Underwater sci-fi is one of the most criminally under-used genres of fiction ever, and I hope LEGO brings another Aquazone/Aqua Raiders/Atlantis-esque line back someday
yeah cause its hard as hell to film. It would have been much more popular in modern fiction if it was easier to use in live action franchises. I think it was quite a bit more popular in books, back in the day. But totally agree, its a shame, so much potential!
@@RoachDoggJr2112 Christ on a cracker, you're not wrong -_- I highkey hate the fact that I live in a world where, for example, no pirate movie is allowed to exist outside of PotC, no dinosaur movie is allowed to exist outside of Jurassic Park, etc. EVERYTHING nowadays must be part of this or that licensed IP. Fuck billionaires and their mentally ill addiction to greed.
On of my favorite themes. It's not official, but I consider this an honorary space theme. We could just say it's set in Europa's oceans or some other world
I’m definitely in the camp that sees this as at least a space-adjacent theme, if not full-blown space. Love the idea of it taking place on some distant world. Also, I’m a big fan of LEGO rewind. You’re one of the people that got me back into nostalgic LEGO, so thank you! 🙏
Early Aquazone was my first (and still favourite) series, I was 6 when my dad got me the Crystal explorer sub (and helped me build it), I got a few other smaller aquanauts sets and most of the aquasharks and later raiders and stringrays. I love the chrome harpoons, kinves, and crystals, the claws and magnet boxes. And the just designs of the subs themselves were fantastic, they were really unique at the time (and still today). It wasn't an external IP, or homage to popular media (like the Adventurers). Most of all, I think I love Aquazone the most because of the memories of building the sets with my dad, I miss him.
Love your videos and production values. Super quality stuff. It's always a blast to revisit 90s Lego, and Aquazone was one of my favorites. Keep up the great work!
Lego underwater themes have always appealed to me. Just yesterday I received the set 6555: Sea Hunter. It's a Town: Divers set, not Aquanauts, but the aesthetics of the entire mid-late 90s Underwater catalog cannot be matched.
What a pleasant surprise of a video, im so excited! I always love underwear LEGO themes Aquazone always lurked below my depths. I've only ever owned a handful from each faction, and I hope one day to have more experience in hand, especially on the Aquanauts, Hydronauts and Stingrays
Thank you for this video❤ At 41years old i stil have the aquanauts badge, compass and red antennas. As a child i had the neptune discovery lab. To this day, if i use the antennas for a build, i always think of the great times i had with the aquanauts❤
The weekly release on Sunday morning was a happy accident that just kinda settled that way. Glad it’s a lift on the weekend! Just so you know, this coming week will like be a mid-week release, since there are some exciting new releases I want to take a look at. 👍
Great video! The Crystal Explorer Sub is an all-time great Lego set. The Crystal Crawler also had a variant that came with a large “crystal” blue rocky baseplate. It wasn’t super practical in terms of the Lego system but it was fun to roll the crawler across. Nostalgia is funny, I did not remember how few minifgs were in this theme, nor how few shiny crystals were available!
Thank you! I did briefly note the playscape that came with the Crystal Crawler variant, but was a bit bummed I didn't have one to show. I love those weird little inclusions they bundled with some sets in the 90s.
Good job there buddy! I personally never had any sets from the original aquazone theme, but I had plenty from its direct successor, Aquaraiders from 2007. This is probably due to the fact that I was built in 1995, so thus these old themes were often a wee bit before my Lego Building Days! Anyways, good job, and may the bricks be with you! Rockatoa, Brickticks out!
Oh man, your Neptune Discovery Lab footage is so good. I was wondering whether you'd be able to capture it, since the promotional materials really don't do this one justice.
After the Adventurer's Egypt theme Aquazone is my all time favorite. I have a few Stingrays and Hydronauts, but no Aquanauts or Aquasharks. I really hope someday Lego rerelease something from this theme. I would love to see a CMF of any of Aquazone subtheme like they did with the Space themes this year.
Sadly, I don’t know if Aquazone ever reached the iconic status of LEGO space, but I would LOVE to see some form of revival for this great, underrated theme.
I really hope you get to talking about the Aqua Sharks at some point. NGL, I wasn’t even born yet when they discontinued the auquanauts theme. But I remember going to the Mall of America LEGO store in the early 2000s (before they remodeled it) and I just remember this giant Aqua Sharks sub near the entrance near Camp Snoopy (what’s now the Nickelodeon park). I always thought that sub was the coolest thing ever and I still remember when I finally got one off eBay when I was 14… it’s funny though, how aquanauts kinda was and wasn’t a part of my childhood. Also, in all honesty I absolutely love the fact that this RUclips channel exists!
One of the metrics I rate my old sets by is how much my niece likes to play with them. The Neptune Discovery Lab and the Aero Tube Hangar are her favourites. The Neptune Lab has such good play features! And such nice colour scheme too.
I bought that set with my own money in 1995. I will always remember the weight of the the box in my arms. As I was walking to the registers, the box was wider than me in my extended arms and my chin on top of it. I still have this set. Nothing could have made me get rid of it.
I may be a huge fan of underwater LEGO of any scale, but somehow only got into Aquazone fairly recently with a few sets over the past few years, as well as the retail display using a porthole to gaze upon the Aquanauts and Aquasharks. I pieced together Sea Sprint 9 from a bulk lot and it was a formidable little sub with a cool claw feature. I was impressed at the building technique of using the lattice fence pieces to attach studs sideways! I'm only a spring short from completing Crystal Crawler but I still like it as a seafloor rover. I even went out to get the unusual studless baseplate that some copies bundled with! Sadly the hinges started breaking on my copy so I have to find a substitute, or modify it with another jointed system like towballs or ratchet hinges. Sea Claw 7 is a recent addition to my Aquazone lineup, and while a few pieces short like the compass or magnets, it's still a unique silhouette compared to its other Aquanaut bretheren. The claw feature was an intriguing build for its time. The closest I have experienced the Crystal Explorer Sub so far is in the retail display, so I couldn't build it from start to finish or zoom it around since it was affixed to its structure. I do like the cargo use and the windscreen purpose in the back similar to the Deep Sea Predator in Aquasharks. I do hope to one day fully build the Neptune Discovery Lab. This definitely looks like the kind of set I would enjoy moving every part around in a sequential operation.
Almost make me cry when you said "dream come true" because for me as a kid it is a dream come true... Always wanted to have Aquanauts Base, have to waited for my birthday present, and patiently wait my Aunt to buy it in other country as she traveled 2 months for vacation... I have the Base, the #2 Submarine and the mini scooter... I never knew the other was exist due to minimum information back in '95 back then.... Sadly my Aquanauts was stolen by my friend, that included 2 aquashark... I was planning to keep it for the rest of my life because it's like a treasure for me back then... Now they're not produced anymore and if someone sell it second hand... Its way too expensives 😢
I don´t remember the claw. But cool. I love that lego inspires young engineers. It did for me even if I am not an engineer it got me intrested enough to get high grades in those subjects. The small mechanics, the abillity to experiment, sure I was a instructions first kind of kid but eventually I tried other stuff. Again whould be intresting to see all the main builds and MOCs next to eachother. I will cheak that out. Fun video, whould have loved seeing everyone togheter at the end but still amazing.
@@keltondavisLEGO I am unfamiliar with that set. Will look them up. I guess it´s like reading a book, you don´t become an author becuse you like books.
3:00 i never thought of the headband having a letter c on the top of it, but rather thought it was a latch to hold the headband in place similar to a belt buckle, but softer.
I was one of those lucky kids that had the Aquanauts base 😉 Tragically one day either my sister or myself hit it with a ball and I never fully rebuilt it since, I'm not sure if there were some pieces missing (unlikely, where would they have gone?) or I just never felt like it. I did use the base plates and the watch tower however together with some street base plates as a massive (albeit absolutely empty) underwater base for my Gungan sub and the OG Luke's landspeeder (which was a sub as well in that scenario lol)
One of my favorite themes, the very first underwater one, own all Aquanauts and Auasharks sets and slowly aiming to get some Stingrays, wish Lego made some remake or at least some anniversary set for adults like they did with Castle, Space or Pirates
I used to steal my uncle's old lego when i went to my grandparents when i was younger, i stole the dome piece from Sea Sprint 9, still have the piece, too.
I still keep so many of those pieces all together in a large box, although at this point you won't build a full set. :{ I am so fond of those baseplates, still.
The Paravane / underwater scooter you have has one 3x1 slopes. It has one 3x2 slope in the original set (at least the boxed one I have ) Great ranks though
I heard from another commenter that Aquanaut 1 was referred to as “Jock Clouseau” in some LEGO publications of the day. However the current cataloging doesn’t give any of the crew names.
..i stole number 3 from The Warehouse shop 1998 in New Zealand 🇳🇿 think i gave it to the neighbors kid ..i stole about 25 beast wars transformers also 😂
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90s lego was something else.. i've spent literally hours looking at these sets in catalogs as a kid..
From this LEGO fan’s perspective, it’s the best decade LEGO history.
Underwater sci-fi is one of the most criminally under-used genres of fiction ever, and I hope LEGO brings another Aquazone/Aqua Raiders/Atlantis-esque line back someday
I quite agree! Strange how this hasn’t seen a significant revival yet.
yeah cause its hard as hell to film. It would have been much more popular in modern fiction if it was easier to use in live action franchises. I think it was quite a bit more popular in books, back in the day. But totally agree, its a shame, so much potential!
Unless Star Wars or some other Disney property decides to do something like that, don't count on it.
@@RoachDoggJr2112 Christ on a cracker, you're not wrong -_- I highkey hate the fact that I live in a world where, for example, no pirate movie is allowed to exist outside of PotC, no dinosaur movie is allowed to exist outside of Jurassic Park, etc. EVERYTHING nowadays must be part of this or that licensed IP. Fuck billionaires and their mentally ill addiction to greed.
@@ivanm3342 you dont really need to film it underwater.. you just need to create the ilusion that the action is taking place there.. lol
Great video! I love Aquanauts and so glad I kept them throughout the years.
Couldn’t have done it without your help! Thank you!
I loved the color theme of these sets. As a kid I always found them mesmerizing when exploring any toy store with them.
I loved them already, but they sure made filming them easy. They look sooooo good!
On of my favorite themes. It's not official, but I consider this an honorary space theme. We could just say it's set in Europa's oceans or some other world
I’m definitely in the camp that sees this as at least a space-adjacent theme, if not full-blown space. Love the idea of it taking place on some distant world.
Also, I’m a big fan of LEGO rewind. You’re one of the people that got me back into nostalgic LEGO, so thank you! 🙏
@@keltondavisLEGO Thank YOU! Also, dunno if anyone else sees this, but the Sea Sprint 9 reminds me of the Tully Monster or Opabinia.
Why would there be octopi and sharks in Europa?
Love these videos, the production quality is just perfect too
Thanks so much! Grateful they’re being enjoyed by so many.
This was the first theme I completed my collection for as an adult. Always dreamed about the base as a kid!
There’s something to be said for themes with a modest set count. Makes them easy and satisfying to collect!
those magnetized containers with crystals will always have a special place in my heart!
Not to mention, RIP trans neon orange 😢
Early Aquazone was my first (and still favourite) series, I was 6 when my dad got me the Crystal explorer sub (and helped me build it), I got a few other smaller aquanauts sets and most of the aquasharks and later raiders and stringrays.
I love the chrome harpoons, kinves, and crystals, the claws and magnet boxes. And the just designs of the subs themselves were fantastic, they were really unique at the time (and still today). It wasn't an external IP, or homage to popular media (like the Adventurers).
Most of all, I think I love Aquazone the most because of the memories of building the sets with my dad, I miss him.
Thanks for sharing those wonderful memories!
Love your videos and production values. Super quality stuff. It's always a blast to revisit 90s Lego, and Aquazone was one of my favorites. Keep up the great work!
Thanks so much! It’s a joy to relive these memories.
Lego underwater themes have always appealed to me. Just yesterday I received the set 6555: Sea Hunter. It's a Town: Divers set, not Aquanauts, but the aesthetics of the entire mid-late 90s Underwater catalog cannot be matched.
Loved the 90s divers sets. Definitely on the list for future episodes.
Oh my gosh the production value for this video is amazing
Thanks! 🙏 I love making these.
What a pleasant surprise of a video, im so excited!
I always love underwear LEGO themes Aquazone always lurked below my depths. I've only ever owned a handful from each faction, and I hope one day to have more experience in hand, especially on the Aquanauts, Hydronauts and Stingrays
Luckily the set count for each faction is super manageable. I imagine it makes these so much fun to collect.
Thank you for this video❤
At 41years old i stil have the aquanauts badge, compass and red antennas.
As a child i had the neptune discovery lab.
To this day, if i use the antennas for a build, i always think of the great times i had with the aquanauts❤
Glad I could bring back some good memories! Love these sets.
I was looking forward to this video! Thanks for showcasing this amazing theme!
You’re quite welcome! This one looked particularly good on camera. A genuine pleasure to showcase.
thanks for giving an additional thing for me to look forward to to fight against Sunday blues! Excellent as always
The weekly release on Sunday morning was a happy accident that just kinda settled that way. Glad it’s a lift on the weekend!
Just so you know, this coming week will like be a mid-week release, since there are some exciting new releases I want to take a look at. 👍
Great video! The Crystal Explorer Sub is an all-time great Lego set.
The Crystal Crawler also had a variant that came with a large “crystal” blue rocky baseplate. It wasn’t super practical in terms of the Lego system but it was fun to roll the crawler across.
Nostalgia is funny, I did not remember how few minifgs were in this theme, nor how few shiny crystals were available!
Thank you! I did briefly note the playscape that came with the Crystal Crawler variant, but was a bit bummed I didn't have one to show. I love those weird little inclusions they bundled with some sets in the 90s.
Good job there buddy!
I personally never had any sets from the original aquazone theme, but I had plenty from its direct successor, Aquaraiders from 2007. This is probably due to the fact that I was built in 1995, so thus these old themes were often a wee bit before my Lego Building Days!
Anyways, good job, and may the bricks be with you! Rockatoa, Brickticks out!
Eventually the term “Retro” will apply to the mid 2000s, and then this channel will be just for you!
Again a nice throwback, well filmed and put together! 👌
Thank you! 🙏
Oh man, your Neptune Discovery Lab footage is so good. I was wondering whether you'd be able to capture it, since the promotional materials really don't do this one justice.
Seeing how we both fawned over it after you finished building, I knew it needed to have its due on camera 😂
Your channel is going to end up being very expensive for me. 😆
By the way, the swimming animation also looks great.
After the Adventurer's Egypt theme Aquazone is my all time favorite. I have a few Stingrays and Hydronauts, but no Aquanauts or Aquasharks. I really hope someday Lego rerelease something from this theme. I would love to see a CMF of any of Aquazone subtheme like they did with the Space themes this year.
Sadly, I don’t know if Aquazone ever reached the iconic status of LEGO space, but I would LOVE to see some form of revival for this great, underrated theme.
I really hope you get to talking about the Aqua Sharks at some point. NGL, I wasn’t even born yet when they discontinued the auquanauts theme. But I remember going to the Mall of America LEGO store in the early 2000s (before they remodeled it) and I just remember this giant Aqua Sharks sub near the entrance near Camp Snoopy (what’s now the Nickelodeon park). I always thought that sub was the coolest thing ever and I still remember when I finally got one off eBay when I was 14… it’s funny though, how aquanauts kinda was and wasn’t a part of my childhood. Also, in all honesty I absolutely love the fact that this RUclips channel exists!
Thank you! Aqua Sharks will be showing up in October. You get a little sneak peek of them at the end of this video!
One of the metrics I rate my old sets by is how much my niece likes to play with them. The Neptune Discovery Lab and the Aero Tube Hangar are her favourites. The Neptune Lab has such good play features! And such nice colour scheme too.
An excellent metric! And she seems to have good taste 👍
aquazone is my favorite lego theme!!! neptune discovery lab is always going to be one of my all time favorite sets. such a fun set
Honestly, that set blew me away! So happy I was able to interact with it in person.
Production value of this video is insane!
Thanks! Only the best for Aquazone!
Quality video! Didn’t have many of these when they were on the shelves - but I do love the yellow color scheme!
The yellow against the blue backdrops was always very visually appealing to me. Love it!
Aqua sharks is one of my favorite themes of Lego and I can't wait for you to do that
That’ll be showing up in October!
@@keltondavisLEGO let’s go
I bought that set with my own money in 1995. I will always remember the weight of the the box in my arms. As I was walking to the registers, the box was wider than me in my extended arms and my chin on top of it. I still have this set. Nothing could have made me get rid of it.
I love memories like that ❤️
What a great channel, I recently got into Lego Castle and would love to hear you talk about any era of it really!
Thank you! I’m definitely going to cover Castle. Just trying to pick which part of the massive elephant I want to eat first.
AWESOME!
Thanks! M-Tron was among the sets I borrowed from Alex, so it’s on its way!
@@keltondavisLEGO OMG
Loved the toy story reference. Good taste!
It kept playing in my head and I just knew I had to include it 😂
I cannot wait to see your ranking of Aquasharks :)
Coming in the next few weeks!
I may be a huge fan of underwater LEGO of any scale, but somehow only got into Aquazone fairly recently with a few sets over the past few years, as well as the retail display using a porthole to gaze upon the Aquanauts and Aquasharks.
I pieced together Sea Sprint 9 from a bulk lot and it was a formidable little sub with a cool claw feature. I was impressed at the building technique of using the lattice fence pieces to attach studs sideways!
I'm only a spring short from completing Crystal Crawler but I still like it as a seafloor rover. I even went out to get the unusual studless baseplate that some copies bundled with! Sadly the hinges started breaking on my copy so I have to find a substitute, or modify it with another jointed system like towballs or ratchet hinges.
Sea Claw 7 is a recent addition to my Aquazone lineup, and while a few pieces short like the compass or magnets, it's still a unique silhouette compared to its other Aquanaut bretheren. The claw feature was an intriguing build for its time.
The closest I have experienced the Crystal Explorer Sub so far is in the retail display, so I couldn't build it from start to finish or zoom it around since it was affixed to its structure. I do like the cargo use and the windscreen purpose in the back similar to the Deep Sea Predator in Aquasharks.
I do hope to one day fully build the Neptune Discovery Lab. This definitely looks like the kind of set I would enjoy moving every part around in a sequential operation.
I’ll tell you that the Neptune Discovery lab NEEDS to be experienced in person. It’s just so grand in scale and is so impressive.
Almost make me cry when you said "dream come true" because for me as a kid it is a dream come true... Always wanted to have Aquanauts Base, have to waited for my birthday present, and patiently wait my Aunt to buy it in other country as she traveled 2 months for vacation...
I have the Base, the #2 Submarine and the mini scooter... I never knew the other was exist due to minimum information back in '95 back then....
Sadly my Aquanauts was stolen by my friend, that included 2 aquashark... I was planning to keep it for the rest of my life because it's like a treasure for me back then... Now they're not produced anymore and if someone sell it second hand... Its way too expensives 😢
Sounds like a crummy friend. I’m so sorry! I hope you can be reunited with these sets someday!
I don´t remember the claw. But cool. I love that lego inspires young engineers. It did for me even if I am not an engineer it got me intrested enough to get high grades in those subjects.
The small mechanics, the abillity to experiment, sure I was a instructions first kind of kid but eventually I tried other stuff. Again whould be intresting to see all the main builds and MOCs next to eachother. I will cheak that out. Fun video, whould have loved seeing everyone togheter at the end but still amazing.
For me, it was Lego Mindstorms that really got the engineering bug going. I also didn’t become an engineer, but it still has been a lifelong interest.
@@keltondavisLEGO I am unfamiliar with that set. Will look them up. I guess it´s like reading a book, you don´t become an author becuse you like books.
3:00 i never thought of the headband having a letter c on the top of it, but rather thought it was a latch to hold the headband in place similar to a belt buckle, but softer.
Interesting! So cool how we can all interpret things differently. I always imagined his name must’ve started with a C 😂
for me this "C" always stood for Captain or Commander
I jad the sea sprint 9 as a kid! Perhaps a small sub, but lots of fun, especially with that articulated arm
It’s one of those perfect sweet spot sets. Small, but fun.
My favorite Lego theme ever 💛
I've got all Aquazone sets with boxes (and all Aquasharks)
Ooh! Quite the collection!
I owned the Discovery Lab as a child. Absoluteley loved the set and the theme itself.
I knew of the set as a kid, but never had it. I’m not sure the marketing really got across how big and awesome that set was.
The mini with the C headband is named Jock Clouseau! I think his name was only mentioned in Lego Magazine and possibly catalog descriptions
Awesome tidbit! That’s half the reason I mentioned it. I was hoping someone like you could enlighten us. Thank you! 🙏
I was one of those lucky kids that had the Aquanauts base 😉
Tragically one day either my sister or myself hit it with a ball and I never fully rebuilt it since, I'm not sure if there were some pieces missing (unlikely, where would they have gone?) or I just never felt like it. I did use the base plates and the watch tower however together with some street base plates as a massive (albeit absolutely empty) underwater base for my Gungan sub and the OG Luke's landspeeder (which was a sub as well in that scenario lol)
That’s the wonder of Lego. It can always become something else!
One of my favorite themes, the very first underwater one, own all Aquanauts and Auasharks sets and slowly aiming to get some Stingrays, wish Lego made some remake or at least some anniversary set for adults like they did with Castle, Space or Pirates
That certainly does seem overdue! If the enthusiastic comments on this video are any indication, there’s a market for it.
that octopus is iconic
Right up there with the classic shark!
i don't actually have any Aquanauts but may have to change that after this video! I'm also thinking grabbing incomplete sets may be fun for space MOCs
There are some that even consider Aquazone to be a space theme, since the technology is remarkably similar.
@@keltondavisLEGO fair
Neat!
Thanks!
I used to steal my uncle's old lego when i went to my grandparents when i was younger, i stole the dome piece from Sea Sprint 9, still have the piece, too.
😂 I wonder if he’ll see this comment 😝
@keltondavisLEGO nah, he's a tattoo artist, I doubt he has time to watch RUclips.
wow great job. almost like lego rock raiders
There are definitely similarities! Just no rock monsters 😂
I still keep so many of those pieces all together in a large box, although at this point you won't build a full set. :{ I am so fond of those baseplates, still.
Might be worth trying to finish off some of those sets in Bricklink!
The Paravane / underwater scooter you have has one 3x1 slopes. It has one 3x2 slope in the original set (at least the boxed one I have )
Great ranks though
You’ll see a little note on the screen that mentions that part swap. Simply couldn’t find the 2x3 slope.
@@keltondavisLEGO ah, missed htat xD. sorry.
Such a fun theme! It's a shame the characters didn't get better names like other original themes of this era
I heard from another commenter that Aquanaut 1 was referred to as “Jock Clouseau” in some LEGO publications of the day. However the current cataloging doesn’t give any of the crew names.
Please do Alpha Team!
Will do!
I also made blast corps cast in lego
Wow. Nostalgia wave! Totally forgot about that game!
Do stingrays
It's in the works!
I had the 6175 sub set and 6125.
Such great memories of these.
I miss Mars mission and Space police.
Those were in my dark age, but it will be fun to eventually cover those for my first time!
Do you collect Pirates
I wish! I definitely want to cover them in future episodes.
This ranking just happened to go in order of size lol
It’s funny, I often try to actively avoid that, but it was simply unavoidable here. 😆 Had to go with my gut!
the mini figure names are terrible for an awsome set. great video
Yeah, I wish they had proper names. Aqua Sharks did better in that regard.
First and let's gooooo
Congrats!! 😂🎉
..i stole number 3 from The Warehouse shop 1998 in New Zealand 🇳🇿 think i gave it to the neighbors kid ..i stole about 25 beast wars transformers also 😂
Sounds like you're the Robin Hood of toys! LOL.
I feel like you should have the sets for the videos. Even if you resell them after the video. This was mostly photo slides.
I did feature 4 of the 6. Feel like that’s a pretty good ratio 😆 But thanks for the input.