LEGO Technic Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit (42179) - Speed Build & Review

[@TheBrickTwins2024]

This is next on our list for March? We’ve seen it built on many videos and it looks awesome!! 🎉

[@colsbricks]

Yeah it's a really cool set much different from many other technique sets very interesting build!

[@MarkBuildsBRIX]

This is a really cool set - much bigger than I expected it to be as well. Nice Job on the build. 👍

[@colsbricks]

Thanks! It's a cool set much different from any other LEGO Technic set I've build, highly recommended!

[@TonyNL87]

I got this set for my 37th birthday a few days ago. I love the set! But it has one problem.... the earth is completely wrong!😅 The size and locations of the continents are wrong. You can explain orbits with this set.. but not seasons in much detail because the continents aren't in the right spot when it comes to the equator. But when it comes to orbits and rotations it's pretty close. IRL the earth takes 365 rotations to orbit the sun and the moon takes 29,3 earth rotations to orbit the earth. In this set due to limitations with the number of teeth on the gears the earth rotates 352 times to orbit the sun and the moon orbits the earth every 27 earth rotations. So it's pretty close!😎

[@colsbricks]

ya it is a little funky, its fun to build tho!

[@TonyNL87]

@@colsbricks I already took it apart and rebuild it 3 times!😂 Well... I only get to experience ripping open the paper bags once but building was so fun that I had to rebuild it a few times just for fun! I also motorized it on the first day. All I had to change about the set itself to motorize it was replace the handle for a gear. The motor and controller are separate builds that I can attach to the set itself. So no need to change the set itself too much to motorize it because the build made with the motor slides right over the blue pin near the foot where the handle is. So the motor is only attached to that one blue pin! So to get it back to original takes only 10 seconds.