“The original two colors were explorers, yellow were scientists, blues were technicians or mechanics and I guess the black were warriors, but we were not allowed to make a big deal out of this. We were not allowed to make war.” Jens Nygaard Knudsen (il creatore del tema classic space)
Tieni conto che per loro stessa ammissione erano fan di STAR TREK, che li ha influenzati e soprattutto SPAZIO 1999 ha influenzato il cambio dell'uniforme classic in futuron, perché lì il colore che identificava la mansione era sulla manica e questa influenza si manifesta nei torsi futuron.
Per citare il designer successivo, Bjarne Tveskov:
“I had a good interest in science fiction, the whole Star Wars thing and a TV show called Space:1999. It was a big thing for me at the time to try to construct the weapons from these films, and the Eagle spaceships from Space 1999especially.”
To land his job with LEGO, Bjarne had been sent a package of bricks and asked to build a space model to accompany his application.
“The model I built for my application was almost like an Eagle from Space 1999. And this brings up a theme I think I’ll continue to touch on, how designers absorb ideas from other creations and recombine them, taking aspects from different areas and applying them to new ones. Which really is a LEGO thing, but also my thing I would guess.”
Quindi i colori in questo tema avevano una precisa funzione.