This set had the shifting feet function similar to set 6876 Alienator.

I loved this set! I cannot remember if I actually had it or day dreamed about having it so much that I have memories of it.

I'm going to make a version of this with modern pieces if Lego doesn't.

^ I miss the double-sided 2x2 plates. They were blue and had regular studs on both sides instead of anti-studs on the bottom side. I can't find them on Bricklink.

Here lies Lego Space.

I have to admit the design is quite a bit better than I perceived it to be when it first came out. But Roboforce was so bad overall that it was hard to notice any redeeming qualities. The series was an incoherent mess. The other three Roboforce sets were an ungainly biped bot, a…um…roller-skating dancer, and…a…rolling air traffic control tower??? There was no consistent color scheme, either, so these things didn't even look like they went together. There was also no clarity on what their mission was (or even if it was good or bad), and not enough sets—nothing in either the pocket-money or the mothership/big-base price brackets.

It was all quite a letdown, especially considering that Spyrius was on the shelves through 1996 and Ice Planet had been available throughout 1995.

It's a chicken, I tell ya--a giant chicken!

@Zordboy :
There were only four sets, so it was a pretty flash-in-the-pan theme, even for Space.

@Galaxy12_Import :
One of our former members was a huge Tyco fan, so I'm familiar with this part. Tyco bricks were the same height as LEGO bricks, but their plates were 1/2 brick tall instead of 1/3. This allowed them to create two very useful parts, which were a 2x2 plate with studs on both sides, and the counterpart which looked like a 2x2 pasta shape that would accept studs from both sides. Combine the two and you had...an ordinary 2x2 brick. Because they were 1/2 brick tall, there was room inside the macaroni bit to accept studs from both surfaces without them bumping into each other. If they were to do a LEGO equivalent, they'd need to make the a 2x2x1/3 plate with studs on top and bottom, and a 2x2x2/3 waffle to pair with it. This would keep both parts within normal System geometry, while not creating an intersection problem within the bottom piece.

@The_Brickster_:
Don't get used to it. This only leaves two more of these sets that are eligible for RSotD.

Roboforce never made it to my toy stores, just lots of UFO sets which didn't appeal. So new sets are probably really rare, although looking at the inventory all the pieces are fairly common if you wish to recreate.

Wish we also got these US-only microthemes.

Zany, yet it looks cool and fun!

Looks like a very nice set, good colors and parts, but it was NA only.

Look out Zoids and Dino Riders, here is Robo Raptor!

More like Robo-Forced-to-use-spare-parts, amirite?

I'd take this set over the last two days' RSotD entries, any day!

I dunno, I feel like I'm in the minority, but I like the wackiness of some of the mid-late 90s themes like this. Sure, robo-dino is kinda a bizarre concept, but that's part of what makes it appealing to me!

So, with the colour schemes... were there two opposing factions of Robo-Force, the trans-neon-green guys vs. the trans-neon-orange guys? Or did the colours denote different branches within the same organisation? What was the story here? :o

I bought the Robo Stalker not long ago. The printed parts and Minifig’s are extremely detailed and beautiful.

@Semantic said:
"I never ever knew there was such as theme as "Roboforce" and I studied 90s sets pretty thorough. Almost having Mandela effect here."
Me neither. Must have been because I was slipping into my dark ages right around that time.

SPACE

@ThatBionicleGuy:
Regarding the color scheme question, possibly yes, but probably no.

@ElephantKnight said:
"That is one big raptor... And ripe for Blacktronizing, though the set seems undecided a bit on which Blacktron it wants to be."
I love your unwavering dedication toward Blacktron. I say it's leaning more toward Blacktron II.

I remember being thoroughly disappointed as a child when the trans-neon parts didn't glow like they do in the box art.

@WesterBricks said:
"I remember being thoroughly disappointed as a child when the trans-neon parts didn't glow like they do in the box art."

They do with a blacklight. I didn't learn that until I was an adult.

As bad as Roboforce was, I'll take some new Roboforce sets over X-wing version 17 or "brick sketches"

Hey everyone, in case you'd like to know, there's an update on My Dad.

From the new numbers coming in, one more lucky person now owns set 3220, passing from 15 to 16 owners, but 33 less fortunate members are still not able to get their hands on it.

Further updates soon. Ah, about today's RSOTD: not a chance against Scala.

@pumaman:
I don’t remember ever learning that, so I have no idea when I found it out. Certainly I didn’t have access to a blacklight when I was a young kid, so I either just assumed from the start, or it was probably high school or college when I first got my hands on one.

Now, the list of colors that are blacklight-reactive gets a bit weird. The expected ones are any shade of glow-in-the-dark, these two colors, and trans-bright-green (probably the best non-GitD color for “punch”). Trans-medium-blue is the oddest, since trans-light-blue looks fluorescent but isn’t, while TMB doesn’t look fluorescent but actually is (though the intensity is very inconsistent, and never as punchy as the previously listed colors). Two colors that were introduced in the first wave of Bionicle were trans-fluorescent-yellow, and trans-fluorescent-red, neither of which were widely recognized as being reactive under blacklight for a long time (I remember someone naming them trans-salmon and trans-peach at the time, because I spent a few days explaining why those names should be changed). They are almost as reactive as TBG, which is why it’s a shame that TFR was dropped so quickly, and TFY was barely used for anything else.

Then there are opaque colors, which get _really_ messy. Some colors are known to be consistently reactive, but others are randomly reactive. I remember finding out in 2001 that old-brown Bionicle parts were sometimes moderately reactive and other times not at all. But you couldn’t tell the difference unless you turned on a blacklight. The weirdest I’ve see in person is red 1x2 bricks that exhibited a flame pattern under blacklight. Almost as weird is scanning over a collection of minifigs and seeing a minifig where one part looks different than the rest under blacklight, or a group of seemingly identical minifigs (especially the early CMFs) that has one oddball that stands out from the rest.

Finally there’s deco. Obviously the GitD deco that got them in trouble from Monster Fighters is reactive, but so are the original Jawa’s eyes, and the safety stripes on the black Firefighter uniforms from around the same time (not the whole thing, just the lime part).

RoboForce came out in January 1997; UFO was July 1st of that year. Lots of Space sets in 1997! I like RoboForce: all four are displayed on the end of my kitchen counter. You just gotta love minifigs whose helmets are transparent with opaque visors!

Looks like the boxart team got lazy and just photographed the raptor on some decorative rocks next to the wall of the office building, or black construction paper. It's impossible to not see the "sky" is a flat plane.

@MCLegoboy said:
" @ElephantKnight said:
"That is one big raptor... And ripe for Blacktronizing, though the set seems undecided a bit on which Blacktron it wants to be."
I love your unwavering dedication toward Blacktron. I say it's leaning more toward Blacktron II."

It is how I am. The Blacktron 2 King. And if anyone else wants to challenge my throne, I'll just ask them "Do YOU have a Blacktron blog?"

@ThatBionicleGuy I am in the same minority. I miss the Neon 90s wacky space themes. Especially the black, white and neon green one from 1991.

I love Space! I wonder what a robot dinosaur would look like with modern building techniques?