danth

Yeah, Creator has been my definite favorite theme lately. No stickers, alternate builds, interesting build techniques, and now, Classic themed Creator sets! I just wish they'd go full tilt into sci-fi Space sets. The Hover Drone was great, but the Mining Mech should have been in better (i.e. NOT NASA) colors and had a minifig. But, I realize Lego must have a no-compete clause in their license with Disney so, yeah. I'm almost positive the Cyber Drone and Mining Mech sets are tiptoeing around the legalese of that clause. Which is why the Cyber Drone has a robot and is shown flying above a city (not technically in space) and the Mech doesn't have a minifig (no human characters in a sci-fi Space setting). Oh, another Unpopular Opinion. I, Danth, wished the new CLASSIC. THEMED. CREATOR. SETS into existence by sheer force of will. Search my post history if you don't believe me. You're welcome.

I don't really get this argument. Doesn't that mean nothing is nostalgia, so long as you're currently enjoying it? So if I listen to 80's music because it reminds me of the good old days, it's not nostalgia because I'm listening to it now? Also, I'd argue that almost no kids care about the original Star Wars movies. Sure, their dads will force them to watch it, and they'll kinda like it because their dads like it. But trust me, they know it's old. They're not "into" Star Wars like they're into Roblox, Minecraft, etc. Me. I'm really irritated with Lego right now and I'm seriously considering switching to Megablocks or Cobi out of spite. They're just as good, and actually print pieces instead of cheaping out with stickers, and don't reuse very out-of-place prints (see the Pirate torsos in recent Castle sets) out of extreme avariciousness. The only think keeping me from this, right now, is the recent Castle and Pirates sets.

I agree with this. But there's another unpopular opinion in there you just dropped: Star Wars sets, Harry Potter sets, etc, are IN FACT NOSTALGIA-BASED SETS! People here in Eurobricks have this weird idea that it's only the Classic Space or Classic Castle fans who are just "living in the past" or seeing things through "rose-tinted glasses" and "just can't moved on." Excuse me? Lego has just release it's 14th X-Wing set. The X-Wing is a 44-year old design from a 44-year old movie. The SW fans buying X-Wings are doing it out of NOTHING. BUT. NOSTALGIA. If ANYTHING, it's the non-licensed Space and Castle set fans that aren't nostalgia based. They give us the archetypal elements of Space Sci-Fi -- robots, space ships, star bases, rockets, walkers, rovers -- without the need for a dated movie universe. The aforementioned elements aren't "nostalgic" because they are no more affiliated with the old Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers serials of the 1930's as they are with countless 80's/90's anime (Macross, Gundam, Coyboy Bebop), or modern Sci-Fi remakes (recent Star Trek or Aliens movies). The only thing "nostalgic" about wanting non-licensed Sci-Fi Lego sets is that we don't have them anymore. But nobody wants them simply "out of nostalgia" -- we want them because we want generic Space/Castle sets! So yeah I find the "Classic X Fans are living in nostalgia" narrative to be demented, backwards, and full of projection.

Wow, really digging those spaceships! The pink one especially is just great.

Wow, this set is unbelievably good. I wasn't totally sure on the colors but the new pics show them better. The shades of brown and yellow look good together, better than the old yellow-on-black panels IMO which had almost too much contrast. The dark blue roofs are nice too. The red and white flags are kinda surprising for Black Falcons but yellow or blue would have been too matchy with the walls/roofs. There is one glaring flaw: the pirate torso. That's just ludicrous. Surely they had better choices than that. But other than that, I must kiss my fingertips. The only question is, how many of these do I need?

Agree but disagree. - Exo-Suit was like 7 years ago and doesn't really resemble anything from Classic Space other than the minifigs - LEGO Movie? How? The first one had the Spaceship but that was also 7 years ago. Second one had Benny's Space squad. But that was the extent of it. Not exactly killing it. - Star Wars -- agree, but I would consider ALL the Star Wars sets as nostalgia. The OG movies are 40 years old. The prequels are 20 years old. The sequels were based on nostalgia for the OG movies. They're not only "killing it" here, they're mutilating the body. - Barracude Bay. Agree, and would add the Blacksmith and even the Pirate and Castle Creator sets. But they are the only examples of what I consider "killing it" in a GOOD way. What we need is MORE of that. Including Space. We need it every year IMO. Keep it up! EDIT: Also Harry Potter. The last movie was released 10 years ago!

I already commented on Reddit, but this is truly awesome!

I think the yellow walls are supposed to be a callback to this:

Love it, especially the Shinra tower.

Pics leaked for 31117 and it's definitely a shuttle. Lego doesn't do sci-fi space anymore, unless it's Star Wars or something.

Because the literal color white doesn't look anything like a "white" person's skin tone. When I was in kindergarten and there were only 8 crayon colors, we all used Yellow for white people. It was the obvious choice. But the point isn't that yellow was explicitly chosen to represent white people. It's that it just doesn't work at all for black people. Saying it's racially neutral was a cop out on Lego's part. And they know it. If they didn't, why did they decide to make a brown colored Lando in the 2003 Cloud City set and keep all the other minifigs yellow? https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=10123-1 That set is living proof that Lego themselves thought that yellow figures "worked" for white characters but not black characters.

Damn. I get frustrated when that happens to me, and that's just in regards to Lego not catering more to my specific toy preferences. Can't imagine how it feels when it's something actually important like representation. 100%! I really think Lando demonstrated how full of crap Lego was with the whole "yellow represents all races" thing.

This is one of the best Lego sets of all time. But I'm biased -- it's one of the few largish space sets I had as a kid. Nice, Congrats! I have one MIB too and I'm not above opening it. Although I might try to get one mint and loose to build instead. I always thought of the AT-AT as a cat, and the Moonstalker as a dinosaur. IMO the Moonstalker is way cooler. The AT-AT didn't have rockets, or emerald green canopies, or a grapple arm, or a head that could shoot off as a space ship!

Oh boy. I've seen it. It gets bad.

Lol, holy crap! If you wanna get rid of, say 40 boxes or so, let me know.

This is the opposite of my experience in the US. Those sets disappeared so quickly. Every other TLM2 set stuck around for a while, but not Benny's Space Squad. The average sold price on Bricklink for new sets is $11. So, slightly above retail. Also, you can't really use a weird one-off bulk sale price for a lot of 2700 sets to gauge the market value of a set when bought individually.

I think that was the excuse. They almost certainly stopped doing those kinds of boxes due to costs. But corporations don't like to say "We are giving you less value to save that money for ourselves." Better to blame the consumer.

Is this set still set to launch on April Fool's day?

Congrats! But since when do aliens abduct buff people? I'd get it just for those cones in trans bright green.

So no armored humans with swords?

Eh nevermind.

Very nice. Has a bit of a Cosmic Fleet Voyager vibe.

Weirdness is good, I will give you that. Also I really like this thing so I have no room to talk:

Funny how different people have such different takes. From the images, it looks...very goofy to me, if I'm being kind. Something that might be cool if a kid built it, but not up to the standards of a real set.

My god. Yeah, people who vote in Ideas are lemmings. They just vote for the same thing that won last time. After something wins, you see a ton of copycats, and they all get tons of votes. After the Fisherman shop we got a ton of sets that were just "ramshackle buildings" in some form. The tree house, the Barracuda Bay, the Blacksmith. Funnily, the final sets removed most of the ramshackle look from those! The same thing happened with 80's cars, Sitcom locales, etc.