Of course, the set also has four spring loaded projectile launchers (two are the new 1×4 brick launchers, which are surprisingly strong), as well as the ubiquitous flick-fire missiles.

Compared to Benny’s ship, it’s rather tiny, but it got enough attention that it’s not merely a throw-away model.An overwhelming lack of formatting makes the site hard to read and navigate, not to mention makes it hard to tell the actual site content apart from the Google ads. As soon as I saw the movie I wanted this set, good to know it seems to be a decent build (haven’t had a chance to build mine yet). Yes, it lets you use the arch piece unprinted, but it also means you can't use the printed side on any properly symmetrical creation.

Benny is great, too—my little brother got him in the Sea Cow, but it'll be nice to have one for myself. Once you've built the spaceship you can have hours of fun roleplaying with the characters Benny, Robo Emmet, Space Wyldstyle, Robo Pilot and Astro Kitty, as these are all included. Apart from the head, Emmet is very similar to his Collectable Minifigure equivalent, except with light bluish grey hands .Benny's Spaceship definitely references this by having yellow as the main colour chosen for "filler bricks" on the interior of the model, and in a couple of points on the exterior. I guess the blue ships are meant for atmospheric flight, as they aren't exactly airtight (though that doesn't seem to have been a problem for TLG in the past 3 ). Being smaller, it's far more practical than the 6X12 canopy and will make a great starting point for spacecraft. And you know, as well as anyone else who's been around as long as we have, that LUGNET was developed well before these cute 'out of the box' blogging/newsgroup software.

My overall impression of this ship is that it was a fun and interesting build, with plenty to hearken back to the Classic Space sets of my youth. This cavity houses two adorable little robots made of eight pieces each, surely a homage to the various robots from 1980s sets like 6807. So something like Benny’s Spaceship was an interesting build, but not one based on nostalgia or reliving my childhood collection (that’s what modular buildings and castle are for).Since it's completely hidden in the build, it could have been any color - Black probably would have been more cost-efficient since there's already one of those elsewhere in the set - so I can't help but think Bright Red was a deliberate choice to include LEGO's most iconic element. Another classic Classic Space part is the 3X2/2X2 bracket, known as the Space Seat as the extra space it has at the back allows room for spacemen to keep their airtanks on when seated.