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BlackTron, "Time Cruisers" Original and possilbe Xmas wants
14 years ago
So I've been messing around with some or my minifigures in recent times as well as watching some fun stop motion shorts on YouTube and I got to thinking: We really need BlackTron back. For those of you that do not know what BlackTron is, it was a Lego series released in the mid 1980s and was the first "bad guy" space theme. The ships and space stations color scheme was black on yellow/lime green, hornet colors and the series itself was closely tied in with the MTron and Ice Planet sets at the time. I have a couple of minifigures that are from recent themes, the Cyborg from Mystery Minifigure Sereis 3, as well as a minifig body from my store's Build a Minifig and I really think that Blacktron, as well as Ice Planet and Mtron, deserve a modern day reboot.
That being said, using the two figures I customized, I thought about that Hero Factory Story idea and I want to expand on that to also include Lego System (regular bricks). And what a perfect series to do so then my old favorite theme: Time Cruisers. Yes, more childhood nostalgia punching you in the nose. When I was a youngster, I f***ing loved this series, the height of 90s Mad Science in a nut shell to go back in time and fix the wrong, ala Doctor Who style. Of course the old marketing gemick was the recycle pieces from older themes and Frankenstein them together into something sellable. And it worked for the most part. The sets were random as hell, had a lot of unique pieces, like the Hypno disk piece, had some cool idea for revisiting the old 90s themes and overall my favorite growing up.
I tell all of that to throw in my hat for writing stories in a sort of Time Cruisers scenario, calling it Time Hunters. A team of minifigures set out across time and space to make it better as well as hunt down the Last BlackTron and prevent him from re-awakening. It will be a multi episode story and should be fun. I would love any sort of feed back about this idea, maybe even a guest appearance from your character, sona, whatever in Lego format.
And now, as what I would groan about, the Holidays (mainly the overly marketed Christmas holiday for those that only celebrate it for free stuff) are looming ever closer and I don't have a set list. Maybe I can get some ideas from the peanut gallery, but I've been wanting to treat myself to something that I would use on a regular basis, cheap or at least not very expensive, something that I probably haven't heard of but is amazing or some sort of a nice getaway of sort (shut up right now if you are going to suggest Lego). What are your thoughts?
So I'll leave it at that, going to start up stories sometime between now and 2012 and characters are welcomed. And what would be a good "To Me From Me" gift?
Legg Godt
Blocksmith
That being said, using the two figures I customized, I thought about that Hero Factory Story idea and I want to expand on that to also include Lego System (regular bricks). And what a perfect series to do so then my old favorite theme: Time Cruisers. Yes, more childhood nostalgia punching you in the nose. When I was a youngster, I f***ing loved this series, the height of 90s Mad Science in a nut shell to go back in time and fix the wrong, ala Doctor Who style. Of course the old marketing gemick was the recycle pieces from older themes and Frankenstein them together into something sellable. And it worked for the most part. The sets were random as hell, had a lot of unique pieces, like the Hypno disk piece, had some cool idea for revisiting the old 90s themes and overall my favorite growing up.
I tell all of that to throw in my hat for writing stories in a sort of Time Cruisers scenario, calling it Time Hunters. A team of minifigures set out across time and space to make it better as well as hunt down the Last BlackTron and prevent him from re-awakening. It will be a multi episode story and should be fun. I would love any sort of feed back about this idea, maybe even a guest appearance from your character, sona, whatever in Lego format.
And now, as what I would groan about, the Holidays (mainly the overly marketed Christmas holiday for those that only celebrate it for free stuff) are looming ever closer and I don't have a set list. Maybe I can get some ideas from the peanut gallery, but I've been wanting to treat myself to something that I would use on a regular basis, cheap or at least not very expensive, something that I probably haven't heard of but is amazing or some sort of a nice getaway of sort (shut up right now if you are going to suggest Lego). What are your thoughts?
So I'll leave it at that, going to start up stories sometime between now and 2012 and characters are welcomed. And what would be a good "To Me From Me" gift?
Legg Godt
Blocksmith
