LEGO® City Interstellar Spaceship Toy Playset 60430 (6+ Yrs)

This is a very sleek and stylish spacecraft set. It has some nice articulation; the aero foils lift or lay flat, the button opens the hyperdrive and closing it pushes the button back up.

Ah, finally! I've been lamenting the lack of proper LEGO space kits for a number of years - in recent memory all we've had to pick from was licensed themes and more realistic NASA-inspired fare. It's exciting to see the return of non-licensed sets with a more sci-fi direction. This kit is excellent. Enjoyable to build, and the opening rear thruster assembly is very, very cool. The overall shape of the craft is quite nice, and feels like a good size for the price of the kit. Another notable perk is the complete lack of stickers in favor of printed elements! The minifigure has some very nice printing as well. Overall, I am very pleased with this set. I will likely try to pick up a few more of these for my space collection - some minor modifications with bricks I had on hand made it a rather nice starfighter.

All of the sets from this new space line are a great value and really good overall but this one stands head and shoulders above the rest, it is so sleek and finished 360° top and bottom. So good in fact that I bought a second one! My only problem with this set is the same one I have with all the other sets in this line: the minifigure heads are too busy, great for kids I am sure but as a fan of the classics I just had to swap it out for the original Lego head design.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Very fun build. I did not build it myself but my nephew did en he really liked it. It is safe for children and very goof quality as you would expect from lego.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Great durability, definitely getting value for your money with a fun to build design. And like all other lego sets you get high quality and versatility.

this set has no stickers and has a really fun play feature!

It’s a nice small build. The underside seems a bit plain, no landing gear. The mechanical action feature however is fun to play with. If only it would automatically close when the button released would be so much more fun

This was a really fun build, with some simple but cool moving parts. It has lots of playability, especially when coupled with some of the other new space sets and i think is great value. I love the new space design look and this spaceship looks like its moving at lightspeed, even when its sat still on the table! There will be plenty of 'wooshing' noises from us while flying this around the house.

Love the design, hope they continue to release clean sets like this or bring back a space theme

An overall fantastic set, incredibly novel compared to the many 1990s-2000s sets I tried to use to reproduce a scifi concept.

The build is awesome! Just a couple of suggestions: 1. Landing gear. I think it would increase playability and display options. I'll definitely be adding those. I've also seen a lot of posts on various Facebook Groups with the same opinion. 2. Center the thrust. Admittedly, this would likely only be relevant to AFOL's. That said, the engines are sides and only the top, which would provide uneven thrust and result in a severe (uncorrectable) downward flight profile. I would either remove the top portion of the engine or add a bottom portion to balance the thrust. I'm not sure what I'll be doing yet. I gotta see what parts I got on hand. :) All of that said, it is still and incredible set. I love it as is but would just make those two modifications. Another thing that might interest y'all is that alot of people that have been building this set have also been building them in classic space colors, blacktron, m tron, etc. I will also be building a classic space version. Great looking set. Fantastic job! Mark

Bought this for my 7 year old daughter. She loves it! We built it together (mostly her) and she really likes the clever mechanism for the engine at the back and the fact it has a lady astronaut. I like it because it brings back memories of the Classic Space and Futuron sets from my childhood. To me, proper Lego space stopped in the mid 90’s (with the possible exception of Ice Planet in 2002) and now, after a nearly 30 year gap, has finally returned in its latest iteration, with some amazing new pieces and colours! Lego Space was always one of the greatest Lego themes (for me, the best) and I’m so glad they have brought it back in a new way and, very cleverly, now across multiple product lines, a few sets from which I am considering future purchases. It is quintessentially Lego at its best! The only small criticism I can level at the set is that the spaceship has nowhere to store the jet pack for the astronaut. It would have been so good to have a proper place to attach it to or a compartment to put it in. But other than that it’s excellent, and I highly recommend it. My family and I are looking forward to building more of the new range.

Really enjoyed building this. It's really sturdy thanks to the layers of plates used. I particularly like the activation of the engines by pressing down on the battery. I think that's a really nice play feature. Why not 5 Stars? Well. Two things. Firstly, where do you store the jetpack? And secondly, it's a shame it can't land. I guess the idea is that it docks with a space station but I would have liked some kind of landing gear so the pilot could land on a moon or asteroid to find more power for the batteries or whatever as it is it feels more like a fighter jet than an exploration vehicle. I guess that's a feature ill be adding myself :)

Simple design, good price point, very swooshable. What’s not to love