The set comes in a nice big box that boasts 391 pieces, which makes this the largest Lego set I own. Yeah, that’s not saying a lot, but give me a break, this stuff is still relatively new to me. The piece count includes three minifigs, but that still leaves quite a bit of bricks to make up the single ship. Inside the box are four big bags of bricks and a nice big instruction sheet. There’s also a sticker sheet. I was pretty surprised how few stickers this ship needed, considering how big it is, but I think that’s a testament to its design that it doesn’t require a bunch of stickers to look great.

It took me just under three hours to build this baby. It was lots of fun to build, although each set of wings and thrusters needed to be built twice. I’m not a big fan of having to duplicate assemblies, but it’s obviously a necessary evil to create a ship with symmatry and it’s worth it to get to the finished product. I think the best thing about building this set is the fact that you basically build each have separately, so when the time came to put them together, I was totally unprepared for just how long this thing was going to be. It’s huge. It also means you can pull it into two halves for easier storage.

Let’s get the minifigs out of the way first. You get a Space Police officer, Brick Daddy, and his driver. Brick Daddy is easily one of the coolest Lego minifigs I’ve ever seen, but I think that goes without saying since he’s a squid-faced alien space pimp. Considering the age range for these sets, it’s probably too much to ask for a couple of alien space whores to go with him, but it might just be a custom project that would be worth doing.

It may be ironic, but the thing that got me into the Space Police line has very little to do with the Space Police themselves, and more to do with the awesome designs of the alien vehicles. I mean, just look at this thing. It’s a pimped out space limo and it’s glorious. It makes me want to get a Lando Calrissian minifig so he can fly around in this beauty. The black, purple and gold deco is really sharp and I absolutely love the little gold hood ornament. The Limo is also a really solid piece once it’s built, which is sadly more than I can say about the Space Truck. The only thing to be really careful about here are the two front laser guns, as they are very thin and probably rather prone to snapping or stressing. Other then that, this is one awesome intergalactic ride, man.

The Lunar Limo also has some decent little play features. The roof opens up to show inside the cabin, where the two minifigs sit. Brick Daddy actually sits on a little escape rocket inside the cabin, with what looks like a giant minigun on the front of it. The trunk also opens, which can fit the Space Police minifig. I’m not sure if he’s hiding back there or if Brick Daddy is driving him out to some distant nebula so they can whack him. He’s got a flick-fire gun, so it’s probably the former. There’s a little bit of articulation in the front wings and in the guns on the rear wing assemblies. There’s also a concealed missile launcher in the front of the limo, which fires a pretty hefty missile a pretty good distance. The whip antenna on the top is hinged, and I got an extra antenna in the box in case this one snaps.

This set is the fourth Space Police set I’ve picked up and it retailed originally at $39.99 and is still pretty easy to find both online and in stores. My Walmart actually had a ton of them on clearance. I would have been happy with it at full retail, but I won’t complain about getting it on clearance. Right now, there are just two more must-have sets in this series for me: The Hyperspeed Pursuit and Smash and Grab, although the Galactic Enforcer is still trying to wear down my resistance.