Needs a freeze ray to keep the police rocket from blasting away when parked.

Gotta love those stop signs and traffic signals on the way to the moon....

When LEGO and the dialogue from Batman and Robin (1997) collide.

Quick lore!
City on the moon!
Biker gang! Black Hole Gang!
Police chase! Speeding ticket!
Quick lore!

@PhantomBricks said:
"I remember my brother having about six sets from this theme. Four from the first wave(this set being one) and two from the second wave. Frenzy and his green brother as well as the skull twins are perfect for Star Wars minifigs. And of course, this theme introduced us to the legendary minifig that is "Brick Daddy".

It's also fun to see dated building techniques. Their offset stud seating build for Frenzy is obsolete due to the new pieces released."

Me: “haha that nickname…. Wait it’s actually named that in the Brickset database?”

https://brickset.com/minifigs/sp114/space-police-3-alien-brick-daddy

This being the most I've ever paid attention to this set, I just realized the police space cycle-thing is built on a backward old tricycle frame. Looks uncomfortable for the flier.

Maybe the "freeze ray" is the green cone on the black cycle, in the function of an ion cannon or cruise disruptor.

There were no Batman sets released in 2009, so no names to mix-up that would've fit in a Space Police theme.

Kranxx is Orange, Rench is Green (that's for my fellow Transformers fans...)

@560heliport:
Rench’s torso print is also based on the proper Blacktron torso.

I really like this set.

@PurpleDave:
It sure is. Yeesh, can't believe I didn't notice that!

No way this theme will fly today.

I'm so sad that it has fallen into my dark age.

The eponymous freeze ray does look kind of tacked on to the bad guy ship there…but I suppose if he’s nicked it and hastily bolted it on then that’s exactly how it would look so yay accuracy

@autofire372 said:
"I miss LEGO Space. The Star Wars sets just aren't the same, and I'm too young to appreciate all the Classic Space throwbacks."

Same here. The Classic Space nostalgic sets are aimed at the generation that preceded me, which is fine, it just doesn't get me at all. Now if they did a throwback set to this Space Police line, Alien Conquest, and/or Galaxy Squad, I'd be first in line.

Anyways, I remember having this set and being fascinated with the choice to make the bad guy's seat be those diagonal 2 studs with tiles interspersed (having a hard time describing it but hopefully you all can see which area I'm talking about) instead of just a normal 2x2 stud surface. Like, why?

@autofire372 said:
"I miss LEGO Space. The Star Wars sets just aren't the same, and I'm too young to appreciate all the Classic Space throwbacks."

Thoughts on the City Space line? I think there’s some pretty fantastic stuff coming out in those sets that kinda goes under the radar because of the City branding.

@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
" @560heliport said:
" @ElephantKnight said:
"I'm not saying the bad guys are Blacktron 3...

But Space Police 1 had Blacktron 1...

And Space Police 2 had Blacktron 2..."

Well, Rench, the green-skinned version of this set's bad guy, has the Blacktron 2 logo on his torso, so..."

Must be the Blacktron Order, who rose up from the ashes of the old Blacktron in the Unknown Regions. Little did the Space Police know the strings were being pulled by the late emperor of Blacktron II himself from the very beginning, only to be revealed in a galaxy wide broadcast."

Somehow, he returned!

*Wipes away tears, goes put Andor on*

Sorry, what were we talking about?
Space Police 3 was the coolest stuff for a long time, but right in my dark ages unfortunately. I really want TLG to give us something new fantasy space theme that isn't Disney owned.

I completely missed out on Space Police, but it looks cool, especially those minifigs. Wish we had a new Space theme.

Cool alternative use of the bike frame and container, although main vehicle looks a bit fragile in the middle. Together with 5969 8399, 8400 we could have a great advent calendar of mini-figures and small vehicle builds.

this part https://brickset.com/parts/4234006 used for trikes as a base for the cop is seen on here

One of the first sets I ever owned, but I would not have remembered it looked like that in it's completed form

@JasonBall34:
There’s an engine that’s three studs wide and has a notch top and bottom in the center. They used that and put the minifig in the upper notch, so to center him they had to stagger a pair of jumper plates. Because apparently making the long-jumper that early was too much trouble.

Goofy optics on the Space Police line

@PurpleDave said:
" @JasonBall34:
There’s an engine that’s three studs wide and has a notch top and bottom in the center. They used that and put the minifig in the upper notch, so to center him they had to stagger a pair of jumper plates. Because apparently making the long-jumper that early was too much trouble."

Well, it perfectly managed without those parts in this case. That's why.
Back in 2009 new parts focussed on doing things other parts just couldn't do. Now we see parts that are on their own a bit more efficient than what one or two parts used to do together. As a result the given parts in sets can get very... specific.
Personally I like olders sets because they made amazing builds despite not having a handy modified part for every scenario yet, but that's just me.

Of all the subthemes of the last 30 years, this might be the one I most wanted to play with—and that includes plenty of things that debuted when I was a child. It's a rotten shame these had to come out when I was well into adulthood. Oh, I bought and enjoyed most of them then, but they would have been centerpieces when I was little. Every single one of them. Endless hours of play value.

Beautiful as Space Police I was, it never seemed to "fit" in the line-up of factions. The cohesive uniforms and color schemes of its contemporary subthemes seemed to indicate that M-Tron, Blacktron, Futuron, etc. were agencies of different interstellar governments. They would be expected to engage one another directly, not via a police intermediary. But Space Police III was dealing with civilians—and such fantastic alien civilians too. It was everything I was missing with my (otherwise fantastic) childhood space collection. I filled that hole as best I could back then, but Space Police III would have been better.

@Binnekamp:
Not really. Kranxx has a diagonal 1.5 stud connection. There’s a solid connection on one ankle, and a tenuous one on the opposite cheek. This made it really easy to knock him out of his seat by accident.

My first Space Police (iii) set, and I remain quite fond of it. There's SOMETHING--and I don't know what exactly--missing from it as an overall Space theme: maybe something 80s/90s, or explorationish, or civilian... I dunno.

But the designs of the sets are fantastic. The crooks are among LEGO's best work ever, including our friend Krankx here. And while the titular Space Police are not quite as exciting next to the criminals, they still have some solid ships.

You don't need Star Wars to have speeder bikes! Sort of a shame they didn't figure out something to do with the axles sticking out of the cop's.

I absolutely loved this line of sets. The mix up of space and city vehicles is still cool after all these years. The alien figs were just awesome. The Raid VPR is quite possibly my favorite $10 set of all time. I’ve made roughly 10 Different versions of this set in so many colors.

This RSOTD helped spurn building ideas for trike elements that were missing the handlebars too!

Wow, nostalgia hit right there. I collected a good batch of the SP3 sets back in the day and this was one of my first.

Kranxx is still my favorite alien from the whole range.
I armed with one of those old-school revolver pieces at some point and he's hung on to it ever since. Something about a tentacle-headed dude riding a literal jet engine while slinging a regular six-shooter is just magic.