Asuka

An interesting design... very intense in shape and appearance, a clever work indeed!

A very original and creative work, inspiring and very charming!

A wonderful work, brilliant in shape with very smart details and in a beautiful color scheme too. Great!

A very nice vehicle that looks a little like some good old classic space craft, pretty charming!

A very smart design that allows a MF to fit in, with interesting lines and fine details like that neat backside.

A very lovely design, elegant and poseable yet still pretty sturdy. Clever!

An amazing work. The details as well as the smoothness on the outside and for the interior looks beautiful balanced to me, and I really like the color scheme too. Most impressive...

A very lively scenery, and a cool job with all that messing up...

A very detailed and functional work, simply wonderful. And... mmm, ice plants...

Thank you for that nice review, slimninj4. A very neat set with lovely details like that checker design. It´s also interesting that the spare wheel works as trigger. Pretty nifty and playable for sure. Dynamite on! Poor rockies...

Thanks svelte_corps for that excellent review! A very cool and smooth looking set with pretty fine details. But indeed, most of all I love TLC´s brilliant humorous approach on socialist realism with that picture on back of the box where the worker stands in the cab: "Look ma, finally... car doors!!"

Thank you very much for that review of a really wonderful space classic. What else to say... ah, yes: Monorail... Monorail... Monorail!!!

I think that many people´re pretty satisfied with the design, construction wise, of TLC´s recent lines. And the design of the new Space Police theme, from what we know right now, looks really gripping and fresh like a daisy. But the storyline´s also a valuable part of the package... at least, man does not live by bricks alone... So to discuss the story features of that new line´s also an important and interesting matter for sure, with many different and individual aspects... TLC did some fine efforts with that thematic in the last years, and I even don´t mind the whole violence that much. Still, there´s something I´m missing... Back in the old days, when Captain Kirk faced the imponderabilities of space on the bridge of his trusted USS Enterprise, my blue and grey spaceships had no enemy at all. Of course I imagined those antennas as lasers, I made my own fancy weapons and simple aliens with brick built heads, and I had a lot of fun by inventing my own design for their ships... and with all my little magnificent space battles as well. But yeah, I do mind a little this darned annoying repetitiveness and the sheer lack of phantasy regarding story conception in general. However, to TLC´s favor, Space Patrol looks at least a little more original and fresh than the average conflict in a box set... Batbrick said (roughly) that kids´re well able to ignore the whole predetermined conflict mayhem, but for sure this would work the other way ´round too... and I´m pretty sure that nothing would stop kids of today (or me) from turning even the most hard boiled Space Smoochers into bloodthirsty zombie vampires from outer space. So why not giving us all, soft Europeans and tough North Americans, something at least a little different, just from time to time? At least this could stop my nightmares about some U.S. troops invading my front lawn because they found a wealthy crystal spring right in the middle of it... A good toy sometimes works like a flashlight in one of these survival horror games... that what makes us shivering waits hidden in the shadows. A flamethrower on the other hand often becomes boring pretty quickly... beside some occasional jelly barbecuing, perhaps.

Thanks for that interesting quote that you provided about these focus groups. I really think that TLC reached a pretty fine balance between individual and generic characters within the Castle line, and the Agents theme delivers interesting characters and a neat but not overdone storytelling as well. Space Police, from what I can say by now, looks already pretty promising as well to me, at least I hope that some unique and cool characters´ll work well as a plug for that new theme. The benefits of these focus groups´re for sure limited, and sometimes even dangerous. I really hope that TLC´s able to handle those things with care. Usually, if you would ask a bunch of kids (or adults) what they want... well, the outcome could look pretty frightening at times I guess. And beside this, if you would give them exactly what they want... I´m sure after fifteen minutes of play they wouldn´t be much interested in it anymore... The challenge, especially for toy manufactures, is not to give the kids what they want, it is to give them something they will learn to love although they never thought about it in the first place... Well, at least it was always the joy of imagination that led to my personal devotion for LEGO, and I strongly doubt that some machine gun wielding dino hunting super hero would´ve caused that much interest for me in long terms... so, yes, I´m pretty glad that they decided to give me so much more than what I could´ve asked for in that age.

Thank you for that very fine review, svelte_corps. A very neat set, and a very good construction play-set right out of the box indeed. The vehicles´re nice and well detailed. A solid and charming work that delivers a great amount of fun for all of us building workers who prefer little plastic bricks over concrete.

He he... Pimps in Space... I simply love the humor TLC´s putting into that new theme. The crafts look, right now, pretty fresh and interesting... maybe a tad too much technic and too many bigger parts for my liking, but anyway... that fusion of racers and space appears rather original and promising, and I´m curious if and up to which degree some more classical space design´s going to show up in these sets... That helmet alone´s very wonderful and utterly usable for sure. Thanks for the pics, mania3! Hmm... I wonder... with that Gone in Sixty Seconds attitude to it, maybe we´ll see some nice alienated Angelina Jolie MF soon?

A very neat building in a friendly and nice color scheme with some nifty interior. Perhaps you could need a little more stuff to sell in some of these shops, and where´re all the people passing by and snooping around? Right now your scenery looks as lively (but much tidier) as Raccoon City after the infection has broken out...

Thanks for these interesting news, ultraman_bc! Those set descriptions sound really interesting, and if we´re able to expect indeed a broader return of the car doors this would already look like a pretty nifty christmas present to me...

Very good!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

A fine scenery, a very detailed facade work with charming details like those stained glass windows, an impressive bridge, a very nice ravine and a gorgeous Dragon Ram. Pretty cool!

Bricks on, Hip Hip Hurra!

An interesting and also pretty funny interpretation. Christmas (in recommended dosage) on!

A very nice work which really gives an improved and, um, rock-solid look to that already pretty nice little PM vehicle. Well done!

That would be a pretty fine how-d'ye-do indeed...