Artanis I

I only just realised the collectible spaceman minifig has all these hoses on the front of his outfit but NO AIRTANKS!!! What a goose. He's not going to get far.

I love these photos, glad I found them again. I only rebuilt my MCM the other day - such an epic set. Well done Lego. Someone ought to build the Spyrius & Unitron versions and add the photos. Explorien would simply be the same as Futuron but with trans neon green lights instead of trans red. Pity there is no trans red dome, I would love to see a Space Police I version. Recolours are awesome when they're done right! And I think all 6 of those are pretty good at the least. Ice Planet one needs more black and less blue. Futuron maybe a bit more black. Blacktron II more white, less black. Space Police II slightly more red, more black. 9/10 on a stingey day.

I watch Transformers - The Movie (1986 animation) SO OFTEN... Star Wars every few months (PT more often than OT I'm afraid, it has more Jedi and more lightsabres). I can understand people's aversion to 1&2, but just do what I do in Attack of the Clones: skip to next chapter as soon as Anakin & Padme appear on screen, pretend those scenes don't exist and it's almost my favourite movie ever. Lord Of The Rings trilogy (as a movie marathon!!!) but only the extended editions... this has to happen on a saturday. (11.5 hours straight - that's why). At least once a year, and it's always planned weeks ahead. Other movies I could watch again every other year or so: Spaceballs, most Alien & Predator movies, Back to the Future trilogy, Starship Troopers, Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, Napoleon Dynamite, The Gods Must be Crazy I & II, Monty Python & the Holy Grail (less now than before - I'm a bit sick of it) There are others I've seen many times that I don't really watch much anymore, and others I don't watch at all anymore but mostly from when I was a kid. I didn't mention the movies I've only seen a few times that I would really like to see again soon, just the ones I've watched a lot.

Yep. I'm an action fan too. I see Alien to be more of a sci-fi movie, and Aliens to be more an action movie. In the same way (for me) the new Space Police is "action" as opposed to the older Space Lego which seems more sci-fi the further back you go. I don't have a problem with calling SP3, Aliens, sci-fi (or Star Wars for that matter), it's just less so than other stuff.

Was that a "time out"? Haha.Come on guys, just play the game. Kick the ball. Try to get it in the goal. No push/pulling, no hacking, no hand-ball, no acting, no complaining, no faking injury. Play fair and everyone will think well of you even if you are outplayed. You'll be remembered better if you win by being really awesome rather than by being sneaky.

Can't view any of your comic today... the pages won't finish loading (haven't seen latest episode yet). The drunk duck home page doesn't load either. edit: it's not been working all day but is working now, go figure.

Cheers, Flickr I know of, was wondering if anything else was any good. (Or purpose-built)

After all these years I finally have access to a digital camera, so I tried to create an account on Brickshelf last week but never received the "confirmation" or "verification" email or whatever. I attempted to contact via the support email address given but no response either. I know there's been other (ongoing) issues there in the past. Can someone recommend another site for uploading & searching photos of Lego?

Ahhh. That'll teach me for not watching TV. I never know who these pretty faces I see on the Internet are. You can google search someone you know the name of but not the face, but you can't google search a face.I have a laptop in my office that used to belong to a teenage girl, it has stickers all over it. I know two of them are from Twilight (I have seen that movie... hopefully never again), but I have no idea who any of the other people are. A couple of them look familiar so they're probably pop stars.

Typically the number 6xxx for space sets represented sets that were available worldwide and listed in standard catalogues. 6954 Renegade is an exception. Sub-Orbital Guardian walker kinda looks like a helicopter on top, with Alienator feet. I agree to many previous comments over the years about the similarity to Alienator in the function of the feet/legs - but I don't think over all they look much like each other so I refer to it in its own right. For me, Alienator looked too much like AT-AT ripoff anyway. Cool set though. The minifig isn't wearing a harness, it's a jet pack. Why is he wearing one inside a vehicle? I don't know. Quick getaway I suppose - I always imagined walkers to be quite slow. Lack of controls in this set is a bit annoying, you just have to pretend. Neural interface or something. Maybe a touch screen comes up on the windscreen. At least it doesn't have a steering wheel like some space ships - that makes no sense. Cute little set, good one to have a few of. (And with the old idea of one faction in a set, you could buy a bunch without getting a bunch of the same alien enemy fig on a flying carpet! SP3 I'm talking to YOU) haha

Don't compare American sport to rest-of-the-world sport, everyone knows American sports are wrong in every way... (Oooh time out! Time out! Pause the game!)

Maybe Space Police III is action rather than science fiction. All the cannons and flick missiles, the videos on the Lego site certainly look "action-y" (wow look at the cool things that are happening - this is no dull science fiction crap) and the sets don't exactly look like anything happens slowly.For me, the good science fiction stuff is really slow and interesting (brain engaging) and action is brain numbing stuff where there's always something exciting happening (ie things blowing up or people getting shot) and it's all ridiculously over-the-top (Transformers 2?)

Yeah, so many of my good arguments have been destroyed when people use my logic to question the validity of the movies Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins & The Dark Knight, considering the 60s TV show. Curse you, Batman!

What about Atlantis? And rock mining stuff? And does Ben 10, Bionicle and Hero Factory count?

awww, nobody picking Paraguay?

Space. If we're talking subthemes & the vibe that the overall subtheme's colours created, then I say Blacktron I & Unitron. If we're talking the coolest sets/ships whatever or even minifigs, then I can't decide. There are so many really good ones.

Come on WA get with the times haha, we introduced "open slather" trading 10 years ago... local K-Mart is 24 hours, so I imagine the sale started at midnight?

Yeah, plus they're called "impulse" because they aren't advertised, (they often aren't in the Lego aisle but are near the counter) you see them on the way out and think: "wow, that looks pretty cool and it's cheap I might grab that too - on IMPULSE" haha.Don't fret, they'll most likely appear eventually.

Pod interchangeability: 6991 Monorail Transport Base - 2 identical pods | 1 dock on buggy & 2 identical docks on train 1789 Space Station Zenon - 1 pod | no dock 1788 Star Hawk II - 1 pod | 1 dock on ship 1787 Crater Cruiser - 1 pod | 1 dock on vehicle (I also have a MOC vehicle with a docking location) 6991 train, 6991 buggy (& MOC): ALL pods fit 1787: All fit besides the 6991 pods 1788: Only the 1788 pod fits 1788 pod: fits all docks 1787 & 1789 pods: fit all docks except 1788 6991 pods: do not fit 1787 or 1788 Hope that makes sense.

If they did that to the players that made a poor decision there wouldn't be enough men to play the 2nd match of the first round.

If you look at the history of space lego: what we now call classic space was just generic civilian "space" before subthemes/factions were introduced. The first space subtheme was Futuron, most of the sets were released in 1987&88 - and they were simply "modern" updated generic civilians, hardly a faction. No other subtheme since (until Space Police III) has had more than 3 sets released in more than 1 calendar year. There has also already been more SP3 sets released than most space factions in the past.What am I saying? It's fair enough to expect that SP3 is indeed "doneski". It is far more likely that next year will bring a new subtheme of space - a new (or reinvented) faction or two, that can sit alongside SP3. This is being discussed in another thread btw. Space Police 2010 pinned discussion in the Sci-Fi section.

This set isn't bad. It looks really good if you take a step back. Pity there was never a smaller set than this one. (Not to mention the availability outside North America) As far as the pod interchangeability, I have them all built at home and will have a look later. I don't remember exactly, but I think there was one that didn't fit with another but other than that they all seemed okay? Okay, so the Unitron sets lacked in number, availability and at times in substance, but the colours were REALLY cool. Unitron was the first space subtheme to have more than 4 main colours (including trans colours): Black, blue, grey, trans-blue & trans-neon green. The figures had yellow, blue, trans-blue, dark grey & grey: the only spacemen to use either yellow or trans-blue since Futuron (not counting the heads of course) and the first spacemen to use any grey. I counted up my Unitron figures the other day, and I have 1 more chief than non-chief. Stupid 6705... haha.

After all, many of them might still be "in the closet" if you know what I mean. I do not personally know any AFOLs where I live but I'm pretty sure they're out there. How many? No idea. How many people in my city know that I'm one by looking at me? Not many. I might live in an entire street of AFOLs for all I know.

Probably me, and yes, that's where I found them on Friday! Never seen them in Target before. Thanks anyway!

Yeah, small sets ftw. I could only ever afford small sets as a kid, and the "big" (to me at the time) sets I had were from birthday money + what I'd saved over a long period. The biggest ones I had had only 3 figures. In reality, a "complete" theme would have a few focal points (like a base/building/fortress, & large vehicle/ship/etc) a few more medium ones (ship/vehicle/base/house/machinery/etc) and a whole heap of small ones (vehicles/ships/robots/figs/animals/etc). In the old days these came separately. Nowadays most of the small stuff is part of a large set with large or medium items (to add to the "battle-in-a-box" / playability of Lego sets). So the themes aren't really over or underbalanced, but there's a lot less "buyability" for those without the budget for the big sets (eg but not restricted to kiddies). Keeping in mind that Lego faces more than just one buying audience (although going by the questions in the survey I filled out last year the only people that buy Lego are kids or parents buying for their kids). And how do they know who is buying what?