Mandalorianknight]

I love Tintin, but the moon rocket was never one of his more iconic adventures to me. I get why they can't have him going up against gangsters or cuts or some of his other opponents, but it initially shocked me that this wasn't the Unicorn. To me, that's the single most iconic thing in Tintin. That said, the rocket seems to have a cultural significance I'm unaware of in the states- across the sea there's physical models of it in public spaces and everything. It seems to be a lot more iconic in Tintin's native country, so it's only fair that it's the chosen model.

That said, one thing I can't understand is why the figures are all in spacesuits. To save on printing, maybe, but given most characters wouldn't require leg prints-something more expensive than torso prints- I really don't think it would have been much more expensive. Especially if you made Snowy a re-use of the more size-accurate generic terrier mold.

The rocket itself is very well designed- it looks great, and the slight taper is incredible. It seems like a great set overall and like it'll be iconic to a lot of people. But it doesn't represent Tintin to me personally- I'll hold out hope for a Unicorn with Tintin/Snowy/Haddok/the twins in their standard costumes.

[Oky]

10 minutes ago, Mandalorianknight said:

That said, one thing I can't understand is why the figures are all in spacesuits. To save on printing, maybe, but given most characters wouldn't require leg prints-something more expensive than torso prints- I really don't think it would have been much more expensive. Especially if you made Snowy a re-use of the more size-accurate generic terrier mold.

The demand to have the characters in their spacesuits came from the IP owners: 

 

[Kaijumeister]

I love this set in many ways, the minifigure selection is outstanding and the design, structure, and building techniques for the rocket are objectively superb.

That said, and I completely understand this is a trade-off of achieving the bulbous curvature of the rocket itself plus it being a display piece first and foremost, but the lack of any sort of interior to house the minifigures beyond the single-occupant control room really kills the set for me.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this conflicted about a set that is objectively brilliant, yet still misses the mark for me. I’ll likely still pick this up at some point as I love Tintin, but for these large £100+ sets which contain sizeable minifigure lineups, it would be nice if the minifigures could actually interact with the set itself. 

[MAB]

7 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

I love Tintin, but the moon rocket was never one of his more iconic adventures to me. I get why they can't have him going up against gangsters or cuts or some of his other opponents, but it initially shocked me that this wasn't the Unicorn. To me, that's the single most iconic thing in Tintin. That said, the rocket seems to have a cultural significance I'm unaware of in the states- across the sea there's physical models of it in public spaces and everything. It seems to be a lot more iconic in Tintin's native country, so it's only fair that it's the chosen model.

 

The rocket is instantly recognizable as the rocket from Tintin. Whereas the Unicorn is, at first glance, just another ship until you look closely at the name or the characters and identify it as coming from Tintin. And that might work against it as LEGO have done a number of ships recently, and it would need to be big, and most importantly it was a rocket that was voted for through IDEAS. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

10 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

But it doesn't represent Tintin to me personally- I'll hold out hope for a Unicorn with Tintin/Snowy/Haddok/the twins in their standard costumes.

Well, don‘t forget it‘s an Ideas set  They‘ve deviated from submissions before, for better or worse, but turning a rocket into an 18th century ship would‘ve been multiple steps too far

If it sells well enough, I can imagine them releasing an Icons follow-up like the Friends apartments.

Edited March 17 by BrickBob Studpants

[Siroco]

3 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

I love this set in many ways, the minifigure selection is outstanding and the design, structure, and building techniques for the rocket are objectively superb.

That said, and I completely understand this is a trade-off of achieving the bulbous curvature of the rocket itself plus it being a display piece first and foremost, but the lack of any sort of interior to house the minifigures beyond the single-occupant control room really kills the set for me.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this conflicted about a set that is objectively brilliant, yet still misses the mark for me. I’ll likely still pick this up at some point as I love Tintin, but for these large £100+ sets which contain sizeable minifigure lineups, it would be nice if the minifigures could actually interact with the set itself. 

My thoughts exactly.

 

10 hours ago, Mandalorianknight said:

The rocket itself is very well designed- it looks great, and the slight taper is incredible. It seems like a great set overall and like it'll be iconic to a lot of people. But it doesn't represent Tintin to me personally- I'll hold out hope for a Unicorn with Tintin/Snowy/Haddok/the twins in their standard costumes.

That wouldn't make any sense, only Haddock ancestor was aboard the Unicorn, unless it was a set with a miniature Unicorn.

And has @MAB well said, the rocket is only Tintin universe, the Unicorn would be just another ship. 

[Clone OPatra]

Is everyone forgetting Marlinspike Hall? That would make an obvious Tintin set, though as an Icons, it'd be enormous and expensive.

Professor Calculus' shark-proof submarine could be good too.

Personally as a kid (in the US) who was heavily into the Tintin books, the rocket is also not something that speaks to me because the Destination Moon stories were the ones I liked least and rarely re-read. I liked gangsters and real-world/fantasy adventuring; space stuff just never spoke to me generally, and especially not those two Tintin books.