Enormous Classic Space Mothership from 1985 Toy Fair

Cicada88

I found this in a Bricks 'n' Pieces issue. They said it was made for a 1985 Toy Fair (in England I presume).

Looks amazing...anyone happen to have any other information or photos about this creation?

Dedgecko

Mother of....

plasmodium

10/10 would buy. :-P

Captain_Eyebrow

Blimey, that's something else!

CCC

I'd love to see the "crashing into the floor from 10 feet up" video that would be made these days for youtube.

Paperballpark

^ That wouldn't work, because it'd probably be resting on the floor when they're holding it at that height...

reckonball

Even more impressive when you consider they didn't have Bricklink back then. Still, it's weird to see a space MOC of that size without any SNOT or greebles in sight.

CCC

The technic bricks are not horizontal, so technically they are SNOT. Although the studs aren't used for building.

There is also a vertical blue plate (on left hand side) using the old "horse ear" SNOT style of jamming a plate between studs.

plasmodium

Success! Have a gander at pages 18 and 19 of this, folks:

http://web.archive.org/web/20111017094552/http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/miscellaneous/WorldShows/LWS-6-TravelInSpace-1985.pdf

1985 Lego World fair program, and the theme was, you guessed it, space.

[Edit] And page 10 of this is where the OP's scan came from, with full details of the competition.
http://web.archive.org/web/20111008053125/http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/miscellaneous/BricksAndPieces/1985-2 Summer.pdf

[Edit 2] And the results of the competition:
http://web.archive.org/web/20111008054630/http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/miscellaneous/BricksAndPieces/1985-3 Autumn.pdf

Lind_Whisperer

You know...using some mirror building, and the scans that @plasmodium so helpfully provided, a person could in theory recreate this in LDD...(Or in real life, of course, but that's a lot of window pieces...)

binaryeye

CCC said:

There is also a vertical blue plate (on left hand side) using the old "horse ear" SNOT style of jamming a plate between studs.

It could be headlight bricks, no?

CCC

It could be, but I imagine it is the push the plate in vertically between the rows of studs way. That used to be used a lot for smallish plates.

madforLEGO

plasmodium said:

Success! Have a gander at pages 18 and 19 of this, folks:

http://web.archive.org/web/20111017094552/http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/miscellaneous/WorldShows/LWS-6-TravelInSpace-1985.pdf

1985 Lego World fair program, and the theme was, you guessed it, space.

[Edit] And page 10 of this is where the OP's scan came from, with full details of the competition.
http://web.archive.org/web/20111008053125/http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/miscellaneous/BricksAndPieces/1985-2 Summer.pdf

[Edit 2] And the results of the competition:
http://web.archive.org/web/20111008054630/http://www.1000steine.com/brickset/miscellaneous/BricksAndPieces/1985-3 Autumn.pdf

Wow, takes me back to the good ol days. thanks for finding these!

prevere

^Is that a resurrection ship from Battlestar Galactica?

plasmodium

prevere said:

^Is that a resurrection ship from Battlestar Galactica?

Where? *ducks*

But seriously, which pdf and page? :-)

lordzarak

Wow. It's surreal to see a build of that scale from that era.

Cicada88

Wow, thanks for that pdf link plasmodium....amazing find

Can you imagine having the inventory of classic space stuff to be able to build this. It's probably like owning every classic space set x 10 or even more

plasmodium

Much more - a lot of the pieces (like all those windows and the upside-down slopies that make the hull) are not typical CS pieces.

Cicada88

well yeah definitely more of certain pieces like normal blue building / technic bricks, but at least those windows aren't all blue with yellow glass....that would be insanely expensive

Captain_Eyebrow

I love the Solar Energy Collector just sat on the top!

Goldchains

I'm in awe of both this and that "Olympic" ship built by Mr. Roberts in the later newsletter. Wow...