LEGO Ideas (Cuusoo): HAYABUSA – 21101

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Theme: LEGO Ideas

Lego Ideas (formerly known as Lego Cuusoo). Originally LEGO Cuusoo was a website run by Chaordix and LEGO. The website allowed users to submit ideas for LEGO sets. There would be a voting process, and if a set made it to 10,000 votes, the set would go into a review process, where it had the potential to be released. The original designer receiving 1% of the royaltiesIt started in 2008 as an offshoot of the Japanese website Cuusoo.

 

Ideas #

002

Pieces

369

Item #

21101

Release

2012

Ideas #

002

Item #

21101

Pieces

369

Release

2012

Lego Ideas HAYABUSA is the second set in The Lego Ideas range and the first one to get an official international release outside of Japan. This was also the first Ideas set to come with a minifig.

The basis for the set

Hayabusa (Japanese: はやぶさ, “Peregrine falcon”) was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis. Hayabusa, formerly known as MUSES-C for Mu Space Engineering Spacecraft C, was launched on 9 May 2003 and rendezvoused with Itokawa in mid-September 2005. After arriving at Itokawa, Hayabusa studied the asteroid’s shape, spin, topography, colour, composition, density, and history. In November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and collected samples in the form of tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to Earth aboard the spacecraft on 13 June 2010.

Wikipedia

Building Instructions

You can find the building instructions on the official LEGO site

Written by El Brick

Written by El Brick

El Brick, or Luke (El = L geddit? no... ok) fell in love with LEGO as a child, and one of his fondest memories was getting a new LEGO (and later Technic) set for Christmas each year. Losing touch with LEGO for a few years, he returned when LEGO Ideas captured his imagination. Combining his love of LEGO and websites, he decided to create this here LEGO website, and hopes you enjoy it 🙂