Mars Curiosity rover available from LEGO on New Years Day

I’ve mentioned previously that the Mars Curiosity rover LEGO model designed by Stephen Pakbaz , who had worked as an engineer on the real Curiosity rover at JPL, would become a commercial product from LEGO. The project was part of the LEGO® CUUSOO hobbyists program, which has seen some of their other models become production products for LEGO as well.

This past week LEGO announced that the model will hit the store shelves on January 1st:

Here’s a video interview with Stephen: