Fan-designed Space sets due from LEGO Factory in April 2008 [News]
You heard me right, Spacers! (Space!)
Here’s the description on LEGO.com:
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1-Touchdown!
Get ready for Space when fan-designed LEGO Factory Space Exclusives launch.
Help the Star Justice or Space Skulls crews gear up for battle!
Star Justice and Space Skulls, huh? Intriguing, no? :-D
February 26th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Holy crap. Wow.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:15 am
This opens up the tantalizing possibilities of building an army of new space minifigs through Pick A Brick, yes?
February 26th, 2008 at 8:43 am
What Shadowviking said. While Chris Giddens did some very nice PCS micros in Factory 1.0, I don’t think those were ever updated. And what would be super-cool would be if this were accompanied by some spacey expansion of the Factory parts palette.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:48 am
With any luck, the pricing won’t be too high. This may just be another S@H PaB palette.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:20 am
“Space Skulls?” I may be a castle fan but I know 3vil when I hear it…
February 26th, 2008 at 9:33 am
I really like the silhouetted shape of that ship… If it truly is a fan-designed line, here’s to hoping it’ll get back to something more like Space Police and Blacktron and less like Life On Mars.
m19
February 26th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Hmm, Justice? Skulls? Chris? Mark?
February 26th, 2008 at 10:29 am
YES YES YES!
THANK YOU LEGO PLEASE MARRY ME.
(Caps Lock for emphasis)
February 26th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I wonder if the death of Exo-Force will open the door for fan created mecha as well?
or
Omicron weekend set 10999 with 20000 pieces shipped in a wooden crate. Ages 21
February 26th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Some Sandlin and Giddens creations would rock…
Something tells me we won’t see a Spiff Craft though…
:-(
February 26th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Forgive for being an ignorant castler, but what subtheme are we assuming is “Star Justice”? I’d love to see some Galactic Inquisition or Iron Reich sets.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
It’s about time lego let the fans makes buyable sets! Now all they need to do is let the people on this blog make some MECHA SETS and evrethig will be perfect.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
@Bruce N H: That would be the Star Rangers.
http://pre.classic-space.com/?p=PCS
GI and IR sets would be killer, but they’re based on pretty non-kiddy ideas- Nazis and Religious Extremists- so, if sets were to be produced of them, they probably wouldn’t have much “flavour” and would just end up being “Space Guys in white” and “Space guys in grey”.
Star Rangers and 3vil, on the other hand, are already the stereotypical “Good guys in white” and “bad guys in black and red with skulls”.
At least, that’s how it seems to me…
February 26th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
So I assume that these will only be available through LEGO Shop @ Home and will not appear in stores?
February 26th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
I’m not sure if I’m supposed to leak this info or not, but the Space Skulls are skull-shaped things that vaguely reminded me of “black fantasy”. I know one of them had the black tentacles, anyway. There are pictures of at least two of the models in the new issue of BrickJournal – there might have been more, but I was only skimming Joe Meno’s copy and he wanted to show it to a few other people too. I didn’t see any of the “Star Justice” things (another space-age cops-and-robbers thing? Haven’t we had enough RoboForce/Space Police/Space Police II/Star Wars…), but I might have just missed them.
It’s no classic space, anyway, but at least we’ll be seeing some new parts in the Factory selection.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
They will most likely appear in LEGO Brand Stores.
And I think the bigger news is going over most heads. It means they will be adding new bricks to the factory.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Finally an original space theme, and fan-created at that! Sounds interesting enough, if only for parts.
But wow, they could really use some better faction names.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I am thinking: Why them? Their themes are not the best. Yes they are both good builders, but ya know, give someone else a chance, not two people have already have it all.
Decius
February 26th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I hope that LEGO incorperates some type of SNOT, because I would really like to see some of legoloverman’s styles http://www.flickr.com/photos/38509565@N00/
February 26th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I hope that somehow LEGO incorperates SNOT into their creations, I would really like to see some of Legoloverman’s space styles, just probably not as detailed considering the limits of some LEGO creations.http://flickr.com/photos/38509565@N00/
February 26th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Gnarly.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
srry I posted twice, at first my post didn’t show up, so I did it again.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
They should hire me to make some sets, I’ll bring back Ice Planet! :)
February 26th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Sweet! Yay for new space. Now I know what to ask for for my birthday!
February 27th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Hmmmm, April…someone trying a early April Fools? If not, cooooool.
February 27th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Naw, LEGO’s not that cruel… right?
February 27th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Lego giveth brick, and she taketh away… even in the design process.
February 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
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