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Okay, so they’re not really going to another planet for a mission…. But in the pretend world that most young boys and girls make up while they’re playing with their minifigs, these three special LEGO dudes might as well be.

The Jupiter Mouse is a sphere of wood fashioned into a mouse that you hold in the palm of your hand to control. You move the cursor by adjusting the tilt of the mouse.

The mouse is made out of “Chinese flowering ash from Japan’s rural Gunma prefecture.” Wow, that’s…