Lego Rewind Ep.30- Time Cruisers
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Looks like Lego Rewind is a good theme, yet it put forward most of it's potential in the first wave, and is probably going to have only 2,5 waves total
Oh, I'm saving the best for last.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Sounds good ;)
More like 3 waves, plus a single run off set
@@NickonPlanetRipple And I'm betting it's a Bionicle rewind. It's the only episode that would be as long as you said it would be in the season 2 finale. That would be awesome!
Harharhar funny stuff my dude
Man. I miss non-licensed themes.
Thanks so much for another incredible video!
So the Time Cruisers are basically The Legends Of Tomorrow, cool.
Honestly, LEGO could do something like this right now, and use it as an excuse to revisit old themes/worlds.
Basically, the theme would be about bunch of characters that travel throughout time fixing anomalous events.
Wouldn't be shocked if they start revisiting the 90s and early 2000s within the next 5-10 years. It's time for the children of parents who grew up with these toys to be old enough to play with LEGO, and familiarity makes parents more spending-happy. I know why my father got himself - I mean me the largest LEGO train set he could find at the time...
Knights Kingdom 1 is in need of a prequel theme that is actually connected to it unlike the second theme.
Because reasons back in episode 26!
Any excuse to bring back older themes for the newer generation of spoiled evil kids with irresponsible parents that just give them phones and tablets instead of actually trying to raise their mistakes.
Awww yeah!!!
@Always watching Or maybe Ninjago Rewind 'cause Lego may as well change their company name to Ninjago at this point.
The futuristic sub that Max/Tim left behind in Feudal Japan jumped their technology forwards by centuries, creating an alternate timeline in which Exo-Force is set.
That's actually a great idea
The classic Ninjas are the unaltered timeline while Exo-Force is the altered one. I really like that.
My friend always told me about this series and i always wondered if he was making it up
Tbh this theme does sound and look like someone's fever dream.
''is that Vsauce? I knew he was a time traveler''
I actually laughed so hard at that
Dang. Now I want a Kingdom Hearts-style Lego game that's basically a glorified crossover of Lego's non-licensed themes. In other words, Dimensions without the licensed and toys-to-life stuff.
As for the sets, they're pretty good. Same points you brought up in your video. My favorite is probably the Time Twister's Train. Such a great design.
I have been waiting for Lego to make a deal with Square Enix to make something like that! And yeah, have human characters interacting with the Lego ones
Lego Universe and Lego worlds kinda did that, but it never quite felt as cool as it could be. I want a game that actually goes through all the different stories they've created, and find someway to interconnect them with levels in the style of the TT games.
For example, what if while exploring the Insectoids world the Zotaxians uncover a mysterious portal that opens to the land of Chima. The Bugginoids, Mosquitoids, and Mantoids from Galaxy Patrol all come through along with Craniac from Space Police III. Initially they become friends, but Craniac betrays the Zotaxians and steals their tech to transform the Bilgen Bugs into giant cyborg spaceships setting the events of Galaxy Patrol in motion. Make a level about Gypsy escaping with her crew from the UFO fleet, three levels about the original Insectoids story, and then two levels about this new Craniac plot, and you'd have one of many story archs in some giant game.
Somethin' like that'd be nice.
That sounds awesome. Like Bionicle and Ninjago in the same game or having the Toa and Ninja team up or something.
@@r3n3gad33 Can you imagine Garmadona and Makuta teaming up, only for both them to try and double-cross each other at the same time?
Like some themes like
Pirates
Nexo knights
Bionicle
Ninjago
Castle fantasy era
I like the slap-dashed MOC-ish feel this theme has. I know it started as a MOC, but still. It feels authentic.
Greart work as always!
You like time cruisers?
@@PloopusProductions no he likes men
@@walkintobrickwallsfordays8756 kek
Didn't think i would see you here. Good on ya bruv.
i remember this theme when i was around 6 or 7. i was so fascinated by it- to me, the aesthetic was colorful, quirky, and combo of all the best things. it left me with this sense of wonder that lego themes weren't just products- each is a pocket world within a larger interconnected Lego universe that can be visited with the right tech. this is definitely one of my most cherished memories of lego from when i was young.
That comic is really charming, it'd be neat to see lego try and have their own themes in a "normal" artstyle, like would building stuff to solve the problem involve welding masks and the like? Or would everything around turn into lego for just a bit? Who knows cause they don't do stuff like that.
Man, I've heard of or seen most lego themes, but NEVER have I heard of this one.
And that comic looks rad, it's almost like the original concept for the lego movie, hodgepodge crazy vehicles, barely holding together but looking exactly like how a kid would play, visiting varying locales that are all super different but somehow coexisting in the same world.
I love the idea of most of Lego's themes existing in the same universe
I wish Lego would go back to having unique art styles for adaptations of different themes instead of then all just looking like Lego. I get why they do it but it's way less unique
Well, Hidden Side seems to have it... sort of.
To be honest that comic came out in a era when LEGO lost it's identity and the comic shows pretty much that. Disney-esc characters and backgrounds while vehicles are LEGO so as some details. The proportion scales are off. The art style doesn't know wtf it wants to be and that isn't a smart selling point. They should stick to being LEGO if they are just that. Imagine a chibi character being in a disney animation and they are driving cars made out of toys bricks, it just doesn't work. Unless it's some universe mashup crap where the logic doesn't exist.
The art style of the first three Bionicle movies is so cool to me. I think it does a pretty good job showing what the sets/characters would actually look like in-universe.
Two words: Monkie Kid.
I. Love. This. Episode.
My introduction for the Time Cruisers / Twisters was the board game around this time. And every so often I would get a glimpse at the sets. Nowadays I have several of the sets and enjoy rebuilding them and moving them around.
I only knew a tidbit about the comics and that continuity, but I really enjoyed your paraphrasing of those stories. Something that a few years ago I would have explained deeper but was well summarized here.
Done in a “timely” manner...
I'd love for LEGO to give Time Travel another shot for a theme, there's so much you could do! Each wave or year could be a different- well, year. Dinosaurs, the future, tons of historical eras, it sounds perfect! They did have a set from Master Builder Academy - the Invention Designer-with a steampunk time traveling machine, complete with a "Ripcord" to spin the cockpit of the ship around. There's two other themes currently with a time travel-element I don't wanna mention for fear of spoilers... but it's a shame this will probably not see a resurgence any time soon, unless it's another licensed theme like Doctor Who or Bill and Ted. I'm glad you picked this one, you did your research, I never would have guessed about the comic history of this theme! I'm excited for the Harry Potter look-back, I'm curious what you think of the new sets.
I love that Time Cruisers just looks like a mish-mash of parts and that from the old sets, as if Lego is saying "Christ, we made all of these moulds for this shit, JUST FIND A WAY TO USE IT"
You were right, I’d never heard of this theme or any of the comics before watching this. And I thought i knew a lot about LEGO’s older history, boi was i wrong. There’s still so much to learn.
I think I remember hearing that this theme was inspired by Back To The Future. The time-traveling car and train definitely were, at least.
*How have I not heard of this before?? O_O*
You live under a rock, that’s why
@@oatpope Well that at least explains the woodlice..
Just saw the leak for the new Dreamzzz minifigures & it reminded me of this episode of the show, so I’m rewatching it to prepare for that theme’s launch.
Honestly, LEGO really should start making more lines where they just use the leftover pieces of the previous year's sets. Would be interesting to see the outcome.
OG LEGO maniac here... The release of Time Cruisers kicked off my dark ages. SEVENTEEN years later I got back into LEGO.
LEGO Rewind is awesome!! I remember when these Time cruiser/Time twister sets came out and remember how weird I thought they were even when I was 8, that allure and time travel, must be why I ended up getting most of them! I’m going to have to find the parts and try to rebuild some of these!! LEGO should try another original time travel theme!!
I thought this was going to be a boring episode, just because of how few sets there were, but it turned out to be one of the best! That comic art is so good
Oh wow, this actually looks like a spiritual precursor to the Lego Movie. Its MOC-like sets, its trip through various contemporary Lego themes, and its world where all these themes coexist
Scratch that, I'm *certain* this was the start of the Lego movie and it just took them a few decades to refine. Tim's true successor is Emmet.
Those comics show exactly how my best friend and I would play with LEGO, we’d mix ALL themes we had available together to make one interconnected universe. It’s hard to do that when so many themes are licensed, ends up looking like Kingdom Hearts with all the stuff owned by Disney.
I had the Hypno Cruiser (car) and the Rocket Racer (little vehicle with tim in it) when I was young. I was really into back to the future at the moment, so having time traveling lego sets was the dream for me back then.
I had a Time Cruisers phase last year when I collected all the sets, regret selling them all on ebay after watching this!
Hey Nick, I stop playing with Lego in 84 when i found dirt bikes, in 2010 i came out of the dack ages and found this theme in a Lego book and went hunting, found a few used but tidy set down here in New Zealand and i love it, thanks for your great work.
Still have a second unopened Timecruisers HQ behind my clothing basket that my aunt gave me just at that time you grew out of playing with lego. Man was that set fascinating to play with as a child. Those orange mirrors tho. Changed it into a clone troopers base when it that phase began.
Thank you soo much for including this in the rewind. I've been waiting for eons to see an in-depth analysis of time cruisers.
keep up the amazing work I love being able to relive my childhood through all your videos!!!
I usually know most of the stuff you mention on your rewind videos, but this time I definitely learned something new. I never knew time cruisers originated from a comic book. Also I always had a feeling lego had a surplus of parts and then just made this theme to make sets out of them
The Time Cruisers and Time Twisters were my favourite sets as a kid, I had the big Time Cruisers sets and the Time twister Train. Its crazy that I didn't know this deepr detail.
Love these videos so much. Whatever music/audio tones you use for the intro has just the right warm mellow analog-ness that takes me right back to a cozy place in my childhood; the perfect headspace for enjoying LEGO Rewind. Glad to see the deep dive into the Time Cruiser Klick comics; those were a great piece of LEGO media that really only resurfaced online in the past 4-5 years. There was a fantastic group of folks over on Rock Raiders United that translated a good chunk of them. There's a set of three German audio dramas that add additional backstory and craziness to the theme, believe it or not.
I was around and online when Time Cruisers was still on the shelves, and the AFOLs *hated* it, so much that it became a bit of a running joke. It was funny to see that in this video Tim sounds like a rare and forgotten character because at the time his omnipresence was a sore point among users on the now-ancient LEGO newsgroups like rec.toys.lego. (This was probably overblown, but he did pop up in many of the Freestyle sets during and after the TimeCruiser hayday. But I've always had a soft spot for its attempt to unify the existing themes and wish Time Twisters had gotten more attention than it has.
I'm so excited for this season, having binged the first two. It's such a cool thing seeing all of these older LEGO themes analysed (even though some episodes made me feel jealous of children who got to experience them while my options are limited).
I'm pretty sure I'll be blown away by some other themes I haven't even heard of!
This stuff is brilliant, please keep up your Lego work it's great. Thanks for all your work.
Thank you very much for covering this, I wasn't really around for the theme itself and only got brief glimpses of it via old catalogs and lego magazines, It turns out the theme had way more than I expected from what little I could find of it.
This is amazing! I had no idea about this entire comic series! Thanks!
Something I discovered on Brickipedia recently says that, according to the writer of the original comics, Dr. Cyber is Timmy's uncle and apparently, Professor Millennium and Tony Twister were alternatively named "Commode Schmidt" and "Baron Blomberg" respectively.
6:30 - I kinda want this to be the backstory for Ninjago.
they reference clutch powers in one episode so there would be a possible crazy multiverse theory if you can backtrack from the themes referenced in that.
YES
The Serpentine War in Ninjago only happened 40 years ago. The technological boom that's happened since then was *crazy* fast. This is the perfect explanation.
I haven't paid much attention to the Dreamzzz sets, but some of them are giving me a bit of the "blend things together that absolutely should not be blended together MOC" energy that this theme does.
Wow! This episode told me how I underestimated this theme... it was so much more then I thought!
Man, we need to see a new LEGO cross-series canon again.
LEGO did half-heartedly try to briefly link Ninjago with other intellectual properties under its roof (via Max's Adventures and in-series), but I feel they could've been better utilized.
I'd love to see just _how_ Invizable (invisible man from Ultra Agents, infamous tan-fedora toting crook) became a good guy among the Elemental Masters, along with why Toxikita is part of the NInjago canon, a brief explanation as to why Chima is part of the Ninjago realms, and their brief mention of Clutch Powers (season 1, episode 9, The Royal Blacksmiths) gives me a faint, flickering wish that they'll somehow resurrect these themes out of the old brick box.
I've even been thinking about a show idea that revives the Johnny Thunder franchise while questioning a lot of the stuff Hollywood archaeologists do (let's face it, most of the time they wind up becoming glorified graverobbers if they're not fighting the supernatural).
(And probably the Dino theme getting a soft revival should anything happen to the Jurassic Park IP, just so we can have Johnny meet his descendant, Josh. Like Joestars and fighting, seems dino-caretaking runs in the Thunder bloodline...)
This was my favourite set as a kid, i never had it but it was always the first thing I looked at in my old lego magazine.
Probably the bright colours.
In an alternate universe...
The time cruisers crosses over with ninjago
Thank you so much for covering this theme Nick. I wanted to ask you to cover this theme for a while, but once I bingewatched all your videos, I found out that doing so would de-motivate you in actually making this video. Somehow, despite having more than approximately 100 Star Wars sets this is still my all-time favourite theme. I love that you put so much time in showing the comic. Without you, I would have never known about it! Made my day man.. cheers buddy!
Thank you for being so considerate! I just hope I didn't take TOO long getting around to this theme.
I wish something like Time Cruisers would come along today. It really dosen't have a spiritual sucessor.
Yeah, me too! I never bought any of the sets, but the aesthetic is so wacky and creative that I would love to see Lego make a revival of this theme soon. They haven't done much of anything non-licensed that's time travel related since Ninjago's 7th wave, and I would love to see more creative time travel stuff like this from Lego.
Just impulse bought the Twisted Time Train after seeing it on screen. Got a great deal and I'm a little nervous to jump into classic collecting, but it just looked like something I couldn't pass up. Great way to collect different themes at once and get a great build in its own right at the same time!
Yeah this looked like like an interesting bizarre theme but kinda it’s charm and love time travel stories so and interesting backstory always neat to hear those ( and btw I’ve been reading planet ripple vol. 1 not bad I’m enjoying it and love your unique art;)
amazing video! keep up the great work! 👍
Once upon a time, kid me desperately wanted a lego ship for christmas. The pirate ship or preferably the shiny navy ship. And I got the time cruiser. Not exactly what I expected, especially because I wasn't even aware of the theme.
I just bought four sets after a night shift I I didn't even remember so I was very surprised when I got a reminder on Ebey.
I foremost remember the train. The way it had three separate themes mashed into one set was stunning to me.
I vaguely remember building my own back in my Lego prime.
I am looking forward to building those four sets but mostly I want to mash modern themes into a new train.
This is what mostly interested me in that series, the idea of mashing different themes together and it totally works.
FYI: I don't care about the backstory because as a kid the sets always inspired me to create my own story.
I don't know why, but the V-Sauce joke always gets a chuckle out of me whenever I rewatch this episode.
Excellent work.
I've been waiting for this.
So... there exists a comic book that has expounds on 90's Lego themes lore? That's literally my childhood dream, I spent hundreds of hours looking on the catalogue pages and imagining all the stories happening in these weird worlds.
Great Scott!
This is my first time learning about this theme but now I seriously want a reboot just so I can have access to this universe. The whole premise looks so fun.
Never knew about this line but I did end up with the kid in a barebones "here's a box of lego" kit containing mostly lego bricks
With Lego's original theme nowadays, I could see a mini cinematic universe being a thing.
Lego rewind is the one thing that keeps me going
A surprising amount of the strange parts are based on more obscure parts of themes' lore that never made it to the U.S. (The comic was in German originally I believe), the fright knights warring with ufo being the first thing off the top of my head
Yeah there was a commercial which featured the UFO and Fright Knights fighting each other. The thing about making Basil the good guy and making Willa the enemy was how the Fright Knights were marketed in Germany and the rest of Europe while the US they were marketed as making Basil and Willa villains and both on the same side.
Though the Knights Kingdom 1 chapter could've been better. Not only does Cedric look unfaithful to his minifig but they could've portrayed him better and made him more reasonable with Tim instead of just immediately assuming he's a spy for King Leo and chucking the kid in the catapult and as Nick quoted ''a carnage loving maniac'' Because reasons explained back in episode 26.
I wish they'd bring back these older original themes and also think of all I could do if I were to travel through time, but I'm leaving rejections alone and would instead change other aspects of my high school years to make it more enjoyable for me.
Had one of these but never knew there was any story or lore behind it. Parents got it for me cause it was a funky looking set.
You have unlocked hidden memories :O
5:50 is that Gypsy Moth, and 5:52 is that Gypsy Moth's booty?
Man, for one of my favorite LEGO characters from one of my favorite themes I'm surprised I've never seen this comic with her. She also doesn't quite look how I expected... I think it's the color around her eyes.
Also the Aquantauts are in the Insectiod's world? My entire understanding of this Universe has been turned upside down!
The comic's were only released in Germany and not worldwide.
Gypsy at least looks better then Cedric the Bull 5:19......did the artist even look at Cedric's minifig? He does not have a mustache like that! He has a big bushy one! I could draw a more faithful and more handsome looking humanized Cedric then that!
Also did they have to him an unreasonable ass to Tim? Seriously Lego can we just get one portrayal of Cedric where's he's actually nice and reasonable despite he's the villain to tie in with all the subtle official hints you gave which hinted he's not all bad?
Sadly I Don't think we'll ever see anything like this again, maybe hidden side is the closest we'll get 😶
Oh man I had the Time Twister train but I had no idea what Lego line it was from. It was a fun set. I also had a random Tim minifig probably from another set but I think he had a different colored hat. I had no idea the Time Twister/Time Cruiser plot, but I recall using the Time Twister mustache guy as a villain for Johnny Thunder to have gunfights with.
I never knew about this theme, now I know where the sky cruiser ride at Legoland comes from.
I never knew this existed as a kid. Super cool.
Yes! Finnaly a new video
Man i really wish lego would make more themes like time cruisers instead just putting license themes and nothing else
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*you just can't ever please anyone now a days can you?*
Fascinating. this is a very unusual time\series.
Galaxy Brain: Makuta Terridax’s plan has a contingency for if Tim ever showed up
I really felt like they should have had the mixed up theme for the time machines, but added a set or two alluding to the normal waves.
woah i remember time cruisers i never knew about the comic there are so many lego themes in place like Fright knights, king leos kingdom, aqua sharks, lego tow, lego west theme and the adventurers theme i grew up when these sets were out on shelves now i remember lego studios
The comic was only released in Germany so it's understandable you never heard about it at the time.
I'm a Bionicle guy to the core, and I didn't grow up with Time Cruisers myself, but this genuinely would have been the perfect theme for that anniversary set from Lego Ideas.
* sigh *
Maybe for the 100th anniversary... 🙄
Seriously, imagine they revitalized it for one last set with a bit of a gritty steampunk - meets - late 80s - early 90s aesthetic... and with settings that pay homage to several of the themes included in the first vote, maybe even some nods to newer themes like Friends, Ninjago, and The Lego Movie too.
Would have been a perfect celebration of Lego's legacy - something none of the other options could ever really capture wholly - and it would have a little something for everyone.
@@TheiBunny I just think it was dumb to restrict it to one set. All that does is pit different sects of the lego community against each other. They should've done 3-5 sets, just a small line celebrating different classic themes, maybe with something like Time Cruisers tying it together as a story.
@@NickonPlanetRipple I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if Lego turned around and said, "you know what, you're getting sets for all 4 of the top themes in 2022!"
I think it'd be really nice to have a legacy line like what Ninjago does, but spanning all of Lego's back-catalogue. Wouldn't need to oversaturate their releases with it, maybe 2 or 3 sets a year in the same vein as the recent Barracuda Bay, Medieval Blacksmith and Benny's Spaceship sets, each for a different theme...
In fact, given we've gotten those sets, and are getting at least one more like it next year, maybe this is the start of something like that actually happening...
Retrieving a cookie recipe tut sat,
DOPE.
Thus is what happens when you let little Jimmy describe what he thinks is the most coolest thing evar
I think the best of the line is the nasty space boat
Lines like these, despite not growing up with them Instills a sense of nostalgia because they have a more unique and creative aesthetic compared to today’s aesthetics
If I look at almost any classic lego line I get a super warm nostalgic feeling. When I look at this I still think it sucks.
Eh.
I only had one of the sets as a kid but now I wish I had more of them.
5:29. I looked up the comic and apparently, the reason the Xtreme Team was there was that Dr. Cyber upgraded their vehicles to travel through time. i.imgur.com/FZc7H93.jpg The Insectoids existing on the water planet that Aquazone takes place on wasn't explained, though. Still, an awesome comic from a really underrated Lego theme.
LOL i was eating prince while watching this
The way you pronounced Timebuster remined me of Starkid's Time Bastard
I personally prefer to think that the Time Busters are there to _stop_ Tom and Cyber from fucking up the timeline, rather than do the deed themselves.
Those sets were so weird, I know nobody, who actually bought them. Interesting to know that there is so much backstory though (and a fun one at that!)
Wow, I knew the comics, I didn't know there were actual sets released for it.
Those comics look pretty cool I have to admit.
I miss when lego had its own characters, its own stories, its own universe kind of, really miss those times.
Nice man
leaving highly advanced technology on the ninja area... an interesting origin for ninjago.
Just bought the Flybo set. Great theme.
I had the bad guy train set. I never knew what theme it came from until now
Weardly enough, it is one of my favorite themes
Good choice in music.
It was sufficiently zany for my purposes.