LEGO® Flying Moon Car 40789
LEGO® Flying Moon Car 40789
LEGO® Flying Moon Car 40789
Cruise across the lunar surface in retro-futuristic style — a wonderfully unusual LEGO® Ideas display set featuring a hovering moon car, two space travellers and a scene that looks like it drove straight out of a vintage sci-fi dream.
LEGO® Flying Moon Car 40789 combines classic space-age imagination with sleek futuristic car design, creating a compact display model that feels deliberately different from a conventional LEGO® spacecraft.
Instead of wheels touching the ground, the vehicle appears to hover above the lunar surface on a discreet display pedestal, giving the finished model the illusion of a zero-gravity moon car speeding across an alien landscape.
At the rear, flames burst from the exhaust pipes, adding movement and energy to the scene even while the model is sitting completely still on the shelf.
And this strange little lunar vehicle has passengers.
The set includes 2 space-traveller minifigures wearing spacesuits, seated together inside the open-top car as they make their way across the Moon.
A roadside-style direction sign points toward a lunar research base, adding a playful world-building detail and making the display feel like a snapshot from a much larger retro-futuristic universe.
The car can also be detached completely from its support pedestal, giving the model more than one way to be displayed and allowing the vehicle itself to be appreciated separately from the lunar landscape.
But one of the most interesting things about 40789 is the story behind the model.
Flying Moon Car originated from a winning LEGO® Ideas fan design, created for the Exploring the Cosmos building challenge before being transformed into an official LEGO® set.
That fan-designed origin suits the model perfectly.
There is something wonderfully unconventional about the combination of a sleek flying automobile, astronauts, rocket-like exhaust flames and a road sign sitting on the Moon — exactly the kind of imaginative concept that makes certain LEGO® Ideas releases stand apart from regular themes.
The set also has an unusual release history.
Flying Moon Car originally appeared in 2025 as a LEGO® Insiders Reward, rather than debuting as a conventional mainstream retail set.
For collectors, that gives 40789 an extra layer of interest beyond the finished model itself: it combines LEGO® Ideas fan-design heritage with a promotional release background and a distinctly retro sci-fi aesthetic.
With 211 pieces and an 18+ age recommendation, the set is designed primarily as a compact build-and-display experience for adult LEGO® fans, car enthusiasts and anyone with a soft spot for vintage visions of the future.
The completed display measures 11 cm high, 17 cm long and 9 cm wide, giving the Flying Moon Car enough presence to stand out without demanding a large amount of shelf space.
It looks particularly at home beside LEGO® Space models, science-fiction displays or other unusual Ideas creations — but its eccentric design is strong enough to work completely on its own.
This is not quite a moon rover, not quite a spaceship and definitely not an ordinary car.
It is the kind of LEGO® model that makes someone stop, look twice and ask exactly what they are looking at — and that unusual character is arguably its greatest strength.
Set details
- Set number: 40789
- Theme: Ideas
- Subtheme: Promotional
- Pieces: 211
- Year: 2025
- Condition: New
- Age: 18+
- Based on a winning LEGO® Ideas fan design
- Originally released as a LEGO® Insiders Reward
- Retro-futuristic flying moon car
- Includes 2 space-traveller minifigures
- Both minifigures wear spacesuits
- Lunar surface display base
- Vehicle supported above the surface by a pedestal
- Vehicle can be detached from the display pedestal
- Flame elements project from the exhaust pipes
- Includes lunar destination sign
- Measures 11 cm high
- Measures 17 cm long
- Measures 9 cm wide
Two astronauts, one hovering automobile and a road sign on the Moon — a wonderfully strange 211-piece LEGO® Ideas creation that turns retro visions of space travel into a distinctive adult display model.
Safety information
Warning! Small parts.
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