@Mr. Al I can only agree with you on the LEGO NEXO Knights theme (only when it comes to the LEGO sets *_themselves_* - the LEGO NEXO Knights animated T.V. series was actually quite enjoyable there); however, when it comes to the LEGO NINJAGO theme, I happen to like it (though not as much as the LEGO Legends of CHIMA theme).
NEVER stop bringing up BIONICLE. Sure, there are some losers who don't like it because it "isn't real LEGO" or whatever. But it is one of the most important themes LEGO has ever created, whether they like it or not. BIONICLE more than deserves to be mentioned whenever it can. :)
this is was by far my favorite lego theme. This alongside Jack Stone brings so much nostalgia. My dad used to go on business trips when I was younger and he would always bring a set of this home after he came back. I felt such a strong connection to Jayko, or the arrogant knight with great potential, who let his ego get ahead of him (causing Santos to get triggered by him in one of the online comics), but he eventually did right. Such a great story and original theme was heartbroken when it was canceled
Hey man, do not feel bad about liking something when you were a kids that kids today may not like. Different generations like different things. You were a product of your time and so are kids today. Different strokes for different folks. :-)
For the record. Flamethrowers of a form existed back in ancient greece (greek fire) so its not too absurd to give the knights kingdom sets a flamethrower
I'm sad to see Nexo Knights go, 'cuz damn they had some great armour and weapon designs for people like me who use minifigs as D&D minis. Fingers crossed they put out something similar to Chima soon... Also, nice to see someone else watches Shad.
Agreed! I wanted to like the new mech suits for Marvel, but they don't have nearly the build quality or cockpit design as the Nexo suits. Which is mind-boggling.
I always loved this line’s proto-contraction style. I think the compromise between bricks and figures within this line could be reused for a third Bonkle generation if it ever happens.
I would love to see a new Castle subtheme returning to the classic Low Fantasy roots of the 80s, with multiple factions of questionable morality, with castles, fortresses, and hideouts as appropriate. Don't just give us a story-give us a *world* to play in.
Ah, yes. This takes me back. I got the five sets of those joint figures, Jakyo the Quick, Danju the Clever, Santis the Strong, Rascus the Joker and Vladek the Traitor. I even played those flash games based on the figures. Pity they stopped being available before Flash died recently. Good times.
I actually went out of my way about a year ago to buy the characters I missed (Adric, Kentis, Karzon, and 2006 Vladek because my 2004 and 2005 versions were busted up)
What worries me more than Nexo Knights ending this year, is that I don't think we've heard anything about Lego's next Big Bang theme (a story theme like Chima and Ninjago) for 2019. Now granted, they could be saving that for either next Summer or 2020 to plan it through some more. But looking at how almost consistently Chima and Nexo Knights have performed, I'm becoming slightly scared that Lego may be more complacent on their licensed themes and only have Ninjago as their truly original property. But even then, they're going back to the first three years with their upcoming Legacy line. While that's cool for the newer fans and some of the sets look better than their originals, it kinda feels telling that maybe that theme might be running short of its imagination spark. I won't give up on the hope of Lego making another successful story theme, Castle or otherwise, as long as they still have designers who will still come up with great and imaginative designs. It just feels worrying to me that Lego may follow the way of other big conglomerates like Disney and just rely on branding to be the path of viable business in the future. I don't think I will get over the day when they give up on original themes to get there. Sorry what I just wrote might be a bit of a downer. But I guess it helps to get stuff like this out and hopefully will spark some thoughtful discussions. I did enjoy reminiscing on both Knights Kingdom themes though. They were both released at the best times for me as a Lego fan. The original was released just a year after I got into Lego and the second theme helped catered to me when I was still on my Bionicle high days. I didn't get into Nexo Knights sadly, but I appreciated what the designers did for the theme. The only proper set I got was the Black Knight mech, and it is beautiful! Though Clay's newer anime looking mech also looks awesome! I hope we can get a proper mech based theme with designs like these from Lego someday (Exo Force successor, maybe?). *whew* That turned out longer than I thought. Great video, Nick! Keep doing what you do best at your own pace!
I really hope for some sort of Space theme. All the factions throughout the 90’s, surely at least one, maybe two could be worthy of a revival. Just make a story with 2 good and bad factions, but have them both human, and SEPARATE. Not a big bad guy ship with a couple good guys or vice versa. Perhaps add a third line of neutrals to put between. The LEGO Movie 2 Benny Battle Pack and the Benny Juniors Repair Shop proves that LEGO still has the parts and ideas to make new versions of old things.
One thing I'm worried about is it's been 4 years since the last space theme, and the next one will probably be mixed in with Ninjago, fighting mutant alien snakes 🙄
@@t65bx25 I love the idea of neutral forces in war stories, but I think it would be cooler if it wasn't just humans vs humans, why not get some robots and aliens in there? Like star wars or Star trek? Honestly though, I think Lego needs to steer clear from the whole "team" faction for once. One thing I don't like with nexo knights is each character has a designated weapon, color, and vehicle design. What I mean is it always seems it's just a guy driving around in a sword shaped car with his sword, But then over head his friend flies over head in a crossbow shaped jet with his crossbow. Ninjago did a bit better with the red ninja, blue ninja, green ninja thing. But then with already had Galaxy squad that had red team, blue team, green team, and then knights kingdom before that!
I honestly wouldn’t mind Ninjago In Space, even if they’re fighting Skeleton Samurai Pirate Snakes for the 50th time. Better than what ever the heck Ninjago’s doing now.
I get nostalgic with Knight's Kingdom 2. I liked both the sets and buildable figs, but esp. the sets (I guess my buildable fig love belonged to Bionicle). My brother and I got the first castle for Christmas and it was the coolest and biggest set in our Lego collection. We also had 2 of the figs (our favorites), the bridge crossing, and the citadel (next Christmas). So many great play features (traps, action features, hidden secrets), new pieces, the online comics and flash games to add to the lore, the playing cards hinting at a bigger world, the story and characters (having them all included in the castle was awesome!). Never got any sets after the first year, I didn't feel like starting over with the updated minifigs. Thanks man, great video!
I really like the old "Knight's Kingdom" theme (with Jayko, Danju, Vladek etc.), the old color schemes were really beautiful and the characters were pretty creative. One thing that always stuck out to me was the old blue hue, I really liked the cobalt/ultramarine color, which I've never seen again in any other themes. The armor, swords, and shields were also really unique, never saw anything like that. I still remember finding one in a toy store in Europe many years after the theme was cancelled, I was so excited to get it. Of course the newer medieval themes were also really awesome, especially when the introduced the chrome-plated swords. In general I loved those themes.
@@BazukinBelyugovich The color schemes and new pieces were fantastic. If Lego ever does another knight/castle theme, I hope they take some inspirations from Knight's Kingdom
I am shocked by how many people forget about this theme. Knights' Kingdom was the first Lego theme I ever followed and some of my first ever sets (the buildable figures) came from this theme. I got the books, played the online games, and read the online comics. This theme has a very special place in my heart with Santis the Bear bing my favorite. Thank you for doing a video on it. :-)
The first Knights Kingdom is way more forgotten about then the second one. Which sucks since everyone forgets Knights Kingdom 1 was actually the first castle theme to have an actual full complete royal family. King Leo, Queen Leonora and Princess Storm. Storm actually being the first castle princess minifig wanting to be a knight, not Princess Macy from Nexo Knights. Also Cedric was a way more interesting villain then Vladek to me. Vladek was just the guy that betrayed the king for no reason other then power with no other backstory. Cedric on the other hand was more than just a random outlaw that wanted Leo's throne. A Knights Kingdom story book and Creator Knights Kingdom's manual reveals he's actually a prince from a land far away from Leo's who's a little bit more then pissed off at the fact that his 12 other brothers(take that Prince Hans!)were given land and there was none left for him when their father died. So rather then trying to take one of his brother's land's by force. The guy becomes an outlaw and travels a far distance away from his home kingdom and decides to take the land of a king that has no relation to Cedric or his family's bloodline.
Me too. My first set when i was 3 was the wizard's castle and then the santis figure model 1 bionicle looking, then the blue guy model 2. I even had the strange vladek at 8:32. If i remember, it was from a box of cereals
@@robonaught That's *_*very*_* interesting for Cedric the Bull to have such a deep and complex backstory! I like it. What is the name (tile) of that LEGO Knights' Kingdom (I)'s story book, so that I can maybe buy it on Bricklink, e-Bay or Amazon?
That was a great video, with a lot of information but not overwhelming. I will try to buy some nexo knights. Also, Dude, that lion to scorpion castle transformation. I need it. As far as you know, has someone already made a MOC of it?
Way late. But here's a quick explanation as to why Lego retired some colors back in the day. Why we are now seeing them return, and why things like Metalic Green will sadly probably not be on the list anytime soon. Back in the day, up until fairly recently (2014-15'ish) All colors came directly from plastic pellets provided by Bayer. Lego bought plastic precolored. So for special colors such as metalics etc, they mainly just had to order them. The big limiting factor was inventory control. They could only have as many active colors in the factory as they had silo space for to store the pellets. (this is why early sets had very limited color pallets. And some color combinations would be similar across themes in the same production period). Also each color of each part becomes it's own inventory management headache in the warehouse. The great purge of obscure colors and part tooling occurred as Lego recovered from their near bankruptcy in the early 2000's. Part of the findings then was Lego was losing too much money stockpiling vasy quantities of limited purpose stuff in their warehouses. They had to streamline to better manage their logistics chain. Thus the color pallet was trimmed and the one in one out rule was established for a time. To get a new color one had to be retired. But 10 years later technology changed the game. With their modernized factories Lego now mostly buys neutral colored pellets (generally a translucent whitish color) and injects the color dye into the molten plastic on the factory floor as needed. This means they can much more easily rework for different colors almost on the fly. And they can produce the colored parts as needed without having to warehouse vast quantities or overruns. They can pretty much do color on demand. But there are some trade offs with this. The first, and the one most commonly bitched about by Lego fans, is part to part, batch to batch there will be slightly more color variation between parts. Especially blues and yellows. Under strong lighting you might see minor variations as they are no longer using perfect color matched pellets from the plastic factory and instead are machine mixing on the fly. Where people get it wrong is they think this is a QC issue. It's not. It is a minor sacrifice in order to go to a much more powerful production system. One that allows a much broader pallet of colors per set. Every set. Your yellows may not be 100% perfectly matching now. They may only match to 98%. But that gives you back teal, and salmon, and all the Friends colors. And the autumn leaves in the treehouse, etc. The other negative or sacrifice is there are some types of colors that the color injection system just can't do or do well. Pearlescent Metalics for example. Those they still need to get pellets for. But with the ability to do most coloring on the fly, they are less likely to bulk buy special pellets just for some special project. So they work around with what they can do via color injection.
I'm honestly baffled that in late TWENTY EIGHTEEN there are still people that get really uppity about Bionicle. You got to wonder how old many of these people are. It's just so baffling to me.
@@borby4584 Fun fact, the Toa and Matoran are not robots... not quite. They have a mostly mechanical outer shell, but they have living organs and muscle tissue. They are very much alive.
Bionicle’s end was a devistating moment in 2010. The rerun just was not right. It felt like hero factory more then its predecessor. Well we know that it’s never coming back. Life changes.
I still remember picking up a Karzon set from a local shop from some spare money when i was a kid. It came in an aluminium canister wich really surprised me because i was used to the simple boxes. I'm planning to buy these sets again, same with the old Bionicle sets.
Knights Kingdom I was my Castle theme. I really wish I had grown up with the Black Falcons and older themes, but the ones I had will always hold a place in my heart.
Great episode. Y'know it's funny how Knights Kingdom represented that 2000's edginess while Nexo Knights represented the tech-heavy aesthetic like we've seen in sets from LEGO in this decade
If I was born a few years later, Nexo Knights would have been my thing. I was unfortunately grown up by the time it launched, but man, looking at it now, I LOVE this line!
I had all of the buildable figures, unfortunately left them at a friends house, shortly after we stopped being friends and they just got lost there ugh. Miss them, honestly some of my favorites/most nostalgic toys
I found all of my Knight's Kingdom figures in a box, all complete. I never forget the comics in the instructions, I was playing with all these sets for hours and hours when I was younger. Thanks for this awesome video.
Imagine Lego bringing back some old themes like Knight's kingdom II, Alpha team, Adventurers and Exoforce... they had some pretty badass ideas back in the day that could've been even cooler with the modern pieces of today. The dark age of the late 90s-early 2000s really brought out the best from lego creativity-wise, even though constraction might not fly as well any more. Those characters and stories, although pretty similar for the most part, resonated with lots of kids much better than the random policemen, firefighters and other citizens of Lego city
i grew up with these sets i remember getting vladeks fortress for christmas it was so grand and probably the largest set i ever had and it went so well with the other castle, i wish nexoknights was a thing back then however i bet it would have been one of my fav lego themes
Holy shit! Do you know what you have done? I have been trying to remember Galidor's name since 2003. you have no idea how much time I have spent googling random things trying to remember a nostalgic biased and hazy memory from when I was 5. today however at 4:30 in your video a childhood memory I have been fighting for 15 years has been realized. so thank you!!! A like and a sub are coming to you
I wish the Glatorian wave from Bionicle was like Matoran-sized builds protecting, other matoran sized builds. that's why I believe BobTheDoctor27's STARs mocs of 2009 are pretty cool.
My first Lego set I ever got new was the original santis red knight. My aunt's friend gave me a Lego catalog and my aunt said she would buy me one thing that summer and I picked santis. Although he didn't show up until after I had to go back to school so I had to wait till the next summer to put him together. He was either lost or sold when my aunt sold her house and moved but I still miss him even now that I'm 23.
I still have the green one of these figures. I lost the gold armor and weapons that it came with, but still have most of the figure. I actually liked this line a lot.
I loved the Knights Kingdom Line. Especley the 3 Vladek Action Figure. That Cape and OH THAT SWORD. It looked so Powerfull and Manacing. Loved the FIgures just as much as Bionicle.
Holly shit what a good video. Dynamic, with tons of information spat out, your own internal jokes. 10/10 would buy knights' kingdom big figs again. Satisfied 100%
found your channel through this video. i was broswing old toylines from my childhood and this popped up in my suggested vids. this was really well done. i then turned around and binged the whole playlist. good job
Can't believe you didn't talk about the knights kingdom chess set. I still use mine pretty often. It's WAAYY too fiddly to play a clock game any faster than rapid (10 mins for the non chess heads), but it's great to bring out for drunk chess at a house party and it's super transportable, it came in a little briefcase. I had to swap the skirts out on the queens to give them legs thought because the system pieces they came with just separate too easily from the minifigs.
Hitting the whole castle theme. I'm down for that. Castle Classic: This is one of Lego's core themes so I don't think they'll every give it up. But I have been impressed by how Lego has stepped up their game over the decades. The 80's and 90's sets were plastic Lincoln Logs. Build a square and top it with some towers. Today, castles can be found in Elves, Atlantis, Disney Princess, even the Friends big sets and Harry Potter are improvements on the Castle aesthetic. Jellybean Knights: Slightly ahead of its time. Lego was trying to repeat the success of Bionicle with another story theme. And like G1 Bionicle, took the 'throw everything and see what sticks' approach. I think the rogue knights came too late but could have saved the theme. Having a villain or monster to pit your knights against was a missing ingredient. I do appreciate Lego trying to bridge that divide between System and Bionicle fans. They tried repeatedly to bring those camps together. I think Knight Kingdom suffered because of its parts. If it used today's CCBS or even the Mixel pieces it would look 100x better. Nexo Knights: I loved the knights names as references to weapons. I wish they would have introduced another girl knight, call her Sheila and she could wield the Shield of Ages from Knights Kingdom. This themed seemed a mix of Exo Force, Knights Kingdom and Ninjago. On paper that should have been a winner, but execution could have been better. The knights had some personality, but also felt like the warmed over leftovers of Power Ranger. Here a nindroid, er Knight droid, would have made sense. And I would have loved is the previous Castle themes played a part in this one. like Macy is a descendant of the dragon knights and Axl is part of the Ox knight clan, Aaron isn't a knight but a Forest Ranger. One lesson I hope Lego takes into the future, is to air its episodes online. Don't rely on Cartoon Network.
Now that you mention it, more of these themes would probably benefit from a “6th Ranger” character type. It’s proven that everyone loves Takanuva and Lloyd. Maybe it isn’t possible in a 2.5 year series, except Bionicle and Ninjago did just that. Chima kinda tried with the phoenixes, but they didn’t have much impact and looked pretty stupid. Nexo Knights pretended to try with Robin/Jestro, but they never got the full treatment with signature weapon, unique visor, etc. And if LEGO really can’t budget in a new protagonist half way into the series, then maybe they should just cut one out and save it for later.
I think with certain lines its also important to see what lines are competing with it; while it may seem like certain themes (like castle) are fading away from relivance, it may just be that they're a victim of product release
I was devastated when bionicle ended. From that moment on I realized everything changes. Stan lee is dead and trump is president. This world is destroying itself.
Oh for me, we had both system and figures, knights kingdom Ii was a system set was a line that also had figures to me, if that makes sense. Like I saw it sooo much more as a system focused line, despite having (I think) all the figures for the first two lines. I had a lot of fun with them!
I grew up with both of the Knights' Kingdom lines in a weird way. The first trough the LEGO Creator game themed after it, and the second trough the large action figure like knights! I loved the themes, even though I didn't have any sets from either of them! XD
I remember being a "fan" of Knights' Kingdom (2), so much in fact that I got my first and only Lego themed bedsheets with Lego Knights' Kingdom on. Also I think that I had the green Knight despite don't remember anything or knowing how it looks. Idk but I still have like 1 or both of the feet pieces in my basket filled with Lego. *and by "fan" I mean "I once saw something that I find cool despite having 2, 1 or none of the sets I'm automatically a fan fsr" lol. Well at least I became a fan of Nexo Knights years later after I heard less about Knights' Kingdom. I do only have 1 set so far, but I do have 2 minifigs that I got after buying 2 of the issues of the comics. I still want the moveable castle.
"It's the figures that people mainly remember this line for" Nah man, for me it's definitely the minifigures (and not entirely positively). My favorites are Danju and the standard Shadow Knight mook.
The original Knights Kingdom is super nostalgic for me for one reason: Lego Creator: Knights' Kingdom! Such a janky game, if it can even be called a game, but I loooooved it as a kid.
I always liked the humor in the tutorial. Like Cedric stupidly pointing out when your building the prison that there's no door and when you put the door in he immediately regrets it. Oh Cedric you thick loveable rogue
It’s amazing to see this theme still getting a little love. I really appreciate this review for that!! If anyone is interested, please check out this Facebook group for some MOCS: facebook.com/groups/1608938749412531/
It's very sad to see castle and pirate go but I wish they would release one last classic legends line where they remake the best sets from og pirate and castles as a good send off for fans of castle and pirate
So I was just binge watching some of TJOmega's older reviews, and I keep finding you everywhere dude. Also, it's very interesting to know that there was an "Original" Knights Kingdom before the 2004 version.
2:03 at some time later I’ll have to make a video on the little-known story of the Bulls in Knights Kingdom. Some of the books had interesting backstory to the relation between Credic and King Leo that wasn’t run of the mill castle invaders taking over the land.
Oh yes please do! I have the book that sheds light on the fact that Cedric is actually a prince! Cedric's story needs to be told and brought out into the limelight. If Knights Kingdom 1 was a theme released around Ninjago's, Chima's and Nexo Knights' time, Cedric's story would be a lot more well known. Plus I bet ya Cedric would've gone through character development by today's Lego villains standards.
Nexo Knights is what got me into buying sets again. They felt nice an chunky like a lot of toys when I had when I was younger felt, and for the longest time I was just using Bricklink, the local hobby shop's lego bin, or the occasional second hand store's massive discounts.
So, you think that castle themes are dying, but maybe it's it not that?Maybe it's that all the Combat Centric Themes are dying? Think about it- every unsuccessful theme thus far made a crutial mistake of devolving into boring repetitious war, and the Longest runners were those themes that had more to the world then 2 or more factions Brawling it out...
@@NickonPlanetRipple Well, tough luck, Feiber is Busy with his personal Projects, and without him the most exploration we'll get is either re-imaginings like space police ,or direct continuation of the Main themes (As In- ninjago, City, and Movie Tie-ins). Sadly Lego is way more a Model Company rather then a Toy company nowadays, what with 4 new Series that are all basically "Build your Collectible fandom tie in"
I/m surprised you didn't talk about Chima here; in its earliest concept art, it was literally an army of lion people fighting an army of scorpion people. It also included those animal castles.
I have to say i just remember the system sets but to be fair it was bc 8779 The Grand Tournament was the first lego system set i ever got when i was like 5 or 6
Holy shit I was on holiday in France when I was still a kid and had cereal and there was a unique knights kingdoms 2 vladik figure in it. It was a 1 part figure but could still fit on lego plates Edit: YESSS THE ONES ON 8:32 AHHH THE NOSTALGIA It came with the cereal
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I feel Like Lego is slowy giving up on original themes
@@nehehehgraylois I mean Nexo Knights was cool
@@nehehehgraylois yeah
@Mr. Al I mean I like Ninjago Nexo Knights is more iffy
I do like nexo knights and knights kingdom and Ninjago
@Mr. Al I can only agree with you on the LEGO NEXO Knights theme (only when it comes to the LEGO sets *_themselves_* - the LEGO NEXO Knights animated T.V. series was actually quite enjoyable there); however, when it comes to the LEGO NINJAGO theme, I happen to like it (though not as much as the LEGO Legends of CHIMA theme).
wow, a shadiversity reference is the last thing i expected in this show
Seemed appropriate.
Now i want a castle. Just so i can build MACHICOLAATIIIIIIIOOOOONS!!!
@@welthund91 But what about dragons?
When he mentioned Shadiversity I thought to myself "why I haven't thought about it earlier?"
And a Carlin reference!
NEVER stop bringing up BIONICLE. Sure, there are some losers who don't like it because it "isn't real LEGO" or whatever. But it is one of the most important themes LEGO has ever created, whether they like it or not. BIONICLE more than deserves to be mentioned whenever it can. :)
I liked bionicle BECAUSE it was less like any other Lego to date.
I think I should check into this Bionicle.
At least these losers arent furries
I liked BIONICLE because of it’s story, lore and world building. Which is something I never expected from LEGO
I agree BIONICLE is legendary famous to this day.
this is was by far my favorite lego theme. This alongside Jack Stone brings so much nostalgia. My dad used to go on business trips when I was younger and he would always bring a set of this home after he came back.
I felt such a strong connection to Jayko, or the arrogant knight with great potential, who let his ego get ahead of him (causing Santos to get triggered by him in one of the online comics), but he eventually did right.
Such a great story and original theme was heartbroken when it was canceled
Hey man, do not feel bad about liking something when you were a kids that kids today may not like. Different generations like different things. You were a product of your time and so are kids today. Different strokes for different folks. :-)
@Always watching Just as soon an you stop following me! ;-)
General Kenobi!
He has the high moral ground!
*Hello there.*
Hello there!
For the record. Flamethrowers of a form existed back in ancient greece (greek fire) so its not too absurd to give the knights kingdom sets a flamethrower
PRsOwn Glaceon Holy crap, that’s awesome.
That is indeed so awesome!
That is actually a common misconception, Greek fire was invented in Greece during the medieval period to protect against norse raids from the sea
Yeah but i don’t think it was ever used on a cart lmao
Also for the record it wasn’t invented in Ancient Greece, it was invented in Constantinople
Keep on talking about Bionicle, we all LOVE IT.
I'm sad to see Nexo Knights go, 'cuz damn they had some great armour and weapon designs for people like me who use minifigs as D&D minis. Fingers crossed they put out something similar to Chima soon...
Also, nice to see someone else watches Shad.
@Tesla-Effect its not its fucking cool
Agreed! I wanted to like the new mech suits for Marvel, but they don't have nearly the build quality or cockpit design as the Nexo suits. Which is mind-boggling.
I always loved this line’s proto-contraction style. I think the compromise between bricks and figures within this line could be reused for a third Bonkle generation if it ever happens.
I would love to see a new Castle subtheme returning to the classic Low Fantasy roots of the 80s, with multiple factions of questionable morality, with castles, fortresses, and hideouts as appropriate. Don't just give us a story-give us a *world* to play in.
Ah, yes. This takes me back.
I got the five sets of those joint figures, Jakyo the Quick, Danju the Clever, Santis the Strong, Rascus the Joker and Vladek the Traitor.
I even played those flash games based on the figures. Pity they stopped being available before Flash died recently.
Good times.
Knights Kingdom was always cool, but I especially Remember the second one. The Bionicles esque toys were really cool, and I still have a few.
I actually went out of my way about a year ago to buy the characters I missed (Adric, Kentis, Karzon, and 2006 Vladek because my 2004 and 2005 versions were busted up)
What worries me more than Nexo Knights ending this year, is that I don't think we've heard anything about Lego's next Big Bang theme (a story theme like Chima and Ninjago) for 2019. Now granted, they could be saving that for either next Summer or 2020 to plan it through some more. But looking at how almost consistently Chima and Nexo Knights have performed, I'm becoming slightly scared that Lego may be more complacent on their licensed themes and only have Ninjago as their truly original property. But even then, they're going back to the first three years with their upcoming Legacy line. While that's cool for the newer fans and some of the sets look better than their originals, it kinda feels telling that maybe that theme might be running short of its imagination spark.
I won't give up on the hope of Lego making another successful story theme, Castle or otherwise, as long as they still have designers who will still come up with great and imaginative designs. It just feels worrying to me that Lego may follow the way of other big conglomerates like Disney and just rely on branding to be the path of viable business in the future. I don't think I will get over the day when they give up on original themes to get there. Sorry what I just wrote might be a bit of a downer. But I guess it helps to get stuff like this out and hopefully will spark some thoughtful discussions.
I did enjoy reminiscing on both Knights Kingdom themes though. They were both released at the best times for me as a Lego fan. The original was released just a year after I got into Lego and the second theme helped catered to me when I was still on my Bionicle high days. I didn't get into Nexo Knights sadly, but I appreciated what the designers did for the theme. The only proper set I got was the Black Knight mech, and it is beautiful! Though Clay's newer anime looking mech also looks awesome! I hope we can get a proper mech based theme with designs like these from Lego someday (Exo Force successor, maybe?).
*whew* That turned out longer than I thought. Great video, Nick! Keep doing what you do best at your own pace!
I really hope for some sort of Space theme. All the factions throughout the 90’s, surely at least one, maybe two could be worthy of a revival. Just make a story with 2 good and bad factions, but have them both human, and SEPARATE. Not a big bad guy ship with a couple good guys or vice versa. Perhaps add a third line of neutrals to put between. The LEGO Movie 2 Benny Battle Pack and the Benny Juniors Repair Shop proves that LEGO still has the parts and ideas to make new versions of old things.
I'm assuming they are gonna be relying on the Lego Movie 2 for 2019's top seller line, and creating something big for 2020.
One thing I'm worried about is it's been 4 years since the last space theme, and the next one will probably be mixed in with Ninjago, fighting mutant alien snakes 🙄
@@t65bx25 I love the idea of neutral forces in war stories, but I think it would be cooler if it wasn't just humans vs humans, why not get some robots and aliens in there? Like star wars or Star trek?
Honestly though, I think Lego needs to steer clear from the whole "team" faction for once. One thing I don't like with nexo knights is each character has a designated weapon, color, and vehicle design. What I mean is it always seems it's just a guy driving around in a sword shaped car with his sword,
But then over head his friend flies over head in a crossbow shaped jet with his crossbow. Ninjago did a bit better with the red ninja, blue ninja, green ninja thing. But then with already had Galaxy squad that had red team, blue team, green team, and then knights kingdom before that!
I honestly wouldn’t mind Ninjago In Space, even if they’re fighting Skeleton Samurai Pirate Snakes for the 50th time. Better than what ever the heck Ninjago’s doing now.
I get nostalgic with Knight's Kingdom 2. I liked both the sets and buildable figs, but esp. the sets (I guess my buildable fig love belonged to Bionicle). My brother and I got the first castle for Christmas and it was the coolest and biggest set in our Lego collection. We also had 2 of the figs (our favorites), the bridge crossing, and the citadel (next Christmas). So many great play features (traps, action features, hidden secrets), new pieces, the online comics and flash games to add to the lore, the playing cards hinting at a bigger world, the story and characters (having them all included in the castle was awesome!). Never got any sets after the first year, I didn't feel like starting over with the updated minifigs. Thanks man, great video!
I really like the old "Knight's Kingdom" theme (with Jayko, Danju, Vladek etc.), the old color schemes were really beautiful and the characters were pretty creative. One thing that always stuck out to me was the old blue hue, I really liked the cobalt/ultramarine color, which I've never seen again in any other themes. The armor, swords, and shields were also really unique, never saw anything like that. I still remember finding one in a toy store in Europe many years after the theme was cancelled, I was so excited to get it.
Of course the newer medieval themes were also really awesome, especially when the introduced the chrome-plated swords. In general I loved those themes.
@@BazukinBelyugovich The color schemes and new pieces were fantastic. If Lego ever does another knight/castle theme, I hope they take some inspirations from Knight's Kingdom
Just when I thought "Shadiversity should review some of these" you actually said it ^^
Now if we can just get this in front of his eyes.
I am shocked by how many people forget about this theme. Knights' Kingdom was the first Lego theme I ever followed and some of my first ever sets (the buildable figures) came from this theme. I got the books, played the online games, and read the online comics. This theme has a very special place in my heart with Santis the Bear bing my favorite. Thank you for doing a video on it. :-)
The first Knights Kingdom is way more forgotten about then the second one. Which sucks since everyone forgets Knights Kingdom 1 was actually the first castle theme to have an actual full complete royal family. King Leo, Queen Leonora and Princess Storm. Storm actually being the first castle princess minifig wanting to be a knight, not Princess Macy from Nexo Knights.
Also Cedric was a way more interesting villain then Vladek to me. Vladek was just the guy that betrayed the king for no reason other then power with no other backstory. Cedric on the other hand was more than just a random outlaw that wanted Leo's throne. A Knights Kingdom story book and Creator Knights Kingdom's manual reveals he's actually a prince from a land far away from Leo's who's a little bit more then pissed off at the fact that his 12 other brothers(take that Prince Hans!)were given land and there was none left for him when their father died. So rather then trying to take one of his brother's land's by force. The guy becomes an outlaw and travels a far distance away from his home kingdom and decides to take the land of a king that has no relation to Cedric or his family's bloodline.
Me too. My first set when i was 3 was the wizard's castle and then the santis figure model 1 bionicle looking, then the blue guy model 2. I even had the strange vladek at 8:32. If i remember, it was from a box of cereals
@@robonaught That's *_*very*_* interesting for Cedric the Bull to have such a deep and complex backstory! I like it. What is the name (tile) of that LEGO Knights' Kingdom (I)'s story book, so that I can maybe buy it on Bricklink, e-Bay or Amazon?
@@StevenVillman Medieval Mischief and Mayhem
That was a great video, with a lot of information but not overwhelming. I will try to buy some nexo knights.
Also, Dude, that lion to scorpion castle transformation.
I need it. As far as you know, has someone already made a MOC of it?
I don't think so.
Claudio Bizama finally, someone who likes that set!
I had that castle. We always played a war just so we had a reason to switch the castle's banners. Was a pretty neat set.
Way late. But here's a quick explanation as to why Lego retired some colors back in the day. Why we are now seeing them return, and why things like Metalic Green will sadly probably not be on the list anytime soon. Back in the day, up until fairly recently (2014-15'ish) All colors came directly from plastic pellets provided by Bayer. Lego bought plastic precolored. So for special colors such as metalics etc, they mainly just had to order them. The big limiting factor was inventory control. They could only have as many active colors in the factory as they had silo space for to store the pellets. (this is why early sets had very limited color pallets. And some color combinations would be similar across themes in the same production period). Also each color of each part becomes it's own inventory management headache in the warehouse. The great purge of obscure colors and part tooling occurred as Lego recovered from their near bankruptcy in the early 2000's. Part of the findings then was Lego was losing too much money stockpiling vasy quantities of limited purpose stuff in their warehouses. They had to streamline to better manage their logistics chain. Thus the color pallet was trimmed and the one in one out rule was established for a time. To get a new color one had to be retired.
But 10 years later technology changed the game. With their modernized factories Lego now mostly buys neutral colored pellets (generally a translucent whitish color) and injects the color dye into the molten plastic on the factory floor as needed. This means they can much more easily rework for different colors almost on the fly. And they can produce the colored parts as needed without having to warehouse vast quantities or overruns. They can pretty much do color on demand. But there are some trade offs with this. The first, and the one most commonly bitched about by Lego fans, is part to part, batch to batch there will be slightly more color variation between parts. Especially blues and yellows. Under strong lighting you might see minor variations as they are no longer using perfect color matched pellets from the plastic factory and instead are machine mixing on the fly. Where people get it wrong is they think this is a QC issue. It's not. It is a minor sacrifice in order to go to a much more powerful production system. One that allows a much broader pallet of colors per set. Every set. Your yellows may not be 100% perfectly matching now. They may only match to 98%. But that gives you back teal, and salmon, and all the Friends colors. And the autumn leaves in the treehouse, etc. The other negative or sacrifice is there are some types of colors that the color injection system just can't do or do well. Pearlescent Metalics for example. Those they still need to get pellets for. But with the ability to do most coloring on the fly, they are less likely to bulk buy special pellets just for some special project. So they work around with what they can do via color injection.
"Johnny Thunder a renaissance fair"
10/10
11:30 the idea behind nexo knights was great, but the lack of other normal knight sets made it fail since everyone who wanted normal knights hated it
I'm honestly baffled that in late TWENTY EIGHTEEN there are still people that get really uppity about Bionicle. You got to wonder how old many of these people are. It's just so baffling to me.
lol welp I'm a fan of bionicle then I'll say but yeah I love bionicle before all the robotic stuff came in and took over lol
I'll have you know you cretin
Polruss Tomakriss ...when did they NOT have robots??????
@@borby4584 Fun fact, the Toa and Matoran are not robots... not quite. They have a mostly mechanical outer shell, but they have living organs and muscle tissue. They are very much alive.
Bionicle’s end was a devistating moment in 2010. The rerun just was not right. It felt like hero factory more then its predecessor. Well we know that it’s never coming back. Life changes.
4:12 whoa those custom Glatorian are just 👌👌👌
I still remember picking up a Karzon set from a local shop from some spare money when i was a kid. It came in an aluminium canister wich really surprised me because i was used to the simple boxes. I'm planning to buy these sets again, same with the old Bionicle sets.
Dark times are awaiting lego, and this time, bionicle won't save them.
Özgür Fırat BOZ Want to bet?
@@Raidmasterprod Due to how every thing and form of media I like gets thrown to the curb, I'm betting my money against a constraction/ccbs savior
@deathwingrocks What do you mean? Are they realising new ccbs?
Yeah, The LEGO Company seems to have *_*really*_* has lost its way!!! ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️
Dude LEGO got up to 4 billion dollars this decade and last decade (2000s) they were at about 1 or 2 million. 90% of the millions comes fro bionicle.
Knights Kingdom I was my Castle theme. I really wish I had grown up with the Black Falcons and older themes, but the ones I had will always hold a place in my heart.
Great episode. Y'know it's funny how Knights Kingdom represented that 2000's edginess while Nexo Knights represented the tech-heavy aesthetic like we've seen in sets from LEGO in this decade
Nexo Knights must have come and gone while I was extra busy finishing growing up and leaving town for work. I would have loved it!
12:47 love those orange spike rings on the right. Theyre from old sets
I forgot so many Lego Sets I owned a decade ago. But watching your channel helps me remember again. I'm really thankful for that.
If LEGO continues to make more LEGO Castle themes, I will be amazed. 9:34
Knights Kingdom 1 could do with a prequel theme due to reasons explained later on in episode 26
If I was born a few years later, Nexo Knights would have been my thing. I was unfortunately grown up by the time it launched, but man, looking at it now, I LOVE this line!
I had all of the buildable figures, unfortunately left them at a friends house, shortly after we stopped being friends and they just got lost there ugh. Miss them, honestly some of my favorites/most nostalgic toys
I found all of my Knight's Kingdom figures in a box, all complete.
I never forget the comics in the instructions, I was playing with all these sets for hours and hours when I was younger.
Thanks for this awesome video.
Imagine Lego bringing back some old themes like Knight's kingdom II, Alpha team, Adventurers and Exoforce... they had some pretty badass ideas back in the day that could've been even cooler with the modern pieces of today. The dark age of the late 90s-early 2000s really brought out the best from lego creativity-wise, even though constraction might not fly as well any more. Those characters and stories, although pretty similar for the most part, resonated with lots of kids much better than the random policemen, firefighters and other citizens of Lego city
i grew up with these sets i remember getting vladeks fortress for christmas it was so grand and probably the largest set i ever had and it went so well with the other castle, i wish nexoknights was a thing back then however i bet it would have been one of my fav lego themes
Holy shit! Do you know what you have done? I have been trying to remember Galidor's name since 2003. you have no idea how much time I have spent googling random things trying to remember a nostalgic biased and hazy memory from when I was 5. today however at 4:30 in your video a childhood memory I have been fighting for 15 years has been realized. so thank you!!! A like and a sub are coming to you
There's a Galidor episode if you wanna go back and see it. It's an April Fools thing, so there's a twist to it.
that vladek minifigure joke is amazing
15:29 avak is like :"those are some sweet fucking hand pieces you got there ma lad"
Damn! Those animal shaped castles for Knights Kingdom 2, such missed opportunities for Lego...
Very Chima-esque.
I wish the Glatorian wave from Bionicle was like Matoran-sized builds protecting, other matoran sized builds. that's why I believe BobTheDoctor27's STARs mocs of 2009 are pretty cool.
Themes talked about in this video:
Knights Kingdom 1 2000
Knights Kingdom 2 2004-2006
Nexo Knights 2016-2018
2021 Crusader line?
Hmmm
Ah this was both informative and Nostalgic. Knights Kingdoms II was my brother and I’s childhood.
My first Lego set I ever got new was the original santis red knight. My aunt's friend gave me a Lego catalog and my aunt said she would buy me one thing that summer and I picked santis. Although he didn't show up until after I had to go back to school so I had to wait till the next summer to put him together. He was either lost or sold when my aunt sold her house and moved but I still miss him even now that I'm 23.
Finally someone who likes nexo knights.
Those movable joints are still here today, in those DC Superheroes sets 5:35.
Right into my childhood.
Loved this line as a kid!
Gosh I have so many of the year 2.5 sets for the Knights' Kingdom 2. Takes me back.
Vladek is a really cool name for villain
5:51-WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP!?
(Just made a Shrek reference!)
Hey I had those doofy little knights, they were from cereal boxes and I loved em! Man cereal never has anything cool in it anymore
KEEP TALKING ABOUT BIONICAL!!
I LOVE IT!!
What an excellent episode! Can’t wait for the next one.
More metal slug soundtrack... Hell yeah
Constr-ACTION! I've been through so many episodes and JUST got it Now! 😄
I still have the green one of these figures. I lost the gold armor and weapons that it came with, but still have most of the figure. I actually liked this line a lot.
Damn Nexo Knights actually seemed pretty neat and I'm sad I slept on the theme back in its hay day.
I loved the Knights Kingdom Line. Especley the 3 Vladek Action Figure. That Cape and OH THAT SWORD. It looked so Powerfull and Manacing. Loved the FIgures just as much as Bionicle.
Oh I loved the Knights kingdom lines I loved them so much when I was younger
Holly shit what a good video.
Dynamic, with tons of information spat out, your own internal jokes.
10/10 would buy knights' kingdom big figs again.
Satisfied 100%
found your channel through this video. i was broswing old toylines from my childhood and this popped up in my suggested vids. this was really well done. i then turned around and binged the whole playlist. good job
I friggin’s love Nexo Knights
Can't believe you didn't talk about the knights kingdom chess set. I still use mine pretty often. It's WAAYY too fiddly to play a clock game any faster than rapid (10 mins for the non chess heads), but it's great to bring out for drunk chess at a house party and it's super transportable, it came in a little briefcase. I had to swap the skirts out on the queens to give them legs thought because the system pieces they came with just separate too easily from the minifigs.
7:30
You kinda got your wish in the form the canonized designs for the rest of the toa hagah.
We definitely used Knight's Kingdom armor and swords on our Bionicle figs
Really good and entertaining video! Good research as well! 👍
Hitting the whole castle theme. I'm down for that.
Castle Classic: This is one of Lego's core themes so I don't think they'll every give it up. But I have been impressed by how Lego has stepped up their game over the decades. The 80's and 90's sets were plastic Lincoln Logs. Build a square and top it with some towers. Today, castles can be found in Elves, Atlantis, Disney Princess, even the Friends big sets and Harry Potter are improvements on the Castle aesthetic.
Jellybean Knights: Slightly ahead of its time. Lego was trying to repeat the success of Bionicle with another story theme. And like G1 Bionicle, took the 'throw everything and see what sticks' approach. I think the rogue knights came too late but could have saved the theme. Having a villain or monster to pit your knights against was a missing ingredient. I do appreciate Lego trying to bridge that divide between System and Bionicle fans. They tried repeatedly to bring those camps together. I think Knight Kingdom suffered because of its parts. If it used today's CCBS or even the Mixel pieces it would look 100x better.
Nexo Knights: I loved the knights names as references to weapons. I wish they would have introduced another girl knight, call her Sheila and she could wield the Shield of Ages from Knights Kingdom. This themed seemed a mix of Exo Force, Knights Kingdom and Ninjago. On paper that should have been a winner, but execution could have been better. The knights had some personality, but also felt like the warmed over leftovers of Power Ranger. Here a nindroid, er Knight droid, would have made sense. And I would have loved is the previous Castle themes played a part in this one. like Macy is a descendant of the dragon knights and Axl is part of the Ox knight clan, Aaron isn't a knight but a Forest Ranger.
One lesson I hope Lego takes into the future, is to air its episodes online. Don't rely on Cartoon Network.
Now that you mention it, more of these themes would probably benefit from a “6th Ranger” character type. It’s proven that everyone loves Takanuva and Lloyd. Maybe it isn’t possible in a 2.5 year series, except Bionicle and Ninjago did just that. Chima kinda tried with the phoenixes, but they didn’t have much impact and looked pretty stupid. Nexo Knights pretended to try with Robin/Jestro, but they never got the full treatment with signature weapon, unique visor, etc. And if LEGO really can’t budget in a new protagonist half way into the series, then maybe they should just cut one out and save it for later.
I think with certain lines its also important to see what lines are competing with it; while it may seem like certain themes (like castle) are fading away from relivance, it may just be that they're a victim of product release
nick: zooms in on green knight
also nick: L E W A
My fucking God I remember having two of these. The Black Knight and the Green Knight. Holy shit that is some nostalgia
8:30 This is a serious WTF moment... had to rewind and watch again a couple of times to satisfy my laughter.
Ninjago is slowly making me resent the word ninja now... I'm calling Shinobi so my brain doesn't burn... Its only original theme I see in store now.
I was devastated when bionicle ended. From that moment on I realized everything changes. Stan lee is dead and trump is president. This world is destroying itself.
7:27 This aged… perfectly
Oh my god that George Carlin bit was perfect thank you so much
Oh for me, we had both system and figures, knights kingdom Ii was a system set was a line that also had figures to me, if that makes sense. Like I saw it sooo much more as a system focused line, despite having (I think) all the figures for the first two lines. I had a lot of fun with them!
I grew up with both of the Knights' Kingdom lines in a weird way. The first trough the LEGO Creator game themed after it, and the second trough the large action figure like knights! I loved the themes, even though I didn't have any sets from either of them! XD
I remember being a "fan" of Knights' Kingdom (2), so much in fact that I got my first and only Lego themed bedsheets with Lego Knights' Kingdom on.
Also I think that I had the green Knight despite don't remember anything or knowing how it looks. Idk but I still have like 1 or both of the feet pieces in my basket filled with Lego.
*and by "fan" I mean "I once saw something that I find cool despite having 2, 1 or none of the sets I'm automatically a fan fsr" lol.
Well at least I became a fan of Nexo Knights years later after I heard less about Knights' Kingdom. I do only have 1 set so far, but I do have 2 minifigs that I got after buying 2 of the issues of the comics. I still want the moveable castle.
Posting this here cuz I don’t have a Deviantart account anymore:
HOLY SHIT, THAT “Puny Ridley” DRAWING! FUCK YES!
Ha, I love how much the video begins to fade into Bionicle, right before it’s pulled quickly back.
"It's the figures that people mainly remember this line for"
Nah man, for me it's definitely the minifigures (and not entirely positively). My favorites are Danju and the standard Shadow Knight mook.
The original Knights Kingdom is super nostalgic for me for one reason: Lego Creator: Knights' Kingdom! Such a janky game, if it can even be called a game, but I loooooved it as a kid.
I always liked the humor in the tutorial. Like Cedric stupidly pointing out when your building the prison that there's no door and when you put the door in he immediately regrets it. Oh Cedric you thick loveable rogue
I would love an old castle theme
Lego seems to have decent plans to start trickling Castle back in this year.
My nostalgia just broke down my door.
It’s amazing to see this theme still getting a little love. I really appreciate this review for that!!
If anyone is interested, please check out this Facebook group for some MOCS:
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Verrrrrry nice.
Amazing video, thanks for sharing
It's very sad to see castle and pirate go but I wish they would release one last classic legends line where they remake the best sets from og pirate and castles as a good send off for fans of castle and pirate
Yesssss I’ve waited for this man.
So I was just binge watching some of TJOmega's older reviews, and I keep finding you everywhere dude. Also, it's very interesting to know that there was an "Original" Knights Kingdom before the 2004 version.
2:03 at some time later I’ll have to make a video on the little-known story of the Bulls in Knights Kingdom. Some of the books had interesting backstory to the relation between Credic and King Leo that wasn’t run of the mill castle invaders taking over the land.
Oh yes please do! I have the book that sheds light on the fact that Cedric is actually a prince! Cedric's story needs to be told and brought out into the limelight. If Knights Kingdom 1 was a theme released around Ninjago's, Chima's and Nexo Knights' time, Cedric's story would be a lot more well known. Plus I bet ya Cedric would've gone through character development by today's Lego villains standards.
Nexo Knights is what got me into buying sets again. They felt nice an chunky like a lot of toys when I had when I was younger felt, and for the longest time I was just using Bricklink, the local hobby shop's lego bin, or the occasional second hand store's massive discounts.
So, you think that castle themes are dying, but maybe it's it not that?Maybe it's that all the Combat Centric Themes are dying? Think about it- every unsuccessful theme thus far made a crutial mistake of devolving into boring repetitious war, and the Longest runners were those themes that had more to the world then 2 or more factions Brawling it out...
I would like a shift back to more explorative themes.
@@NickonPlanetRipple Well, tough luck, Feiber is Busy with his personal Projects, and without him the most exploration we'll get is either re-imaginings like space police ,or direct continuation of the Main themes (As In- ninjago, City, and Movie Tie-ins). Sadly Lego is way more a Model Company rather then a Toy company nowadays, what with 4 new Series that are all basically "Build your Collectible fandom tie in"
@Mr. Al knight 👎 ninja 👍
@Mr. Al What about the LEGO Legends of CHIMA theme???
"nExo KNigHts iS ReAlLy baD, it's jUst DoeSN't MaKE SenSE!"
Warhammer 40k: amma joke to ya!?
I/m surprised you didn't talk about Chima here; in its earliest concept art, it was literally an army of lion people fighting an army of scorpion people. It also included those animal castles.
Jj Mallek I didn’t know.
I have to say i just remember the system sets but to be fair it was bc 8779 The Grand Tournament was the first lego system set i ever got when i was like 5 or 6
Holy shit I was on holiday in France when I was still a kid and had cereal and there was a unique knights kingdoms 2 vladik figure in it. It was a 1 part figure but could still fit on lego plates
Edit: YESSS THE ONES ON 8:32 AHHH THE NOSTALGIA
It came with the cereal
0:59 the hell, is that the guy who played background characters on Are You Afraid of the Dark
Wow! what you said at the end kind of made me sad, I do feel like a weirdo with bad taste. but other then that I still like the video.