Kage Goomba

<steals ship parts and hightails it out on a sandcrawler>

For parts on hand - this is very nicely done - coulda fooled me even hehe.

Haven't thought of Futuron in years....brings back memories.

Excellent work as always. :)

I squeed...... I'm totally blown away - fantastic build.

Brilliant!

The only thing I wished they had done was a base for them. They didn't get one. :(

I see much wooteenie in this. Nicely done - had me laughing.

Amen on that - been eyeballing the Deep Freeze Defender since it first came out - would love to have that in my collection.

A rumor/leak is just that...it's not fact. Don't care if you trust the source or not. You could swear on it. But the moment you are found a fool - a fool you remain for trusting such things. You would be wise to treat such things as a possibility but push it no further. if its not first party sourced - its not worth my time. You will save yourself a lot of drama and stress when you keep such things in mind. Even if your "Source" was reliable - all it takes is one mistake to derail the whole thing. I've lost count how many times people said one thing only for it to be one other thing and I'm standing there smiling pointing at their words. They reallllly don't like that. Gee I wonder why?

Totally approve of this.

I feel like I missed out on a lot of cool stuff as a kid lego wise - but I'm glad I manged to snag this collection when I could pull my parents ears to grabbing them. :) Blacktron was kind of weird honestly - all over the place. Iceplanet tho would have been really fun to grab - they had some interesting sets - may try to collect those.

I should have taken better care of my legos (mourns)

Could be true - I seem to recall as a kid they didn't really have magnets in lego's at least not in the states. I'm sure there's a historian somewhere lurking. Now that you mention it you may be right as far as the train sets. So I guess its the first space series to have magnets - so I stand corrected. I had a train set too :P lol foolish me.

Great model - love it - Total fan of B5 series. You did it great justice.

Bit of backstory: When I was just a kid (born in 81) - my first major Lego Sets after the little airport and space base - I saw these sets and went wacko. Begged and pleaded for each-and-every set. Somehow - some way I managed to keep them intact and together over the years. Due to various issues I was unable to do much due to living situation - then that changed thanks to a good job and pulling out of debt. I've since become a Star Wars fanatic and started collecting UCS sets - but Mtron always held a very special place in my heart. My first major collection. I intend to keep it that way. I found that I was a little hard on my lego's so I had to recover/replace some parts - and missing 1 manual - 250 USD later and some patient waiting on Ebay - I can finally say I have the entire collection. I also discovered that there was a bonus set that I had missed that required 3 of the models to make this one - hence the 200 bucks or so - I bought the 3 extra duplicates of my collection to make that one special bonus. And here they are all on display. Notes: What you see is the following sets: 1478 - Mobile Satellite Up-Link 6811 - Pulsar Charger 6833 - Beacon Tracer 6877 - Vector Detector 6896 - Celestial Forager 6923 - Particle Ionizer 6956 - Stellar Recon Voyager 6989 - Mega Core Magnetizer 6862 - Secret Space Voyager (bonus "super" set - 6877, 6896 and 6923 required/used) 6704 - Extra figure Somewhere in there I may or may not have modded a couple sets for the extra parts left over from the super set - and took some creative licensing (all extra parts) 6710 - Blacktron Space Landing Plates - 3 sets of them 6971 - 2 Space "Lunar plates" from my old yet horribly broken set (I regret this) I have all manuals - no parts missing - I only lack original boxes - back in the day those where original paper - no cardboard - I regret that - but at least this survived. Now If only I could figure out what this entire collection is worth? I'm also inclined to find a MOC MTron Base for my collection. - In any case - may you enjoy and share the memories of the epic 90's. I decided to make a little themed "mining operation" showing off my collection - bought a whole pile of neon green studs due to shipping restrictions - cause why not. Yes you may or may not spot the Ice Planet models in the background - don't mind them :) Trivia Fact: This was the first time they introduced magnets into Space Legos I hope there are still some die hard MTron fans out there - love to hear from you! Enjoy. :)

1: Which building step? They covered all of the ones I was aware of when I built it - ok maybe that one where the counter part to the trouble part but that's an easy to resolve one without any damage what-so-ever. 2: The video justifies there was no quality control concerns in the first place. The designer himself posted that video - I see this as a case closed situation. Obviously we didn't think of these solutions ourselves and over-reacted. Granted - always room for improvement - but judgement on this situation is clear cut. They did their job.

*golfclap*

Got hung up with some "stability" concerns on the mandible and saucer/dome section. While I got them attached to the main body via the "cargo hatch" on side of the ship - I was worried it may snap the connection point on sheer weight. May end up having to come up with cradle to help support the weight. Not unusual for a UCS scale model. Next stop - the rear saucer dome section - that will be a monster in itself - then its coming up with fancy plating. If i can get that far I may be inclined to reveal my little project as its rather simplistic - here's hoping. My friendly quiet compatriots know the trouble I've been through lol - especially @Kdapt-Preacher - who recently cringed at my connection issues. :) Stay tuned for more updates.

In the states the snowtrooper pack is being released - I know cause I'm going to pick up two for my AT-AT :)

Very nicely done. I prefer the older X-Wing - but this is a masterpiece.

LAUGHING-SO-HARD-CANT-BREATH-HAHAHHA Oh that made my day - thank you so much!

Its footprint is def more polite - but at 25" tall - yeah...he's a big boy.

Hey..where's my duplo? Now there's an idea - anyone done an AT-AT in Duplo? :)

Unless your sitting on a VPN connection - it shouldn't glitch out when it comes to country detection. Or possibly a browser setting. I have a hard enough time forcing mine to other countries when I'm doing random shopping/curiosity trips.