#6830 Space Patroller

LEGO released #6830 Space Patroller in 1988, and a friend gave it to me for my birthday that same year. We had been really close since we started first grade together three years earlier, but unfortunately around this time her family moved to the other side of town and we soon lost contact. Interestingly, her family had a lot of Playmobil toys, and not much LEGO. I myself had just a single Playmobil set, that I actually got from her on some earlier birthday. But I digress, this blog is about LEGO…

Instruction for building the minifigure and the two small droids

We start off by building the yellow Futuron minifigure and the two small droids that will attach to the back of the spacecraft.

The base is built with wings attached to hinges on the sides so that they can fold back. Just like the last Futuron build here on the blog, especially the white parts are really worn out and showing discoloring. I have cleaned all my old pieces so I guess the next step if I want them looking any better would be peroxide treatment.

Instructions for steps 9 and 10, building the spaceship canopy and attaching the droids to the back.

The canopy and front is built as a sub-assembly and attached on a hinge behind the pilot's seat, along with the two droids on their backs. The position of the droids seems to indicate they double up as engines, no doubt in an effort to save on precious resources…

The completed spaceship with the minifigure at the controls

And that’s it, a 40-parts swooshable spaceship carrying a versatile crew for any surface mission!