Yeah I heard they came close to the end. Lots of companies trying to grab a piece of the pie - filing objections for renewal to the patent office no doubt.
I'm glad they didn't go under - that would've been quite the tragedy but it's sad they had to sell their soul to pop culture franchisers in order to stay afloat.
I swear a small piece of my childhood dies every time I see a Lego Star Wars this or Lego Pirates of the Caribbean that!
My ex's boy was mad about the Nintendo games. Had to have every damned one of them... it drove me up the wall! They're all the exact same bloody game, just with different textures!
<<Inhales deeply>> Must remain calm though. Don't think about Nintendo... think about...
https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/6821-1.jpg

Ahhh... that's better!

Oh yes. The dark ages of Lego. They almost went out of business during that time. I started making the mega core magnetizer (what they called it here in the us) after the stellar recon Voyager (you can see part of the base in some of my screenshots).
I have two of those sets currently...I went through a phase where I bought a lot. I recently started technical work in some of my models. Very cool things can be done.

That some piece has been in a few other themes, ice planet, unitron, blacktron, spyrius, futuron to name a few. Even in my custom ship the Sanguine Princess!

The MTron, right! I hadn't spotted that one before.
Instant +1 & favourite! I had that model. Had loads from that set... the big red truck with the mechanical steering & huge dome cockpit was my favourite. Never did find another use for the cockpit "brick" though
My poor mother... that thing cost like £140 at the time! Hehe!
I was mostly into Technic. Built some amazing things with that. Kind of glad I got out of it when I did though. Not long after, Lego lost the patent & started putting out all sorts of weird single-purpose blocks and it stopped feeling like Lego. The new stuff seems more like a Mechano / Kinex / Construx hybrid, not the Lego I know & love!!

Yeah, I actually built one and published it, i have a few that are not finished, I have MOST of the 90's lego space sets, plus some of the 70 and 80s. I'm such a nerd I go to conventions and run games using lego!

Me too! I used to have boxes upon boxes of the stuff. Maybe a quarter of a ton, plus a whole box of instruction manuals, all pristine! Had to sell it all about 20 years ago when we moved house & cash was short. I often wish I still had it. Some of those kits were collectors items even back then! All I was interested in was building stuff with it though. Didn't care one iota how collectable it was.

If you want more Lego spaceships for building ideas, I find a good source is DeviantArt. I get many a great idea from there!

Ah, cool, cause I'm a big nerd when it comes to Lego..

@Lee... Yes. Yes it is!
I didn't build the model - just found the image in a web-search. Was cool enough that I decided to build it.

Is that a pic of it in Lego???

Excellent! Get publishing!
I look forward to seeing your collection!

thanks I have so much bluperints waiting to be published :)

(cont'd...)
Pic editing is another thing entirely. I personally don't have any pro image editors at the moment but I'd recommend Paint Shop Pro by Jasc / Coral / whatever they call themselves these days.
Right now I'm using MSPaint & MSWord for adding basic objects to existing images. It's not pretty but it does the job for now. What software you'll personally find most useful will depend on what kind of results you want to achieve - but simple stuff can be done with the software you get with Windows. More than anything it's about spending the time. Image editing can be a time consuming busines & the better you want the results to be the more time you'll need to spend.

@SHRIMP!... Did someone just say Pizza?! Mmm! You'll be a smash hit overnight publishing anything with Pizza in it! I'll take 3 right now!

Yeah I could give a few tips.
Probably my best one is to take your screenies with graphics settings turned to High, AA set to FXAA and Ambient Occlusion turned on. Personally I never use PostProcessing, as although it looks gorgeous, it kills all the detail & makes the subject matter look soft & cuddly - which is ok for screenshots of fluffy kittens but not so much for shots of spaceships!
You don't need to play the game on high settings if your computer struggles with them - just toggle the settings up to take your shots, then back down again for gameplay...

just when I started making my pizza boi container drop offer... Any tips for screenshots and pic editing?

A new challenger approaches! (Super Smash Bros. reference lol)

That's strange... I've completed the internet many times but I've never seen him before!
I'll see if I can find one thats fitting.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pepe+the+frog&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB7fKU6dfdAhWpzIMKHdHdBFAQ_AUIDigB&biw=1438&bih=727&dpr=0.95

Pepe the Frog Memes, take your pick :P
Or maybe Kermit the Frog?

@crit... Pepe Memes? That's not the thing where you put a coin in the slot & watch through a hole in the wall is it? Hehe!
Link me a suitably appropriate one & I may add it!

Lol, needs some Monospace Pepe Memes on LCDs :P