Available for purchase on April 1, Lego is launching a Tintin Moon Rocket set, the toymaker’s first-ever Tintin set, and it will feature 1,283 parts, six minifigures (including Snowy the dog), all in spacesuits and helmets, and will be designed largely for display purposes rather than play.
For now, it’s only listed on the Lego store page, but we expect it to launch at regular retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Target as well. Naturally, we’re hoping to get our hands on it and review it so we can find out if it’s among the best Lego room sets out there. Standing at approximately 19.5 x 8 x 9 inches, (H x L x W), it’s going to stand out wherever you choose to display it, and from first look looks like a fantastic nod to the iconic rocket from Tintin’s ‘Destination Moon’ and ‘Explorers on the Moon’ cartoons.
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Naturally, we don’t have much more information about the kit beyond the suggested release date, key specs and a few images. However, our initial thoughts are that it would make a cool standalone model, or as part of a space collection, as Lego currently has no other Tintin sets available.
The set features the red and white paneling of the rocket from the Tintin comics, and there’s more than meets the eye. You can remove the rocket’s cone to reveal an internal control room, packed with detail, that has enough space to pose a minifigure inside.
This rocket is a nod to the Tintin comics, where Tintin, his dog, Snowy and others travel to the moon and explore the lunar surface. The six minifigures included are: Tintin, Captain Haddock, Thomson and Thompson, Professor Calculus and Snowy. And while you can’t currently pre-order it, or add it to your cart, it will be available for purchase from April 1st, and we expect it to be popular.
We hope that the release of the Tintin Moon Rocket set continues a trend we like with Lego. We recently saw Lego release its first ever Star Trek set, the USS Enterprise, and now, with its first ever Tintin set, we hope to see more Lego news for franchises and titles it hasn’t previously made sets for.
