“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” ― H.P. Lovecraft He had a thing with the Ocean
It's amazing how this one guy having a phobia for the ocean indirectly led to every edgy indie game featuring gods or monsters that look like underwater creatures.
Looking back, I wish I'd done this episode differently. There's so much I want to say about Aquazone now that I couldn't at the time. I've even grown more fond of the later Hydronauts.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Ya could always do a deep dive on the sub themes (puns intended) :) But this is a solid video. I've watched it three times over the years to just relive the nostalgia. Don't regret anything, but if you want to do more I'll happily watch it.
@@BrotherhoodWorkshop Well, I have acquired some Aquazone sets since making this video. Maybe I'll look them over in one go, like the Monkie Kid Megareview.
@@NickonPlanetRipple I also agree that "Stingray Explorer" was the one set to get from Divers if you had limited budget. That was the only Divers set I had as a kid, and it was probably in my top 10 favorite LEGO sets that I had as a child. Wish I still had it, no idea where it ended up.
The Space theme was what got me, but then again I've always had a thing for astronomy and the like. Aquazone was the only themed Lego sets I ever owned more than one of the kit's. CES was my first kit in the series actually.
Stumbled upon this series yesterday and I can't get enough. Brings me so many memories and reminds me of lego series I had completely forgotten about. And now in this video, as soon as I heard that MNOG Ga-Koro underwater music I instantly hit that sub button.
hi Nick i saw your video of and or about you're tribute to and or fore Molly that's very upsetting i had a dog for just more then five years then I had to go and get him to be put down because he was getting very dangerous to for and towards the public and then I'd get another one in at February of and or fore this year and just last Saturday he had misterisly vanished and I've not seen him since then.
Aww, I love the Big Ugly Rock Pieces. They gave structure and texture that wasn't just a rectangular pile of stuck bricks. Light, hollow and seamless terrain? How could you not love that??
I loved AquaZone as a child, and even had some of those yellow deep sea sets! But then came my Dark Age, and I totally missed Atlantis... But now I'm back and I'll make sure to catch up with the time! Currently looking for all the Atlantis sets I can get. What a look, I love the color scheme, the transforming vehicles, the appealing play sets, and the amazing merfolk minifigs. I also can't believe how well integrated those technic panels are in the builds. The designers really did outdo themselves on this theme
I'm sure I've mentioned this in previous videos on this series, but it's always interesting to look back on themes that I either missed out on 'cause I was too young, or was just not interested in.
Man I love underwater themes! I really liked the newer Aqua Raiders because of how much more legit the subs looked (I also played the flash game all the time at school). I guess I had missed the Town sub-theme Lego Divers, it looks really neat I might have to buy a few. I really liked looking at the Greco-Roman style landscape for Atlantis, though I only ever got one of the five dollar sets. I love how Lego has been incorporating a variety of sub-themes into City, it really brings a nice change and the under water sets look neat. Great episode, and I feel your intro works really well for this installment of the series.
I think the plot device with the crystalls is used so often because it works pretty well. People love shiny things and diamonds, esspecially kids. The crystals in Power Miners were so cool, that I basicly needed at least 1 in each colour :D
It's just an easier to way to push the incentive of these factions doing what they do. I think if they did something more "mature" like drilling the ocean floor/mining a planet for oil/rare ores or something it would fly over the heads of an average kid, whereas having them explore the ocean floor/mine a foreign planet to find "bright shiny expensive looking crystals" it's easier for a kid to understand.
Aquaraiders (the more recent one) was the first theme that I actually made an effort to get more than one set from. I still find old parts and figures from the line in my older bins, in rather poor condition unfortunately. I wish I had taken better care of them.
Aquaraiders and later Atlantis were some of my favorite lines ever! Loved the creature design and the submarines and i had A LOT of both lines. I hope they bring them back sometime...
FIANLLY! The one, who remembers old Lego themes! In 2018! Thank you for exicting! I will watch every video you create about rare,old themes. After that one i shall watch the Exo-Force one, i have got my first set when i was 7 years old, in 2007. The set was Shadow Crawler, how great was he! I have bought two of them recently. My robots army is now complete!
I like rewatching this series from time to time. It puts me in a happy place and it seems like I catch something new each time, either that or I forgot.
The Aquazone Hydro Crystalization Station was my very first Lego set ever. Over the years I lost a lot of the parts and the fancy baseplate cracked in half, but I still have a lot of it. I love this theme!
Dude... Alongside the Barraki, Aqua Raiders was the theme that got me into LEGO. I still remember the first set I was really excited to get from the store, the Angler Ambush. And yeah, I still think that- aside from the one in this year's Deep Sea Creature Creator set- that Tiger Shark is the best brick-built shark we've ever gotten. I got that one as a birthday gift, and it's such a crazy value looking back. A giant brick-built shark and a cool submarine both with functions, and a bit of scenery for $30? That kind of set has become far more expensive and far smaller. I'd say a comparable set is the Hyper-Space Pursuit, which came out only 2 years later and was a full 20 bucks more. I loved that theme, I still wish I could have gotten the Base and the Shipwreck. The Shipwreck has my favorite Sub and the Base has another cute sub an epic octupus (by the way, the eyes on it are incredible, they dual-molded the back piece with white and red so the transparent front piece made the eyes look bloodshot). (8:03) ruclips.net/video/ycJEwbhw64U/видео.html&feature=player_embedded And then there's Atlantis... what a theme! I was so excited for it, and the quest to find Atlantis was such a wonderful idea for a theme. The colors are lovely, just like you mentioned. I especially like the runes on the creatures, it almost makes them look like they're just enchanted statues like the squid and mini-sharks on the Portal, but I find I enjoy the overall designs of the Aqua Raiders creatures more. My favorite creatures is hands-down the Shadow Snapper, a giant killer turtle with fully pose-able claws and arms is too awesome to me! Plus, you got Kiina's armor in black, what a brlliant parts usage. I'm still hoping to add the Portal and City of Atlantis to my collection one day... thanks for this awesome trip down memory lane! Toodles!
Am I late? Keep up the great work Nick, your series is definitely great so far! Here are some ideas for the future: Western, Castle, World City, Fabuland, Time Cruisers, Sports, Jack Stone, Vikings, Znap, NinjaGo, Chima, and save the best for last, BIONICLE. Keep up the great work!
You hit the nail on the head with the Space styling call and I definitely combined the themes as a kid; re-creating the Crystal Explorer Sub to duel with my Deep Freeze Defender still inspires my builds to this day! I've been loving this series so freaking much! It's been a extreme nostalgia hit straight to the dome.
I kind of "retired" from LEGO by the time the first Aquaraiders hit the scene, but I still remember the Aquanauts and Aquasharks and have fond memories of them. They had some great and varied subs, the Neptune Discovery Lab was a superb base, and it was really the first (and only) LEGO theme where I was able to get most of the sets in it, meaning I had enough of both factions to have them wage war against each other properly (and unlike a lot of themes, both factions more or less felt like they were competitively "even"). Sadly, the Shark's Crystal Cave eluded me and it's always going to be something of a "one that got away" because of how big and badass-looking it was. Definitely wish I was around for the second Aquaraiders. Those brick-built sea monsters are cool.
I just binged watched all the episodes of your Lego Rewind. Nice and hope to see more in the future. I like the metal slug and the background musics you used made me happy.
I remember playing with my Atlantis subs in the bath. You could move them through the water and the propellors would spin on their own. Also the stickers and prints have remained intact to this day, so points to Lego for making their toys water-proof
Aquazone was my favourite theme. I also loved the Divers one. Now at the age of 25, I love scuba diving and snorkelling and I believe that Aquazone had a huge part in inspiring my fascination with marine life and the ocean.
These are such well crafted videos Nick! They're informative and a great look at the Lego sets. I love Legos a lot more than people my age, and it's making me so happy to see these videos
No problem! I won't cover every theme, but there are plenty like these that left an impression on me growing up, and I want to reach out to other people in that boat. Stir up some fond memories they'd forgotten were there, make them smile.
Atlantis is my most collected theme, I had over half of the sets by the time it retired. For the year that the first wave was active it was AWESOME. Currently rebuilding them one by one.
God, Aqua Raiders.. The only series, and I mean ONLY series I ever got every single set for. Every. Single. Set. At once for Christmas. That was my most spoiled Christmas ever, and I'm still thankful for it. It was so fun building all the sets, playing with them together, and then just mashing them together to make bigger sets after I had played out every single scenario I could think of. They're kind of the reason my collection has more yellow parts than anything, but I loved those sets, and cherish the series, and parts to the point I'll occasionally build a new custom to put on my desk with that trident proudly displayed on it, and that blue, and black clad raider inside. Although, if I had to pick a favorite set, despite how awesome the Aqua Raiders base was, I'd have to say it's a tie between Lobster Strike, and Crab Crusher. Both of those were pretty damn fun, and the big sea creatures were the best enemies to play with in my opinions, and the shark being the most fun to build. I wish I had gotten some of the Atlantis sets, but for some reason I looked at them and thought hey wouldn't be fun because I was starting to lose interest in the sea, much like how I lost interest in space. I regret not getting any Atlantis sets.
I remember having a few sets of Lego Atlantis (and by few I mean like 2 or 3 sets). I didn’t really care that much other than "Dis one looks awesome I want it NAOW!" When I was a kid. But now after watching this video (and I also do like the ocean), made me like Lego Atlantis a lot more. Heck I do like the mech one, even if I don’t have it (I do like mechs. And it’s not only cuz of Exo-Force) Btw fun fact: The Lego Atlantis short film also had a 3-D version of it (like you can use blue/green and red glasses to make everything pop up). Although that video was a more shorter version apparently. I mean they even cut exactly when they entered the portal for example. I still don’t understand why they decided to do that, but whatever.
awesome! i just saw an ebay lot containing almost all aquazone and aquasharks sets, thinking about getting it, this is truly a master piece and part of modern history.
the brick built sea creatures remind me of the designer set days. i wish lego still had sets like that that have many of those idea pages in the booklet to showcase what you could come up with on your own. these were the sets that sparked the moc madness in me
I had no idea that the "BURP" pieces are mostly hated in the community, because I had only 1 from the lego divers set and LOVED it. I wished I had more of those
This is, without a doubt, my absolute favorite Lego theme of all time, from when I was just six years old with that Divers set with the 4x4 with the boat and trailer all the way up to today with the _exceptional_ Ocean Explorer theme with City, and everything in between. Thank you *_so_* much for showing me some of these sets that I had in my childhood, and some new ones that I never knew about, like the absolute glory that Atlantis is, which looks like Aquaraiders but pushed into hyperdrive, which is all kinds of right up my alley. _tl;dr, thanks for showing me these old sets and invoking incredible nostalgia, and also giving me _*_even more_*_ sets to track down on eBay, because lord knows Ultra Agents wasn't already costing me a fortune..._ Speaking of which, when's Ultra Agents?
This episode has a lot of Metal Slug soundtracks :) I both enjoyed LEGO and Metal Slug series when I was young, and it's good to hear these music again.
i finally know the origin of some of the pieces i've had passed down to me, specifically i know i have most if not all of the pieces for what i now know is called the deep sea predator from aquazone. i've had pieces from these sets since i was 8, and it's great to see what stories they were a part of before they came to me
as a 00s kid i was always super attracted to the high contrast color palletes of late 90s themes, dont get me wrong that decade had banger after banger of themes but I miss the less realistic colors of the old system
To be fair most of those chrome pieces would have their colour easily rubbed off after a year or so. It was probably best that they were discontinued until Lego would fix the process. Also Atlantis FTW
I hear that Ga-Koro music at the start there ;) My personal headcannon for Atlantis was that the fish people were Chima tribes who either traveled into the prime LEGO realm and ended up in the deep waters of Earth, or traveled to a realm containing Atlantis (since it appears to be in it's own sort of pocket dimension in the short film. It would explain why we don't really see any fish-like creatures in Chima when we see mammals, reptiles, birds, and arthropods.
I always looked at the Lego Atlantis and Space Police box arts and just thought of that deep black unexplored abyss and then saw the alien and fish minifigures thinking what creatures are waiting for us out there, actually I think I'm more afraid of those 90s Space Aquazone themes, an ocean in an alien planet? Please no
The interesting thing about a lot of these diver themes was that they had an underlying story. You could look at them at face value and say it's about treasure hunting, but aquazone had a story that had to do with a futuristic society that collected those silver crystals to survive. Aquasharks broke off from the Aquanauts as a form of rebellion. Also the Stingrays may or may not be mutated divers from Aquanauts as well. The story elements are across several media but it is fun to piece them together. Just about every divers theme has a unique look and some interesting Play features to me and I've always been fascinated with the Underwater World in general even though I'm not a good swimmer. The mystery and diversity that the ocean life can bring
The Hydronaut base is the one I had. Something happened that caused me to lose those parts when I got older. I remember using that big green dome for my own base that I made. It's a shame that wave of Aquazone Lego didn't catch on. That was my favorite wave. The characters looked so alien compared to the regular characters of that line.
Ya know the most impressive thing bout the Yellow submarine ? If you close it up its actually waterproof on the inside....at least the way i remember it it was
Those lego sets were my favorite! I remember having the shark set from aqua raiders, the squid from the Atlantis sets. I wish I'd have the lego squid from the aqua raider set because of how it looked with the diver skeleton inside its gut, it was awesomely detailed. I also remember playing the aqua raiders game on the Lego website. Those were fun times from my childhood.
My first ever Lego set was an Aquanaut set. I like how much thought was put into the back stories of the 90's themes. Seems that today only certain themes get a big back story and last more than a year which is a shame
Atlantis was my childhood. and so was power miners.
yes, Bionicle as well
same Brother
It was LEGO Atlantis, hero factory, and ninjago for me
@@Real_Spade That actually hit more close to home for me
@@griffinfoster3098 yes
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft
He had a thing with the Ocean
Thobias Sandst he fucked a river and then fucked the atlantic ocean
I know cause RIVER GENT
fuck yes
8:26 C'thulhu
8:27 Dagon
Describes subnautica perfectly
It's amazing how this one guy having a phobia for the ocean indirectly led to every edgy indie game featuring gods or monsters that look like underwater creatures.
These water themes actually got me into Marine biology surprisingly.
Look, Lego did a great service to the world. It gave us a scientist.
Never before I would see a Man after Man pfp (the seasons greetings meme)
It's great to hear how toys influenced people.
I loved the "Big ugly rock piece"!
Hey :D Cool dich unter so einem Retro Video zu sehen :D Ja ich mochte die Burps auch extrem^^
It's hollow mainly, a secret hideyhole
me too
_BUUURP_
@@Emppu_T. That hollowness and its use to make Patrick Star’s rock made it iconic to me
Aquazone was the first LEGO theme I ever fell in love with. The Crystal Explorer Sub was the first thing I ever saved up my allowance to buy.
Looking back, I wish I'd done this episode differently. There's so much I want to say about Aquazone now that I couldn't at the time. I've even grown more fond of the later Hydronauts.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Ya could always do a deep dive on the sub themes (puns intended) :) But this is a solid video. I've watched it three times over the years to just relive the nostalgia. Don't regret anything, but if you want to do more I'll happily watch it.
@@BrotherhoodWorkshop Well, I have acquired some Aquazone sets since making this video. Maybe I'll look them over in one go, like the Monkie Kid Megareview.
@@NickonPlanetRipple I also agree that "Stingray Explorer" was the one set to get from Divers if you had limited budget. That was the only Divers set I had as a kid, and it was probably in my top 10 favorite LEGO sets that I had as a child. Wish I still had it, no idea where it ended up.
The Space theme was what got me, but then again I've always had a thing for astronomy and the like. Aquazone was the only themed Lego sets I ever owned more than one of the kit's. CES was my first kit in the series actually.
Stumbled upon this series yesterday and I can't get enough. Brings me so many memories and reminds me of lego series I had completely forgotten about. And now in this video, as soon as I heard that MNOG Ga-Koro underwater music I instantly hit that sub button.
I've made a few dozen Bionicle-related videos if you're interested in those.
hi Nick i saw your video of and or about you're tribute to and or fore Molly that's very upsetting i had a dog for just more then five years then I had to go and get him to be put down because he was getting very dangerous to for and towards the public and then I'd get another one in at February of and or fore this year and just last Saturday he had misterisly vanished and I've not seen him since then.
4:52
Someone created a BURP from standard pieces. Respect.
7:22 A dude who’s been digested! Jeez!
Aww, I love the Big Ugly Rock Pieces. They gave structure and texture that wasn't just a rectangular pile of stuck bricks. Light, hollow and seamless terrain? How could you not love that??
heh heh; 'Sub' theme
TorridPrime217 I'd hoped someone would catch that.
Aquaraiders/Atlantis creatures! I liked those. Probably what planted the idea in my mind for brick-built heads on Bionicles.
Themes talked about in this video:
Aquazone 1995-1998
Divers 1997
Aquaradiers 2007
Atlantis 2010-2011
City Diving 2015
Stingrays is my fav lego sets of all time.
SEABOUND!
Aquazone and Lego Friends crossover
Friendzone
I’m just imagine hot pink attack submarines.
Oof
HEY
Build the fedora complain on Twitter and loose your dignity
It was real all along😱
LEGO in my lifetime has matched my growth.
I was 10 when they started their "edgy teen years" and 15 when they stopped. Feels like a unique parallel.
your channel is underrated you deserve more subs
I loved AquaZone as a child, and even had some of those yellow deep sea sets! But then came my Dark Age, and I totally missed Atlantis... But now I'm back and I'll make sure to catch up with the time!
Currently looking for all the Atlantis sets I can get. What a look, I love the color scheme, the transforming vehicles, the appealing play sets, and the amazing merfolk minifigs. I also can't believe how well integrated those technic panels are in the builds. The designers really did outdo themselves on this theme
Might be one of my favourite series on RUclips
I'm sure I've mentioned this in previous videos on this series, but it's always interesting to look back on themes that I either missed out on 'cause I was too young, or was just not interested in.
I live for this series. So many good memories and nostalgia
This is one of my favorite LR episodes, everything in it is so well made, I love it.
3:40
BY THE PIT PUT IT BACK ON. That face is terrifiying!
Man I love underwater themes! I really liked the newer Aqua Raiders because of how much more legit the subs looked (I also played the flash game all the time at school). I guess I had missed the Town sub-theme Lego Divers, it looks really neat I might have to buy a few. I really liked looking at the Greco-Roman style landscape for Atlantis, though I only ever got one of the five dollar sets. I love how Lego has been incorporating a variety of sub-themes into City, it really brings a nice change and the under water sets look neat.
Great episode, and I feel your intro works really well for this installment of the series.
This has to be my favorite series from you. You just give of a out of this world vibe even when there’s rock music In the background
I think the plot device with the crystalls is used so often because it works pretty well. People love shiny things and diamonds, esspecially kids. The crystals in Power Miners were so cool, that I basicly needed at least 1 in each colour :D
It's just an easier to way to push the incentive of these factions doing what they do. I think if they did something more "mature" like drilling the ocean floor/mining a planet for oil/rare ores or something it would fly over the heads of an average kid, whereas having them explore the ocean floor/mine a foreign planet to find "bright shiny expensive looking crystals" it's easier for a kid to understand.
I remember when I got that Atlantis portal set. I still have it assembled and it is still to this day one of my all time favorite Lego sets!
4:02 That Shiny Blue helmet looks so beautiful on the Aquanaut guy! I love that color so much!
I love how all the rewind episodes still feel consistent in quality all throughout
Love this series
I have been binging on nostalgia via your vids.
I remember getting the big yellow submarine with aqua raiders on Christmas when I was a kid. The memories...
Of all the thumbnails you've used for Lego Rewind videos so far, this one has my favorite one.
Aqua Raiders 2007 was my jam! I remember drooling over the Aquabase set in the Lego catalogs when I was young. One of these days I'll get it haha
Aquaraiders (the more recent one) was the first theme that I actually made an effort to get more than one set from. I still find old parts and figures from the line in my older bins, in rather poor condition unfortunately. I wish I had taken better care of them.
Aquaraiders and later Atlantis were some of my favorite lines ever! Loved the creature design and the submarines and i had A LOT of both lines. I hope they bring them back sometime...
FIANLLY! The one, who remembers old Lego themes! In 2018! Thank you for exicting! I will watch every video you create about rare,old themes. After that one i shall watch the Exo-Force one, i have got my first set when i was 7 years old, in 2007. The set was Shadow Crawler, how great was he! I have bought two of them recently. My robots army is now complete!
The Stabbo Crabbo strikes again
I LOVE everything about this series. I can't get enough of it
I like rewatching this series from time to time. It puts me in a happy place and it seems like I catch something new each time, either that or I forgot.
The Aquazone Hydro Crystalization Station was my very first Lego set ever. Over the years I lost a lot of the parts and the fancy baseplate cracked in half, but I still have a lot of it. I love this theme!
4:52 lol I love when builders upscale existing pieces
It's great fun. I want to see someone put actual minifigs on that wearing rock-climbing gear.
Nick on Planet Ripple that would be really cool.
I am happy to say I still have a bunch of those chrome spears.
I enjoy your videos so much! You inspire me. Thanks dude! And have a awesome day.
Dude... Alongside the Barraki, Aqua Raiders was the theme that got me into LEGO. I still remember the first set I was really excited to get from the store, the Angler Ambush. And yeah, I still think that- aside from the one in this year's Deep Sea Creature Creator set- that Tiger Shark is the best brick-built shark we've ever gotten. I got that one as a birthday gift, and it's such a crazy value looking back. A giant brick-built shark and a cool submarine both with functions, and a bit of scenery for $30? That kind of set has become far more expensive and far smaller. I'd say a comparable set is the Hyper-Space Pursuit, which came out only 2 years later and was a full 20 bucks more. I loved that theme, I still wish I could have gotten the Base and the Shipwreck. The Shipwreck has my favorite Sub and the Base has another cute sub an epic octupus (by the way, the eyes on it are incredible, they dual-molded the back piece with white and red so the transparent front piece made the eyes look bloodshot).
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And then there's Atlantis... what a theme! I was so excited for it, and the quest to find Atlantis was such a wonderful idea for a theme. The colors are lovely, just like you mentioned. I especially like the runes on the creatures, it almost makes them look like they're just enchanted statues like the squid and mini-sharks on the Portal, but I find I enjoy the overall designs of the Aqua Raiders creatures more. My favorite creatures is hands-down the Shadow Snapper, a giant killer turtle with fully pose-able claws and arms is too awesome to me! Plus, you got Kiina's armor in black, what a brlliant parts usage. I'm still hoping to add the Portal and City of Atlantis to my collection one day... thanks for this awesome trip down memory lane! Toodles!
Best video series for a long time Lego fan. Aqua Raiders was the shit back then! A friend still has the shark and the angler set.
have you seen the Atlantis Angler? That thing is bananas.
This is just one nonstop trip down memory lane. I LOVE IT!!
Aw man I love the Aqua Sharks. I even got duplicates of the cheaper ones as a kid then gave them other heads to fill out the ranks.
Your rewind are so worth it. Brings so much nostalgia to me.
Am I late? Keep up the great work Nick, your series is definitely great so far! Here are some ideas for the future: Western, Castle, World City, Fabuland, Time Cruisers, Sports, Jack Stone, Vikings, Znap, NinjaGo, Chima, and save the best for last, BIONICLE. Keep up the great work!
>suffers a stroke
Oh wow, is it because a lot of Themes, XD!
as someone who also grew up in the new england area when aquazone was going on, these promotional materials hit close to home
You hit the nail on the head with the Space styling call and I definitely combined the themes as a kid; re-creating the Crystal Explorer Sub to duel with my Deep Freeze Defender still inspires my builds to this day! I've been loving this series so freaking much! It's been a extreme nostalgia hit straight to the dome.
love the underwater theme too, the creeps of the deep are fascinating but scary and dangerous, even without them cause we need air to live
I literally watched the entire series an hour ago
What timing.
ikr i was like "cant wait for ep. 12"
Greatest lego video series ever, thank you man!! 👍
I kind of "retired" from LEGO by the time the first Aquaraiders hit the scene, but I still remember the Aquanauts and Aquasharks and have fond memories of them. They had some great and varied subs, the Neptune Discovery Lab was a superb base, and it was really the first (and only) LEGO theme where I was able to get most of the sets in it, meaning I had enough of both factions to have them wage war against each other properly (and unlike a lot of themes, both factions more or less felt like they were competitively "even"). Sadly, the Shark's Crystal Cave eluded me and it's always going to be something of a "one that got away" because of how big and badass-looking it was.
Definitely wish I was around for the second Aquaraiders. Those brick-built sea monsters are cool.
I just binged watched all the episodes of your Lego Rewind. Nice and hope to see more in the future. I like the metal slug and the background musics you used made me happy.
I remember playing with my Atlantis subs in the bath. You could move them through the water and the propellors would spin on their own. Also the stickers and prints have remained intact to this day, so points to Lego for making their toys water-proof
The shark submarine was the first lego set I built on my own, like a grown boy, back when I was a kid. What a wonderful set... ^^
this video just made me inspired to do moc without even worrying how many sets may even be in there, thanks for the great videos
The 07 aqua raiders angler ambush was my first system set, such a cool build. Great episode as always!
Really glad that this series is doing well for you, especially since I personally love it
Aquazone was my favourite theme. I also loved the Divers one. Now at the age of 25, I love scuba diving and snorkelling and I believe that Aquazone had a huge part in inspiring my fascination with marine life and the ocean.
The aqua base was one of the best Christmas presents I ever got. I always loved the aqua raiders.
The MNOG underwater/swimming theme in the beginning was a really nice touch thank you
The crab with the knife was perfect for the thumbnail
Bruh, that MNOG underwater theme is bringing back memories! I need to download it to my PC later.
Also, cheeky thumbnail.
I chuckled at the pic of the scaled up BURP at 4:52. I was picturing a MOC using those for a mountain. LOL
I like to think this set is what planted the seeds that lead to my love for ocean/water themes.
We like to think of the Atlantis turtle as Gamera. Also, I love it when they make references to older themes in the newer themes
Old school Aqua Zone is my favorite theme of all time. Green Aqua Raiders were awesome
Aquanauts... I remember going crazy over these chrome crystals, and those diving gear helmet type pieces, were just so unique back then
These are such well crafted videos Nick! They're informative and a great look at the Lego sets. I love Legos a lot more than people my age, and it's making me so happy to see these videos
No problem! I won't cover every theme, but there are plenty like these that left an impression on me growing up, and I want to reach out to other people in that boat. Stir up some fond memories they'd forgotten were there, make them smile.
Atlantis is my most collected theme, I had over half of the sets by the time it retired. For the year that the first wave was active it was AWESOME. Currently rebuilding them one by one.
God, Aqua Raiders.. The only series, and I mean ONLY series I ever got every single set for. Every. Single. Set. At once for Christmas. That was my most spoiled Christmas ever, and I'm still thankful for it. It was so fun building all the sets, playing with them together, and then just mashing them together to make bigger sets after I had played out every single scenario I could think of. They're kind of the reason my collection has more yellow parts than anything, but I loved those sets, and cherish the series, and parts to the point I'll occasionally build a new custom to put on my desk with that trident proudly displayed on it, and that blue, and black clad raider inside.
Although, if I had to pick a favorite set, despite how awesome the Aqua Raiders base was, I'd have to say it's a tie between Lobster Strike, and Crab Crusher. Both of those were pretty damn fun, and the big sea creatures were the best enemies to play with in my opinions, and the shark being the most fun to build. I wish I had gotten some of the Atlantis sets, but for some reason I looked at them and thought hey wouldn't be fun because I was starting to lose interest in the sea, much like how I lost interest in space. I regret not getting any Atlantis sets.
I remember having a few sets of Lego Atlantis (and by few I mean like 2 or 3 sets). I didn’t really care that much other than "Dis one looks awesome I want it NAOW!" When I was a kid. But now after watching this video (and I also do like the ocean), made me like Lego Atlantis a lot more. Heck I do like the mech one, even if I don’t have it (I do like mechs. And it’s not only cuz of Exo-Force)
Btw fun fact: The Lego Atlantis short film also had a 3-D version of it (like you can use blue/green and red glasses to make everything pop up). Although that video was a more shorter version apparently. I mean they even cut exactly when they entered the portal for example. I still don’t understand why they decided to do that, but whatever.
awesome! i just saw an ebay lot containing almost all aquazone and aquasharks sets, thinking about getting it, this is truly a master piece and part of modern history.
The underwater themes were my 2nd favorite behind the old space themes. Would love to see some new aquazone-esque sets.
the brick built sea creatures remind me of the designer set days. i wish lego still had sets like that that have many of those idea pages in the booklet to showcase what you could come up with on your own. these were the sets that sparked the moc madness in me
I had no idea that the "BURP" pieces are mostly hated in the community, because I had only 1 from the lego divers set and LOVED it. I wished I had more of those
I like them. They're lightweight and they make good caves.
Aquaraiders was my shit as a kid. Probably was the last LEGO series I was super into.
The entire Atlantis line of sets was one of my favs :)
This is, without a doubt, my absolute favorite Lego theme of all time, from when I was just six years old with that Divers set with the 4x4 with the boat and trailer all the way up to today with the _exceptional_ Ocean Explorer theme with City, and everything in between. Thank you *_so_* much for showing me some of these sets that I had in my childhood, and some new ones that I never knew about, like the absolute glory that Atlantis is, which looks like Aquaraiders but pushed into hyperdrive, which is all kinds of right up my alley.
_tl;dr, thanks for showing me these old sets and invoking incredible nostalgia, and also giving me _*_even more_*_ sets to track down on eBay, because lord knows Ultra Agents wasn't already costing me a fortune..._
Speaking of which, when's Ultra Agents?
I covered it in episode 7, along with Alpha Team.
_Guess that's what I get for not watching the entire playlist..._ But hey, guess I'll watch the entire playlist now! Thanks man!
No prob. Thanks for watching.
And thank you for such a great series! For an old Lego Junkie that's just getting back into the game, this is some seriously good stuff!
Found that stingray kit as a kid at a Toys-R-Us in a battered old box in like 2002. It was probably my favorite set ever.
The idea of Atlantins artificiality creating monsters might be a gamera reference.
I mean, one of them is a giant turtle.
It’s About time. I’ve been waiting a week for this video!
Ryan D Well... I am juggling these with a lot of other projects. This is a side thing.
This episode has a lot of Metal Slug soundtracks :) I both enjoyed LEGO and Metal Slug series when I was young, and it's good to hear these music again.
These sets are very nostalgic for me, especially Aqua Raiders and Atlantis
Oh my god. I had a few of those B.U.R.P.s when I was a kid. They were hand-me-downs, and I remember always thinking they were weird.
i finally know the origin of some of the pieces i've had passed down to me, specifically i know i have most if not all of the pieces for what i now know is called the deep sea predator from aquazone. i've had pieces from these sets since i was 8, and it's great to see what stories they were a part of before they came to me
as a 00s kid i was always super attracted to the high contrast color palletes of late 90s themes, dont get me wrong that decade had banger after banger of themes but I miss the less realistic colors of the old system
THIS OML
To be fair most of those chrome pieces would have their colour easily rubbed off after a year or so. It was probably best that they were discontinued until Lego would fix the process. Also Atlantis FTW
I hear that Ga-Koro music at the start there ;)
My personal headcannon for Atlantis was that the fish people were Chima tribes who either traveled into the prime LEGO realm and ended up in the deep waters of Earth, or traveled to a realm containing Atlantis (since it appears to be in it's own sort of pocket dimension in the short film. It would explain why we don't really see any fish-like creatures in Chima when we see mammals, reptiles, birds, and arthropods.
You can literally make a hungered of these interesting and nostalgic videos
Ehhh.... more like 30, at the rate I'm going.
Aquadivers where great! I always loved water themes
I always looked at the Lego Atlantis and Space Police box arts and just thought of that deep black unexplored abyss and then saw the alien and fish minifigures thinking what creatures are waiting for us out there, actually I think I'm more afraid of those 90s Space Aquazone themes, an ocean in an alien planet? Please no
The interesting thing about a lot of these diver themes was that they had an underlying story. You could look at them at face value and say it's about treasure hunting, but aquazone had a story that had to do with a futuristic society that collected those silver crystals to survive. Aquasharks broke off from the Aquanauts as a form of rebellion. Also the Stingrays may or may not be mutated divers from Aquanauts as well. The story elements are across several media but it is fun to piece them together. Just about every divers theme has a unique look and some interesting Play features to me and I've always been fascinated with the Underwater World in general even though I'm not a good swimmer. The mystery and diversity that the ocean life can bring
Yeah... I knew what the crystals were for, I just didn't want to pad the video out is all.
The black and green neon is what makes it cool.
I mean at 3:14.
The Hydronaut base is the one I had. Something happened that caused me to lose those parts when I got older. I remember using that big green dome for my own base that I made. It's a shame that wave of Aquazone Lego didn't catch on. That was my favorite wave. The characters looked so alien compared to the regular characters of that line.
Ya know the most impressive thing bout the Yellow submarine ? If you close it up its actually waterproof on the inside....at least the way i remember it it was
Those lego sets were my favorite! I remember having the shark set from aqua raiders, the squid from the Atlantis sets. I wish I'd have the lego squid from the aqua raider set because of how it looked with the diver skeleton inside its gut, it was awesomely detailed. I also remember playing the aqua raiders game on the Lego website. Those were fun times from my childhood.
Those were awesome. I remember my granny from USA sending Those for me to Poland
My first ever Lego set was an Aquanaut set. I like how much thought was put into the back stories of the 90's themes. Seems that today only certain themes get a big back story and last more than a year which is a shame