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"60229 ROVER LAB" https://www.promobricks.de/lego-60229-city-mars-expedition-raketen-transport-offizielle-bilder/80079 Picture 13 of 15 As I said on the previous page of this thread, I think this summer's Space sets are simply amazing. Between the 2015 and 2019 waves, there is everything I ever wanted in Lego Space as a kid.

That set is magnificent! Wow...this year we get unofficial Lego versions of SLS, Dream Chaser, Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway, Athlete rovers, Watney's rover, Robonaut 2, and astronauts in realistic blue, orange, and sand blue outfits that we've never had before. Even if filtered through City rather than Ideas, this is an embarrassment of NASA-inspired Space riches. That rocket transport reminds me a lot of an old episode from Thunderbirds where a rocket transport crosses a bridge that can't sustain its weight, so the spacecraft ends up in the river. Now I want to pair it with the huge City bridge transport that was released about ten years ago. Just need to build a commensurately-sized Thunderbird 4 to complete the scene.

A: 3-7-9 B: 1-2-8

Hi, @KrasiniArithmetic! This is a nice forum debut, even if the pictures are a little fuzzy. How are the wings built? I'm not sure I've seen that construction method on other TIE fighters.

That's a very nice model! I especially like the shaping of the aft fuselage behind the cockpit, though that wasn't your main focus in the build. The super-smooth center wing panels are really nice too.

Hi, @KrasiniArithmetic! Nice to have a new member on the forum. That's a fun recolor of the Jerac A-wing; is that a Jerac X-wing I see behind it? (The laser gun in the top right corner)

That might be set 275, 258, or 658 on Brickset. Or look here: http://www.miniland.nl/Historie/legoautos/plastic_lego_auto_schaalmodellen beginpagina.htm Or here: http://www.miniland.nl/Historie/legoautos/VW bus.htm Actually, that last link is probably the one you want.

Before the images were released the previously rumored space people pack was also absent from Brickset, so it's still possible there's some substance to the rocket transport rumor. Maybe it's for fall release instead of summer?

Yeah, the lack of play features/functions/mechanisms in the Overwatch sets is pretty disappointing.

I'll leave it to @Aanchir to provide a detailed, evidence-based response with statistics and examples, but I'd say play features have never gone away, and there are just as many of them now as there ever were. When I was growing up, the Lego sets I was most familiar with had hardly any "functions" at all, apart from cockpit hatches and storage compartments - for instance, look at the 1999 and 2000 waves of Star Wars. Those sets have no functions at all that I'm aware of. One of the things that most surprised me about the post-nadir renaissance in the late 2000s was its emphasis on mechanism-based play features in all lines, from original action/adventure/Space lines to Star Wars and City. I suppose I haven't paid much attention to such mechanical play features in the sets of the past few years, but I'd hardly call them absent. They're particularly abundant in medium-to-large Ninjago sets of the past three years, and the large Super Heroes airplanes and spaceships usually have some kind of mechanical functions. In Star Wars you have walker legs, exploding shield generators, swinging cargo hauler arms, mechanically-synchronized variable-geometry wings, steerable crawler treads, flapping porg wings, door mechanisms for Death Star chasms and rathtar containers, dropping bombs with nifty trigger mechanisms, etc. In City you get jets carrying retractable tail hooks, water-bomb dropping mechanisms, nifty cargo-grabbing mechanisms in large helicopters, geared counter-rotating drills, spring-loaded exploding jails, and so forth. The Benny Spaceship!!! has retractable wings; the Ultimate Batmobile splits in four parts; the Batwing from TLBM has nifty geared rotating engines and wings; the Rexcelsior has a nifty trigger mechanism for its spring-loaded shooters. The first Quinjet has a mechanism to drop a little drone; the second one has a mechanism to drop a motorcycle from the belly; the third one has a geared retractable gun. The mechanical play features of modern sets don't change the look of the set when engaged as dramatically as, say, the dropped wings on the Explorien Starship, the magnetically-secured modules in Aquazone and UFO, or the concertina movement of the cell pickups on Space Police 2, but they're just as clever and just as fun if you just pay attention to them.

Thank you for posting such detailed pictures of the cargo bay. These answer all my questions about it. I'm really impressed that you managed to fit this nice cargo bay in your model, but not too surprised that it turns out to be more symbolic than functional. It's always been a goal of mine to build a modern X-wing MOC with a cargo bay large enough to hold all of Luke's Dagobah camping equipment, but after seeing how much space the gearbox and wing jacks take up in modern X-wing builds, I wonder if Luke's Dagobah equipment isn't stored in hammerspace, the way R2-D2's body goes into hammerspace when he boards the Naboo fighter. There doesn't seem to be enough room in the aft fuselage to fit both the necessary X-wing mechanisms and a few big crates, much less to pull those crates out through the cockpit.

Could you please post a detailed picture of the open cargo bay?

Brilliant work! Your old X-wing was always one of my favorites when I was a kid browsing Brickshelf. I recently reverse engineered it in Studio. In planning a modern X-wing build myself, one of the biggest puzzles is the cargo bay. I can't figure out how to fit a nicely sized cargo bay in the aft fuselage when the gearbox and wing jacks take up so much space, much less make it accessible from the cockpit. Would you mind posting more pictures of the cargo bay and ventral fuselage? Thanks.

That must be an artifact of translation. Remember, the description came from a French web site. I don't know French, but in Spanish the word juego refers both to a "game," as in a "game of soccer," and to a "set," as in a "set of tools," etc. I imagine the French product description uses a similar word to juego.

Besides, if the cockpit parts for 75244 were printed, they would end up being mostly white printed on trans-black. We all know that Lego is very bad at that kind of printing. I'd rather have black windows printed on white cones, but I'd rather have stickers on white cones than white printing on a transparent cone.

Emphatically no. I'm as big of a Star Wars fan as you'll ever meet, but the only merchandise I buy is Lego. Well, and soundtracks and cross-section books. But not Hasbro action figures, not cosplay items, not miniatures of other kinds. Why should you buy Lego spaceships just because you like space? There are plenty of other space toys to satisfy your space needs .... What I mean by this is, please let's stop gate-keeping and making broad assumptions about what other people do and don't like about Lego!

That was the approach of the sets labeled "Designer" and "Creator" roughly between 2004-2011 before the Creator 3-in-1 theme really came into its own. I must admit I was never very interested in those, because the A model usually looked pretty bad. On the other hand, they were good parts packs. I remember building a pretty decent propeller plane out of a kit whose inspiration builds were all microscale construction equipment. My interest in Creator 3-in-1 since about 2015 has been almost entirely driven by the minifig-scale A models. That more or less defeats the purpose of a theme that seems to be more explicitly intended at encouraging creativity and imaginative rebuilding than most other themes, but it has resulted in a dramatic increase in my purchases of Creator sets. Presumably there are enough people like me that this focus on impressive A models with lesser B and C models has improved the theme's sales across the board.

Neither is the minifigure without the set, nor the set without the minifigure, in my book. For example, a nice X-wing build without a Rebel pilot minifigure seems incomplete, and it doesn't feel any more complete with a construction worker in the cockpit instead. On the other hand, a Rebel pilot minifigure without an X-wing to sit in isn't much fun either, and it doesn't help to put the Rebel pilot at the wheel of a mini dump truck. However, I can appreciate the perspectives of people who care only about the minifigures and not about the build, or only about the build and not about the minifigures. I appreciate the fact that large numbers of people fall into both camps, because that is what allows the secondary market of parts and minifigures to thrive and make it possible to build a detailed custom X-wing and crew it with a Rebel pilot minifigure.

Nope, the ship's wheel has always had a pin, as you'll see from this link. The pin didn't always have slots, but there was never a ship's wheel with a hole to mount over a pin. Coincidentally, the first appearance of the ship's wheel was in a Fabuland steamboat in 1985. https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=4790&in=S&itemYear=1985&ov=Y

Fun fact: in the fifties the Kristiansen family had a lot of toy ventures besides Lego. One of the most successful was a wooden system of beams and pegs called Bilotoy, out of which you could build some pretty big structures that could bear the weight of a fully grown human. That line was discontinued sometime in the late fifties or early sixties because it was too durable, so kids would simply pass their toys down to their little siblings and said siblings therefore didn't need new copies of the kits, and also due to competition from electronic media and early electronic toys. So the fight for market share against electronic toys has been going on for a long, long time. Source: miniland.nl

I'm quite fond of Creator 3-in-1, actually. I think of it as a slightly more advanced version of City, more than as a distinct theme in its own right, but its series of minifig scaled airplanes and boats over the last few years has been outstanding. I also appreciate the mini-scale and midi-scale cars and aircraft like those in this year's shuttle transporter. I admit I'm not particularly interested in the brick built animals or most of the buildings, but I think they're nice sets that demonstrate the ideals of Lego very well, and I'm glad they sell consistently enough to earn a place in the product line year after year.

If you want modern space sets with enclosed cockpits capable of surviving atmospheric entry, get 75970 and 75975, with some astronaut minifigures from Bricklink. They're fantastic sets that perfectly straddle the line between realistic and fantastic spaceships, if you can get over the fact that they're from a licensed theme.

^ I don't think RogerSmith was making any grand pronouncement about the absolute worth of Medium Azure as a color, just saying he doesn't like it. That's OK. We're each allowed to like and dislike different colors, and to like them more or less in different contexts! For instance, I like yellow-orange shades in brick but I think they're awful in carpet. Back on topic, I've avoided getting any of the Modular Buildings because I don't have a lot of display space, and it takes a lot of time to assemble and dismantle each of them. At thirty to fifty percent the size of a Modular Building, the upcoming Creator set looks like something I could probably handle and like something that would fit in with my childhood town a lot better. Maybe I'll get it? That decision will have to wait for better pictures.

I don't think the builder of this castle meant to imply that it's a historically accurate recreation of a particular castle in Lowenstein. I think he meant that it's a historically accurate interpretation of a generic European or German castle of the High Middle Ages, insofar as the architecture and furnishings are plausible. I think he just liked the name Lowenstein.

Sorry to bump an old topic, but I think this question is relevant - It seems to me that Flickr has become much less stable since the Smugmug deal. Since that deal went through, I have frequently seen "Bad Panda" error notices when attempting to load pages on Flickr, and I don't remember any of those before Yahoo sold the site. Of course, I haven't been keeping records of this, so my memory may be more at fault than Flickr, but I'd like to know if anyone else has had the same experience.