Lego Rewind- The Last Lego Space Theme
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Nick, what do you think of the new Lego Ninjago seabound SUBtheme ? It's like LEGO is making more underwater sets than ever, the new antagonist reminds me of Seatron.
I like 'em. But then again, the sea is kinda my obsession, so I was gonna like them no matter what.
@@NickonPlanetRipple ok
yes ok
@@NickonPlanetRipple lol
I too miss a good "Space Theme". The only reason I didnt buy a Galaxy Squad or Mars Mission set was because my parents dind't alow me to use my money to buy toys (as a kid).
But here's a crazy idea: why not combine your righting skills with your mocking skills, add a spice of StudIo and create your own fictional space theme? I can help in the design part.
"It's been almost a decade since Galaxy Squad ended"
Wow I feel old.
Ikr
Im depresed thanks to knowing that
Don't say that 😭👴💀
That really hurt to hear. RIP original themes heyday :(
I remember being at a convention in Louisville and they had teaser posters up for the hive crawler before its release. It’s making me feel very old now
We need more original themes. You want video games? Ninjago. You want adventure? Ninjago. You want underwater? Ninjago. Ninjago is the original theme dumping ground. At least we had Monkie Kid and Hidden Side. Very good themes.
I can't stand ninjago it's been so overdone and is just cheesy to me.
Hotel? Ninjago
@@nickzobel9922 At the vehicles are cool?
@@MagicalBread I don't mind the builds, I just find the whole theme itself very redundant and overused. We need more original themes and I just wonder if they gonna keep making ninjago sets forever I hope not lol.
@@nickzobel9922 THANK YOU! Ninjago fans will deny this to no end, but the theme has long overstayed its welcome. Lego is clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel to keep the theme alive, yet the fans lap it up every single time.
As long as it keeps printing them money, they'll milk the theme dry for another 10 years. The Ninja have already gone to space once - mark my words, we'll be getting Serpentine Aliens in Ninjago soon.
Wait...An alien hive mind bent on devouring everything in sight in bioships fighting humans in technicolor armor... BRICKS FOR THE BRICK GOD!
my brick you right
minifigs for the minifig throne!
@@shonenbag6478 CHAAAAARGE
Lego Starship Troopers! Service guarantees brick citizenship!
It's literally just Tyranids
Also the the fact that the Eclipse ritual from Monster Fighters alerting the bugs to earth's presence is just like the Astronomican
I wished these got terrain or building sets like nests or space station
That would have been amazing
Yeah, I am quite sick of "ALL VEHICLES, ALL THE TIME!" that has been the theme of all of LEGO's original Space IPs for soooo very long now. They argue that "boys want action" and thus, they must want vehicles but, I remember my LEGO-infused childhood quite vividly (many decades ago, though it was) and some of my favourite aspects of playing with Space LEGO was attacking/defending space bases, etc. My favourite sets that I owned (so, Galaxy Explorer excluded) were the Command Center, the Rocket Base and the one-man Starfighter (918). Two 'bases' and one vehicle. Maybe if there had been some 'space bases' for kids in LEGO's last few Space lines, they might have sold better. Can't say for certain, of course but, since they've been doing the "all vehicles, all the time" for so long now, maybe it's time to mix it up a bit? I mean, look at how popular the 'building' sets are in Ninjago. That theme started off "vehicle heavy" too, but then evolved. Perhaps it's time for Space to 'evolve' and revisit its roots...
@@Ogre6972 note that nexo knights bases transforming to vehicles works well but aside from the lava base set they dont have that much terrain sets
@@misterbigbose Yeah, that Fortrex was "a vehicle that looks like a base!" Ugh. I mean, yeah, they ended up (eventually) with the Volcano Lair and Knighton Castle, so I suppose I shouldn't complain too much but, I don't know...it just feels like the vehicles so dominated that theme, that the 'base' type sets get forgotten about quite easily. I forgot that the Knighton Castle set even existed in that theme, and I OWN a copy of it! LOL!
I always tried to build a nest out of my own parts, but it never worked
In hindsight, that “why doesn’t LEGO do that anymore” post was probably a clue for the next video.
Looking at current ninjago season taking antaltis/aquaraiders and other water themed adventure themes cues... really feels lego is turning ninjago in their "Be all end all" theme, if it woudlnt work for ninjago, then it wont be supported...
@@pifilixxiv3192 They are basically compartmentalizing all one-off themes into Ninjago.
@@dominics.8796 yeah but that kind of sucks... since it turns ninjago into a theme with no real indentity
@@pifilixxiv3192 Worse yet, it causes all these ideas (mechs, spaceships, characters, etc.) to become homogenized. No matter what LEGO will roll out, it will have the same story behind it and the same coat of paint. Presentation is just as important as the substance.
@@dominics.8796 Yup... ironically enough the themes trying to follow the way of ninjago just makes them less interesting, almost like the ninjago theme will be like a "singularity" where all themes will seep into
Ah yes the ork way of organizing your forces air, ground, fast ground and everyone else
Galaxy squad's aesthetic is so clean. They totally could have made this last longer.
It was amazing... I got the giant tank one for one of my birthdays when it was still new
@@spacedout4061 blue one? HALF PRICE.
I own quite a lot of these. At about 9 or 10.
Then moved more to ninjago and other IPs more.
I loved this theme. The guns and helmets are so cool.
Yeah but it didn't print as much money as Ninjago did at the same time, that's why we only three or four original themes between City Creator Ninjago friends
I quite like the idea of all of these themes being interconnected, because that's exactly how children play. They own a few sets across a few different themes, and no doubt have them interact with each other. I know I did. My Martians fought my Star Wars characters, my knights interacted with my Bionicle. It makes sense that monsters are using artifacts to summon dinosaurs that accidentally gets the attention of giant insect aliens, because that scenario was very likely thought up by a child somewhere. It's great.
I agree. When I was a kid, all the various Lego themes I owned were their own nations, and I drew a map of them all. Some of the themes had to get mashed together to make enough to be a proper "nation" but it was fun and wacky. Lego City had to deploy Alpha Team to defend themselves against the villains from Johnny Thunder and their army of Storm Troopers.
I did the same oh God what a years
The scariest part is remembering that galaxy squad is new, and then realizing that was 10 years ago
First Monkie Kid and now Galaxy Squad... Nick please give my wallet a break, i cant handle discovering so many amazing themes at once
Don't watch the rest of the Rewind series then! :P
Well actually, do if you want to, it's pretty great. :D
@Joseph Le Roy Bionicle s are dangerously expensive on eBay
here I am getting hooked not only on Monkie Kid but the entirety of the Journey to the West mythos
@@cyanimation1605 same here
You're into Lego enough to watch a channel dedicated to Lego history, and enough to buy entire themes worth of sets, but didn't know Galaxy Squad existed..?
I always felt Galaxy Squad was underrated, the whole thing felt fully developed and well thought out. I think this theme was a beautiful marriage of old space with conflict. It really did feel like 2 separate themes combined into one. I really enjoyed this episode Nick! I always prefer quality over quantity.
The sets were balanced. Good minifigures, good builds, good playability
@@brickabang I wish there was a television series of galaxy squad and also other themes like power miners space police vikings and ultra agents
I’m being honest as a kid I didn’t stop looking for a show of this it was so well done
Yeah I like the bugs more and this is a second to the power miners
I remember this from my childhood and I only recently started rebuilding them and I wish lego made a 3rd wave
Honestly i think Lego lines between 2008 - 2014 were some of the greatest of all time
Agreed. The non licenced themes were great. Nowadays the non licenced themes are either Ninjago or some other thing with a show. Galaxy Squad is still one of my favourite themes.
Na Vikings and exo force were some the most amazing and explosive lines ever, and even knights kingdom 2 is good and had two genuinely amazing sets
Yeah, most of the best Technic sets were from those years too.
Agree, monster fighters, dino, power miners, lego ninjago, alien conquest, monster fighters, dino 2012 where great. They no longer make fun unlicensed themes like they used to do
oh definitely. They had really found a nice balance between licensed and original themes. Even ninjago wasn't taking over everthing.
"Maybe we'll get a Ninjago Starbound in a few years." It could happen, the original plot for the Lego Ninjago Movie was gonna involve some aliens. So maybe they can revive that alien idea someday.
Aliens? Sounds better than deleting the original timeline & just making all the main characters bland teenagers..
@André Teixeira wonder how the aliens will play the part IF they go with a Starbound wave idea?
The creator of Ninjago specifically said "no space season"
8:38, I never considered this but it’s such an interesting thing to think about. They don’t need “The next best thing” anymore, they *have* the “thing”.
It's such a shame because it really stifles the creativity by binding it to prexisting source material. Source material not designed from the ground up to suit Lego, I might add. You're hardly gonna get all those vehicle transformations in the Star Wars line. Don't get me wong, I like Star Wars, but I don't need all space media to be based on that one IP...
I have an unbelievable amount of nostalgia for galaxy squad
wake up babe!
new Lego rewind by Nick on Planet Ripple
The happiness I feel when I see that Nick has dropped a new vid is very real.
Man this theme is out of this world...
Literally
Wow very funny literally I'm not being sarcastic that was hilarious
Lego space themes ended, but so did so many other original themes. Castle, Pirates, Adventurers, I feel like we’re experiencing the slow death of original themes. I miss the old broad themes that were based on a whole genre and told a story, it was easy to make up your own stories, and it just feels more magical.
Man, this episode feels like I'm watching an early Lego Rewind video- and I mean that in the best way possible. Your videos always have a cozy atmosphere, but this video feels even cozier than normal. It's like I'm in middle school again, standing in my friend's basement as they show me their Lego space collection and geek out about the lore and everything.
Also, I love the usage of Star Fox music. Looking at the vehicles in this line, I can totally picture the Cornerian army looking like this at some point. It makes me want to get some of these and display them with my Star Fox moc collection.
The bit about comparing these bugs to ant swarms was one of my favorite parts to narrate.
Everyone I've met has agreed that this theme was a turning point for Lego, where they finally figured out how to meld the big, swooping curves of the early 2000s with the classic bricks of the 20th century with the intricacy of the 2010s. Honestly, you could sell me this almost decade old theme at any point, any set from it, and I would still think it was made 5 years in the future.
Saaaame
I was entering my first Dark Age when Galaxy Squad first released, I would have been in my early teens in 2014. Wish I'd picked some up!
And the blue armoured posterboys fighting insect alien devourers? That's 40k.
Orange robot: produced in America by Christensen co. for heavy combat scenarios. Its armor is easily the strongest out of every robot and is equipped with "wings" for short term gliding
Green robot: produced in Germany by Oley Arms designed for recon and if needed a combat medic. It is equipped with an energy shield and a mid range laser rifle. Also is equipped with med kits for for helping wounded solders and engineering kit for repairing robots on the move
Red robot: produced in Japan by LEPIN industries. This robot is designed for flanking and quick movement to get the drop on enemy's. This is easily the fastest of all the robots but at the cost of a weak hull. It comes equipped with two energy daggers and jetpack which its light enough to use for getting up and around challenges but uses energy quickly and is costly.
Blue robot: produced by Builders League United or BLU. Designed as a to be a blend of everything. its moderately quick and has strong armor but its main purpose is for gathering info to effectively combat the enemy.
“This theme was slept on” is an understatement
We’re due for another space theme by now. Also a castle theme.
The old school Castle theme makes me very nostalgic. But they couldn't do a straight medieval theme now that kids are used to far out themes like Ninjago. They'd have to make it fantasy and have them fight giant ice demons or magic centipedes or something.
@@drewlovelyhell4892 I'm down for some mediaeval fantasy. Like, old school fairies that can be as tall as the trees, or steal your face as a prank because you didn't leave out a 1/4 wheel of cheese for them. Giants built like Bionicle titans that dwarf the minifigs that valiantly stand against them. Dragons that spread plagues and spew acid as they slither along the ground. Hellhounds and cockatrices stalking the lands bringing misery.
And of course, knights and heroes wielding legendary weapons alongside their brave companions and benevolent creatures to protect the people from these terrors.
9:16 Prehistoric moc is back! Say hello to grandad everyone.
I've never seen this theme before
it feels like a studio TRIGGER anime
Galaxy Squad was so amazingly done. Both sides were perfectly designed, and I wanted everything so bad. It ended too early.
I think with all of the nostalgic AFOLs Lego has picked up over the past couple of years, they could really do pretty well with a proper space theme again. I really hope so, anyway. The City space stuff isn't bad but I want that fantastic distant future sci fi we used to get in the 90s, reimagined with the modern shapes and details and minifigs to really bring it to life.
YES, FINALLY, GALAXY SQUAD IS GETTING THE LOVE IT DESERVES
Yeah like it's one of the best themes ever
This is 100% an underrated theme. The human characters couple probably use a name change so it’s more modern but other than that if they redid these sets modern I’d buy everyone of them. Sadly I never was able to get much of the sets as a kid but I might start saving up for them now. I always looked for a show of this as well when I was a kid because it just was so well done.
It's such a shame there's no more sets like this. They need to seriously bring these original ideas back
Oh hey, i loved this theme from a few years ago-
>almost a decade old
oh hey, my hair has instantly turned grey for some reason. huh...
oh btw, the colors of the factions have reminded me of the factions in lego universe...
Still the one theme I ever got every set from. This video was very nostalgic, thank you 😊
10:23 The new Minifigure Series 21 has 2 Space Police figures and they look so good, I wish there was another wave with all these new pieces they have
I just looked, and argh! My heart! Goddammit, these are the moments where I wish I would be born little bit sooner to get stuff like Bionicle and Space Police. But that stuff only happened in my dreams.
I wish I didn't have to get 1000 dancers just to get 1 space police guy.
@@timewarpdrive77 i ended up with 3 of em
"Mom can we buy some starship troopers toys?"
"We have starship troopers toys at home"
Starship Troopers toys at home:
Both are cool !
@@Truenofan86 ye
@@Truenofan86 Galaxy Squad is just child friendly starship troopers and I love it!
So this means that monster hunters and galaxy squad are in the same universe as ninjago since ultra agents is apart of ninjago
Feel like it'd be cool if they all existed in a DC/Marvel-esque shared universe, with more explicit crossing over. I even imagined Solomon Blaze and the Ultra Agents filling the role of Nick Fury and SHIELD.
(Also, throw Chima, Nexo Knights, and Monkey Kid in for good measure.)
@@kevinhuen1380 and while we’re at it throw in bionicle g1 and hero factory into the mix
@@willyspark3401 Nick mentioned a link between bionicles and nexo knights
@@kevinhuen1380 lots of themes do exist in the same universe
theres a lot of unknown but i can confirm for sure that galaxy squad, monster fighters, alien conquest, dino, pharaoh's quest, ultra agent, hidden side, alpha team, agents, knight's kingdom 2, hidden side, adventurers, power miners, atlantis, aqua raiders, and junk bot
This is the first episode i watch on it's premiere day, i mean, the first episode on premiere i watched was the 2020 rewind, but that one and the april fools where specials, but it feels wierd to be watching it on premiere day. I love this show, it sees things that other people doesn't see.
No one does it like you, Nick. Another spectacular video!
Sadly, Galaxy Squad didn't sell where I live, so I only had the "spider alien". To bad because I love the looks, the functionality and the "Lego being Lego vibes" that this theme has.
Nice to see the series back!
when I got my hands on the latest creator line space set, the big rover, I started kinda holding out hope that they'd bring space back in full, the set reminded me of the old lego space stuff. I was born after all of that and my first real interaction with lego space was mars mission but somehow yr videos have given me nostalgia for something I never experienced
I touched upon this exact phenomenon in the Bionicle episode. Secondhand nostalgia strikes again!
Mars Mission was my first space theme too! And like many others I also got into older space themes through Lego Rewind
I just completely missed out on live on Mars and was a little to young for life on Mars, but had a kind of similar experience when I got my hands on space police 3 and talked to people on small forums online as well as watching and reading what ever I could about old lego I was suddenly kind of nostalgic for all of Lego space
Seems it's normally the best, and coolest themes that end up fading away, Space Police, Power Miners, Lego Agents, Ultra Agents, Galaxy Squad, all the interesting ones
"Starbound" fuck that sounds cool! Since Jay loved Fritz Donnegan and every season where Jay suffers ends in -bound, it would make so much sense!
I wish they'd bring back their Space Police theme, I even know they should do it.
Space police was the coolest :(
@@dyroth That is the only space theme they'd realistically bring back if they ever did.
@@smb-c3po True, I could very well see a clean remake of it with all their new piece roster. Lego has been very weird with their original themes though so idk if they'd ever do themes like that again since it's been 10 years since space stuff like the video said
The mech is amazing. I have a slightly modded one that I added some alternate arm to so the old arms act as shoulder canons.
The blue tank carrier thing is one that I much more heavily modded replacing the turret with a whole interior hq so it's a command vehicle.
Monster Fighters, Ultra Agents, the last Castle and Pirates waves, and especially Galaxy Squad are things I will be kicking myself for not buying when I was younger. I looked at these sitting on the shelves for months thinking, 'oh, so cool' and never even considered asking for one.
And now I have a new reason to kick myself, somehow I never realized the bug sets had minifigures. Ever. Before this video.
This is a pretty good jump in quality, I like this.
If you were to choose a LEGO theme you should expand upon from a passing mention in a previous episode, do Mixels. The fandom is buzzing.
Loved this theme as a kid !
Looking back, I’m even more thankful to have experienced these. I was so damn lucky to have gotten all of these sets, it is by far my favorite theme and the builds are so superb it’s crazy they went that hard
The Galaxy Squad aliens are my favorite out of all of LEGO Space's host of intergalactic fellows. I'm planning on army building them a bit so I can have them do battle against the Alien Conquest villains, who are my favorite aliens that are OUTRIGHT villains. Like you mentioned in the video, the alien bugs do seem like more of a neutral force, battling with Galaxy Squad over turf or because they shot first.
Regardless, I can't help but imagine that red buggoid to be the queen of the hive since it only appears in one set. Such a nice figure, too.
Nick: "When you remove chunks of a larger build, what's left looks skeletal"
Me, looking at the images to prove Nick's point: *cringes from the incompleteness*
Also Nick: *Comparing the combination of vehicles to toku combination sequences, to the point of bringing up "Gattai!"*
Ah yes, a man of culture I see!
Like this?
GATTAI!
Say what you will about Galidor, but it was such an interesting/obscure theme that I find myself loving it.
My head cannon for both insectoids and Galaxy squad is that the giant bugs are what inspired the vehicles in insectoids
Themes like this, alien conquest, ultra agents, etc shows that Lego is more than capable of making fantastic original themes.
I don't think I've bought a normal (non-Technic) Lego set since around the start of the Bionicle G1 era, but I would have gladly bought these had I known about them. These are better designs than a lot of modern sci-fi. Thank you for showing these to me Nick.
Ninjago starbound
Me an intellectual: damn bro did you forget about season 3 went they went to space
Yeah, but I mean like... a full space WAVE. Just five or six Ninjago sets that are all spaceships an' crap.
The Hageman brothers wanted a season in space with space villains, that episode was supposed to be the groundwork for it
I REALLY love the orange team, their builds are just so over the top with weaponry.
Grew up on this theme, really got into it after Ninjago faded out of popularity at my primary school. I know I had a few of the smaller sets, which I got with allowance money, but Xmas 2013 was really special. I got the Galactic Titan, and oh boy I was ecstatic. Shame I had to break it down along with my other displays when my family moved houses the following year.
The insectoids were cool enemies. Always thought it was a bit of a shame only one of the ranks came in a red variety, Missed an opportunity there. I really like how well developed both factions were, the insectoids were so diverse
Shame this is the last non star wars space theme not counting those ones from City, which are more realistic but one could argue don't really count. I will say Star Wars will probably fade at some point every franchise does
When I was younger I really liked lego space (space police, alien conquest) but I also like lego star wars as well. It's too bad to see that while lego still has some original themes (vidiyo, hidden side, monkie kid) they are mostly very gimmicky with some sort of app involved. I would love to see space back. The only source of true lego space right now is lego creator and lego city. But a few better original themes to replace themes like vidiyo would be appreciated. I'm not paying $20 for a minifigure with vidiyo.
The thing I hate most about it is that we lose the small sets like every line needed these small entery level sets but thanks to ninjagos popularity and the having free games they don't have to come up with these small incredible cleverly designed sets as hooks because everybody either buys it because 'it's merchandise" or "it's ninjago and you know ninjago" or "this is just as rad as this angry birds thing you love" (Or it's not designed for our market but for Chinese so something like that isn't required)
If anyone remember this show, i heavily modified my Galaxy squad sets to make oban star racer vehicles, i just think the style of vehicles coupled with the race rivalry stuff really pop up through this theme
Is it just me or does the Galaxy Squad human side kinda remind anyone else of Voltron? I'd love to see someone make a big ass mech out of all of those vehicles, that would be glorious
YOU should make a reddit page where fans can share collections and mocs
Thank you for the LEGO Rewind series, it's always so fun looking over old sets with so much nostalgia attached. Keep up the good work! Looking forward to seeing your MOC collection this month!
I absolutely love your lego Rewind videos! Thank you so much for giving proper insight into some kind of forgotten themes and sets.
I stumbled upon the whole series just at the right time when I was coming out of my Lego dark age and it just helped to remind me and remember how I used to wonder as a child at all of the great sets I wanted and how much I loved the ones I had.
Awesome video! Can't believe lines I have lived through are already starting to appear here, it's so surreal. Keep the awesome content coming!
I love the montage of all the play features! Excellent job once again Nick!
My word the editing in your videos is amazing!! And you do an excellent job with line delivery❤️
You have helped me gain a new appreciation for this theme, really great vid Nick
I was completely unaware of this theme, but it looks amazing. Great video Nick, I could tell you love it! :)
It always brings me joy to see a lego rewind in my recommendations
It's really awesome to see all the sets together! I never really gave a chance to Galaxy Squad, but now I feel like I missed out on it :(
Thanks for the theme review, awesome work as always
so excited for your mocs and revamps, nick! have a goooooood daaaaaaaay!!!!!!
I’m happy you shined on this line more, nick!
I loved Galaxy Squad! The green truck and orange Mech are my favorite.
This theme is my personal favorite! Thanks for covering it!
Another rewind!!!! You made my day 1000x better!
Nick keep up everything your doing it’s making the videos better each time
Clicked so fast! And I remember buying one of these sets for a friends birthday party!
(And I’m liking the pattern of planet ripple videos and an occasional LEGO rewind!;)
Damn, hitting me where it hurts been far too long since space stuff came out. Loved this theme, loved Space themes, appreciate the video.
I've always appreciated your philosophy of never making a video unless you have the proper idea, and this is definitely one of the best!
Great video! Thank you for giving galaxy squad the attention it needs, so many people sleep on one of the best LEGO themes ever
Great to see you back!
i haven't watched one of your videos for a bit because I remembered you saying something about slowing down and or stopping rewind because you said something about there not being much else to do, so I forgot about the series till I randomly clicked on this video and got a wave of like recentcy nostalgia lol
Galaxy squad was incredible. The vehicles literally incredible.
This theme's great, i only have 2 sets (incomplete, though) but I love it, and thanks for making this. This is a theme that needs recognition!
Really wish I had picked these up when they were released. Such cool builds and colors!
I thought the series was over? I'm so thankful that there's more. This might be a new favorite video of yours for me. I wish they would being this back.
Check the playlist, the 2020-in-review special explains things.
WOW, i always thought this theme was cool but you totally wowed me away at how awesome it is, (even the smallest aspect about it) all of it is soo cool
btw the connection you mentioned about the Monster fighters/galaxy squad/ultra agents and alien conquest/pharoah's quest/atlantis/dino are both connected too alongside many themes like adventurers, power miners, agents, alpha team, hidden side, and proabbly many more
One thing to note about this is that one of the characters from this theme moves on to become the leader of the ultra agents in that theme, I love how they did that. BUT DAMN, I didn't know that many themes were connected!
I was always a Lego Star Wars kid but I also loved their original themes like (at the time I was a kid) Alien conquest and galaxy squad alongside castle and LOTR I would make it up in my head that these original lego space elements were like planetary forces in the Star Wars universe. Like I remember one plot point as a kid was that the bugs from galaxy squad were natural inhabitants of some long lost planet and were found by the empire so I’d have stormtroopers fighting against them! It was so much fun, I wish they’d bring back this new space alongside some classic space stuff
I was definitely one of the ones who skimped out on Galaxy Squad. The other colored factions made me back then weirdly go “they not uniformed enough!”. But looking past that the theme has a lot of pretty solid builds. And now I understand how the color coding works.
Hopefully someday original LEGO Space themes can come back. I love the LEGO Star Wars builds for the most part, and I’m not even that big of a Star Wars nerd, I just love any form LEGO Space. But something other than that once in a while would be neat.
Nicely done video overall, Nick.
Dang, these rewinds* take me back! Feels good
I was waiting for you to do this one
Lego Galaxy Squad vs the Bugs remains one of the best lego movies I have seen to this day
I remember having one of the sets. I thought it was so cool. This is what led me down the Lego rabbit hole
God, this theme... I REALLY regret not even knowing this theme existed, because this would have been right up my alley, but it somehow completely evaded me. I'm hopeful these don't cost too much to get secondhand so I can grab some to play with, used.
It's honestly saddening to even think about the point you brought up about how it doesn't make sense for LEGO to make the next best thing when now they have all the things they based sets off of. Why build an original space line when we have popular show and series licenses? The way I view that mentality is basically "Why create original, and fun concepts, and designs to play with when we can make the X-Wing for the 57th time?"
LEGO space isn't just a novelty to relive nostalgia, they're fun, creative toys that really explore fun ideas to enhance what you've bought. As someone that never owned a Galaxy Squad set this video alone sold me on them with all the features, gimmicks, and just general aesthetic they have. They look great and look like they play great, you can look at Galaxy Squad and definitely say it took inspiration from things, but can also say there's nothing exactly like it from anywhere else. LEGO Star Wars... Well.. It's just Star wars, but this one is buildable.
LEGO has become so reliant, if not dangerously loyal to licenses when they can easily create something just as good, if not _better_ on their own, their own past is proof of this. Classic Space is practically as iconic as LEGO Star Wars, but so long as they have every license under the sun then why should they ever try to make anything original? And the few times they do, why put in any effort? They'll just cut the budget to the original thing to put towards Ninjago, anyway, guaranteeing the failure of one line to prop up another, keeping one cash cow going while shunning anything that doesn't outsell their best in the first month. Hiddenside would have succeeded if it were for the mobile reliance, and box art, but you know LEGO will just jump to the conclusion "It's original, so it failed, back to licenses and Ninjago."
It's so disheartening to say this about something I love, but that's just how it feels it's become. I want nothing more than to be wrong, but I feel the days of original themes are gone so long as LEGO has licenses, and one original that's popular enough to keep making new series under. Why have EXO-Force when we can give Ninjago mechs? (The Thunder Raider practically looks like an EXO-Force set.) Why have a cool racing theme when we can give bikes and cars to Ninjago? We already have Speed Champions, anyhow. I hope something changes, because I'm sick of licenses, and I'm sick of Ninjago being the only variety we get.
Well done as always!