Those webbed radar dishes are great.

Of all the classic space figures I’ve gotten, I find my white ones are the most goldless. And not because I have a greater sampling size, as I have way more red ones.

@PurpleDave said:
" @legodachi:
You’re going to let the lack of a stud on the backblast shield stop you?"

That's where the rocket was mounted

Sounds a little 'sis' to me...

You know, I have a feeling that this will follow My Dad as the next meme RSotD set...

Colors don't seem right on this one--not quite grey with trans-green and trans-red, but not really grey and blue with trans-yellow, either. But hey, Classic Space is Clasic Space (and the second in a week, no less!) and I'm always happy to see that!

By the time this went on sale I had dozens of Town sets and like six Space ones, most of those probably having been birthday gifts. 6844 was one of those, though my copy doesn't have the earlier type of "finger hinge" shown in the artwork.

Since the Batmobile is driven by Batman, I can only assume the Sismobile has Sisman in the driver’s seat

@brick_r said:
"Cool, a "Lunar Zamboni"...though I wonder: how hard is it to play hockey with little to zero "G"...:) "

Damn, I love Canadians!

Looks more like a sniffmobile on the hunt for those space truffles.

Sis or cis?

@brick_r: I can't see or hear the name Zamboni" without thinking about the movie Deadpool. "You're about to be killed... by a Zamboni!" "Tell me where your [censored] boss is, or you're going to die... in five minutes!"

@Binnekamp: I hadn't even noticed the hinge until you pointed it out. The inventory ("obtained from Rebrickable.com") lists the two-finger/three-finger design you mentioned. Are you sure that the hinge shown in the picture wasn't a prototype whose design was changed (possibly because the connection was deemed too weak) before the set was actually produced? Shame Bricklink's still down, or I could double-check there.

@TheOtherMike 6950 Rocket Transporter also had them (look closely at the satellite at the rocket's tip). I'm not sure if all copies of this set had them, but it was a released part and I'm sure it also appeared in here for real.

And yeah... Bricklink being down is a problem.
It's listed at Peeron for what it's worth.
http://peeron.com/inv/sets/6844-1

The nemesis of the Down With Cis bus.

@TheOtherMike said:
"I miss the old metal detector element. I wonder why they felt the need to remove two connection points?"

I prefer the old one personally, but the new version is probably more immediately identifiable as "oh, this is supposed to be a metal detector" out of context. Those connection points are pretty big relative to the disc and make it look less like the flat disc it's supposed to represent.

@ ThatBionicleGuy in United Kingdom

Regarding yesterday: I was joking. I am missing the motorcycle from 6384, that is the one you should return.

;)

@MeisterDad:
Other colors had a white base layer when the gold eventually wore off. It could be the fact that the white layer isn’t visible against a white torso, or it could be that the white torso doesn’t require the base layer underneath, and that could be like painting without primer.

@legodachi:
No, the bar goes over the shoulder, and the rocket mounts to the stud at the other end. Launch a rocket from the plate at an angle like that, and the poor Spaceman would be doing backwards somersaults in zero-G.

@Binnekamp:
When I was compiling the numbers (probably to post in a previous Classic Space RSotD), if it didn’t have a windscreen, I counted that as whatever color scheme it fit within, even if it didn’t fill out the entire range of colors. There are bases that clearly match one color scheme, with micro-craft that lean towards a different one. I had 6930 as a kid. The base basically matches the proto-Futuron color scheme, with white/blue/trans-blue, but three of the vehicles match the light-grey/trans-green color scheme, and the fourth only fails in having a single trans-red 1x1 round plate with no trans-green. I tried to rank the components more than the entire set, so that would count as both. I’m not concerned about a single warning light falling outside the color scheme where the messy array of Classic Space is concerned, but most subsequent themes only break their color schemes for stuff like navigation beacons, tires, etc.

Given the number of variations on the naming of this set (and many others), would it be possible to add an AKA (also known as) section in the set database to include the many different names used in other regions?

What the heck is a sismobile?

@Binnekamp: I sometimes forget Peeron even exists, so didn't think to look there.

@Andrusi: You have a point that the new one looks more realistic. But still, removing connection points is removing connection points.

@Blockwork_Orange: There is such a section, but it doesn't always show up. And sometimes, there will be, but it just repeats the name the set's listed under. 6872, for instance. Which, incidentally, was also known as Lunar Patrol Craft. My copy had that name. Bricklink (if they ever get it running again) also lists alternate titles.

@Binnekamp said:
"I just looked through the instructions of this set last night. Those round bricks in the middle are a fun detail.

@ra266 Classic Space didn't have one specific color scheme. Some were recurring, but after the start of the theme blue, gray or white often dominated over the others. Combinations often occured, and as PurpleDave will no doubt repeat today, a percentage of sets can not quite be nailed down to one specific color scheme.
In my opinion the small sets can barely be classified in the first place as you don't get windscreens. There probably was no rhyme or reason for the colors used.
"

Yeah, my point was just that there was enough rhyme and reason that when one doesn't fit, it kinda sticks out. But yes, there were a lot of exceptions, that's for sure.

@Binnekamp said:
" @TheOtherMike 6950 Rocket Transporter also had them (look closely at the satellite at the rocket's tip). I'm not sure if all copies of this set had them, but it was a released part and I'm sure it also appeared in here for real."

It's possible that North American and/or later copies of 6950 were different. Mine has the 2/3-finger hinges. It's easily one of my favorite sets ever.

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"Kopaka shield!

...like almost two decades before Kopaka even existed, of course. I knew the shield piece was older than it's use on him, but I didn't realise quite how much so."

There are at least two major variants of that part. On the old one, a 2x2 connection attached to the bottom could actually turn freely, as the antistud connection was a 2x2 circle around a 1x1 circle. The newer version, which I believe still predates Kopaka, had adjusted the antistud connection so the 2x2 circle looked more like one of those Mario bases, being a square with rounded corners. It was aligned with the 2x2 studs above, so they couldn’t rotate out of grid anymore.

@TheOtherMike:
Peeron still exists, but it becomes increasingly less useful. Once some of their meticulously compiled data started becoming available elsewhere, they stopped updating the inventories. Anything they’d already added should still be there, but I wouldn’t be surprised if more sets have been released since they stopped than existed at that time.

Back in the day, though, you’d shop at Bricklink, but you’d go to Peeron to check set inventories. Brickset hadn’t even started hosting them, and Bricklink had a woefully incomplete and often inaccurate set of inventories.

I remember these sets were around £5 pocket money, and useful as spares for an ever expanding multi-wheel vehicle.

@ForestMenOfEndor said:
" @Binnekamp said:
" @TheOtherMike 6950 Rocket Transporter also had them (look closely at the satellite at the rocket's tip). I'm not sure if all copies of this set had them, but it was a released part and I'm sure it also appeared in here for real."

It's possible that North American and/or later copies of 6950 were different. Mine has the 2/3-finger hinges. It's easily one of my favorite sets ever."

I bought a bulk lot with a 6950 in it a few years ago, the yellow hinges were the earlier type (and all intact) but although I’m on the European side of the Atlantic, I couldn’t tell you where the set would have originally been sold.

Concluded that it was probably an early production example. Never actually had any of the early type hinges as a kid back in the 1980s.

This was the first set that I got with those balloon tyres, and "mail boxes" in blue.
Got it on holiday in France as a kid in 1983, and still got it today 40 years later.

Classic set again

@legodachi:
No, the bar goes over the shoulder, and the rocket mounts to the stud at the other end. Launch a rocket from the plate at an angle like that, and the poor Spaceman would be doing backwards somersaults in zero-G.

Nah, the stud has a hole through it for launch motor gasses to escape
And it's a SURFACE to air missile launcher, there's always SOME gravity

@legodachi:
Gasses travel through the trigger assembly and down the bar to reach the pad.