The DEATH of LEGO Space? - The Evolution of LEGO Space
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- Professor Godt desperately searches for evidence that LEGO Space is not, in fact, dead as he explores the history of the popular metatheme.
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The decline in original Lego themes really saddens me. I grew up in the early 2000s and still got to experience some of the most interesting and creative original themes. Knights Kingdom, Mars Mission, Aquaraiders II. Basically everything has been replaced by licenced themes at this point. I understand it makes more money to focus on themes that either are tied to a TV show like Ninjago or Monkey Kid, or the always popular licensed themes, but a part of Lego's dna has always been the creatively designed and storied Lego original themes.
It's weird how almost everything in the LEGO catalog has been consolidated into a handful of original, "evergreen" themes in recent years. In the last two years, Monkie Kid has been the ONLY new narrative-driven theme that isn't based on existing intellectual property, and it is primarily being marketed to the Chinese audience. Pretty much everything has been slotted into a Ninjago or City subtheme, with Creator being a grab bag for whatever is left. I don't mind any of these things in a vacuum, but it's made things predictable for better or worse.
I wish they would take the classic 90s factions with the blocky designs, of course add a story about the space police and Blacktron and the civilians. Make a Netflix series about the civilian factions being stuck between the battle between the space police and Blacktron.
Yea legos original themes are better! Most of the licensed themes aren’t that good. The quality of Star Wars sets are better but they like to remake the same sets every couple years. How many red 5s, slave Is, and millennium falcons do we really need hahaha
Bionicle
Having grown up in the 90s and my first lego space set being from "Blacktron," I concur. The creativity is gone
And.... now this year, LEGO remade the Galaxy Explorer for its 90th Anniversary (with a Black Tron reference on one of the prints).
I would argue that the downfall of Lego Space wasn’t Star Wars, as those co-existed for awhile. It was a combination of Super-heroes licenses, and more than anything, the loss of shelf space with the fall of Toys-R-Us.
Star Wars is what opened the flood gates for licensed themes to push out all of Lego's original themes. I completely blame Star Wars and Lego
@@Eidolon1andOnly Blame the man-children who will purchase any shitty set to display on their Marvel/Star Wars shelf...they wouldn't release that shallow crap if people didn't lap it up. Consumers have no care for creativity, only their favorite logo...its sad
Nothing to do with Toys are us, or shelf space, Starwars sets sold more then any other space theme available at the same time, if kids wanted a space set it was Starwars they wanted not own brand themes.
@@dddmmi Rubbish, kids especially boys love superheroes, My nephew's got alot of Marval sets. The biggest number of owners of Marval sets is children.
@@dddmmi wrong. space sets were already not doing that great before star wars. it was time to let the theme die and move onto other things. Ir was not the first or last time lego will do that.
I grew up with Space Lego from 1978-1988. Loved the Space Exploration feel to them.
My theme was Legoland Town and I kinda feel the same, yes there's plenty of police, fire and big city centre sets, but no houses, no post office, etc. I think the reason why Lego is frightened to launch new space sets, is that in the 1990s there were so many different sub-themes in space, which only lasted a few years and cost so much to design and produce, it was part of the reason why Lego can so near to collapse at the turn of the century. That said, looking back at my Lego catalogues from the early 1980s, I don't see why the company can't launch a small range of sets based on going back the early, classic days.
There was a lot of design aestethics overlap in the - as I call it - "Tron era" 1987-1996, though, and besides the two Monorail sets, there are few sets that look particularly expensive to design or produce, compared to the Classic Space sets. Lego has moved away from small magnets, similar to the ones in M-Tron in later years due to health risks, but I don't think they were that difficult and expensive to produce, themselves, at the time.
There were other reasons than the Space sub-themes that led the company to the brink.
I liked the other classic town sets as well,like a mechanic shop or a gas station,or a marina or harbor.
Lego has evolved in good and bad ways. And losing our beloved original themes to licensed ones are one of the really bad ones, we now only have Lego City (which I think evolved from Lego Town) Lego friends who no one really cares about, and Lego Creator. But Classic Space is trying to fight back with Lego recently releasing the galaxy explorer in honor of Lego’s 90 year anniversary. So we can be seeing original themes again soon, if Lego thinks outside the box.
I actually don't think that Galaxy Explorer is a return of classic Space, as much as that new huge castlle is not a return of classic Castle. They both are just one-time gifts for old fans.
I will be glad to be wrong.
Imagine The amount of time put into this. I appreciate your dedication
The Professor works very hard indeed. Thanks for watching!
The blue space dude was so popular they put him in LEGO movie 1 and 2 and the set thanks lego for bringing him back
Wow I’m blown away by how good this video is! I really appreciate the hard work you must have put into this! Thanks so much!!
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The original 1980s space is what got me into Lego as a child. I still have several of the sets and have been trying to remember what sets I actually had Vs what I wished I had so that I can find the instructions and rebuild them.
Have you seen the new classic space set?
@@gtsanimations1092 not really. I’ve heard about the new Galaxy Explorer set that’s coming, but haven’t seen it.
@@gadget19k76 it looks good I recommend getting it
I have some Blacktron sets. I was able to look up the Lego part numbers (which are super small to read) then I was able to find what part numbers matched which set parts list. For example, the some windows are only in one or two sets with that number... So it narrows it down.
@@gtsanimations1092 I saw it at jc penny
most classic lego themes are dying. Lego aims only for licence products and replace the classic themes and sets. Thats why we have no castles, pirates (outside of 1 ideas and 1 creator set), no western or why the last technic wave was a bad racers wave.
I love Lego Star Wars (more the older sets but thats an other topic) and also they are a lot of good other licence series. But its still a shame that classic themes got replaced by them or when they are bad like trolls..
between 2005 and 2012 lego did it the right way in my opinion. They had both, classic themes and great licence products.
oh and thanks for the Mario Galaxy (2?) earwig xD
benny- spaceship
lenny- spaceship spaceship
kenny- spaceship spaceship spaceship
classic space, we will always remember you ;)
*spaceship intensifes*
Spaceship!
love the BIONICLE heroes music kicking in with the introduction of the Exploriens. I really enjoyed watching the video, and I love that you took the time to go through and explore every sub-theme.
I'm glad somebody noticed! The Bionicle Heroes soundtrack has some great tracks.
I remember doing some small research and found out that Alien Conquest was meant to have a second wave which would focus the ADU retaliating against the aliens and invading their home planets, which something similar happens in Galaxy Squad.
Pharaoh's Quest, Atlantis and Dino 2012 are also connected to Alien Conquest, in comics it was shown that The Alien Commander built the pyramids for Amset-Ra and gave technology to the Atlantis creatures, Dino 2012 happens after the ADU make the aliens retreat from Earth, in which the Alien Commander decides to open up a portal with Dinosaurs to storm a City.
Monster Fighters is also tied to Galaxy Squad as in a comic too it's shown that the moonstones fire some sort of beacon beam into space which catches the attention of the Alien Bugs, initiating the events of GS.
Mars Mission in 2007 feels somewhat similar. It's arguable whether the humans really are the good guys, there...
As far as I know, the aliens from Mars Mission aren't from the aformentioned planet.
@@Agent_Pol To be honest, I have heard that as well... Anyway, the humans don't come across as particularly upstanding characters, after putting the aliens in these orange tubes and so on...
@@hakanstorsater5090 Agreed, Mars Mission is a pretty interesting case of conflict out of every other LEGO Theme.
You can also connect Super Agents to Galaxy Squad through Solomon Blaze
Lego space will never die in this child of the 80s!
I had almost all of the ICE sets with the trans-neon orange Windows and blue/white theme, all of the blacktron 2 and M-tron sets. I loved them.
Star Wars is too popular for there to be “room” for traditional space sets. I grew up with the 90s themes of pirates, castle, town, and space. Pirates and castle were my favorite but space was awesome too. The allure of licensed legos is too strong nowadays and it’s probably the easiest and smartest way for them to keep selling sets.
At least now it’s getting a revamp, they made the new Icon set, the blacktron gift set and the latest mini figure series has Two space minifigs.
I totally agree with everything you said...
I had the 80s and early 90s space sets when I was a kid and when i got back into them recently as a man I was so happy to find I still had like two dozen classic space men in a box in my garage but was sad because most of the rest of the ships and stations i had was gone
Updated Classic space model now available! Galaxy Explorer 2022 edition!
Honestly I think Black Tron and Space Police Returning would be great and could really spice up legos line up
Thanks for making this video. I caught myself smiling and nodding more than a few times.
Imagine telling this guy in early 2021 about the 2022 Galaxy Explorer!
I'm always impressed with your visual quality and length of your video content. Keep it up! Really interesting stuff
The Professor is a legend!
I remember talking to a NASA researcher on a Worldcon and how much the current staff of the agency was influenced by Lego in their childhood. Currently, Lego wants to “inspire“ influencers or hairdressers in the future?
LEGO enjoys trend-chasing as much as any other company, but I think there might be a little more to it. Things like LEGO City's real-world career subthemes such as the Deep Sea Explorers and Space Port lines are specifically meant to inspire kids to be curious about science and the natural world. From what I've observed from LEGO designers, they seem to put a special emphasis of what will inspire kids to pursue education and STEM-related fields with their various products. I think a little bit of the magic of the more colorful LEGO Space lines was lost in the process, which is a tremendous shame.
@@Professor_Godt , I think that the person that has been leading LEGO since 2004, as well as the newer corporate heads, have, in fact, made LEGO WORSE in a lot of ways instead of making it better. Honestly, LEGO is essentially like the 1980s Jordache of the modern toy world. Do not get me wrong, I do not hate LEGO media, but, in all honesty, it has been peddling bad ideas, as well as bad ideologies, even more so than the person that had founded LEGO. I thought that LEGO was supposed to be all about imagination rather than agenda peddling.
For me the best ,Lego Space ans pirates.i m born in 83 and i remember loving play all my Time witj this toys.lego Space particulary.nice vidéo.thanks from france
I wouldn't be surprised if the more cartoony style of LEGO's aliens from Space Police III onward was in direct response to how the Mars Mission aliens were depicted in some promotional material. Genuinely terrifying stuff for a small kid.
Sounds interesting. Gotta check it out... =D
Mars Mission's aliens creeped me out as a kid, though that didn't last long and I eventually went with them being totally awesome
💫 Bet you were excited for the Galaxy Explorer revision? I love the concept, though wish they added a creator baseplate and had the printed LL928 as LL928-A, similar to The USS Enterpriese NCC-1701-A…
This was an awesome video, I have a fondness for Space growing up in the 80’s with the Monorail been my dream set that i had to wait 30 years for. I now aim to get all the logo mini figures, which this video has helped me with. I have shared it on a Lego Space Facebook page as the history you show is really well done.
I bet you’re glad about the new set!!
Benny’s Spaceship is a Top 10 Lego release of all time.
Space Police 3 was always my fav Lego theme aside from Harry Potter and Star Wars 🔥 Great video!
I'm glad we got the Galaxy Explorer remake this year, now that I have it it's such a good set
I was on the hunt for some space bricks and contacted Lego. They told me they were discontinued. I was shocked that Lego does not keep stock. I told them that they need to rerelease the old space sets. How many of us would buy them again?
If you want an alternative way of getting old space pieces and all sorts of useful parts id suggesting looking at bricklink, its really useful for getting pretty much anything lego
There are a handful of space logo printed bricks currently being produced. For example off the top of my head there's a 2x4 blue tile with the classic space logo, there's also a 2x3 blue sloped brick with a classic space logo print too.
There's also 5 or 6 white 2x2 tiles with classic space style computer screen prints, 2 or 3 of which were direct copies of the original ones seen on the 2x2 brick with 45 degree slope back in the OG classic space line
Space themes would be great to bring back! Nice video Proffessor 👍
It's a shame really. I enjoyed space themes quite a bit back when they were originally around. And with the modern sizes and parts they could use, they really can make awesome sets. As evidenced by the new Galaxy Explorer, which i obviously bought :D Here's hoping that'll inspire them to do more with that theme.
What they did with the 928 homage (10497) is just amazing. I hope they will continue that way with bigger and more detailed versions of what we had as kids... And imagined bigger as they were 😉
Was listening to this while building the new galaxy explorer
I 100% agree and also cool video
The 90 year set is awesome I hope we get more in the creator line at least or even better more in the icons line maybe a new space police theme
The lego universe music got me emotional
24:09 Well, I’d say Lego Space is definitely not dead with the remakes of the Galaxy Explorer & Blacktron Invader for the 90th anniversary. These 2 sets are AMAZING & DEFINITELY my favorite sets of 2022! The building experience of them is SO AMAZING!!!!!!! I can’t recommend enough! While I grew up with Galaxy Squad & Space Police 3, I got really excited for these sets after hearing about all these other space themes that came before. As much as I like Lego Space though I really don’t like Star Wars at all & only have 1 set from the theme from 2013 & a few minifigures I find cool out of context. Really great video though! I really enjoyed it!
Funny to watch this just as they are releasing the new city space sets, a mix of city space and classic space
Well done video! I also hoped that you would mention aquazone, as that theme too felt very much like space!
There is definitely a lot of similarities! I'd love to discuss them and the abandoned Seatron concept someday.
As someone who grew up on Lego space in the 80's I truly miss the theme and would love to see even a small comeback, unlikely as that is. For now, I comfort myself that I missed out on a lot of sets as a kid, and now have the opportunity, through Bricklink, parts guides and instruction scans online, to slowly gather what I need to build the sets I missed. I print out the parts list, go through what I already own for as much as I can find, then order the remainder. In this way I'm slowly but surely moving towards a complete collection. (Save, of course, for being short on the figures due to the excessive prices for them these days.)
I love the space themes. I grew up with Space Police III I had multiple sets from the theme. I was so excited when they released the new Galaxy Explorer. I bought it recently and now I’m hoping they make more. I want to get ahold of the new Blacktron ship too. I’ve even delved into building the cancelled Seatron but it’s going to require custom parts. I eventually want to make Seatron real maybe even sell Seatron sets to fans like me.
Just got the updated Galaxy Explorer (2022) version myself after it was recommended by a lot of people as my first lego set. With how positively received the set was, I’m optimistic about Lego bringing back the space themed sets, but they haven’t really released new ones since.
After the Star Wars politics lately I want classic space back
When that Bionicle Heroes music kicks in 🤩
I just bought 12 Classic Space Men for only $25 AUD on eBay and I am SO EXCITED
Your arguments are exactly the reasons I've been staying patient for new LEGO Space stuff. Along with Pirates and Castle.
People need to promote better ideas for LEGO themes. I think that the last one that happened was actually the Star Sheriffs and the Space Skulls. Had people had more of a follow through with that idea, then I think that LEGO would have scratched that Space itch.
I love all the classic space lore, I didn’t have any of the sets but my friend had a handful of Ice Planet and some sort of -Tron sets growing up, the transparent windshields and ORANGE CHAINSAWS always were a joy to behold.
Very well done! 👏
I have some early 80's space windows and parts!
I grew up with Mars Mission and that is what most of my MOCs are based on. I enjoy Star Wars but I am getting to a point now where there's nothing really new in SW. I already have 2 X-wings, 3 TIE fighters, etc. original Lego space themes provide new stories and styles that SW doesn't.
And now we have a new Classic Space set, 10497 Galaxy explorer remake😀
I learned so much with this video. I never considered Rock Raiders to be a space theme. For me I practically worship anything pre Life on Mars.
Life on Mars was cool but it missed something of the charm from back in the day. Mars Mission while a departure from the traditional way of things I loved it the theme, the C&C game on legos website, the color scheme, the story, everthing I mean it basically was lego C&C. Had most of the sets.
Space Police III was by far my favorite (I grew up with it so duh). Had every set except the K-9 Bot and the Max Security Transport. Loved the color pallet, the aliens, everything!!!
Great video.
i just built the new recreated Galaxy Explorers, I never had any space legos, save for one small Space Police set with the squid guy. But now i've kind of become obsessed with classic space, and legos in general
This was a fantastic video. Please do more with other non licensed themes. Would love to see Adventures come back one day
It's sad that there are no recent Lego space themes. But I think space lives on in the hearts of fans. When I was a kid, my favorite thing to build was spaceships. I never got any Mars Mission sets or Alien Conquest, but my interest in those themes and space in general always had me building multi-colored starships.
Beautiful video. The space sets are, for me, the most iconic from Lego. Rock Raiders and Ice Planet are by far my favourite. Amazing video man.
After Exploriens they should have gone back to some of the earlier themes like Futuron and Blacktron and released new sets and waves for them. UFO and Insectoids didn't fit the shared universe of the Lego space factions. I really like all the factions from Classic Space to Exploriens. Being a kid in the early 90s it was great with so many space factions and I still collect them and make MOCs for those factions. I really miss 80s and 90s space and still remember the disappointment when Star Wars replaced in house space factions.
Cool video. Keep loving the space.
I still have 3 classic space sets of my dads, I really miss the late 90’s system sets I had as a kid.
"I could go on in detail about each individual faction for hours..."
PLEASE DO. I WANT to know what I missed out on. I love Star Wars as much as the next guy, but I WANT to know about Lego's Original sci-fi IPs. Especially the stuff from before my time (born early 1995).
Such a good video. I love the research in this. Well done
I like star wars and lego, but I never particularly cared about lego star wars, mostly because I grew up with the original lego space themes, which I always thought where more fun.
its making a bit of a comeback now with the new classic space revival ship
I think that the biggest problem with the original Space was lack of time invested. After the original launch lines, Lego never expanded on ANY of the sub themes. Especially after they killed off MTron. I originally had 4 of the main Space Police II sets (the Galactic Mediator I got in my 20s), pretty much all of the Ice Planet sets (except the Ice Sat V), Space Station Zenon (Unitron), the 2 smallest Spyrius sets (the small craft and the Saucer Centurion) along with the Robo Guardian, the Robo Raptor, the 3 smallest Exploriens sets, and the V Wing fighter was the last original Space System set I got (came bundled with a couple others in the lap table pack) after the 2 smallest Insectoids.
The problem? All of these sub themes were released within roughly 8 years. They never expanded on any of them. Like they do now with the themeless City sets, releasing a handful of new ones every year. Of course, they still pull the same crap with the themed City sets... Jungle, Arctic, Volcano, this year is Animal Rescue. They'll all be gone next year (still trying to get a chance on a Jungle Heavy Lift Helo at a good price to finish the collection). Of course people are going to be bored with the sets after the first year or so... they want new and different. They can't make money on a theme they don't continue to refresh or innovate in.
I love the Galaxy themed space sets. It's what got me into Lego in the first place even before I was struck by the Star Wars franchise/collectibles craze. Lol.
What happened to Lego Medieval theme as well?
Lego Space, Pirates, City and Castle is what I grew up with. Got my first set of El Dorado Fortress when I was like 8, that was in 1990, around Christmas. Then came the space Blacktron, Classic and Ice Planet, in a few following years...several smaller sets in between, including some racers and police from City as well as some smaller from the Castle, including that with the glowing ghost. Finally, Maybe at around 10 I got Merlin's Fire Breathing Fortress. Eh, memories...
The new Galaxy Explorer from 1979 has just been released.
And yet the Micro Galaxy Explorer is in high demand with people doing Pick a brick to make doubles now it's out of Print, Bennies Space Squad and the Build & Fix Garage get reprints every couple of years, the 90th anniversary vote saw Classic Space so popular it would have won if they didn't fold all the Castle Factions in together and we are still getting a update of the Galaxy Explorer later this year.
I've got pre-teen and tween nephews and nieces who cant take their eyes off my Classic Space sets and went wild when I got them the Benne sets. I think they could redo classic space but it would cut in to the release cycle and hurt other (Licensed) themes they have invested too much in to.
Seems like now there aren’t anymore “waves” of specific themes. It’s all one offs here and there. Like the ICONS theme has the huge castle set yet also the galaxy explorer. I’m for no more runs and more cool one offs of certain themes if they continue to do really cool stuff with it. I own the galaxy explorer. I think the set is truly awesome. Beds and cargo area in the back, a cockpit with 4 seats, classic space logos, the set is absolutely amazing. The castle looks awesome too. The Viking boat looks pretty cool. I think more one offs, not waves, of other sets to contend with these new ones they have, like an enemy Viking boat or another huge castle with different figures and logos to oppose the new castle would be the smartest next move.
I kind of wish lego star wars would die already. its over saturated the market so much that stores have entire isles dedicated to it
original Space police and ice planet are my favs. Used to play ice planet with my little brother all the time in our freezer to our parents devastation lol. I would love for some re-issues/remasters of those sets like Mtron and blacktron etc.
We will never die!
I remember really wanting a new Lego space theme in the six years between Life on Mars and Mars Mission, nowadays I find myself in a similar position, only I want more original themes in general
You missed aquazone, as that was a huge theme that was grouped with space, as well, due to its Sci fi theme.
Great production quality on this. Your interpretation of the color pallets and what they convey was really interesting.
But I'm loving the return of Space now in 2024. The City and CMF stuff is great. I got half of the CMF series and four of the City Space sets. And believe me, that is a lot more I have gotten in any single theme in decades.
The new sets coming in are great! I have bought a few myself and have also added to my spaceman minifigure collection.
Maybe Lego watched this video 👀 haha!
On reddit there is a tag where on the lego reddit witch there is a tag called "bring back classic space" so i think it might come back
You can make a blacktron astronaut by taking a darktrooper torso, Head, And adding black legs, Air tank, And black helm and visor, The head makes them look more like extra gear hidden underneath, I use some of our old 90s pieces to make my own old space builds! One i made to look like a stingray alien with a saddle and added tech, like the blacktron team is taking aliens and adding on machines to turn them into half ship half creature hybrids for space travel, And some white astronauts to free them, It's a nice little thing of my own imagination!
Yes! That is why I bought the mandalorian 'battlepack' 75324 - on sale of course!
lego starwars: exists
lego classic space: finaly a worthy opponent, our battle shall be L E G E N D E R Y ! ! !
The thing is ever since 2015, Disney has been pushing the Star Wars hype train nonstop. Trying to compete right now is futile when every other season there’s a new Star Wars show or movie or game now. I doubt we will see a proper space theme for a while.
I wouldn't say that LEGO Space is outright dead, it just doesn't have a place in LEGO's lineup now or, sadly, for the foreseeable future. One thing I've noticed that LEGO doesn't like to do is have their original themes compete with licensed themes when the franchise attached to the licensed theme is active. It's pretty obvious that this is what they're doing if you take a look at the release years of various original and licensed themes.
For Space, we had pretty much a constant run until Star Wars, ending with Life on Mars. Star Wars pretty much took over from 2001 to 2007, which is the timeframe where the three Star Wars prequel themes were released. In 2007, two years after Revenge of the Sith, LEGO started producing their own space themes again, starting with Mars Mission and ending with Galaxy Squad in 2013. Sure, Galaxy Squad and the theme before it, Alien Conquest, weren't exactly best-sellers, but that's never caused LEGO to kill off an entire overarching theme before. But after 2013, we had something significant happen for LEGO Star Wars - the release of The Force Awakens in 2015, which renewed the general public's interest in Star Wars.
Now, you might say "but why isn't space back now that the new trilogy has ended? That has to mean that LEGO just isn't interested in Space anymore! Star Wars killed LEGO Space!". Here's the thing - the new trilogy might be over, but Disney has consistently been releasing new Star Wars content since then in the form of secondary movies, streaming TV shows and cinematic miniseries. It's not like the ten-year gap between the prequels and sequels where the only major media release for Star Wars was the Clone Wars TV show. Should Disney decide to take a break from shoveling out Star Wars content, then maybe we'll see a new space theme. But right now, even if LEGO was dead-set on releasing a new Space theme, it wouldn't be a good business decision since it would end up being in direct competition - and completely overshadowed by - LEGO Star Wars.
The space guys coming back as plushes:ELLO
LEGO Space was the first time, when I was a little kid, where the first spark of imagination in my mind was truly lit, where simple plastic bricks could take me into a futuristic world of science fiction. I remember the first set that my parents got me, it was the 6880 Surface explorer, unique since it had the claws. From that moment they could tell I loved them and as a kid I got lots more sets, almost exclusively the Space themes which I loved. To me as a kid LEGO was all about the space sets, I never thought that the other theme sets were remotely interesting. It was really during the era of Space Police and the first generation of Blacktron that I slowly grew out of it. Eventually all my sets went into a box to my cousin. Honestly have no idea what happened to them after that.
But LEGO sparked my love of creation, and games like Minecraft, and especially Space Engineers certainly fed the same type of creative outlet. Guarenteed, that anyone who plays Space Engineers, no doubt also played with LEGO in their youth.
27:13 at least the professor is honest 🤣
also, can’t wait for what you have in store!
It’s been that long since the last LEGO Space theme? Wow, it weirdly feels like yesterday since I got my first Space Police sets in the 2000s.
I weirdly couldn’t get into the older Space sets due to me being a 2000s kid. But after seeing Benny in The LEGO Movie and his Classic Space related sets it really started to grow on me.
Also I’ve heard a Ultra Agents character appears in a Galaxy Squad set too. So I guess there’s another Space connection with that line.
Hope LEGO does their own new Space themes sometime soon.
Seeing what Lego is releasing in 2024 makes this video a bit obsolete. Lego Space is back! If you want to keep it that way then make sure you buy some of the new sets (for yourself or as gifts for others) to encourage Lego to continue the current trend.
Lego is dying a slow death in a way. They keep getting closer & closer to MPC models. More folks are using flat pieces over every lego nodule. That’s not how this works. Lego wanted to differentiate between MPC in the beginning. Now they are becoming MPC.
The new parts are not the problem, the problem, or should I say problems, are greed, the refusal to make classic LEGO parts, the refusal to make classic LEGO colors, the promotion of agenda peddling idiocy, the lack of advertising for good original themes, and lack of proper follow through for those original themes.
this was made before we got brown spaceman and space baby in the CMF series!
As much as I love Lego space I hope it remains dead. The older Lego space themes will always hold a very special place in my heart and my collection and they have a certain charm compared to other themes. Lego space feels like a bittersweet callback to a different time and this makes the occasional d2c or promo so much more memorable. As someone who was mostly around during the for the time of more story oriented Lego themes, Lego spaces general lack of direction in that sense made it so much more special. Me and my friends were able to build up our own world for our old stop motion series from the space sets, because of its lack of story, and it moved our imagination quite differently to Lego sets from more recently.
I never had my hands on a "Classic Space" box, but i had some Blacktron, M-Tron, every Space Police 2, Ice Planet, and few of the following boxes, till 1997. After that i stopped buying lego space...but...because there wasn't anything i liked to buy. I just starded looking is small shops if they had some old box remaining there from previous years...except some Star Wars ships, but that's not because SW was popular, just they were far better than the other options available...i also got "a few" Space Shuttles......till last month when i got a Galaxy Explorer (2022)...
I think the white classic spacemen were supposed to be astronauts, an the red ones cosmonauts
That Bionicle Heroes Theme started getting a little distracting 🤣
Pfftt, I love blacktron II.
That was a triumph!
You did an amazing job of overviewing Lego Space and it's different subthemes. Another video to consider would be a closer look at Classic Space. That larger theme has the subtle mes (or a precursor) hidden within it...
"uni"tron... From the name, I assume they intended to make a single faction that UNIted the other factions.
I miss classic space 😢
Imo, ufo, blacktron 1987, ice planet and space police 3 were the best space themes.