#blue spaceman

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Benny's Bad Boy Beach Buggy by David Roberts Via Flickr: This vehicle was totally stolen from Huw Gwilliam's Uggy buggy. I wanted to make a version that my nephew might be able to zoom and crash into skirting boards. Go and see the original here: flic.kr/p/2qLTZxS

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had this irresistible urge to draw yogs so i did

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Beth (age 15) dug out my original 1980s blue spaceman from our bin of LEGOs and made it into a ring. Some girls like diamonds, but a blue spaceman ring sends a different message.

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Some kids were over to play, and we got out our bins of LEGOs for them. 

They found a 1980s blue astronaut figure and said, “Hey, it’s Benny from the LEGO Movie!”

“Almost,” I said. “This is actually a blue astronaut from when I was younger. It’s older than all of you put together.”

They were almost impressed.

So, here’s a picture of Blue, gathered with some geeky friends in their antique computer club. The early 1980s were all about command-line operating systems. This thing is probably running MS-DOS, though it could be a later version of CP/M, maybe one of the 16-bit variants. (In retrospect, we should have put the Darth Vader helmet on the Dad 2.0 torso, since he has more kids than Tony Stark… as far as we know.)

Also, if you’ve been around for awhile, you may remember this LEGO clock:

Unfortunately the clock shattered in a fall onto a hard floor, and we decided not to rebuild it, though we still have all the pieces.

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Yogscast - Spacemen - Blue and Orange

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Spacemen - Blue and Orange

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So I decided to line and colour this one different than usual. A little experimentation. It’s just a bit of fun, a little messing around, but I’d like to know what you guys think.

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Yogscast - Spacemen - Blue