r/LegoSpaceships

I could really use your support to compete with over 550 entries! Thank you! https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-11/5038/Space-Scrappers

Been building a small fleet lately and honestly the naming situation has gotten embarrassing fast, everything's just "the grey one" or "big cargo ship" at this point. Started thinking about proper naming systems and there seem to be a few directions people, go: mythology names, military-style alphanumeric codes, or straight descriptive function names like Scout or Runner. What I'm seeing a lot of right now is the faction-based lore approach, stuff like Aurora-class, or Vanta Wing, which looks great when you're posting build logs or displaying a whole fleet together. Retro-futurism vibes (think classic Blacktron or Futuron era aesthetics) seem to be having a real moment too, and that style lends itself well to punchy two-part names that are easy to remember and share. Do you stick to a consistent naming system across your whole fleet, or does each ship just get whatever feels right at the time? Keen to hear if anyone's landed on something that actually scales when you've got a dozen, ships to track, especially if you're building toward a cohesive display rather than just one-off MOCs.

Heyooo, so I have noticed people are surprised some of our other sister Lego communities exist (that I'm in charge of) when I cross post some milestone we achieve with them. Therefore, I've decided to make a short and easy guide that I might pin for a few days so that you may decide if any of the communities interest you.

Please know that I have worked HARD on every single one of these, by bringing people from Flickr and other subreddits to post there, adjusting the themes, colors, etc. to ensure every community has its own identity, and I am trying to run MOC of the Month competitions in most of them. It's a lot of work and it would make me incredibly happy if you considered joining them.

Here they are:

• r/LegoMechs - arguably the most lively of my communities with incredible mech/mecha/exoskeleton builds. And sometimes even Transformers :D I saw potential in this community and it was up for grabs as it was dead for years before I took over
• r/LegoWarhammer - another dead community before I took over. There are some awesome builds from the 40k universe and sometimes even the fantasy incarnation of Warhammer. Probably the most niche of my communities that people were telling me wouldn't be successful. But nope, it has daily new MOCs posted and some cool people!
• r/LegoWarMachines - fully created by me, daily military MOCs. This one was created because Reddit somehow had no dedicated community for military builds. I don't understand that either, really
• r/LegoScienceFiction - also created by me, everything that's not spaceships or mechs fits there, but we actually don't shy away from both either. Very hard to promote, it's not as lively as the communities above, but I am trying to change that
• r/LegoTabletop - yes, there are people using Lego to play their tabletop games, or people who fully create tabletop games in Lego. Pretty cool stuff!

I also own r/LegoSmartBrick, but Lego doesn't seem to be pushing the Smart Play System anywhere right now and it's not available in the majority of the world, so... this one is not taking off any time soon. r/legohorror is also fully mine, I saw potential in it too, but it hasn't really started rolling just yet.

Next to all these, I have recently joined the mod teams of r/LegoSpace where I'm managing the MOC of the Month competitions, and also r/Minilego and r/legotechnic, all of which don't need any more introductions I think. But I got big plans with the mini Lego one, which is a build style I have liked since forever.

All in all, I love Lego as you might have noticed, so if you like any of the above subreddit suggestions, please join them and, hopefully, even post your builds there.

See ya soon!

Edit: I almost forgot that I should also mention r/spaceships - a non-Lego community that I was recently put in charge of because the original mods couldn't really support it anymore. Just throwing it out there because we are in the Lego Spaceships community... :D