Set Name: Exclusive Spaceman Magnet
Set# : 2855028 / 4611606
Parts: 8
Price: Comes as a gift with a purchase over 55 EUR through Shop@Home & LEGO Stores
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I have just returned to my summer cottage after 3 days in Hamburg.
I made sure to visit the LEGO Store and bought the Space Shuttle
As a gift, they gave me this magnet.
Front of bag:
The polybag is by now a classic way for TLG to pack their promotionals and give-aways.
I like the spacey look of this one and being saluted by a white spaceman always feel good.
Rear of polybag:
All the usual multilanguage warnings on not to eat this and not to ram it down the throat of kids less than 3 years old. Plus it says that the parts are made in Denmark & China
Inventory:
8 Parts as it says on the polybag front:
Helmet, classic head, airtanks, torso, legs, 1x2 dark bluish gray plate, printed 2x4 black tile & magnet brick.
The arms have the China imprintings and the all the white parts (except the helmet) look a little odd-white.
It's not as shiny as the regular LEGO white, but it could be that TLG has introduced a new plastic mix to prevent cracks and tears?
The helmet is very shiny, but has some flaws, which I'll later explain.
Not much to say about the dark bluish gray parts, except that they're... well... parts
Which brings us to:
This baby
Perfect print, perfect logo and perfect catch-line - a WINNER!
Now back to the helmet:
The helmet is the new one - the classic one died ages ago and wont be back as it had a tendence to crack and bend.
So please no complaints - with the new rules on toys and TLG's own quality control, the old one would never have gone into production today.
I have a few dislikings to the new one though
The mold line is clearly visible on top of the helmet - which is unacceptable in my opinion.
TLG does a great job of hiding mold lines and push-out marks.
This isn't good enough considering their skills and know-how.
The visor holes and the sinking of the visor into the helmet looks awfully, I wish they'd do a helmet without punch-holes.
All in all, I still think this is a great magnet and I'll definately try to get as many as possible to keep mint in own personal MISB Vault - which really isn't that big yet - actually it holds mostly polybags and a few regular sets
"...in space since 1978"