Mars Space Lego Vs Exo Force

[Logbo]

Im looking at the new Mars range, ESP the Drop ship, and the Tank. and to me it looks like Exoforce with orange and white colour schemes. these could be quite easly MOC'd into sets that fit quite well into EF.

The drop ship in black and red could be a very nice Iron Dron dropship. and the tank a very nice companion to the Hero all terrain tank...

thoughts, feedback...

[Lt. Col. Thok]

Yes, I noticed this too, when I bought the dropship at the the same time that I bought the Golden Tower set.

[snefroe]

well there are three elements that make them similar:

1) Lego's catalog of parts is limited these days, so different themes have to use the same type of parts

2) the themes are similar. Exo force can easily be placed on the moon, the creatures can easily be replaced by the martians

3) both themes need to follow the rules of high playabilit

[Zaktan of the Shadows]

Good point. Maybe next years sets are going to be orange and white...

Possibilities.

-ZotS

[DARKspawn]

anybody else feel that the new mars lego is just exo in a different set

or is it the other way round? ;-)

[Logbo]

or is it the other way round? ;-)

Lol exo was first!

lego need to bring back the high detailed technical sets of old.

Royal Knights castle. and Black sea barracuda being two of my fav

[natelite]

well, one is japanese mecha. the other is western futuristic. so guess not. :-P

mars is beginning to grow on me, at least for the human sets. the aliens still :-X but that's the same with exoforce's robots. 2007 robot sets suck. 2006 robot sets were much better. the combo was better, the flagship sets were better. then there's the bridge walker! superbly done.

2007 is just so crappy compared to 2006 (robots). the small recon ships while a nice novel idea, sucks in terms of implementation. would be better to design it like the mars human mini recon ship.

as for the large battle tank, while i like the covered cockpit and the top gunner's cockpit, the entire frame of the tank was so shoddily constructed that it sucks. i dont understand the pods for captured humans. do robots capture humans? i thought they wanted them gone. ;-) they should have dropped the giant wheels, got rid of the technic frame and made a real tank. i mean they have the clone turbo tank and so many countless past designs to go with (ie from the space series, like mtron, blacktron, etc).

even if they can't access historical set designs, they could have gotten ideas from how to construct a nice hollow body from the ILC or even jabba's sailbarge. the ILC cost $50 (with some additional cost for licensing) so there's plenty of money left to make the blazing falcon, recon ships, etc. or, they could have sold recon ships as separate sets, build a much better frame using JSB's design. how cool would it be to have sets that can add to each other? for eg, a base tank that has space available for add-ons, like 3 recon ships, 2 turrets, one escape pod (?) maybe? instead, they set out to design sets as stand alone. bah. :-P

oh well, here's hoping that they learn from the experience and make better designs for 2008. the key word (if TLG or reps are listening) is MODULAR DESIGN. yes, make sets that can compliment each other. sets that can add on to make the big sets bigger. i just dont see why modularity only extends to afol sets like market place and cafe corner. :-P make the good stuff for all themes, lego!

in case this post is too negative, thanks for the good sets too (hayato has it so good in 2007! two of the best sets of 2007). but u know how ppl never talk about the positive. :-P and we all know 2007 will be known as the year afols went bankrupt despite the bad sets. :-P on second thoughts...let's just stick to bad sets for some of the themes. :-P i gotta drop something else if i am to pick up indy jones!

[Kahgarak]

Well,in my non-canon EXF Expanded Universe, the technology developed for the Mars Mission heavily influenced the look for the EXF mecha.

Plus, that the Martians have joined the robots against the humans.

But that's just my wild imagination. :-$