Revealed: 21367 Tintin® Moon Rocket by the LEGO® Ideas design team

Destination Moon! Lovers of the exquisite The Adventures of Tintin comic series by Hergé will be thrilled on 1 April (no joke) by LEGO® Ideas next set, 21367 Tintin® Moon Rocket. Based on the concept by fan designer Tkel86, the final version developed by LEGO Ideas in consultation with IP holders Tintinimaginatio SA ditches the rocket launch tower in favour of LEGO versions of the main characters.

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21367 Tintin® Moon Rocket

• Release date: 1 April 2026 for LEGO® Insiders, 4 April for all. Pre-order available now
• Pieces: 1283

Price and link to pre-order: 

• US$ 159.99 on LEGO.com US
• CA$ 209.99 on LEGO.com Canada
• GB£ 139.99 on LEGO.com UK
• AU$ 279.99 on LEGO.com Australia
• NZ$ 299.99 on LEGO.com New Zealand
• 159,99 € on LEGO.com Deutschland, Nederland, France etc
• PLN 699.99 on LEGO.com Polska
• NOK 2099,90 on LEGO.com Norge
• DKK 1299.95 on LEGO.com Danmark

Other countries click here

 

Minifigures

Wonderfully, the set includes not just Tintin (with new hair piece) and his dog Snowy (a new mould), but also Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, and twins Thomson and Thompson.

Designer reveal

At the LEGO Fan Media Days in September 2025 we were lucky to receive a great presentation by the LEGO designer Ellen Bowley, and LEGO Ideas creative lead Jordan Scott.

What better way to learn about this set and (its new cone piece) than direct from the designers themselves! If you don't watching for 6 minutes, the transcript is below.

Transcript

So hi, I'm Ellen, I'm a newish model designer to the LEGO® Ideas team and I'm super, super excited to show you the next product. Um, launching sixteen years before the Saturn five and landing on the moon successfully. We have the LEGO Tintin rocket. So when I heard this project was going through, I cornered Jordan and asked him, please let me work on it because this is an IP I have been obsessed with for my whole life. And especially the rocket, its iconic red and white shape. It's like curved everything about it. It's just such a beautiful object. The problem with that is making it out of squares. So one of the big challenges we had along the way was to make this like spherical shape with six sides. And yeah, this curve all the way down with curved legs, with curved feet, with curved top. But of course, a rocket is not complete without anybody to fly it. And since we wanted the very iconic rocket, like just on its own so people can imagine it's in space, it's on earth wherever they want. We decided to make the figures in their iconic orange spacesuits. And helmets. So yes, we have Tintin, we have Snowy, we have Captain Haddock, we have Calculus, and we have Thomson and Thompson. Snowy is a new element for this one. We have him in his little spacesuit and with his oxygen tank on the back. All the characters have their oxygen tanks. And they also have little radios for Tintin and Captain Haddock. Now, you might be wondering why the Thomson and Thompson characters have green hair. That's because a particular moment in the comic, when they're in their spacesuits, the twins are having a reaction to a medicine they took in the previous book, which changed the color of their hair. So when they're in their spacesuits, they have green hair. And of course, the IP partner were like, well, they have to have green. They have green hair. One of the things that kind of dictated the size was these six module walls on the bottom. They were really nice shape for this like kind of foot of the rocket. And we know we wanted to use that. And that kind of made us then build the legs and the rest of the rocket based on that. Of course, the checkered pattern is super iconic. This is something that the IP partner were very strict on when we first showed them. I had it like, wrong by like one sixth, I guess. So the checkers didn't match up to how they were in the actual comic. So they asked like, can we change that? We were like, yeah, sure, let's change that, easy. We came back and we were like, yeah, no, that's not easy. So that was quite an exploration. Another new element that we made was the cone on the top. We wanted it to be in the same family as the feet. So we have this like beautiful curved shape and everything kind of matches. But that also gave us the opportunity to hide a little detail inside. So if we take the cone off, it's easier, then we can show you that we have a little cockpit in the top middle area with all of the details that you can see in the comic, you have the moment where they see the Earth for the first time after launching. We have a fan with this, so we met with them multiple times and showed them the model. Their original submission had the kind of landing pad as well, but we really wanted to just focus on the iconic rocket and put the bricks where we need them. And then also include the minifigures as well, because the fan submission didn't have figures, but we saw from comments and reactions, people were like, I really hope they include figures. So yeah, we have a new wig for Tintin as well because he has a very specific kind of quiff. Curvature of the legs: We were doing all sorts of different builds with like slopes and, you know, funny techniques, but they are like super curved, like the rest of the rocket. So I went to Mike [Psiaki] and asked him to please provide me with a triangle, and I'll give you one at the top and one at the bottom to make this shape, and then send me away the back and figure out how to make it. You will see how deceptively simple this looks, but the actual core is very complicated to get those curves. And it was pretty mind blowing when we showed it to the IP partner and we took it to them in person in Belgium. So we got to sit with them and talk through it. So they gave us a prioritized list of things that we had to work on or that Ellen had to work on. I was like, yeah, we can do everything. For a lot of new partners – So this is a brand new partner, it's is not with Disney or Warner Bros. or anything – So we went to them specifically and sat with them in their office with their design team. And it's just, it's simpler because then you can have those difficult design discussions with them and really kind of show them the model and show them the limitations that LEGO bricks have. And that was part of the introduction we gave was like, we're not making one to one scale replicas or diecast models. We are making a LEGO product. So there will be angles. You know, this isn't as seamless as a diecast model, but they were understanding in that that's our limitation. I think like the thing with Hergé was that he was so accurate to vehicles, especially like a ton of research into vehicles, and they had to be as realistic as possible. And so that was something that the designers now working for Tintin stick to with all of their replicas of the models as well. So that was like, it has to be really accurate. Otherwise it doesn't work for us or for the IP. And that was the same for the like the minifigure design, they wanted it as close to the original comics as possible, but that's not a LEGO style. So we had to take them on that journey and say, this is how we translate IP characters that are very realistic or very stylized into our own stylized version of the minifigures. And that's where the balance kind of came with the with the characters there. Thank you. What was their reaction when you presented that minifigures was going to be part of the model? Because the original idea submission, like you said, had no minifigures. I mean, yeah, they were they were very excited. We had a lot of back and forth discussions about which version, because there was feelings in the team that we should do the classic characters. So the blue with the shorts and things like that. But for them, it made more sense to do them in the spacesuits because it is related to Destination Moon, and they were totally happy with that. And we just worked with them on how could we get the iconic look. But they were very excited and they were like, can we get Calculus as well? And we're like, yeah, we can get the iconic ones that were on the rocket in the comics. So is it swooshable? Well, I broke the last designer's model when I picked it up, but it is very swooshable.

 

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