YMMV / LEGO Space

• Badass Decay: While Blacktron II is likely the technological and tactical equal of their predecessors, the addition of copious white and neon yellow to their color palette and the substitution of bubble command modules and soft curves for the hard, pointy design scheme of earlier years sort of fails to elicit the same intimidation factor.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Unitron's Star Hawk II◊. It’s the largest craft Unitron has to offer but measures roughly half the size of the average faction’s flagship. Despite this, its multitude of bells and whistles and sleek design make it a fan favorite (one which gets revisited a few years later in Roboforce).
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One LEGO Mania magazine in 1998 featured a crossover between the Insectoids and Scooby-Doo. In 2015, LEGO acquired the rights to produce licensed sets based upon Scooby Doo. This becomes doubly Hilarious in Hindsight when you recall that the LEGO Time Cruisers comics in World Club Magazine established that the Insectoids were closely linked to the Egypt line from LEGO Adventurers... and now, in the Scooby Doo theme, a photograph of Johnny Thunder makes a cameo appearance in the Mummy Museum.
  • Blacktron I used three equilateral yellow triangles arranged in a triangular shape over a black field as its icon. This was released just at the same time that Zelda II: The Adventure of Link and a couple of years before the same design was used to represent the united Triforce in the series - perhaps Blacktron was keeping it safe for Ganon. Blacktron II switched to a stylized "B" for its icon, although there has been a Call-Back or two to the original logo.
• Memetic Mutation: ORANGE TRANSPARENT CHAINSAW◊
• The Scrappy: As a whole, the Insectoids line is this; for various reasons it is widely derided by adult LEGO fans.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • Futuron is just as much an overhaul of Classic LEGO Space as it is its own brand.
  • Ice Planet 2002 ships use a similar colour scheme to the blue and white ships of the Classic line, with orange transparencies replacing yellow. Their spaceship-and-planet logo is similar to the earlier range, too (except that the Ice Planet spaceship is not breaking orbit).
  • Explorien ships are reminiscent of Futuron designs, with predominantly white hulls and blue and yellow neon appointments to their ships and structures, not to mention the shared scientist role.