I ❤️ LEGO Studios
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As always, I create all of the photography and stop motion animation you see in these videos. Brett creates all of the original artwork.
Thanks for watching everyone!
Hey folks, thanks for checking out the video! This one took a *ton* of work to complete, and I'm somewhat insecure that the amount of effort that went into it isn't immediately apparent when watching it. I guess that's the magic of film making, eh? 😅
Videos that explore a collection/series always take a little longer because of the time it takes to assemble and verify the sets, and the fact that the majority of photography must be bespoke; however, I tried my best to highlight LEGO Studios in as best a manner as I could. Hopefully you enjoy the finished product!
Yeah, I do sometimes find myself debating whether the extra effort is worth it to change like 2 seconds worth of visuals. Putting it in tends to be rewarding though!
Doing a job perfectly often means nobody notices you did the job at all. Not here though, the effort is clear in every video you put up.
Let me get this straight… Lego releases a Jurassic Park III set through Lego Studios, but instead of featuring any characters from that movie, it features Johnny Thunder and Pippin Reed from the Adventurers line. Then if you want to tie it into another theme, the dinos are basically from the buildable dinosaurs range. So maybe the most things crossed over into one Lego set? 😂
Maybe so the movie studio and Lego didn't have to worry about acter royalties?
Wait, there were characters in JP3?
@@1RandomToaster Yeah, several of them. Open your eyes next time.
@@CryosisOfficial Maybe we saw different movies, I could have sworn it was a bunch of cardboard cutouts fleeing questionably threatening dinosaurs.
@@1RandomToaster Sounds like you were watching South Park.
“Just imagine…” is the best tagline in toy history. Studios was such a cool theme and I have so much nostalgia for it from seeing that awesome cityscape in catalogs. It wouldn’t be the same, but I do think that Studios could make for a cool subtheme for City. It could even have castle and pirate sets! Just imagine, indeed.
I agree! I always loved it! Simpe yet VERY catchy!
Couldn't agree more! 💯
Definitely - I feel it perfectly represents the core of what Lego is supposed to be. Just Imagine it and you can build it.
Lego Studios got me interested in filmmaking and set my career trajectory at a young age. Glad to see you giving it the love it deserves!
Where do you post your films
Glad to know I'm not the only one XD
Thank you very much for shouting out my Studios history video! I admire how much work you put into your videos
And I admire the work you put into yours! Fascinating depth of research - I applaud you for it! ❤
There was a Lego website game called Backlot that coincided with the Studios sets. It was one of the few 3D "open world" games where you helped the actors and crew with their scenes. It was a gem and 23 years later I still remember it fondly
I remember that one too! Really impressive for the time!
I remember that game too!
I put so much time into Backlot as a kid!
My internet was so bad back then I only ever did the first mission but I kept doing it over and over, oh to have the free time of a kid again lol
Lego Studios shooting on film is perfectly accurate to the time period! Digital filmmaking was just starting to become mainstream at that time - the first major motion picture to be shot entirely digital was Star Wars Episode II, releasing in 2002.
Great point!
Film was still pretty widespread until 2007. Digital Hi-End Movie Equipment was even more expensive than shooting on Film for a while.
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the lego studios spielberg set was the holy grail of my childhood. I was never able to get it as a kid, but it inspired me to find my own way of making stop motion back then. I have now been a Brickfilmer for 15+ years! This theme is really special.
It's fascinating how much influence that toy had, even on us folks who never had it!
Lego Studios got me to convince my mother to buy me a mini dv camera. Subsequently I taught myself iMovie and Photoshop to make overlays and effects on my old apple G4. It sparked a life long love of digital creating and design. I made Normandy invasions, a tacky GTA Lego movie and many more scenes and stories. It bridged my love of Lego, into my next love that was art, and helped spark my love of learning on my own.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane with the series slugger!
This and Mindstorms were so impressive to me at the time. This was definitely an interesting era for Lego.
I wanted the camera set so badly as a kid- probably not even realizing there were probably much better options of tech out there. It just FELT like this was what you needed to make Spite Your Face level stop motion work. Huge influence on eventual trajectory into animation!
Spent a lot of time playing the Backlot Tour browser game too, complete with its tank controls
8:02 that is a fun detail indeed, just to emphasize that the tree is a prop
As an adventurers fan, studios was a great little expansion to that theme at a time when we had no idea that Orient Expedition was just around the corner. I have the Dracula set, and the mummy is my favourite of the many pharaohs we've gotten over the years.
I got a poly bag for this theme by sending in oatmeal pouches. It had a pirate, cameraman and Steven Spielberg figs.
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The Star Trek III edit was hilarious.
Thank you! Although, that scene is pretty hilarious on its own, even without the edit haha.
Thanks for featuring my package in a video, It was great!
Thanks Ryan! And thank you so much for your patience!! I know this was sent to me *last* summer, but I couldn't let another summer go by without opening it! 😅
Ultimately, I think it was for the best, as in the year since then, I was able to acquire several of the other sets featured in this video. Hopefully the delay made the video even better! ❤️
(By the way, if you shoot me an email with your address, I'd love to send you a thank you letter! I have totally misplaced the return address from last year, sorry!)
Probably one of the best most diverse lego themes to date besides a theme like dreams or bionicle in a sense
There was Flash and there was Brickfilm...
The LEGO USB camera is just a Logitech webcam and the software has compression issues.
They also had actor kits with even LEGO Ninja parts that could be entire Adventurers characters!
In another set with the LEGO camera, they had color test paper sheets, do those count as green screens?
A slugger LEGO Studio review? LETS GOOOOOOOOO
About time someone covered LEGO Studios! I, like many people commenting here, was inspired by the Studios set and the stop motion movies I made down a path towards filmmaking, from a tender age of nine years old with the Steven Spielberg Movie Maker set onwards. Having an actual camera makes that set among the top 5 Lego Sets ever made.
I remember the Spider-Man and the Monsters sets quite vividly, as well!
This one felt a bit unhinged!
Got that old Slugger energy in it, hahahaha.
As someone who studied film professionally and will someday enter the industry, it's really cool to see these toys so closely convey my work!
Although I have one note: You say that everything's shot on film stock, and so the theme must be set in the Golden Age of Hollywood (or at least, that's what I understood), but film stock actually carried on until the mid-2000s before finally being supplanted as the "main" conveyance method for films!
Even now, film stock is still used by certain directors, such as Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight trilogy, etc.), and is still available, along with the equipment to use it!
Thanks, Slugger!
That's a good detail to point out! I always took the look of the cameras and costumes to be "old fashioned" in this series - it felt retro, even as a kid, but maybe I'm out to lunch on that?
@@RRSlugger That's totally fair, but for me, I look at the crew, and the little neck lanyards scream out at me that it's a little more current!
And, if given that the cameras were still in use, even if they were old-fashioned (which they definitely were, even then; film stock would've been used for fear over the unknown new product, or because of digital's then-high cost of entry, or, as said above, preference), it's also believable to me that the costumes were intentionally designed to be old-fashioned, which I totally reckon with! Some of those monster designs are straight out of the black-and-white era! I wonder if it's a remake, or just a re-imagining?
Of course, it's LEGO, so you can Just Imagine that it is whatever you want! And isn't that the joy of it all?
Fascinating era for Lego, always bring back memories of the Lego Club magazine and website, although my Bionicle fixation meant that my parents didn't get me many System sets, so thank you for allowing me to experience them vicariously!
Shoutout to the LEGO Backlot browser game! It was some extremely janky 3D platforming and fetch quests while exploring the studio. Super charming, and impressive for a browser game in the 2000s.
I totally forgot about that game.
I LOVED that game!
So cool to see a shoutout for an entry in Penta's brickfilm history series! :D
Never was I so excited for a theme nobody else seem to be buying. Thank you clearance!
Oh man, this series!
We didn't have enough money for the camera, so I never got to make my own movies. But MAN did I adore the concept. I completely forgot how many of the sets I actually owned, the mummy and the Frankenstein lab. It's been so long since I've even thought about them, wow.
I think this series and the early Spiderman and Batman sets give me some of the biggest nostalgia. They always remained just out of reach for me, but I was glued to the screen when the ads came on. I totally understand your admiration for them!
I was not expecting to see you here GermanPeter.
Same here! I don’t have any sets from the theme, but I’ve always liked the concept. It should make a return.
The closest we had was with LEGO Batman Movie, LEGO Ninjago Movie and LEGO Movie 2, which all had moviemaker sets with a stand for a standard smart phone, more of those trans-clear stick pieces, and even some moving platforms.
@@Maniac4Bricks oh yeah i forgot about those
I loveee Studios! 😍 Phase 3 is some of my favorite sets in the world and I have them all!
I ❤ YOU Mr. Slugger. Always a highlight of my subscription feed. My grandma bought me the Spider Man Studio set back in the day. Didnt have the camera but I still had fun with the set and enjoyed watching the video that came with the program, haha.
The main set of this theme was the very first time I had a camera of my own, and the software was definitely the first time I edited video in any form. There were many steps that got me to where I am today, but there might not be a Cars Simplified without this first step.
I definitely wish the project my brother and I worked on called "Director's Double-Takes", didn't get lost in the gradual shuffling of data and computers over the years. It was behind-the-scenes-of-a-movie meets Robot Chicken (before the latter existed). Possibly better as a fond memory as I don't think I have the patience for stop motion any more, so I doubt my brother and/or I would remake it.
Also, I have a fond childhood memory of finding set 1355 in a dollar store (for a dollar) and my mother was willing to buy a bunch of them! I have so many Johnny Thunder minifigures because of that! I remember wanting to make a super long falling path, but I remember something made combining more than two of them complicated without the use of other/outside parts.
Haha, I remember you telling that story to me before - it's such a fun one! 😆
It's funny - I had Stuntman Catapult as a kid and never fully understood the intent of the ladder-based catapult system until I acquired Alpha Team ATV & Sub as an adult. When I was younger, I flicked the catapult like a flick-fire missile, index finger held back and all. The method in 5:54 works way better as long as it's held down well, which the plate provides.
It's a cool play feature! Are you aware of it popping up anywhere else? I can't think of any other instances of it, off the top of my head.
@@RRSlugger Yes! 6079 Dark Forest Fortress is the third I know to have it, and yet among the first to release with it!
As a predominantly early twentieth century historian, I still associate "turn of the century" with c. 1900-1910. Kudos to Slugger for making me feel even older! 🤣
Haha, it's now been a quarter of a century *since* the turn of the century! 😉
@@RRSlugger Say it ain't so!
Dear slugger I have been going through a rough personal struggle over toast few months, and your videos never fail to put a smile on my face and improve my overall day. I would like to say thank you for putting so much effort into your videos.
I'm so glad that they're providing you some comfort in tough times! I'm rooting for you and hope things improve soon! ❤️
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Your point at 1:25 has actually reminded me that when WildBrain produced _Ninjago_ Season 13 - _Master of the Mountain,_ they also produced a three-minute video of some outtakes they animated! I think the best part about these outtakes is the effort that they put into them; the producers at WildBrain even went out of the way to model a small little green screen environment just for a small skit involving an outtake with the episode _The Long Fall!_
And sure, it's unclear as to how much of the dialogue actually were outtakes from the voice actors, but you can still tell that everyone making these animated outtakes had so much fun! One of my favorite gags was an outtake for _The Son of Lilly,_ where Murtessa roars out a battle cry and rolls out into battle, only to knock over the camera, and then apologize in Tabitha St. Germain's voice.
Ill never get tired of the random Star Trek clips in videos
i had that exploding bank set as a kid! it was so rad, and watching it explode again really took me back. love your videos, hope your summer has been slugtastic lol
Lego Studios, the stop motion shorts that came with the software, and the brickfilms they inspired, were a huge influence on me!
The Studios vampire set and Frankenstein set were the first ever Lego sets I got. This theme will always hold a special place in my heart, and it’s great to see such appreciation for it. Great work, Slugger!
Ever since I saw this theme on Nick’s Lego Rewind, I’ve always admired how characterful it is. The sets have the really cool behind-the-scenes lights and scaffolding, but they also work in a regular play context. Some people really hate the movie-making sets from the recent Lego movies, and they are pretty barebones, just giving you a baseplate, backdrop and place to set your smartphone. I think that they’re great - they’re really just intended as a place for you to put vehicles and minifigs while you film. Comparing them to the originals, however, is no contest. These don’t just prop up sets you already have - they are the sets. I hope someday we get a real movie-making theme again. Even if it has half as much personality as these, it would still be great.
Oh god! This series inspired my love to cinema, stop motion and my current profession when i was 5-7 years old, i may call it one of the the biggest impacts in my whole life. A can join you in praising these sets any time:) The idea of making your own movies using your favorite LEGO setting was ground braking and i've never stopped creating and loving it since then
Thank you for this trip!
A friend of mine growing up had a few sets from this theme. We used to get together almost every weekend to play, and were always mixing LEGO themes together. I think that if we had been a little older at the time that this set was available we likely would have tried our hand at some movies of our own! On at least one occasion we did make what we thought at the time was a pretty good homemade advertisement for a Knight's Kingdom set. I'm sure if it still exists on a hard drive somewhere that it'd be even more painful to watch than I can even imagine.
I was never interested in LEGO studios but the LEGO stop motion filmmakers I grew up watching on TH-cam definitely were
Lego Studios was one of my favorite lines. Namely because of the Jurassic Park/// sets and the Spielberg Lost World sets.
I kinda wish we'd get a new set in a similar vein.
As someone who's only recently in the past few years began to major in film, it genuinely shocks me how much stuff Lego Studios nailed about film production so early.
Also, it genuinely pains me that I will likely never own that Frankenstein set, it's so awesome
This is a series I remember, but couldn't tell you about without being reminded of. Thanks!
I have 1351-1 Car Stunt Studio, the car build is really fun for it's time. Robust too, definitely great to jump over the molded plastic ramp
The scary monsters phase is so cool, evidently a tribute to the Hammer Films classics, that were so important to cinema, and even accidentally ahead of their time, by being possibly the first cinematic universe to exist. I like this theme, it's a celebration of the nostalgia we feel for classic movies.
lol, excellent ending
LEGO Studios was and is such an underappreciated theme and one of my all time favourites and completely influenced my brickfilm and stop-motion joys when I was a kid!
I really miss the old days when there were a ton of small good sets for $20 or less.
love that you bothered getting an old clip piece just for the phone shot
oh slugger dude the 1371 was so much for me.. I even didn't know it was goin with a plane!
My theory: Orient Expedition is actually a Studios sub theme: A trilogy of films based on the adventures of the "real life" Johnny Thunder, starring the same actor as in the other Studios set. Legal issues involving the "real" Adventurers resulted in certain characters being changed - Pippin standing in for Gail Storm, Kilroy for Dr Lightning, Sam Sanister being an amalgamation of "real life" foes faced by Johnny & co. This might also explain the strange monsters that appear throughout the expedition, which to me give off strong "guy in a costume" vibes. The whole story about finding and assembling the dispersed elements of a mythical, powerful McGuffin is totally on-brand for a spaghetti adventure movie!
Hahaha, I love this! It could also explain Pippin's "recasting" as well! 😆
When I was younger, I didn't know this theme existed until I happened to discover an incomplete copy of a small Harry Potter set (4722) in a classroom we were having indoor recess in during early 2007. It happened to come with a catalog from 2001 which featured this theme towards the front of it. I subsequently found a copy of "Temple of Gloom" (1355) in a different location during that time, though I do understand how it may have inspired an Orient Expedition set (7411) which you reviewed previously. Oddly enough, the blue cap the cameraman wears was phased out just ten years later in 2011, though it's last standard appearance was in a Creator "Grand Carousel" (10196) from 2009.
That JP III logo on the Spinosaurus was shared with the Hasbro figure line, which was a continuation of the old Jurassic Park Kenner tradition of branding every figure with a JP.
I wish the modern figures still would have that.
I want to thank you for this video Slugger. The nostalgia was running wild for me. Lego Studios is one of my favorite Lego lines of all time. Every Scary Monsters set had unique figures and great play features. Can't say the same about Jurassic Park III (where is the William H. Macy minifig that the all kids wanted!?).
But my favorite set of all time is the Movie Maker set. It made me realize that I can not only just watch films but create my own with all my minifigures. A life-long passion for filmmaking, animation and creativity was born on that birthday in 2003. In a way, my career as a professional game developer can even be traced back to this Lego set, with its introduction to animation software. "Just Imagine".
This youtube channel that I started almost 20 years later is even a product of the Movie Maker set 👀
Thank you so much for these videos Slugger. They're the best. And really great for listening to in the background when working on visual effects for brickfilms! 💙💛
That's so cool to hear! LEGO Studios must rank up there as one of The LEGO Group's most influential series, as there are dozens of folks chiming in with similar stories! What a wonderful, inspiring series this was! ❤️
I watched Benny N' Lee when I was a kid so hearing SillyPenta namedropped in this video made me do a spit take
@RRSlugger thank you so much for the vid! I was looking at old studio sets just two days ago, as a young boy my parents wouldnt buy me any of them unfortunately. But I remember imagining playing with them a lot. I loved the promotional pictures of them in the german catalogues, I spend ours just looking and them and coming up with movie ideas.
I had all of the Studios sets, they were so good! Used to love making videos with the camera and the software. Fun times.
LEGO Studios is a theme that still has potential, hopefully LEGo will bring it back!
Temple of Gloom is an iconic set imo. Great play feature, and 2 iconic minifigs! I got my copy in 2004 on a clearance rack somewhere, and was so excited!
The JPIII branding on the very inaccurate Spinosaurus was a staple of Jurassic park toys to show they they were official. Cant let kids get away playing with the way cooler dino riders toys. The practice from my understanding lasted a very long time, not sure of its still done today with how the modern collector market is but its an interesting relic of a bygone era of toy history.
I didn't know that! Cool insight!
The 2002 Green Goblin set has always been my personal Holy Grail.
I had the big set, got it some time in 2003 or 2004 after begging my parents to find it. Bless my father for tracking it down as his first ebay purchase! Simply put, there is no toy that I ever got anywhere near as much value out of. It enhanced all of my other LEGO so much! Many happy hours were spend making little clips with my friends and some day I want to get into brickfilming again and fulfil all the dreams little me had.
I owned a few sets from this line as a kid, which I still have! This includes the stuntman, cameraman, and the Temple of Gloom. I would certainly credit this theme for getting me interested in stop motion animation, and this is one of the lines I miss the most.
I actually have all the Monster minifigs from that theme. I was surprisingly able to get them at decent prices. Would love to see this theme get revitalized in this day and age. Inspire a new generation to make brickfilms.
Loved getting the Studios set for Christmas back in the day--I think we probably broke our computer trying to render those tiny video files though. 😅I'm glad you were able to grab one of those mummy sets; that was one of the first things I went for when I got back into LEGO after my dark ages. Great figure!
Studios was absolutely amazing. The videogame Island Xtreme Stunts helped this series to become alive aswell!
I like that stubby plane. Looks cute!
This was a great theme in the day. I remember we had this Lego Studios camera with editing software that I made stop motion videos with.
Same Lego Studios Inspired me to start making lego movies on TH-cam and ever since then I've been obsessed with making Lego videos, hopefully one day my videos reach the high quality of yours.
I have very fond memories of Lego Studio :) Thank you Slugger for reminding me
As a LEGO dinosaur fan, I find it super interesting that Studios has the only JP3 sets ever produced. Gotta get that spino and maybe Raptor Rumble one day
This is one of those videos I never knew I needed until now! I am entirely with you in having such strong nostalgia for Studios-it really encapsulates the imaginative potential of Lego in this period. The Movie Maker set was and still is my white whale, and inspired me to get into brickfilming even though it would be years until I got my own webcam to do it.
I think there may have been a broader trend during the 1990s of interest in Hollywood and nostalgia for the golden age of movies. Studios was perhaps Lego’s attempt to get in on that trend, though I really wonder how much appeal the concept actually had to kids even then (I guess that the line lasting for three years does prove something). I don’t think that a revival or spiritual successor would work today, though. The “mystique” of Hollywood and filmmaking has diminished greatly because of the internet, TH-cam, and social media, and I can’t imagine many kids getting into this.
Indeed, well said! Many kids want to be "TH-camrs" now, not film makers; to be fair though, that line has certainly blurred over time as TH-cam videos have become higher and higher quality.
As pre teens me and my friend were inspired by the advertising for Lego Studios to make our own films. We agree to both save up together to go half and half on Lego Studios but then his dad just ended up buying a grown up digital camera and we just used that.
Thank you so much for shedding some light on this awesome theme! I recently bought 1353 Car Stunt Studio - a set I remember I had as a kid.
Great video!
I hope to pick that one up one day!
My Friend had Lego Studios. And I was Infatuated with it! I wanted to make SO MANY MOVIES! and We did! Oh Man! I Remember every Weekend, Every sleepover we ever had, I made a good 30 minute stop motion video. Knowing what I know now about computers... I was probably the One who killed their Family computer with overloading it with countless hours of Stop Motion Footage. My Bad... Lol. This was probably the Best thing and only thing that brought me Joy during my Middle school years! Wow!!! what a shining moment in that dark Puberty stained time of my life!
I actually owned the Scary Laboratory set as a kid. What a rare moment, I happen to have laid eyes on a LEGO set irlthat Slugger has not!
I was a big fan of cars at the time, so buildings didn't captivate my attention as much. Thought the set is full of very nice pieces I'm happy to have in my collection: The classic glow in the dark ghost outfit, Frankenstein's Monster, Swirly portal piece, brain in a jar, working mirror, jack-o-lantern, Steven Spielberg... Other than that, it is a massive supply of old gray, dark gray and some sand blue pieces if I'm not mistaken.
I believe the set also came with a CD that let you watch stop motion LEGO films. As a kid, I didn't understand how they got the LEGO to move, so I assumed the special LEGO camera would live edit the hands out of the footage and you could just record it like a video.
I had the lego studios jurassic park sets as a kid but my parents were so upset with me at the store because I wanted a lego dinosaur set and I kept telling them the dinosaurs in the studios set weren't real because of the studios tie-in
Oh!! Hahaha, they were animatronics then? Pretty perceptive, honestly! 😊
Great video Slug! It's a shame LEGO Studios was only cancelled a mere 2 years after it's launch. I would've adored more LEGO Studios sets. The play features were great and I hope to get more LEGO Studios sets in the future, might even get the LEGO Studios camera as a novelty! I remember commenting on your video at some point asking you if you will cover this theme haha
god bless you Slug! Love you from around the globe from Russia!! Much love from Rari Brick and the gang
Hey, I’ve been waiting for this one!
The smile I made when realizing I was about to watch a video made by double R slugger about lego studios.. Good Morning!
Good morning to you too! 😊
That lego video camera set built my interest in stop motion animation. It taught me how much work goes into making those types of films. I even tried entering a lego star wars animation contest. I didnt even sort of win but it was fun to try.
LEGO Studios was hugely influential, absolutely!
This one was one of the earliest Lego sets I remember (other than duplos) from my childhood. I even assumed the new JAWS set included a Steven Spielberg minifig because that’s what I remember from my childhood
I do too. It was exceptionally important for BrickFilm discourse
I had no idea the Studios line had so many sets. Thanks for the research! Glad to see that the Rock Raiders crew have found a new job after getting away from Planet U. 😋
I used Lego Studios back in the day and made a long running anthology of random shorts. Unfortunately the PC died so I lost the project files, but it was an unforgettable experience for me, and taught me a lot about movie making!
I have a bunch of mine saved on an old VHS tape, but who knows if it still works or not. In the end, it doesn't really matter - the skills it taught me are employed when I make videos like this one! 😊
LEGO Studios is the one theme I still have a photographic memory of seeing the sets in an old walmart store. I never really got them, but I have grown to love the theme - especially the little backlot game.
Stunt Man Catapult was probably my first ever Lego set. At least the first one I can remember picking out myself in the store. The box was beat to hell, but it was a really fun set for its size.
The Temple of Gloom is one of my earliest LEGO sets, still have it and love it!
The jurrasic park plane set was something I dreamed about as child. May have to try and finally find one.
A couple years ago in all of the Joe Freeman/Sam Grant confusion of Adventurers names, I wanted to classify those other names of characters as the actor names from Studios. Dino Head Attack doesn't include Gail Storm, she's an actress named Lindy Lovely. Doesn't it sound more like a Hollywood name than our weather-related counterparts?
That's a great head canon way to use their alternate names!
If remember if you know, paganomation the well-known brick filmer that worked for LEGO for a while and did the adventure of Max shorts. He actually won one of the prizes from one of these Lego studios contests and was brought out to planet Hollywood.
What an awesome look at a great line. Love how thorough your videos are and how they flow. Inspiring!
Thank you! ❤
I have such fond memories of Dino Head Attack, it holds some of the most nostalgia of any single LEGO set for me too! Funny story, my prevailing memory is my mum sawing a green 2x4 in half at the dinner table because our copy came with it instead of two 2x2s :')
No way!! Hahaha, what a story! I opened a sealed copy for this video, and thankfully it had the right parts in it! 😆
The opening jingle is just perfect, utterly perfect. I remember how much I enjoyed the sets of Lego Studios but the Camera was just so terrible, even in 2001...
Studios united so many themes and were super affordable for my parents to gift to me. Got some big nostalgia from this video Slugger!