@Spritetoggle said:
" @Maxbricks14
Well, they ARE aliens."

But they are organic aliens not mechanical ones (which in SW are known as droids) So they should have made a more suitable torso piece.

I know when you use a double jump, you can achieve greater heights than are possible with a regular jump. Hovering is maintaining a consistent elevation, so what the heck does double hover achieve?

@brick_r said:
"So it's a twin vacuum?...Oh wait, that be a Double Hoover:D "

Maybe its just twice as much of a faff to get it going...oh wait that'd be double bovver

I seem to recall this being part of a cereal box promotional set?

*edit* Ah, not quite. There was a Quaker Instant Oatmeal promotional mail-away offer for an Alien Encounter set, not the Double Hover. My memory for these lol.
Again, Double Hover was a boxed small set in the USA, not the polybag.

A good way to get a nice martian, the printed dish and some sand green for the time

@StyleCounselor said:
"This guy knows that RPotD is just how it rolls on Mars."

That's the reason why he prefers to hover.

@MeisterDad said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"This guy knows that RPotD is just how it rolls on Mars."

Izzat why he’s bowlegged?"

I see, you don't need me to mansplain it to you.

Regarding the LoM Martians versus the MM Martians: It would seem my headcanon regarding 7313 (which I mentioned when it was RSotD) may have been closer to canon than I knew!

Oddly though there were two versions of the martian head elements found in sets - one more accurate to the box photos and another one with 'ears', although they were so abruptely ending, that it seems, they were either added as part of the moulding process or are a manufacturing defect at all.

I have not yet seen the two heads with a non-teal color (Riegel and Arcturus) with those 'ears', so maybe a color specific issue?

I also remember being bothered as a kid that the guys in the polybag sets did not have names. So are those just Vega, Pollux and Antares with different outfits or are they meant to represent generic Martians? Anyways the battle droid body looks even weirder with mis-matched colors.

Those polybags also seem to be color-coded to fit a specific larger set, in this case 7317, which is also the only other set containing the printed radar dish.

Vacuums sand colors twice as fast!

Oh wait, that's a double hoover

@Atuin said:
"I also remember being bothered as a kid that the guys in the polybag sets did not have names. So are those just Vega, Pollux and Antares with different outfits or are they meant to represent generic Martians?"

I always took them to be the same characters they shared heads with, only in different outfits; so my 7303 pilot - the only Martian I had for several years - was always Antares, just with a different shirt and pants.

It was kinda fitting to me, in a way. Sparks, the engineer of the Rock Raiders, always wore orange. Ryo, the inventor / engineer of Exo-Force wore orange in the theme's first year. Nuparu, the engineer / inventor of Bionicle wore an orange mask in his first appearance. And here was Antares, the inventor of Life on Mars... who in that set also wore orange (even though his usual outfit was white), making it a running trend in the sets I had of them. As a kid, I was always taken particularly with the characters of that role in various Lego themes, so I found that similarity cool... and based on that memory it may not be entirely unrelated that orange went on to become my favourite colour in later years!

(Then there was Alpha Team that avoided the trend: Cam, as the mechanic, was the closest to that role (and, perhaps predictably, my favourite of the team!), but her signature colour was red. It was Flex who got orange instead.)

@StyleCounselor said:
" @MeisterDad said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
"This guy knows that RPotD is just how it rolls on Mars."

Izzat why he’s bowlegged?"

I see, you don't need me to mansplain it to you."

I meant to say 'mansplain the manspread.'

I completely messed it up!

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"*my 7303 pilot"

because I edited the post but forgot to put the hash symbol back to make the set link.

@ThatBionicleGuy:
If I need to edit any post that includes a reply tag or a set tag, I've learned to just copy the text from the original post, hit the edit button, select the edit text, paste over it with the post, and then make edits. It beats the heck out of trying to repair all the tags on a mobile device.

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
" It was kinda fitting to me, in a way. Sparks, the engineer of the Rock Raiders, always wore orange. Ryo, the inventor / engineer of Exo-Force wore orange in the theme's first year. Nuparu, the engineer / inventor of Bionicle wore an orange mask in his first appearance. And here was Antares, the inventor of Life on Mars... who in that set also wore orange (even though his usual outfit was white), making it a running trend in the sets I had of them. As a kid, I was always taken particularly with the characters of that role in various Lego themes, so I found that similarity cool..."As someone whose favorite Star Trek characters tended to be the engineers (Scotty being my all-time favorite), I completely understand.

I had no idea this theme existed until a year or so ago, and I have to say, I think it's fantastic, for a lot of reasons. I really like the figures - I think they're much better than the Mars Mission ones, and for me they're the best alien figures Lego ever made (with the exception of the three UFO Zotaxians with those crazy helmets). The colors and parts are also wonderfully bananas - sand blue, sand red, sand green, sand purple, all those custom prints. The whole design has a muted, organic look that contrasts really nicely with all the other space themes, reinforcing that these are really aliens from an alien world. And it's peak hot-mess out-of-control heading-towards-bankruptcy Lego, so there are tons of crazy, long-retired parts like giant arched portals, the pneumatic tube system, and so on. And you also get plenty of old light gray, old dark gray, and old brown parts that are about as new as they can be given how close these sets were to the end of those colors.

It also doesn't hurt that most of the LoM sets (and parts on BL) are still available inexpensively.

I ended up collecting every Martian figure and set in the line, along with a few of the smaller human sets from the line, and all of it combined cost about what you'd pay for a UCS X-Wing.