Actually a ton of the BSG design was amazing. The Galactica was just fabulous as well. When they did the reboot I was so happy they kept the majority of those design elements, because they were iconic
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Yes! I remember endlessly drawing scenes involving them (at school when I was supposed to be doing something else) and trying to make some of them out of regular Lego.
jul 24, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I also tried to make them with the Lego I had. I made a pretty sweet Galactica once!
jul 24, 2025, 6:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Those regularly recycled combat shots (e.g. one Cylon fighter exploding while two peeled away, IIRC) were probably a cost-saving thing, but helped establish a vocabulary for drawing big battle scenes.
jul 24, 2025, 6:28 pm • 1 0 • view
And of course the 'logic' of the combat was a retread of WWII air combat: big ponderous bombers with turrets, smaller very agile fighters, with Galactica itself a wild combination flying-bomber-carrier (bridging to a nautical idiom protecting a civilian convoy).
jul 24, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
The thing the reboot did update in a way that felt believable was the details of the combat doctrines designed around these. The way all the ships got used felt really real
jul 24, 2025, 6:35 pm • 1 0 • view
I would build the shit out of a proper Lego Galactica though 🤔
jul 24, 2025, 6:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Hell yes.
jul 24, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view