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That sounds very promising. Thank you for the information! So am I. We live in very exciting times with new Space sets coming every year. I had already given up on getting new Blacktron sets but then the Blacktron Cruiser happened and I felt just as excited building it as I was back in the day when Blacktron 1 was available. A new Renegade would be so cool!

What exactly is Lego Moments? Is it reimagined sets like the Galaxy Explorer or is it something completely different? Do we have any new information about it? Sorry about all the questions!

Of course kids and parents appreciate themes and subthemes and tend to like some more than others because of the style of the theme and what they depict. Most of them just don't care about the movies they are based on, at least among the people I've talked to.

They should release new sets for the Royal Knights simultaneously with the Fright Knights and do a lot of marketing. I believe it would be popular with both kids and AFOLs. But unfortunately Lego seems nowadays more interested in making sets based on popular mass culture.

Many of my friends have children and when they buy sets for them they just buy sets that look cool or interesting, they don't care if it's Star Wars, Marvel or Avatar. Sometimes the kids ask for specific sets and then it's often Ninjago. Of course the fans of the media franchises buy their own sets but I believe kids and their parents buy most of the sets that are sold. I have specifically asked them about their buying patterns. I often buy lots of random bricks in plastic bags at yard sales and when I sort the bricks I use to give away the bricks I don't need to friends' kids or to a local youth center where I used to work. Most of those parts belong to licensed themes but the kids build whatever they want with them and I've never heard them mention any specific media franchise.

Wow, If I only knew of that back then. When I was a kid/teenager we had an RV and travelled all over Europe and I always tried to subscribe to local Lego magazines but they never shipped the magazines to Finland. It was only possible to get Swedish magazines besides the Finnish ones (I'm Swedish but born in Finland). I remember that the Swedish Donald Duck comics (Kalle Anka) often had very cool Lego ads on the back of the magazine. Once they included a Futuron/Classic Space comic about an astronaut and a robot. I still have those comics in a box somewhere. I knew of some of the NA only sets because when relatives from the US and Canada visited they always brought Lego sets with them for me because they knew how much I liked Lego. That's how I found out about Dark Forest and at first my friends didn't believe me that such a subtheme existed but then I showed them the small catalog that was included in a Canadian bought set. We then tried to recreate the sets with my existing parts.

That is not a valid point because of course all themes "compete" against each other. There are tons of small sets for both Star Wars and Ninjago to name a few themes. If they find room for 12!!! licensed themes they should easily be able to accommodate two classic themes + City and Ninjago as regulars on the unlicensed side. Big detailed sets such as the Galaxy Explorer and the Lion Knights Castle could easily be included in larger waves of Space and Castle.

We can agree to disagree

What a fantastic build! It is perfect!

Yes, but you have to buy all parts separately https://www.lego.com/en-fi/pick-and-build/pick-a-brick?appearsIn=40580&perPage=400 The heads and the legs are shipped from Poland and the rest from Billund, Denmark

Maybe they should reintroduce a theme or subtheme every year and keep the sets around for two years. Then there would be two classic themes available all the time. Half of the sets could be reproduced classics from the theme and the other half new sets with newer parts and building techniques. There would definitely be room for that in Lego's portfolio. For the first year they could release a full Black Falcons and Forestmen lineup and the next year do Pirates and Imperial Soldiers. On year three they could reintroduce Blacktron 2 and Ice Planet and the the Castle sets would retire and like this it would go on. If they really did it full scale there would be money to reintroduce classic parts that are not produced today.

When it comes to such sets I believe it's important to keep the original design of the minifigures. They sell for two reasons: appreciation for a design style that is very rare nowadays and nostalgia and fandom of older themes. Therefore it's of utmost importance to keep the design of the minifigures the same because then there is continuity with the original sets from that theme. Lego minifigures will never look like real people so it is better overall to keep the classic Lego look with simpler designs and prints instead of making the prints as realistic as possible. A Space Police 1 chief would be a welcome addition as would new new faces as long as they stay true to the style of the theme or subtheme in question. For those who like more detailed prints there are many modern themes with such minifigures that are readily available. It's also vary rare to be able to buy newly produced versions of classic minifigures. I've ordered a lot of Blacktron 1 minifigs from pick a brick and it would be great to be able to do so for other minifigs as well.

If it's a Space Police set I'm sure it'll be very popular and the Mission Commander is an excellent choice. I hope they keep the original minifigures like they did with the Classic Space and Blacktron (+backprint) remakes.

Thank you for this information. Now I understand the situation better.

What gets me confused is that the Space and Pirate sets were made in Denmark and belonged to themes available and popular in Europe but were not available there. Many years ago someone (can't remember who) told me that during that time period Lego faced competition from some copycat building toy manufacturer in North America and therefore decided to introduce more sets to that market area. Since then I haven't heard about that theory and haven't been able to confirm the information.

Do you know why some sets from the 80s and 90s were region specific? Especially Space and Pirates got several such sets. I get that some whole subthemes were region specific but why make region specific sets in subthemes that were sold across the globe? It seems that many sets were available in North America but not in Europe. Was there a huge demand in North America for more new sets at that time or was it done for some completely different reason? There are many such sets from Futuron, Blacktron, Space Police 1, Pirates, Imperial Soldiers, Unitron etc. I'll take Space Police 1 as an example. The 6955 Space Lock Up Isolation Base was only available in North America. The picture below is from my Space collection (I had to move the monorail up under the ceiling because my cat wants to attack the train when it is moving) and you can see 6955 on the right side of the picture. The small Futuron craft next to it was also NA only. Why was this done when all other Space Police 1 sets were sold in Europe?

It has happened once to me. In a large order I had 10x "Plume Feather Small" missing. I called them (It took a very long time before they answered like 20 minutes but the woman who answered was very friendly and then they sent me the missing parts".

I understand. New sets for old themes would be fantastic. Why not a huge base for M-Tron or a large Wolf Pack castle, I'd buy those in a heartbeat. At the same time reintroduced sets like the Legends line would also be cool, maybe one reintroduced set for every three or four new ones but I understand that the many discontinued molds would make that difficult.

Sorry that I'm extremely late to this discussion. I recently joined Eurobricks and I'm a huge fan of Futuron. Do you guys know why some Futuron sets were released only in North America? These three sets were NA only: https://brickset.com/sets/1620-1/Astro-Dart https://brickset.com/sets/1621-1/Lunar-MPV-Vehicle https://brickset.com/sets/1974-4/Star-Quest When I was younger I didn't know that these sets even existed but since I discovered Bricklink I've acquired all of them.

I wouldn't want to pursue any action that would harm Bricklink because it's such a valuable asset. But I believe new supply in limited numbers would only be a positive thing for the secondary market because those who didn't preorder the minifigs would have to buy them from Bricklink or other similar sites.

Wouldn't many of the newly produced minifigs end up on Bricklink at some point? Every time I buy sets from Bricklink stores I buy parts for my MOCs and minifigues at the same time and I have never found classic minifigs in large quantities, the stores often have 1-5 examples of a certain classic minifig. I'd like to buy 10-30 Futuron or Black Falcon minifigs at a time but it's very hard to find inventory. If there was a reasonable high preorder quantity threshold for a certain minifig only some would go as far as production as you mentioned. Are you sure that it would harm the secondary market like Bricklink? Because older minifigs are not an infinite resource and even the secondary market needs new supply to stay viable.

Since so many parts have changed or been discontinued over the years, reimagined versions of old sets like the Galaxy Explorer seems the only realistic way to return to older themes. But what about minifigures, wouldn't it be great to be able to order any historic minifig you like? For example all the parts for a Space Police 1 officer like the one in my profile picture are still being made so it would be possible to manufacture them right now. Or would it be technically difficult to print so many different torso designs and sell them? Maybe they could have some sort of waiting list, if 100 people preorder at least 10 minifigs each they will make them or whatever limit that is reasonable. I have already bought many Blacktron 1 astronauts from pick a brick but there I have to buy all pieces separately and it's limited to minifigs that are currently being sold in sets.

But too much experimenting almost bankrupted the company in the early 2000s. They shouldn't try to be a tech company or an action figure manufacturer. Lego is great just by itself, we don't need apps or licenses to like Lego, sometimes it seems that even Lego themselves have forgot who they are. But of course, if they have some groundbreaking idea they should go for it.

It's difficult to establish what is what is official lore (if such a thing even exists for older themes) and what is not because different regions have different names for sets and figures and byproducts like comics and advertising. Personally I only consider sets and catalogs as reliable information. But this is what is great about Lego from this era, almost everything is up to you and your imagination. I think the Series 22 Space Creature looks funny but I wouldn't include it in my Classic Space/Futuron builds. Maybe with UFO or Insectoids? But I definitely like the Space Creature!

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