Always loved those classic space vehicles.

I had this set.
Rebuilt it with https://brickset.com/sets/6884-1 to a stunt car with rear suspension, using 1x8 plates.

@PurpleDave: Yeah, probably it was intentional...but it felt a little like if the Enterprise had been called "The Kirk"...but otherwise; fantastic movie (gotta' agree though: they should've had Sly do some lines for 'the little guy'...or Dwayne).:D

We got Futuron after a long time. Great day! :-)

This is my classic space(man)! With visor! And Blacktron was all black!
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One of my favorite sets!

Even for those high wheels, this terrain may be a little too rough.

First time I've see that panel used as a wheel arch, with happy smiles before the inevitable roll-over.

We have an open rover, and an open spacecraft, that is normally housed in an enclosure. Gotta love the logic. "Why?" "Because it's cool!"

I guess had OCD even when I was little. I was bothered by the different size wheels, so I skipped this set. It's still hard for me to process asymmetric builds.

i want to build it with my mass amount of random Lego parts but I have like 0 old parts so i need the dome and like 7 others (mostly wheels)

@PurpleDave said:
"Speaking of Space, I went and watched Project: Hail Mary yesterday evening. And not long after I started work this morning, something hit me. The lone survivor of the human mission is Ryland Grace, and the spaceship is named after the titular project. That makes it a "Hail Mary full of Grace". And now I'm really curious if that was intentional on the author's behalf."

There are also lots of reference to God in the bible being like a rock and providing many of the things that Rocky goes on to provide. Would be surprised if it is coincidental but could be subconscious by the author.

@PurpleDave said:
"Speaking of Space, I went and watched Project: Hail Mary yesterday evening. And not long after I started work this morning, something hit me. The lone survivor of the human mission is Ryland Grace, and the spaceship is named after the titular project. That makes it a "Hail Mary full of Grace". And now I'm really curious if that was intentional on the author's behalf."

AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE!

@JavaBrix said:
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Lots of NPU in these old Space sets."

Yeah, like the way it does the rear fenders.

@Lego_lord said:"I guess had OCD even when I was little. I was bothered by the different size wheels, so I skipped this set. It's still hard for me to process asymmetric builds."

So both RXotD comment sections today have used "OCD" to mean "being really picky." That's not what OCD is, people! What you had was not Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, but Obsessive-Compulsive *Personality* Disorder. Look them up! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_personality_disorder (Sorry, this is something of a pet peeve of mine.)

@pumpkinwashingmachine said:"i want to build it with my mass amount of random Lego parts but I have like 0 old parts so i need the dome and like 7 others (mostly wheels)"

I'm reminded of this: https://www.tumblr.com/sataidelenn/785072967619051520/ok-who-left-sabine-unsupervised?source=share

@brick_r said:
" @PurpleDave: Yeah, probably it was intentional...but it felt a little like if the Enterprise had been called "The Kirk"...but otherwise; fantastic movie (gotta' agree though: they should've had Sly do some lines for 'the little guy'...or Dwayne).:D"

My one major problem with the film is that a centrifuge does not need gravity to function (it creates a hi-G environment in the test tubes), as long as it’s securely mounted to something that’s not going to float away. It does, however, need to have the load balanced. Two test tubes need to go directly opposite each other, not next to each other. The other minor quibble is that Rocky should have worn the glove instead of the ball, and the ball instead of the glove, but doing one of those would have basically broken the plot. For…reasons.

I have this one! It's nice as far as space rovers go. I like to think it has the enclosure to keep the robot and scooter safe from moondust before getting it to a destination with little to no moondust.

There's just a certain charm to the Space sets of this era. So much that doesn't really makes sense, but is very cool nonetheless. I mean, those rear fenders are indeed nice, but how about those megaphone pieces and fences at the front?

@PurpleDave: It's funny you bring up gravity, as it was another minor 'irk' for me: Grace wakes-up starts moving around the ship (falling, crawling, ect.), and does so until he shuts off the engines. Then 'gravity', or lack-there-of kicks in...but my brain went 'wait-a-minute...yes, there would been 'gravity' while the ship was moving...but it would have been focus to the 'back' of the ship, opposite to the thrust/movement'...but then the rest my brain went 'Hey; just enjoy your hot dog and Coke Zero, and it'll get better...', and it did.:D

@brick_r said:
" @PurpleDave: It's funny you bring up gravity, as it was another minor 'irk' for me: Grace wakes-up starts moving around the ship (falling, crawling, ect.), and does so until he shuts off the engines. Then 'gravity', or lack-there-of kicks in...but my brain went 'wait-a-minute...yes, there would been 'gravity' while the ship was moving...but it would have been focus to the 'back' of the ship, opposite to the thrust/movement'...but then the rest my brain went 'Hey; just enjoy your hot dog and Coke Zero, and it'll get better...', and it did.:D"

I think it was S4 or S5 of The Expanse when I finally realized the ship is oriented like a tower, not a corridor, precisely because they parked it on the ground. The author went with a vertical orientation, which would work exactly as you describe. The movie went with horizontal, probably because they identified problems with doing a vertical orientation. Like, how could Rocky roll around the place in a ball if each room is a different level, and there aren’t any elevators for him to ride? Corridor works better for Rocky.

I love how part 2467, Panel 4 x 4 x 6 Corner Concave, was really rare and only got used in a few sets, all of them very expensive—except for this one. And then it was a fender, instead of a corridor corner.

And despite being so obviously made for corridors, Lego never went full moonbase and gave us a big long corridor with them. 6395 was the largest source of the part, and used them for pillars, which is pretty great, but not a corridor at all. 6897 has a really short corridor.

The part was huge, but had such a spotty history of usage, with a big splurge during the golden era of space, then vanishing until a small late 90s revival. Then it finally vanished forever after 6575, a fairly juniorized Arctic set from an era that was all about great big pieces. It was a weird reminder that big pieces could be amazing when they were paired with good little ones, and not so amazing when paired with other gratuitously big ones.

This is very reminiscent of the Major Matt Mason toys I had in the 1960s.

@ra226 said:
"I don't think I realized until just now that this name was already used for a previous set, 6826."

Reusing names is common in licensed themes (there are only so many different things you can call, say, Luke Skywalker's X-wing after all) but a little less so in non-licensed ones.

Oh this was one I always wanted, but every time I had money it wasn’t there. And when I didn’t have money, it was!

@AllenSmith said:
" 6897 has a really short corridor."

I'm guessing you meant 6987 - Message Intercept Base? :-)

A big part of me is hoping that LEGO continues remaking classic space sets, eventually working their way up to a remake of that set. I'm sure it would be quite different, and I doubt they'll bring back those giant parts or that old moon baseplate, but I'd still love to see it nonetheless.

@Bricklunch said:
"There are also lots of reference to God in the bible being like a rock and providing many of the things that Rocky goes on to provide. Would be surprised if it is coincidental but could be subconscious by the author."

It's probably because the chief creator deities of Judaism, Christianity, Islam and numerous other ancient religions are all derived from Amun / El (best known in the merged Egyptian supreme deity form of Amun-Ra, or the Caanite / Hebrew Elohim, which is where "amen," "Yahweh," or "Allah," respectively come from), which represents the singularity before the big bang. However, what those religions all proceed to get wrong is that it "died" (or was "killed," depending on which creation myth story you look at it) to create the universe, hence the creation of numerous other gods representing the planets, stars, natural forces and everything else, as readily seen in various other mythologies.

I've been (slowly) working on a presentation to properly explain it but other things keep slowing me down.

Regardless, these days, it's still the same stories, albeit massively dumbed down and simplified, but people just attribute it to magical space aliens instead of gods because that somehow makes it seem more plausible, even though there's significant evidence for "gods," at least in the original sense, whereas there is absolutely zero for aliens.

I think if we ever do encounter anything even remotely close, it will surely be in the form of a virus. Since they're technically just chemicals, serving as the bridge between living and non-living matter, it at least seems somewhat plausible. If so, they'll either do absolutely nothing because they're too different and can't interact with Earth biology, or they'll utterly destroy us because our immune systems don't properly recognize or know how to handle them, thereby rendering vaccines useless. In either case, it's not very exciting.

That all said, from the perspective of the human race, I think that the only thing worth caring about enough to worship is the Earth. It really should be abundantly obvious to most people by now that all spirituality is derived from the Earth, and our continued existence is tethered to the survival of the ecosystems that support us, in a way that is very much determinate, but it clearly still isn't. Either way, it's still kind of a rock, just interpreted differently.

Anyway, I've rambled on long enough.

@Vesperas said:
" @AllenSmith said:
" 6897 has a really short corridor."

I'm guessing you meant 6987 - Message Intercept Base? :-)

A big part of me is hoping that LEGO continues remaking classic space sets, eventually working their way up to a remake of that set. I'm sure it would be quite different, and I doubt they'll bring back those giant parts or that old moon baseplate, but I'd still love to see it nonetheless."

The revised Galaxy Explorer and Renegade were both scaled up a bit from the originals so the sets would feel as large to an adult as the originals did to kids. The crater plate I’ve seen built to go with the GE is the size of an XL baseplate, which has only ever come in flat. If they remade the MIB, I’d fully expect them to brickbuild the crater the same way that one Pirate fort remake did for the raised baseplate.

However, I’ve heard both of those sets sold very poorly. They were very popular with a vocal, but quite small, portion of the fan community, and probably didn’t appeal to today’s youth market at all. I remember going to wait in line on launch day for the Renegade, and I don’t think I saw more than one set walk out the door while I was waiting to get in. The shelf was fully stocked when I did, and nobody else was even looking at them.