The director of the Lightyear movie is a Lego fan and mentioned to Adam Savage that he designed the ship specifically with a yellow canopy because he knew Lego would make a set out of it so there would be new Classic Space parts made.

"but what did it cost?" "Everything."

Seems like the type of set they should sell for $30 and then push for people to spend a bit more to get free shipping.

As usual, it's a great video.

I got mine still in the box, I think it's nice that LEGO bring back some old sets but the threshold is sometimes a bit too crazy

I think it's a good thing that Lego's making GWPs much more desirable. If you're going to do a promo, do something cool that people actually want. They should really just start a "classic remakes" theme though, given how well received the Castle and Galaxy Explorer were.

I really miss the 80s and 90s space sets. Nothing recently('00-present), in my opinion, came close to the feel. Also getting tired of Star Wars(how many years now?) I wish I knew about this ahead of time so as to save for. Awesome video as well.

I think the order you need to place for Canada is C$250 and that's just not going to happen this close to the Christmas holidays. Ah well, such is life. I didn't even know this theme existed so I am really interested in it. Thanks for the peek and review!

I still have all the black tron and M tron sets. They were so cool

I have no issue with the principle of gift with purchase, but I also agree that it would benefit more customers if Lego made them available as regular kits, even if only online, perhaps six months or so after the GWP deal ended. This would also give Lego a chance to extract greater revenue from each GWP kit that they produce.

Completely agree, I wish Lego would re-introduce the whole Space line up. Each year or two, they re-vamp the City Police station, the Fire station and hospital... but never a revamp of the ones that have remained out of line up for decades.

Honestly, the black-and-white outline of the set on the front of the manual looks way better than the cheap renders on most new instruction manuals.

9:01 nice spot of the parallel Easter eggs.

Have the entire Blacktron collection so was really excited to add this to my collection

Well I'm just going to imagine those black ingots are salmiakki, a Finnish delicacy (basically salted liquorish), and they're mining it from some rare planet and selling at a high price lol.

I love these classic sets from the golden retro ages of lego! Nice content as usual!

This was the one gift with purpose I had to hit. this blacktron minifig was by far my favorite space minifig every and I have none of my childhood sets. I had that space police set you showed and the small blacktron walker thing.

I bought this set locally because I didn't have the money to spend to get it free. I paid $50 for it, but I also got the Lunar New Year add-on too so it wasn't too bad. Despite knowing the value would increase, I got it because I wanted to build it. It's a very nice set that fits well with the Galaxy Explorer.

All these legos I wish we hadn't lost over the years. I remember the sets.

blacktron, mtron, ice planet all great themes, loved it

technically, the logo on the torso of the cmf violin kid is the logo of blacktron 2 from 1991/1992, roughly 3/4 years after blacktron 1

Cool! I never played with these themes because I started much later but it is still cool to see how much Lego has changed. I just wish that they would improve the instructions design. The minimalistic design looks good on a few sets but it’s just too much for this. I hope that they make them cooler and more interesting. Also, bit unrelated but why is Lego releasing all of these sets for their 90th anniversary. I mean, it’s great, but if there is so much for 90 years then they must have something even better planned for the 100th anniversary. I can’t wait!

I think it looks pretty cool. I only had one Blacktron set as a kid, it was the robot walker. Loved it! Space was my favorite Lego growing up, I think the Monorail is my all-time favorite space set.

This Blacktron was one of my first LEGO and I still remember a lot of the build details (because it was one of the first.... so that's what I have to play with for a long while)..... I have to buy the Starry Night and a few misc sets to get it.... certainly annoying. But I am really happy I get to see it again (as well as the forestmen)

This set was the first lego set that my parents bought me :) Great nostalgic vibe! thanks!

GWP with $310 in Australia, it's a ridiculous amount

I should get mine in the mail tomorrow - happy that it is a GWP this early in the year where a lot of new sets have been released. Since i would buy a lot of the sets anyway it was easy enough to choose enough sets to get the GWP.

In Turkey Lego store there is no gift purchase option. My first lego set was 6876 Alienator. When I was 10 years old, 6990 mono rail set was my dream. I hope lego will offer these space sets with shooters and stuff.

I didn't even know this set existed, I only found out from the Lego subreddit. I'm so sad now that I won't be able to get it, I feel the same way about the Lego Forest Hideout.

beautiful sets; very good representation and video

I always called BlackTron II as B-Tron because of the big B on their chest and M-Tron was around that same time and had a big M on their chest.

I bought the Unimog and the Arocs as you mentioned to me before, they are indeed amazing creations! Really thanks for the recommendation.

great video! nice!

0:42 Looks like Benny's brother has been to Mars 😉 (also called vintage LEGO)

Fantastic review, really enjoyed the side by side comparisons. Even with modern building techniques/pieces the original surprisingly holds up better in structural integrity and playability. Canadian threshold for this in Canada is about $250 so easy pass.

I’m pretty sure there was a blacktron mini fig used as a motorcycle rider in a city set. I was many years too late to get blacktron however I do vaguely remember getting a black motorcycle with a blacktron figure.

As someone who spends a lot of time designing mocs, I was able to qualify for this GWP by buying pick a brick. I'm happy I got the set, but I'm kinda afraid to open it now because of its value from being so limited.

Im going to a Lego store this weekend and I hope they have them still. I love that they are bringing back some of the old themes. My dad gave me his old space set. its the 6971 Inter Galactic Command Base. It is by far my favorite set In my collection.

I,ve always been a reluctant lego buyer due to the high price of the sets and the fact modern sets don't quite resonate with me, nostalgia in the other hand totally gets me, I was super close to buy the new space set, though as a kid I never had the original nor wanted to have it , the castle was way above my budget, but this set .. man when I saw the thumbnail of your video all I had in my head was, "ohh man, whatever it costs, I want to buy this one, this one is a keeper" , but Lego blew it making it a "gift"... who else is wondering why lego is struggling now? not me

Space Police 2 and Spyrius were my childhood.

Kinda wish they went the same route with the instruction manual as they did the galaxy explorer instead of the minimalist design

This GWP pisses me off. It should be its own set. The only other set that I would be interested in is the Lion Knights' Castle and I don't want to drop $400 just to get a ~$50 freebie. I was waiting for a good opportunity (e.g., cash back, 2x VIP, etc.) to pick up the castle and it feels like LEGO is pressuring me to buy it now. I'm walking away from this one and throwing up two birds on the way out.

Totally agree with this weird GwP system. This iconic sets should be available as normal retail. Also, this stickers go to far. It is not fun at all to apply 1x1 tile sticker. Why the 4+ set has a lot cool prints, while 18+ are still with bunch of stickers. I like this set very mutch. My childhood started with the second gen of Black Trons, but still this one have an old space nostalgic vibe. And it looks awesome with Galaxy Explorer =)

Thank you for showing the hidden lore with the sensor screen displays, that's a nice touch to the builds. I liked the old explorer faction (blue grey or blue white) being the counterpart to Blacktron better than Space Police, I like the Easter eggs reflecting that. I wonder why the designers changed how the modularity is done between the old and new Blacktron build, the new one doesn't make much sense to me; I liked how you can build modularity into the builds and they felt far more robust *and* Lego is still using those pieces, aren't they? GWP I don't like, perhaps they'll refine the design and re release the new Blacktron? For all the reasons the old one works better, that you showed, I'm surprised the new one didn't seem to have that level of attention or care investing in the design. Unfortunate.

I was thinking about buying this set for a long time because it didn't make a big impression on me, sentiment prevailed and I don't regret it. Live the ship looks great, videos and photos somehow do not reflect its beauty. It reminds me a bit of the style of m-tron particle lonizer (slender silhouette, robot in the middle, detachable module, classic window), but it's rather my individual association ;)

Nem mondom, hogy így terveztem, de most pont jól jött, hogy még nem vettem meg a 10497-et, meg a 76989-et. Így együtt kapom meg a két űrhajót. 😀 A Hosszúnyak marad majd utolsónak. Engem abszolút nem zavarnak a kényszerű modosulások az új szettben, örülök mindkettőnek. (mindháromnak).

It would be nice if LEGO would put the GWP sets on sale after the promotions have ended. I live in South Africa and I certainly can't afford to even spend the money on a set I don't want and then sell it to get the GWP

I despise when they cram the manuals into the box like that. Like, atleast fold it perfectly in half if you need to do so, although preferably it should be flat. Also, from what I've heard about the black ingots, they're supposed to be some rare material that blacktron harvests, possibly to construct their ships with? Who knows. I just refer to them as "blacktronium ingots" 😂

I just got this with my ucs gunship and it was a nice add on for no cost.

I'm a few years older I guess. When Blacktron appeared I was already a few years into my Dark Ages. My only space sets back in the day were light grey and blue. As a result I have zero nostalgia for this set. And without that nostalgia there isn't much to go on. Well spoken about the GWP programme. Some of those sets appear at a time when I have nothing on my wish-list (that happens more and more these days) and the threshold for getting them has got a lot higher in the last two years or so.

Perhaps they should make a LEGO Retro theme. It would have sets that are revamped versions of sets from the past. they could be from any old theme. space, castle, western, pirates and so on.

I just received my order of the Blacktron cruiser from Bricklink and I'm contemplating not opening it. Maybe it will sell for a lot in the future.

I have this thing in pieces and some walker I rebuild few years back. I remember I couldn't find one small part. Maybe it's there somewhere.

I get what you mean with regards to the old instructions. I build the technic space shuttle last weekend (I never had the set and I just bought the bricks on bricklink) and the instructions were horrible

How did we survive building LEGO in the past? LOL Great review and commentary/perspective...especially with regards to high threshold GWPs, thanks :) And you did get those sets for purple spacemen, right :)

Hi and thanks for your review and thoughts! In my opinion, this kind of GWPs together with Forest Hideout or Ray Castaway are part of big Lego marketing machine… The priority purpose of these sets is not to make a majority of community happy, but to make majority to wish something which is strictly limited and majority will not get it, but only relatively small group will do. But hype around is great and interest to the Lego remain on top. And this works perfectly, I got this set and I spent around 200 eur and I was lucky I got a discounted sets available which I was planning to buy. At the end there are unique sets available in form of GWPs during the year and it is still possible to get them to pay a premium price, which with delivery will be easily 70-80 eur. I personally like very much Harry Potter Monster book of Monsters which I consider as one of the best GWP ever

Cool

one thing it strikes me is that blacktron logo is the same from the villains of Starcom cartoon and toy range of the same age...

I got this set, and it looks really cool! I just learned it was a remake of the older one today lol. I don’t know if I should one it tho. Idk if the value will go up later on.

Not sure I’ll make it to the store in time, but will probably pick one up later.

I have plans to go get these blacktron sets and other lego sets I like ect.

I was lucky to get it at the secondary market for a decent price and I thought it was worth to buy that way since the purchase limit was even higher in my country and I didn't find any sets I wanted. Buying it separately was just easier. I have not build it yet but I would prefer to get the old set instead but it's difficult to find and quite expensive. Haven't built this new set yet and probably won't build it in a long time.

I've enjoyed all the GWP's but I wish they weren't so exclusive. I hate having to buy them marked up massively from Ebay ect.

I got it with my BMW M 1000 RR Technic set. I'm not much into the original Lego system these days, just Technic, so I don't know if I should leave it in the box to display it and sell it later, or just build it and display it. I am too young for the nostalgia factor of this set. Now if they ever have a reimaging of an Ice Planet set I'd be all for it. Maybe I'll hold onto this one until that happens and I can trade someone for it?

Hi, well hopefully if my family falls through have two or three of these on Christmas. 😁

glad Australia isn't the only place where lego is expensive from the lego store lol the ucs tumbler for example is 400aud on the lego store but I can find it for as low as 300aud in other stores

It's neat that this exists, like the new Galaxy Explorer, but personally I wasn't a big fan of Blacktron and the early space models like the Explorer were already a thing of historical interest when I was really into Space - I'm sort of hoping they're going to move onto the next theme, mid-80s sets like the XT Starship, Twin Starfire, the "Futuron" subtheme... even Blacktron II (I much prefer that trans green aesthetic to the trans red of Blacktron I) and M-Tron.

I find myself agreeing with your opinions very often. Blacktron Cruiser is a cool set. If it was purchasable separately and I could get it from a normal retailer for ~25 EUR, I would definitely order it to give as a present for one of my children. As it is, I didn't have the budget to spend 190 EUR on LEGO sets in January.

thx for the video. i got the set as soon as they announced it, cause i had blacktron sets when i was kid. 190 bucks is a high proce to pay but at least, you get other bricks with it ;-) i hope the make more classic space sets, for me space police 2 was the greatest as a kid, if they would bring back the galatic meteor in the manor they did with the 1975´s spaceship, i would buy it with no doubt

We definetly need space lego. Maybe Stellaris.

Its really a nice set I was interested to get it but alas my thoughts were wrong I thought they were selling it like the galaxy explorer. I was interested to buy it but spending 250$ on lego to get it kinds cut my hope since there wasn’t too many sets that were appealing to me. So unfortunatly I had to forget to get that set guess I will stay with my original copy of the set.

I agree, I’m not a fan of the GWP system, especially when they have such a high price threshold. I had heard rumors of this GWP so held off making high dollar purchases. That and the new sets released on January 1st meant I easily hit this price threshold. Of course I had to spend a lot at one time and had to pay full retail prices for the sets, which I hardly ever do, because usually I wait for sales. It would be great if GWP items went up for sale 6 months or so later, but I think that would defeat the GWP idea because a lot of people would just wait. Maybe with these “general” GWP and not ones tied to a particular set, like the apartment set that was tied to the release of Eiffel Tower. Either way, glad both if us managed to get the set. 👍

absolutely wanted this set but waited to get it on bricklink for a rather reasonable price and succeeded now to hope i dont have to do that with the bionicle one they're doing soon :))))

Cool set, Space Explorers is my favourite "Dead" Lego line, but for me the price is kinda big.(72 thousand Hungarian Forints) // Menő készlet, a Space Explorers a kedvenc "halott" Lego témám, de szerintem a 72 ezer forint kicsit sok egy vásárlásra, ezért lehet hogy ez kicsit drága. 12 minutes after video release btw

I wish they would make a then detected to just remakes of classic sets

I went to the store specifically to get the airbus h175, and had kind of forgotten that the promotion was even happening, so I ended up getting mine basically for free

Hey again, could you by chance do another one on the land rover defender? Sorry because there wasn't any speech in it only subtitles and i found it hard to read the while watching you build and show the features. It's ok if you can't because usually you do latest sets, but it would be great if you could do that because i am planning to get that

I spend €20 on bricklink to get the parts to build two. Of course, I already had a lot of the parts in my regular collection. The only things I am missing are the stickers and the minifig. But I already have about 50 of the old-school Blacktron figs. And the stickers... I can make myself.

Blacktron1987 sounds very Synthwave.

I have the original old Blacktron Ship here. It is a bit smaller and if i am honest, it look better.

In Australia you had to spend $310AUD to get the “Free” set

I do agree with your point of Lego releasing the gwp's later to the regular fans as well, even though it may never happen 🤦🏻‍♂️...also on the other hand one must always pay close attention to lego Easter eggs, just saying!...😉😋

You’ve apparently never been to space! Of course a hammer and a wrench! Couldn’t do without it!! Just kidding, love your videos! I’m not missing a single one! 😊👍

The difference between collecting and playing. member, when lego produced actual toys?

Funny how the blacktron logo looks like a inverted Zelda Triforce! (One of the major elements in the Zelda videogame series)

With the hassle and needless purchase of sets just to get GWPs - the question becomes; Is it just worth it to buy in the secondary market, as cheap as possible ?

It's all part of the business strategy for LEGO, by making things artificially rare it increases the desirability of them. And they do this by having limited runs aka sets "retiring", and have rather large GWP prices to get things other than polybags.

I feel the same way about the upcoming Bionicle GWP. It doesn’t exactly look amazing, and being a GWP means that despite being a huge fan I am not willing to spend so much for it.

I have the old one, although it's like 15 years older than me, with some missing pieces and the newer one is not worth it for me solely because it's not a standalone set

That price is disheartening, guess my galaxy explorer will be left alone

wanted this set but didn't want to spend $190 on lego that I don't like nor need so I just went on ebay and bought it for $60. Felt kinda expense but at least I'm saving $130. pretty good overall but I wished they actually sold it instead of putting it in a gwp offer.

47,90€ including shipping on ebay

Where did you get the red Ferrari on the self?

I got one for £18.00 off ebay in the uk.

Nuts already missed it. 😥

They could have made the split rear wings out of yellow, and that would have made the red really pop without breaking lore...

You just made me feel better about not picking this one up. I think I will just rebuild the old one. I have those trans red pieces and all of the things. Those doors are not great

What I don't understand: Why don't they just make these wings with red instead of black wing parts???

I had the Blacktron Space Base and the Car. I disliked the later version of Blacktron with the trans colour originally from m-tron and lots more white.

I like the set, except the stickers. I just don't like how stickers change the texture and color of the bricks. It'd be a classic if the parts were printed.