[Poll] What is Your Favorite Space Faction (1978-1999)

[SpacePolice89]

What is your favorite Space faction? This is a multiple choice question. I know it is difficult to choose because they are all great but try to choose your very favorites.

[Murdoch17]

Classic Space and Blacktron 1 for me!

[SpacePolice89]

Futuron, Space Police 1, M-Tron and Unitron.

[DelQuinn]

Classic Space, Futuron (which feels like an evolution of Classic Space) and the original Blacktron

[JesseNight]

For me it's pretty much everything up to M-Tron. Each theme was unique and good in its own ways.
BT2 and SP2 weren't bad, but I wasn't a fan of BT2's cockpit approach and I found the SP2 sets disappointing. Nice on the outside, but seriously lacking detail on the inside.
I will add Ice Planet to my favorites list, that was once again a unique theme that appealed to me.
After that, themes began to be more confusing to me, lacking that unity that the previous ones had. And lacking big motherships (except for Exploriens), which was my primary appeal to Space to begin with.

Edited September 26, 2024 by JesseNight

[Jack Sassy]

Classic Space, Blacktron 1 and Ice Planet. To me, these cannot be rivaled. 

[Yperio_Bricks]

Can anyone see the results without voting? It never works for me. When i klick on 'show results' it just loads indefinitely.

[SpacePolice89]

6 hours ago, Yperio_Bricks said:

Can anyone see the results without voting? It never works for me. When i klick on 'show results' it just loads indefinitely.

Same here, I click "submit vote" when I vote and then I automatically see the results. If I click "show results" without voting it doesn't work for me either.

 

 

If I had to rank all these factions I would put them into groups.

1. Favorite factions: Futuron, Space Police 1, M-Tron and Unitron (the ones I voted for)

2. Factions I like very much: Classic Space, Blacktron 1, Blacktron 2, Space Police 2, Ice Planet 2002, Spyrius and Exploriens

3. Factions I like: Roboforce

4. Factions I have little or no interest in: UFO and Insectoids

Edited September 27, 2024 by SpacePolice89

[Tom_Brick]

It's in large parts down to nostalgia. What did you play with as a kid.
Of course I selected multiple themes, but my favourite has to be Space Police I. It had the coolest ships. I had both the Mission Commander and the SP-Striker and both of them were some of the best ships they ever designed. I also had lots of Classic Space stuff. My parents bought them used and those were my very first Legos. So I also really appreciated those. Whereas Space Police had the coolest ships, M-Tron had the coolest land vehicle in the Mega Core Magnetizer. But the Particle Ioniser was also nice. I didn't like the Stellar Recon Voyager though. While it had some cool play features, it just looked ugly as sin. So that was one of the models I quickly took apart to build my own stuff. Unfortunately, I never had any Blacktron I. Looking at it in hindsight, those were some awesome sets. I also liked Blacktron II though. Ice Planet was a really cool concept, I liked the idea and the colour scheme, but none of the models were really inspiring. I didn't like Space Police II very much. While the sets were all right (not nearly as good as Space Police I though), the colour scheme was ugly.

During Covid, I unpacked all of my old Legos, disassembled them, put the bricks into the washing machine and then reassembled them.

[Artanis I]

Blacktron I had the coolest minifigs & colour scheme, but all of them up to the mid 90s were great.

[RenLUG - Central Florida]

M:Tron. Magnets rock, plus my name starts with an M, so clearly they would be the coolest for me.

[SpacePolice89]

7 hours ago, Tom_Brick said:

It's in large parts down to nostalgia. What did you play with as a kid.
Of course I selected multiple themes, but my favourite has to be Space Police I. It had the coolest ships. I had both the Mission Commander and the SP-Striker and both of them were some of the best ships they ever designed. I also had lots of Classic Space stuff. My parents bought them used and those were my very first Legos. So I also really appreciated those. Whereas Space Police had the coolest ships, M-Tron had the coolest land vehicle in the Mega Core Magnetizer. But the Particle Ioniser was also nice. I didn't like the Stellar Recon Voyager though. While it had some cool play features, it just looked ugly as sin. So that was one of the models I quickly took apart to build my own stuff. Unfortunately, I never had any Blacktron I. Looking at it in hindsight, those were some awesome sets. I also liked Blacktron II though. Ice Planet was a really cool concept, I liked the idea and the colour scheme, but none of the models were really inspiring. I didn't like Space Police II very much. While the sets were all right (not nearly as good as Space Police I though), the colour scheme was ugly.

During Covid, I unpacked all of my old Legos, disassembled them, put the bricks into the washing machine and then reassembled them.

You have some fantastic sets there!

[TeddytheSpoon]

As mentioned this so often comes down to good old nostalgia, so I don't have too many strong opinions on most of the 'classic' era of space sets (my collection started with the Life on Mars sets, which were great!). That said, the only themes I found myself wishing for sets from when looking through old catalogs were M-Tron and Ice Planet, and my brother and I even found some IP2002 sets at a flea market once. So they get my vote.

[Feuer Zug]

Classic space, Futuron, and SP1.

[Murdoch17]

So far, it seems M-Tron is fourth, Futuron is in third, Ice Planet 2002 is in second, and (surprising nobody) Classic Space is in first.

 

I'm kinda shocked IP2002 is in second, actually... I would have thought it would have been lower. But then again, transparent orange chainsaw is a meme after all so maybe it has more fans than I thought!

Edited September 30, 2024 by Murdoch17

[SpacePolice89]

9 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

So far, it seems M-Tron is fourth, Futuron is in third, Ice Planet 2002 is in second, and (surprising nobody) Classic Space is in first.

 

I'm kinda shocked IP2002 is in second, actually... I would have thought it would have been lower. But then again, transparent orange chainsaw is a meme after all so maybe it has more fans than I thought!

It was also a surprise to me that Ice Planet is second but it's actually a very special subtheme with many cool innovations and a great color scheme so it's understandable. I would've guessed Blacktron 1 as being in second place but it's nice to see a support for so many different factions. I also thought that Spyrius would've been higher up with all the huge robots that they have. 

[Tom_Brick]

On 9/27/2024 at 7:44 PM, SpacePolice89 said:

You have some fantastic sets there!

Cheers. They certainly brought back memories when I reassembled them.

10 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

I'm kinda shocked IP2002 is in second, actually... I would have thought it would have been lower. But then again, transparent orange chainsaw is a meme after all so maybe it has more fans than I thought!

Same here. As I said, I really loved the Ice Planet concept when it came out, but the sets themselves were average at best, except for the Ice Station Odyssey I guess. 

[Autumn]

Futuron. Me and my brother when we were little use to populate starships with crews with ranks based on suit colours.. Had lots of fun with them. I wish TLG would make reissues including new colours similar to how they do with CS astronauts.

[SpacePolice89]

4 hours ago, Autumn said:

Futuron. Me and my brother when we were little use to populate starships with crews with ranks based on suit colours.. Had lots of fun with them. I wish TLG would make reissues including new colours similar to how they do with CS astronauts.

There is the green one from City and the orange one from build a minifigure. I would've preferred the original simpler torso design but these still look fantastic and I like them very much.

 

[Operacion Saturno]

I think Lego Space reached a peak ar M:Tron, The magnet pieces were used widely through the 90s and the introduction of trans Neon green color was reused in other themes after M:Tron was discontinued.

[Artanis I]

16 hours ago, Autumn said:

Futuron. Me and my brother when we were little use to populate starships with crews with ranks based on suit colours.. Had lots of fun with them. I wish TLG would make reissues including new colours similar to how they do with CS astronauts.

If you have access to a laser printer and some sticky tape, you can make your own like I have:

Clearly the greatest limitation is the airtanks (which I've much ignored) followed by the helmet. In addition to these guys here, I have a bright green one sitting waiting only for his print, a coral that also lacks appropriate hands, a neon yellow also needing legs and hands, a brown WITHOUT A HELMET TLG!, and there's also a pearl grey helmet without any matching parts.

[Autumn]

19 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said:

There is the green one from City and the orange one from build a minifigure. I would've preferred the original simpler torso design but these still look fantastic and I like them very much.

 

Yeah, I do know about those. Should have mentioned that I'm annoyed by the inconsistency because each one is different, including the Space Police CMF:

Would be nice if they settled on one and made a bunch more colours.

7 hours ago, Artanis I said:

If you have access to a laser printer and some sticky tape, you can make your own like I have:

Clearly the greatest limitation is the airtanks (which I've much ignored) followed by the helmet. In addition to these guys here, I have a bright green one sitting waiting only for his print, a coral that also lacks appropriate hands, a neon yellow also needing legs and hands, a brown WITHOUT A HELMET TLG!, and there's also a pearl grey helmet without any matching parts.

I used to do that sometimes when I was little! I've heard slide decals can look better which I've wanted to give a go as well.

[Artanis I]

That's effectively what these are - you print the image onto standard paper, but then transfer it onto the tape in water, and apply that. Way cheaper than using decal 'paper' and still pretty good results (doesn't matter if you mess it up either). The hard part is matching the print to the minifig colour in Photoshop etc. Drawback being that you can't print white!

[GeoBrick]

I went with the mainstays (CS, Blacktron I, Futuron), mainly for the nostalgia factor and Futuron's monorail  set and visored helmets.

And a surprise vote for UFO. I was already too old when those came around, but the alien pilots and saucer-like spaceships simply appealed to me.

 

[Autumn]

5 hours ago, Artanis I said:

That's effectively what these are - you print the image onto standard paper, but then transfer it onto the tape in water, and apply that. Way cheaper than using decal 'paper' and still pretty good results (doesn't matter if you mess it up either). The hard part is matching the print to the minifig colour in Photoshop etc. Drawback being that you can't print white!

You might have to explain that a bit better. You apply it to the tape in water, then to the minifig? Won't it still be wet? How does it dry?