Hydra Deep Space Probe

The Hydra deep space probe, LL-817

Well, it seems like I still haven’t got the elements for a full-scale Classic Space SHIP, but this does represent a substantial increase in size over my previous “largest Classic Spaceship”. At 25¼” long, it tops out at a smidge over 80 studs, which is 160% of my previous 50-stud Classic maximum.

This represents my first minifig-scale spaceship with a real interior rather than just a cockpit. The inside isn’t all that interesting, but there’s space for several astronauts to sit, stand or walk around. As built, it contains a red astronaut, a white astronaut, a blue astronaut, a green astronaut and my new yellow astronaut, so now I only need a black astronaut to have the full set of available colours.

It’s perhaps a little boxy and clunky, and those three fins give it something of a scaled-up Colonial Viper look, but as an experiment in “just how big can I build a Classic Spaceship these days?” I’m going to call it a success.

Engine section. Those half cones make a pretty good scaled-up Classic Space-style rocket nozzle.

As far as names go, with that obvious Colonial Viper ancestry, it needed some kind of scaled-up snake name, but nothing too predatory. It’s a probe ship rather than a combat craft, and the name should reflect that if possible.

After some thought, I went with “Hydra”, putatively after the constellation rather than the mythological monster, so this is the Hydra Deep Space Probe.