Futuron Fans?

[Aanchir]

On 9/11/2011 at 8:27 AM, brickmack said:

Yea, I'm still a bit of a Futuron fan also.

I personally tend to think of most of the "good guys" as being the same faction, since they all seem to have the same or close to the same logo (Classic Space, Futuron, Ice Planet, Mars Mission astronauts, etc). Then they would just be different branches of the same group, perhaps from the United Earth or whatever they have in the Space time.

Some comics and ads very specifically presented Futuron as "what Classic Space develops into in the future". For instance, these two comic pages present "Captain Black" and his robot sidekick "Roger" from set 6702 (both of whom had starred in previous comic pages that ran as LEGO Space ads) getting sucked through a "time tunnel" into the far future. They meet a Futuron astronaut named Major White who has never heard of Captain Black's birth planet, "Terra" (the Classic Space astronauts' name for Earth).

And according to The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks by Daniel Konstanski, this was also more or less the perspective the designers took when developing the Futuron sets! They thought of Futuron as an high-tech extraterrestrial civilization that the remote outposts of the Classic Space explorers would ultimately develop into, complete with its own planetary and interplanetary transportation networks. In fact, apparently one of their reasons for steadily adding models with a White and Tr. Blue color scheme into Classic Space after its first few years was to help connect the two eras more smoothly.

Obviously, that's not any sort of mandate about how you should interpret or play with the sets, though — after all, even back in the 80s, a lot of kids would naturally want to use some of their earlier Classic Space sets together with the new Futuron sets to create stories in a shared futuristic setting, and I certainly don't think designers expected all those kids to invoke time travel in ALL of those stories!

Moreover, prior to the 2000s, LEGO themes' story details (character names, faction names, and even which characters were allies or enemies) would often vary wildly between different countries/regions or different publications/ad campaigns. So there's no telling whether there are Futuron comics, stories, or marketing blurbs I haven't seen yet that present wildly different "official" story details for those sets than anything I've seen so far.

[PsychFox]

i actually just started getting into Futuron within the past week! I was pulled in by the monorail system, and then gravitated towards the color scheme and consistency/recolors within parts. Since the 10 x 6 x 11 Panel was printed in Trans-Dark Blue and then later printed in white, it gives my build a very lovely pattern that sadly can't be replicated within Blacktron I's color scheme. The white 4 x 4 x 6 Corner Concave Panel + 3 x 2 x 6 Panel also allows for really cool lookin hallways that i don't see in many other MOCs. (i just wish that Lego recolored the 3 x 3 x 6 Corner Convex Panel in white )

(here's a current pic of my main hub without the lights installed)

(heres the interior, the black panels are removable as to give access to the second floor)