Is This Really LEGO Space? - The LEGO Theme Made of LEGO Themes

LEGO put in a lot of effort into all of this space stuff, but is it really a LEGO Space theme?
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[@Stickfigure414]

I am genuinely loving the new Space sets. My most favorite is their simple but awesome Interstellar Spaceship. I genuinely want all of the City Space sets and the beautiful art one to display above the playsets. Such an incredible lineup. This is the first time I felt so compelled to get so many sets tied to a theme.

[@dykor3531]

we really need classic, timeless themes like space, western, medieval and pirates to come back

[@PenPlays]

My friend, when it comes to space, oh BOY do I have news for you… (watch the vid)

[@EntretuGaming]

and adventurers!

[@xhearthfirex6571]

Definetly

[@xhearthfirex6571]

@@PenPlaysbut this space is something else. It’s just space shoehorned into existing themes making it uniform under one name.

[@PenPlays]

@@xhearthfirex6571 Aren't Mars Mission, Insectoids, Galaxy Squad, and Alien Conquest all action themes being shoehorned under the unified name of Space? This in it of itself is a Space staple, and not new.

[@random1911]

Space Police 2 and Ice Planet were my first sets. And in my childhood I wished about related themes I've seen in catalogs. I'd like a tribute for Blacktron 2 / Space Police 1-2 / Ice Planet / UFO as they did for Galaxy Explorer

[@pink_ice9454]

Y’know, I used to dislike the concept of Lego just using pre established themes to introduce new and/or beloved concepts, but after what I’ve seen them do this year, I gotta say I’m 100% on board. Heck, I NEVER would’ve thought that Lego city would come to a point where they’re literally remaking old sets from beloved themes (as per the new Robot World set), but they are, and I love it so much. I just hope this goes on to show Lego that new ideas will indeed sell, as long as we keep up the demand and we keep purchasing. Buy these sets people! 2024 Lego space rocks

[@VersatileFunDesigns]

In addition to the sets you mentioned, LEGO recently released 2 sets that only have the Space theme, 40715 and 40716, the former including a white Classic Space torso! They also released the 40687 Limited Edition Alien Space Diner GWP with white and orange Classic Space torsos, but I wish they would have included a new color in the CMF Series 26! I built a lot of these sets without instructions, including the 42179 Orrery during the North American Eclipse!

[@sonicguyver7445]

I'm loving this new cross-theme sub-theme idea. I personally am most enamored with City Space. It's a perfect fit for my own space adventures I was thinking of. I got got four of the sets, and trust me that is the most I have gotten in any theme for almost 20 years. I also built some of the robots with spare parts by looking up the instructions online. I even included an older set, the 3 in 1 space miner mech. It's an old leftover from a collapsed alien empire that ruled half the galaxy 1,000 years ago. But putting my cast in these new space suits and having them meeting aliens has been so much fun. I also used some of the robots from the CMF series. I like to think they are built by the tiny aliens from the Imposter minifig. In my mind they are master robot builders, an in-universe version of Babu Fric. With so much stuff, there is so much to pick from to make the adventures I want!

[@pwcorgi2000]

I really hope that Lego does more of these themes using most of the different sub-themes. It's a very cool idea.

[@Blue-Ninja2000]

If you told me last year we’d be getting a bunch of different space sets, I would assume it would be it’s own unique Space Theme. Honestly I really do enjoy this approach of overarching Space subthemes that pretty much can create its own theme, with how separate the City Space line feels from its other sets. If you have sets from all the Space sub themes, you could just display it all together separately from their own themes and pretend it’s all 1 single Space Theme

[@rennythespaceguy7285]

I really hope this does well, while Pirates and Castle have been managing to get semi consistent releases since the sandbox theme consolidation Space has always drawn the short straw, in ideas, creator, icons, etc aside from the rare classic Space inspired things any space offerings are more realistic shuttles and such instead of more of the brightly coloured sci-fi fair of yesteryear. This is much more what I think of with LEGO Space, maybe if it does well we could get a full space theme not about killing aliens

[@PenPlays]

That's the eventual hope.

[@kevhooper8971]

I wasn’t sure about the city space sets to start with. Then I got them and quickly realised that this is the closest I’m going to get to Star Trek in genuine Lego. They are great fun to build and play with alongside my kids. Here’s to the range expanding, and other creators mixing and mashing to create their own wonderful stuff

[@aidianajones]

I absolutely adore the City sets. I hope we can get a similar thing for castle one year, or dinosaurs.

[@RRSlugger]

Cool video, PenPlays! While the set designs in this 2024 wave aren’t really what I’m looking for from LEGO Space, they’re certainly interesting nonetheless. I’m curious where you got the image from at 0:36? I’m assuming it’s from the LEGO website somewhere? It’s cool to see the various themes all represented by different planets! 😊

[@PenPlays]

I pulled a lot of assets from the LEGO website, and some of the smaller online shops that received marketing materials like it. Unfortunately I'm not sure specifically where it's from.

[@mihailos8701]

@@PenPlays I've gotten physical Lego catalogue for the first half of 2024, and that picture is shown right on the first page inside with extra text about Lego Space 2024, so maybe that's where it came from at first

[@mihailos8701]

Hi Slugger! Glad to see you here, because I think it's a good video that's worth a watch. Since we're on topic of Lego Space 2024, would you make another video, or videos, about it, on the main channel? While I do agree that the start wasn't strongest, and a little bit odd, I feel like it has started to become better as time went on. And it seems that it's mostly about being something of its own, without leaning too much on old themes, which, in this particular case, I like, at least with Lego City Space 2024

[@RRSlugger]

@@mihailos8701 I plan to make a bit of a follow up video this summer! I have more sets on the way from the theme and have changed my perspective on a few points. 🙂

[@mihailos8701]

@@RRSlugger Thank you! Gonna gladly wait for those videos 😃

[@johnxscar]

love this space lego order abunch of them for my kids birthday

[@ZathsLegoBuilds]

My favourite is the Interstellar spaceship and Space Explorer Rover and Alien Life (although i think the landscape portion wasnt really necessary). I just wish Lego had staggered the releases a bit more for each subline instead of for instance getting almost all City sets in January. Release a few sets every 2 or 3 months so they can cover the full year. I do hope the theme carries on in 2025 and we can get even cooler sets. Almost all of my content is about the City Space theme.

[@Vasher-The-Destroyer]

Space is definitely coming back, although this is more of it's own thing but seems to take inspiration from the original I would love to see the space side of lego expanded even further. But I'm wondering if this line had done well?

[@hbcreates8355]

From what I'm aware even Lego Pab Minifigures are joining in. Apparently there's exclusive space torsos ya can buy in Lego stores? I lun how ya noted each set can interact with each other, no matter if it's a friend's or technic set. I like how the minifgure series can really flesh out your sets. I really wonder what Legos take away will be from this experiment. Friends pirates sets ? Technic castle? Lol doubt it

[@PenPlays]

Imagine a Friends Schooner or a Technic Trebuchet haha. Build-a-Minifig is getting in on those special parts, it’s true, but it’s hard to include it when access to LEGO stores are rather limited in the grand scheme

[@timebomb42]

Great video, I think what also helps this line is the fact that it was subtly announced and didn't beat you over the head with advertising. With consistent color schemes, and building styles, I can see how it would be easy for a lot of people to buy these sets regardless of the theme that they're from because they all generally look related..... And not in a bad way. I also like how it is a combination of several major themes, without it being too many. We don't need everything to have a space wave (looking at you Ninjago/monkey kid, I know monkey kid did have a couple of space sets)

[@WarpigA23]

You are so wrong: we DO need Ninjago Space! 😀

[@octav1600]

I love these sets. Got multiples of them. My only issue with them is that the Airlock brick is too small (should have been one size larger T_T ) and that I am not sure if they will continue. I really wish these would continue and make greater sets to come (different factions like in the good old days )

[@sethg1116]

Great video! While i would like to see castle get the same treatment space is getting, i dont think that it would happen. I hope we are getting a dungeon and dragons theme, hopefully the ideas set will be like the sonic ideas set and lead to a full fledged theme. I think its pretty likely as we are getting a dnd cmf line in September

[@alantorrance1475]

It's the lego multiverse - across city, friends, technic, art etc

[@PenPlays]

That's certainly one way to put it. Tho all the marketing wants to imply it's all the same shared galaxy, which I suppose is also pretty neat.

[@benjaminstorace6699]

I honestly hope it succeeds just so they do what they should have to begin with and pull this with Castle.

[@PenPlays]

I’d like to think that the new LEGO Friends Castle Bed and Breakfast is jus the start of something just like it. LEGO City Renaissance Fair would be the easiest way for that theme to pull things off too. In this situation, Creator would be the best theme to spearhead things like City had done with Space. We have options.

[@fictionverse7292]

I like the new space sets, but my only problem is no conflict. One of the major things people like space themes is the conflict

[@ClassicStudStudios]

I believe what they’ve done for space has been great, it’s not exactly what people wanted but I think if the ship designs were just a little more out there I think it would warm up to people, I think the way so many themes got connected is really fun and sets a standard for how something like this can happen in the future!. For castle, it’s kinda hard to do something in city/friends , except if you do a Ren-Fair subtheme which I think castle fans would be fine with!, then a CMF and stuff in creator and dreamzzz is also possible, which means you can have something of a similar scale to what we got from space. Anyway this was a fantastic video Pen great job!

[@PenPlays]

See but the vehicles are kinda out there already. A ship (in the shape of the Classic space logo) capable of interstellar travel? Multiple off-road, and possibly transforming mobile command centers? It’s just as wild as fans have been clamoring for. They’re just having trouble looking beyond the LEGO City logo.

[@ClassicStudStudios]

@@PenPlays actually…I think you’re right, hell I think I overlooked it because it’s underneath city 😂. I will say though that I think I’ll get the small spaceship and lab cause both those are absolutely fantastic for their price

[@xhearthfirex6571]

But we NEED different factions and corporations with each their own styling ! That’s the whole unique appeal

[@PenPlays]

@@xhearthfirex6571 That stopped in the early 2000's and no one complained. The only time factions were depicted after was if there were genuine antagonists. Of course, each respective space theme since has come with their individualized styling. LEGO just isn't marketing them under one label to get you to buy the old stuff when the new stuff released like they did back in the 80's and 90's

[@PenPlays]

I do want to add here that the Castle Bed and Breakfast in LEGO Friends delivers on the end of Friends + Castle in a very LEGO Friends way

[@AJB2K3]

Its defiantly not the same but its covering the whole range of products

[@workbenchstuff]

For me, this is not Lego Space as it was in the 80-90s. Some sets are really nice and I would love to have them, but others are childish with so little feeling of the classic Space theme. But hey, we grew up with classic Space, our kids will grow up with these new Space sets.

[@Sargentsnakeeyes]

Actually now that I think about imagine if lego made a spy super subtheme like agents/ultra agents that would probably be the coolest subtheme in my opinion

[@PenPlays]

Nothing would make me more excited than a modern-day secret agent LEGO theme. Agents and Ultra Agents each represent their respective eras well, and just thinking about how modern set design would take these sets... WOW. I would love that so much.

[@Sargentsnakeeyes]

@@PenPlays and speaking of themes I know it was probably just for the lego fortnite game mode but I can't help but hope that it means that we're getting lego tmnt and atla back as themes again

[@PenPlays]

Always good to be hopeful that LEGO will finally do sets off iconic cartoons again.

[@Sargentsnakeeyes]

@@PenPlays and heck for the tmnt side of things half of the tmnt theme would be the classic tmnt and the other half would be the modern tmnt with the turtles and shredder designs would take inspiration from the idw comics

[@PenPlays]

@@Sargentsnakeeyes Not making sets directly off the original series did not help the theme's case. However, it's high time they just blanket cover all the mainlines for the franchise. No one version of the turtles are without some draw.

[@OnePoundBird]

cool idea for a supertheme for a year, though i dont see how this could really work for things like castle or pirates because the idea of those are so much more narrower than space i wouldve been overjoyed for all of this, but im a huge shill for only the old space stuff because their color schemes are so vanilla and many of them have hard to define shapes thus, these are not my cup of tea so i just got the collectable minifigures that refrenced old themes (except the beetlezoid) i still think 2022 was the best year of space as of lately because of the (god forbidden) blacktron and micro gwps as well as the 3in1 galaxy explorer

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

Saje here and I see no0 reason why this can't be the prequel Lego space theme like how power miners could be a prequel to Rock raiders.

[@ender7278]

Eh, I'm still not a fan of them piggybacking off existing themes' brand names. The City and Friends space sets could've been released as Space and Star Friends or whatever and wouldn't have been any worse for it. It's just kinda depressing they feel the need to slap those brand names on these things for them to sell.

[@permeus2nd]

So the idea of a line between real and fiction is funny as stuff like the mobile phones we had in the 90s to the phones we have today came from fiction, I mean tell me the flip phones weren’t Star Trek communicators and today’s modern phones and tablets are basically Trek datapads. Scientists are using the ideas from Star Trek to try and do meny things, nasa reached out to the maker of Babylon 5 and was like hey you know them starfurys? Mind if we steal that design as it would actually work (maybe not as a fighter but) as a construction craft.

[@ChristopherMorgan-q6x]

Why won't lego bring back the western theme

[@skinnyj123]

Possibly due to it being too violent with the robberies, guns, bombs and criminal activity

[@ChristopherMorgan-q6x]

​@@skinnyj123 but they could try to make it kid friendly

[@WarpigA23]

"Is this really LEGO Space?" IMHO, this is a pointless question. Buy the sets you like, don't buy the ones you don't.

[@jekz300]

For the last time 2024 SPACE IS NOT ON MARS

[@WarpigA23]

It is if you want it to be!

[@jekz300]

Planet x

[@PaleozoicBricks]

Space 2024 is not the space theme I have been waiting for. The designs for me are too mundane and boing. To me 2024 space feels very sterile . I miss the very 70s, 80s and 90s designs of space in the 20th century. I find most of lego space from that time took inspiration from Chris Foss's artwork for going out there with the design language. Like looking at out future 10.000 years out. As a big fan of classical sci fi I tend to prefer designs like those more. I personal hate NASA punk as and ascetic, so these sets were never going to appeal to me. I do hope one day we can see a more, Jodorowsky Dune, Foundation, Space Battleship Yamato esc space theme again. but to day is not that day.

[@RockwellAIM65]

Every week that goes by has me hate-hate-hating the new (ahem) "lego space" set I bought more. It's really awful. I don't know who thought of this but I never bought a set that initially I liked, but gradually brewed into a set that I want to smash into pieces, in the trash can. I hope lego gets their act together before webrick and the others eat their lunch.

[@PenPlays]

That’s unfortunate. Which set did you end up not liking?

[@studebricker2845]

Sorry but these new "space" sets are not at all like classic Legoland space. The designs are just boring, the colors have too much white, too reality based. The most interesting set is actually the Friends purple rover thing.

[@WarpigA23]

Too much white? Oh, if only there was a way to change the color of a Lego set...

[@studebricker2845]

@@WarpigA23 If you were paying attention, the first problem I mentioned was that the DESIGNS are boring. So just changing the color doesn't fix the bad designs. Nice try being clever though LOL

[@RockwellAIM65]

@@WarpigA23 Yeah. What were they thinking? I mean... really? These guys are designers? Are you sure? hehe.