NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover could get its own Lego set

Are you lacking NASA’s billion dollar budget? Don’t worry, you could be creating your own tribute to Curiosity in the not-too-distant-future

TheMars Curiosity Roverhas enthralled the minds of geeks young and old, and you could soon have the chance to replicate NASA’s four-wheeled Martian explorer with Lego.

Although not as complicated as the thousand-brick-strongfully operational Curiosity Roverbuilt by Lego NXT builders, we’re still hoping that Lego designer Stephen Pakbaz’s Curiosity set gets the required 10,000 votes on Lego’sCuusoo siteso that it can follow in the footsteps of the likes of the now-officialLego MinecraftandBack to the Futuresets.

While you’re at it, why not check out theLego Street Fighter II,R2-D2andLord of the Ringssets as well as thegigantic Lego forest,working jet engineandDeath Star. Unless you’re allergic to Lego of course, in which case you would probably die a painful multicoloured brick-induced death.

Did we mention our five Lego sets we wish they would make? No? Well, here’s thelinkfor that too.

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Stuff Office Cat’s Diary – 13/08/12

Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website. 

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