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10497 Galaxy Explorer Make-under

This article has been contributed by Zander:

Classic Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP Galaxy Explorer. Its 43-year mission: to explore strange new moulds. To delight new AFOLs and old generations. To boldly go where no LEGO Space set has gone before!

Like Star Trek, LEGO Classic Space has fans of every possible variation of the theme from die-hard purists wedded to its earliest incarnation through to those who embrace its most modern variations.

As you might expect of a member of LEGO’s design team, Mike Psiaki, designer of 10497 Galaxy Explorer, veers towards the latter. Fortunately for oldies like me who had 497 Galaxy Explorer back in the day, his modernising impulses were reined in when it came to the new Galaxy Explorer. Its up-to-date SNOT building techniques and sleek lines are cleverly combined with enough exposed studwork and nods to the design language of the late ‘70s to keep a fuddy-duddy like me grinning like a Classic Spaceman... or almost.

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