Lego Rewind Ep.31- Harry Potter/Star Wars 

Compare what we have now to 2010. I miss when we had Harry Potter, Star Wars, and prince of Persia, but still had castle, space police, and those mummy sets. We really need more unlicensed stuff nowadays.

“I remember 2001 for a lot of things-“ *bonkles just BARELY in the background*

5:41 All hail the prehistoric MOC. Really though I love the way you presented it like it's from an archeological dig.

Anyone else intrigued by what a LEGO Indiana Jones revival would look like?

Ah yes my two favorite franchises: Furry Cannabis-Producer and Astral Conflicts

The Clone Wars era was wonderful. I honestly miss it, and the community is crafted on this platform.

4:29 ‘if I talk about every single set we’ll be here all day’ Sounds good to me

The original blocky 1999 Star Wars sets will always be my favorite iteration. I was 11 when they came out, and it's near impossible to describe how magical it was to see that line come out.

nexo knights was a missed godsent opportunity for an unofficial warhammer 40k line

I'll always have a soft spot for the 2005 Star Wars sets as that was my first and biggest collection of sets.

Good god the nostalgia. I have the entire years 1 and 2 lines connected and displayed in my room. So proud of it, it was my childhood dream to have the entire castle.

I've always preferred the yellow licensed figures

They're both an ongoing forever licensed lines, and I absolutely loved both of these lines

This was INCREDIBLE! Totally agree with wanting them to bring MIDI SCALE back and a blue MTT.

Favourite star wars set for me was definitely the droid carrier from the late 2000's that gave you roughly 20ish droids and was baso an army builder, never made something that good since tbh

I can't wait till the bonkle episode

It's very subtle but the tie fighters in the movies are actually between blueish grey and sand blue, which is probably why they went with plain blue for the first few years since old grey is so... Brown

Those mini Star Wars sets remind me of one of my favorite lego sub-theme of all time: the X-Pods. It's amazing how Lego has made it so easy to bring little sets along to handle at work or something, with the nice casing so that none of the pieces get lost.

I remember remaking a Droideka from my own pieces using a screenshot from the video game

Man that one narrator who voiced the Star Wars commercials for so many years was great, too bad the modern commercials dropped him.

I always thought Star Wars was one of Lego's most popular themes. When I found out that they weren't a huge hit at first because of there being no movies I was like, "Say what?!?!"

Being born in 84 and raised on Lego and as a fan of most of what they have actual licences for now, you had to get creative. Here's an example: I remember my friends and I would use the long translucent antenna pieces as lightsabers. Now kids can just use, well, actual Lego lightsabers. I can really enjoy some of the licensed lines. I own stuff from Lego Batman, Marvel (mostly only comic based), Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ghostbusters, and so on...but I too always found myself annoyed when, say, they'd deem LOTR Castle, POTC Pirates, or SW Space for the year or longer. It was always kind of heartbreaking! Like a great example here; I would take Monster Fighters over Scooby Doo ANY DAY!

12:46 "The jedi interceptor, while vague recognizable as a Tie fighter protoype..." Wait what??? How have I never realized this before???

Me, about to exit RU-vid: sector is clear *sees this video*: NOt cLear NoT CLeAr

I honestly do agree with you, having licenses back in the early 2000s was more of a specialty among the creative ideas that Lego itself could come up with. Nowadays I do believe that the design elements make the sets way better than their original counterparts, believe me I grew up with the original Star Wars and Harry Potter sets so I know exactly how that feels. However, licenses nowadays make it feel like turning everything into Lego but forgetting what Lego itself actually is.

Around 5:45, that AT-AT MOC from ‘82 is, in fact, a pretty good representation of how difficult making any sort of walker was with the parts of the time, and you’re not wrong about how much we’d all been wishing for Lego Star Wars by 1999. I had been dreaming of that moment for almost 20 years. Literally: I had an extremely vivid dream sometime in the early ‘80s that Lego Star Wars sets were being released and I’d gotten to see them early (Millennium Falcon, TIE Fighter, X-Wing, AT-AT), and to this day I still can recall snippets of the dream-and I never remember my dreams. But I knew as soon as I woke up that it would never happen. So I was a kid again when the first OT Star Wars sets were revealed, even as crude as they were.

Sad pirates fan: well the clone wars had space pirates and body hunters are kind of like pirates right...(a single tear sheds from there eye)

That last quote “licensed sets need to be balanced out with LEGOs themes it needs to be 50/50” is very accurate The main reason why legos themes fail is because they don’t market them and if they have a show or something based around them it usually isn’t well developed. But when they do promote their own themes and give them proper story’s they do extremely well (ninjago, bionicle) Personally I’d love a new original CCBS theme

It’s criminal how LEGO never bothered to make an actual Sonic The Hedgehog set, especially after the Sonic DLC Pack for LEGO Dimensions. Just imagine building a bunch of classic Badniks bundled with a bulky Robotnik figurine, or a fully-working Animal Capsule filled with Flickies, or even a recreation of the Doomsday Zone fight.

It was the introduction of the LEGO Star Wars license in 1999 and the LEGO Harry Potter license in 2001 that opened up the Pandora's Box for more LEGO licenses in the years to come, including Disney/Mickey Mouse, LEGO Sports NBA Basketball/Gravity Games, Spiderman, Batman, SpongeBob SqurePants, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Indiana Jones and many, many more...

God damn you're a good youtuber. In the top 10 for me for sure

I loved it when lego did sets for old republic stuff

I think a new scale could come back now that they have the trophy minifigure, like that Harry Potter castle

While at a antique store earlier this year, found a bag ziplock bag full of minifigs of 90's an maybe early 2000's characters. Harry Potter an a bank looking Goblin and a Star Wars X - Wing pilot, The Star Wars buildable figures could see a type of vehicle build done up for them, besides the one for the Biker Trooper that was cool looking an could see more done there for that. Wonder what would happen if Star Wars and Harry Potter was combined in a crossover of some kind? Other then that where you see Boba Fett and Darth Maul walk in asking about a ship, to the one seen with A2-D2 showing a recording for someone to make more ships, could see something like that be brought back and added on to in some way maybe?

Man I loved the mini sets

As a fan of LEGO Harry Potter and Star Wars I really really liked this episode! Not to mention most of my Lego purchases have been from both lines!

I remember having a Star Wars ship, that me with my brother didn't put together. Our parents gave away all to charity. Some orphan might be playing with that set to this day.

The lego clone wars/2010 harry potter sets are some of my favorite lego sets of all time. So much nostalgia!

Great review, and definitely a nice nostalgia trip. Fun fact, the TIE Fighters in the original trilogy were actually meant to be blue, but that made them invisible when filming with bluescreen. So in a way, the original LEGO sets weren't too inaccurate. Also, those were my favorite Droideka minifig builds too - they never really got them right afterward, with their most recent redesign looking especially terrible. Incidentally, your voice work in this video seems to be improving - I don't know what it is about it, but you really nailed it in this video!

Mann 2005 - 2011, what a time

That thing you said you always wanted. I believe they are called destroyer droids

When I was a kid in 1999 I didn't think I had that many Lego Star Wars sets, but looking back at the catalogues I had more than 2/3 of the initial Phantom Menace lineup. I even had had the three Pod Racer set.

If you want a balance between licenses and Lego original products... I think you'll enjoy Lego Hidden Side. The newest Lego theme coming in

It's the big one guy's (outside of the inevitable Bionicle rewind)

Ugh bro that first line of mini sets

I miss the 2002/2003 Star Wars box art. I'm not sure if it's because of nostalgia but they always felt special to me.

Yah know Ive thought for a while now that the yellow minifgs as an idea actually kinda suck, they dont represent racial diveristy or "everyone" like Lego said at all. Theyre all the same color, which teaches the wrong message of "sameness is good" to kids. Plus all of the designs for the their faces/hair styles usually look white anyways. What black or Indian kid is gonna grab a yellow minifg and go "Oh yeah this represents me!" They wont. Bless the licensed themes for introducing different skin tones, they need to have those in all of the sets, get rid of the dated yellow figs I say!

I do think it's funny that they made the midsized legs for Harry Potter, since he's so short that he shouldn't even have the regular adult legs at all.

Watching these episodes I realize just how many of these sets I had/ still have and I don’t even remember all of the stuff I gave my nephews in three huge bins at one Christmas a few years ago. Holy F!

At least we got the podracers again. We've yet to get Zam Wesell in any official form besides the 2002 version, which while I am lucky enough to have acquired one, most people aren't. What's really insulting is that she's continued to show up in the Lego games, but Lego can't be bothered to make a nice updated version.

Nostalgic is crushing me when i watch your Videos

And and you could use the mini one with the standard ones to have a better a scale, like having the mini brick built tie fighters with a large standard Star destroyer

I was so fed up with the modern at-st that didn't have a head,but featured BB-8 on it,that I made a bootleg custom head armor for it.

Ah Lego Star Wars 7121 set was my first Lego set I ever bought I had just seen The Phantom Menace in the cinema we popped into Asda on the way home and I saw the set and demanded I had it! I built it that evening and played the shit out of it. Ah I miss 90s/2000s Lego I wish I still had my old Star Wars Lego.

Very underrated channel Love this

Don’t think I didn’t notice the Star Fox assault ost throughout the Star Wars segment. Nice touch.

I was actually feeling kinda' down when I noticed you had uploaded this video, so I watched it and it genuinely put me in a good mood again as it gave me something else to think about. So yeah, thank you so much!

0:35 I'm sure people actually said that. were on the fringe

Anyone else wish they made more sets based on the Legends timeline like the closest to me caught up with a Force Unleashed ship with really bad minifigures

Back in 2012-2013 they had an awesome SW:The Old Republick sets. They were truly unique compared to all of the X-wings and such. Check 'em out if you hadn't yet.

Imagine being restricted on the choices of the movie team instead of the freedom that the Lore of the license can give by just looking at the wiki Many movie videogames do exactly they because the content, the density of things that can be presented at a 110 length chapter isn't enough to make a game

The Harry Potter sets have always been rising in quality. The Star Wars sets, meanwhile, flip back and forth in quality as much as the movies. Those are getting way too expense. I think the last reasonably priced wave was Summer 2017/Fall 2017, and that’s sorta where my interest in LEGO Star Wars kicked the bucket.

The Star Wars set do look nice.

I never expected this theme to appear! Since it’s licensed! I guess nick ran out of unlicensed themes... OR IS IT!

I wish we could get a new and improved General Grievous minifig. The original one had very little movement and detail, but it succeeded in the from 2 to 4 arms transformation a lot better than the current one. The new one on the other hand is way too short to get the scale right.

I want more Original LEGO themes. Sure, the licensed themes are neat, but now everything is ending//being rebooted, and I wasn't actually part of that first wave of releases (I was born in 2000, so right in the middle of both releases lol) Once Star Wars or Harry Potter, or whatever finally dies out... what's next?

Sonic Heroes ost in the background? I see you're a man of culture as well! You've earned a new sub

Yeah, way back then, those sets looked plain and blocky, but now they are more detailed. Progress at it's finest.

Wow. Truly one of my favorite videos you've done, and not bad for a licensed sets vid.

I kinda like the star wars prequel sets more then sets based off other movies

13:41 woah! What ship is that‽ :O

My first lego star wars set was the rebel A-Wing.

I want a remake of all of the mini or midi stuff, possibly even more mini/midi designs for other lines like Ninjago. I really enjoy mini/midi scale builds, especially as someone who loves Super Sentai and combining robots as a whole, it’s so much easier to make good looking, slick, transforming, combining, and actually pose-able mecha in that scale

Tie fighters are actually blue but they're not that blue

For me my favourite licensed themes as a kid was the original LEGO Batman. That toy-line actually introduced me to the Batman universe and defined for me what all the characters and vehicles look like. They were also great sets with a fantastic Batmobile, Batwing and Batcave. Sadly I think Batman has run his course when it comes to LEGO, a lot of the sets just make worse versions of the vehicles and if there’s ever a cool exclusive minifig like Killer Moth or Batwoman I’d rather buy them separately online for cheap instead of putting a ton of money into buying another Batmobile.

2:38... Mr Plinkett? xD

I miss my stormtrooper squad now

I totally forgot that Snapes head was glowing.... and I do own this fig amazing

I would play with the star wars legos so much that i would forget what they actually looked like in the movie. Once I saw them again I was like: "THAT's what it's supposed to look like??"

oooh a 2 for 1 episode

Yes yay so glad u made something about this!

One of the few times, I actually had most of the Harry Potter sets, and some Star Wars sets, then I’d cross them over with Life on Mars and Spider man and while I long stopped collecting legos seeing all the improvements is a treat for me. I think it’s cause of LEGO that I enjoy random crossovers.

2002 Droideka is the best one

The blue band around the old sets has some charm or something

As A Lego fan that grew up with it in the 2010s I was over come with joy to see franchises like Marvel, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, DC, & Star Wars get the Lego treatment it looks cool. So as a fan of these franchises I love them. But as a Lego fan I love Ninjago, Chima, Hidden Side, City, Alien Conquest, Atlantis, Pirates 2009 & 2015. So it feels like if I support the franchises, then the og themes don't get the attention they need to survive. Then again as a fan If I miss on a current set or series of sets based on a movie, then that's it if I want it I would have to pay twice as much to get. I know this first world problem shit, but like I want both you know?

8:16 I don’t really blame you. They are small, don’t look too bad, and can roll into a ball pretty well. It’s not overly big like the one in the first MTT set, or as odd looking as the one from that one battle pack.

I fell in love with Harry Potter back in 2017. I have had on/off again relationship with Star Wars my whole life. I never liked the HP sets as a kid, but as an adult, I love them all. I loved the origional SW sets until around 2003-2005, and I love these new sets since about 2 years ago. HOWEVER, I agree with you on some of the points you make about how as good as some of these themes and sets are, they are destorying LEGO's original ideas and those fun iconic sets of the space exploration, ocean fighting, midevel sets, etc. I couldn't believe how LEGO had aquired the license to Spiderman and Jurassic Park as a kid, but now I can't keep up as an adult that even has a kid who likes LEGO himself on all the new sets. Wish I had all of my old sets from 1998-2003 time frame (mainly). Those are iconic and I appreciate your youtube channel for showing these sets, some of which I have forgotten since then.

I like the sets from 1999 to 2006 way more than the modern ones cause they are the models used in the lego Star Wars video game and I actually have the 2004 Millenium Falcon.

Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga is, was and will always be the best game ever. ALL HAIL THE GONK DROID!

Two amazing lines. And the dozens, if not hundreds of new pieces they introduced were ground breaking! I'll admit, even before the Disney movies is was getting sick of lego star wars, because it just kept doing the same thing, though I did enjoy the breath of fresh air the Clone Wars sets brought (faces not withstanding). All in all, Harry Potter and Star Wars are good licensed themes, and it really says something about them when they are still around after all these years while other licensed themes have fallen to the way side.

Great look back at both of these, I figured we'd get a Star Wars episode some time in the future, but I'm happy we got this as a double : ) I love seeing how each of these lines have evolved from their charming but supremely awkward 90's roots to seeing them become more and more accurate (and expensive) is fascinating to me. My family loves Harry Potter, and we've made it our goal to collect ALL of the new sets, which is becoming increasingly more difficult... but these are easily the best they've ever been. That's not to say I love _all_ of them, I'm pretty bummed by the Hungarian Horntail honestly. Plus, I'm totally with you on an updated Chamber of Secrets with a giant Basilisk, I'm hoping for one like the Cobra statue in Pharaoh's Quest, but the current one is pitiful. Most of them however, are insane. You could say I'm... _Stupifyed_... *crickets* The first giant set I ever got from my LEGO store was the UCS-style Castle, and it's a sight to behold. Plus the figures are fantastic, and I'm glad that most of the notable missing characters will be in the upcoming sets. The Fantastic Beasts sets- while I'm not as big a fan of the films (especially the second one)- I like the first one well enough, and your connection to them is insightful. I will say I really like the sets! The briefcase is a brilliant set idea to me, and the beasts are all lovely. I was also pleasantly surprised by the pricing for most of them... they're decent! Not perfect, some are decidedly worse than others, but most of the small sets are proper. 15 bucks for that amazing Aragog is a steal, he's the best LEGO Spider aside from Shelob! Star Wars is another subject entirely... it's getting far more irksome to me, at least Harry Potter has had several years to come back in full swing, but Star Wars to me is becoming gradually more and more of the same, _for_ more and more. I don't wanna go through all of the history, you do it quite well, but I will talk about the Constraction line. I was happy to see the buildable figures, as they worked as (very expensive) nicotine patches after BIONICLE was canned. It was a way to still get some nice new molds for CCBS and Technic to boot! Sadly, like you said, they kept basing them off of characters and films I didn't care for coming out right then and there while simultaneously raising the price. And now they're done. Which sucks, since some of them were amazing, like Grievous, Boba, and the Vaders. That Scout Trooper and Z-1 Speeder Bike set is _beautiful_, I'd almost call it a UCS set, and the (formerly) upcoming Super Battle Droid and 501st Clone Trooper and AT-RT looked awesome. I still have a tiny bit of hope we'll see those cancelled sets with some Clone Wars Season 7 releases, but I'm probably setting myself up for disappointment. Ah well, thanks for the big episode, I'm curious about your next Space line, seeing as LEGO's coming back to it this year : )

I'd like to add that, atleast here in Serbia, Harry Potter was the go to for girls. Boys got cool shit like Hagrid, Cerberus, the Troll and loads of awesome beasties with medieval structures while the girls got colorful set pieces with loads of decorations. And then I grew to appreciate the little knick knacks when I got older just because of how much life they brought into the pieces

Damn buildable Grievous is THICC

15:35 "At least you don't have entire sheets of plastic pushed to the end of the shelf." *glances at simpsons house*

Yknow, its kinda telling lego retired overwatch sets (presumably over a mix of loss of interest and the company being garbage), but keeps spending millions on mass producing TERF wizard book sets. Though maybe im just jaded seeing a property thats creator wants me dead continuing to flourish

snape glows because he's CIA and CIA glow in the dark

Memories flooding back to me! *faints i

it hurts to see Harry Potter nowadays cause the sets have done a lot over the years to introduce cool new pieces but i can't be getting them because J K Rowling is busy funding and promoting the current wave of transphobia in the UK and feels no regret about trying to bring even more wedges into the already abysmal process for getting HRT and basic protected rights there. not to mention, the line still basically occupies a certain niche of building styles, specifically castles. Lego has no reason to make a normal castle theme nowadays cause it can just point people to all the pretty solid Hogwartses but like. the above stands, and in the end the tenth iteration of a HP castle is still just an HP castle, just a Scottish/English fort building style, and this sucks away from a lot of stylistic variety that we should be seeing. it sucks so much, for both these reasons. and the worst part is, the sets are generally pretty good and the IP is still incredibly profitable and nowhere as controvercial as it should be so Lego has zero reason to rethink this

Fun fact: the Basilisk isn't actually green! The animatronic/puppet they used for filming actually had black skin, but the Chamber of Secrets was filled with a green light/glow that altered its appearance. That said, I'm pretty sure the canonical color outside of movie-magic is supposed to be dark green, so the video game version is the closest we've gotten and even that's not quite right.

Midi scale had a bit of a resurgence with a few display pieces of the invisible hand, Tantive IV, and falcon. They are a bit bigger, but they’re close