How LEGO changed Star Wars forever 

I remember being a child over 20 years ago, walking through K-Mart, my dad seeing the escape pod set from the very first wave of Star Wars sets, and yelling out "STAR WARS LEGO?!" in the store. That day, he bought me a couple of sets and I've been a LEGO fan ever since. LEGO and Star Wars have both ALWAYS been very popular with kids and adults, and the partnership only ever made sense.

Man this takes me back. In 1999 I made my very first stop motion videos using LEGO Star Wars toys. Had no idea that I would be doing the exact same thing 25 years later (just a lot better)

Ngl I actually kinda miss the classic blocky, less detailed looks of the old Lego Star Wars sets although I do think it’s great to see just how much Lego Star Wars has evolved.

Another factor in there being so many boxed action figures out there now, is that people hoarded them. Each thinking that nobody else had thought "have you seen the prices 1977 action figures are selling for? It'll be just the same with the 1999 ones!"

I'm still kicking myself! I had bought the entire first wave of Lego Star Wars back in the day. I was a teenager at the time and really hyped for Star Wars. But then I went through the "I need to grow up" phase of my early 20's and sold everything or maybe gave some away. Then I fully embarrassed being a geek and have been kicking myself over that ever since!!!

I do sometimes wish LEGO wasn't so license based nowadays, but that's cause I got some pretty decent nostalgia for their homegrown themes and storytelling.

Timeline fun fact: Lego Star Wars is at 25 years older now than Star Wars in general was back then (22 years). In other words, we live in a world where Lego and Star Wars have existed joined together longer than Star Wars by itself!

Lego Star Wars has always been and always will be my favorite combo. I still remember my desert skiff Lego set

I credit Lego Star Wars for bringing me out of the Dark Ages. Looking back, Star Wars sold Lego to me. Today I get sets I like and have roughly 230,000 pieces. Not one dollar in regret. Thank you Lego Star Wars.

The video games were a big part of my childhood. THAT was star wars for me, i didnt watch the movies till way after the lego star wars games.

I still remember my dad buying me that tiny Imperial Star Destroyer in the shopping mall toy store. That was actually my introduction to the Star Wars series and started my long lasting obsession with the entire brand. It kinda helped that my parents were the generation that saw the Original Trilogy in the theatres. They were always hesitant to buy me expensive toys, but the combination of Lego + Star Wars convinced them to buy me $100 toys for Christmas.

Great video. You have really told the story well, and it brings back good memories from 25 years ago - what it was like to work with LEGO on launching the best toy in the Universe - when I designed all the Episode I boxes for LEGO Star Wars in Copenhagen. Shoutout to Christian Faber, Jan Kjær, and the rest of the old Advance team. And, of course, also all the cool LEGO people. "It's not a weapon, it's a tool" 😀

I miss the iconic yellow minifig skin texture for starwars. I like how they were representing characters, BUT because they were the yellow classic skin tone, you could impose ANY character into them and make any stories up as you went along playing. I loved the classic early initial run of these sets.

First set I had was qui gon vs maul mini set.

First SW Lego set I ever bought myself was the Technic Droideka. Bought it the Spring of 2001. It was the only "buildable figures" at the time that actually looked like what it was supposed to.

I remember playing the LEGO Star Wars games with the megaphones/stud combo as the blasters. For my LEGO set, I keep it going with the droids because I felt the official guns didn't fit them!

Hey, I just wanted to say this unopened lego is cool, but if you're gonna spend the money on an unopened set, it's a million times cooler to be the person who built it and then proudly displays it in a case, maintain it, and plays with it on occasion.

LEGO: Oh my we have to be careful putting blasters in Star Wars sets. Also LEGO: Makes Adventures and Western sets with a crap ton of realistic looking guns in every single set.

It's too bad. Opened the floodgates, and now it's an uncommon set, the price of which doesn't include licensing, that isn't focused heavily on recognizable minifigs, and the size/scale/proportion of which isn't severely compromised by making minifigs fit in them. Way to sell out.

I see the recently purchased Lego Space minifigures in the back! I'm looking forward to a video on them

I've seen you on one of the Lego groups on Facebook many times, glad to hear you're doing okay. I'll be spending this weekend with family.

Lego Star Wars was my introduction to Star Wars, I loved those games growing up.

This video was so interesting and factual. I must commend you. Shows your real passion in not only Lego but Star Wars. I was a very young boy at the time in 1977 and went on a school trip to the cinema and, like many others, it changed my life. There has always been a majic around Star Wars, and mine has never wained and also for the love of Lego. Keep it up 😊

Lego Star Wars games actually made me watch the movies as a kid and got me into the franchise

I wanted Star Wars Lego sets in the early 80s. I didn’t understand why it took so long. I made my own X-wings and tie fighters from brick sets. Bricks.

LEGO and STAR WARS; a match made in heaven🙏🏼 Why ever did they doubt it😜

The whole German mothers being concerned about weapons is absurd. What about all the guns in the western and pirates sets?

very easy to track down unopened phantom menace stuff, your telling me I have every one of those chip action figures unopened

Such a great story coverage. Subbed

I remember backwards megaphones with a coloured stud... damn I feel old now.

as a kid in the 90's the only lego set I had was a lego box of various bricks - it was nothing special (it was before star wars). I remember when The Phantom Menace came out - I bought quite a few of the figures and sets...even an R2D2 storage box. I loved displaying them to recreate moments from the movie BUT you couldn't really play with them as such because they were so limited. However, I don't remember starwars lego. I lived in a small town and we had two toy shops and they had a small lego section - in fact I remember lego technics, I remember a box of bricks, I even remember k-nex coming out... but never any lego themed sets. Lego for me mostly went under the radar - I can count on one hand how many times I've been in a lego store. Must admit for the longest of time I thought it was aimed at kids only. The only adverts I saw were for kids and legoland. It wasn't until last year that my friend started posting her lego sets - I had no idea how varied it was and that they did themed sets etc. Let's just say across the top of my wardrobes that span the whole wall has 7 modular sets...i have the pyramid, osaka castle, hocus pocus house, and a bunch of other sets...and this month I've ordered some more star wars sets to go with the other dioramas - I think I've caught the lego bug...lol

I honestly prefer the older Lego Star Wars set. Back when they were lego sets and not model kits made of lego. I love the inaccuracies, the play features that didn’t exist in the canon. The low parts count, yet familiar silhouette of the ships, kept the price low, but also let the kids imagination fill in the gaps.

Brilliant. I would say this one of the best videos on this channel ever. Well done! And thank you for this.

Perfect video for a special (extra special, being 25 years) day! 👏🤩 Being a LEGO (and OT Star Wars!) child of the 70s/80s, and only returning to LEGO as an AFOL in the past half year or so, I've missed basically all of the LEGO Star Wars adventure. However, I still really enjoyed - and felt - this video! Hoping one day we'll be celebrating 25 years of Ninjago, too! Late to that party as well, but I'm quickly catching up on the seasons, loving it!

I kind of wish we have more original themes nowadays

All your videos are great but I enjoyed this one immensely. Thank you.

They already had guns in the lego pirate sets years before lego starwars

14:00 I completed mine in about 7 years so not bad 🤭

Is that a jar jar binks "flashlight"

The modern sets are great, if a little overpriced. But there's a certain, unmatched charm to the simplicity of early LSW sets.

Such an amazing video. I definitely had sets from that original wave as a kid (Original Movies and Phantom Menace), I was probably in 6th or 7th grade when those hit the shelves.

Less quote cards, more star wars lego figures to look at while listening :) nobody’s reading those. Great vid!

The license to produce LEGO Star Wars sets based on the original and prequel trilogies starting in 1999 opened a Pandora's Box at LEGO, and now, numerous LEGO sets are based on movies, TV shows, cartoons, computer/video games and sports, including Harry Potter, NBA basketball, Gravity Games, NHL hockey, Batman, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Simpsons, Scooby Doo, The Powerpuff Girls, Overwatch, Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog, for example... LEGO was reluctant to produce Star Wars sets at first, knowing how violent the Star Wars movie franchise can be...

Well back in the day it was LEGO Star Wars, now its STAR WARS Lego

Great video, brings back happy memories

Might be a bit biased but this is now my favorite video of yours!

As much as I loved Lego Star Wars, unfortunately it started the trend of Lego shifting focus from original themes to franchise IP.

Excellent episode! A great history lesson. Thank you

12:26 this was my first set!

I absolutely love LEGO Star Wars, but there is 1 thing that makes me avoid it. All the gray and black sets, even though they are Star Wars I just don’t want to have more gray or black than the bright fun colors, like the N.1 Starfighter.

I'm not a star wars fan, but this video was amazing You should make similar videos for other themes

Hey, I have that landspeeder.

Wonderful video!

I have such vivid memories of the summer of 1999, building giant Lego pod racers and sorting Pokemon cards in my binder ;) NERD ALERT!

May the 4th be with you! Thanks for taking me back in time ❤

Man, those old sets are ugly... and I had them. I remember in the late 90s, I had the pod racing set (all built on my beige living room carpet) in my wooden bed frame cubbyhole. It was definitely the pride of my bedtime, but this was also after Ocarina of Time had come out and my brother and I's first run-in with the Redead. For one reason or another, my childhood mind just couldn't let it go, and so as I lay down to sleep, my eye would land on the pod racers. Anakin's I had no problem with, nor Gasgano's - but Sebulba? His was special. I'd look at his pod racer and the Redead's horrible scream would echo through my mind. It was a real problem for a while.

May the fourth be with you one and all.❤️🤠

although I like some of the lego SW sets, not a huge fan of licensed sets. Just imagine how many good non franchise sets we could have had if they didn't go the franchise route. So many castles instead of harry potter.

Is there any chance you could find more info about the cancelled arena set, the book mentions the reek had a specialized mould but the prototype shown did not include this, also would be interesting to see the reek tail and if the set would of included more stuff.

This video was great ! Big up’s

This video is awesome!!

3:33 what IS that thing?? 💀

You mean how Star Wars saved Lego from bankruptcy.

also think your channel is great but would love to see the bargains on Lego as you can spend points and if you bye, thing is its codes to get them i do wish it was like amazon, so you have your account and everything in it much love

to be one thing the new sets are not great and its going down more, the lego star wars was great but it feels a bit lack lustered

To me it is still a bit of a sellout for LEGO. A company that never even produced toy soldiers and still tries to give itself a pacifistic touch, went all in on Star Wars. Especially, Clone Wars where the clones are basically cannon fodder, the closely related military ranks known from the US Army, all give me the chills. The pirates and the medieval soldiers where also not exactly pacifistic themes, but I could always see a stronger distance to real modern armies.

This is complete nonsense, written by someone who spent 2 hours googling (or using AI) and thought that’ll do. Star Wars and Lego = views 😞

Yessir

legos didnt change star wars at all. toys didnt change franchises at all

The Board Member was right. Star Wars is a financial success, but it's made Lego into a worse toy.

Awesome video? Thanks

This is an awful video. Off-topic. Why did that set make Star Wars for Lego important? Well... will I ever find out? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe go back and study journalism for six minutes, at least.