Author: Mark

6970-1: Beta I Command Base, 1980. The quintessential space base set: base, spaceship + launcher, rover. Even has a tiny monorail!

6901-1: Mobile Lab, 1980. Look at all those green windows! 💚 I imagined these rolling across lunar landscapes like so many alien elephants.

6861-1: X1 Patrol Craft, 1980. One of the finest small fighters. This thing felt like it was all engines. First use of green windscreen brick.

6841-1: Mineral Detector, 1980. Kind of goofy with the big blocky swinging arms but I like it. Perfect companion to yesterday’s Shovel Buggy.

6821-1: Shovel Buggy, 1980. I’m a sucker for sets with construction/loading functionality. Love the shovel piece with articulated arm.

487-1: Space Cruiser, 1978. LL924. Mid-sized enclosed spaceship. I 💙 the forklift and crate! Cargo doors in rear, seating for two.

918-1: Space Transport, 1979. LL918! Little brother to the Galaxy Explorer. Smallest of three fully enclosed early spaceships. Storage in the rear.

483-1: Alpha-1 Rocket Base, 1978. My 1st LEGO space set! Rocket, movable gantry, fuel truck, control center, radar for tracking, and three astronauts. 💙💛