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Double feature of 1997’s small droid ships, the V-Wing and Cyber Blaster enter the LEGO City!
These tiny old sets were heavy on cool intricate prints. All about the minifigs here, but the V-Wing has some really fun classic space elements and shaping!
‘97 picks up with leg printing, which hadn’t been seen in a space theme since ‘94s Spyrius droid, Major Kartofski. And we’ll see leg prints on their human counterparts next time I look at RoboForce.
Happy to have both the Techdroids from this theme back in my collection, which Techdroid do you like better- red or blue?
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Aft view showing off the compartment for the short-range land speeder the S-29 comes with.
This is my own custom starfighter I built. Partly for fun and partly to play Lego with my daughter. I made it with many parts from childhood as well as some newer pieces I recently purchased.
This next rework of the Basilisk starfighter is in a color scheme that I've wanted to build in for a long time. Gulf livery! I've loved this from the first time I saw it on the Ford GT. I've also long thought that Lego's medium blue color was a great match for the color used on the race cars, though now that this is done, I'm starting to wonder if the newer "bright light blue" (think Fiat 500 and Vespa sets) might be a better match. I maintain that both are better matches than the azure used in a recent official set, though ;)
Drilling Machine made for the display "Space Panic" at the french convention Brick à Dole 2017.
In the spirit of "Classic Space", the drill fits easily into the display.
The small challenge of this construction was to divert the Christmas ball Lego to build the cockpit of the drill .
To complicate my life, I built this machine in version "Tripod"... 3 "legs" to give it a look "Alien"
High point of the show ! Smoke (with a smoke generator) comes out of the crater under drill machine. (See the video)
I am happy, I find this machine very fun :)
Built by Nick Kappatos and myself for BrickFair VA, 2021. The landing pad and roadway components were modular in nature, with the hope of expanding and rearranging over time.
Due to appearance nicknamed "GECKO" Medium class transport vehicle, higly popular in salvagers and smugglers for its agility.
Last minute Febrovery build.
This MOC is a quick build completed for a monthly build competition for my local LUG, Bendigo LEGO® User Group on the theme of ‘space’.
The Space theme was one of Lego's first three, alongside the Town and the Castle, introduced in 1978. All three themes featured human-shaped minifigures to populate their respective worlds. While minifigures have gone through many changes over the years, the basic physical design has remained the same, ensuring compatibility and ability to remix.
The classic Space sets, which were released through 1988, were populated by astronaut minifigures. Looking rather identical except for their suit colors, they were very iconic, and are among the most produced minifigure designs in history. Long after the classic Space sets were discontinued, these astronaut minifigures remain very sought after and beloved.
Red and White were the initial offerings; Red was usually seen driving or flying a vehicle, while White was the technical expert operating rocket guidance controls and other systems. In 1979, Yellow started appearing, though its use in full-fledged sets would not happen until 1982 when some new Space sets and elements were introduced. Black and Blue were the last to be introduced, in 1984, when Space sets went through a significant redesign.
According to brickset.com database, Red appeared in 44 different sets, White in 35, Yellow in 27, Blue in 12, and Black in only 8.
Some minifigure collection themes, and other Lego products (including a minifigure display kit), in recent years have also featured re-issues of these astronaut minifigures. However, they differ by having a more modern helmet design, as well as a different facial expression. Classic Space only offered the classic smiley - two dots for eyes, one parenthesis for mouth - seen on these minifigures, and the classic smiley was the only available minifigure face throughout the entire Lego catalog until 1989.
I made another thing for my RLUG's (Sacramento Brick Builders) monthly build challenge and am posting early. The challenge was either water adventure or tie-fighter. I combined the 2 with my creation of the Tiekranoplan Heavy Assualt. Although digital, this can be completely made in real life with existing elements. Here is my head cannon for the Star Wars spacecraft: The Tiekranoplan Heavy Assault (TK-HA) was designed by the Empire for under-radar/stealth attack runs on well fortified cities specifically located on water worlds. The TK-HA was designed to fly just a few meters above the water with fierce speed powered by 8 forward heavy ion thrusters creating a sudo-ground effect and 8 rear ion engines with relative stealth and the element of surprise against the adversaries of the Empire.
The TK-HA carries 6 long range neutron missiles, 12 proton depth charges, 2 forward facing laser cannons, 2 wing mounted turbo lasers, a rear gunner with actuated quad laser cannons, and a pilot.
Very few have ever discovered this secretive class of Tie-fighters and the few that have, have often referred to them as the "Emperor's Sea Monsters."
Music credit: VKmusic
The R397 features three powerful engines, all of which were custom-designed for the project. It was these additional costs and design delays drew out the project.
Instructions on: rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-126727/alexsimion9/sad-destroyer...
Darth Mor’s personal death Squad,
A class built exactly for his warmongering and terror.
Darth Mor’s Star Fighter is flanked by tow of this when he needs a “ little “ more firepower.
Hope you guys like it, let me know what you guys think.
1991’s Aerial Intruder from the Blacktron II fraction enters the LEGO City!
The ‘Big’ ship from a fan favorite (myself decidedly included) sub-theme is actually not all that big compared to the other Space sub-themes’ flagships. This ship checks the majority of my criteria for what made an excellent spaceship play set as a kid!
Great color scheme and cool large transparent elements?
Blacktron 2 has arguably the best + printed large windshield!
Detachable base with usable interior space?
The center of the ship is large when opened and has an aft storage compartment. While tight when loaded with cargo, great when side-builds are deployed
Dropship/Escape Pod?
Two of the best designed simple ships that deploy from the sides, that are also designed to be compatible with the rest of the sub-theme! So simple and genius
And a bonus jetpack element that is classic
Rover?
Two! Yes, super simple, but very standard for the time.
Action features?
The simple rover launch action definitely suffices.
Droid/Robot?
Not for this faction, but I believe that’s because they were outlaws. Correct me if I’m wrong?
Yes, I’m a really big fan of this old spaceship. Any detractors, like having 5 pilot-able options with only two minifigs can be understood with all their buddies they’d have to break from the Space Police II
This Absolute Classic brings me to the conclusion of my look back at some of my favorite LEGO from the ‘90s. I’m sure I’ll do more shoots with these sets in the future, but I’ve got a ton of contemporary sets to showcase for now and a large MOC in progress.
What did you think of this ship? Did you have it? Does it hold up today?
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Built this last year but just didn’t have a way to photograph it due to its size. The top part flies away as a glider-like craft while the bottom works as a Fire Fighting platform and rescue-raft deployment zone.
Just your regular, run-of-the-mill NCS battle mecha. I don't often use brick shooters in my designs since my son stopped being obsessed with the things, but I still enjoy the looks of the old rotary stud shooters, especially in mechs.
Streamlined version's challenge page: ideas.lego.com/s/ca:c3839db98c4f41e9965931549161df4d
This is the original version of a LEGO vignette I created for an Ideas competition called "Exploring the Cosmos". The premise of the building challenge is to make futuristic space vehicles or bases with using 150-250 pieces total. I built this project, shot the photo, and then afterwards realized I went well over the 250 part limit. I ended up streamlining the project significantly by removing some of the detail of the ship, removing the three small meteors surrounding the ship, and reduced the size of the exploding meteor. This brought the total count to 250 pieces exactly. Next I retook the streamlined version's photos and submitted it to the competition. Hence the version seen in the challenge page looks a bit different than the image seen here.
The original working name of the project was the "Asteroid Authority", clearly inspired by the classic Atari game Asteroids. Whether I win the contest or not, I at least deserve some credit for the awesome name "Meteor Watchdog!"
Play Well Series Decayed Minifigure photo 7: Space Police Generation 1. I was actually debating keeping this photo: after editing it in Lightroom, I wasn’t quite satisfied with how my studio lights overexposed some of the white parts (mainly the legs) and caused some of the detail to be bleached out. Also, my closeup filter kind of made the minifig’s head blurry, despite the high f-stop number and the rest of the figure being in focus. I might actually retake the photo of this minifig to make a final draft.
With the Basilisk starfighter, I wanted to try some weapons/loadout variants, like in a SHMUP. This is the level 2, an upgraded minigun. The one in the original photos looks like it will be level 5. More upgrades to come!
Credit to Jay Biquadrate for the penta-barrel design. www.flickr.com/photos/58283021@N03/40761236545/in/datepos...
Read more about this model and the build process here on The Brothers Brick:
www.brothers-brick.com/2022/02/02/ice-planet-skimmer-scou...
This MOC was born during Andrew Lee ‘s Bricks and Beer December 2021 party, tweaked for a couple weeks, and briefly debuted on Chris Giddens ‘ Old Grey Bricks video chat. Sat on it for 13 months to wait for better snow and the year 2022.
This next rework of the Basilisk starfighter is in a color scheme that I've wanted to build in for a long time. Gulf livery! I've loved this from the first time I saw it on the Ford GT. I've also long thought that Lego's medium blue color was a great match for the color used on the race cars, though now that this is done, I'm starting to wonder if the newer "bright light blue" (think Fiat 500 and Vespa sets) might be a better match. I maintain that both are better matches than the azure used in a recent official set, though ;)
The XL-15 enters the LEGO City!
This set wouldn’t have been on my radar if it wasn’t for the buzz about the Lightyear film’s director being AFOL Angus MacLane (check out his builds on Flickr!).
Evidently, he pushed for the in-film design to have a yellow transparent canopy, reminiscent of the Classic Space elements.
He also had an interesting spot on LEGOCon, worth a check out.
The build of this one and a cat seater spaceship is substantial! As a medium sized ship it checks most boxes for me: fits all accessories, swoosh-ability is there, has mobile base in form of laptop (stretch), and droid in the Catbot (also stretch). No escape pod/rover, which loses some points when compared to the medium builds of my ‘90s childhood.
But the elements and connections this set brings to the table blow anything from my childhood away. There are a few elements that are super obscure.
Color scheme for the spaceship is great, can’t miss with light blue, white, and black with that yellow canopy.
Also bonus points for extra head/hair elements for minifigs.
Less stellar for me were the minifigs. Buzz looks pretty good, but I’d prefer the dome over a normal helmet (I’m sure that’s a movie plot detail). The other figs have nice printing, but are pretty mute brown, like something out of a Star Wars set.
The shoulder pauldrons for all of them are cumbersome to range of motion.
The rocket launcher build doesn’t really work out to be held, but I do appreciate the built up weapon/scanning accessories.
Very nice set, strong suggest for the building experience and MOC possibilities!
I left off the red stripes off the wings. Does it look cleaner? Worse? Let me know
I’ll be looking at more contemporary LEGO sets that are bringing back Classic Space soon!
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WELCOME to the NEW SPACE AGE!
Inspired by the real space stations, this imaginary minifig-scale space outpost is the place for all variety of crew members working together and expanding the human frontier- the moon, Mars, and beyond!
This is my last Basilisk, for now. I have some other ideas I think would look good, and one I hit the wall on parts availability with (olive and dark red), but other projects beckon. So, I give you the Blacktron version, rejected from the Lego Ideas space competition for the 90th anniversary, as not being new.
The greatest LEGO Space theme that never was, Seatron was conceived right after Futuron and would have given us our first (and more creative and interesting) LEGO aliens most of a decade before the UFO theme released.
All we have is some intriguing preliminary shots of a fascinating theme with a white, black and trans red "surface" palate and an Aquanauts-like yellow, black and trans blue "underwater" palate.
Anyway, I think it would have been a great theme, and it's well worth a MOC or several. And it being FebRovery let's make a rover.
Probably the Seatron faction minifigures would have been more Futuron-like than CS-like, but my Futuron minifig supplies are practically nonexistent.
I've done some Seatron-like MOCs before, connected with the Ice Planet faction as explorers of a subsurface ocean within Planet Krysto (a subtheme I call "Ice Planet: Aquarius Project"), but this is my first actual Seatron MOC.
VAREC 01 – a compact speeder (space bike) built from set 42136, continuing the Astroline Space series I began earlier this year.
Building instruction for VAREC 01, if you’re interested: reb.li/m/236458
I'm calling this color scheme on the Basilisk the "R" or "Type R". I've been seeing this color scheme, or variants on it, show up on a lot of cars. Some are black on gray, without the red, some have a red stripe on black and a variety of main colors (see the "sport" trim on the Subaru Forester). It's a nice look. Funny thing, I tried this with both red fins and black fins, and even though the fins are small, the difference is a dramatic difference in how bright or dark the ship looks overall.
Support this project on LEGO Ideas: ideas.lego.com/projects/131464
The Astrosurfer: an atomic-powered intergalactic sports car, accompanied by the hit new space rock band The Highway Stars! This epic futuristic vehicle is detailed and articulated with wheels, rubber tires, hinged doors, reclining seats, and with access to the car’s trunk. On the hood of the car is a metallic minifigure hood ornament, and underneath is a detailed engine. In the rear of the car are two folding jet engines, a set of tailpipes, a spoiler, and an Octan bumper sticker.
Background: this project was initially conceived back in fall 2015, during my long, imaginative train of thought. In late November of 2015, I took some photos of my Futuron minifigs in front of Christmas lights for an artistic bokeh effect. This led me to come up with the idea of taking a group shot of a few spacemen hanging out as friends, accompanied by lyrics from the Ramones song “I Just Want to Have Something to Do.” This soon evolved into the idea of making each of the spacemen as musicians in a fictional band, that was inspired by the music video for the aforementioned song — which starts off with the Ramones playing the song in the back of a car. With this concept in mind, in early December I took a photo of some Futuron minifigs playing instruments in front of Christmas lights. Upon releasing this photo, I was then struck with another bolt of inspiration while watching the music video for Monster Magnet’s “Negasonic Teenage Warhead“: towards the end of the video, the band takes off in a purple classic Buick and flies through space! This idea hit me, and that night I had a dream to build a futuristic space sports car being driven by a rock band — essentially an amalgamation of those videos by the Ramones and Monster Magnet, along with my previous LEGO space photography!
Production for this creation began immediately after Christmas 2015, as I was preoccupied in December with production of my LEGO Nutcrackers and electronic Mega Man sprite. The bulk of this model was completed in the middle of January, but unfortunately I ran into one tiny (yet major) obstacle: I wanted a Classic Space symbol flag for the car’s antenna, however the Collectible Minifigure that contained this particular part wasn’t available in the United States yet. It wasn’t until early February that these figures were available (scarcely) at my local Toys ‘Я’ Us in Whitestone. I felt up all of the packages, and managed to snag the very last astronaut, thus obtaining that seemingly-insignificant flag for the antenna!
The five astronauts are made from authentic Classic Space minifig bodies, hence the noticeable play wear in their insignia. I did however deviate by giving them helmets with color-coordinated visors, as well as contemporary faces. The instruments were from other Collectible Minifigure sets, with the exception of the drum kit. For the car’s design, I initially wanted to build an accurate replica of a 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air or perhaps a Cadillac Eldorado — but instead, I opted to make an original design of an arbitrary concept. The two-tone color scheme wasn’t intentional: I wanted to make the car solid pink, but had to instead make use with available pieces in the pink/purple color family.
Prototype source image - "Space Truckin'": www.flickr.com/photos/baronvonbrunk/23438359150/
"I Just Want to Have Something to Do" by the Ramones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRwek-qyyeM
"Negasonic Teenage Warhead" by Monster Magnet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKj5cJ9_KSg