Hub City evolved as a setting for the stuff I've been building since 1999, when I finally bit the bullet and arranged my legos piece by piece. Instead of establishing a distinctive style for the place, like a lot of the genius factions I've observed on this site, I developed a setting where ANY of my minifigs might look at home, including the weird ones that don't really fit with my sci-fi leanings. Hub City is circular, and divided into eight pie-wedge sections. On the rim of each section are gateways to the origin planets/realms of the theme of each section. If you think the result looks like one of the Bionicle islands, or that Drome thing Lego was goofing with for a while, you'd be right.
The sections:
EARTH SECTION: Obvious.
SPACEPORT: Links to the main space base on Titan, location of another system of interplanetary gateways maintained by a coalition of alien allies. The Spaceport section also contains tons of launchpads for travel around the inner solar system.
ROBOTROPOLIS: Links to the Roboverse, a universe that is toxic to all organic life. It is populated by sentient robots with a highly developed society. These robots built Hub City, which is why it's often so out of scale with the humans.
THE GLIDE: Links to a mysterious planet that is completely smooth. Excellent for racing, but you can't fly more than 100 feet in the air or the invincible, flying Guardian Heads will come and destroy you.
GHOST TOWN: Links to the spirit realms. A lot of technology doesn't work in Ghost Town. This is where I park the ghosts, skeletons, Harry Potter people, and guys like Frankenstein.
THE WOODS: Links to an unspoiled forest world. Home of Castle figures and Ninjas, who rule the joint. Dinosaurs, too.
THE DEEP: Links to a world mostly covered by water. You got your Pirates, your Aquazone people, Divers, and evil deep-sea drones from Alpha Team.
DUNEWORLD: Links to a desert planet. The Wild West is still wild here, and my main bad guy. the Pharaoh, rules this place.
I'm planning to build a nanoscale Hub City. You'll be the first to know.
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