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You might be onto something there, it's nostalgic for me because I inherited my brother's lego after he aged out of it.
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Metoron posted:For why maybe the Galaxy Explorer was over produced, and didn't sell as well as hoped; the original Galaxy Explorer may have been a fixture of the Reaganite and Atari childhoods of a bunch of late Gen Xers, and eldest of Millennials (which I presume are the designers of the set), but as someone who's in their 30s, I have absolutely zero nostalgia for that era of classic space, it was long gone by the time I was born, my era of "classic" space I remember was UFO, with translucent neon greens, black, and grey everywhere. This is why there's only real one theme ready to be rereleased and exploding back onto the scene: Wild West 
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I’m 42 and it’s a little before my time but I’m happy with the blacktron and pirates and castle poo poo and I’m ready for space police whenever I actually tried to get the GE when it was half off but it ran out of stock
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Jan 9, 2023 00:03
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That's a lot of words out of nowhere to say you don't like things from before your time. It may be a replay of an older set but if you can't see anything fun and cool about the design of that ship I don't know what to tell you.
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I'm glad the scientists in this thread are standing around in lego stores charting the ages of people in there buying sets.
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I don't really care about nostalgia. I never had any classic space stuff and I have no nostalgia for it. I bought the Galaxy Explorer because it is a cool set. If it was just a straight re-release with no upgrades, I probably would not have bought it at all.
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Gonna admit I bought it partly because 4 cents a piece for legit Lego is hard to argue with
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He's on to something. If it were Mtron or Space Police 2 I'd have been all over it.
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I’m quintuple checking to see if I made a mistake, but I think I got a wrong piece in the new DeLorean I got for Christmas. I’m on bag 10 of 11, and I seem to be missing a 1x6 studded plate, with a 1x8 flat tile left over. According to the instructions, there should only be one of the latter in the entire set, and it was in bag 5. I checked, and yep, there’s a 1x8 flat tile where it should be, so it looks like I have an extra. The piece I need isn’t in the last bag either. Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jan 9, 2023 |
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Dr Christmas posted:I’m quintuple checking to see if I made a mistake, but I think I got a wrong piece in the new DeLorean I got for Christmas. That means you've been chosen for the sacrifice.
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Jan 9, 2023 02:14
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Benny's Spaceship was a much cooler ship in the same color scheme at the same price point. I do appreciate the nice clean edges they gave the Galaxy Explorer but other than that it doesn't particularly have a lot to recommend itself against other Lego spaceship.
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Jan 9, 2023 02:52
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the holy poopacy posted:it doesn't particularly have a lot to recommend itself against other Lego spaceship. Except it's still for sale in stores at less than retail cost and Benny is not and going for way higher than msrp. I do think Benny was a better ship, but it was never on sale for $50 or less.Galaxy Explorer was the steal of the year. ChesterJT fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Jan 9, 2023 |
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Jan 9, 2023 03:09
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I have no nastolga for classic space (Explorians tho....) but the explorer was great and when it was 50 bucks it was easily the best purchase of the year. I hope that it keeps falling in price and I can get another. More UCS Old Sets please
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Jan 9, 2023 03:11
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I'd like to see a cosmic fleet voyager remake, I've been on a real blue and white kick lately so maybe that's part of it. But not big or UCS size.. like a nanoscale remake or something. I guess I should make it myself if I really want it. Any of the big wheel space sets would work too.. spy-trak, battrax, mega core, any of those would be kickin' rad.
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ChesterJT posted:That's a lot of words out of nowhere to say you don't like things from before your time. It may be a replay of an older set but if you can't see anything fun and cool about the design of that ship I don't know what to tell you. They’re correct though I believe Classic Space won with a plurality of votes among the various space sub themes, there are too many good ones from the 90s and any one of them is superior to Classic
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OTOH, it's the best spaceship they have released since Spaceshipx3. So who cares if it's a re-imagining.
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Waltzing Along posted:OTOH, it's the best spaceship they have released since Spaceshipx3. So who cares if it's a re-imagining. Not really the same price point especially with galaxy explorer discounts, but the guardians' ship (76193) is niftier (in my opinion). Galaxy explorer is more playable with the built in rover and stuff, but the angles and movable parts on the guardian ship are cool.
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gently caress the Galaxy Explorer, give me the Deep Freeze Defender
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Arcella posted:gently caress the Galaxy Explorer, give me the Deep Freeze Defender I liked building the new Galaxy Explorer for some before my time nostalgia feel, but yeah give me this or Explorien Starship
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Jan 9, 2023 07:39
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Might also be regional. The Galaxy Explorer hasn't dropped below 80 euros in the EU which could mean demand is high enough to just keep selling.
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I think I was just not quite in the right demographic to have nostalgia for most of the old Space themes. But if they did a proper modern Rock Raiders set I would be all over that poo poo.
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engessa posted:Might also be regional. The Galaxy Explorer hasn't dropped below 80 euros in the EU which could mean demand is high enough to just keep selling. Yeah it's remained really steady here too.
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Tonde Mo Nai posted:Explorien Starship This is what peak starship performance looks like, you may not like it but it is. 
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Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids?
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smackfu posted:Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids? Barracuda Bay suggests that they (we) do at least sometimes.
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smackfu posted:Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids? When i was a kid we could only afford the 3/4 dollar sets. It was a big deal when I got something in the 20 range, so when a company weaponizes my nostalgia like this it's a big deal and I'm a huge sucker.
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God I wonder how far I could get resurrecting my loving AUTOCORRECT, "exploring starship"
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smackfu posted:Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids? Why not? Hell I've got a lego Voltron and Optimus Prime now too. Why do people act like that's a problem? Sorry I'm a human with disposable income I guess.
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smackfu posted:Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids? I would buy every wild west set from my youth if re released today
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ChesterJT posted:Why not? Hell I've got a lego Voltron and Optimus Prime now too. Why do people act like that's a problem? Sorry I'm a human with disposable income I guess. This seems like an oddly defensive response
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smackfu posted:Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids? If they would release a new version of the one I had, the Galaxy Commander, then gently caress yes. (Or 6780, the XT Starship.)
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I'm new to bricklinck, why do some parts have a *! under them?
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bird with big dick posted:This seems like an oddly defensive response It wasn't meant to be, but people seem oddly aggressive about adults and nostalgia. Get what you give I suppose.
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ChesterJT posted:It wasn't meant to be, but people seem oddly aggressive about adults and nostalgia. Get what you give I suppose. FWIW I thought your post was weirdly hostile too. I think you're reading aggression where absolutely none was intended, it read to me like a normal question.
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smackfu posted:Also kind of an open question: do adult Lego fans actually want to buy updated versions of the sets they had as kids? for the big ticket iconic sets totally and especially if they were too expensive to get as a kid back in the day
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Modern build techniques are vastly superior to old school stuff too. Chonky pieces and lower part counts are good for kid hands, but these days no one wants to see a minifigure's rear end through a gap in the underside of a space ship.
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Butterfly Valley posted:FWIW I thought your post was weirdly hostile too. I think you're reading aggression where absolutely none was intended, it read to me like a normal question. Yeah, it seemed like an honest question to me. I bought a modern version of a Transformer not because I had it as a kid, but because I wanted it as a kid but never got it, and I think a lot of Lego is like that as well.
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Speaking of spaceships, I've just hauled the Space Shuttle Discovery back home from my UK Christmas trip to my family. I'd unsubtly hinted at wanting it, and said if they were to get it for me then they should order it directly to my home in Europe. My sister missed that crucial detail though so I was presented with a huge box on Christmas Day and then faced the happy conundrum of how to bring it back home (via a week's New Year celebrations in Turkey), as I was travelling relatively light with a backpack that definitely wasn't large lego box sized. I had a rummage around in the attic and found an ancient suitcase which I decanted the Discovery (sans box) into along with the rest of my backpack and have had to haul that around for the last 10 days, slightly worried it would literally explode at the ripped seams, but it happily survived and now I can add to my modern spaceship collection.
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80% of my leisure purchases as an adult are a feeble attempt to recapture a fraction of the joy I once experienced as a child, and I will throw stupid amounts of money at anything that I think might trigger the last little serotonin receptor in my brain.
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I got the big castle to build with my toddler. It's a really nice build, doesn't get repetitive and if you have a 4 year old assistant to help it is quite enjoyable. He also really enjoys the draw bridge and how it can shoot minifigs, horses, dinosaurs, and cows into the dungeon. My only tiny complaint is that Lego figs can't actually get onto the three towers. For a set they went to such efforts to make a path to every spot it seems a strange oversight.
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