Wow! This was my favourite set as a kid. Most of my Lego was town, but I treasured the handful of classic space sets I owned. This one was the first I'd ever seen with a blue Classic Spaceman, and because blue was easily my favourite colour it quickly became the set I enjoyed playing with the most. I never really managed to build many different things with it, but it still always brings a smile to my face to see it.

I think as long as it’s not the 75192 Falcon this should go quite well! It will be nice to see some of the sets that have not aged well too!

Does it mean that random set browsing is going away?

Me and my brothers used to build these gigantic (to us as kids at least) space stations/scenarios. This would have been but a small part of it. But it does have some cool features, like the rocket parts mentioned above...

I used to have this one too. My parents still have our old big box of Lego, though it's there to get played with by my nieces and nephews when they visit. I was thinking I should print out a load of the old instructions and some of these could be rebuilt!

I love how the old space vehicles had steering wheels! :)

For me, this is when "Classic Space" stopped being quite so classic. Too much blue used in the small "utility vehicles"... Blue and Black uniforms added to the astronauts... and the horrific (just my opinion) 6951 Robot Command Centre.

This is a great idea! Is it literally any set, or is it filtered to remove weird Gear stuff?

Hey classic a set!
I have this set !!

I remember first getting this as a kid. So many new elements - including that trans aerial and the 1x1 round plates. And of course the new blue (and black) spacemen.

I loved this space theme as a kid and I still have 6872: Xenon X-Craft on my desk today.

I like this new feature. Looking forward to discussion about some sets long forgotten ;-).

was it really random that the first set featured this way was a classic space one?
I mean, if it was a jack stone set or a town set from 98, there would be little doubt about the randomness.

Great Idea. Todays set was already on my want list but can't wait to see some stuff I might not have been aware of. Wonder if featuring as the Brickset Random Set of the day pushes up demand for any of these sets?

This is one of the few classic space sets I own. It's only practically twice my age. I got it from my Dad who had a box of classic space parts, with minifigures that looked like they had barely been used. This was one of the few sets that seemed to be almost all there.

Great Idea and One more Improve of an already fantastic Webiste and Database !!
Thank you

What a great idea! While it’ll no doubt bring forth some less than stellar old sets, you also get forgotten beauties like this one.

My dark ages started that year so I don't own this set and I haven't bothered tracking it down; I'm sure I have the parts to build it anyways.

This was my very first Lego set I do remember. I was so excited about it, I played with it all day long and it was so great to have an Astronaut! Shortly after that I got 928 and a whole bunch of Classic Space Lego throughout the eighties. It was a blast.

@tttwlam: iirc, at least some of the first LEGO Star Wars sets had pictures of alternate builds on the boxes.

Great idea, good way to generate revenue for the site too. I love checking out the random sets on the sidebar.

@Huw what time zone is at 2 AM?

I was into my DA by the time this set was released. But it retains something of the look of the earlier Classic Space sets that I prized so highly. I had most of them from the range from the '70s and very early '80s and had a sizeable Classic Space layout using the lunar baseplates. Ah, nostalgia!

This is great! I had this set and a good number of the other Space sets around the early/mid '80s and I had a serious case of nostalgia overload whilst looking through this and related entries.

Really nice idea for a new feature.

My fingers are itching to do a great classic Classic Space rebuild this year.... ;-) I also lost interest in lego space after this. Too many weird vehicles and colors, I moved on to Technic.

@Huw
I love it! SPACESHIP!!!

I have this one. They have a real charm and openess of creativity that is lost with licenced sets from movie franchises.

I have seen no plans from lego to celebrate (what I think) is a big anniversary for classic space this year. They really should be bringing something out. Any ideas?

I think this idea of "random set" articles is a really good one. I look forward to seeing what pops up tomorrow, you know?

I love the idea of a random set review/look-see, @Huw! Thank you for doing this. I had this set and still do, actually. The original Space series was very cool.

My frist space set :)

The random set review allows everyone to see how Lego has really covered a lot of ground for decades, and a set may incite interest to someone. It's interesting and informative. Picking a set from the 80's Space series brings back memories of my favorite set as a kid - Set 6927 All-Terrain Vehicle. I played hours with that thing!

Nice Feature - Always nice to see the old space sets as they were the only actual sets of Lego I had was younger.
It's one of the themes that I would be really interested to see what the designers could come up with using modern bricks and techniques without being beholden to a franchise.

Love this feature, thanks @Huw.

the last set i bought before my Dark Ages began--and one i rebuilt last year, when those Ages ended.

Ah Classic Space, one of LEGO's biggest successes. I'm glad that they still do stuff themed around this line, such as Benny's Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!

I really wish LEGO would do a new space theme based around space exploration rather than conflict/good guys, bad guys.

This is a great idea and feature! Love seeing good old classic stuff from my childhood. -Can`’t get enough of them actually ;)

Did I love this set... and did I hate the breaking trans round 1x1's

This instantly took me back. It was a special offer on the back page of Bricks and Pieces magazine (UK) Autumn 1983. You could buy it before it came out in the shops. As I recall, mine arrived on a day when I was too unwell to go to school. Happy days.

Great idea! Looking forward to seeing when one I own comes up!

I just rebuilt this set not to long ago. It was one of my favorites as a kid.

@london180275 you are correct. I also bought this through the bricks and pieces magazine. It cost 50p and I still have the set and the magazine with the coupon cut out. Love this set, my first blue spaceman if I remember correctly.

Excellent feature!

I remember trying to build this (and others like it) from my box of pieces, using the pictures in the Lego catalog or the Argos book for reference. It was probably not quite correct a lot of the time, though that didn’t seem to matter back then... :)

I still have one, possibly 2 of these in my basement. This takes me back quite a few years.

I just built this set on the weekend. I'm on a mission to build every set my siblings and I have owned. I'm lucky in that our mum (or me, no DA here) would never let us get rid of any Lego.

Love the feature.

I think this might well have been the last set before my dark ages, bought at Legoland (Billund of course, no others existing back then) on our second holiday to Denmark. An absolute favourite set with great parts.

What a great idea this is!
Nostalgic cries of “I had that!”

I’m also looking forward to seeing sets I missed during my ‘dark ages’ as there must be many sets that I still don’t even know exist. You don’t tend to look through the database for sets you’ve never seen.

It’s guaranteed to generate a few discussions and also get people delving further into the database.

I was grabbed by this one as I do remember this as one of my very first sets (at 5 years old).

I wonder if my little boy (who is 4) will remember that his first lego set was Hulkbuster?

Please Lego bring back classic space!!!

I love the idea of revisiting old sets everyday. Great idea!

Great idea Huw!

I loved this set as a kid! Built and swooshed all over my house.

Great basic set. One thing I never understood as a kid were all these open cockpit spacers. How did the astronauts breathe? Same thing with helicopters from this time period. Always bothered my nerdy brain.

I agree with the comments previously - I've often been drawn to the random set in the sidebar but this is a great change.
It appears, looking at the other sets from this year that I didn't get any of these Space sets - in fact, it seems 1983 was the year I got my first, and to this date only, Technic set.