When 70816 Benny’s Spaceship appeared a few years back, fans of Classic Space rejoiced because a) LEGO made an official Classic Space set! and b) it had a fantastic yellow cockpit windscreen piece which made a whole new slew of Classic Space MOCs possible. Joining their illustrious ranks is the LL-527 Rapier class fighter by […]
I’ve meant for some time to extend the scope of this blog by reviewing an official LEGO spaceship set. Well brace yourself because my first review is here and… it’s MEGA BLOKS! Join me as I embrace the evil empire…
This excellent Classic Space MOC by Bongobert successfully combines the essence of Classic Space (blue, grey, trans-yellow, bumblebee stripes) with a very modern aesthetic. I really like the engine pods with the reversed jet engine piece and the big flag; and the cockpit has a kind of insect-like attitude which looks particularly menacing as it hovers overhead. […]
I’m a fan of the unusual, that which defies convention. So I’ve always had a bit of a spaceship crush on the B-Wing fighter, as expertly built here in LEGO by Renegade Clone. X-Wings, Y-Wings and A-Wings are all really cool as well; but the B-Wing is different. It’s not a conventional swooshy plane-like shape; it flies on […]
When I first saw photos of one of the new LEGO Batman movie sets, 70909 Batcave Break-In, my eye was immediately drawn to the Batboat part of the set and the trans-yellow canopy, a recolour of the X-Wing canopy introduced last year for 75102 Poe’s X-Wing Fighter. “That will come in handy for a Classic Space […]
This LEGO Starfighter by Faber Mandragore is the visual equivalent of a punch in the face! I love the two huge, brutal side engines and the big, somewhat ugly cockpit section. The whole thing looks functional and entirely no-nonsense; like a mean right hook to the jaw. The colour scheme is also spot on, primarily light […]
When the International Space Station was first designed, the plan was for a crew of seven astronauts to be permanently based in orbit. The necessity to transport them swiftly back to earth in the event of an emergency led to the development of the Crew Return Vehicle or CRV, a seven-man lifeboat that that could […]
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that Martin Latta bought set 8075 Neptune Carrier, took it all to bits and decided to make a red spaceship! He’s used the big round fairings (actually I think parts for a cement mixer, originally) as engine pods, put the technic panels as wings and stuck […]
I’ve been working on a project myself with some tricky angles and I’ve been wasting a lot of time trying to get it all fitting together just right so there’s no nasty gaps or seams. Sometimes it feels like an uphill struggle – like who really cares; but then you see something like this great yellow […]
The British sci-fi TV series Blake’s 7 was made on a minuscule budget, and was therefore once forced to feature a spaceship made by gluing two hairdryers together. This was the first thing I thought of when confronted by BobDeQuatre‘s latest build, the Ares 3; and it’s unfair because whilst the hairdryer ship is completely […]
Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship! 