Lego Galaxy Explorer - 90th Anniversary "Mark II" Edition 

I had the vintage model, I have the new modern version. It was a blast putting the ship together. It’s a perfect nod to vintage LEGO fun and imagination. They REALLY knocked it out of the park with this set. ❤

Fantastic review. I believe the Lego designers deliberately made the Galactic Explorer II bigger not only to fit in more fun detail, play features, and display space for the minifigures but also to be proportionate with adult hands to capture the same feeling of handling the Galactic Explorer I when fans were kids back in the day.

That airlock door might be my favourite detail in any set I’ve seen. Space Lego is such wholesome, classic fun.

Something i noticed as a huge lego collector, is that this set uses no stickers whatsoever just like they used to back in those days where everything was printed. Almost all sets these days use stickers, even the big expensive ones!

My love for Space Lego as a kid was limited to staring at the pictures in Christmas catalogs and weekly newspaper ads, unfortunately. I had some cheap knock-off Lego sets that were fun to make ships with, though. The ships had to be fairly small, otherwise they'd fall apart. I longed for proper Legos, since I knew based on the one tiny Lego set I got from an Aunt for Christmas that they would actually hold together.

The LEGO Space and Castle sets were my favorites! . Thanks for this fantastic video to take me back to memory lane once again.

An amazing toy and review with an epic opening and closing. Lego did a beautiful update to an iconic line.

One of those very few sets you immediately impulse buy, not because you intend to ever build it, but you're amazed that it even exists.

I love that some vintage Lego topics snuck into Retroblasting videos this year!!

I was able to fit an additional 4 minifigs from a smaller set I got some time around the lego movie. It had vintage space minifigs in yellow and pink, white as well, and I think Benny was in it as well. This set also made me realize I've had an og blackton minifig floating around in my collection.

Always love the Lego content. Excellent review

Just bought assembled this yesterday and I love it. Every little detail of it is so cool, but I think my favorite out all of them has to be the control panel tile that shows a screen resembling the game Asteroids. Such a fitting and amusing detail. On top of that, the designer also created two alternate ship designs with instructions that you can get online or through the Builder app. For $100, this is probably one of the most bang-for-your-buck sets that I’ve seen in a while.

So glad you've talked about this Michael, your original Lego pace video is one of my favorites of yours, and I think this may be the best spaceship Lego has ever made

Excellent video and look at this cool Lego Set. Like you said, they kept the original dna and it's improved/upgraded where needed. In this case, bigger is def better with this new set. Thanks for making this video. Nothing takes me back as much as the Classic Lego theme.

I almost crapped a brick! I did'nt know they put the lab in the back! Those sleeping quarders look great. If only they'd put the alternate builds on the back of the box like the older sets did. I miss that. Thanks for the great review! :) I've REALLY been wanting this. Thanks for the video. :)

This was a fun build, not hard at all, but just relaxing and enjoyable to put together. I love her lines and how well she fits in the Classic Space Universe. It's a perfect set, and well worth it's price.

I love you so much. Please never stop this channel. 💕

More Lego Michael please!

The original Galaxy Explorer is still the best Christmas gift I ever received.

Great video from start to finish! And fun too!

I miss those lunar building plates. Those were fun to create space stations with.

Little kid me would have been all over this. I loved and still love classic space.

This LEGO set was obviously designed by people with talent that loved the original...I wish there were more people like that in Hollywood and the gaming industry.

Excellent video and review!

The vader bit at the end was a really nice touch. This is a great piece … i wonder if i have time to get one to build over the holidays…😅

Really great video. Lego Space is still one of my all time favorite themes

The excelsior nod to Having BV go brick at the end , it was perfect

What a beautiful design, and a perfect reimagining.

My childhood was the era of Johnny Thunder and the adventures line , i want some of those sets remastered! The new Lego indy stuff is holding me over for now

Fantastic video and review 👏

Love it. Never had this but a close friend did and we spent hours playing with them. Great video❤

Thank you for all your great content, Merry Christmas Melinda and Michael 👍

One small step for Lego men. One giant critical step for retroblasting! Great video man!

Michael you are Scotty! “This LEGO vid is taking forever to create. It’s going to be at least another week.” 24hrs later…”Done! Ya welcome!” Great job sir. 👍👍

I've been debating picking this up.

The new model is great! Hope to see classic space come up again!

LL928! A classic, also loved Blacktron, M-tron, Ice Planet, Space Police…amazing space run with all the factions.

As someone too young to have been there for classic space, but grew up admiring the builds and open ended play i adore this set, it captures everything i would want in a space theme today and i bought this set, which i only ever do when i support what lego is doing, and im glad i did, it really is a fantastic piece

The robot is a nod to the original robot - great!

Great video Michael. One of your best. As much fun as it is when you rip on disappointing things, it's really fun when you love great things as well.

I loved Space Lego in the 80’s.

The original Galaxy Explorer was my first Lego set. I still find pieces of it in various places around the house.

In my opinion the raised moon base plate in old gray is the best thing LEGO did for the space theme. There is even a blue one with studs in the craters representing the ocean ground. The old manual books? Man, o man it was art on its own. & today? Today we have stickers! 🤭😂

Fantastic! Now I want to collect space Lego!

Great intro! I really love how you make these.

Loved playing with space lego growing up, I didn't have the galaxy explorer but I had the galaxy commander.

Fantastic set full of brilliant solutions and great sci-fi look! I am sure that another generations of LEGO enthusiasts will relate to it as another classic LEGO Space set!

Utterly amazing. Thanks so much for this. I had the original set when I was 8 and this looks incredible. Just like back then though, I doubt I can afford it!

90 years old but still fresh and innovative, Lego is just brilliant.

I was happy to see this set was on $100. I’m use to every Lego set I want being easily twice that

Wow, such a nostalgic set. I only had the smaller spaceships LL918 and LL924. Only the rich kids had the LL,928. wow, it was such a joy to play outside in the neighborhood. Up to six or seven kids flying around their houses with their lego ships. Nowadays I see no kids any more. Are they sitting inside playing with their gameboyxyboxwii system. Thanks Michael for your lovely review. Keep up the good work.

This set is the equivalent of the original Enterprise from Star Trek. And this new version is beyond amazing

I had the vintage one as a kid and it was one of my pride and joy pieces for a long time. Just placed an order for the new one after watching this. Won't have time to put it together for a while, but really excited to dig into it once I do.

About the point with the LL 928 marking. Benny's spaceship was marked LL 929 and treated as the spiritual successor to the Galaxy Explorer in the context of the Lego Movie. The use of the original number on this set feels like either a direct remake in the contemporary 'no lunar plates' Space line or it might be akin to the US Navy using certain ship names again after the original has been retired or otherwise taken out of service. CV-8 and CV-12 are both considered the USS Hornet in the same way that CV-6, CVN-65 and the CVN-80 are all the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier.

Galaxy Explorer that name reminds me of a Ford car commercial! This Lego Galaxy Explorer is a big sucker! Excellent looking toy and video!

Armless Lego Vader is a WIN for this video (clicked like)

Amazing!

A very impressive reimagining of a classic. So tempted to get this but... Well, space isn't just the final frontier, it is a limiting factor for collectors like me. And I still need a place to sleep. The design and engineering of great LEGO sets like this always impresses. A great review and a very appreciated and appropriate set of Trek references.

Nice informative (and amusing !) review. My Lego days are behind me, but this ship looks very cool.

I ignore this set every time I pass by it and now I have to go get it.

i imagine those two mugs the robot has are filled with Soylent Green Tea, it is simply a delicious beverage that has all the vitamins and nutrients needed for each meal. Lego is definitely my absolute favorite toy line that i do not collect, i have had many Lego sets in the past and was always a huge fan of the Knights and the Pirates but i always end up reaching a point where i realize they are too expensive and take up too much room for me. i need ALL the room i can get for my extensive 3 3/4" collection. Lego sets and figures are awesome though.

I never was a big fan of lego, other than the speed champions sets, which I still buy, but this video has now made me buy this set, great video Michael.

Great review! I’m headed out to go buy one right now!

You ought to check out the new space line. Not only are the sets cool to play with, they have a basic framework of a narrative, that you can figure out yourself, as you build, collect, and play. Additionally, the Space them chris-crosses multiple other lines. Chiefly City, Technix, and friends. The modular docking system works across all three lines, letting you play with all three, in a single atoryline of your choice. Other little details include the color coding of the space suits, based on what division the astronaut works for. Green for science, blue for operations/piloting, and yellow for engineering. Even the various, creatively designes little robots have color markings for what division they belong to. Definitely give them a look, even if it's just playing with someone else's collection.

SOLD! I just dug out an old one missing way too many brittle parts. Thank you for the size comparison. Seriously.

Superb video of an awesome new set, I have this Mk2 waiting for me under the Xmas tree, and the original on display, so soon I'll have the two together side by side. Definitely my favourite Lego line and era.

Cant believe you did a video on this set I've had the temptation to buy it all last week hahaha

I like the Bionicle reference in the set. One of the moniters shows a Spaceman infront of one of the Toa Mata's Pods

I just built this one and it does not disappoint. Glorious ship!

That is a thing of beauty!

Very cool! And great video too. I definitely am blown away by the Explorer being at spiritual heart of this new one, but ageee that it's deserving (and needing) an ID number that reflects (in universe) that it's the next/newer model. In keeping with that, I gotta admit, it would've been nice if they could have included an original astronaut/spaceman but with a new high-level rank marking of some kind to give a feeling of one of the ones we had having risen in rank over these year.

I have my 80s Space Diorama with the Vintage Galaxy Explorer, the Space Crusier and the Space Transport in it. I recently acquired the Neo Galaxy Explorer "Mark II" and It is amazing the way Lego Designers reimagined. Now, I need to buy two more sets, in order to create the Neo Versions of the other 2 Classic Spaships 😭

I paused this video halfway through to call my wife - who is doing last minute Christmas shopping - to tell her “I know what I want for Christmas”. Fingers crossed I’m getting this Galaxy Explorer! Thanks for this review.

Seeing this brought back some fond memories of having the classic Lego space sets. Who’s o had hung on to them like I did my Star Wars and Joes stuff!

Thanks Micheal. I loved the Star Trek allegory. I've had mine for months, and I also incorporated an old blue "Space Brick" with the logo I had into the rear cargo door. She now sots proudly next to my "original" LL918 Space Transport from 1978.

well, they did LL-929: that's Benny's spaceship. The "-B" thing however would have been kind of cool :-) I really love this set and the secondary build models are great too.

i used my lego points for this, i got the feels from it. I remember opening the original Christmas morning which led to a childhood of lego kits for christmas and birthdays. Still happens 43 years later

Never had the chance to have it back in the 80's -was one of my top 3 dreamed toys- (impossible to buy in my country) but a close friend that went to U.S.A. bought one and I remember having a blast playing with the ship set together with him (thanks Adrian!!) Thanks so much for bring such detailed review that brings a lot of joy and the best of memories. The new one rocks but still love the lunar plates of the original one :) -sorry for my english- Love the channel \m/

Fantastic video as always! I randomly saw the mark 2 in my local Lego store and immediately bought it, no second thought. I have to mention, that the price on it is also quite ok, and not stupidly high like with a lot of other Lego stuff. Now I’m hoping for some classic Lego castle action….

Bravo!!!👏 👏 👏 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Another great Lego feature!!! DV just can't catch a break 😂😂😂😂😂

Lego could have sold the alternate A build for the LL924 Space Cruiser as a separate set and it would have sold out in minutes

I bought this set not long ago, but I haven't yet gotten round to building it. This is going to be the Boxing Day project for me. And another set will be bought in time - because of the additional builds. Oh yes, the additional builds.

You’re absolutely right about the Galaxy Explorer, being the flagship… As a kid, I was never really into Lego until I saw that particular set, and to me it was the first vehicle that looked like a viable, spacefaring craft in the context of imagination but also had that aesthetically pleasing classic spaceship look. I like this one has evoked that vibe albeit with a bit more of a streamlined appearance.

Great video. Great set. Though I had Legos, I found more fun out of using cardboard to make my Starships. Jut that didn't mean I did not like my Legos. The Space sets were always a favorite of mine, Great review.

Funny thing about mine is that I personally added Katana swords to the front in order to differentiate it from others who own this exact same set

You're doing THE LORD'S WORK!!!! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH FOR BRINGING US BACK!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

I’m about halfway building this. I bought it as a Christmas present for myself.

Super!

sold! I loved the original, but this look great.

OMG best opening!

Love the Lego versions of Michael and Melinda.

lol i can't stop laughing every time you have lego you on screen reviewing the table display

I don't know if anyone has already said or if you care but lego released alternate building instructions on their website for mark II's of 2 of the smaller classic space ships, the space cruiser and space transport. You do have to disassemble the explorer to do these, unless you buy 2 more haha

You can save 25 bucks on this one up at Walmart. Totally worth the 75 bucks

I know that it is probably mainly nostalgia talking, but I have the save feeling with the 90th anniversary castle set. Castle Lego was my go to sets growing up in the 80's and whilst not cheap by any measure, damn it looks good sitting on my shelf.

love the st3 references.

I like your Lego alter ego..clever

As Benny would say: "SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP!"

That's hilarious: Even before clicking on the video, in my head, I was playing Scotty's anti-Excelsior line from 'Star Trek III: The Search For Spock'. Haha! Michael and I were on the same wavelength. :)

I like the fact on lego website you can get the builds for the other 2 ships