Lego Ideas The Evolution of STEM review

We knew as soon as we saw it that Lego Ideas The Evolution of STEM would be a must-buy. This celebration of all things science, technology, engineering and mathematics is not only suitably geeky, but it looks fantastic too. It’s fun, colorful, and it packs in so much detail that it’s impossible to take everything in at just a glance. It’s the type of Lego set that needs to be explored to be truly appreciated: You’ll want to pick this one up, turn it around and carefully examine all of its different elements.

Being a Lego Ideas set, the design of The Evolution of STEM is based on a fan build. Lego held a competition asking budding designers to create a set that celebrated the ‘wonder of STEM’. The winning build belonged to ZeusBricks, who created a model called ‘Knowledge is Power’. It’s a little different from the finished build — Lego has added in additional details and refined some of its elements — but its basic idea of STEM through history, leaping out of a book, remains the same.

Personally, we prefer the Lego retail version of the set and think the designers have done a fantastic job of bringing it to life. Sure, more scientific discoveries and technological advancements could be included in the model; we’d have certainly liked to have seen a bit more focus on space, but then there are the best Lego space sets for that. It’s really hard to find too much to complain about with this set — it’s an absolute joy through and through.