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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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Finished rebuild of "LL928 Comes Home" using only modern parts and with greebling and furnishings that are more to my taste. Pressure doors on large and small base buildings really open, even though they look like they probably don't.
This build wouldn't have been possible without having downloaded from Bricklink's Studio gallery a full digital version of Wolf Leews's original model, since that made it easy to copy-paste some of the details (the large antennas on the roof, the comm tower, and a few small things here and there) and generally easy to examine the way the original was built. That download can be found here:
www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/design.page?idModel=72042
Many pictures of the original can also be found here:
I reduced this MOC to less then 250 pieces in total. you can build B81-A or B81-B with the pieces. I was planning to enter this in the Lego Ideas contest called 'Out of this world space builds!'. But I already entered another moc which would mean that one would get less votes ;)
It was the year 1979 when LEGO launched one of the sets that became among the most iconic in the AFOL world: the 928 set.
The Classic Space theme was launched just a year earlier in 1978 and this set became a legend because it represented the most beautiful and largest spaceship in the entire fleet. It is incredible to think of the success that this set of only 338 pieces has had if we compare it to those on sale today, but in those days we were children who dreamed of having this box and our best memories are linked to it.
In '79 I was just 5 years old and I have never been able to have this box, too expensive for my parents, but I have always dreamed of it looking at it in the catalogs. Finally as an adult I looked for it and managed to buy it!
All this premise was used to introduce my new work: the Galaxy Explorer SDR-926! This year I am 10 years old as AFOL and I thought about making mocs that have a special meaning for me. The first of these was the desire to make a spaceship of some importance! SDR-926 wants to be a tribute to the 928 but with very different characteristics and numbers. Number 926 represents the birth of my daughter. The spaceship measures 85 x 75 x 21 cm and is made up of almost 4600 pieces! It took me 5 intense months to make it because it contains several features and functionalities in a single work.
Thank you for watching!
Video presentation here:
It was the year 1979 when LEGO launched one of the sets that became among the most iconic in the AFOL world: the 928 set.
The Classic Space theme was launched just a year earlier in 1978 and this set became a legend because it represented the most beautiful and largest spaceship in the entire fleet. It is incredible to think of the success that this set of only 338 pieces has had if we compare it to those on sale today, but in those days we were children who dreamed of having this box and our best memories are linked to it.
In '79 I was just 5 years old and I have never been able to have this box, too expensive for my parents, but I have always dreamed of it looking at it in the catalogs. Finally as an adult I looked for it and managed to buy it!
All this premise was used to introduce my new work: the Galaxy Explorer SDR-926! This year I am 10 years old as AFOL and I thought about making mocs that have a special meaning for me. The first of these was the desire to make a spaceship of some importance! SDR-926 wants to be a tribute to the 928 but with very different characteristics and numbers. Number 926 represents the birth of my daughter. The spaceship measures 85 x 75 x 21 cm and is made up of almost 4600 pieces! It took me 5 intense months to make it because it contains several features and functionalities in a single work.
Thank you for watching!
Video presentation here:
You may recognize this design from a previous LDD upload. This one came first.
Photo quality is terrible, as this photo was just meant to quickly catalogue a long-standing and previously undocumented MOC.
This was the last of the 918/924/928 trio that I designed. I didn't have any inspiration for it until the TLM2 BUSH part (Big Ugly Space Hull) was released, then the application was obvious. Two of them back to back make a perfect base for the 924 Space Transport. My goal for this model was to drastically increase the cargo capacity from the original, whose useful load is a dinky 2x4 brick. This version is the same size, but has about 4.5 times the cargo capacity thanks to modern hinges, a thinner back wall, a thinner cabin divider, and an aft fuselage widened from 6 to 8 studs. It can carry the same load of 2 large and 3 small crates as on a 928 cargo pallet, or it can carry the same small rover or trailer as the 928 can. I haven't yet built the forklift that comes with the original set.
This all started as an attempt to reflect the classic moon logo by building an all red version of 918.
Redbird.
I ordered the parts I didn’t already own off Bricklink for ‘The Redbird’ above. I decided to go red with a few black accents - mostly because I had a lot of the missing parts in black as spares… and there aren't 3963 three-way direction jets (space rockets) in red anyway. Another rare part are the red 3940 support stands.
Since this foolishness, one 918 has led to another 918, as it were.
1997’s Robo Stalker, another Mech from the strange RoboForce sub-theme!
I’m kind of a fan of the space robot goblin in striped pants, vaguely reminds me of a Beetlejuice getup? Idk, but I dig it.
This set has some seriously unique space elements and a few familiar. This set stands strong as a part’s pack, but it has enough originality to merit its own existence in any retro space collection
Good consoles for both drivers, great transparent orange elements, and even a cool sticker over the torso windshield
This set has all the prints and printed legs for the minifigs, super deluxe for ‘97
Each pilot of the orange faction of RoboForce shares the same face (previously used in Aquanauts’ sub-theme), which is an odd choice considering how many different elaborate prints were used in these sets
The detachable head/craft is good looking, with that large Exploriens’ element for a cockpit, adjustable wings, and two storage containers
More Retro Space LEGO sets to be featured soon..
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It was the year 1979 when LEGO launched one of the sets that became among the most iconic in the AFOL world: the 928 set.
The Classic Space theme was launched just a year earlier in 1978 and this set became a legend because it represented the most beautiful and largest spaceship in the entire fleet. It is incredible to think of the success that this set of only 338 pieces has had if we compare it to those on sale today, but in those days we were children who dreamed of having this box and our best memories are linked to it.
In '79 I was just 5 years old and I have never been able to have this box, too expensive for my parents, but I have always dreamed of it looking at it in the catalogs. Finally as an adult I looked for it and managed to buy it!
All this premise was used to introduce my new work: the Galaxy Explorer SDR-926! This year I am 10 years old as AFOL and I thought about making mocs that have a special meaning for me. The first of these was the desire to make a spaceship of some importance! SDR-926 wants to be a tribute to the 928 but with very different characteristics and numbers. Number 926 represents the birth of my daughter. The spaceship measures 85 x 75 x 21 cm and is made up of almost 4600 pieces! It took me 5 intense months to make it because it contains several features and functionalities in a single work.
Thank you for watching!
Video presentation here:
This started as a spare-parts build, which I then built in Studio and entered in the Ideas GWP contest as the "Blacktron Buzzkill." After that I found parts to build the center module. The yellow canopy came last. It's just about exactly the same length and width as the original set. A TIE fighter pilot and BB-9E astromech droid from Star Wars aren't exactly Blacktron, but I figure they've got enough black-costumed bad guy swagger to do the job.
Blacktron II’s Allied Avenger (or Octopod) from 1991 enters the LEGO City!
LEGO’s best X-Wing pre-Star War license?
I’m a huge fan of Blacktron II’s use of octagon transparent neon green domes and detachable pods in their larger sets.
My younger self imagined the pods would be for atmospheric travel, with the back rockets intended for intergalactic travel/warp speed.
Pretty cool little spaceship, classic minifig with the old blockhead, and great neon pieces!
More 90’s LEGO to be showcased soon, including more of the space baddies - Blacktron II
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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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The XE-144 patrol craft is a state-of-the art one-man spacecraft from the same shipyard as the LL-144 interceptor.
I added Benny and one other Classic Space minifigure to my model - they look great! I also swapped out the original flag for one showing the Classic Space logo.
My attempt at dying a transparent bubble canopy to transparent yellow. I used 4 tsp Turmeric into one cup boiling water and let sit for 20 minutes. The results are really even but just a bit cloudy. Going to try some more sometime soon.
Three variations on the aft fuselage glazing and lower fuselage for a fully buildable Galaxy Explorer update adapted from a 2014 Ideas model by Brick Buff:
ideas.lego.com/projects/6db430c8-ac3f-4877-9aa8-5c5faad5163a
Since I probably won't build this one in real life anytime soon, there's no need to choose between the variations for now.
This is a very swooshable spaceship...
From LEGO Space: Building the Future by Peter Reid and Tim Goddard
Modeled in Blender from an LDraw mockup and rendered using Blender Internal
Published with creator's permission.
Original model by Peter Reid and Nnenn: www.flickr.com/photos/legoloverman/sets/72157614915464830/
Buy the book at: nostarch.com/legospace