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Pretty and kinda relaxing to look at as well haha

Damn, son. Asha set is cute, but this is adorable!

Tasteful, lovely!

Nice one. Autumn never fails to impress.

I love that tower. Relatively simple, yet so effective. Not real at all, but somehow feels real.

Great idea and a wonderful final product.

Too cute. Love the seats.

Amazing work.

That's cute, I like it very much. Now they should redo ALL the classic space sets in baby format, would be more fun to collect than minifigures imho 😅

Well, the Galaxy Explorer was not what I wanted but it was very sleek and elegant. This is indeed more like something I would wish for myself, but it seems random, like there's no philosophy or direction present in the design neither in the shape nor the colors. It has that certain "ChatGPT design me a new Blacktron Renegade" quality to it. HP_Brixxter, Combat_Armor_Dougram and others have made sets that look like something Lego should've come up with. It seems this is an 18+ set that looks like a 5-12 set. I'm not the kind to play with my Lego, and design-wise it's not good enough to put on display. Sure, a lot of sets from that era might not be either, but they were better for play, and even if I displayed them, there'd be a big nostalgia factor present that the new set doesn't have. I don't know anymore you guys. I guess Lego has got it so good they just churn out products without much thought or effort and everyone buys them anyway.

I want to support the line and see more of those kind of sets in the future. Also, I have disposable income. If it weren't the case, I definitely would not buy them. You're either not serious or you're missing the point. Designing your sets takes a lot of time and money and no one guarantees you would get picked. Besides, the themes dictate which sets get picked much more than the "quality" of the sets does. On the other hand there are plenty of Lego sets and every time that I watch reviews of new sets there is a big overlap between what I thought initially and what the reviewers notice. This seems to indicate a lot of the stuff we're talking about is kinda obvious but slips by Lego as they might be churning out the sets too fast to have them perfected. This in turn eliminates all the guesswork and guarantees your effort would not be futile.

I was not a big fan of the castle, so it's good that Lego put out this set to make the castle look good in comparison. It partially lacks detail, looks like it's aimed at a younger audience, has a bit of that Eldorado Fortress "I don't quite know what I'm doing" feel at places and is generally too big next to the castle. The plain "oops, I'm nearing the allowed brick count" roof is harshly contrasted against the new detailed roof introduced with the castle. There are nice parts too, though. It has some colors, for a change, and finally we have two sets that tie in together, even if it's in a clumsy way that seems like they were made by designers of different skill sets. The price seems better for what you get? I'll know more when I finish the build. Hey, psst, wanna get rich? Make a youtube channel about improving Lego's priciest offerings. Just scour all the reviews and systematically address the criticism and improve the sets wherever possible without breaking the bank.

It looks all right, I guess. Not as bad as I imagined it would be. I like that it's colorful. I love that the tower is straight from 10305, finally bringing together some elements instead of making each set stand on its own. Design-wise it sadly suffers from the same inconsistency that 10305 suffers from: some parts look really elegant and others look something I'd MOC myself, my lack of skill included. But worse than that, once again, is the inconsistency in detail with parts of the scene that are rather detailed and parts that look like they're from a set for a younger audience. The roofs on the left catch my eye immediately with regards to this. I understand that there might be added value in breaking the consistency of detail to depict something you otherwise could not, but one should not drop below the baseline level of detail assumed for each set as that just makes it look rough and unfinished. If the suggested price remains, I might buy it.

I dig it. Some of the classic space sets really did all they could to be round or round-ish, actually.

Interesting, do you have a photo of these newly made figures?