LEGO Benny's Spaceship Spaceship SPACESHIP Movie

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Give a kid a stack of LEGO bricks and it won’t take long for you to see a monstrosity you could never imagine. the cockpit includes stickers that go on 1X6 tiles which feature miniature versions of those original control panels. The build kicks off with three small craft; two of which are the same - a little one-person craft in Classic Space colours. This is fine, given what the ship is, though if you're picking this up to mine for pieces for classic space building the figures won't be of much use to you.

This is an excellent time to comment on the stickers, which are present I think more for the Classic Space reference than because they add to the model; you can compare to the set without stickers here or here. And you know, as well as anyone else who's been around as long as we have, that LUGNET was developed well before these cute 'out of the box' blogging/newsgroup software.Image two shows the big rear engine mounts, with some SNOT panelling disguising Technic beams, and a plate with some minor greebling and two droids. They had this at Toys R Us yesterday (and Emmet’s construction mech – didn’t think to check for the dropship). Firstly, the wedge-shaped profile is most apparent from this angle: the rise from the skinny nose to the bulky tail is quite dramatic, and the angle perfectly extends the rake of the cockpit canopy.

The film-strip decorations here diverge in a pattern resembling a movie clapperboard; the space between is bisected by the LEGO-ish fencing, and the resulting halves filled by the ship and its various accessories respectively. This is probably my favourite bit of homage in this whole set; they're adorable and will be really useful. The livery is to my eye somewhere between Blacktron and Space Police, though I confess I'm not too familiar with either of those lines.

If you're a TLM aficionado, or a Space fan, or you like anything that flies, or you just want a cheaper Benny, then this set is a must. The blue and yellow body hearken back to the early days of Lego Space, before Futuron, Space Police, Mars Exploration, Ice Planet, Blactron, and of course Star Wars.