Life on Mars is a sub-theme of the LEGO Space theme. It was released in 2001, and discontinued a year later in 2002.
Details
Life On Mars is, so far, the only Space theme depicting peaceful coexistence between humans and aliens. The astronauts were peaceful explorers to Mars, with a small assortment of vehicles featuring little-to-no weaponry. The native Martians possessed a wider variety of vehicles, some heavily armed, though none were used aggressively against the explorers. Released at a time when NASA was beginning to explore Mars in earnest, Life on Mars is unusual among Space sub-themes for this focus on discovery over combat.
Human vehicles followed a colour scheme of grey, white, and blue, while the Martians utilized the new "sand" colours - red, green, blue, and purple. Life on Mars sets were, overall, not as colourfully bold as sets from other, earlier, Space themes. Transparent brown (or trans-black/"smoke," as it is popularly known) made its debut as a primary window and canopy colour for Space with this theme. Many of the colours introduced in the theme have yet to be used extensively/at all in other themes, and are now considered vary rare, or even retired in the cases of sand red and sand purple.
Life on Mars also introduced organic-style printed parts. Print patterns on parts such as tiles, slopes, and dishes had a characteristic non-mechanical design, atypical of LEGO Space. Life on Mars would be the last Space theme for several years, with the concept not resurfacing until Mars Mission was released in 2007.
The theme is, in a way, a continuation of the story of Space Port, where a child named BB won a competition to be one of the first astronauts to travel to Mars.
However at the end of LEGO soccer mania the video game players travel to Mars and go against a Martian team. As well as Reigel becoming a player of the skill zone characters possibly this game continues the storyline of life on Mars
Sets
Image | # | Set | Number of pieces | Minifigures | Price | Release |
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1413 | Rover | 32 | Assistant | 2001 | ||
1414 | Double Hover | 21 | Martian | 2001 | ||
1415 | Jet Scooter | 24 | 1 Martian | 2001 | ||
1416 | Worker Robot | 30 | Martian | 2001 | ||
3750 | Life on Mars Accessories | 44 | $5.00 | 2001 | ||
4133637 | Life On Mars Mini-Poster | 1 | 2001 | |||
7300 | Double Hover | 21 | Martian | $2.99 | 2001 | |
7301 | Rover | 28 | Assistant | $2.99 | 2001 | |
7302 | Worker Robot | 30 | Martian | $3.00 | 2001 | |
7303 | Jet Scooter | 24 | Martian | 2001 | ||
7308 | Double Hover | 21 | Martian | 2001 | ||
7309 | Rover | 28 | Assistant | 2001 | ||
7310 | Mono Jet | 28 | Assistant | $4.00 | 2001 | |
7311 | Red Planet Cruiser | 73 | Altair | $6.99 | 2001 | |
7312 | T3-Trike | 99 | Doc | $10.00 | 2001 | |
7313 | Red Planet Protector | 194 | Centauri | $20.00 | 2001 | |
7314 | Recon-Mech RP | 194 | Antares | $20.00 | 2001 | |
7315 | Solar Explorer | 242 | BB, Doc, Mac | $35.00 | 2001 | |
7316 | Excavation Searcher | 471 | Canopus, Pollux, Vega | $50.00 | 2001 | |
7317 | Aero Tube Hangar | 706 | Arcturus, Cassiopeia, Mizar, Riegel, Vega | $90.00 | 2001 | |
7320 | Vega | 5 | Vega | 2001 | ||
7321 | Mizar | 5 | Mizar | 2001 | ||
7322 | Altair | 5 | Altair | 2000 | ||
7323 | Guard | 5 | Centauri | 2001 | ||
78777 | Alien Discovery | 122 | Assistant, Altair, Martian | $8.00 | 2001 | |
Life | on Mars 4-Pack | 84 | 4 | 2001 | ||
Life | on Mars Canopus Pin | 1 | 2001 |
Minifigures
Martians
Riegel | Vega | Mizar | Centauri | Cassiopeia | Canopus | Arcturus | Antares | Altair | Pollux | Unknown Martian | Unknown Martian | Unknown Martian |
Humans
Notes
- All the Martians in this series are named after stars. Vega, for example, is a star in the constellation of Lyra, also known as 'The Harp'. Other examples include Canopus and Rigel.
- LEGO Racers 2 had five race courses drawn from Life on Mars, and several of the sets could be seen, such as the Solar Explorer and numerous Martian mechs.
- The aliens also had a team in the video game Soccer Mania.
- Some sets came with mini posters that fit together to form a picture of Mars, which pictured the aliens and astronauts. It also had all their names written on them, and some of them were seen written in a martian language.
- This the first and only theme that has both Humans and Aliens at peace together.