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On Christmas I reconstructed a Galaxy Explorer from my 25 year old Lego collection and had some fun with it. ---...--- In the Classic Space era, thousands of Galaxy Explorer ships were produced and dispatched into the far reaches of space. This was (...) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.space) !!
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(...) Augh, in space no one can hear you scream "Leave my classic Galaxy Explorer alone!". Great idea and implementation, Brian, thanks! George (20 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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(...) There's something wrong with you. Or something very right. I can't tell. Awesome concept, creepy backstory, excellent execution. MORE! Soren (20 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) ?!? "battleship, space station or moonbase module" !?! Ok, what are you up to...? Dear God, I love you. I'm sort of imagining Classic-Space meets Starship Troopers. Sick and wrong. Keep it up. Mark (20 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I'll say! This totally rocks, Nik and I were laughing our heads off... Little Shop of Horrors meets Spaceman Spiff! Is it just me or: - Am I the only one that thinks this whole sequence would make a great stop motion or LDraw animation? - did (...) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Awesome idea, great design ... I love everything about it. -- Pawel (URL) (20 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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Scary.... it has something of Alien. The way the egg is droped on the rest of the ship, this red and confined interior, these arms... it is just missing some kind of slime, yerk! I promise I won't get close to any red space man! Awesome MOC, the (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. And I think they can hear you scream in the realm in Classic Space, as long as you use your walkie talkie... Hmm, wait a minute, how can you use a walkie talkie with a space helmet on. That's right, they have no helmet visors. Wait, (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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(...) The backstory adds a plausible scientific logic to the wrongness and makes it seem almost right. :-) Ah, the beauty of science fiction. K (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I started thinking about monstrous things while creating the Explorovore. Imagine a moonbase module that seemed like a plain, featureless connecting corridor, but which from time to time would divert people into the red meaty oblivion of a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Glad you liked it. Actually I wasn't sure people would get it, so I had to bulk up the backstory to explain (the true horror of) what was really going on. Your imagination can provide the animation. :-) Egg laying is always erotic to life (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thanks. To make it seem like a living thing, I wanted to give the sense that inside its grey metal shell the Explorovore was packed with red, meaty substance. The spaceman lure is enclosed in folds of red, meaty tissue. The egg comes out of a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Wow, that was delightfully creepy. I've never felt uneasy looking at Lego creations before. Nicely done! Calum (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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That's great! The whole concept is imaginative and original. I really like the "ovipositor" apparatus. But what makes the concept really work is the lighting - the stark, angular effect screams "space!" Well done, you sicko! James Wilson Dallas, TX (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Heh, evil. I just want to add a comment about how nice the teeth look and how well any moving parts are hidden. Very well done. Kenn (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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I am deeply disturbed. The entire scenario is quite grotesque. I love the whole thing! .Space needed some natural inhabitants, stands to reason it should be something large and carnivorous. I applaud a very successful effort, and hope we can see (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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Totally awesome! Something tells me you've created a whole new sub-theme! The unfolding of the creature is superb! Dave (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Thanks. The word "ovipositor" also popped into my head when I was taking the pictures. I was thinking that it would require an elaborate apparatus like a space shuttle manipulator arm to place an egg in zero g. It moves very slowly and gently (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) -snip- That is awesome Brian! I do not usually post here on Lugnet, am more of a big time lurking member... but after seeing *this* I just had to post a reply ;-) Your dark, creepy scenario reminds me of early 80's motion pictures like (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Hillarious idea, excellent performed and great pictures. I especially like this one as the red reflex gives the picture an extra bloody look. (URL) I guess we just have to shoot red spacemen on sight from now on... BTW, isn't it a great evolutionary (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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SNIPPY HI Brian, I must confess that when I first saw this post, I just did what a lot of people do- scroll down to the brickshelf gallery, and check out the pics. Add to this the fact I have the attention span of a doughnut and... well. I saw an (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jan-05, to lugnet.space)
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<Snip> (...) Spotlighted! Your excellent storyboard presentation method makes this MOC all too cool!!! I wonder if this creature has already taken over an ISD? A being of that size would truly make it the "Mother Ship". "Big Daddy" Nelson (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.space)
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*quarantines all red spacemen* This thing had me laughin' before I saw your post. Man, so very cool. It's an amazing combo of creative building and a oddball sense of humor! LOVE IT. Something needed fer us spaceheads!! All grey spaceships are now (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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after some snippage... (...) Wait! Spaceheads are lacking in an oddball sense of humor? I did not know that. (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I would have to conclude that up to this point a color scheme wasn't significantly beneficial to survival. Now if people start shooting grey ships on sight, Explororvores with tinges of blue might be spared and evolution can work its magic. (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thanks. I like it when MOCs stick in your mind and are elaborated by your imagination (like that fantastic MPP) - toys for the mind. K (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I love it--the story and the MOC are great! My only concern...does the Explorovore go for light and dark stone grey? My assumption is that the Explorovore has only feasted on Galaxy Explorers, so it may dislike the taste of a "better" color... (...) (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Lets just hope that evolution works fast enough to save those cuties - extinction is forever! But I suspect that the Reich is giving them a helping hand as we speak. -NB (20 years ago, 3-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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