15 May 2025

Review: LEGO® 40767 Up-Scaled Baby Astronaut GwP

Posted by Thomas Jenkins

Spacebaby, Spacebaby, SPACEBABY! LEGO® set 40767 Up-Scaled Baby Astronaut is the adorable new Gift with Purchase (GwP) that is now available, until 23 May 2025 or while stocks last, with all purchases meeting the minimum threshold of 150€/ US$150/ CA$190/ £135/ AU$245/ NZ$265. We received an early copy for a review, so let's take a look at this oh-so-cute mega-baby face.

extreme closeup of the helet and face of the giant red space baby astronaut gift with purchase from lego.com

Products in this article were gifted by The LEGO Group; the author's opinions are their own.
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40767 Up-Scaled Baby Astronaut GwP

  • Release date: 15 to 23 May 2025
  • Availability: Free gift with all purchases meeting the minimum thresholds listed below
  • Pieces: 250
  • Ages: 10+
  • Measures: over 4 in. (11 cm) tall
Thresholds:

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Lego Icons 40767 GwP Giant Space Baby

 

Also released today, LEGO® Icons 10360 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery & 747 Plane or LEGO® Super Mario™ 72037 Mario Kart™: Mario & Standard Kart immediately get you over the required threshold. LEGO® Art 31216 Keith Haring – Dancing Figures is also available today, which is close to the threshold. We have some relevant suggestions later in the article as to how you could top up your basket! 

New elements

Unlike the previous Classic Space-themed GwP, 40712 Micro Rocket Launch Pad (see Kev's review), the decorations in this set are all printed. As such, we get 3 exclusive printed elements:

3 printed lego parts
  • 1x Slope Curved 4 x 1 Double with No Studs with Baby Eyes print in Yellow (6546445 | 93273pr)
  • 1x Slope Curved 4 x 1 Double with No Studs with Smile print in Yellow (6546444 | 93273pr)
  • 1x Tile 2 x 4 with Groove with Classic Space Logo print in Red (6546446 | 87079pr)
The eye and mouth prints might provide a starting point for other upscaled baby figures, but the printed red 2x4 is the element that will make this a coveted set among Classic Space fans keen on creating red spaceships and ground vehicles. 


a red and a blue lego 2x4 tile each with slightly different classic space moon logos

A similar printed tile was included in 10497 Galaxy Explorer. However the Classic Space experts here at New E. were quick to point out some subtle differences between the two logos; the planet on the new print has no craters, and the rocket's contrail has just one dot.

Rare elements

Spacebaby also comes bearing 3 hard-to-find elements:

3 bits of lego
  • 4 x Brick Round Curved 1 x 1 x 1 1/3 Quarter Dome in Bright Red/ Red (6436399 | 1871) found in just 1 other set, 75392 Creative Play Droid Builder
  • 1 x Brick Special 1 x 1 x 1 2/3 with Studs on 1 Side in Bright Bluish Green/ Dark Turquoise (6439825 | 32952) available in 3 other sets. 
  • 2 x Brick Curved 1 x 2 x 1 with Curved Top in Bright Red/ Red (6544439 | ) found in just 1 other set, 11044 Creative Build-and-Play Box

The build

the lego gwp space baby disassembled to show its central construction: a column of snot bricks with studs on the sides. Many are not red. They are colours that Classic Space astronauts have appeared in in the past, except for one brick which is teal.

This cutaway view reveals the secret to this well-rendered miniature space explorer. Surely there's a joke here about babies and SNOT.

You may wish to draw your own conclusions about the colours of filler brick used.


360 degree spin animation showing all sides of the big baby spaceman gwp including the airtanks on the back.

The result is a near-perfect giant brick-built version of the Classic Space Baby minifigure. Plenty of attention has been put into this model: even the air tanks on the back of the figure have been carefully upscaled to match the original figure. 


Side view of the Up-Scaled Baby Astronaut GwP. The arm is wholly created with studless slopes and tiles, yet the corner by the elbow shows bare studs

There's one thing bugging me though; the apparent gap at the elbow. It looks as though a 1x2 wedge tile has been left off! Was it some limitation of production? Or perhaps they did not want to include a piece that is so similar to the 1x2 curved wedge slope, for fear of errors by customers? Even a 1x1 quarter tile would have solved it, but surely they have their reasons. 

It is easily solved of course by adding your own pair of angled red tiles. You'll find them in the following sets; if you don't own any of these, we recommend slinging one of the single-car LEGO® Speed Champions sets in your bag – relatively cheap, awesome builds and great parts!

Set 60407 on LEGO.com
Double-Decker Sightseeing Bus
Set 76294 on LEGO.com
X-Men: The X-Mansion
Set 76921 on LEGO.com
Audi S1 e-tron quattro
Set 76922 on LEGO.com
BMW M4 GT3 & BMW M Hybrid V8
Set 76934 on LEGO.com
Ferrari F40
Set 77246 on LEGO.com
Visa Cash App RB VCARB 01
Set 77250 on LEGO.com
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team VF-24

Alternatively, they are listed on LEGO Pick a Brick, or of course your favourite third-party seller.

Search PaB for
element 6510127
Lego element 6510127
Search PaB for
element 6510141
Lego element 6510141

Conclusion

the red astrobaby space gwp apparently floating in midair

The building techniques aren’t revolutionary but the build is still pretty engaging, and the finished model is oh-so-cute! If you can bear to, the model also recycles into a decent red parts pack.

Then of course there are the useful printed elements to fuel further giant baby creations. Given the existence of the printed 2x4 tile, a Blue Spacebaby would be an ideal option but you would need to come up with an alternative build for the helmet, as unfortunately Brick Round Corner 3 x 3 x 2 Dome Top (88293) does not yet come in blue. 

Is it worth getting hold of? With a threshold attainable by buying any product, this GwP is a steal. I say any product – the terms and conditions do still state that it does not apply to Standard PaB bricks, which now only concners North America. However many readers have told us their Standard brick orders have qualified in the recent past, so give it a try. Pick a Brick added over 1000 new elements this month.

 

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1 comment:

  1. Nice review! I was curious about the air tank construction since all the pics I'd seen were from the front, but it looks very nice. Also, it only just occurred to me that because the mouth and eyes are printed on separate parts, you could give the baby a frown when it's space-naptime. :P

    I imagine there are several people feeling a little bit bummed out that we get this set in red before we actually get the space-baby in red, though! I also feel like it would have been fun if they'd snuck a microscale Easter egg of some kind into the head like they did with the upscaled pirate minifigure.

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