Algernon

I hope you're right, but I'm not setting my expectations too high.

It's just highly unlikely. It's called "Space Patrol", not Space Police, which makes me believe it's going to make like Power Miners and be nothing more than a vague reference to themes long past. LEGO's been doing this a lot lately, I imagine they've had some success with it. But if you're hoping for any official entry into Space Police lore, you're likely to be disappointed.

Unlikely, but I'd like that too. An updated Blacktron minifig could be awesome. I hope LEGO realizes how many Space fans they stand to enrage by messing this theme up.

Holy crap! Who? Squidman appears to be a central character to this theme. I'm not sure how I feel about that... It's different from classic Space, to be sure, which didn't have any central characters. But we've guessed from the beginning this would be Agents in space, so I shouldn't be surprised.

Heh... good point. The Reaper is far better, too, imo.

This set is probably the weakest of the Power Miners line.

Dang. I actually like this one a lot. I might have to cave and pick up a few of the PMs.

That might be the only Power Miners set I end up getting...

I'm glad to see that at least one of the sets were good upon great. I voted "above average" because it looks a little small to me and I can't justify $70.

One of the better Power Miners sets imo.

Well, if you don't count the summer Power Miners sets, yes.

Pretty much all of the canister sets from 2008.

Actually, that looks pretty good.

I didn't like Exo-Force, so this set has almost no appeal to me outside of minifig collection. In my opinion the aesthetics are laughable. Great review, however.

Good climatic ending, but otherwise this year is one of the worst for Bionicle. I've never missed 2001 more.

I love that combiner models are back. It's almost like LEGO is being imaginative again! As for the vehicle- not a bad set, all in all, but I agree that $30 is hard to justify.

There are lots of new second-half 09 sets to leak yet, but Space is the only theme that we haven't seen because it's a Summer theme like Mars Mission. LEGO seems to release new themes in the summer for some reason... weird.

Meh... that shuttle thing is underwhelming.

Some Star Wars sets are leaking- perhaps Space Police is next.

To each his own. :) Yes, I recommend the Deep Freeze Defender! It's one of the best LEGO starships available.

You might very well be right about Futuron, since that theme came long before my time and has failed to capture my interest since. I got mine off of Bricklink for about $50, but I'm sure you could find a better deal off of Ebay (a fact I much resent). Make sure it's got the original minifigs with it, since it came with an Icebabe, Commander Cold, and a generic minifig for army building. Great selection there. Beware of yellowing.

This is definitely a theme for veteran Space fans nowadays. Hopefully you agree with us that it's very good.

It's hard to classify Futuron, so I won't disagree that they may be space explorers 2.0. I did notice that the logo is similar, but I can't help but notice tons of similarity to M-Tron: they have a clear purpose unrelated to Blacktron/Spyrius (IP2002: launching rockets, MT: hauling cargo) Space Police seem to defend them a lot (look at the catalog shots), and given the translations I found, other themes seem to want to steal from them! But I can't prove anything, so I guess the point is moot.

Good times. I agree the base is not fantastic, but it was pretty good on the playability side (because the crane worked with almost every other set in the series). Also you get orange dome windows! The satellites are fun to chuck at other themes. :P Nice image, I'll add that to the main post. And to me, that looks more like the Blacktron guys got frozen and now Ice Planet is just recovering the bodies. Ice Planet models were mildly armed, but I still maintain that their role is civilian, granted a little tougher than M-Tron.

I don't know about that, they might have a similar logo, but they're so blatantly portrayed as the subject of conflicts between good and bad themes that it can't be denied their role is at least similar to M-Tron.