SpacePolice89

I use McAfee and everything seems fine. It only happens on Eurobricks. There is an ad in the lower part of the page every time I click something and the ad follows me when I scroll down. I can click an arrow to minimize the the ad and if I click the arrow again the ad reappears. I find it very strange that Eurobricks allow such intrusive ads.

How can I remove those irritating pop up ads that have appeared during the last couple of days? They even appear when I'm logged in.

Nice profile picture! Do you have the Futuron or Unitron monorail?

If those were real sets I'd buy ten of each.

I understand and I overreacted on my part. Sorry for that.

It's easy to say that when coming from a country that has not been affected by the horrors of the world wars and has done nothing to stand up for liberty when we others have fought and bled and lost loved ones.

The classic themes and licensed ones like Star Wars and Harry Potter are fictional. Blacktron or Voldemort didn't kill anyone's relatives(in the real world). While the Nazis and Soviets have killed and plundered all over the world. My family has lost several members fighting against those two ideologies so therefore i find it highly inappropriate to have Nazi or Soviet minifigs and also because Lego policy prohibits depiction of modern warfare.

I agree. While the Nazis are the perfect villains in the movies because of the time period and their ruthlessness they are not suitable for Lego sets. Having Nazi minifigures goes against the values of Lego.

Yes, the photo is a couple of years old and is taken in my back yard. We also have snow now but not that much.

So many beautiful pictures! Merry Christmas to all of you!

I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas by sharing this Ice Planet 2002 photo because snow and Christmas belongs together. If you have any Space pictures or MOCs that are suitable for the holidays please post them here!

When Time Cruisers was released in 1996 all the classic themes still existed but nowadays we have only City as a replacement for Town and no credible replacement for Castle, Space or Pirates. Themes such as Time Cruisers and Dreamzzz are nice complements to the core themes but cannot replace them.

Yes, those are some great sets. A creator spaceship in the same style would be fantastic. The 9+ sets have a great combination of detail and playability just like the old sets used to have. I like the Cyber Drone very much. It was nice to see a smaller space set on store shelves.

I'm not saying that we should bring them all back at the same time. Maybe one every year and then replace it with the next one. There is room for that. The last incarnations of Castle and Pirates were too junior ized to sell well with older kids and the Icons sets are not meant for kids and have limited availability. To succeed the sets must be detailed enough but not too complicated like the 18+ sets. That doesn't mean that 4+ or 18+ sets should be excluded but the majority of sets must be somewhere in the middle. New themes are good and should be released now and then. Without them we wouldn't have had Pirates, Aquazone or Ninjago. If they are popular they will stick around for a longer time.

That both sides gets something, maybe not as much as they really want but at least something. Having zero original themes is not a compromise. Having only original themes is not a compromise. Having some original themes, some licensed themes and some new themes is a compromise. Those SW fans would probably buy SW sets from the next brick building company that partners with Disney. Disney are not going to decide that LEGO no longer wants SW, so lets just forget about that property. As I mentioned in my original post this is a very bad idea and only used it as a theoretical example showing that your idea that people who want proper sci fi space sets should settle for Monkie Kid sets and be happy doesn't work I very much doubt that a ten year old boy would want a Friends spaceship and then have to replace the minifigures nor that any older Classic Space fan would want that either. The friends sets are great but Friends is not a minifigure theme, it's a minidoll theme.

Welcome to Eurobricks. It is hard work to reconstruct old sets but it's worth the effort.

Me and my friends also did this a lot when we were kids. It was so fun to make up names and backstories for all the minifigs and the next day the same minifigs could be someone else.

It's funny that you call having no Space line at all a compromise. Imagine if I would say that there will be no more Star Wars sets and only Classic Space and that all SW fans should just be happy about it because it's also about space. It doesn't work that way. I have no problem whatsoever with Friends but I'm only interested in minifigure scale sets. The first Lego figures were actually brick built minidoll sized figures which I also have no interest in. I don't just like something because it's old, I like it for what it is. A real compromise would be having some classic themes, some licensed themes and some new themes (like Ninjago) available every year. Trying to combine too many themes like Nexo Knights is a very bad idea and should be avoided at all costs.

A lot of the Star Wars sets are aimed at adults or older teenagers while modern in house themes seems to be geared towards kids under the age of 8. They used to have texts on boxes saying "Ages 7-12" which was their target age group and that age group (9-12 year olds) along with older people liking the previous design language are almost completely ignored.

I find it hard to believe that modern kids would like the Monkie Kid spaceship and similar spaceships more than a dedicated sci fi space theme, no matter if it's an established subtheme like Blacktron or something entirely new. My cousin's kid asked me this summer where I bought my Galactic Mediator. He said said it looked so cool and that he wanted one. I tried to persuade his parents to let me order one for him from Bricklink but they thought it was too expensive.

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What is cool is very subjective, I don't like the aesthetics of the newer in house themes. Especially when they have hideous colors like the Monkie Kid spaceship. When I was a kid I remember not wanting certain toys because they looked like they were meant for little kids. I get the same feeling with the whole Monkie Kid lineup as well as Dreamz. The ten year old me went crazy for a cool spaceship with a prison cell and laser cannons under the wings but I wouldn't have looked twice at a spaceship for monkeys, a flying school bus or a huge flying light blue bunny.

I mentioned the Creator Cyber drone in my previous post and Friends and Technic aren't even minifigure themes. Space is Space and Monkey Kid and Ninjago are something completely different, they are good in their own way but not the same as Space. That's like trying to replace Star Wars with Batman. There have been a few sets released for them through Icons, Creator and Ideas but they have unfortunately been one offs.

I was referring to the Space as a theme. I have very little interest in the current City space.

During the last couple of years we have only had three Space sets (Galaxy Explorer, Blacktron GWP and Creator Cyber Drone) while they have released hundreds of Star Wars and Marvel sets.