Category: Micro

6842-1: Small Space Shuttle Craft, 1981. Like riding a rocket. Sort of a speeder bike two years before Return of the Jedi showed us how speeder bikes could be.

6822-1: Space Digger, 1981. Sort of like a space backhoe? Compact but functional. ❤️ the grabber jaws.

6801-1: Moon Buggy, 1981. How is this a buggy w/o wheels? Cool use of radar dish. Nice to get two accessories and a printed slope in such a small set.

That’s it for LEGO Space 1980. Next up: 1981.

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.