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Black and blue astronauts! With a small base set, since Galaxy Explorer is missing it.

Good work! It’s sorely missing actual Classic Space minifigs though, with an appropriate blue and trans-yellow backdrop

It does in fact jam a bit when turning by hand, but it gets worse when just putting the bare turntable in place (ie no crane arm parts or hoses at all) and using the motor to turn it. And of course it’s worse still when the entire crane is in place.

I brought the Arocs last weekend and have been building it, but the crane turntable is proving a real pig. I’ve rearranged all the hoses quite a few times and played around with the crane base build, but whatever I do, it seems to slip and grind when turning. It seems to turn quite easily by hand, and the drive train it connects to works very freely when the crane is removed, so I can’t work out what the issue is. Anyone able to help?

1. 6990 Monorail. Surely the pinnacle of Space sets? Sold my childhood copy for a knockdown price some years ago (to someone who took a bit of advantage IMHO), and now regularly myself for it. Still, I now have another one, and with 6921 and 6347 to boot. 2. 6932 Star Defender 200. A great and underrated set. Sleek, swooshable, and eyecatching. Will be modding this to fix some issues. 3. 6890 Blacktron Invader. As #2 4. 75192. It’s the Millennium Falcon. What else needs to be said? 5. Saturn V. A thing of beauty. 6. 10212 Imperial Shuttle Tyderium. So graceful and hardly looks like Lego. 7. 10300 Delorean time machine. Something I’d been waiting for a long time, specially given how poor the 2013 one was, and that Ecto-1, the 1989 Batmobile, etc, all got more love. 8. 10278 Mack Anthem. Great value and a fine display model. 9. 70816 Benny’s Spaceship. A modern version of a Classic Space set, a theme which doesn’t get nearly as much love as it should. Where’s our equivalent of Barracuda Bay or the rumoured 2022 Castle set?! 10. Last but certainly not least, Galaxy Explorer. The granddaddy!

Is there a list just of the extra parts you need to build this if you already have a V1 X-wing?

My V1 probably needs stripping down and redoing. ;) Anyone know if a lot of extra parts are needed to make V2 if you have the V1?

Do you have the 3k piece Cobi set? Would be interested to see how it measures up alongside this beast

Is that a Wicked Brick stand you’re using for 75218? Does it fit the Jerac design?

Are there instructions for this? How well do the motorised wings work? I remember seeing someone else’s attempt to motorise them and they had a problem with the motors not being powerful enough or the wings flopping down when lowering or being slow when raising. edit: Never mind, just seen your video. Still slow and quite jerky movement.

No grey spaceman?! (Torso was in one of the minifig waves)

It’s a shame that Lego never followed up on the Space Squad with a set containing a red, black, and a proper blue astronaut, perhaps with a slightly more elaborate mini build to compensate for the missing 4th astronaut figure. A ground vehicle perhaps?

I thought the stock head on Rexy left something to be desired, so after the stock build was finished, it was time for it to go to the chop shop. And a few hours later, Rexy has a new head! The tiles along the top of the head have been lowered to make the eye ridges more prominent, the sides of the upper jaw have been slimmed and curve towards the top of the snout, and the lower jaw has been rebuilt to get rid of the irritating grey piece and make it less square.

Yes, I saw that already, but I was really wondering if Powered Up, SBrick, etc would be a better bet than Power Functions, since that’s a couple of years old now

Thanks! Just looking for a fairly straightforward RC system (driving, steering, and maybe the crane and outriggers on the trailer) that I’ll occasionally use, so probably no need to get into complicated programming with the Powered Up stuff.

I’ve been toying with adapting my 42078 Mack to be R/C, but I’m not sure what to go with. Apparently Power Functions is being retired and replaced with Control+. Would it be better to use Control+ for better future proofing, or is Power Functions still good enough, have enough of a base, etc? And then there’s apparently a couple of third party options like buwizz and Sbrick. How do these compare to the Lego options for price, versatility, etc?

You travelled 3 weeks into the future to get it? ?

How did someone get so many of them?! At least Smyths had the wisdom to restrict them to one per click and collect order, which stopped opportunists from grabbing too many of them.

Just brought this set a few days ago and am thinking about mods. I’ve seen a lot of mods to motorise it or build some MOC trailers, but I’ve not seen any mods to give it a proper sleeper cab or address some other issues

Hmm, I think I’d have the landing pad plate to one side. That way you have two whole crater plates to make a continuous display for small vehicles and ships. Do you find that the different Space styles (classic, Futuron, Space Police, etc) work together? I had been thinking of just using classic space sets to fit with Bennys spaceship and the space squad, but after seeing the various sets together, they don’t look too bad.

Nice work, am planning something like this myself. Personally I’d turn the base plate on the right so the raised part isn’t separating the figures on either side, and maybe use some plates, slopes or quarter circle bricks to join the two base plates rather than the dark grey plate. Something like this:

Redbird, are you able to send me the instructions too? btw, do the landing gears on your shuttle fold up at all or are they fixed in place?

Thanks, I thought I’d seen some other threads on modding 10212 than this one!

Necrobump! scottishdave, did you ever get the landing gear to fold up? Just scored a cheapo 75094, and am looking at using it for parts to MOC an interior for 10212 and connect the cockpit and main body. Maybe even a boarding ramp...

I’m tempted to try the concept Bennys battle buggy design : https://images.app.goo.gl/rRU6jv92vfvXZnpu7 had the Classic space mobile rocket launcher as a kid, so the battle buggy hit a lot of nostalgia spots for me.