BrickLists by Novelty
"Space" set that best reflect its subtheme
This is a collaborative list between Biggy and Novelty. Between us, we decided to pick out the best and most iconic set in each Space subtheme (and a few other space related subthemes) that best reflect the spirit of that particular subtheme.
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1984 Castle Relaunch
This is a list of the eight 1984 Castle sets that re-"launched" the Castle theme. The new colour scheme of yellow (instead of the normal town blue) was chosen for the background of the sets, and many regional companies had competitions featuring castle sets and a trip to Legoland Billund as the grand prize around this time.
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Castle before there was a Castle theme
There were a number of castle sets released prior to the launch of the "Classic Castle" sets of 1984. These castle sets were part of the town sets as evidenced by the blue background on the boxes and instructions (instead of the more common yellow for the post 1984 sets). The yellow castle is the most well know set of the era, but there are a number of other sets as well.
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Castle Catapults
Watch the evolution of catapults in the castle theme!
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Castle cycles, an overview
This list gives an overview of each of the Castle cycles. It came about because in the latter years, each cycle consists only of one subtheme and Brickset sorts that out rather well, so there is no longer the need to create Bricklists for those later cycles.
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Classic Castle - the fifth cycle
The fifth cycle was a time when Lego was trying to compress its cycles and consequently only lasted about one and a half years. The cycle had the Fright Knights as the main focus.
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Classic Castle - the first cycle
1984 marks the relaunch of the Castle line from a Town subtheme to its own fully fledged theme. A list of the sets that formed part of the relaunch (with my comments) can be found in a separate list: http://brickset.com/bricklists/?75
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Classic Castle - the fourth cycle
The fourth cycle was a simple cycle in the mid 90s. Lego was beginning to shorten the cycle duration right about now, and the fourth cycle only lasted for about 2 years spanning 1995 and 1996. The cycle had the Royal Knights as the main focus and the Dark Forest as the Forestmen replacement.
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Classic Castle - the third cycle
Classic Castle theme (as opposed to the town subtheme before 1984) was launched with 8 sets in 1984 - see http://brickset.com/bricklists/?75 and was expanded in the first cycle - see http://brickset.com/bricklists/?156 . This cycle was defined by the Gold Lions vs the Black Falcons
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Classic Castle Modular wall sets
Classic Castle had walls with technic pegs that can be connected together to form larger wall structures. This is a list of the sets with the feature.
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Classic Castle, the second cycle
The 1984 relaunch http://brickset.com/bricklists/?75 introduced us to the world of Classic Castle (as opposed to the yellow castle which was part of Town subtheme). The new theme was fleshed out with sets over the next 3 years (1985 - 1987) http://brickset.com/bricklists/?156
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Exclusive Japanese World Cup 2002 Lego
Coca-Cola promotion in Japan to tie in with 2002 World Cup. Only available from Coca-Cola vending machines in Japan.
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Flagships of Lego Space
Bases, rovers, small jets, those are the mainstay of Lego Space, but almost every subtheme in Lego Space has a big spaceship!
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Going Postal!
The Lego Postal Service logo (a curvy horn) was introduced in 1982. These are some of the sets that has this logo.
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If you could only get one Castle set a year, you should get ...
This is basically a "Best Castle set of the Year" list, but it's not based on the design aesthetics. Fun and Playability are also included as criterion for selecting the sets that appears on this list.
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Lego Space "Impulse" from the 1980s and the 1990s
Before there were "Impulse" sets, there were these small sets in Lego Space. Each set featured a minifig with a small vehicle (usually). The set numbering started at 6801 and increased numerically (more or less) in the subsequent years. Note, promo mini-sets are not listed here.
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Lego Space "Midi Small" sets from the 80s and 90s.
These "small" sets were slightly larger than the "Small" and "Mini-Small" sets of my previous lists. The boxes for these sets were almost double the length of the small sets. The sets numbered in the 684x range and expanded to the 685x range in the 1990s with boxes that were more squarish.
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Lego Space "Small" sets
The small sets were slightly larger than the mini-sets and were started earlier than the mini-sets as well. The sets numbered in the 682x range and expanded to the 683x range in the 1990s.
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License Properties
There have been many licensed properties in the history of Lego which has been made into sets. This is a list of them! Note that other non-brick licensed properties (footware, apparel, video games, etc.) are not included in this list.
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List of Space Shuttles
NASA is planning on retiring its fleet of Space Shuttles in the next few years. Hopefully Lego will not be retiring its ideas for Space Shuttles.
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Movies with Lego sets
This is a list of movies (not in chronological order) that has Lego sets (not all sets are listed, only one set is listed per movie) where the sets are tied into the movie. It does not include sets with characters that has appeared in movies (e.g. Mickey Mouse). Some of these sets were released years after the movies were first shown (e.g. Star Wars Eps 4 - 6). Others were release at about the same time as the movie (e.g. Harry Potter).
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My top 10 Classic Space sets
This is my list of my top 10 classic space set that I own. There may be better sets out there and other sets may be regarded differently, but this list is arranged according to nostalgia, sentiment value, design and constructibility and playability.
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Personal Bricklist for Wadi Sudin
Sets that WS has purchased in the last month...
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Residential sets
The focus of Town and City sets of the late 1990s up till the present has been on "action" themes. However, a town is a lot more than just police stations and petrol stations. These sets are the houses required to build a real proper (minifig scale) town.
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Shell in Lego
The oil company Shell and Lego goes back a long way. There were Shell sets even before there was minifigs. The first sets were 325 and 491 (neither of which are available in this database). A Shell "subtheme" was launched with the minifigs in 1978. Even after "Octan" was introduced in the 1990s as the oil brand in Lego, Shell continued to produce special Lego sets, some of them with Shell's logo.
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Space Bases
This is a list of the large space bases. Besides the first base, all base has a building of some sort, a small buggy and a small jet.
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Space Larger Small sets
The space small sets were in the 6820-6839 range. The Larger small sets started in the 6841-6854 range.
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Space sets before there was a Space Theme.
The Space theme was introduced in 1978. However, before that there were a number of Space sets.
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Subthemes with 4 or less sets
Subthemes usually contains 5 sets or more. However, there are some (not so?) memorable subthemes with less than 5 sets. Below is a list (not a comprehensive list) of subthemes with 4 or less sets.
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Themes that have gone extinct, or do they still live on?
Over the years, many themes and even systems have stopped production for one reason or another. This isn't a list of all of them.
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There is nothing new under the Castle Sun!
We got all new Castle sets in 2010. But are they all new? Or have they been "recycled"?
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Trains in the various themes.
This is just a list of the various trains in the different themes. The monorails are not covered in this list.
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Underwater Adventure themes
Once upon a time, Seaquest DSV was rather popular and had a substantial following. Around the same time, Lego released underwater sets trying to find some medium of success. Sadly, none of those themes/subthemes survive to this day.
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