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So, the rumour is the set is going to have 1701 pieces (yes, really ) and cost $200 to 240. The minifigs include Kirk, Spock, Chapel, Sulu, Bones, Chekov, Uhura and Scotty. I was hoping for something a bit smaller, but still curious about how this is going to turn out.

Thanks! This is obviously partially based on the BlueBrixx set, but some of the shapes are my own, especially at the back of the saucer, and at the bottom. The stand is my own idea entirely.

That was the plan, and I also wanted it to be tilted in all possible directions. Thanks!

Thanks very much!

I didn't know that. Anyway, you can check it out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYuMqhFCCmp/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Thanks a lot!

It's been a long road indeed. What started as a hopefully quick build, ultimately took me a couple of months to complete. First things first, this is absolutely based on the BlueBrixx set of the same ship. I think their sets were a bit of hit and miss at times, but this one was among their best IMO. So credit is very much given. I used 100% LEGO bricks for this obviously. I built this mainly because, as a long-time Trekkie, I just felt that having the Enterprise D and shuttlecraft sets was not quite enough for me. I wanted more. With that said, it's not an exact replica of the BlueBrixx set. And I don't mean just the colours which had to be mostly different. In addition to that, BlueBrixx has some moulds which don't exist in LEGO. Perhaps even more importantly, I also made some deliberate modifications to try and make it even more similar to the actual ship from the show. And the completely transparent stand is my own design. If you're not familiar with the source material, this is the titular ship of the series Star Trek Enterprise which debuted in 2001. It was captained by Jonathan Archer played by Scott Bakula. Hope you enjoyed the photos and check it out on Instagram as well!

I'm aware of the limitations. On the other hand, the body proportions are much closer to an actual human. Well, I guess a trade-off of sorts is always inevitable. Actually, I have one knockoff minidoll bought a few years ago near a beach out of curiosity, and it's very similar to LEGO but the legs are posable. So this can be done. Who knows, maybe one day LEGO will fix this, like they made short posable minifig legs. And the smaller rowboats with oars, and castle doors. That was it. I remember how frustrating it was not being able to add any brown bricks to my brown hull of the Caribbean Clipper. I remember the time when literally my ONLY green thing in LEGO was the vest on Captain Redbeard's torso. I did not even have any trees or flowers back then.

Excellent portal, very convincing! The unusual scale works very well here! Good job.

This certainly reminds me of the good old classic sets. Well done!

Whose shade usually doesn't match the head of the same minifigure (applies equally to yellow and fleshtones).

My thoughts exactly. I agree. Friends is like City but better. Here's an unpopular opinion then: If LEGO abandoned their minifigures altogether and just stuck to the minidolls, I think I could live with that. Provided there would be greater diversity of prints and gear: Pirate minidolls, Castle minidolls, etc. Not gonna happen though.

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if LEGO had reversed the order: introduced the fleshies first all those decades ago, and then added the yellow heads all of a sudden at some point. Just imagine the outrage. Well this is kind of similar to the fleshie situation. I remember how hated those new colours were back when it was still a fresh thing. Nowadays people actually prefer the new ones (we discussed this in our LUG some time ago and almost everyone confirmed this). This is because they are easy to get, people have gathered sufficient collections of those to stop caring about the old ones, and everyone simply got used to the new colours. Reminds me of this big LEGO event in Olomouc in Czechia which I attended a few times. There were literally hundreds of MOCs there and I think I only saw two people with the old colours. One was a Classic Space diorama with the monorail etc. The other one was me (pirate ships with old brown hulls and some old light grey too). Besides, a lot of current MOCers and AFOLs got into LEGO when the old colours had been long gone.

That's some interesting information! Good to know that this is still continued. They were never that popular in Poland, although a few books were actually written by Polish authors, if Polish Wikipedia is to be trusted. If I remember correctly, the one book I read all those years ago was supposedly written by Alfred Hitchcock (according to the cover), which was not really the case.

I agree on Ninjago and Dreamzzz. Those figures are so specifically designed to be used just in their own themes and nowhere else. Especially the torsos, but some heads and legs too. Unless you are building a MOC in one of those themes, and they are not really popular choices for MOCing, they are completely useless. As for superheroes, well, those are based on comic book characters. If it's not your thing then most are useless too. By analogy I would add Star Wars for me, as i don't care about the franchise so I can't really use those minifigs anywhere. I have some SW minifigs, mostly from various brick mixes I got, and I just keep them in a box and never use. But, objectively, I must admit that both superheroes and Star Wars are much more popular MOCing themes than Ninjago and Dreamzzz, so in that regard those figures are 'less useless'.

Hey, I read one of those books like 35 years ago or so. Pretty strange to me, I thought this stuff was rather obscure and not that well-known to deserve its own sets. Anyway, wasn't there a tunnel under all this junk that they used to enter the trailer? Or am I just remembering this wrong?