I got this set at a convention years back in like-new condition for really cheap and it's one of my favorites! Simple, yet so swooshable!

The Lego of my heart. Thanks Huwbot.

Cool.

One of my favorites growing up. Had to replace one of the “police” panels, but managed to find a good price on BrickLink.

Also, something about this first generation of Blacktron figures (included as the prisoner) that made space sets so darn cool...

My brother had this set and I remember making a Ice Planet 2002 version of this set.

@samuraiturtle said:
"My brother had this set and I remember making a Ice Planet 2002 version of this set. "

Ice Planet - w/ skis? That'd be cool.

Very cool ship.

What a nice little ship.

Scum Police! Oppressors of the Blacktron! I bet they got that innocent Blacktron locked up on some fake and insignificant charge!

It has always annoyed me that the SP1 ships had no obvious thrusters. Just another reason to go Blacktron.

@PurpleDave said:
"So, you could experience anemoia for the era of Space sets, or ecozealgia for the sets themselves."

Fascinating, never heard of those words until today

When this hit the shelves it must've hit a sweet spot for uncles needing a gift for their ten-year-old nephew: affordable yet cool, as we have three of these which all came as gifts...
And I can't blame them, it still looks very swooshable (as long as, like mentioned before, you don't remove the prison cell, that makes it look like an empty flatbed - a streamlined flatbed, but still no more than that).
Together with 6887 Allied Avenger this is one of our smallest spaceships with a fully enclosed cockpit.

This set/theme brings back so many memories. I loved the space sets with translucent windows. Blue/red. Black/yellow. And later line/red/white.

It was my first or second set ever and I was like 4 when I got it. Ah memories - I remember every lego piece of this set :-)

Who is that one behind bars? Darth Vader?

yes this is one of the best space police 1 sets I've currently been building my own version of this set with my own pieces for a classic space animation.

SPACE police.

Although the smallest spaceship of the trio with 6781 and 6986, I still liked the B model shown here https://www.backoftheboxbuilds.com/?s=6886. I always liked only having 3 main colours, even for the parts you cannot see, as meant you could easily combine with other space police sets to make mega ships or bases which is what Lego was all about to me but difficult to do nowadays.

Awesome little set this, I picked up on ebay for years ago for a reasonable price. As a little kid I badly wanted the space police sets but only had the little buggy set. I now have the entire range apart from the base which last time I looked was crazy expensive!

The best era of Space: explores from Futuron, “baddies” from Blacktron I and II, and peacekeepers from Space Police!

And as others have already mentioned, swooshable space ships :-)

Does anyone remember the promotion comic that was made for Space Police?
It was a one pager that featured two officers transporting a prisoner.
I was hoping for more, but I think it was just that one.

I had this one and two other sets of the line: 6895 and 6831
Two officers were the ones from the comic (in my mind).
And I gave the 6895 driver a head with shades to indicate this was another character.
Adventures took inspiration from the C.O.P.S. cartoon show.

Funny how this one and 6850 had the same "play-feature"

@Feroz said:
"Does anyone remember the promotion comic that was made for Space Police?
It was a one pager that featured two officers transporting a prisoner.
I was hoping for more, but I think it was just that one.

I had this one and two other sets of the line: 6895 and 6831
Two officers were the ones from the comic (in my mind)."

Never seen that one. Any idea if it is somewhere online?

@BelgianBricker said:
"Funny how this one and 6850 had the same "play-feature""

Not quite- although they’re the same design these fold forward and tuck in under the ‘shields’, whilst 6850 fold back to form thrusters.

Although this set didn’t have thrusters, swooshability always makes up for that and enclosed cockpits!

@myth said:
"Never seen that one. Any idea if it is somewhere online?

"

I've been looking. :-)
If I remember correctly it was drawn more like a cartoon.
Maybe it was drawn by the same artist that drew the Jim Spaceborn comic?

Previous comics had always been close to what the sets and figures actually looked like, so this one stood out in that regard.

@Galaxy12_Import said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"So, you could experience anemoia for the era of Space sets, or ecozealgia for the sets themselves."

Fascinating, never heard of those words until today"
They’re neologisms; you won’t find them in the OED or even in Merriam-Webster. That’s not to say there isn’t a place for them, only that they’re not official yet.

@Zordboy said:
"This is definitely one of those, "Why the hell didn't I buy this when I was a kid?" sets. "

I have so many of those sets. But this one is one that I actually own.

I had its slightly larger brother 6781 (including the fantastic Light&Sound system).
Awesome stuff.

I re-purchased this recently, and after 30 years, it still holds up really well. I've always imagined that after the Space Police were disbanded, the pilot and prisoner realized that survival would take cooperation and teamwork, and that they'd have to work together, so they made amends and became a 2-man special ops team, with the former "jail cell" acting much more like a drop pod from Halo, Starcraft, or the like. The fact that the Blacktron 1 uniform had a very "spec ops" look to it helped too.

@Galaxy12_Import:
I’d heard of anemoia before, which is why I was able to pull it up so quickly. I’d never heard of ecozealgia before, and the only instance I saw for that was one person describing how they came up with it.

@Zander:
Dictionaries don’t make words “official”. Usage does. Dictionaries just document that usage, and any evolving definitions. Anemoia has been in use since at least mid-2019, but I don’t know how much usage history various dictionaries require before they acknowledge that it has caught on. For a word like this, it’s not like it’s going to be sprinting up all over the internet, so that process could take quite a bit longer than something that comes up in daily conversation.

One of my all time favorites. I thought the feet of the cell were thrusters as a kid.

I got this like many for Christmas and fell in love with the swoosh!

This may have been my favorite Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship! as a kid, so swoosh-able :) Still need to rebuild this beauty... Thank you RSOTD!

Oh yeah I had this one. I always wished I had more SP-1 sets, but I didn’t be exactly have my own source of income back then.

Such a classic, love this one. Great looking ship and those pop out wing guns were so cool. Space Police also introduced those slick canopies. Nothing wrong with the classic ones, but these were so elegant.

@Zander:
True. I wouldn’t use “ecozealgia”, but I’ve run into “anemoia” enough times that I might risk it. Assuming it came up naturally, of course.

@PurpleDave said:
"My first instinct was to say I had this, but I was definitely thinking of 6897 instead. Oddly enough, I don't think I got a single SP1 set. I did get every Space minifig pack I could lay my hands on, though, so I know I got at least one of the minifigs.

@Be_hapi:
Well, if you're riding "in the back", you're in a containment cell. It's not exactly
designed for luxurious comfort. I'd be more concerned about the ship stopping suddenly, and that might cause you to slide forward. Since the top of the cell is pointed forward, it's a good thing they let that poor guy keep his helmet..."
I would also be worried about suddenly plummeting bottom down. Or maybe I just don’t want my face fried.

@Kynareth said:
" @BelgianBricker said:
"Funny how this one and 6850 had the same "play-feature""

Not quite- although they’re the same design these fold forward and tuck in under the ‘shields’, whilst 6850 fold back to form thrusters.

Although this set didn’t have thrusters, swooshability always makes up for that and enclosed cockpits!"

what?
I own both sets and it is actually the same: it folds in and out of the canope, even the design of the winglets is the same, they only changed the way the wedge piece is positioned...

@BelgianBricker:

The winglets in 6850 require the canopy to be opened to fold/unfold, while the winglets here have an additional hinge that allows them to bend downwards for folding/unfolding without needing to move the covering black panels.

Best Lego Space set. Absolutely spectacular, especially for the time. And remarkably efficient with the bricks, getting the maximum space from a small number.

One of the last space sets I got before losing interest in LEGO for 25+ years! And its a fabulous set.

The last legoland set I had at the time, I was 14 y/o ! It was a beautiful small spaceship, this design was perfect with these black shields on the sides ! I was so happy to have it. I never dismantled it.

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"Are the bars on that cage, being trans-red, meant to be lasers? That sounds fairly effective, and certainly looks impressive, but is unfortunate for the guy inside if the ship ever turns upside-down, causing him to fall against them..."
As a kid, I thought they were lasers, but looking at it now, I don't think so. For one thing, why would the top need to hing up? If the bars were lasers, they could just turn them off. Probably just another case of parts being trans colors because it looks cool.