I think that the special pieces are good actually. What I don’t like though is that that makes the kits less versatile – eg a wall is now made of one big wall piece – you can’t use that for anything except building a wall whereas in the past, it’d have been built of lots of blocks which then allowed you to build all sorts of stuff – basically it makes building up a collection of Lego more expensive.
I’m just rediscovering the joys of Lego – I used to love it and have loads when I was a kid – now my son’s getting into it. I got a huge box of it second hand a couple of weeks ago from gumtree for only £30 – reckon there’s about £3-400 worth in there! Result but it’s a shame it’s mainly the Harry Potter stuff as my son just wants to build spaceships…
must go into my parents’ attic to see if mine is still up there.
Anyone else recall this?
(I know it’s the US version of the 928 – Lego geek 😉 )
It was kinda hard to build I remember that much. How the differential worked still confuses me to this day. The gearbox even worked! Can’t remember if it was two speeds or forward and reverse, though.
Apparently, Lego are the World’s biggest tyre manufacturer or something?
Special pieces don’t have to be a problem – I mean decent CV joints enable FWD or 4WD which was never really possible before. I made a CV joint from standard bits but it was a bit too big to be of use.
Yep, that Galaxy Explorer rocked – but so did a lot of the space kits.
And Rachel, I was given that car for Christmas … I had a right strop when my brother kept using the controller because I thought he’d kill the batteries. Just downloaded the instructions and a whole load of memories came flooding back 🙂 Happy days.
It’s the full 10 minute version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, re-enacted with stop frame animation Lego characters.
Dancing Lego zombies. Life just doesn’t get any better than this.
I had the rear engined car chassis. The Galaxy Explorer was a dream set of mine when I was younger, which I never got… until about 3 years ago when I picked one up from eBay. 🙂
I did get the Galaxy Commander, which was a successor to the Galaxy Commander for a birthday when I was a kid, though: