May / June ’26 Web Links

This post marks ten years since I started this blog. Kinda wild. It’s been intermittent for most of those years and I’d say about half of the material is just notes I took because (back in the day) the easiest way to find a how-to later was to google it even if you were finding your own blog! I should probably use a different wordpress theme… who uses black on white anymore? The curious case of the 1875 Meteor Monitor (lovetobuild.net) Bjarne Tveskov, the LEGO designer of the (in?) famous Meteor Monitor (as well as numerous other sets), one of the most confusing Space sets for theme-watchers, apparently has a blog and explains its origins. He also includes some concept ships that I’ve never seen shared anywhere else for what he jokingly calls “spectron”, a ZX-spectrum inspired iteration of what became BlackTron II. In these concepts I see the germs of the Warp Wing Fighter (above) and Particle Ionizer (below.) Maybe even the rover from Space Station Zenon. Not to mention the orange…