The Classic Spaceman is the best, although I like other sets in the line much more.

This looks rather good, especially as it doesn't need multiple sets to get the best result. Shall definitely get once if hits the usual £79.99

I've got the Mickey Mouse and Marilyn one's as they look fine on their own. I like the Beatles one, but not enough to get the 4 required for a decent display.

If one gets two copies, would there be enough for a full size Spaceman fig I wonder. Or be able to create another one in a different colour? Such important questions!

Also, my 7yo daughter would screech for days upon seeing that...

Not into classic space myself but that space minifig looks damn good, may have to add this onto the wish list for when it inevitably shows up on Amazon at half price!!

I like to make mosaics, so I could see this as a parts pack, but I feel like there are so many colors included that there's probably not a substantial amount of any of them to make it very worthwhile compared to some of the other kits, which would have fewer colors but a higher quantity of each... if that makes sense. (Well, maybe it has a lot of white and dark blue... I'd have to see the inventory count.) White Spaceman is a nice design, but this probably wouldn't be a must-buy for me.

Personally I'm more a fan of plates than tiles when it comes to mosaics but the space figure looks pretty neat indeed!

This has got at least 4 emoji-like builds for minifig heads and the larger master-model of a Classic Spaceman. Would be cool to see a more LEGO-themed version of this come out in the future, with characters Like Jonny Thunder, Lloyd Garmadon, and Toa Tahu in that same emoji style.

@ra226 said:
"This is great, but I wish there was also a set half this size at half the price--as is, it's a bit expensive for a kid gift and not quite worthy of that "the one big gift" slot."

Well, it’s called ‘Create Together’ so maybe it would suit a whole family making their own slice of a mosaic as shown.

Oh wow! Really neat! Much cooler than the artsy world one.

Jeez this wil sell milions...

This is neat. But I’m not paying $120 USD for a portrait.

Also, there are no unique pieces in this set that will allow it to remotely hold value going forward if I decide I need to liquidate my Legos for cash. In 10 years, this set may actually decrease in value.

For these reasons, I’m out.

Yes, yes, yes.

I have never had much interest in space Lego, but I like the look of the fig so if TLG post instructions to make a Pirate like e.g. Readbeard or a Castle knight (if that is possible to make with the parts in the set) I will probably buy the set :)

Omg, classic spaceman!! <3 Gonna make it in every color possible :)

Wow, finally a Classic Space set I don’t want to buy!

Nothing against the art theme, and I do think that this one certainly hints at creativity and kids much better than the others. But I built a mosaic with the family once and it was just tedious, even the kids complained.

I’m also not sure what you do with this if you don’t build the spaceman. I mean, are we supposed to hang little emojis on the wall?

Perhaps if I could get it for half price I’d consider as it would look amazing on display above my Classic Space collection, but that of course would kill the creative aspect of this set, not to mention leave me with tons of useless round tiles.

Great idea, just concerned that there are only 9 plates so you will only ever use half the pieces, whereas if there where 12 plates you could make something larger with 3/4 of the pieces. As others have said you probably only want to use 6 main colours in a design, so likely to run out and I hope similar to dots they sell single colours separately in polybags of 100 for $5 which should really get the large scale artists interested (provided they can find more plates).

I really like it, but I am patiently (or impatiently) waiting for more Star Wars art, as I want a large storm trooper to go with the 3 set Darth !
Although spaceman is looking pretty good.

Yeah, I'd like a smaller and more affordable version of this designed for one person to put together. Preferably one that isn't ridiculously short-lived like 41597 Go Brick Me was.

There doesn't appear to be nearly enough red elements to make the LEGO logo with. I'd much like to recreate, albeit with round tiles, the LEGO logo shown in the intro sequence from the classic LEGO Software/Media era.

While I love the concept, the price is way more than I could ever consider for a mosaic. Looking at the spread of colours there must be huge amounts of redundant parts left over. And it's not even a very good portrait of a Classic Space figure. Shading him with tan and brown because it's such an enforced 'happy' set that there aren't any greys just makes him look muddy.

This is the first time I've had any interest in an Art set. Looks like it could be fun for a family activity.

Finally an Art set I’m actually interested in, not only is what’s suggested you could build really fun so is the parts selection for making custom small mosaics.

@TheEpicLuke said:
"Just looking at all the colors, I can see the 8-bit sprite MOCs coming from this set."
I'm seeing Space Invaders and Pacman!

@Synthia1980 said:
"I am into these art sets. I see this is the same price as some of the others I have: Marilyn, Beatles, Mickey but those I’d say have royalties to pay, whilst I assume this one doesn’t. Why is not cheaper therefore? "

It's 1000 more pieces. So that maybe that makes up the difference in pricing level without royalties?

I'd say LEGO knew what they were doing with the spaceman. While I don't want to build it because I don't start salivating the moment I see CS stuff, I bet I have 1x1 studs (not tiles) to make the majority of the set (not the background, but that could be modified anyway). So while I don't love it, maybe I'll consider building one to use up my studs that are overflowing my bins.

Here's meta. The unicorn image reminds me of https://brickset.com/parts/6253790/flat-tile-1x1-no-195, which is used in Trafalgar Square (21045-1) to represent an artwork hanging in the National Gallery.

Bit weird how the rainbow has a few pink dots around the outside, and the basketball has a few tan spots among the brown lines. And the three minifig heads all have different brown and tan spots in the outlines. So they look like someone's taken a bigger image and shrunk it down in a computer art package, which has then done its best to anti-alias various half-pixel details with whichever in-between colours it still has access to in the available palette. So where the red edge of the rainbow isn't spot-on the grid, there are a few pink dots where it's going for a half-red-half-white effect.

Kids just don't make mosaics like that. I'm not sure anyone would, really.

We have all the food mosaics represented as LEGO pieces, either as individual parts or prints, except for the avocado. TLG please give us a printed avocado tile next!

edit: Oh, looks like there's one in Extra Dots series 5, but it's a bit cartoony. Need a more conventional print, please!

So.... perler beads?

@alfred_the_buttler said:
"Wow, finally a Classic Space set I don’t want to buy!

Nothing against the art theme, and I do think that this one certainly hints at creativity and kids much better than the others. But I built a mosaic with the family once and it was just tedious, even the kids complained.

I’m also not sure what you do with this if you don’t build the spaceman. I mean, are we supposed to hang little emojis on the wall?"

Sure, why not? It's not that different from displaying a kid's drawing on the fridge or letting them display their other LEGO creations in a place of pride on a bookshelf/cabinet (especially in a bedroom or playroom).

Frankly, there's plenty of non-customizable home decor sold in stores these days that's every bit as "kitschy" as brick-built wall-emojis would be, if not more so! At least in this case, if a builder or or one of their parents feels like a particular display has worn out its welcome, it can always be taken down and rebuilt into something that they're more comfortable putting on display.

And of course, there's enough variety in this set that you'd hardly be limited to emojis. There's no telling at this point how many patterns this set includes instructions for, but there's nothing stopping you from building abstract geometric patterns like those in the far right frame in the third pic from this article, or even a more pictorial mosaic artwork of your own design!

Even among builders who are less artistically-minded — kids and adults alike — I suspect there'd be a lot of interest in recreating stuff like superhero insignias, pixel- or voxel-based imagery from popular video games (like Pokémon, Super Mario, and Minecraft), or other "pop art" along those lines. After all, that's the sort of stuff a lot of kids already tend to enjoy creating with other craft materials like Perler beads, as numerous summer camp counselors can attest.

@Joefish said:
"While I love the concept, the price is way more than I could ever consider for a mosaic. Looking at the spread of colours there must be huge amounts of redundant parts left over. And it's not even a very good portrait of a Classic Space figure. Shading him with tan and brown because it's such an enforced 'happy' set that there aren't any greys just makes him look muddy."

I can't say I've ever thought of tans and browns as "happy" colors! To me, the sepia-ish shading kinda adds to the authentic/vintage look, since these days a lot of surviving Classic Space stuff like ads, instruction manuals, and actual parts tends to be at least slightly "yellowed".

@Synthia1980 said:
" @Sethro3 said:
" @Synthia1980 said:
"I am into these art sets. I see this is the same price as some of the others I have: Marilyn, Beatles, Mickey but those I’d say have royalties to pay, whilst I assume this one doesn’t. Why is not cheaper therefore? "

It's 1000 more pieces. So that maybe that makes up the difference in pricing level without royalties?"

Sort of, but the Harry Potter one is virtually the same piece count? "

Honestly, I think licensing often has a lot less impact on price-per-piece than people believe it does. Certainly, there are lots of licensed sets with an unusually high price per piece, but a lot of the time that's because they contain a large number of set- and theme-specific prints, molds, recolors, etc. relative to their size.

For example, it goes without saying that a lot of the Jurassic World sets have VERY high prices relative their piece counts — but the same can be said for the non-licensed Dino sets from nearly a decade ago. By contrast, the Speed Champions sets tend to have unusually LOW price per piece due to their heavy reliance on small detail elements, regardless of the sheer number of licensed brands that make up the theme.

Even within a single licensed theme, there's a sharp distinction between the price per piece of a set like 75315 — containing lots of large structural elements like wedge plates and panels, as well as a number of elaborate, character-specific new minifigure decorations and molds — and one like 75308 — made primarily from small, generic detail elements and connectors, and hardly any decorated or specially molded elements at all!

Pick up any cross stitch sampler book for ideas with this.

I have one word for this: Ministeck.
https://second.wiki/wiki/ministeck

A few months ago, inside TLG headquarters;

"Are you sure we need another Art set boss? The people keep on asking for castle and space."

"Nah, we've got to dump all these little round tiles somewhere, just make a bunch of emojis or something."

"Perhaps a compromise then?"

Someday we'll get dark green round tiles. But that day is not today, sadly.

Will there be a lego NYC build contest article?

@Duq said:
"I have one word for this: Ministeck.
https://second.wiki/wiki/ministeck"

@Jiesdeo said:
"So.... perler beads?"

Both of those (and diamond art, and most things like that) are essentially use-it-and-lose-it, you can put the pieces together once and you have your one mosaic. These are the opposite of that, where you could build and rebuild any number of mosaics with the parts in this set, but you could *also* entirely ignore the rest of the set and just use these pieces for other, non-mosaic builds. The same cannot be said for perler beads, ministeck, diamond art, the list goes on.

(Also Lego has been doing mosaics for about 40 years so let's not act like they're copying anyone here https://brickset.com/sets/tag-Mosaic/page-1)

I was initially quite excited about this, but I'd really like a range of purples to be included. Will wait until they produce medium lavender and medium lilac.

No crack in the chin strap, would have to mod.

@reardonmj said:
" @Starik20X7 said:
"I was intrigued, and then I saw the Classic Space Minifig and I'm sold!"

Yep, me too."

Same. Has to be blue for Benny though.

why would you pay for this kind of thing with overpriced legos... 120 dollars....
you can do similar stuff as this with diamond painting (google it if you dont know what it is) and its dirt cheap in comparison.

@burem0n0 said:
"why would you pay for this kind of thing with overpriced legos... 120 dollars....
you can do similar stuff as this with diamond painting (google it if you dont know what it is) and its dirt cheap in comparison."

$120 for over 4100 parts that you can use in an infinite number of non-mosaic builds. The same just can't be said for diamond art. If you only want one mosaic that you make once and then do nothing with, sure, go for diamond art. If you want many, many, many different mosaic options, and then pieces you can use in builds that aren't mosaics, then this is the infinitely better deal.