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Anonymous No.11526954 >>11526955 >>11526959 >>11526985 >>11526989 >>11526995 >>11527023 >>11527027 >>11527102
What was the best lego theme ever for you /tv/? For me it was pic related
Anonymous No.11526955 >>11526956 >>11526967
>>11526954 (OP)
the one about miners and rock/gem monsters. now stop making lego threads before I start buying myself sets
Anonymous No.11526956 >>11526957
>>11526955
What? This is my first thread
Anonymous No.11526957 >>11526958
>>11526956
there was one yesterday
Anonymous No.11526958
>>11526957
Really?
Anonymous No.11526959 >>11526960 >>11526962 >>11526966 >>11526981
>>11526954 (OP)
Besides Bionicle, Life on Mars from 2001 is one of my favorites. It was so simple and so short lived, but every set was kino. If you know you know.
Anonymous No.11526960 >>11526965 >>11526970
>>11526959
Any movies for this feel?
Anonymous No.11526961
VGH Nostalgia SOVL thread
Anonymous No.11526962 >>11526968
>>11526959
If you liked Bionicle, check out the Dreamzzz sets, they are really good.
Anonymous No.11526963 >>11526964
ExoForce, niggaz. They even had comics.
Anonymous No.11526964
>>11526963
This guy has sex
Anonymous No.11526965 >>11526970 >>11526981
>>11526960
Honestly no. That's part of why I love it: there's nothing like it.
The whole thing was there were like 3 sets that had human astronauts, and then the majority of the sets were focused on these martian aliens and their alien mechs and technology.
Early Bionicle had this really interesting tension where you weren't supposed to be sure if the Toa were friendly or hostile to each other, and the Life on Mars sets had the same thing, where you weren't sure if the martians were suppose to be friendly or hostile.
And then it had this intense late 90's early 00's sci-fi vibe.

Maybe you could get very vaguely similar vibes from Star Trek: Voyager
The Avatar movies are kinda similar on a surface level, being a story about aliens where human characters are the minority, but frankly it doesn't feel similar at all - the Ayys in Life on Mars are more technologically advanced than the human characters, and have way more personality than the aliens in Avatar.

Honestly the closest thing you could possibly get to Life on Mars might be playing Halo 2, which has half of its story mode devoted to playing as an alien and explores his alien culture.
It kinda feels similar, but even there, Life on Mars is more optimistic/exploration themed, where Halo 2 is about a big space war.
Anonymous No.11526966
>>11526959
Don't you race this mech in lego racers 2...? I could be miss remembering though.
Anonymous No.11526967
>>11526955
What are you worried about, Lego doesn't make original themes like Atlantis or Power miners anymore. It's all license slop. For Lego there's only Ninjago, City and Dreamzzz
Anonymous No.11526968
>>11526962
Kino
Anonymous No.11526969 >>11526973 >>11526976 >>11526981
Kino Alert!
Anonymous No.11526970
>>11526960
>>11526965
Only ones i can think of are Mars needs moms and the Martian.
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Anonymous No.11526972 >>11526981
I had this whole line as a kid. i'd put them together while watching DBZ eps on Toonami and drinking root beer floats. It was right after 9/11 but I couldn't have cared less, life was good
Anonymous No.11526973
>>11526969
Yep, now that was a good theme. They don't make 'em like they used to.
Anonymous No.11526974
pure soul
Anonymous No.11526975 >>11526979
Before Bionicle there were Technic Throwbots/Slizer and those weird bike things that could shoot out their front wheel
Anonymous No.11526976
>>11526969
vgh....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jQ93-cdJeY
Anonymous No.11526977
Anonymous No.11526978 >>11526980 >>11526984 >>11526986 >>11526993
off-brand Indiana Jones
Anonymous No.11526979
>>11526975
holy shit this is so fucking COOL
eat your heart out James Cameron, you wish you could do world building like this
Anonymous No.11526980
>>11526978
Kino
Anonymous No.11526981 >>11526983
>>11526959
>>11526965
>>11526972
Built the base set with my friend who got it, the theme was kino but the base was a letdown once we had it all together because it primarily the tube gimmick
>>11526969
Rock raiders was great, had a ton of the sets, this one was a birthday gift

My holy grail thought was fort legoredo, came with outlaws and Yankee soldiers and a ton of little lego guns. It was my main base for my "good guys" until the end of my lego days. Also had a bunch of Alpha Team sets which were solid, and of course the star wars sets. The early star wars sets were so good, the lightsabers were amazing to get for custom minifig characters.
Anonymous No.11526982
Loved the Samurai stuff, but I think the aliens were it for me. I also just weirdly liked the regular city sets.
Anonymous No.11526983
>>11526981
>but the base was a letdown once we had it all together because it primarily the tube gimmick
yea that's kind of a fault of that set. It's really cool in concept, but only if you have a few of the other sets to go with it
Anonymous No.11526984
>>11526978
I had a few of those. Comfy set.
Anonymous No.11526985
>>11526954 (OP)
The knights with the ogres and shit. Honestly anything unbranded from lego is neat.
Anonymous No.11526986
>>11526978
I used to mix this guy with Castle for Last Crusade feeling as well with Ninja to get some japan vibes, and also with Pirates and Islanders, when he's looking for shipwrecks and coastal ruins.
Honestly timeless theme that mixes do well with the rest.
Anonymous No.11526987 >>11526991
i still remember putting it together at the kitchen table. one of my earliest memories
Anonymous No.11526988 >>11526990 >>11526992
something that upsets me while thinking about this old stuff
Lego pre-franchise sets were so like pure and raw imagination fuel
besides the "lego" brand itself (which you could argue) there was less of a sense of like ... trying to assert brand-names onto kids and turn them into consumers
and something more of what seemed like a genuine loving/platonic effort to give kids tools they could imagine their own things with, and have their own fun with

I'm not one to shop for children's toys, I guess I don't know what's on the market, but do boys really have anything like that these days? toys they can use to make their own fun, instead of like - playing with corporate franchise collab characters in fortnite?
makes me depressed to think about.
i'm not in a position to have kids, but if i were going to, this is the kind of thing i might think about
Anonymous No.11526989
>>11526954 (OP)
I got this when I was 8 or 9.. Didn't understand the instructions so I couldn't build it. I left in the closet then sold it on ebay 5-10 years later. Got $100 or so. Wish I didn't because it's a fucking cool toy.
Anonymous No.11526990
>>11526988
>Lego pre-franchise sets were so like pure and raw imagination fuel
I've only looked in passing, but I'm pretty sure this is a huge gripe most legoheads have with the current state of things.
Anonymous No.11526991
>>11526987
Chad
Anonymous No.11526992 >>11526994
>>11526988
>I'm not one to shop for children's toys, I guess I don't know what's on the market, but do boys really have anything like that these days?
they have, there's plenty of it, 100 years ago children played in nature with rocks and sticks.... it's just easier to let people think for you, so kids plays around with the stuff that's prepared...which draws then towards video games.. easy braindead platform.. but even there it's the "raw" stuff which is popular. roblox, minecraft, fortnite..
they and their parents don't understand the beauty of a vivid imagination. building up a world on your own. using your fantasy to create. that's likely one of the reasons why people get dumber and dumber these days. they don't wanna think for themselves, they prefer others to do the stuff for them, not realising the cost ends up at them anyway
Anonymous No.11526993 >>11526997
>>11526978
this and pirates were my favourties
Anonymous No.11526994
>>11526992
>they and their parents don't understand the beauty of a vivid imagination. building up a world on your own. using your fantasy to create.
I think I might have been lucky, because I bought into imagination propaganda at a young age. Or maybe it's better to say there were some good foundational philosophical notions pitched to me at a young age that stuck with me. I enjoy whatever's on /tv/ as much as the next guy, but I'm finding myself having something to say, and a world of my own to create, which I hope other people will enjoy.
That's a really gay way of saying I'm writing a novel, but I really enjoy creating my own things instead of just getting mentally topped all the time by whatever the loudest/wealthiest/most annoying media companies are pushing.
Anonymous No.11526995 >>11527130
>>11526954 (OP)
red hot chainsaws
Anonymous No.11526996
not bad but i'm still waiting for my zendaya/Chani figure from Hot Toys
Anonymous No.11526997
>>11526993
Based
Anonymous No.11527001
I did not know the mods could switch one thread to another board holy shit
Anonymous No.11527023
>>11526954 (OP)
/tv/???
Anonymous No.11527027
>>11526954 (OP)
Exo Force put me out of my dark age. I mostly bought the villain side because theirs looked better.
Anonymous No.11527102 >>11527133
>>11526954 (OP)
1. Bionicle
2. Exo Force
3. Mars Mission
There's a pattern there
Anonymous No.11527130
>>11526995
Ooooh, I forgot about this one. Damn, Legos were the best.
Anonymous No.11527133
>>11527102
I don’t get it