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Fun fact: that plow is also used as a satellite dish in another set.

Ice Planet set? FAKE NEWS. Nothing to see here folks.

That printed dozer blade is really cool although I don't understand what's supposed to do, I would think radar but why put it on the front??

Ice planet would be a really cool theme to return, especially since we got quite a few trans orange pieces with Nexo Knights.

The government is taking over LEGO, or has LEGO always been the government?

I have this set, shhhh.

It doesn’t have a name? We’ll call it John Dozer.

Much as I love Ice Planet, something's just occurred to me about this set. It's a snowplow. For use on a planet that's covered in snow and ice. He's going to be at this for a while, isn't he?

Secret...Agent...Maaaan!!!!

To this day, the Spyrius elders tremble with horror upon relating tales about he whom they call The Nameless One.

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Read the following in James Earl Jones' voice:
"This random set of the day was never posted.
You have never seen this set before,
and I, was never here."

(Internetcomment)

Ice Planet 2002, the BEST space theme ever released.

6983 is my first lego set...nostalgia

I say we name it Jeff

Operator: "HQ, this is *CRACKLE* requesting to return to base, rodger..."
HQ: "Ummm...repeat last transmission, you broke up a bit, rodger..."
Operator: "Repeat: HQ this is *CRACKLE*..."
HQ: "OK, go to 'maintenance'; maybe they can fix that..."

Person at LEGO in 1994:

"It doesn't need a name, right?"

"Yeah, it's not like people are gonna bring it up again in 28 years."

Guys, it has a name already! “(Unnamed)”

I like that this series got a little more specific than "space". The current space sets are cool, but without some strong theming they won't stand out as much to me.

I find that answer vague and unconvincing - K-2S0

This would look very good in Blacktron colours, and Blacktron used their own radar dish (Other themes used it too, M-tron, Town, but I see it as a Blacktron piece) so it would be easy to convert. but a question arises... Why would Blacktron be plowing snow?

@TheOtherMike said:
"Much as I love Ice Planet, something's just occurred to me about this set. It's a snowplow. For use on a planet that's covered in snow and ice. He's going to be at this for a while, isn't he?"

Seems like an essential piece of equipment to me. (Maybe one that they could have even named.) They do use snow plows here on Earth to remove snow from places that have permanent snow and ice. Perhaps this plows the snow so that it's flat enough for a runway or landing pad for the flying vehicles. Maybe it evens out the ground so that there's a better ice road for ground vehicles. Maybe it plows paths for people to walk about between their outpost bases. He doesn't necessarily have to plow all the way down to rock.

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Another fun fact: This is the second (Unnamed) set as RSotD; the previous was 1740 from July 24th, 2019

I really liked the Ice Planet color scheme. The contrast of blue and orange worked well for me and I love the fluorescent transparent space colors - they're one of the few things that glow like in the box art when put under black light or sometimes even just blue light.

1722 was the only way to obtain it, it had a shared instruction sheet with the fire truck, maybe even the parts were mixed inside.
The fact that they put an almost exclusive part (the radar dish from 6983) in an obscure mixed theme, value-pack like set as this one was very surprising, when I first found out it existed!

This set comes with the Ice Planet chief, Commander Cold (US)/ Commander Bear (UK). Like many sets containing him, it lacks a tool holder for his saw, which is odd and a bit of a downside. He seems to wield it bare-handed? In the promotion shots he always used the uncommon blue tool holder, though that never appeared in a set.

Two questions remain: where was the name 'Major Ursa' (the female Ice Planet member, 'Dr. Kelvin' in Legacy) ever mentioned and is there a name for the third Ice Planet astronaut?

(btw the actual 'Ice Planet' they work on is actually called 'Krysto' by them)

@Lego_lord said:
"I was never into Ice Planet. The models were nice but the colors didn't work for me. Think about it, how beautiful would 6973 look in Classic colors, or Futuron for that matter."

Would take Ice Planet colours over Classic any day. Grey, blue and yellow is hideous. Guarantee if classic was a new LEGO theme today AFOLs would all be deriding the colour scheme, it’s only nostalgia that makes people like it.

Can we call it Firecheif’s car? It’s a really unique title that seems to fit everything…

@Supreme said:
"The government is taking over LEGO, or has LEGO always been the government?"

They make good stuff: surveillance systems, all history books, voting machines

In space no one can hear your name...

Let's admit it, this is not the worst name we have seen.

@jsworpin said:
" @Lego_lord said:
"I was never into Ice Planet. The models were nice but the colors didn't work for me. Think about it, how beautiful would 6973 look in Classic colors, or Futuron for that matter."

Would take Ice Planet colours over Classic any day. Grey, blue and yellow is hideous. Guarantee if classic was a new LEGO theme today AFOLs would all be deriding the colour scheme, it’s only nostalgia that makes people like it."

Seconded. Blue, white and tr-orange is a colour scheme that instantly shows the snow setting and heat generated to survive it, but also works with contrasting and complementary colours. It's a perfectly balanced colour scheme. There's a reason blue and orange are often used together. Hot and cold.

Grey, yellow and blue... not so much. People are forgetting that grey is well... grey. None of the colours really pop, and having tr-yellow doesn't add brightness as it isn't fluorescent and isn't all that bright itself. And blue is another cold colour. IMHO the figures saved the colour schemes of those sets. And no- making it grey doesn't make it more 'realistic'. Because even at the time space equipment wasn't all grey, but usually white.

In the end colour schemes come down to taste, but don't forget that nostalgia can play a factor.
I myself am biased too. 'Classic Space' (which actually was far more varied than that colour scheme) has been overexposed the last few decades, and when I was younger I found those sets to look 'old' because of the overabundance of grey. I didn't grow up with those sets. But not with ice planet either, hence my comparison.

@TheOtherMike:
It does seem silly, at first, but there are legitimate reasons for needing to plow on a snowball. If you have a base that’s built into the ice pack, you do need to keep the entrances free of accumulation. If the surface has dangerous crevasses, and hollow pockets under the surface that could collapse, using a plow to map out safe roadways would be a good idea. And of course, if you’re hopelessly addicted to plowing snow, maybe that explains why you ended up on Not-Hoth in the first place.

@Murdoch17:
I’d respond to that, but then we’d have to kill you.

@Binnekamp:
Stuff was painted white to reflect IR in space, since there’s no atmospheric shielding when you’re in sunlight (and cooling takes valuable energy). More effective was silver-colored foil, which is even more reflective, but chrome-plating every piece would never have been allowed. And it wouldn’t be much longer before Orange was introduced to the spacecraft color scheme, when someone realized how much rocket fuel it cost to lift hundreds of pounds of white paint on the expendable STS external tank, only to have it burn up on reentry a few minutes after liftoff.

Meanwhile, back on earth:

*State puts up online poll to name plows.
Earthlings: Unnamed McUnnamedface!
Ice planeteers:
Earthlings: :D :D :D

I've been through the tundra on a set with no name.

@PDelahanty said:
"Seems like an essential piece of equipment to me. (Maybe one that they could have even named.) They do use snow plows here on Earth to remove snow from places that have permanent snow and ice. Perhaps this plows the snow so that it's flat enough for a runway or landing pad for the flying vehicles. Maybe it evens out the ground so that there's a better ice road for ground vehicles. Maybe it plows paths for people to walk about between their outpost bases. He doesn't necessarily have to plow all the way down to rock."

Walk? Or do you mean the Ice Planet pioneered, preferred mode of personal transportation - chainsaw propelled skiing! :highfive:

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