#space legos

[bluenpinkcastle]

20221128: today’s reconstruction is almost the last of the classic space sets. this is 6970: Beta-1 Command Base. it was definitely a neat build that didn’t take too much time but I seriously have concerns about a lot of their safety issues. for instance: the shuttle has two rockets where the passengers sit between them with zero protection. also, this isn’t like a safe shuttle at all, as there’s also nothing to prevent the passengers from floating right off into space (if they survive getting off the ground and aren’t thrown out behind the rockets to be instantly incinerated). at least the terminal has steps to get up and down from the platform and at least the front of the passenger car has a guard rail (though nothing to prevent them from falling off sideways). I suppose in a situation with limited gravity, you wouldn’t worry too much about people plummeting to their deaths but the station itself also doesn’t have any atmospheric protection, which means they should not be taking off their helmets to enjoy beverages, as implied by the mug on the table. overall? a fun build to inspire good creativity but not a design to mimic for real-life space travel :D

[majianguo]

At Beachwalk Mall in Kuta, walking around on the 3rd floor near the food court, browsing through the Lego section like I usually do, I couldn’t believe what I saw, a retro space Lego set from the 80′s.  So tempting to buy it.......

[mossandfog]

The European Space Agency and LEGO Teamed Up to Print Bricks From Actual Meteorite Dust

We’ve long known that to build a habitat on the Moon or Mars, we’d have to use in-situ resources. That means building buildings and even colonies with material found on site. The promise of 3D printing makes this feel very possible. Now, people are moving ahead with prototype printing using similar material that is found here on earth. But what about printing with actual space-material? The…

[ghostscrown]

"The nether space is beyond the realms" ok so Kai be like

[coffeeisfortheresponsible]

shoutout to ninjago dragons rising for making jay mean and cool again

just a quick sketch bc i need to draw jay more actually he’s so fun

[midnightlavenderimp]

don't worry he didn't eat her he didn't have enough ingredients anyway

sorry about the style change on the last panel, i haven't touched this in over a month oops

[asleep-kat]

I hope they show SWK's kaiju form in s5

[stubz]

"Hey guys! 4 days and the rescue team will be here!...any luck with setting up that emergency shelter?" Quip looked towards the others.

They all groan and curse in response. The small group surrounded by pieces and parts and an instruction sheet.

"It's not hard...it's not! We have everything we need; food, water, first aid, enough to last us weeks! ...So why does our downfall have to because of a faulty packaging?!!" screams Glip throwing down the piece she was holding.

"We're not going to die! We'll just have to sleep in the shuttle tonight and bundle up close tonight..." sighs Quip.

The shuttle had crashed thanks to a malfunction on the navigation system which lead to the shuttle getting blindsided by a meteor shower.

No one was killed and the most injured would surely live and the planet they crashed on was a favorable one. They had plenty of emergency food and water but what they didn't have was a proper shelter. The planet they landed on was freezing cold in the night, reaching far below the negatives.

If only the emergency shelter included the much needed tools necessary to build it...

The night was cold and unforgiving. The shuttle creaked and groaned from the violent winds and accumulating snow on it's roof. The beings inside shivered and prayed that when they fell asleep they would wake up in the morning.

When morning came they had to dig themselves out of the shuttle. Over 3 feet of snow from last night. The roof sank in the center in a way that made everyone nervous.

"...just 3 days. We just have to make it through 3 more days and we'll be rescued." muttered Quip.

"If we don't get suffocated in our sleep that is...or freeze." grumbles Glip.

"Would it kill you to be positive?"

"Oh, I'm sorry! Unlike you I don't have a fur coat to keep me warm in the night and stayed up all night worried that I wouldn't wake up if went to sleep!"

"Stop yelling! You're making the others worry!"

"You-!"

"The human is awake! She woke up!" shouted a purple looking avian.

During the crash the only one to really get injured was the human on board, having hit their head on impact and been unconscious for the past 30 hours.

"...how is she?!" calls Glip

"She's lost it! She's digging through the snow like a lunatic!"

Glip and Quip share a look before heading to the other side of the shuttle where the avian was and looked.

There several yards away was the human who was digging through the snow with her bare hands.

"What's she doing?" asks Quip.

"No idea! She was already awake when I went to check on her looking for something in the shuttle and then made break for it once she saw the door was open...think she's brain damaged or something." they muttered.

"...someone should check on her." Glip says before shoving Quip forward.

..

After some arguing and reminders that out of the three of them he was the most people friendly Quip trudged out where the human was to check on her.

She had dug a hole nearly 4 feet deep and showed no signs of stopping. The look in her eyes and bloody bandages on her head made Quip feel she was too far gone to the Great Stars but he had to the right thing.

"...heeyyyy...Kim...what uh, watcha doing there?" he asked a safe 5 feet away.

"Looking for tools...need tools for the shelter." she muttered.

"Tools? ...Kim the shelter didn't come with tools; they weren't lost in he crash." he tried to gently explain.

"Not those, different tools. Good tools that every planet has."

"And what...tools, are those?"

"Rocks and sticks!"

"...great! Good luck on that!" he walked as fast he could to the others, practicing how to gently break the news that the human was broken.

...

Hours passed and the human Kim had founded 3 rocks of different sizes, some large sticks, and taken whatever pieces of the shuttle that had broken off and put them in a pile in front of the Emergency Instantaneous Shelter manual.

The others looked on with pity with some looking disturbed at how proud she was for her findings.

No one stopped her when she started to grab the pieces of the E.I.S. and smash them together with her rocks and hunks of broken metal. Nor when they heard the scraping and screeching of the metal shards she twisted against them. Without tools it was worthless...plus the determined manic look in her eyes scared everyone too much.

When night was starting to fall everyone had taken refuge in the shelter again. Everyone but the human who was too focused and entertained by the smashing of rocks and scratching of metal.

"Kim! Come inside! You'll freeze out here!" ordered Quip.

"Human! You don't have fur or anything to keep you warm during the night!" Glip shouted.

The human looked at them and smiled, waving and shouting that she was almost finished.

"...she's a little out of it but she's well enough to come inside when she should." Glip pushed her friend through the shuttle door and together they joined the sleep pile.

....

When Glip surfaced from the snow that landed on her face she screamed for everyone to leave. The roof had finally gave and was seconds away from dropping a mountain of snow onto them all.

She grabbed Quip and the purple avian, Kal, and dragged their half-asleep panicked bodies out of the shuttle. When out she watched with them and the others the shuttle concaving from the snow.

The wind and snow bit and scratched their faces and exposed flesh. The shrieks and howls from the dying shuttle, their only hope of surviving the nights, seemed almost organic. The fear and realization of their fate made them shiver more than the cold did.

"DONE! ITS FINALLY FINISHED! LOOK! LOOK AT WHAT I BUILT!!!" The human popped up from the other side of the destroyed shuttle, eyes wide and glowing from the flare she held for light.

When no one came forward fast enough for her liking she scrambled over and grabbed Kal and dragged them towards the thing she built.

"ITS NOT AS NICE AS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WITH REAL TOOLS BUT I LIKE IT! YOU CAN HAVE SECOND DIBS OF WHAT SPOT YOU WANT!" she shouted over the howling wind.

The two disappeared from view for a minute before Kal popped his head out screaming.

She had built the Emergency Instantaneous Shelter. With nothing but the rocks and pieces of metal she found. It wasn't perfect; a wall or two was dented, the roof was scratched and somewhat held up by two strong sticks she dug up, but it was warm, safe, and dry.

"...how in the f*ck did you build this?" Quip shivered as he climbed inside.

"I just followed the instructions, its pretty simple really." the human smiled.

"...but you didn't have any of the tools!" Glip shrieked.

"Well after reading the instructions I realized that a good rock would perfectly substitute like half of the tools I didn't have. And the metals shards I found worked great as screwdrivers!"

Glip opened her mouth to argue, to scream that a rock was nothing like the sophisticated tools that great engineering minds had invented...until she realized the human was right. The tools simply added the instant to instantaneous shelter. With them you build this grand 20 person shelter in 2 minutes. Without them it would take hours of hard labor.

"...how did you know that a rock would be the perfect substitute?"

"...I don't know. Its basically instinct to most of us. The perfect tool for a simple job is a big heavy object... rock."

"...rock." Glip repeated.

"Rock." the human confirmed.

*weeks later*

"Oh my god it is instinct!" Glip screams as she watches a group of human younglings use rocks to crack open other rocks to simply see the shiny patterns on the inside at the indoor park she walks through. With others using sticks to dig up more rocks to smash.

[artilite]

PARTY ROCK IS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT 🔥

Loop x Porty MK, idea courtesy of isatcord!

[rogerrrroger]

There is no force in the universe that could stop these 2 from meeting

[chronivore]

[bluenpinkcastle]

20221129: I got a little bit behind in getting these pictures set up, but here is another group of classic space builds! from top to bottom and left to right: -6822: Space Digger from 1981 with 32 pieces -6846: Tri-Star Voyager from 1984 with 66 pieces -6872: Lunar Patrol Craft from 1986 with 74 pieces -6881: Lunar Rocket Launcher from 1984 with 93 pieces -6890: Cosmic Cruiser from 1982 with 111 pieces -6926: Mobile Recovery Vehicle from 1986 with 147 pieces -6928: Uranium Search Vehicle from 1984 with 196 pieces -6950: Mobile Rocket Transport from 1982 with 202 pieces all of these had really interesting features and some had really early versions of different types of pieces. I enjoyed all of these and think it might have been fun to build all of them at once and maybe build a space port. but I’m severely lacking on space right now so I can really only build and disassemble one set at a time. reconstructing all the classic Lego space sets has been a fantastic learning experience and I’m very lucky to have found all of these when I did, especially in such good condition! almost all of them have had complete boxes and instructions! the Lego boxes about 30-40 years ago used to have alternate builds on the backs of the boxes and it was always really neat to see what else you could create. I miss that from the modern builds :)

[bricktoygrapher]

I believe I can fly

I believe I can touch the sky...

Finally got crazy arms and legs from Crazy Bricks (thanks to Kamino Bricks), just in time to join the Based on a Song challenge.

This is also my first entry to the Toy Photographers Bingo challenge.

Prompt: Minimalist ✔️

It is a year long challenge on Toy Photographers MeWe community and includes prizes by Lensbaby. Everyone is welcome to join!

Learn more about it here.

[cluepoke-archive]

Hey guys did you know that autism does insane things to how much art you can make in a 24 hour period

[aleiiii]

Macaque in that one outfit, please; but, also a Macaque that is Addams Family-themed, like he is the monkey male version of Morticia with Gomez's flirtatious words

thank u!

added in the extra ask since it was kinda similar teehee

BUT HOOOOHOOOOO MAC FLIRTING LIKE GOMEZ *slams table* perfect.

constantly, I mean CONSTANTLY, finding excuses to be always in her space. PET NAMES. touchy touchy monkey I’ll tell ya…

Throw in Wukong too because he would honestly be the same way, maybe just a tad more ‘throw himself at her’ and way more to the point.

[commodorez]

I finally finished building my LEGO Space Shuttle Discovery set, and had to find a good way to arrange it with all of my other space sets.