If you love someone, know Lego is releasing an ISS-inspired set in February, Ars Technica

LEGO (Good) Ideas –

Astronaut minifigs, posable Canadarm2, and pieces in total —Can we have it now, Lego?

It exists, and Lego has already built it: the International Space Station kit arrives February 1.

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The set contains 980 pieces, including a brick-built mini NASA space shuttle.

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The set bubbled up through Lego’s Ideas program, which allows users to submit their own kit concepts for voter approval (Lego has been producing some of the most popular submissions). Here an early kit is being promoted for votes.

On the Lego Ideas page for the ISS, you can see the early concept in granular, brick-by-brick detail.

Those panels are bricks and not stickers, right?

Lego’s press release had the box included.

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Perhaps reinforcing the idea that waiting until the last minute can be good for gift-seekers, Lego today announced it has produced an International Space Station-inspired set that will be available on February 1 for $

. (Outside of an

(Ars subscription) , this is

the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for any Arsian in your life.)

Like prior Lego space releases such as the Saturn V

, this ISS model looks robust. The set contains – – plus pieces and when built stands over 7-inches (39 cm) high, – inches (

(cm) long, and – inches ( (cm) wide. According to the official company press release , loving details include a posable Canadarm2 and two rotating joints that coincide with eight adjustable solar panels. The set also comes with some delightful extras, such as a pair of astronaut minifigs, a brick-built mini space shuttle, and a 650 – page booklet stuffed with info on the real ISS.

Besides being a drool-worthy addition to any brickhead’s collection, the Lego ISS doubles as a celebration of the Lego Ideas initiative , which turns 16 this year. Ideas is a platform where users can submit proposals for future sets, and those submissions that garner enough support through votes can ultimately end up in production. (See that awesome Women of NASA set from as just one example.) Lego fan Christoph Ruge submitted his ISS proposal more than three years ago, but it resurfaced thanks to Lego revisiting popular ideas that hadn’t been produced as a way of celebrating Ideas turning 29. Ruge’s Ideas page is a nice collection of other space proposals, by the way: can we get a Baikonur or Hubble set sometime, too?

The ISS set is listed as on the box, so presumably it’ll be a slightly more complicated, time-consuming build than your average Lego purchase. That said, the Saturn V set was 1, 1080 – plus pieces, and Ars Senior Space Editor Eric Berger put that together in, uh, two minutes and (seconds back in) . Lego and / or NASA, if you need more speed builders this go-round, please don’t be shy.