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What is a Planetary Decoder? What does it decode? How does it work?
According to various lego catalogs of 1996 (the set's release year), it's referring to the main play feature of the set :
The two transparent red and blue dishes at the front of the craft can be used ...
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How accurate is the model 42179 Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit?
The real Solar System is of course immensely complicated, so capturing all the details in a model would result in an impractical model in terms of size, complexity, and cost. The actual model's ...
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How does the Space Shuttle dock the ISS?
It looks like LEGO did not intend to make Shuttle attachable to ISS despite the statement. At least not with a stud-on-stud connection like the set is designed right now.
As seen in picture below, ...
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How does the Space Shuttle dock the ISS?
It just so happens that I have this set and have come up with a way to attach it without adding pieces:
All this requires is to move the two second-to-back float pads, take off the fez piece from the ...
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Is the LEGO Space theme discontinued?
At this time, there has been no announcement of a scheduled unlicensed LEGO Space theme. LEGO is not going to make an announcement that "We forever and ever retired LEGO Space, and it will never-ever ...
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Can you identify this LEGO space set?
It's not a Star Wars set, it's most of the main part from "70704 Vermin Vaporizer" from the Galaxy Squad theme.
The word "pressure" on the green tile hints that it's not Star Wars, as that would ...
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Classic Space part? near-triangle with 2x6 on one end and 1x2 on the other and a lot of empty space between
This is
Part #30036: Wedge, Plate 8 x 6 x 2/3 with Grille
In White it appears in two Exploriens sets
6856: Planetary Decoder
and
6982: Explorien Starship
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Is this translucent blue ramp-like brick from an old Space Explorer set?
No. It's older than that.
This element has been in 9 sets, in trans-dark blue (as pictured) it has been in 4:
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=4228&colorID=14&in=A
that bricklink ...
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Saturn V set from the 60s?
It's hard to answer this definitively without a picture identifying the exact parts you have, but this sounds a lot like the set Rocket Base (358-1) from 1973:
That was one of the first space ...
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How does the Space Shuttle dock the ISS?
I use these pieces. The same size as the docking in the set, but two anti-stud attachments.
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Identify a space LEGO set from incomplete model
These are
6849-1: Satellite Patroller
6808-1: Galaxy Trekkor
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Space Shuttle 10231 Stability on base
According to Brickset there were indeed stability problems with set #10213, which was originally intended to be a strictly display piece for the 16+ age group.
As a response, the 10213 was retired, ...
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What went in the orange cylinders from Mars Mission?
I'd assume from the partslist this guy is in the tube:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=mm001
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Is the LEGO Space theme discontinued?
Although the stand-alone, unlicensed Space theme technically remains discontinued, LEGO has recently released an unlicensed Space sub-theme under their City theme.
While these builds seem to be more "...
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Help identifying space-themed sets
Couple of observations:
Neither of these pictures shows complete sets
The parts you show in each picture most likely do not all come from the same set
From what I can see, you have the following ...
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How does the Space Shuttle dock the ISS?
I have this set and didn’t need any additional parts to attach the space shuttle.
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How accurate is the model 42179 Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit?
I was working through this math myself. With the Lego sized earth (39mm), I'm coming up with a scale sun being 4.2m large, but 457m away. I'm using 150,000,000m as earth to sun distance. Am I ...
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Alternate builds for classic space sets
It looks like someone has 'reverse engineered' them from the box images in this eurobricks thread.
Hope that helped.
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Is the LEGO Space theme discontinued?
According to this advert Lego are running on Facebook they are still making "Lego Space" so it can't be discontinued.
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Help identifying space-themed sets
Top Left
7659-1 - Imperial Landing Craft
Top right seems to be two sets
7930-1 - Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship
and
7877-1 - Naboo Starfighter
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