The Next Generation
Where Blacktron went, the Space Police followed a year later in 1989, setting the stage for what would eventually become a three-way mishmash of ideological factions in Lego’s evolving Space series: heroes, villains, and a mid-way civilian exploration faction. This trend continued throughout the ‘90s as Lego regularly cycled new factions and storytelling in and out of the Space series. Futuron gave way to M:Tron, which itself evolved into the snowy explorers of Ice Planet 2003—while new generations of Space Force and Blacktron evolved their cops-and-robbers-in-space conflict, before giving away to entirely new factions like Spyrius and Unitron.
