In fairness Kurt does stipulate that he cannot guarantee the availability of any parts used in his model, but a quick look on Bricklink confirmed my fears that many were simply unavailable in the 'correct' colours. A significant amount of the technic parts he had used have never been produced in white and some of the techniques were going to result in a lot of potential weakness once you commit to plastic. The only drawback was that it can't really be built with existing Lego. A great design in 3d (link here to Kurts flickr page). The only real design that was out there for download was from 'Kurt'. My original idea was to download a cool design from the web, order the bricks and just build it. I did find a couple of good MOC Lego Eagles on line. I found tools like Lego LDD along with on-line Lego market places to source the parts. Now Lego has moved on a bit and being an 'adult' and the master of my own finances it occurred to me that now I could build that dream Eagle Transporter to mini-figure scale. Back then we had blocks, slopes and plates with a few odds and ends like windows etc. Lego has come a long way in the 40 years since I was building. In my mind I had built Eagles for mini-figures but in reality mini-figures weren't even around at that time! The mists of time had also obscured some important facts my original Eagle models were relatively small and pre-dated the mini-figure (which wasn't introduced until 1978). Obviously my youthful imagination was a great deal more colourful than it is now. All I could build was a blocky, multi-coloured estimation that had all the scale and finesse of a jet propelled matchbox. Could I build that amazing model I once did? The answer was 'no'. I had given my son all my original Lego some time ago so I was sure that it would be possible to build my old design of the Eagle transporter. Roll on 40 years and, with a Lego mad son in tow, I decided to rebuild my 'amazing' childhood Lego Eagle. Some of my models were even in white but due to severe lack of bricks they were often compromised with copious quantities of blue, grey, yellow and red bricks. Its scale was just about sensible enough and with a lot of imagination and enough multi-coloured pieces it was possible to get the basic shape. The Eagle Transporter, however, was achievable. Nothing wrong with that but for the young impressionable viewer with a box full of Lego and an urge to explore space, the Enterprise NCC-1701 was just a bridge too far (no pun intended). The only other cool(ish) series around was Star Trek. The main bit for me was the tech - it was super cool! The story lines were cheesy and the fashion was questionable but it was the seventies, so that was kinda normal. once in a while and usually late at night (and age seven it got boring in the last third). Stanley Kubrick's film 2001 was pretty slick but it was only on T.V. They were still running 1950's Flash Gordon on T.V. You have to cast your mind back and remember that this weekly series pre-dated most modern space series and films by a significant margin. Way to go Lego!įeel free to get in touch to talk about the model: was I thinking!Īs a child of the very late sixties and early seventies I adored Space: 1999. So Lego got eBay to protect the Lego empire from a genuine enthusiast. Failure to do so would result in action against me. It would have been like trying to advertise ' air pocket protective packaging' because the term ' Bubble Wrap' is actually a brand name of the Sealed Air company!Īnyway, the upshot of this was that I was that after five years my listing was unceremoniously removed and I was 'advised' by eBay not to advertise any more. This sweeping agreement is aimed at all the Chinese copy-cat building brick sets but it seems to affect anyone advertising anything to do with Lego including my MOC build instructions!Īs you can imagine, advertising a set of Lego instructions without mentioning the word 'Lego' was going to be prohibitive, especially given that Lego brand is pretty much a universal descriptor and without using the brand name no one was going to find the instructions. Until recently the instructions for this MOC project were available on eBay but a recent legal agreement with the Lego corporation resulted in eBay banning any listing using the word 'Lego' that isn't an authorised Lego product. Are these the same instructions that used to be on eBay?
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