I don't understand what this will do against minifig-inoid insectoid things, since, as said,
@GSR_MataNui
"This is a chair!"

@MCLegoboy: when I saw this, I thought of Nute Gunray riding on the Droideka in Episode 1! Walking chair, indeed.

@MCLegoboy:
Isn't a "mechno chair" still a mech, even if it's not a big war-waging monstrosity?

@Randomness:
As one of my college friends was fond of saying, "This is a game of 'Move Real Fast.'"

@Zordboy: I, on the other hand, think that the trans-clear brick is nice, as it means that you don't have to fiddle with posing the legs so it'll balance.

@Zordboy said:
"Maybe it's just me, but I've always felt like, using the transparent round brick underneath something, to hold it up, is kind of a cheat.

The bigger orange mecha was waaaaay cooler."

As an owner of the bigger mech/most of Galaxy squad, I can confirm and will not be getting this polybag lol

I know the "space marine vs. alien bugs" concept existed before and has been used since but the release of the first Galaxy Squad wave being close-ish to Wreck-It Ralph has led me to associate the theme with Hero's Duty. You could make a comparable argument with Hotel Transylvania and Monster Fighters... anyone want to continue this weird hypothesis?

This is a set that I am sure I have a plethora of. Or at least the parts to a plethora of them. I bought a collection of another AFOL and he had about 20-30 of these guys (No other GS minifigures) and a set of instructions for this set. I haven't got around to pulling out one of them for my set collection yet, and I won't be getting every single one out. I do really like the Galaxy squad range though.

@Miyakan said:
"This is a set that I am sure I have a plethora of. Or at least the parts to a plethora of them. I bought a collection of another AFOL and he had about 20-30 of these guys (No other GS minifigures) and a set of instructions for this set. I haven't got around to pulling out one of them for my set collection yet, and I won't be getting every single one out. I do really like the Galaxy squad range though."

Dang and I thought I had a lot with four! Galaxy Squad is so awesome. My kids are still getting the sets out every so often to play with them.

I loved how they color coded the heroes. Those sets were great, but I was never a fan of the insect enemies.

The "feet" look like those silicone chair-leg protectors.

So I think the space bugs chewed this dude's legs off and threw him into a wormhole out of which he landed in the Ninjago universe to become the problematicly but accurately named Daddy No Legs.

https://brickset.com/minifigs/njo468/daddy-no-legs

One of the few GS sets I don't have...and I wish TLG would bring back those style of helmets...

@Trigger_:
Is it cheating if we mention licensed movie tie-ins?

@Miyakan:
Obviously I can’t see what’s going on inside that individual’s head (cracking their skull open would be illegal!), but if I had bought that many (and nothing else from the theme), it would be because I planned to use the spacesuits for a MOC, because I wanted a bunch of the models for a display/MOC, or because it was a quick way to amass a bunch of certain parts used in the model. I actually got a bunch of original Dooku torsos to use as a pilot uniform, so I get the appeal of army-building figbash. Often minifigs like this would run about the cost of the polybag, plus you get the parts as a bonus vs buying on Bricklink where your “bonus” is shipping and other miscellaneous charges tacked on to the bill.

I feel like a mech should at least have arms. That's just a Boston Dynamics throne

@PurpleDave said:
" @Trigger_ :
Is it cheating if we mention licensed movie tie-ins?
"
Seeing as there’s an objective link in that case as opposed to some aberrant association me or someone else somehow generated within their mind, often by overanalyzing things… yes. :)
Since I’m here, another cursed comparison nobody asked for— The LEGO Movie sets gave us a red-clad wrestler named El Macho and an ice cream truck that’s more than meets the eye, and the film itself had a villain who has a taco party as a front for his evil (Despicable Me 2).

I had to buy this, at the time I was going through my "must get all sets in a theme" phase. Really glad I grew out of that (please ignore all of my Ninjago Ninja Training spinners).
Absolutely loved this theme, I bricklinked a bunch of the smaller bug builds and multiple of the larger bug sets so the Squad would have more bugs to fight.

@Librarian1976 said:
"This is the one Galaxy Squad set I have. I think it was a GWP. Though I am a child of the ‘80’s and should hold classic space in the highest regard, I honestly feel that Galaxy Squad, Space Police III, and Alien Conquest are the pinnacle of LEGO Space."

Galaxy squad, space police III AND Blacktron!

Always glad to see some love for the theme!

I love this little set. It's a bit goofy but you can army build with it if you wish. Even when you don't it's nice to get a smaller ground force vehicle to go with the Eradicator Mech and dropship-esque Bug Obliterator. Between those three you'll have four pilots, two robots and five vehicles. Not bad!
And like always you can just use the facemask on the ones you have doubles of to anonymize them!

I always thought of this as a mobile heavy turret. It can move and aim, and it could probably walk to its destination quickly but you won't be that fast. Fittingly in line with the orange team's focus on firepower over shielding, speed or long-range accuracy.

I have this one.
I assume I bought it from a charity shop as I have no other reason to own it.
It lives in the plastic storage box labelled 'Miscellaneous'.
The most mysterious and exciting of boxes !

@Ridgeheart said:
"Wasn't this somehow connected to the Agents-line?"

Yep. Solomon Blaze, the Blue Team leader, appeared years later as the team leader in Agents II. I'm sure there is more lore to that (he has a leg brace, as if dealing with old injuries) but that's all I remember right now

Oh, oh, I have this one! The last of the one-man, under-100-piece yellowverse (unlicensed) space vehicles. It has been ten years, and I don't mind the shift to putting space sets in Creator and occasional city subthemes, even if it's not a full line of sets, and if it's based on "real life" concepts instead of sci-fi. The benefit of hindsight without constant new subthemes is realizing that my favorite era was the "Faction Space," as Rambling Brick calls it, from Futuron to Life on Mars (1987-1999), except for the nonhuman UFOs and Insectoids.

The last of the yellowverse sci-fi scouts, and I'm glad I have it.

Galaxy Squad was a great theme! It's one of the first I got when I came out of my dark ages. The human side has great ships, but admittedly, the alien side has good pieces but clunky designs. I've always wanted to make a new Matrix-style human farm with those pieces though...

One of the first polybags my local Walmart had. Previously, polybags were something I only found an hour and a half away at Target.

@brick_r said:
"One of the few GS sets I don't have...and I wish TLG would bring back those style of helmets..."

YAAASSSS! Loved the SPIII style helmets in all the colors. It's an elegant design. So delightfully round in the skull with interesting lines and functional details (chin handle), but not too busy.

Man, I really hope we get another space theme soon. This is like the second or third time in the past few months that Galaxy Squad has been featured on RSotD, and I hope it’s a sign lol.

If this was, in fact, a GWP, that might explain why I have it--Galaxy Squad came out during my lean years, and while I wouldn't put it past past-me to have picked this up deliberately, just to have one of the then-contemporary Space sets, getting it as a GWP on one of my few purchases. Though I do have the other, Insectoid polybag... so who knows?

I could tell you which store I bought a polybag at in 1998 and the financial circumstances that led to it and the other sets that were on the shelves... but in the last decade the memories have faded much faster.

Still, I like this guy/set. It's a polybag, so I hold it to that standard, and he's my sole orange Galaxy Squad fig, so he gets some extra love from me on that front.