Use Distance Search to find Ads based on where you are and how far you want to travel. Get an alert with the newest ads for "lego" in Calgary. 1 - 25 of 9,011 ads for "lego" Shop by grade level Machines & Mechanisms for Middle School Machines & Mechanisms for ElementaryMathematician Katherine Johnson, one of NASA's "Hidden Figures," will be honored with her own Lego minifigure as part of a new toy set celebrating the space agency's pioneering women. Lego on Tuesday (Feb. 28) announced it will release the fan-created "Women of NASA" set as its next Lego Ideas commercial product. The Lego Ideas website enables the public to support fan-designed projects to see them offered by the Denmark-based toy company for sale. Projects that reach a 10,000-vote threshold are considered by Lego to possibly become official products. "The Lego review board carefully considered each project from every angle and the next Lego Ideas set will be the 'Women of NASA,'" Lise Dydensborg, marketing manager for the Lego Group, said in a video released by Lego.
[Women in Space: A Space History Gallery] "Women of NASA," designed by science editor and writer Maia Weinstock, features a set of five minfigures based on real-life NASA astronauts, scientists and mathematicians. "Thank you to everyone who has supported and cheered for this celebration of all the women who have contributed to NASA History!" Weinstock posted on Facebook. "Having Lego make your vision available to kids (and grown-ups!) around the world is a dream come true — and you helped make it happen." In addition to Johnson, whose role as an African American "human computer" at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia was the focus of the 20th Century Fox film "Hidden Figures," Weinstock's "Women of NASA" set includes 1.5-inch-tall (4 centimeter) minifigure models of: The set, as created by Weinstock, also includes a desktop display frame and four toy brick-built vignettes: a miniature model of the Hubble Space Telescope; a miniature space shuttle; a diorama of Hamilton's stacks of computer code;
and the mathematical instruments of the Apollo era. "We're really excited to be able to introduce Maia's Women of NASA set for its fun and educational value, as well as its classic build and play experience. Lego set designers are already working hard on the production model, scheduled for release in late 2017 or early 2018," said Dydensborg. Weinstock said she proposed the set because it combined several of her passions, including the history of women in science and technology, space exploration and Lego. "In 2014, I curated an art exhibit featuring the portraits of women in science, and for my part of the exhibit I mounted and framed individual minifigures of real-life scientists that I had previously designed," Weinstock told Lego. "So the frame part of the model stems from that idea." "The vignettes came second," Weinstock said. "I wanted to contextualize each person in terms of her contributions to NASA history." Dydensborg said Lego it will share more details about the "Women of NASA" set, including its final design, sale date and price closer to to when it is ready for launch.
Lego Ideas has produced three space-themed sets since 2008, including a model of Japan's asteroid sample return probe Hayabusa and NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. In June 2016, Lego approved the production of a fan-made model of the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo 11 mission to land the first astronauts on the moon, which is expected to go on sale later this year. See more photos of the "Women of NASA" Lego minifigures set at collectSPACE. on Facebook and on Twitter at @collectSPACE. If you saw my post for the April 2017 LEGO Store Calendar, you probably saw that the US is finally getting the LEGO Creator Mini Volkswagen Beetle (40252) as part of a promotion. It is a 141 piece set that is basically a smaller version of the Volkswagen Beetle (10252) which was released last year. We will be getting it from April 1-15, while supplies last, with purchases of $50 or more at LEGO Stores and on [email protected] The April 2017 LEGO Store Calendar is now available and we can see some of the promotions and events for the month.
April 1-15: FREE LEGO Creator Mini Volkswagen Beetle (40252) with purchases of $50 or more, while supplies last. April 1-30: FREE LEGO Friends Tic Tac Toe game with a $20 LEGO Friends purchase, while supplies last. April 1: LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales The Silent Mary (71042) available to the general public. April 4-5: VIP Monthly Mini Build event for a Chick. April 1-16: Easter Egg Hunt at LEGO Stores. Find all the Easter eggs and get an Easter sticker sheet, while supplies last. April 15: VIP LEGO Friends Mini Build event. Sign up is required. April 7 & 21: Family Game Night. April 22 & 29: LEGO Life meeting. February was a pretty news heavy month and here’s a recap of some of the more popular LEGO posts from the month. LEGO Disney Beauty and the Beast BrickHeadz Officially Announced – LEGO announced the new LEGO Disney Beauty and the Beast BrickHeadz which now available to everyone on for $9.99 each. LEGO Named 2017 World’s Most Powerful Brand – LEGO was named the world’s most powerful brand in the Brand Finance yearly Global 500 rankings.
LEGO Dimensions Wave 8 Expansions Packs Announced – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced the new LEGO Dimensions expansion packs which include The Goonies Level Pack (71267), the Hermione Fun Pack (71243), and LEGO City Fun Pack (71266). The LEGO Ninjago Movie First Trailer Released – Warner Bros. released the first official trailer for the upcoming The LEGO Ninjago Movie. LEGO House Website Now Live – LEGO launched a new website for their LEGO House which opens in September. The LEGO Batman Movie The Ultimate Batmobile (70919) Revealed – LEGO revealed one of the new The LEGO Batman Movie sets with The Ultimate Batmobile (70917). LEGO New York Toy Fair Set Images – The 2017 New York Toy Fair kicked off and there were a lot of images for the upcoming summer 2017 LEGO sets. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Spider-Man: Homecoming Sets Revealed – During the NY Toy Fair, some of the sets for LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Spider-Man: Homecoming were shown off.
LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 17 Revealed – Also shown off at the Toy Fair was the characters for the Series 17 LEGO Collectible Minifigures. LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales The Silent Mary (71042) Officially Revealed – The last major thing that was revealed at the Toy Fair was the LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales The Silent Mary (71042). LEGO Ideas Second 2016 Set Winner Announced – The winning LEGO Ideas project for the Second 2016 Review Stage was announced to be the Women of NASA. A reader has let me know this morning that there are some LEGO minifigure plushies that has been released in stores or will be released soon. Currently, there are four characters to choose from including Batman (853652) and Batgirl (853653) from The LEGO Batman Movie and Kai (853691) and Nya (853692) from LEGO Ninjago. Each minifigure plush will stand 12″ tall and are made with brushed tricot fabric with silkscreen-printed decoration.
Update: They have shown up on . Today is the last day for the promotion to get The LEGO Batman Movie Disco Batman/Tears of Batman (30607) polybag at LEGO Stores and on . You can get it for free with purchases of $75 or more. The polybag is fairly easy to get especially with a lot of new sets already available. I’ve already done a review of the polybag if you haven’t checked it out yet. LEGO Ideas has announced the winner of the Second 2016 Review Stage and it is the Women of NASA. This set was stated to be releases in late 2017 or early 2018. In addition, the Voltron – Defender of the Universe project is still under consideration so that could also be a set in the future. The results of that will be announced at the Third 2016 Review results. There were twelve projects that qualified for review which included Voltron – Defender of the Universe, Spaceballs – Eagle 5, The Addams Family Mansion, the Merchant’s House, the Large Hadron Collider, LEGO Observatory – Mountain View, Modular Construction Site, the Women of NASA, Star Wars UCS X34 Landspeeder, Lamborghini Veneno Roadster, Lovelace & Babbage, and The Plum Creek – The Little House on the Prairie.