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This moc was inspired by a real apartment building I saw that was in Blacktron colours. In recreating it in LEGO micropolis I added a landing pad and other Blacktron buildings of indeterminate function
One more galaxy explored!
I played a bit with Gimp and some background and this is the result.
This is my old MOC, here is a link: Galaxy Expolorer I on flickr
I also posted building instructions on Rebrickable some time ago.
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Home Key Hanger - my Lego Ideas project
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Functionality was really important to me. This was one place where being an odd number of studs wide really helped, because it made the ram doable with current click-hinges.
I did have to make the rear fuselage open asymmetrically, a technique I carried on to the LL-924 as well.
Taking SNOT to its extreme conclusion, this is a Classic Space ship built almost entirely "upside down". Comes with upside down lunar rover as well.
A rather oldish MOC I built last year but didn’t publish at flickr before. I do it now to join the starfighters group :-)
For pure classic spaceness I solely used parts that were produced and available before 1987.
I used base from previous build and made this one. This time it was too frustratng to fight with rendered transparent colors, so no background :/
Build instructions on Rebrickabale: HERE
And, as a reminder here is a link to my Lego Ideas project: Home Key Hanger on Lego Ideas
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To compensate for the lack of the classic lunar crater plates and landing plates, and to be more in line with the kind of large bases we see in large vehicle+base playsets these days, I based the ground installation that goes with the Galaxy Explorer on the 926 Moonbase instead of the small signal shack in the original 928 set. There's two brick built 16x16 crater plates, one of them with a flag planted on top and energy crystals buried beneath to dig for. The big building is the 926, the small utility box with the antenna on top is the signal shack from the 928. On the side it has a small cabinet to hold energy crystals, some simple storage tanks, and an electric vehicle charging cable for the lunar rover. The rover can pull a trailer, which can carry a large crate, which can hold two energy crystals. A small pipe bridge connects the small utility box with the big building. The big building has a ramp so the rover can drive up inside for the night, a ladder so the astronaut can climb on the roof, two small antennas (rather fragile, I'm afraid), a folding bed, lots of tools, and a big screen for doing important things. The front wall folds out and the roof lifts off for easy access to the interior.
A large variation on LL 918 One Man Space Ship by NeoMMD76, uploaded to Ideas in 2015. Original here:
ideas.lego.com/projects/21b58731-e808-40ee-adaa-b97409023a53
Like my adaptation of the same builder's Galaxy Explorer, this uses 4x6 wedge plates that don't actually exist in light bluish gray. Also, the 1x3x2 doors don't exist in the new molds in light bluish gray either.
In a future space-city, a rambunctious young teenage spacer and racer pilots his speeder (named "The Rascal") hastily through the hover-lanes.
An experimentation with dark blue, and my very first attempt at Neo Classic Space.
The speeder is in landing mode.
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:
I've been slowly converting a colorful makeshift version of set 6872 into a bona fide mod of the set. Today I picked up a trans light blue windscreen to replace the former trans dark blue part. I've been looking for that part for a long time. Bigfoot for scale.
This is my Unitron Exo-Suit, based on the official Lego Ideas set, designed by Pete Reid, and re-imagined in the style of the classic Unitron faction.
I placed the 'Old School' trans yellow award I received from Brickfete on my Classic Space layout! I'm very appreciative!
The monorail station 'done' Need a few pieces I don't have right now, and I'm not really liking it so this will probably not be the final version
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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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:
"I don't care if it's 'Vintage', I'm not strapping myself into something which is 30 year old and has 800 gallons of liquid oxygen in the trunk!"
The RL 266 Rocket Jalopy is my Classic Space homage to the one of the first sets I ever owned, 462 rocket launcher (http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=462-1).
Utility Truck.
This is the explorer of the small ground cars the crawler carries. It only seats one, but has ground-penatrating radar, mineral sniffers and trace analyzers, a directional communications array, and a powerful computer with a heads-up display.
For longer journeys, it has a multi-fuel generator, 4 isolated fuel tanks (hanging off the front), a separate fuel source for the scientific equipment, and a solar panel for backup.
To compensate for the lack of the classic lunar crater plates and landing plates, and to be more in line with the kind of large bases we see in large vehicle+base playsets these days, I based the ground installation that goes with the Galaxy Explorer on the 926 Moonbase instead of the small signal shack in the original 928 set. There's two brick built 16x16 crater plates, one of them with a flag planted on top and energy crystals buried beneath to dig for. The big building is the 926, the small utility box with the antenna on top is the signal shack from the 928. On the side it has a small cabinet to hold energy crystals, some simple storage tanks, and an electric vehicle charging cable for the lunar rover. The rover can pull a trailer, which can carry a large crate, which can hold two energy crystals. A small pipe bridge connects the small utility box with the big building. The big building has a ramp so the rover can drive up inside for the night, a ladder so the astronaut can climb on the roof, two small antennas (rather fragile, I'm afraid), a folding bed, lots of tools, and a big screen for doing important things. The front wall folds out and the roof lifts off for easy access to the interior.
You think 918 is made up of mostly commodity parts, but some are fairly rare if you stray away into "all the colours" territory.
Here they are knolled!
There is a modest 81 parts, according to Bricklink’s inventory. "All available wing colours is doable!" I thought "...and anyway, we're down the rabbit hole now."
This was the first model I ever attempted in Studio. The goal here is to do a very clean, sleek update to the Galaxy Explorer that's as close as possible to the original set, unlike many other Galaxy Explorer remakes that take the basic outline as a platform for complex SNOT techniques or greebling. However, I did make a few changes. I wanted the crew to be able to access the cargo in flight, so instead of a solid wall in the middle the crew cabin and the cargo bay are only separated by flags. The crew cabin is fully furnished with controls and two space seats, instead of being blank and empty. Due to limitations of the modern parts palette, the roof is blue instead of trans yellow. There is three point retractable landing gear. The doors in the aft fuselage are now large enough for minifigures to use them to access the cargo bay. The cargo bay is no longer tall enough to fit a rover with somebody sitting at the wheel, but it is otherwise much larger and more useful. It has 2 separate 6x6 cargo areas, letting it carry 2 small rovers, or a rover and a trailer (facing forward or facing backward), or 4 large crates and 6 small crates. Finally, I moved the fuselage-mounted engines lower so that the ship can now balance on them if you stand it on its end. That makes it what I call a well-balanced spaceship, like the 924 and the 918.