The Women of NASA by 20tauri is the latest project to achieve 10,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas. It was a very popular project as it hit the goal in less than two weeks. The project consists of some notable women that have played important roles in NASA’s history such as Margaret Hamilton, Katherine Johnson, Sally Ride, Nancy Grace Roman, and Mae Jenison. There are also some related vignettes to go with the minifigures.
The Women of NASA project now joins Voltron – Defender of the Universe, Spaceballs – Eagle 5, The Addams Family Mansion, the Merchant’s House, the Large Hadron Collider, LEGO Observatory – Mountain View, and Modular Construction Site as the projects that qualify for the Second 2016 Review Stage.
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Lame. They already made a female ideas set and we dont need another one!
Research Institute was not handled well by Lego, and there was a ton of negative publicity about it (See below; it was woefully under-produced, and instead of correcting the issue, Lego retired it early, making the issue worse). It doesn’t surprise me at all that the Women of NASA set was submitted and gained support.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/22/business/short-lived-science-line-from-lego-for-girls.html?_r=0
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-lego-girls-stem-petition-balancing-20140827-column.html
*sigh* what are you? A tiny child?
Saying that is kind of creepy btw. I like this set (although a mix of genders would be nice)
Y’know, boys aren’t they only ones who play with legos.
I don’t think he’s complaining about Ideas sets for females, but rather about Ideas sets that center specifically around females. I’m sure I’ll get a lot of heat for this, but I do agree. To clarify, I don’t have any problem with promoting STEM careers for females (which a lot of people thought the Research Institute was), or recognizing achievements of females in science and engineering (as this Ideas submission does). I think doing that is great.
BUT, I don’t believe such sets are in the spirit of LEGO Ideas. Ideas should be about creative builds that we wouldn’t see in any other theme (eg. the Exo Suit or Maze). And the Research Institute had great builds (notably the dinosaur skeleton). But there are so relatively few Ideas sets that can come to market each yeah, I don’t think the next set should be “wasted” on a concept that is very similar to something that LEGO has already released in this theme in the past.
I hate to see people mix up ‘fleshies’ with traditional yellow figures, as it gives people the impression that yellow Lego people are Caucasian, which they are not. Yellow is their race agnostic color.
I hate that too. I especially hate when it’s supposed to be a real life person and they make them yellow (like you said, implying yellow is Caucasian) An example of this would be the yellow Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare from The Lego Movie CMF Line.
Agreed. Though two figures always bothered me as being not right.
Looks doable, it may have a chance.
Tbh i have never heard of any of these women. They should make a male set of this with important people.
I think Lego should make a “Hidden Figures” NASA play set. They can even recycle the Sheldon mini-fig from Big Bang Theory.