Galaxy Squad

Galaxy Squad is a Space theme released in January 2013 with several of the sets unofficially released prematurely in Canada and the United States of America in November 2012. This theme was not available in some parts of Europe. A game, Cocoon Crusher, was based on the theme.

Description[]

The theme features a group of humans and their robotic sidekicks defending planets and galaxies from an impending invasion by seemingly malignant alien "bugs" resembling earthly and anthropomorphic insects.

The humans and robots are split into different "teams" or "squads", distinguishable by the designated color of their minifigure printings and vehicles, as well as their unique insignia. These teams are as follows: Blue Team, Red Team, Green Team, and Orange Team. Each team consists of one robotic sidekick and one or two humans (the red and green teams have one human each while the orange and blue teams have two humans each). Their vehicles are mainly white, with certain detailing sharing the respective team's color.

The main color schemes in this theme are spread out due to the different squadrons, but all four teams consist of white, grey, and a darker version of their base color, such as Earth Blue for the Blue Team, as shown in 70701 Swarm Interceptor, and Earth Green for the Green Team, as shown in the set 70704 Vermin Vaporizer.

Ts.20130114T193627 — A well-known Mosquitoid vehicle, the Warp Stinger.

The alien colors are mainly dark grey, lime green, and dark red, despite their exoskeleton color being Olive Green. The aliens consist of Alien Mosquitoids and Alien Buggoids (the latter of which have a green as well as red variant). The aliens are known to be primarily based off Earth insects, hence the names, and their vehicles which are animal hybrids, such as the 70702 Warp Stinger.

In addition, the Galaxy Squad website has also uploaded several online games such as Bug Battle, Hive Invasion, and Cocoon Crusher 9000.

Background[]

A mysterious race of evil alien buggoids are swarming across the galaxy, capturing civilians in cocoons and turning one planet after another into a buggoid hive. The buggoids are attracted to Earth after a beam of light is emitted from Vampyre Castle, directly continuing the storyline from Monster Fighters.^[1] There's only one force that can stop them: Galaxy Squad, an elite unit of the galaxy's soldiers and fighter pilots who operate in four specialized task forces to save the galaxy from the alien buggoid threat.

The Galaxy Squad storyline is succeeded by Ultra Agents, which features an older Solomon Blaze leading the new team after successfully defending Earth from the evil alien bugs.^[2](in videos more planets are defended, including planet Venus, Earth's twin)

Team Traits[]

Each team has a different strength:

Green Team: Green Team's skill is defense and heavy artillery.
Red Team: Red Team's expertise is speed.
Orange Team: Orange Team's main tactic is fire power.
Blue Team: Blue Team's skill is strategy and technology. Out of all the teams, it is said that they have the best tech.

Notes[]

All of the Galaxy Squad heroes' last names are compound words except Solomon Blaze.
Following Galaxy Squad, LEGO Space once again went on hiatus. As of 2022, there have been no new LEGO Space subthemes.
As of 2022, Galaxy Squad is the only original LEGO Space theme to have a set containing more than 1000 pieces.
In the mood video commercial and many more videos the main planet attacked by aliens has a striking resemblance to Planet Venus. It's currently unknown if that planet is a planet that looks similar to Venus or if it's Venus itself. (presumably it is, if the Galaxy Squad was defending Earth at that point.)

Sets[]

Wave 1[]

#	Set	Number of pieces	Minifigures	Price	Release
70700	Space Swarmer	86	Alien Buggoid, Robot Sidekick	$11.99 / €9.99	Late 2012 (Canada and US) March 2013 (Australia)
70701	Swarm Interceptor	218	Alien Mosquitoid, Solomon Blaze	$19.99 / €19.99	2013
70702	Warp Stinger	310	Alien Mosquitoid, Billy Starbeam, Robot Sidekick	$29.99 / €29.99	2013
70703	Star Slicer	311	Solomon Blaze, Robot Sidekick, Alien Buggoid	$39.99 / €39.99	2012
70704	Vermin Vaporizer	506	Chuck Stonebreaker, Robot, Alien Buggoid	$59.99 / €59.99	2013
70705	Bug Obliterator	711	Jack Fireblade, Ashlee Starstrider, Robot, Alien Mosquitoid	$79.99 / €69.99	2013

Wave 2[]

#	Set	Number of pieces	Minifigures	Price	Release
70706	Crater Creeper	171	Chuck Stonebreaker, Alien Buggoid	$19.99 / €19.99	July 2013
70707	CLS-89 Eradicator Mech	440	Jack Fireblade, Robot Sidekick (Orange)	$39.99 / €39.99	July 2013
70708	Hive Crawler	560	Billy Starbeam, Robot Sidekick, Alien Mantizoid, Insectoid Larva (x2)	$59.99 / €59.99	July 2013
70709	Galactic Titan	1012	Solomon Blaze, Max Solarflare, Robot Sidekick, Alien Mosquitoid, Alien Mantizoid, Insectoid Larva	$99.99 / €99.99	July 2013