Showing posts with label classic space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic space. Show all posts

Sunday 8 July 2018

Lego UFO 6975; Alien Avenger: *Insert War of the Worlds joke here*

Light bricks? Giant single pieces? Magnets? Packaging and marketing that promotes breaking the sets and building what you want without it being implied?! What kind of world have we walked into? Welcome to Lego UFO, a subline of what many now call Classic Space, adding an evil alien faction to that world. This was right before Star Wars took the throne of the main Space theme, and ushered in an era where space sets were focused more on combat rather than exploration. This was a time where sets didn't need to have something actually fire, and that time where children having greater access to technology wasn't at a point where they're born with a phone in their hand, so companies could afford adding more gimmicks to their toys. It's time for us to see some of the dangers the great unknown has for us.