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Quoting myself to expand on this because I think it's kind of amusing... The recent Mining Mech doesn't have a minifig. The recent Cyber Drone does have a minifig, but it -- as a first for Creator -- is clearly a robot. And the box shows it flying above a city, not on an alien planet's surface. The Rover Explorer has a minifig on the planet's surface so maybe that blows my theory...except we've had men on the moon on rovers, so maybe it gets through some loophole in the contractual rules I'm hypothesizing. It shows a real a world capability of modern space exploration. Hell, we did it in '71! So maybe that gets a pass.

Hmm that's not a bad idea. I originally wanted this set, but the canopy print job turned me off. But swapping it out like you suggest fixes that and makes it more sci-fi. Maybe if I see one still on the shelf, I'll snag it.

I guess you got me on those two. I didn't know the space station was "Lunar". The box art, now that I'm scrutinizing it, shows it near the moon with Earth in the distance. But if you just glance at the picture, it looks like a generic space station (ISS, Skylab, whatever). The Mars shuttle one -- yeah, any manned flights to mars are definitely "futuristic." What's funny is the box art doesn't show anything that I can make sense of -- a shuttle "flying" 8 feet in the air above Mars with no runway to land on, and an astronaut floating few feet above that, and what looks like two Earths in the background (probably supposed to be Mars moons but they look nothing like Phobos or Deimos). The box art short circuited my brain so I could never process the "futuristic" stuff that was going on. Wait...I get it I think. The rover is shown on the surface, and the drones are flying upwards...I guess the scenario is that the shuttle flies into Mars orbit, and the drones fly the Mars rocks up to the shuttle? And the astronaut floats out to grab the rocks? So the astronauts never walk on the Martian surface...the Lunar set is an orbital space station...the Rover is only a "test drive"...okay, I figured this out guys. The non-competition clause in Lego's contract to make Star Wars sets clearly states that no non-licensed mini-figure can be depicted walking on the surface of another planet!

Brickset is listing a new polybag with the "Creator" tag; not sure if it's really Creator, or where to best discuss this. But it's interesting. It's a steam punk flying contraption. Or to use steam punk lingo, some sort of ornithopter? https://brickset.com/sets/11947-1/Time

I don't see the recent City space sets as a futuristic Mars exploration theme at all. There isn't anything sci-fi about it, really. The rover set is based on earth (the box shows it in test drive scenario). The space stations are just what we have now. The only unrealistic designs are the small one-man shuttles towing the space station but I think that's more about making the toys fun, not something particularly futuristic. Compare it to Life on Mars or Mars Mission. Those at least take place on Mars, and have aliens, etc.

Yes! This is me too. Lego understands this. It's why their 2019 shuttle and rover sets have CITY in big-assed letters on the box.

How do the Vidiyo printed tiles fix the issue of other sets being covered in stickers?

Funnily, there's yet another space shuttle coming out later this year, according to Instagram leaks.

Right? They've been trying and failing for years to get an Augmented Reality/phone-app related theme to take off. Or dumb Amiibo-like integration into video games. I don't think they'll ever pull it off. They make good toys, and there are a ton of Lego video games. They have it pretty good; not sure why they insist on throwing away millions to crack into some market that probably doesn't exist. It'll probably keep happening until they fire high-up guy who keeps pushing the idea. Now to wait for the responses that promise me that "Lego knows what they're doing" even though every similar attempt has been a dud. On the bright side, this theme has awesome minifigs, which will drive sales even if nobody cares about the app. Printed tiles are cool, but none of them are prints of anything I can really use in MOCs, unless it's a MOC of a teenager's bedroom.

Damn. That's a lot of space shuttles, Lego. The entire City Space line, a Creator Export set later, this, the recent Creator space shuttle and rover, all the recent NASA/Space-Ex style Ideas sets. Can a multi-decade Lego fan get some sci-fi Space breadcrumbs? Oh wait I guess we are getting some bread crumbs, with the Cyber Drone, and the strangely NASA-colored Space Mining Mech with no minifigure... Ok, how about a nice, large, appropriately-colored sci-fi Space set WITH minifigs?

Well, the Space Mining Mech is out, and it is indeed piloted by some sort of computer/AI. Based on the size, it seems like it was designed to be replaced by a minifig.

I tried using the old Homemaker hands with the new Mixels joints but the old towball is slightly too big. I mean it kinda works, but you can see the socket stretch around it, which doesn't happen with the new towball. I was kinda bummed because that part would be amazing for MOCs. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3614a#T=C https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3614b#T=C

It's always this! Either I used the wrong (but similar) part in an earlier step, or a piece is hiding in the corner of a bag, or under another piece, or rolled onto the floor. In 37 years of building Lego sets, I did have one missing piece. But it was a big fence piece, not something that could have been hiding anywhere.

Why not just keep doing CLASSIC. THEMED. CREATOR. SETS. like they're doing right now with Pirates (2020) and Castle (2021) and keep it going with Space? I would argue it needs to be all three of those themes each year, one set each. And instead of pretending it's just a coincidence with Barracuda Bay and the Blacksmith Shop, just roll the Classic Themed Ideas sets into it. Maybe make them Creator Expert sets, since that's basically what the Ideas sets have been.

Ha! I literally laughed out loud at seeing that pizza-colored minifig. Perfect! And the Pizza Space logo is genius! Wait...does the spaceship have pepperoni and olives on it's wings? BWAHAHA! Amazing! I love this!

Hear hear. Well said.

BuT FaBuLaNd fAnS HaD ChImA!

Red space ship going around a gold moon...where have I seen that before...? Very cool!

Hot damn, a tiger and a wolf too? It really is Fabuland in Space? Also a keytar and sax? Okay so it's 80's Fabuland in Space. Could not be more perfect. But there's more! A genie and a cowboy? So it's Pee Wee's Playhouse + Space Fabuland.

The lack of hover-boards is what hurts the most about this timeline. They were right about Biff Tannen though.

Really guys? We're just going to keep pretending Space has some sort of Ideas set out right now? We're just going to keep doing this, forever?

That's great!

No they don't. Literally nobody does. Go look on Brickset or Bricklink. Those sets are not listed under Space. Space (big S) != space (little S).

WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING THIS? THE LAST MAJOR SET WAS SEVEN YEARS AGO Okay, sorry for the outburst. But you people gotta stop gaslighting. Facts are facts. Please stop. (Please interpret large fonts as indicative of frustration and temporary loss of sanity, not hostility. )

I'm going to have to stop you right here. The above is a complete falsehood. Benny's Space ship and the Exo-Suit are from 2014. That's 2 sets 7 years ago. Bionicle had two years of an ENTIRE THEME in 2015 and 2016. That's 42 sets 5 years ago. Which is more due for a set?