It's Not Easy Being Trans Neon Green ~ 41708 Roller Disco Arcade 

When's the new single from the Buttery Winthrops coming out? American Venom was straight fire

least surprising

Gods yeah that came TOTALLY out of left field and yet, as soon as the switch flipped and it turned on: "Yeah no of course Slugger would have this." :P

You watching Slugger's content is also the most and least surprising thing I've seen. Maybe you guys should collab or something

I audibly laughed for this very reason.

Honestly they were my two favorite Lego colors

Yeah

Losing trans-neon orange honestly felt like losing a friend. I know that sounds silly, but it's such an iconic color to me that it getting retired genuinely hurt.

As a huge Rock Raiders and Ice Planet 2002 fan I'm mourning, too

shame those were the only colors used in metru heads after 2004 though, those unique eye colors are so expensive second-hand

i've never played with a rock raiders set and i'm just as shocked as you are

Or M-Tron

The only things getting dunked in this video were those bowling pins with the Bionicle Zamor sphere shooter with an extended ammo extension, appropriately using Trans Neon Green spheres.

Boncle is certainly a Lego theme that exists

B O N C L E

Those last two words are important to the title, haha. It’s a play on the famous Kermit the Frog song, of course. 😊

Kermit tells us it's not easy being green, many can vouch that it's not always easy being trans, the question remains: is it easy being neon?

@@youmukonpaku3168 a recent video game suggests it's not

Still not out of the question

He came out as wishing he was neon green

Gah, adorable. lovely. There's a reason your channel is so well regarded and it's because your calming means of expression and genuine passion for the hobby shine through. Nice work on another well-made video :) until next time

As soon as the topic of diversity is brought up it always has me on edge. But this case was not for long. Thank you for the care you put in your words and keep up the good work :)

In awe at the size of this script, absolute unit

I'd say you definitely used the right terms, I always appreciate the amount of consideration you put into your content!! :)

The thought you put into this is much appreciated

Minifigs aside friends sets are prety good builds and also serve as a good way to acquire uncomon bright colors that main sets shy away from.

Friends was introduced when I was 13 and a very passionate feminist. I remember scoffing at the idea, and at how they could possibly dare to insult girls with something so stereotypical. "Did they even do market research? Who is going to buy these?" Turns out they did do market research. Turns out kids who wanted feminine toys, wanted feminine toys. Haha. Turns out here I am 10 years later buying my first friends set. Haven't warmed up to the mini-dolls yet, but Friends has absolutely dwarfed Lego city and licensed themes in value, inclusivity, and design IMO.

What I find disapointing is how Friends gets better Cultural venues than city with them brought brought down by the garish and cheap looking color schemes

Friends has been better lately.

i have been tempted by some sets but i just can't stand the little polly pocket figures mixing with the lego. ocd maybe

Ohhhh yeah! I have one of those sets sitting right over here, haha but I never made the connection! 😅

They also appeared a lot in the Spyrius space theme which i think introduced it? I'm not sure but they look super cool!

@@guest_4416 You are right! Spryius used them for some display screens iirc. And Exploriens had similar looking (but more leaning into holographic) stickers on those deltoid panels that they used to represent solar panels.

Thank you! ❤️ I thought the channel already *did* blow up! 😅

I'd like to think I always have a smile on my face! Hopefully my comments read this way as well, haha. 😊

I’m happy to share some laughs! ❤️

The sneers of the few, outs way more sneers from the many

@@RRSlugger Thanks, by the way, for helping me get back into LEGO. It’s something I’m still working my way back into. I am aware that your content is organized well in advance- but something that could be good to add to what I’m sure is an already lengthy list of concepts to revisit for future content could be a guide on how to organize parts at varying sizes in a collection. Your Plague of 2002 video hit home for me as growing up, I had a fair amount of Bionicle, but very little technic. I had a fair amount of Star Wars, but not that much regular Ol’ System. By the time I foolishly gave away a majority of my collection, even then it was rife with “weird” and difficult to use pieces. Now I have a middling collection of what was leftover and a lot of vintage, “normal” elements. As for the latter, I sorted them (and the small amount of Megabloks out) into put-together structures. That is, for example, my 2x1x1 bricks are stacked in rings by color and then those rings are stacked together. However for the former, what remains of my original collection outside of the Bionicle (very few of the earlier ones sadly - Still got a Full Gali and Takanuva though) is a lot of misc pieces and what-have-yous reminiscent of your 2002 Plague video. I’m not sure how to approach it as of yet, although I’m confident that I’ll work it out and be more confident in building more complex works again. Since I had your attention, I thought I’d see if I could pick your brain regarding the concept. Thanks, once again, for being such a well-built creator and keeping things so consistently high-quality.

@@Robbuffet Honestly, I’m not a good slug to come to for advice on organization, haha. I commit the dreaded sin of sorting my LEGO *by colour* 😱

“Broke though the glass ceiling” are these intentional?

@@shroomer8294 the comment about gender diversity could count as intentional too lmaoooo

I would be happy to learn about a lego color and not something that people care way too much about tbh

@@XaviHaunts based

@@XaviHaunts unbelievably based

Top tier comment right here! 😂

@@RRSlugger So glad you got the reference. The Star Trek II clip gave me confidence.

@@Visuwyg Oh you can fire away with confidence here - you’re talking to a true Trekkie! 😂 While all the other kids were watching Pokémon or whatever, Slugger was watching Star Trek and really hasn’t stopped since, haha. Our livestreams often divulge into just talking about Trek. 😅

Making our Lego cyberpunk futuristic tron like mocs is gonna be harder and harder without these trans neon pieces.

@@Bionickpunk fr! I love using these colors in space and futuristic mocs, I fear these pieces could end up being expensive in the future

@@jerbpickle175 Hopefully *distant* future. Even though Trans Bright Green seems to be the successor here, Trans Neon Green has still been included in nearly double the number of sets, meaning that there’s a huge supply of parts out there. 😊

😎

Thanks Steve! I had a lot of fun with the flow of this video, haha. 😊

If anything, Lego’s diversity approach comes from a genuine place of wanting all kids to feel included. Even with the boys and girls-specific theme over the years, Lego’s appeal has been to be a toy for everyone to enjoy, no matter the theme. It’s a better, modern way to expand that approach to everyone, no matter what race, orientation, or disability they may have.

I totally forgot about that theme! You’re right!

They were the perfect summer time sets, the gold chrome domes and helmet visors. I need to buy those sets again

Thank you! Glad to hear you are enjoying the channel! 😊

One can only dream...zzz! 😉

I get this question a lot, and honestly I’m of the opinion that it was a minor miracle that we ever got Dark Turquoise back. Frankly, I seriously doubt we will get another retired colour again. ☹️ With that being said, in a perfect world I’d like to see the original Purple come back! ❤️

@@RRSlugger Sadly, you're probably right. A gal and a slug can dream, I suppose. Dark Turquoise probably made the most sense to bring back in my opinion, as the cyan wedge of the color wheel doesn't really have many options, even with its inclusion. It's also just a really nice, useful color, and its return was a crowd pleaser too, as both Bionicle and Rock Raiders MOC builders seem to be enjoying the new options, and the increased availability of old ones.

I totally agree, I’d love to see a return of sand red! Out of all the older colors I think it’s the most aesthetically pleasing, and it’s a niche that isn’t currently filled by anything else. I don’t know if Lego would bring it back though considering their current focus on vibrant colors.

Doubling on the Sand Red and old Purple, I think they were very pleasing colors that had their own character and stand out next to their contemporaries. That being said, I also wonder why trans neon orange/green specifically had to be axed anyway; yeah they have alternatives, but not necessarily replacements, I think. However, that's not something I can say for a lot of LEGO's *NEW* colors; have you seen how many different shades of blue, light purple, and even green they have now? I question why we even need so many - not only are a lot of them extremely similar in use (like the different shades of lilac/purple, etc), some of them are just kind of ugly (light aqua). Those are colors that I'd argue had way more of a reason to be shafted, rather than the two trans neon colors, but that's just me.

I love this! ❤️

That is simply one of the best RU-vid channels out there! I learned everything I know about dishwashers from him, haha! ❤️

@@RRSlugger for me, it's the joys of ice chests! He's probably in or around my top 10 favorite RU-vidrs!

I thought I was the only one thinking about Technology Connections during that tangent! +10 to that!

At least we still have yellow.

@@MrJoeyWheeler ssh, don't let the Lego Group know or they'll start phasing it out too

@@youmukonpaku3168 they’ll replace all the yellow minifigures with flesh tones, Slugger’s worst nightmare!

@@MrJoeyWheelernd teal and black!:)

What superpower did it give you?

​@marlaj.6109 Autism

@@hansydoot omg thats actually the best superpower. Congrats!

good job.

Thank you so much! ❤️

It’s rewarding to take a risk with a video script like this and see it pay off and somehow become a cohesive video in the end. Thanks for giving me confidence to try it again in the future! 😊

A 👏 Fricking 👏men😊.

2018 actually. It was the same year as the Ninjago redesigns.

@@ButteredBread201 ah thank ya! Thought I might have misremembered that

Thank you! I'm so glad I can help be a beacon of creativity in the "age of Shorts", (don't worry - I hate them too). ❤

@@RRSlugger if you haven’t, you should really check out the set Super Robot. it’s only $10 and i find it incredibly charming

Thank you! ❤️

That's such a fun set! Glad you spent some time together building it. 😊

Belville dolls and Technic figures were really good, shame Lego saw no need for continuing their productions. Could use more articulated figures that arent outright buildable.

I loved those belville dolls, they had a lot of articulation points and were so fun to play with. Unfortunately almost all the wrist sockets of my dolls broke :(

@@SuperSecretBricks luckily the only one of mine that has a cracked wrist is the prince, bc i left him in storage for years with the sword in hand

Wow, thank you! I don’t think I’ll be able to keep up *that* pace with production though, haha. 😉

It’s a super neat little machine!

I had to do a double take as well! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

Thank you! Honestly, I'm really, really pleased with how this one turned out, despite it being rather scatterbrained. I think there's a nice pace/flow to everything. 😊

I am forever grateful for not having to come up with my own sound effects library haha. 😅