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I agree, at least for the silver wedge on the right side. That part might be the most uninspiring and joyless Lego bit of packaging I've ever seen. The tiny Space logo, the most boring possible font for the SPACE text, and the plain silver background. The logo should be bigger, the font should be futuristic, and there should be some cool exciting outlines of asteroids or lasers or something instead of just a plain silver background. Of course I'm just going to throw the box away regardless.

The ship is interesting. The overall shape reminds me of a modern stealth fighter. And the colors definitely match those of a modern or near future space shuttle craft. So this doesn't seem any further out there in terms of sci-fi compared to last year's stuff. I wonder what the blue thing to the left side is supposed to be. The pics I saw showed bags 1 & 2 but is there a bag 3?

Hmm. Mixed feelings right now. Not sure yet. Need better pics. Right?

I'm glad you like it! It's not bad, I just think it will inevitably disappoint people who wanted the minifigs to be closer to the original set. Yeah I have no issues using BURPs instead of building up artisan rock faces. Rock builds are boring to me anyway, and are usually under the more interesting stuff (like castles) that I'd rather spend my time on. Right, I probably wasn't clear. I meant they should have done an original GWP that wasn't supposed to look like anything.

I think it's deserved because they could have done something else. Nobody was forcing them to do a Majisto Workshop throwback. If they don't have the parts to do it, they should have done something else. I also don't think the set is very cool. What @R0Sch posted is way cooler. I think most people would prefer something original than a disappointing throwback.

Ok, that is amazing! Creative and ingenious.

"if you're going to do something, do it right." Maybe they should have gone for a Wolfpack set or a Sea Serpent throwback if they aren't willing to actually bring back the essential & iconic helmet molds for a set. Minifigs make or break a set. Especially one like this where the original design, frankly, isn't even that good.

Very very cool! Love the unique shape, especially the front canopy area.

Freakin' awesome.

These sets continue to feel like a great value for the price.

Ohh, it does say purple on the packaging! But he looks so blue in the picture.

Wow, that is adorable. Notable there's a non-Benny blue purple? spaceman, and what look like trans-neon green antenna whips.

The trans-neon colors were pretty cool, especially neon orange. I hope they're just on pause for some reason. Maybe to get the dye mix right with the new transparent plastic?

Which I think was a great thing. I loved how there were the Lion Knights and the Black Falcons, and nobody telling you who was "bad". I always imagined the Lions as the more powerful and authoritarian faction, and the Falcons as underdogs and upstarts. I felt similarly about Blacktron. They were dark and mysterious but not evil. However they may have operated outside of Space law, considering their treatment by the Space Police later.

😊 In the image I posted, I think the blue canopies already look like trans-light blue. I haven't tried bright green but I did do this for fun: Wow thanks!

That new canopy piece is nice and angular. Perfect for Classic Space recolors.

Ah I see. I think I still understood your point somehow. Yeah, what you're saying makes more sense to me than the "so kid's can't built tanks" story. Except it sounds like the lack of existing gray bricks was really so that kids couldn't build tanks.

Did you mean to say yellow here?

Yeah I think I'm mostly convinced. I still think the policy of no gray/green bricks doesn't make sense, and never made sense, for reasons I've already given. And I invoked Judge Judy's "If it doesn't make sense it's not true" rule. But I guess what doesn't make sense to me did make sense to Godtfred Kirk. What's funny is that in 1979, the USA started producing the Abrams tank which is famously tan and closer to yellow than any other Lego colors at the time. I want to hear more about this! How did that come about, and what else did he say? Assuming you are inclined to and at liberty to share, of course. Agreed! Sounds like something they'd say to get people to shut up about the goat. Or bringing anything back that Lego doesn't want to bring back. Uh what? Did you mean "myths and urban legends are born?" 😁

Well now you made me feel bad for what I said about him. I guess it could have been PTSD.

That's just when I grew up so that's what I experienced. I actually didn't realize (or I forgot) that the alt builds continued into the 2000s when the internet existed. The story is more plausible if the complaints happened then. This right here makes way more sense than the "parents complained" story. I'm sure they got calls for replacement instructions, probably hundreds of calls for those for every 1 person asking for instructions for alt builds. I can see an occasional "by the way do you have instructions for those alt builds online?" question but only a total weirdo would actually complain about the obvious answer to that question. There's no way that was a common occurrence. Unless.... See, I think the advent of 3 in 1 Creator sets could have been a bigger reason to get rid of non-instruction alt builds. Both being on shelves together gets confusing. Then you'd have sets where the alt builds have instructions mixed with sets where they don't. Though that was the case earlier anyway with Basic Sets. But I could see Lego anticipating confusion or resentment over that. Well they were making gray & blue space ships in 1978 with all the gray parts needed to make fighter jets. And this was 1979 with everything needed to make a mini tank. Though Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen took over in 1979 so maybe he changed things? I guess his dad could have been a real weirdo. What kind of person withholds certain colors from kids to prevent them from making things he disagrees with? Maybe he was that kind of person. And too dumb to realize kids could still make gray jet fighters or desert camo yellow tanks.

Have you ever heard a Lego "fact" that really set off your BS meter? And wondered how it could be true, and if there is any evidence or proof anywhere? I have. Multiple times. Here's one: "they put holes in the top of minifig heads so kids won't choke on them". Like what? So why did they stop, did they decide it's okay if kids choke now? And why don't the put holes in all the other small pieces kids can choke on? And what if the head got stuck in some kid's throat sideways and the hole isn't letting any air through? And how could anyone, even a kid, breathe threw a 2 millimeter diameter hole? That's not enough to breath through. I guess a small hole could in theory prevent a piece from getting sucked into the throat as hard somehow, but that doesn't answer all the other questions. Another: "They stopped putting alternate builds on the back of boxes because too many parents complained." Or alternately "mother's groups sued Lego because there were no instructions for alternate builds." I just can't believe any of that without proof. And no, a Lego PR person saying so isn't proof and should be taken with a shaker full of salt. I did google this and couldn't find any documentation of a lawsuit. And I just can't see any parent in the 80's actually calling in to complain about this, even less writing an actual real letter. This was before the internet and getting a large group to do any sort of coordinated letter writing campaign was not easy. Also it was pretty well understood that there were no instructions for these and you were supposed to figure it out. Me, and every other kid I knew, thought they were cool and the parents encouraged us to figure things out ourselves. There is absolutely no basis for a lawsuit. So I don't believe any of it. If a Lego PR person says it's true, I will believe it even less. I heard another doozy today. "The original yellow castle was yellow instead of gray so people wouldn't build war tanks out of the bricks". What? Then why did they make this two years later and all the other gray Space sets? Wouldn't tanks typically be green anyway? What's stopping people from making "desert camo" yellow tanks? Anyway. I'm not saying anything above can't possibly be true, or partially true. They don't make sense to me though. And I won't just believe them without serious, incontrovertible proof.

I like that it's brick built and not cloth. It feels more Lego to me. My personal preference only of course.

I LOVE this transforming Rock Raiders mech truck by Levi:

For a cheap thrill I reskinned this thing in Studio. The trans-dark blue comes out too light for some reason. Anyway obviously all the parts don't exist in these colors.