I... don't think you can dig space.

Hats off for giving it a go though

Nope, not cracking jokes at Classic Space. I'm dumb, but not that dumb.

I recently went through my childhood LEGO and rebuilt this (and a while bunch of other classic space from this era). I had to replace the arm and claw pieces, as they were broken, but otherwise it was complete. A great little set.

Finally, one that I own! That hasn’t happened in weeks. Plus I own two… but anyways very nice set from the Red and White era. I’ve always liked the engine piece used here, and it debuted this very year. It made a heck of a 40 year run, and one of not a ton of pieces that made it to Star Wars from Classic Space.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"I... don't think you can dig space.

Hats off for giving it a go though"

It's a distant cousin of the Canadarm, not a shovel.

@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Finally, one that I own! That hasn’t happened in weeks. Plus I own two… but anyways very nice set from the Red and White era. I’ve always liked the engine piece used here, and it debuted this very year. It made a heck of a 40 year run, and one of not a ton of pieces that made it to Star Wars from Classic Space."
New pieces were generally a bigger deal back then as there were fewer of them and they were more conspicuous among the blockier parts that had previously dominated. I remember when the engine part - and this set - was released and thinking how cool it was. There was no internet back then, of course, so LEGO appreciation was more isolated. There was no forum to discuss new parts.

@Zander said:
" @Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Finally, one that I own! That hasn’t happened in weeks. Plus I own two… but anyways very nice set from the Red and White era. I’ve always liked the engine piece used here, and it debuted this very year. It made a heck of a 40 year run, and one of not a ton of pieces that made it to Star Wars from Classic Space."
New pieces were generally a bigger deal back then as there were fewer of them and they were more conspicuous among the blockier parts that had previously dominated. I remember when the engine part - and this set - was released and thinking how cool it was. There was no internet back then, of course, so LEGO appreciation was more isolated. There was no forum to discuss new parts."

Appropriately, this sort of thing is how several LUGs, I believe including my own, got their start. Two adults bump into each other in the LEGO aisle, get to talking, and nine months later decide to form a club.

I really miss those arm-grabby parts. One of the Idea Books had a robot that used two of them and I was annoyed because at the time, I was only aware of one set that had one ( 6882 ).

(I was seven or eight, so getting multiples of the same set was not really an option.)

ANYWAY that’s a nice little set with nice parts. I especially like those loudspeaker-thrusters.

One of my earliest sets as a kid, the first having been 886 when I was three years old.
Loved this one just as much as the others and played so much with it that one of the claws eventually broke. But of course nowadays there's no problem getting replacements thanks to BL and others, so this little gem now looks like new again in my collection.
Plus of course I got another one on ebay years ago, because you can never have to many Classic Space sets ;-)

@PurpleDave said:
" @Zander said:
" @Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Finally, one that I own! That hasn’t happened in weeks. Plus I own two… but anyways very nice set from the Red and White era. I’ve always liked the engine piece used here, and it debuted this very year. It made a heck of a 40 year run, and one of not a ton of pieces that made it to Star Wars from Classic Space."
New pieces were generally a bigger deal back then as there were fewer of them and they were more conspicuous among the blockier parts that had previously dominated. I remember when the engine part - and this set - was released and thinking how cool it was. There was no internet back then, of course, so LEGO appreciation was more isolated. There was no forum to discuss new parts."

Appropriately, this sort of thing is how several LUGs, I believe including my own, got their start. Two adults bump into each other in the LEGO aisle, get to talking, and nine months later decide to form a club."

That’s actually called a family. :o)

@Maxbricks14 said:
"I... don't think you can dig space.

Hats off for giving it a go though"

I think the Brickset awards have proven without a doubt that we dig space here.

@yellowcastle said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Zander said:
" @Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Finally, one that I own! That hasn’t happened in weeks. Plus I own two… but anyways very nice set from the Red and White era. I’ve always liked the engine piece used here, and it debuted this very year. It made a heck of a 40 year run, and one of not a ton of pieces that made it to Star Wars from Classic Space."
New pieces were generally a bigger deal back then as there were fewer of them and they were more conspicuous among the blockier parts that had previously dominated. I remember when the engine part - and this set - was released and thinking how cool it was. There was no internet back then, of course, so LEGO appreciation was more isolated. There was no forum to discuss new parts."

Appropriately, this sort of thing is how several LUGs, I believe including my own, got their start. Two adults bump into each other in the LEGO aisle, get to talking, and nine months later decide to form a club."

That’s actually called a family. :o)"

That was quite a coincidence picking 9 months...

I am a space-digger, I dig space.

I also dig this set. I HAD this set, although I frequently took it apart to turn that claw-arm into a dragon. Good stuff, one of the few if not only parts of the Homemaker-figures that was just objectively useful and good.

So on the one hand, I see that $200 price-tag and I'm thinking - do I regret tearing open that box as a kid, immediately building and dissassembling and reassembling the set, rather than saving it up? The hell I do. NO RAGRATS.

Proper classic space. Not that black and yellow nonsense...

I literally grew up with this set. It's like part of my family.

I have to say it! I kind of dig this set.

The space equivalent of a backhoe without the front scoop. The small CS sets sometimes feel a bit random in how the then-new parts were used (which is part of the charm, its creativity), but often when you look closer you can start to see what it might be designed for in-universe.

That's why I love Space, from CS to the last nonlicensed subthemes. The sci-fi weirdness is just great fuel for imagination. It can float if you want, or tunnel or teleport. The sky is not even the limit. The limit is endlessly higher in space somewhere...

@Euroseb11 said:"A set as old as me..."

One year younger than me.

@PhantomBricks said:" @yellowcastle said:" @PurpleDave said:" @Zander said:" @Wallace_Brick_Designs said:"Finally, one that I own! That hasn’t happened in weeks. Plus I own two… but anyways very nice set from the Red and White era. I’ve always liked the engine piece used here, and it debuted this very year. It made a heck of a 40 year run, and one of not a ton of pieces that made it to Star Wars from Classic Space."

New pieces were generally a bigger deal back then as there were fewer of them and they were more conspicuous among the blockier parts that had previously dominated. I remember when the engine part - and this set - was released and thinking how cool it was. There was no internet back then, of course, so LEGO appreciation was more isolated. There was no forum to discuss new parts."

Appropriately, this sort of thing is how several LUGs, I believe including my own, got their start. Two adults bump into each other in the LEGO aisle, get to talking, and nine months later decide to form a club."

That’s actually called a family. :o)"

That was quite a coincidence picking 9 months..."

OR WAS IT?

@Duq said:"Proper classic space. Not that black and yellow nonsense..."

@ElephantKnight just felt the urge to block someone, and he doesn't know why.