Introduce Yourself in 4 Starships

[TristramEvans]

 

[Fenris-77]

 

[thebigh]

 

[Silverlion]

 

[TristramEvans]

nice to see the Gunstar getting so much love

 

[ffilz]

 

[TristramEvans]

That bad boy was my first lego set...in like '82 or '83

 

[ffilz]

That bad boy was my first lego set...in like '82 or '83

I didn't get it until 2000 when a kid I had bought some sets from asked me if I wanted to buy the rest of his collection un-reconstituted. I said sure, and that set, the Blacktron one, and the M-Tron one dropped out. My first Deep Freeze Defender I found at a thrift shop. I'm big into Blacktron and Ice Planet, well, not that I've built any recently... I also have the two modern "classic" space ships (Benny's Space Cruiser from The Lego Movie and the new Galaxy Explorer).

Lots of fun. I do need to get back into building some Space...

 

[TristramEvans]

There's a guy who does Warhammer 40K proxies of the original Lego spacemen, I should see if I can still find that...might have been Titanforge...

 

[TristramEvans]

It was Scibor miniatures...

 

[Vile Traveller]

 

[Simon Hogwood]

 

[bleys21]

Oooh! Ok, lets try these:

 

[Sharrow]

 

[Nobby-W]

This

 

[TristramEvans]

lol, what game am I looking at there?

 

[JAMUMU]

 

[Nobby-W]

lol, what game am I looking at there?

Kerbal Space Program

 

[Bunch]

That bad boy was my first lego set...in like '82 or '83

I didn't get it until 2000 when a kid I had bought some sets from asked me if I wanted to buy the rest of his collection un-reconstituted. I said sure, and that set, the Blacktron one, and the M-Tron one dropped out. My first Deep Freeze Defender I found at a thrift shop. I'm big into Blacktron and Ice Planet, well, not that I've built any recently... I also have the two modern "classic" space ships (Benny's Space Cruiser from The Lego Movie and the new Galaxy Explorer).

Lots of fun. I do need to get back into building some Space...

I never got passed the blue space ships. When they switched it lost some of it's luster for me. I bought Benny's ship when it came out because it was perfect!

Dad dropped off my old Legos and I'm slowly rebuilding sets. I rebuilt the yellow castle and was happy to find 99% of the pieces!

 

[ffilz]

I never got passed the blue space ships. When they switched it lost some of it's luster for me. I bought Benny's ship when it came out because it was perfect!

Dad dropped off my old Legos and I'm slowly rebuilding sets. I rebuilt the yellow castle and was happy to find 99% of the pieces!

Oh nice. I had drifted away from Lego by the time the space and castle sets came out. I had some Lego as a kid, including one of the first train sets but not very much.

I did get the yellow castle in a cool way. I found it on eBay for a reasonable buy it now price. The seller lived about an hour away and was an adult fan. He delivered it to me and joined our disperse group of fans in North Carolina.

 

[Necrozius]

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[JAMUMU]

I love the fact that the Liberator has turned up a couple of times. I deliberated over including it, but felt that the Button Moon spaceship was more important.

 

[dragoner]

 

[dragoner]

I love the fact that the Liberator has turned up a couple of times. I deliberated over including it, but felt that the Button Moon spaceship was more important.

Liberator, Red Dwarf, Eagle, etc, there are a ton

 

[Nobby-W]

I never got passed the blue space ships. When they switched it lost some of it's luster for me. I bought Benny's ship when it came out because it was perfect!

Dad dropped off my old Legos and I'm slowly rebuilding sets. I rebuilt the yellow castle and was happy to find 99% of the pieces!

What are these 'sets' you speak of?

 

[Nobby-W]

I love the fact that the Liberator has turned up a couple of times. I deliberated over including it, but felt that the Button Moon spaceship was more important.

It is still my intention to include a spaceship in my 'verse that looks like the liberator, but moves the opposite way around.

 

[JAMUMU]

It is still my intention to include a spaceship in my 'verse that looks like the liberator, but moves the opposite way around.

Like the story I heard that originally the Starship Enterprise was supposed to be upside down!

 

[Agemegos]

What are these 'sets' you speak of?

My eldest great-nephew has come into possession of what used to be my Lego, and is enjoying some Lego archaelogy in figuring out what "sets" I dumped into my box of bricks in the early Seventies, downloading the old instructions from the Internet, and building the toys. There is an Apollo lunar lander in there, a vintage car, and a police-station play-set with a helicopter. But most of the pieces date from an era when Lego was "a new toy every day".

The lunar lander I had was much simpler than the one they sell now, and the source of most of my blue bricks.

 

[Nobby-W]

My eldest great-nephew has come into possession of what used to be my Lego, and is enjoying some Lego archaelogy in figuring out what "sets" I dumped into my box of bricks in the early Seventies, downloading the old instructions from the Internet, and building the toys. There is an Apollo lunar lander in there, a vintage car, and a police-station play-set with a helicopter. But most of the pieces date from an era when Lego was "a new toy every day".

The lunar lander I had was much simpler than the one they sell now, and the source of most of my blue bricks.

I can't recall ever intentionally building a Lego set from the instructions back in my misspent youth. Pretty much everything was just built based on whatever I felt like making at the time. We're just introducing the spawn to Lego now.

 

[Picaroon Jack]

 

[Silverlion]

I love the White Star, but I didn't think to include it! Aargh. Also, I'd add the original Cylon Fighters and Colonial Vipers. But to be honest I just love starships.

 

[Raleel]

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I loved this book so fucking much. I recently went on an expedition to find it again. dragoner ’s first was one of my favorites, as well as the far one that looks a shirt on like Serenity.

 

[Sharrow]

My eldest great-nephew has come into possession of what used to be my Lego, and is enjoying some Lego archaelogy in figuring out what "sets" I dumped into my box of bricks in the early Seventies, downloading the old instructions from the Internet, and building the toys. There is an Apollo lunar lander in there, a vintage car, and a police-station play-set with a helicopter. But most of the pieces date from an era when Lego was "a new toy every day".

The lunar lander I had was much simpler than the one they sell now, and the source of most of my blue bricks.

As kids my sisters and I had lots of random lego pieces and also a big set - a lunar base and larger spacecraft. I've no idea where that all is now. Somewhere in the stuff at my parents' or given away I assume.

 

[Sharrow]

I loved this book so fucking much. I recently went on an expedition to find it again. dragoner ’s first was one of my favorites, as well as the far one that looks a shirt on like Serenity.

All those books were very common in NZ until say 10-15 years ago, except Starliners. I think they may have dumped all the remaindered stock into the Australasian market. I never owned them as a child, though my friends and one of the school libraries had them, so I collected them in the early 2000s.

I thought about putting a couple of my favourite EVE Online ships in there, but as I've not touched the game for years that didn't seem right, and as I just loved Spacecraft 2000 to 2100AD I went with that instead. And now I realise that we are way behind on getting these ships building.

 

[Raleel]

All those books were very common in NZ until say 10-15 years ago, except Starliners. I think they may have dumped all the remaindered stock into the Australasian market. I never owned them as a child, though my friends and one of the school libraries had them, so I collected them in the early 2000s.

You can find the PDFs pretty easily nowadays. Giant nostalgia bomb. That and the (I think) time life books with alien life that had the venusuvians that would hop back and forth on their feet because the surface was hot

 

[chuckdee]

Serenity (Firefly) - Tachi/Rocninante (The Expanse)
BT-7 Thunderclap (SWTOR) - Stormhawk Interceptor (W40k)

I've always liked gunship-sized boats - ones that can hit hard, hit precisely, and get out of there. But I've always liked the idea of a crew working together on the boat rather than single person jobs. The only one that doesn't really fit like the others is the Serenity... but it's the Serenity!

 

[Bunch]

I know two of mine as bookends but I'm still trying to narrow down the other two.

The ship from Space 1999 is my childhood.
Rocinante is my current jam.

 

[Telok]

Wallace & Grommit moon rocket. Traveller subsidized trader. 2001. Cassini-Huygens (because Saturn & Titan are too cool to pass up).

 

[Bunch]

I loved this book so fucking much. I recently went on an expedition to find it again. dragoner ’s first was one of my favorites, as well as the far one that looks a shirt on like Serenity.

There is an updated version put out by Morrigan Press for use alongside their Terran Trade Authority RPG(still just an art/story book no game stats). However the art is updated to computer art. It's ok but loses some of the original appeal