What could stir the heartstrings of LEGO Classic Space fans more than a motorized monorail? How about TWO monorails and an epic station bustling with intergalactic travelers? That’s just what  Martin.with.bricks delivers in this stunning diorama that combines Classic Space with modern techniques and minifigs at a truly epic scale.

A model this large and detailed is best appreciated up close, so let’s start by looking inside the terminal. Martin keeps to mostly bluish-gray surfaces using a mix of profile bricks and a modest amount of sci-fi texturing. For the station floors, road plates offer a smooth surface, perfect for a hover transport to glide across. Uniforms draw on the long history of LEGO Space, but with yellow heads and hands replaced with a diversity of human (and alien) skin tones. I love the inclusion of Ninjago cowls as futuristic headware.

Outside, we get a better look at the monorails. The white one is modeled on the original Futuron 6990 Monorail Transport with its symmetrical design. The elevated monorail in Classic Space colors utilizes roller coaster tracks. Martin fills out the diorama with additional vehicles, like a pair of speeders, and a mix of astronauts hard at work surveying this alien world. While most of the lifeforms on this planet seem harmless enough, the space worms don’t look very friendly.

The side of the station shows off more of Martin’s lovely and subtle brickwork, including the use of plates and tiles in all kinds of orientations to form the Classic Space logo. And what would a space diorama be without a rover?

Finally, a peek inside the speeder garage lets us fully appreciate Martin’s wonderful integrated lighting and photography skills.

The builder was unable to bring this creation to any conventions this year, but to get a sense of what that might have been like, he provides a video of the monorails in motion. Fingers crossed this amazing celebration of Classic Space will come to a LEGO event in the future.