Nice. 
Original Space Police-era-esque. I like it. 
Thanks. It's actually supposed to be Unitron themed as far as the colors go, but I only have a couple of Unitron guys so I just put other factions' minifigs into it instead. The Unitron figures are quite hard to come by, even though that theme is one of the newer ones.
YES. I agree. It seems like a lot of legos these days are ALL special peices. Of course, you can't really build anything good without them... Let's just say you need limitations.
I don't mind specialized pieces if they actually serve a purpose, i.e. let you do something that cannot be done with generic bricks, but there are too many pieces that are either just molded combinations of existing bricks or have strange shapes that can only be connected to a handful of other pieces; some extreme examples are
this or
this.
That being said, this issue has generally gotten a lot better in the last few years. The miniature sculpture things they recently came out are basically made entirely of generic bricks and are a good source of those things.
Legos actually make excellent stuff for doing 3D modelling concept work, particularly since I can't draw to save my life.
For that matter, I have always thought that some of the official Lego space designs would make great FS2 ships. The 6781 SP Striker is a good example.
