Oh, a whole world of neo-classic-space! Blush and smile ...

Can I come over and play?

omg! Im making one kinda like this with my new baseplates. This is inspirational. 5/5! Any tips on cliff building?

love the details and the comentary with all the space references. I rank this beautiful build, LMAO to the commentary.

Stunning! Rocks and mountainous terrain is difficult to get right - you've done extremely well there. The vehicles are nicely styled, as are the buildings. The details are fantastic and it looks great! It's interesting to know what music you were listening to at the time of the build. I can remember what I was listening to during my builds and I immediately think of the build when I hear the song. You have great musical tastes as well as aesthetic Lego tastes! I'm becoming more of a space fan every day and this creation is certainly having effects! ;-)

Now this a base! Nice build!

Ahhh, classic space. Where everyone is happy. Awesome build and congratulations.

Congrats on MOTD!

Wow this is awesome!!!One question,why is it called Skunk Base??

speechless.

wow, that's one epic place. nice trawler to.

Wow! wonderful build! And yes I do use those new listening devices.

...Even if the Red shirt's final gut feeling was a lot of sharp, stabbing pains...

This MOC is what the joy of LEGO is all about. So glad it got recycled as MOTD.

O M G this brought back so many memories. Excellent update.

Great classic build! Happy MOTD, this certainly deserves it!

old school awesomeness! A+++++

I have no words to describe this wonderfull old school lego construction!only awesome!i love classic space!

Fantastic! Awesome dio, and the ships and ground craft are excelent too!

Didn't see that coming!

impressive by its size and details!

This MOC fills me with joy and inner peace. Awesome job!

Awesome!

I listen to the same exact bands u do. i <3 dark side of the moon.

Ohh... I wish I have it in my home. Totally awesome.

this is quite possibly the BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN ONE MOCpages!!!!! its detailed and looks just like a real classic space,exept yours is not so tacky or rubbish and i find thins one of the funniest and amusing MOCs too!! i would pay megabucks for this!! 200000 out of 10 i would also be most honured is you would chech out some of my MOCs too please. well done you have worked your magic again and brought a massive chunk of brick heaven down to our crummy earth

Wow! One of the best creations I have seen!

Good ol' Lego Space. Brilliant work as always mate :)

That barrel-of-ranch-dressing bit still cracks me up...

awesome!!! and very funny dialogues :D

It kinda reminds me of the MoonBase from Lego Universe

Sweet! This thing is MASSIVE!

Wow this looks awesome alot of detail on this keep on the good work

wow

yay caress of steel :)

So I'm looking at this and my son's looking over my shoulder. He's 5 and he says to me "Dad, that's blowin my mind!" I guess I have to rate that a 5 outta 5... Keep up the great CS work.

Awesome build! Love the commentary and the references to other Space themes. I enjoyed looking through the pictures and reading through it.

Eclectic musical taste aside, there are some major Laygoes skills going on here. And, I love that writing.

WOW thats a lot of burps!

I love it! I am hoping to do some classic space themed stuff soon too! Its what got me into Lego when I was a kid!

the star trek red shirt reference was hilarious. great moc.

Interesting. Mother nature deplores a void it has been said, and that which was created by KG leaving, just seems to have been filled. As for the fridge idea - it would only work as long as there is no sun shining in that area. Otherwise it would be incredibly hot. Of course that would depend on the distance of said base from the sun to begin with. And for the build? I like it. Lee. PS: smokin' soundtrack!

incredible!

I love it when a plan comes together...As always: a truly enjoyable MOC, great presentation and a great sense of humor! And then there's your style of music, man, you are a wild one!

This is a jaw-droppingly huge build. Great presentation by the way. ~ Ghostman :)

Incredible Job! I loved the comentary!

Consider the large communications array idea stolen!!!! With your permission of course.

thats amazing. very well done. probably one of the best sci-fi mocs ive ever seen

In one word fantastic. And your taste of music is not bad too !!

Too funny. And bacon dipped in ranch dressing sounds great!

It is so very awesome ... yeah space police is somehow racist ... you have a good taste of music^^

I Think I know why that one thing reminds you of a monorail:http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/6991-1, http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/6990-1, and http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/6399-1

completely awsome

Great diorama, awsome taste of music

I like that, very detailed. Great work ! Keep on brikin' ...

Great work as always. The diorama is stunning. Besides the excellent main vehicle, the dialogue and song choices are also amazing. -Sam

as always, a great build with great writing

AWESOME!!!!!

Dang dirty hippie with your stoner rock! Anyway, yet again, the detail you put into your builds makes my head hurt and makes my eyes glaze over. Love the classic use of classic space!

Even his bacon? What's next, his corndogs? Fantastic and hilarious build.

Simply incredible. I can not yet fathom a work of this magnitude. Six weeks well spent! Thank you.

Hahaha, Red-shirts be stoopid. Pretty rad playlist you had, but where's the Vanilla Ice? Milli Vanilli? Hansen? Flock of Seagulls? Air Supply?! Fantabulously Classicy, Spacey, awesomey goodness.~H

I have to say, one detail sticks out to me is the sense of movement you get from the redshirt and the yellow guy. In fact, the main pic and the first pic, where you can just see those two in the bottom right, something about them appears the most realistic interaction of legomen movement and their environment I have seen so far. This is an amazing build.

Very...big. Good music. That's what my dad likes, and what he trained me to like.

So much detail! And not to mention anything classic space is awesome :) love the picture captions also and you got some good taste in music ;)

That landing pad is awesome.

From one crusty old fart to another, this diorama took me back to the early 70's when I just a little snot and I got my first Lego set. It was a small dump truck that used tiny metal bars as axles for the wheels. Even more amazing is that I still have these pieces despite all the others I've lost or broken over the years. Thanks for making me remember something good from that long ago.

When I see things like this, I want to buy many more 1x2 trans yellow bricks, and old light grey. Finding building hard to get back into after all the animating coursework. Great job, keep it up, Classic Space need more builders!

Wow! Just too cool! Great job! I love the diorama and all the talk! :D Skunkriffic! Oh yeah, N stands for Ni! XD

This is just lovely, no doubts about it. Could you post this on Research & Design, it would be wonderful to for everyone to learn from this on detail, layout, space and relation, doing scenescapes...

very cool! realistic and awsome! nice mix of old and new. keep it up.

Amazingly Beautiful with all the Rock Structures and buildings! Great job with the nnenn cameo (RIP nnenn), and the last picture was really funny! ~Ryan

AWESOME with Caps Lock on... I like the reference to nnenn. It made me sad, because I only heard of him until after he passed away. Sorry, this is a comment on your creation, not nnenn... I am sorry, but I can't rate it higher than 5...

Superb build. Chock full of very cool details, and nothing but the dio providing the backdrop. Loads of good humour and great presentation, and a man who can go from Hendrix to Dre in just a few CDs - sounds like the mixture of discs in my car. Thanks, this is great.

Gee, where's the OMG.AWHZUM 100000 button?

I hate the fact that I cannot rate it more than 5...

Fantastic! Fascinating! Wonderful! Amazing! Astounding! This is a terrific diorama, rover, monorail thing, classic space Build! The best classic space I've ever seen!

Man, that is just epic and spacey. I gotta say, I am a bit jealous of all those rock pieces. After buying a bunch to expand my collection, I've got about ten.

Haha, I love the Tiananmen Square part, it is classic. The backdrop is simply amazing, how do you find the time? Like really... ~Waff

exellent work. great music, but you got me at the end with no hanger scene boo hoo, great work would have liked 1 photo of the entire moc, I love things on this scale.

I don't really want to tell you how I feel about this, because so many hours of work went into it...but then, you don't really care anyway :D I don't like the limited colour palette. Basically there's just grey and blue. How boring. OK, probably my critique could be narrowed down to "Why, just why did you build classic space?" or something...perhaps I'm not old enough to see the awesomeness...

You know you live in Washington when anything that goes on a track above ground level is automatically called a monorail.

The level of detail, sheer excellence in the overall build, painstaking time this must have taken, and the fact that we have a lot of the same CD’s just wowed me on this build. This has to be one of the greatest base builds I have ever seen. Bravo Sir, bravo.

I look at this and wish to weep, this is classic space heaven, thankyou...

I think this is my new favorite in the diorama category. And you've got great taste in music too... even if there's not, sadly, a Starship Trooper in this scene ;-)

This is amazing!

While my work is frequently more mixed media than just Lego, and rarely purist, I still find something really special about seeing large scale, straight up classic feeling creations like this beauty here. It's a strange analogy, but kind of like being in the city for months, and then waking up one morning to step off of the porch of a cabin on Lake Quinault...crisp, clean, refreshing, and the way the universe intended things to be! Brilliant work, Shannon!

There is just far too much awesomeness to list, but I'll try. The Rover is of course top notch, and I also love the monorail. The stark contrast from the base to the gray rock is nice too. ~T

By the love of Zeus, this is amazing! It's complete and lively, and of course Red Shirt jokes are always funny :)

WOW! That is a pretty amazing scene, especially the MGS mk2 and the "monorail". Those music choices are amazing considering you just named the better part of what is on my Ipod right down to the album! 5/5.

So much detail! its to much to take in! *unconscious* man i love this, and the tribute you put in ^_^

The best detail IMO are the vents (2/3 of the parts hidden in the rocks). I like the "monorail" and the MGS too.

Those first two album choices are the best, like EVER! Sorry my love for The Who and Jimi are getting in the way of loving the MOC. You really built all this just to show off a new version of the rover? Genius.

Speedy dinged the total awesomeness of this diorama. So instead, it's "just" almost totally awesome. I keep going back to its picture and it seems it does not belong. Is it the red slope? the studs on top? I can't quite figure it out. Oh well ... And thanks for reminding us once more the legend that is Nnenn. Peace!

See, that wasn't so hard now was it? Seriously cool diorama man. A great idea to have it walled in, providing it's own backdrop and as Goldman says, nothing but bricks in the photo. The upgraded MGS does have style, although the original had a sort of rugged, utilitarian charm.

This is the first thing I see today and I now want it to be the last and only thing. It's great!

Truly, quite impressive. Some it is a bit simple and repetitive, but it seems to fit the Neo Classic Space theme quite well. Nice job all around. Good day

Stick it to the man, Sam!

You have a lot of grey. I'd wonder where you got it from, but I probably already know the answer.

Fantastic work, Shannon. Amongst the action, I loved the "monorail," rocks, and the circular pipe. Great work all around. -Dylan

Funny, with great details. Love the fridge area; wouldn't mind being able store food outside like that. The album list is indeed impressive; I'd listen to most of those albums myself.

Super awesome Shannon... SUPER AWESOME.

Am I the only dork who picked out a Red Dwarf reference? Yeah, probably... Really nice dio here ShannY! Only got yourself a 2x4 foot table huh? Yeap, that's about what I've got. Not that I have the talent to fill up that much room to begin with, but at least I HAVE to keep my workspace clear. Thanks for all the giggles! ~ Chris.

Very impressive! It's quite the build for your said tiny building space. I also found your music list quite entertaining...can't say I've ever seen Nirvana and Bach right next to each other though. That's not a common playlist mixture. (Oh, and I might mention that reading that amount of 70's and 80's bands nearly killed me. Just sayin'.)

Well worth the wait! Takes me back, except the black spaceman, never had one of those, yet... My relocation package is coming thru next week, and a bricklinking I shall go! Gotta' get back in the game. Gotta' get access to the bricks too, been living in a hotel for 6 weeks, and have 6 more weeks to go before my new place will be ready. But enough about my tale of woe! The "bus", as my 2 year old calls it, is sweet, beefy looking like an interplanetary equivalent of an H2.

Commander, I love speedy, ubt only know like six of those musicians ya listed, sir.

A truly sensational build. Great job sir. ZZTop FTW!!!

This MOC was made with love, because it was made to Metallica and Van Halen.

This is quite simply a jewel. Love the use of the fences as shelves for the containers and the quarter curved panels for the giant tube. Lots of subtle touches and a great story. Fantastic!

I may have some trouble on my hands if there's another MOs this year....

I nearly pished myself when I read the "Going all Tiananmen square on us" part. The humor of this was so funny, and the build is so excellent.

I find it somewhat humorous that the 'MGS' depicted in this diorama looks very little like the original one. Heh. Another thing I found humorous, was the fact that I knew only two music pieces in that whole list… (Beethoven’s symphonies)... Anyway - neat build, Shannon!

Awesome looking diorama, with plenty of details all around! Also, thats a pretty extensive playlist =)

Wow. That is awesome. Really. Goldmanesque dio. Great vehicle. Incomplete sentences. Oh wait, that's just my review. Great build and humorous write up.

Ladies and gentle men, he's back!

Sometimes I find myself feeling a bit like ole Red Shirt here... Peace ~ Packie

I love the combination of newer and older styles. And i'm sure the lego community will appreciate the nnenn reference. Great MOC.

Good ol' classic space. Nice job on the tribute.

Very nice, good job, I always love your creations, I was sooooo happy when I got an inbox message saying a new one from you was out!

Very cool and humorous diorama. Neo Classic Space done right!