Little bit hard to tell what I’m looking at here. What do we say? Do we like this one, team?

I think I friend from primary school had this. Pretty cool set I should admit.

Another fine capital ship I missed out on in my grey ages. Was strongly tempted to buy it a couple years ago, settled for 5973 Hyperspeed Pursuit instead.

This is a set that I missed out on and that would probably be one of my biggest Lego regrets.

@astrakhan said:
"I had a fondness for this set because it reminded me a lot of 6982 Explorien Starship and the whole Exploriens dynamic in general. It just needed some foil stickers..."

I hadn't thought of it that way, but yeah, this does look a lot like the Explorien Starship. Just swap out the controls for steering wheels...

@TheBigGuy said:
"This is a set that I missed out on and that would probably be one of my biggest Lego regrets."

That’s unfortunate mate. I’ve got a spare one in a unopened battered box in the cupboard which I’ll offload one day.

It’s a sweeet ride though. Swooooosh!

Not so convinced. It's a bit of a mess to my eyes, a jumble of colours and bits sticking out. The comparisons obviously are the sleak 6984 Galactic Mediator and original big cop ship, 6986 Mission Commander. These both use the colours more effectively to draw attention to play features whilst being coherent

My Son and I LOVED the Space Police III sets and the Galactic Enforcer the most. The modular build that you take apart and reconfigure gave us hours of fun. He had 5972 Space Truck Getaway and 5973 Hyperspeed Pursuit as well. We thought they where all great, loads of imagination and playability and the minifigs where just at the point where Lego was really starting to push the envelope on design, printing and moulded heads so where off the chart!

Really love this set. Not only does it have an appreciable weight and heft for being a police flagship, but it’s modular! Loved the sets that could do that from my childhood so it was a joy seeing what ways I could reconnect the component pieces for this one

This was one beautiful ship. I looked at it and looked at it but never had the nerve to actually pay up. Space Police was the last great space theme for me, reminding me the good old days. Luckyly I got couple of the smaller sets and the Lunar Limo.

The 2009-2010 period was the Golden Age of LEGO original themes, and Space Police III is no exception. The Galactic Enforcer is such an amazing set... I really need to get my hands on it someday.

@namekuji said:
" @TheBigGuy said:
"This is a set that I missed out on and that would probably be one of my biggest Lego regrets."

That’s unfortunate mate. I’ve got a spare one in a unopened battered box in the cupboard which I’ll offload one day.

It’s a sweeet ride though. Swooooosh!

"

One day..... :)

I think this is THE best large spaceship since the original Space Police one. Mark Stafford is a dang genius and it’s a shame these excellent space themes didn’t sell more units. This thing is just brilliant all around, recalling all the great play features of various CS sets plus adding its own.

It’s a must have if you’re a collector, I think.

After I first saw the Lego Clutch Powers movie, I so wanted this spaceship. I saw it available at Brickworld 2018, but I ended up getting the Delorean Time Machine and a light kit for it. I still like the Delorean, but their are times I wish I would have gone for this instead.

Never a huge fan of classic space even though I had a ton of the sets back in the day. I always gravitated towards castle instead. That being said, I think this set would have changed my opinion of space. Very nice, but about 15 years too late for me.

Never available in the UK unfortunately, so I never managed to get one. I got a friend to bring over some of the smaller Space Police sets from Denmark though, so got some of the line at least :)

I'm surprised this wasn't a featured set...

This was one of the sets that helped drag me out of my Dark Ages!!
Was lucky enough to find it in a charity store about 4 years ago for $35 Australian, only missing the statue and one alien!

Still have this one, built (if I’m not mistaken) in its box. I replaced the figs with the wave 2 design, so the poor fellows in the exterior seats wouldn’t, you know, die horribly in the vacuum of space.

This ship is an absolute beauty.
The colour scheme is remniscent of the excellent one from Futuron, but the design is a modern classic with many curves, wings and panels. Unlike most space sets it has a great interior with computers, a lie detector chair, controls for the main section, tools and a buggy. And the interior of the main ship actually goes all the way from the back entrance to the front cockpit, so the figures don't need helmets if they stay inside!
Furthermore, unlike nearly every capital ship it has turrets (quad cannons) on each wing. The exterior is sleek but never visually boring.

And the set is actually four ships in one (plus the enemy flier), as the engine pods and front section can detach from the main section. Plus the buggy.
Oh, and the engine pods and prison pods can also attach to the front section to form a hyperspaceworthy vessel! In fact, it has its own propulstion thrusters, which makes this one of the few space sets that has propulsion for the modules themselves (except for the main section, which could float around like a base).

And that is not even counting the four prison pods, the highest amount featured in any single Space Police set (including the 80s and 90s iterations). If you want you could use them as escape pods too!

This set is one of the best capital ships ever made! One of the few sets I never take out of display rotation!

While a really good set, I like the Space Police 1 and 2 ships better.

@pyroxian said:

What do you mean ‘never available in the U.K. ‘ I picked up the whole range from a combination of Toys’R’Us, Sainsbury’s and the LEGO brand stores.

“ The 2009-2010 period was the Golden Age of LEGO original themes”

I think you need to be introduced to the LEGO from the 1980s

Way too much reliance on technic panels to make the shape; it feels like everything is spot-welded together. And I can't stand those add-on-detachable-small-ship designs like they use here. That said, it's a monster ship that is everything a flagship cruiser should be, including interior command center, space for the ground rover, and plenty of cells for detaining the bad elements (see what I did there?) of the galaxy. Take out the gimmicks and smooth out the lines and you'd have one of the better ships in all of Classic Space, IMO.

@CarolinaOnMyMind said: "Little bit hard to tell what I’m looking at here. What do we say? Do we like this one, team?"

It doesn't do as good a job of showing all the included gizmos and play features, but the picture from the front on the set details page does a much better job of showing how much of a big yet sleek spaceship this set is. https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/5974-1/5974-0000-xx-33-1.jpg

@Bricktastic_builder said:
"Ahh, the space police line...
One of my favorite lines that I missed out on :D I hope this line returns! (If any LEGO designers are reading this, power miners and Atlantis would be nice ones to bring back as well ;D)"

I agree totally! Those three themes were very fun. Maybe I'm just saying that because I was younger back then, but still, those were good memories and it would be cool to see great themes like this return.