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Hope that means you're doing number four.

Wow. Just wow. The TIE fighters have been overpriced at $70 since 2015, but at least they've had more than 500 parts. The X-wings have been overpriced at $80 since 2015 too, but at least they've had 700+ pieces. But another $10 hike in the X-wing price is a real big Star Wars tax. Definitely going to wait until that comes down. In the meantime, maybe I'll buy another 75218 on discount ....

Good question. The most expensive set I ever bought with chore money as a kid cost $55 in today's money, and the most expensive set my parents ever gave me for Christmas cost $140 in today's money. That's about in line with the flagship sets for most play themes today, but $55 is less than the retail price of a modern X-wing unless you get it on sale. My childhood chore money came from mowing the lawn, raking the leaves, and picking up pine cones, and I never had a job as a teenager, so I know I couldn't buy as many things for myself as some of my peers who had jobs or who got more chore money.

This question is a bit off topic, but could you post some breakdown pictures of the little A-wings, @Raskolnikov? The whole Mon Cal and Aggressor builds are brilliant, but those little A-wings are a bit more affordable!

It's a pretty good set out of the box, but I do wish they'd gone ahead and given it the extra one or two thousand small parts for more detail and some interior and just priced it at $800 like the Millennium Falcon. That way there wouldn't be this controversy about it being the second most expensive set without having the second highest parts count, especially since in many countries it already does cost as much as the Falcon. The interior is so empty that it'll probably be simplicity itself to add minifig rooms, so it's a good start point for modding, and that shouldn't be overlooked. Many sets aren't easily modded. Guess this makes this Shiptember a lot easier for anyone who was thinking of building a Star Destroyer this month.

The question was not if PPG can be used as a reference, but what the reference number should be.

Thanks for posting these. The color scheme is well-balanced, the builds are simple and solid, and they look like simple swooshable fun. I never knew about the 1980s Playmobil Space sets, but a quick Google search now shows me that Lego was just one player in a very crowded market of similarly-styled space toys in the mid-1980s! I guess the uncanny similarity between Lego and Playmobil Space toys extends back many years and isn't unique to 2019.

I would love to see the Thunderbirds set happen, and it's easily the best playset from a vehicle perspective. But the IP is a little bit obscure (at least here in the US), and Andrew Clark already has two Ideas sets, including one released this year. I doubt the Ideas review board will award him a third set, even though that set would be superb. EDIT - Actually, Thunderbirds is the only vehicle playset in this Review group.

@DonRamon1981, if you're going to make a big deal about sources you should begin by citing your own sources.

Excellent, this looks much better than the A model. I really like the roll bars that suggest a windshield frame and the net launcher as a big exhaust at the back. Metalbeard's body also looks really good, except for the fact that he can't seem to stand up on his own. Building feet that attach to the barrel of the cannon part would be really hard though, so I see why you didn't.

Generally what is meant by "Classic Space" is the Space sets released between 1978 and 1987 in which the minifigures have old-style helmets without visors and their torsos are only decorated with a single Classic Space logo (the logo that appeared beginning in 1978) at about chest height. You can find a comprehensive listing of those kits on Brickset. Among those, some are more "classic" or well-remembered than others. Generally the earliest sets in that line, specifically the 1978-1979 releases, are remembered much more fondly than the later sets. The fan community's regard for Classic Space kits seems to decrease pretty monotonically as the release year increases. More generally, other waves are remembered as "classic" Space but not "Classic Space." That is, many of the Blacktron, M:Tron, and Ice Planet sets are regarded as classic Space kits, but they aren't Classic Space specifically. The 1978-1987 sets earn the specific sobriquet of Classic in all databases because it was only with Futuron and Blacktron in 1987 that Lego began to specifically name new subthemes instead of simply categorizing them as "Space" in the catalogs. So what do you call the earlier sets? Well, they're the ones that started it all, so they get called "Classic" in the catalogs. As younger fans pass the age of majority and enter the adult fan community online, you see newer and newer sets being called "classic" in online discussions. For example, the Mars Mission sets from 2007-2008 are often called "classics" by those who grew up with them. TLDR - Specifically, "Classic Space" is just the 1978-1987 kits and, if you stretch a point, the kits from The Lego Movie 1 and 2 that pay homage to those with the character of Benny. Generally, "classic" Space kits are anything you liked as a kid.

I remember seeing this on Flickr a few months ago. Congratulations on getting it all built in real life. Can you post a picture of this one beside your huge modular fighter?

I recently looked at this from the perspective of City sets when trying to decide what price I was willing to pay for the Space line. I didn't go into great detail or conduct a statistical analysis, but I did look at the Bricklink weight and Brickset original RRP of most of the sets in my collection, which spans forty years and contains more sets than I care to admit. Using inflation numbers from the US Consumer Price Index, I found that the typical (not average, since I didn't study the statistics) unadjusted price per part has slowly drifted up over the past forty years, but the adjusted price per gram has stayed remarkably constant. In 2019 dollars, a fantastic deal like the Saturn V has a PPG of about 4.7c, most sets have PPG between 5c and 6c, and the really overpriced kits have a PPG of about 6.7c. Those numbers may be wrong, since I didn't write anything down and I'm repeating them from memory, but they're what I generally rely on now when trying to assess what a "good price" for a kit might be. However, I was surprised to find that some kits that I'd previously considered a great value are relatively overpriced by PPG, like the 2012 X-wing and the 2017 Y-wing. So there's obviously a lot more than weight in Lego pricing, but I agree that as a quick and easy measure of value PPG is more reliable than PPP. I contacted Huw at Brickset to suggest that PPG be displayed alongside PPP, so he's aware that there's some interest in it.

The six stud wide police cars were inevitable once the six stud wide Speed Champions sports cars started to show up and make trouble in Lego City, but I agree that the four stud wide police cars had better proportions. They fit in the hand better, too. I'm with you on this one - I hope next year's police line has a four stud wide police car in a relatively small set.

Let's please not debate the finer details of pizza toppings. Lego pizzas have been yellow for decades, therefore the pizza suit guy is yellow. You're free to dislike the way Lego depicts pizza, but that's the way it is. Regardless of the printing, the pizza suit is certainly the best possible reuse of the mold originally created for the CMF watermelon suit, and the printed tile that comes with the pizza suit is pretty nice too.

I'm not usually very interested in new series of CMF, since I don't want to buy figures by feel in the store and I don't like the Bricklink and eBay prices, but that Monkey King figure is calling my name .... I first read an abridged translation of Journey to the West when I was about 12, and a few years ago I read the entire novel, unabridged (in translation). It's very long! My laptop bag has a picture of Sun Wukong on the front, with the words "Stone Monkey King" written in large friendly letters. It reminds me to be "Aware-of-Vacuity", humble, and diligent - never mind that Monkey doesn't show those qualities in great abundance! So this is the kind of minifigure that I didn't know I needed. The update of Johnny Thunder is also interesting. The rest are pretty boring, but at least the mountain biker and the dog cleaner have more accessories than most CMFs.

Off topic, but that reminds me of a comment my sister made about the Toy Story Green Army Men on Patrol set from 2010...Lego toy representations of movie representations (designed to sell toys) of cheapo plastic representations of Army men, those cheapo plastic Army men in turn being descended from tin soldiers. It was, she noted, an extremely "iterated" toy.

I'm not trying to mini-mod here, but meme posts generally Aren't Done on Eurobricks. You may disagree with what Aanchir says, but please note that all of Aanchir's posts are clear and courteous, and they generally include some attempt to discuss things on a level beyond simple, idiosyncratic, personal preference and taste. We don't all have to write responses of the length typical of Aanchir every time, but we should at least try to have a meaningful conversation, without memetically reducing each other's viewpoints to "Lego is the best company ever!" or, well, any number of demeaning reductions of the viewpoints you've expressed. Please, how WOULD you change this year's City space line to become a "true" Space line? Aanchir - that's a reasonable inference. I've already noted (to myself) a reasonably strong resemblance (for Lego City) between 60078 from 2015 and the 1980s-era Hermes space plane concept, as well as between the space planes in 60227 and 60229 and Dream Chaser. The match in those two sets is stronger than the match in 60224 because they're both capable of launching on a rocket and docking with the space station, like Dream Chaser, whereas 60224 is incompatible with the docking standard and comes with no context for launch; I think kids and parents are more likely to see it on the shelves as just a zippy spaceship without that context. There's nothing wrong with that, of course - 60227 and 60229 are meant to be swooshed wherever a child's imagination may take them, too - but it does place 60224 slightly farther from Today on the scale of realism. Likewise, 60226 is clearly not trying to depict the real Space Shuttle, and it explicitly encourages kids to swoosh it all the way to Mars, which the real Shuttle definitely Could Not Do. That also makes it more of a Zippy Spaceship from science fiction. But it doesn't really matter. I don't mind seeing either 60224 or 60226 sold under the City banner. Overall, I think the whole line is a splendid representation, in Lego, of my dreams as a kid in an aspirational way, as opposed to the fantastic or escapist ways that traditional Space themes like Galaxy Squad represent childhood daydreams in Lego form.

I've previously described how much this year's City line resembles the Space sets I wanted as a kid. Inasmuch as most of them have immediately identifiable real-world inspirations (even if those inspirations are not yet operational), I personally think they fit better under the City banner than they would as a separate Space theme with more sci-fi trappings. 60227 and 60228, for instance, explicitly identify themselves as models of a rocket and a space station that are actively under development with the intent to launch within the next couple of years. It's true that 60224 and 60226 are more like light sci-fi zippy spaceships, but the set designers had to do something at the $10 price point and they had to do some form of "space shuttle" without rehashing the NASA-Rockwell STS, so I'll give them a pass on those. Please describe exactly how you would modify the 2019 City lineup to make it work as a "true" Space line, rather than a subtheme of City, since that's their "natural positioning"? Space, Castle, and Pirates represented the backbone of Lego in the 1980s and early 1990s. They do not anymore, and from a business perspective Lego is doing just fine. While we space buffs would like to think that humanity's ultimate dream has always been flying to the stars, there's not a lot of documentary evidence for that. The language for interplanetary and interstellar travel only really developed over the last 150 years. If we're talking about the ultimate dreams of humankind, as recorded over thousands of years of history, we ought to be hoping for sets based on the ancient mythology of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and China. (Many AFOLs do hope for such a line, someday!) But that would go in a different forum.

Nice! Now let's put these factions alongside the Nexo Knights and see what happens!

Frankly, Lego sets like this year's Space line are what I always dreamed of as a kid but could never get. A realistic rocket for minifigs to ride - not a rocket ship, but a rocket? Fantastic! An orbiting space station that is explicitly inspired by real space stations? Count me in! A modular system that makes it easy to build a deep space Mars ship that looks like something assembled in orbit out of a number of modules, as opposed to a sleek ship that's clearly more fiction than science? Those were the stuff of my dreams as a kid! That's the kind of thing I always wanted to build as a kid, but couldn't build with the parts existing at the time! If anything, I'd say the designers of this year's Space line have showed great creativity and great "ability to dream" by finally making available, in 2019, the kinds of space-themed sets I wanted as far back as 1999. Maybe it's not your dream come true, but it is mine.

Would it be possible to get a picture or two showing how the antenna is built? Thanks.

Thanks for posting! The space hopper is fun and I really like the antenna. I think I'm going to have to build it myself. Some time ago I bought a couple extra copies of 31066 for a 2017 Space line, but I focused on improving the Moonbase, which resulted in a smaller rover and left too few parts to build any kind of space scooter afterwards. Here's a potato quality photo of that; there are better images of individual builds in my Flickr album.

No spoilers here, but at 16:06 in episode 1 you can see the space shuttle and booster stack from set 1682 on the shelf in Dustin's room. That set was released in 1990, not 1985 ... :) ... silly little details like that are what fan forums are for, right?

I dunno, looks like they put a lot of effort into the landspeeder. The form factor is exactly the same as the previous model, so it looks pretty much the same at first glance, but it actually looks like it's built completely differently than the previous model, especially from the passenger section back. There's certainly a lot more change between this landspeeder and the previous model than between the last two snowspeeder releases. Want a midi-ish scale X-wing and TIE fighter? Go buy the Juniors kits. Then get back to me with sales figures - the great numbers in the sky that only a privileged (?) few know, and they're not telling.