LEGO City 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship review

LEGO City 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship continues the fine run of space exploration sets from an unexpected source.

LEGO City absolutely nailed its Space subtheme of sets in 2024, releasing the best collection of such sets that we’ve seen in a good while, showcasing original ideas and interesting builds across the entire line-up.

That collection continues into early 2025 in the form of 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship and it is a more than credible entry, taking what’s possible with this subtheme into another new direction.

Release: January 1, 2025 Price: £69.99 / $79.99 / €79.99 Pieces: 717 Minifigures: 4 LEGO: Order now

Beyond the atmosphere

That direction is into space itself. A lot of what we got in 2024 from LEGO City Space was land- and inner-atmosphere-based vehicles with only really one exception to that – 60433 Modular Space Station. We also had the excellent but smaller 60430 Interstellar Spaceship but curiously nothing much larger in the collection to transport our astronaut minifigures further through the galaxy.

That makes 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship immediately very welcome for addressing that, as a long, mid-to-large-size spacecraft complete with plenty of room inside for a number of minifigures. The cockpit has space for one minifigure and one alien astronaut (included, of course), and immediately behind there is an area with a detachable roof and seating for another minifigure.

The ship continues through into one of the modular pods that we saw across a number of the City and Friends Space sets in 2024, this time with some tools on one wall, a screen on the other and plenty of space on an emptier floor, to act perhaps as an airlock or functioning part of a larger craft it may find itself within.

The main section to 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship is at the rear with that large, rounded central hub capped off with a trans-black dome piece. Inside here is a central table, some fold-down sections for medical treatment and pizza, and some space around the edge for seating or other story elements, including some plant life and a piece of shiny space rock mined from one of the floating meteors also included in the set.

Two small wings with thrusters and a single main thruster at the back cap off 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship as this quite substantially-sized rocket ship that looks not only capable of flying through deep space but also able to sustain life for a number of crew inside (and offer plenty of intrigue and play for those of us swooshing it around).

Genuine two-in-one

But as you will have noticed in the name or perhaps seen on the box art and official imagery, 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship is modular, meaning it has a special trick up its sleeve in being able to be pulled apart in several places and reconfigured into at least two separate units.

Technic pins and carefully-placed 2×2 bricks hold together different sections of the central body to the ship, across the cockpit and body, pod, and central hub, whilst the wings and thruster on the hub and the storage compartments on the pod are removable and re-attachable via clips and bars.

The solar panels either side of the central hub can fold down to act as support stands, and that big round room on the ship can be transformed into a big round room on a planet’s surface, perhaps with one offshoot area for the pod too (maybe it is an airlock). Clip the wings and thrusters on to the cockpit and body and that transforms into a decent-sized spaceship of its own able to fly around.

The novelty of this transformation is in itself really fun, but the effectiveness of the second modes for both the living quarters and the spaceship really sell the idea, and genuinely double the play potential from the one set.

A stellar set

When all joined together to create one large ship, 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship is excellent – full of storage and play space and a lot of tempting hands-on moments throughout, and all worked into a really nice-looking and originally-designed craft that takes the broader (and refreshingly vaguer) story of space exploration that LEGO City established in 2024 into deeper space.

This subtheme of sets was missing a bigger spaceship that felt capable of travelling through space on longer journeys, and 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship very much ticks that box now.

And then, when all pulled apart, 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship transforms into an almost completely new and equally-as-fun planetary living quarters and mid-size spaceship that we didn’t know we also really needed and wanted for this collection, just for how good both sections look on their own and the different stories and play opportunities they open up.

The fact that both modes (and this is acknowledging still that the modularity opens up other configurations you may want to try out, including combining this with the pods from other sets, or even the base from 60434 Space Base and Rocket Launchpad) work so well and so independently from each other makes 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship a stand-out set to begin 2025 with, offering value, fun and so much intrigue and play to it.

This is a LEGO set that is a worthy addition to the stellar line-up of Space sets from 2024, as much as anything for how it’ll pull you right back into each one of those excellent sets too, and it stands as one of our top recommendations to pick up in the first half of the new year. Here’s hoping LEGO City has more space sets lined up…

Our honest opinion: The best two-in-one sets can create a real dilemma for LEGO fans, and 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship does exactly that through how good both configurations of this important addition to the LEGO City Space collection are.

This copy of 60446 Modular Galactic Spaceship was provided for review by the LEGO Group.

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