After spending most of my life spending all of my (and my parents) money on Lego, I finally got clean a couple years ago. Thanks for making me relapse, oboe
Babe wake up Oboshoesbricks uploaded 🗣🗣🗣 Pizzamovies is the goat! ironically growing up in in the Clone Wars era I never really cared for customs. I tried with 3 sharpie clones and gave up and just played with the normal ones.... until fatefully moving to Batman LEGO in 2012
Was never into clones, but was big into what SaberScorpion was doing with Halo. I remember making my own horribly pixelated decals on MSPaint for The Arbiter! And Spawn, for some reason.
That title gave me ptsd, I used to take sharpies to my clones and make them into special troops. Unfortunately I did it to ALL of my clones and ended up with no regular ones by the end.
We all started with sharpie clones, even though they kinda sucked. Plus how many official figs were wasted to “produce” crappy figures that didn’t last long. They did however, pave the way for decaling and then later on custom printed clone figures. Me I more than had retired sharpieing clones but in its place. Decaling clones was the new way that I could do clone customs myself. Can say that they are way easier to do too!
Man, what a great video. Many of my 2007-2010 clones also got the sharpie and printed decal treatment too. I need to dig them all out to have a laugh and cringe a little! Loved the video, and the Alpha team one too. I subbed from my other account 2 weeks ago and figured I better leave a comment off my toy account instead of some random account with no videos. I love this style of video and I'm looking forward to more!
While I never saw the others, 5 year old me watched pizzamovies 501st CONSTANTLY, I was so young that I couldn’t understand how stop motion worked, nor that it was the same MTT getting blown up in different battles (I assumed he had multiple) While I was never on those forums, I do remember being awed by people’s custom clones on TH-cam, and trying to make my own by just adding small bits of a light green marker onto one of the battle pack clones, it’s still visible on some of those pieces all these years later Real nice little trip down memory lane here
I know he wasn't as early as some others, but The Noble Artist will always be the GOAT of clone customs in my eyes. I actually got the chance to meet him in person at one point (through honestly kinda stalker behavior on 12 year old me's part) and he was so nice and giving.
I lost so many of my childhood clones to sharpie, but those sharpie customs are what got me into the custom painting figures. Now I do custom Vintage Collection 3.75" clones, except I use proper model paints instead of sharpie.
I would say something like “omg I regret sharpie-ing all my clone wars clones” but me and my friend had fun as 8 year olds thinking our custom clones were badass
Was too triggered by other kids' botch jobs so i kept those og ep3 clones stock. Did make a full black sharpie stormtrooper though because the metallic sheen looked neat
This was a really cool vid. I remember watching squad 42 and the other early stop motion videos and then scrolling through clone army customs just wishing I had money to buy anything. Seeing these early TH-cam and Lego cultures treated in an archival way as well as going into detail about your own sharpied up clones was honestly kinda moving :/ sometimes things seem simpler and more fun when you’re a kid.
i did similar sharpie and spray paint crimes to my lego growing up, but this was before lego star wars was a thing so i just did them for no good reason because i wanted to
Good old times, makes me miss my old figures, thank you for the memories. I feel like Lego SW lost a lot of its charm in the mid 2010s, maybe even earlier. Today I'm all for the original themes but still suffer from the clone brain disease because I started collecting again a few years ago. May Mata Nui protect me. PS: That bloody helmet would actually be perfect for the new Commander Fox.
Not a custom clone memory but a custom droid memory: My brother and I once used a lighter to weld a B1 head into the torso of a B2 superbattledroid, essentially making a B2 that actually had a neck. This was a regular beige B1 head mind you (with plenty of burn marks because of the production process) so it didnt look great. A few months back I relocated all of the lego from my parents and came across this guy again. I decided to give him some much needed love with some model paints. After many more than a decade in development, the final product is pretty fun.
It's funny how a whole generation of kids ended up customising their clones mainly due to the 2009 Clone Walker Battle Pack. I remember getting specialist even with waterslide decal paper and varnish back then along with those Arealight helmets which were so satisfying when they arrived in the post! :D
I kid You not, in the first two minutes of the video I was thinking about Saber Scorpion & pulled up their website on another tab, only to hear You mention it while looking through their Mocs
I remember going on saber scorpion and CABG daily for years. Those were always my most visited in old google chrome, made it even easier to check in every few hours. I swear Rook bullied me on CABG, so I never liked him. But boy were his figs, mocs, and contest submissions goated
I’m happy to see someone talk about this. Finger nail clippers, sharpie, rubbing alcohol, some old clothes and you could make so many cool clones. I ruined so many plain clones with my clippers and sharpies…and old clothes with small holes made in them to make custom cloth pieces. Also, man the CABG admins loved banning me for not posting properly 💀
I still have my OG Clones, but I've freed most from the sharpies. Love how you still have your boys. I genuinely laughed seeing your "Sev", seems a trend as I remember having made my own "Sev" in the past as well. I still wish I would've whined to my parents to get me one of those early CAC Clones, they're just perfect little nostalgia figures. I never knew of the CABG, but your nostalgia of it reminds me all too much of my own rosy memories of SWRP. I'll never forget my time on ASG and PG, nor ner'vode like Pepsi and Jamaica. I still have the custom clones I made on MS paint XD PSA: Erasable markers erase the sharpies, multiple attempts to get rid of ye olde sharpie troopers. Just cover the sharpie with the markers and wipe away with a tissue. I like using Expo markers, only because they can disappear from work without anyone asking.
Bro I used to watch so much lego star wars youtube back in the day. Me and my best friend at the time made our own stop motion but never uploaded it anywhere. I came across it on a burned DVD when going through some old stuff. I remember MichealMGF was the first youtube channel I subscribed to, customs were such a different animal back then
That Saber Scorpion callout gave me flashbacks. I still remember being a part of his forums for a good while until it went the way of all internet communities (internal bullshit, then an exodus to Discord)
I remember looking at some rough TH-cam tutorials way back when about using sharpies to customize clones. Got pretty rough results but it made me happy back then. My favorite is still just a simple Clone Commando helmet from shaving off the fin from a phase I helmet. Not much but it looks nice.
Damn, I never did the custom clone thing, I think I was a few years older and my nerd interests had already landed elsewhere within Star Wars (and lego to some extent). But this is still so nostalgic for me. I miss internet forums. Some of my best friends (some IRL) are people I met on old crappy airsoft forums. Old youtube was pretty interesting. I still have my lego camera somewhere, the one that you could make movies/stop motion stuff with.
My brother and I tried making some custom clones. We used sharpies, but since we played with them the ink would rub off easily so then we put more on, then used rubbing alcohol and then the inks blended and gave it a unique battle damaged look.
I've never understood the infatuation with clones over stormtroopers, so that segment where you utterly ruined the cool old stormtrooper armor scars me
would have been cool if a similar community cropped up around the star wars CCBS figures but to my memory they never made a standard clone figure so I guess that seed was never planted.
I'm not a Lego dude at all, like on any level, but so far the videos you've done on this channel are among the best on the entire platform...if the Borderlands video premier wasn't indicative enough, you're one of the better creators here.
SaberScorpion jeez thats a name I havent heard in forever. this really took me back to being a kid, i loved keeping up with the custom clone community as well as making my own troopers when i was little. amazing video!
This is very nostalgic. I distinctly remember making a video as a kid trying to sell my crappy sharpy custom clones and being in awe of Michaelmgf’s work
Now this brings back memories. I won’t and say that I did indeed use sharpie to draw on some of my generic clone troopers to make them unique. I still kept a few of them today and I still treasure them as some of my favourite clones I own. So it’s was nice that you were going back down memory lane and honour the early days of custom clone troopers creation. Good job and I can’t wait to see what you do next.
Is little armory toys or little arms shop still up? I would like to purchase the blaster piece that rex is carrying next to the little armory toys banner.
I’ve never been much into custom clones, or even lego Star Wars, but even I remember using sharpie to make custom clones ( and zombies ) 🙃. This was great Obo, and an interesting look into the past and present of clone customs. Nice video, and have a nice day🩶🧡
I have painted thousand of boardgame/wargame minis over decades and the thought would have never crossed my mind to sharpie a Lego pieces! I find this so very interesting, thank you for sharing!
those early years of TH-cam & lego Star Wars were something really special. I'm glad others got to experience that great video! still collecting troopers to this day!
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After spending most of my life spending all of my (and my parents) money on Lego, I finally got clean a couple years ago. Thanks for making me relapse, oboe
i stopped smoking weed just to save up enough money to buy more sets. i didn't quit weed, i just replaced it with a far more expensive addiction.
Babe wake up Oboshoesbricks uploaded 🗣🗣🗣
Pizzamovies is the goat! ironically growing up in in the Clone Wars era I never really cared for customs. I tried with 3 sharpie clones and gave up and just played with the normal ones.... until fatefully moving to Batman LEGO in 2012
Was never into clones, but was big into what SaberScorpion was doing with Halo. I remember making my own horribly pixelated decals on MSPaint for The Arbiter! And Spawn, for some reason.
Man, dude, I spent HOURS on SaberScorpion’s website when I was a kid. His Halo Reach stuff was fantastic.
Core memory
That title gave me ptsd, I used to take sharpies to my clones and make them into special troops. Unfortunately I did it to ALL of my clones and ended up with no regular ones by the end.
I'm still glad I sharpied the good ones, RIP the snow troopers getting actual paint on them. Cool asf, but they're more swamptroopers than anything XD
"if everyone is a special trooper, then no one is"
You're so underrated bud keep up the work 👍
Dude that was such a cool dive into a nice culture I had no idea existed. I hope you're able to do more of this kind of stuff!
We all started with sharpie clones, even though they kinda sucked. Plus how many official figs were wasted to “produce” crappy figures that didn’t last long. They did however, pave the way for decaling and then later on custom printed clone figures. Me I more than had retired sharpieing clones but in its place. Decaling clones was the new way that I could do clone customs myself. Can say that they are way easier to do too!
Man, what a great video. Many of my 2007-2010 clones also got the sharpie and printed decal treatment too. I need to dig them all out to have a laugh and cringe a little!
Loved the video, and the Alpha team one too. I subbed from my other account 2 weeks ago and figured I better leave a comment off my toy account instead of some random account with no videos. I love this style of video and I'm looking forward to more!
Saber Scorpion, now thats a name I haven't heard in a long long time.
This is some Warhammer levels of effort and it makes me wish there was a fleshed out game to have these guys fight in
I remember a few videos being made on a Clone Wars MMO, but I never had any experience on it. Garry's Mod however, now there's a gem.
You could probably play starwars legion with lego figs
This was such a nostalgia trip! Super glad this appeared in my recommended videos, definitely made my night bringing back happy memories, thank you!
I swear Oboshoes it's like we lived the same life, any video you make its like you take my memories straight from my head! , Love your content!
God, this was a nostalgia trip!
While I never saw the others, 5 year old me watched pizzamovies 501st CONSTANTLY, I was so young that I couldn’t understand how stop motion worked, nor that it was the same MTT getting blown up in different battles (I assumed he had multiple)
While I was never on those forums, I do remember being awed by people’s custom clones on TH-cam, and trying to make my own by just adding small bits of a light green marker onto one of the battle pack clones, it’s still visible on some of those pieces all these years later
Real nice little trip down memory lane here
I know he wasn't as early as some others, but The Noble Artist will always be the GOAT of clone customs in my eyes. I actually got the chance to meet him in person at one point (through honestly kinda stalker behavior on 12 year old me's part) and he was so nice and giving.
I lost so many of my childhood clones to sharpie, but those sharpie customs are what got me into the custom painting figures. Now I do custom Vintage Collection 3.75" clones, except I use proper model paints instead of sharpie.
I would say something like “omg I regret sharpie-ing all my clone wars clones” but me and my friend had fun as 8 year olds thinking our custom clones were badass
I have mangled so many clones in my day, countless fins were removed, all thanks to the Noble artist. (love that guy)
Omg I thought I was the only one making custom clones with sharpies 😭
Cloneoholics myself, except i used to collect the 1/18 action figures versions.
Was too triggered by other kids' botch jobs so i kept those og ep3 clones stock. Did make a full black sharpie stormtrooper though because the metallic sheen looked neat
This was a really cool vid. I remember watching squad 42 and the other early stop motion videos and then scrolling through clone army customs just wishing I had money to buy anything. Seeing these early TH-cam and Lego cultures treated in an archival way as well as going into detail about your own sharpied up clones was honestly kinda moving :/ sometimes things seem simpler and more fun when you’re a kid.
I lost an entire battalion to the sharpie menace.
Holy shit never thought I'd see a saber scorpion shout-out. Dude was the goat.
i did similar sharpie and spray paint crimes to my lego growing up, but this was before lego star wars was a thing so i just did them for no good reason because i wanted to
Dude, FBTB and FineClonier hit me like a flashbang
I love being gathered.
I have some of the 2009 old clone army customs figures still such a classic haha
what a blast from the past. those were some good times. I still have some of my sharpy clones, in all of their faded green glory
This is the perfect video for me to see right when I’m just getting back into custom clones for the first time since 2010. XDDD
I forGOT about fineclonier!!!
This video is so good. I'm suprised I've never come across your channel before
Good old times, makes me miss my old figures, thank you for the memories. I feel like Lego SW lost a lot of its charm in the mid 2010s, maybe even earlier. Today I'm all for the original themes but still suffer from the clone brain disease because I started collecting again a few years ago. May Mata Nui protect me.
PS: That bloody helmet would actually be perfect for the new Commander Fox.
the Tally Hall album at 10:05 is an all time banger
Not a custom clone memory but a custom droid memory: My brother and I once used a lighter to weld a B1 head into the torso of a B2 superbattledroid, essentially making a B2 that actually had a neck. This was a regular beige B1 head mind you (with plenty of burn marks because of the production process) so it didnt look great. A few months back I relocated all of the lego from my parents and came across this guy again. I decided to give him some much needed love with some model paints. After many more than a decade in development, the final product is pretty fun.
SABER SCORPION MENTIONED🗣🗣🗣
12:48 not the jif 😭
It's funny how a whole generation of kids ended up customising their clones mainly due to the 2009 Clone Walker Battle Pack. I remember getting specialist even with waterslide decal paper and varnish back then along with those Arealight helmets which were so satisfying when they arrived in the post! :D
Nowadays Lego Star Wars man-children just complain about getting random clone commander #53 instead of customizing their own
I kid You not, in the first two minutes of the video I was thinking about Saber Scorpion & pulled up their website on another tab, only to hear You mention it while looking through their Mocs
I remember going on saber scorpion and CABG daily for years. Those were always my most visited in old google chrome, made it even easier to check in every few hours. I swear Rook bullied me on CABG, so I never liked him. But boy were his figs, mocs, and contest submissions goated
Took me on a whole journey back in time, I remember the good ol days of Pizza movies!
I’m happy to see someone talk about this. Finger nail clippers, sharpie, rubbing alcohol, some old clothes and you could make so many cool clones. I ruined so many plain clones with my clippers and sharpies…and old clothes with small holes made in them to make custom cloth pieces. Also, man the CABG admins loved banning me for not posting properly 💀
I still have my OG Clones, but I've freed most from the sharpies. Love how you still have your boys. I genuinely laughed seeing your "Sev", seems a trend as I remember having made my own "Sev" in the past as well. I still wish I would've whined to my parents to get me one of those early CAC Clones, they're just perfect little nostalgia figures. I never knew of the CABG, but your nostalgia of it reminds me all too much of my own rosy memories of SWRP. I'll never forget my time on ASG and PG, nor ner'vode like Pepsi and Jamaica. I still have the custom clones I made on MS paint XD
PSA: Erasable markers erase the sharpies, multiple attempts to get rid of ye olde sharpie troopers. Just cover the sharpie with the markers and wipe away with a tissue. I like using Expo markers, only because they can disappear from work without anyone asking.
Bro I used to watch so much lego star wars youtube back in the day. Me and my best friend at the time made our own stop motion but never uploaded it anywhere. I came across it on a burned DVD when going through some old stuff. I remember MichealMGF was the first youtube channel I subscribed to, customs were such a different animal back then
found this channel 14 minutes ago... watches video.. needs more,,, new post 41 minutes ago. Now thats what I call pod racing.
„Original clones could only dream of looking this good“
No need to dream, they already looked way more majestic and LEGOetic.
Michael MGF I haven’t even thought about that guy in at least a decade holy fuck man
That Saber Scorpion callout gave me flashbacks. I still remember being a part of his forums for a good while until it went the way of all internet communities (internal bullshit, then an exodus to Discord)
I remember looking at some rough TH-cam tutorials way back when about using sharpies to customize clones. Got pretty rough results but it made me happy back then. My favorite is still just a simple Clone Commando helmet from shaving off the fin from a phase I helmet. Not much but it looks nice.
Damn, I never did the custom clone thing, I think I was a few years older and my nerd interests had already landed elsewhere within Star Wars (and lego to some extent). But this is still so nostalgic for me. I miss internet forums. Some of my best friends (some IRL) are people I met on old crappy airsoft forums. Old youtube was pretty interesting. I still have my lego camera somewhere, the one that you could make movies/stop motion stuff with.
Asa person who loves bionicle, brick owl is ass. They have the wrong brick link and officials part numbers for bionic parts!
Recently I discovered 99% isopropyl alcohol will take decade+ old sharpie off Lego parts very easily. So many of my clones have been restored!
More Lego content please oboe I’ve been coming back and checking this channel routinely
I remember making custom BX-series Droid Commandos using the B-1 battle droids, that was what got me into customs.
My brother and I tried making some custom clones. We used sharpies, but since we played with them the ink would rub off easily so then we put more on, then used rubbing alcohol and then the inks blended and gave it a unique battle damaged look.
I've never understood the infatuation with clones over stormtroopers, so that segment where you utterly ruined the cool old stormtrooper armor scars me
would have been cool if a similar community cropped up around the star wars CCBS figures but to my memory they never made a standard clone figure so I guess that seed was never planted.
I'm not a Lego dude at all, like on any level, but so far the videos you've done on this channel are among the best on the entire platform...if the Borderlands video premier wasn't indicative enough, you're one of the better creators here.
6:51 Hei s not a pilot guy but a Gunner. You can see a similar trooper in Clone Wars operating a gun on a Venator cruiser.
6:51 Hei s not a pilot guy but a Gunner. You can see a similar trooper in Clone Wars operating a gun on a Venator cruiser.
11:05 “hopefully he is still alive” while showing the page, whose bio says “hey i’m not dead”
SaberScorpion jeez thats a name I havent heard in forever. this really took me back to being a kid, i loved keeping up with the custom clone community as well as making my own troopers when i was little. amazing video!
This is very nostalgic. I distinctly remember making a video as a kid trying to sell my crappy sharpy custom clones and being in awe of Michaelmgf’s work
W video. Lost many 2009 battlepack clones to the sharpie
Sharpie clones and the memories take me back. Appreciate this video Oboe🤙🏻
omg pizza movies and legoboy lets not forget i think it was legotexas or something for his massive lego clone army bases
Now this brings back memories. I won’t and say that I did indeed use sharpie to draw on some of my generic clone troopers to make them unique. I still kept a few of them today and I still treasure them as some of my favourite clones I own. So it’s was nice that you were going back down memory lane and honour the early days of custom clone troopers creation. Good job and I can’t wait to see what you do next.
great video oboe, love the effort and research you put into these, its nice when you actually care about something
Man, PizzaMovies mentioned! I love those videos. So fetching good
Is little armory toys or little arms shop still up? I would like to purchase the blaster piece that rex is carrying next to the little armory toys banner.
Huge trip down memory lane, great vid as always, looking forward to more
Was really enjoying the video until you said gif like “jif” :/
I remember using some acrylic paints to turn a Snowtrooper into a Galactic Marine
I remember wanting to be a lego stop motion animator so badly because of pizzamovies
Far more basic!? uh....i don't know man, i don't know. There's a charm to em that the newer ones just lack.
you make very well made videos and you should deserve more views and subscribers
I didn’t know this guy had a Lego channel
Halo megabloks/ mega construx vids when?
Thanks for making this, so much nostalgia.
Someone tell R.R.Slugger about this
I really like this type of content from you
Nostalgia from a more civilized age
This is a huge nostalgia trip
Please release more videos😢
Oboe supremacy 🎶 🎵
Man I forgot about these
SABER SCORPION MENTIONED
I’ve never been much into custom clones, or even lego Star Wars, but even I remember using sharpie to make custom clones ( and zombies ) 🙃.
This was great Obo, and an interesting look into the past and present of clone customs. Nice video, and have a nice day🩶🧡
here before youtube could even tell me there was a new video
Fantastic video!
Lego borderman
fun video!
a joy!
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NEW OBESHOES!
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I have painted thousand of boardgame/wargame minis over decades and the thought would have never crossed my mind to sharpie a Lego pieces!
I find this so very interesting, thank you for sharing!
12:48 its a gif not a jif
those early years of TH-cam & lego Star Wars were something really special. I'm glad others got to experience that great video! still collecting troopers to this day!