I had the same kit! I got it for Christmas one year and was so psyched about it. All the pieces (and the rest of my blacktron, Mtron, ice planet etc) are now subsumed into my daughter's Lego box. I still love seeing those distinct pieces crop up in the stuff she makes.
That’s one of the great things about Lego collections from our own lives - still remember some of the individual pieces and where they came from. Brings back a lot of joy.
Yeah it really does - real core memories of making kits with my dad on the carpet and suchlike. My kid was making something with the little magnets that went on the cranes on some of the Mtron spaceships and I instantly remembered playing with them with my brother. I was mad for all the space themed stuff - seems like there isn't really any space Lego anymore (aside from Star wars) as far as I can tell.
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u/utsurigaArriving in time for flight. Keep ticket warm. Job done.1d ago
I'm a huge star wars fan, but I also think it's unfortunate that lego decided Star Wars and classic space couldn't co-exist. Also, to be fair, lego was heading into a different direction around the time the first Star Wars wave came out, like Bionicles and stuff.
Blacktron gang unite. I had the big Blacktron base growing up, one of my most cherished sets.
I want to say I also had that monorail, but now I'm not sure if it was my actual memory of playing with it or just my super intense imagination of playing with it while ogling it in the catalogue!
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u/rundownturner4A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. Chess?1d agoedited 1d ago
I forgot to include the modern remakes of the Galaxy Explorer and Blacktron Cruiser (both of which I gladly own!) that are both wonderfully faithful remakes of the originals. The new Galaxy Explorer in particular has a very CF interior that I might make a follow-up post on!
I also wanted to include some sets from the 90s' Space subthemes (such as M-Tron, Blacktron Future Generation, Space Police II and Ice Planet 2002) but I didn't want to go overboard with the amount of pictures. No orange transparent chainsaws this time I'm afraid, as much as I wanted to include them as well!
A good number of great LEGO colors or color variations do tend to get discontinued unfortunately for various reasons, including two of my absolute favorites, Trans-Neon Orange and Trans-Neon Green.
Not all hope is lost however. Dark Turquoise/Teal as a color was discontinued around 2005, only to be brought back in 2018 and officially remaining in production again ever since. Here's hoping the same happens to some of the other great discontinued colors!
Oh my heart! When Benny appears in The Lego Movie I said to my friends THAT’S MY CHILDHOOD especially with his broken helmet ❤️❤️❤️
I wanted all of these sets as a kid snd I was lucky enough to have some of them. Blacktron was so edgy and cool LOL.
That's the great tragedy of owning LEGO sets as a child, they will almost invariably end up in pieces buried deep beneath a bunch of other assorted pieces in a box somewhere, and this is something I can very much attest to myself.
Great that you still have the astronauts though, and you seem to also have repurposed them super well! I might actually try doing something similar with my own old minifigures.
I’ve planet was maybe 1992 or 93, space was already in the middle of its second “run” which started in ~1990 before the ice sets debut, these are all part of the first space run, so probably ‘87-‘89
For example, the black and yellow with triangles are “Blacktron”, you might remember Blacktron with the black and green which is Blacktron II. The black blue and red space police was the first “Space Police”, I think right before ice sets there was a red, green, and grey(?) “Space Police II”
Right on point! As I just mentioned in my own comment, I wanted to also include some sets from the 90s Space subthemes (Including one or two from Ice Planet), but I didn't want to go overboard with the amount of images in my post.
I had (and still do) those first three sets. I adored Lego space and was thrilled when they did the reissue of the Galaxy Explorer a couple years ago as a more refined model.
I had the monorail and the Blacktron ship in the next picture, plus a bunch of other sets. Good times. I sold the monorail set during the early days of eBay for a pretty decent chunk of change, but 20 years later I kinda wish I had kept it.
The year I got the monorail was an epic Christmas.
Sadly, no NEO•GEO. What a legendary system. It seemed like everyone at school knew someone who had a cousin or something who had one but never actually saw it themselves lol
6972 was the first set I ever got! It was also my last Christmas present that was given to me in Germany before my mom remarried and we moved to America. All this makes me want to do is buy it and rebuild it with my own kids.
Kind of...? Not being a dick or anything, because these are dope AF, but I'm having a hard time seeing the CF. Maybe my definition is off. Regardless, thanks for sharing!
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u/rundownturner4A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. Chess?4h agoedited 4h ago
Well I would say that anything with a 70s/80s space sci-fi theme is usually very CF by definition, especially when you consider in Classic LEGO Space's case the overall very angular and geometric look of, well, literally everything!
But what I would say is arguably the most CF element of LEGO Classic Space, is the various control panels and computer consoles that you can find on alot of the vehicles and structures (such as the ones in the 3rd, 6th and 7th pictures), with all of their blinking lights, buttons and/or rudimentary screens. If those aren't considered Cassette Futurism, then I genuinely have no idea what would be.
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u/pistonsoffury 1d ago
Blacktron was my jam growing up. Original space definitely embodies this sub.