A Shift in Color
During the mid-‘80s, the Space line evolved with more unique parts, and brought in more colors to shift and diversify the sets available. New astronaut figures were added in black and blue, and Lego sought to solve some of the problems of earlier minifigures—mainly that the chinstraps of their helmet visors were so thin and small they would easily snap—by introducing an updated helmet design.
In the sets themselves, a lot of the grey that defined the look of early Space vehicles gave way to white and blue. The change heralded something much bigger coming at the tail end of the 1980s…
