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Lego releases 1,252-piece Hubble Space Telescope model with internal instrument detail but grey-brick cost cuts
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Lego's new Icons Hubble Space Telescope is its largest yet at 1,252 pieces and £119.99, featuring posable solar arrays, an opening aperture door, and internal representations of gyroscopes and mirrors, but uses grey plastic and stickers where earlier sets used silver bricks and printed parts.
This is an offbeat product release, not an engineering change, so it has no direct impact on software or systems work. It is carried by a single feed and concerns a consumer model kit rather than a tool, platform, or infrastructure event.
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The 1,252-piece set measures 32 cm tall and 38 cm long with the aperture door open, includes one astronaut minifigure, and is priced at £119.99.
Internal detail covers gyroscopes, primary mirror, and secondary mirror, while external features include posable solar arrays, antennas, and an opening aperture door.
The set uses grey plastic instead of the silver bricks found in the Space Shuttle Discovery set's Hubble, and relies on stickers rather than printed parts.
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