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Random Set of a Day: 1787

1787 Crater Cruiser

Crater Cruiser has been on my mind because I just tried building it. I have the shape down, but some of the parts are the wrong colour (especially the medium-sized wheels, which I only have in yellow). My brother had this set in our childhood, the largest Space set we knew personally until our childhoods had passed. The two figs* were the origin of a couple characters I would steal years later for my stories: Admiral Unitron and Lt.-Commander Under.

The nostalgia is still there and I suspect the set will improve with black wheels (which are coming), but the design is weaker than I remembered. The diminishing wheel sizes are cool from this one angle, but look a bit weird from the front. I like the Uniton-styled mini-spaceships, but they honestly are rather primitive builds. Unitron's look is wicked cool, but if you didn't come in already loving them, I doubt this set would convince you.

Year Released: 1995 I Acquired: Never Origin of Fig(s): None of mine* (contains a captain & a standard fig)

Parts Score: 3 out of 5 (some great 90s Space parts, but nothing too special) Playability Score: 3.5 out of 5 (swooshable spaceship!) Minifigure Score: 3.5 out of 5 Design Score: 2.5 out of 5 Personal Favouritism Score: 4 out of 5

Android Files Notes: Now that we've (finally) reached the Castle realms, the Space sets of my childhood have some of the biggest lacunae in what we've seen--on the good guy side anyway, since the Spyrius and UFOs clearly haven't been lacking. We've seen a lot of Futuron, and Benny, and the 1992 Space Police (all part of my Colorian Dominion), but those were all sets from after my childhood. In addition to the Spyrius and UFOs, when I say "my childhood," I mean Iceplanet, Unitron, Exploriens, and Roboforce. We've had a couple figs, but no real sets. Someday, perhaps, we'll address this.

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