LEGO has revealed its next Ideas set, 40595 Tribute to Galileo Galilei a brand new gift with purchase that celebrates famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei.
Update: it will be available from 1-16 November when you spend US$130 / AU$215 / €130 / £130 on LEGO.com!
We don’t have an official release date, or purchase thresholds for 40595 Tribute to Galileo Galilei, but it’s likely to be available from 1 November 2023 onwards, right after the current 40659 Mini Steamboat Willie and 40599 Houses of the World 4 GWPs conclude.
The model features a minifigure of Galileo Galilei in his study, which is decorated with a bookshelf, model plants, including that of the earth orbiting the sun, and even has a balcony with telescope peering out into the night sky.
The Galileo Galilei minifigure is fantastic, and yet another historical minifigure that LEGO has added to its collection.
In a way, 40595 Tribute to Galileo Galilei feels like it fits in alongside 40450 Amelia Earheart Tribute, 40530 Jane Goodall Tribute, 40579 Eiffel’s Apartment as LEGO GWPs featuring real-life historical figures that have contributed to science, exploration and engineering.
I guess you could also count Vincent Van Gogh as part of the historical figure lineup too.
This set is part of the LEGO Ideas theme, after LEGO fan designer FIRECRACKER‘s design Tribute to Galileo Galilei won the Ready, Set, Go Stem fan vote, which was announced in June 2022.
Looking at the original design, it looks like the designers have largely kept to the original design, with similar techniques used for the room layout, arches and even the orbiting earth function on Galileo’s desk.
I’ll be reviewing 40595 Tribute to Galileo Galilei in the coming days, so keep an eye out for it! Trust me when I say there’ll be quite a number of interesting sets on the horizon that you can purchase to qualify for the set. Or you could even pre-order the 10327 Dune Atreides Royal Ornithopter once the Galileo Galilei GWP has been revealed, to qualify for it.
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The purchase threshold will be $130.
Oh, there are soo many influential people I can think of for the STEM tributes.
Carl Sagan influenced the voyager picture of earth from the edge of the solar system.
Stephen Hawking and his theoretical work on black holes, some that has now been proven.
Bill Nye influenced a lot of current adults to get into science, atleast in the USA.
And many more…
I asked LEGO customer service “if I wait until November to place my Dune Ornathopter 10327 preorder will I qualify for any GWP at that time – say, the Galileo tribute 40595?” and received this reply from Zachary:
Yes! Pre-orders and Back Orders both count towards what you need for GWP’s. Just know that promotions wont send out on their own, so you would need an available set along with the back/pre ordered item. This way the promotion can send out right away before it sells out!(Ps a good tip is if you don’t want any other sets you can always add a small keychain or set that’s available)
Yup, that’s accurate!
Hello,
Thanks for all your excellent work Jay, it’s such a pleasure to read your blog.
Just a little thing : it’s not an orbiting moon but an orbiting earth around the sun. Gallileo’s work is (in part) famous precisely because like Copernic, he demonstated that it’s the earth that revolves around the sun and the other way around :).
The original submission had a gear built into the display base, which when rotated, also turned the earth-and-moon display on Galileo’s desk. From the official images, it appears that the earth-and-moon on Galileo’s desk are still connected to something under his desk; the question is whether the gear mechanism has been moved around back, or eliminated altogether?
The gear is at the back in the final model. You can see it in the back of box photo.
Hello,
Thanks for all your excellent work Jay, it’s such a pleasure to read your blog.
Just a little thing : it’s not an orbiting moon but an orbiting earth around the sun. Gallileo’s work is (in part) famous precisely because like Copernic, he demonstated that it’s the earth that revolves around the sun and the other way around :).
The Leaning Tower of Pisa art on the wall was not part of the original idea. Could be a coming set on its own being the set to purchase to get this GWP? The Colosseum was also ‘announced’ through a picture on the Fiat 500 set…
Could be, although the Leaning Tower of Pisa was the site of one of Gallileo’s more famous experiments, where he dropped two cannonballs of different masses to demonstrate the law of free fall.