Lego Rewind- The Last Lego Space Theme 

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"It's been almost a decade since Galaxy Squad ended" Wow I feel old.

Galaxy squad's aesthetic is so clean. They totally could have made this last longer.

I wished these got terrain or building sets like nests or space station

Wait...An alien hive mind bent on devouring everything in sight in bioships fighting humans in technicolor armor... BRICKS FOR THE BRICK GOD!

We need more original themes. You want video games? Ninjago. You want adventure? Ninjago. You want underwater? Ninjago. Ninjago is the original theme dumping ground. At least we had Monkie Kid and Hidden Side. Very good themes.

In hindsight, that “why doesn’t LEGO do that anymore” post was probably a clue for the next video.

First Monkie Kid and now Galaxy Squad... Nick please give my wallet a break, i cant handle discovering so many amazing themes at once

Ah yes the ork way of organizing your forces air, ground, fast ground and everyone else

I quite like the idea of all of these themes being interconnected, because that's exactly how children play. They own a few sets across a few different themes, and no doubt have them interact with each other. I know I did. My Martians fought my Star Wars characters, my knights interacted with my Bionicle. It makes sense that monsters are using artifacts to summon dinosaurs that accidentally gets the attention of giant insect aliens, because that scenario was very likely thought up by a child somewhere. It's great.

The scariest part is remembering that galaxy squad is new, and then realizing that was 10 years ago

I always felt Galaxy Squad was underrated, the whole thing felt fully developed and well thought out. I think this theme was a beautiful marriage of old space with conflict. It really did feel like 2 separate themes combined into one. I really enjoyed this episode Nick! I always prefer quality over quantity.

Honestly i think Lego lines between 2008 - 2014 were some of the greatest of all time

"Maybe we'll get a Ninjago Starbound in a few years." It could happen, the original plot for the Lego Ninjago Movie was gonna involve some aliens. So maybe they can revive that alien idea someday.

8:38, I never considered this but it’s such an interesting thing to think about. They don’t need “The next best thing” anymore, they *have* the “thing”.

Man this theme is out of this world...

wake up babe! new Lego rewind by Nick on Planet Ripple

I have an unbelievable amount of nostalgia for galaxy squad

Orange robot: produced in America by Christensen co. for heavy combat scenarios. Its armor is easily the strongest out of every robot and is equipped with "wings" for short term gliding Green robot: produced in Germany by Oley Arms designed for recon and if needed a combat medic. It is equipped with an energy shield and a mid range laser rifle. Also is equipped with med kits for for helping wounded solders and engineering kit for repairing robots on the move Red robot: produced in Japan by LEPIN industries. This robot is designed for flanking and quick movement to get the drop on enemy's. This is easily the fastest of all the robots but at the cost of a weak hull. It comes equipped with two energy daggers and jetpack which its light enough to use for getting up and around challenges but uses energy quickly and is costly. Blue robot: produced by Builders League United or BLU. Designed as a to be a blend of everything. its moderately quick and has strong armor but its main purpose is for gathering info to effectively combat the enemy.

Man, this episode feels like I'm watching an early Lego Rewind video- and I mean that in the best way possible. Your videos always have a cozy atmosphere, but this video feels even cozier than normal. It's like I'm in middle school again, standing in my friend's basement as they show me their Lego space collection and geek out about the lore and everything. Also, I love the usage of Star Fox music. Looking at the vehicles in this line, I can totally picture the Cornerian army looking like this at some point. It makes me want to get some of these and display them with my Star Fox moc collection.

Lego space themes ended, but so did so many other original themes. Castle, Pirates, Adventurers, I feel like we’re experiencing the slow death of original themes. I miss the old broad themes that were based on a whole genre and told a story, it was easy to make up your own stories, and it just feels more magical.

Everyone I've met has agreed that this theme was a turning point for Lego, where they finally figured out how to meld the big, swooping curves of the early 2000s with the classic bricks of the 20th century with the intricacy of the 2010s. Honestly, you could sell me this almost decade old theme at any point, any set from it, and I would still think it was made 5 years in the future.

I was entering my first Dark Age when Galaxy Squad first released, I would have been in my early teens in 2014. Wish I'd picked some up! And the blue armoured posterboys fighting insect alien devourers? That's 40k.

9:16 Prehistoric moc is back! Say hello to grandad everyone.

“This theme was slept on” is an understatement

I think with all of the nostalgic AFOLs Lego has picked up over the past couple of years, they could really do pretty well with a proper space theme again. I really hope so, anyway. The City space stuff isn't bad but I want that fantastic distant future sci fi we used to get in the 90s, reimagined with the modern shapes and details and minifigs to really bring it to life.

We’re due for another space theme by now. Also a castle theme.

YES, FINALLY, GALAXY SQUAD IS GETTING THE LOVE IT DESERVES

Lego’s new Space Minifigures series made me look back on this theme, and appreciate the different Bug Castes. I like to think that the new Alien Beetlezoid Minifigure was meant to guard the hive and protect the eggs.

I've never seen this theme before it feels like a studio TRIGGER anime

Galaxy Squad was so amazingly done. Both sides were perfectly designed, and I wanted everything so bad. It ended too early.

I've noticed a pattern with the 2nd Space Wave sets. They all have humans being pinned up against aliens. Mars Mission, Space Police, Alien Conquest, and Galaxy Squad. Even all the human armor looks the same. I feel like somebody at LEGO ended up discovering Warhammer 40K or Starship Troopers and just ran with it. Even the name Galaxy Squad is most likely a nod to Starship Troopers.

Still the one theme I ever got every set from. This video was very nostalgic, thank you 😊

This is 100% an underrated theme. The human characters couple probably use a name change so it’s more modern but other than that if they redid these sets modern I’d buy everyone of them. Sadly I never was able to get much of the sets as a kid but I might start saving up for them now. I always looked for a show of this as well when I was a kid because it just was so well done.

It's such a shame there's no more sets like this. They need to seriously bring these original ideas back

My personal headcanon for why some of the buggoids looked human is because the anthropomorphic ones were once human themselves. When someone is imprisoned in the cocoons, they eventually metamorphose into a buggoid mutant tasked with being either a worker (buggoid/mantizoid) or a soldier (mosquitoid). I always figured the buggoids were obsessed with gene splicing and cybernetics to make themselves superior to other organisms, and therefore more effective conquerers. However, the larvae created by the hive crawler and the bugs from set 70707 are what purebred buggoids look like.

No one does it like you, Nick. Another spectacular video!

Oh hey, i loved this theme from a few years ago- >almost a decade old oh hey, my hair has instantly turned grey for some reason. huh...

The mech is amazing. I have a slightly modded one that I added some alternate arm to so the old arms act as shoulder canons. The blue tank carrier thing is one that I much more heavily modded replacing the turret with a whole interior hq so it's a command vehicle.

Sadly, Galaxy Squad didn't sell where I live, so I only had the "spider alien". To bad because I love the looks, the functionality and the "Lego being Lego vibes" that this theme has.

So this means that monster hunters and galaxy squad are in the same universe as ninjago since ultra agents is apart of ninjago

Nice to see the series back!

Seems it's normally the best, and coolest themes that end up fading away, Space Police, Power Miners, Lego Agents, Ultra Agents, Galaxy Squad, all the interesting ones

Monster Fighters, Ultra Agents, the last Castle and Pirates waves, and especially Galaxy Squad are things I will be kicking myself for not buying when I was younger. I looked at these sitting on the shelves for months thinking, 'oh, so cool' and never even considered asking for one. And now I have a new reason to kick myself, somehow I never realized the bug sets had minifigures. Ever. Before this video.

This is the first episode i watch on it's premiere day, i mean, the first episode on premiere i watched was the 2020 rewind, but that one and the april fools where specials, but it feels wierd to be watching it on premiere day. I love this show, it sees things that other people doesn't see.

"Mom can we buy some starship troopers toys?" "We have starship troopers toys at home" Starship Troopers toys at home:

If anyone remember this show, i heavily modified my Galaxy squad sets to make oban star racer vehicles, i just think the style of vehicles coupled with the race rivalry stuff really pop up through this theme

10:23 The new Minifigure Series 21 has 2 Space Police figures and they look so good, I wish there was another wave with all these new pieces they have

when I got my hands on the latest creator line space set, the big rover, I started kinda holding out hope that they'd bring space back in full, the set reminded me of the old lego space stuff. I was born after all of that and my first real interaction with lego space was mars mission but somehow yr videos have given me nostalgia for something I never experienced

My head cannon for both insectoids and Galaxy squad is that the giant bugs are what inspired the vehicles in insectoids

I loved Galaxy Squad! The green truck and orange Mech are my favorite.

The Galaxy Squad aliens are my favorite out of all of LEGO Space's host of intergalactic fellows. I'm planning on army building them a bit so I can have them do battle against the Alien Conquest villains, who are my favorite aliens that are OUTRIGHT villains. Like you mentioned in the video, the alien bugs do seem like more of a neutral force, battling with Galaxy Squad over turf or because they shot first. Regardless, I can't help but imagine that red buggoid to be the queen of the hive since it only appears in one set. Such a nice figure, too.

Loved this theme as a kid !

If you were to choose a LEGO theme you should expand upon from a passing mention in a previous episode, do Mixels. The fandom is buzzing.

This is a pretty good jump in quality, I like this.

"Starbound" fuck that sounds cool! Since Jay loved Fritz Donnegan and every season where Jay suffers ends in -bound, it would make so much sense!

I wish they'd bring back their Space Police theme, I even know they should do it.

Nick: "When you remove chunks of a larger build, what's left looks skeletal" Me, looking at the images to prove Nick's point: *cringes from the incompleteness* Also Nick: *Comparing the combination of vehicles to toku combination sequences, to the point of bringing up "Gattai!"* Ah yes, a man of culture I see!

Looking back, I’m even more thankful to have experienced these. I was so damn lucky to have gotten all of these sets, it is by far my favorite theme and the builds are so superb it’s crazy they went that hard

Themes like this, alien conquest, ultra agents, etc shows that Lego is more than capable of making fantastic original themes.

I don't think I've bought a normal (non-Technic) Lego set since around the start of the Bionicle G1 era, but I would have gladly bought these had I known about them. These are better designs than a lot of modern sci-fi. Thank you for showing these to me Nick.

Say what you will about Galidor, but it was such an interesting/obscure theme that I find myself loving it.

I REALLY love the orange team, their builds are just so over the top with weaponry.

I was always a Lego Star Wars kid but I also loved their original themes like (at the time I was a kid) Alien conquest and galaxy squad alongside castle and LOTR I would make it up in my head that these original lego space elements were like planetary forces in the Star Wars universe. Like I remember one plot point as a kid was that the bugs from galaxy squad were natural inhabitants of some long lost planet and were found by the empire so I’d have stormtroopers fighting against them! It was so much fun, I wish they’d bring back this new space alongside some classic space stuff

Ninjago starbound Me an intellectual: damn bro did you forget about season 3 went they went to space

The insectoids were cool enemies. Always thought it was a bit of a shame only one of the ranks came in a red variety, Missed an opportunity there. I really like how well developed both factions were, the insectoids were so diverse Shame this is the last non star wars space theme not counting those ones from City, which are more realistic but one could argue don't really count. I will say Star Wars will probably fade at some point every franchise does

it stings a lot that i missed galaxy squad as a little kid purely because i did not know about themes retiring and their limitability

Grew up on this theme, really got into it after Ninjago faded out of popularity at my primary school. I know I had a few of the smaller sets, which I got with allowance money, but Xmas 2013 was really special. I got the Galactic Titan, and oh boy I was ecstatic. Shame I had to break it down along with my other displays when my family moved houses the following year.

When I was younger I really liked lego space (space police, alien conquest) but I also like lego star wars as well. It's too bad to see that while lego still has some original themes (vidiyo, hidden side, monkie kid) they are mostly very gimmicky with some sort of app involved. I would love to see space back. The only source of true lego space right now is lego creator and lego city. But a few better original themes to replace themes like vidiyo would be appreciated. I'm not paying $20 for a minifigure with vidiyo.

YOU should make a reddit page where fans can share collections and mocs

God, this theme... I REALLY regret not even knowing this theme existed, because this would have been right up my alley, but it somehow completely evaded me. I'm hopeful these don't cost too much to get secondhand so I can grab some to play with, used. It's honestly saddening to even think about the point you brought up about how it doesn't make sense for LEGO to make the next best thing when now they have all the things they based sets off of. Why build an original space line when we have popular show and series licenses? The way I view that mentality is basically "Why create original, and fun concepts, and designs to play with when we can make the X-Wing for the 57th time?" LEGO space isn't just a novelty to relive nostalgia, they're fun, creative toys that really explore fun ideas to enhance what you've bought. As someone that never owned a Galaxy Squad set this video alone sold me on them with all the features, gimmicks, and just general aesthetic they have. They look great and look like they play great, you can look at Galaxy Squad and definitely say it took inspiration from things, but can also say there's nothing exactly like it from anywhere else. LEGO Star Wars... Well.. It's just Star wars, but this one is buildable. LEGO has become so reliant, if not dangerously loyal to licenses when they can easily create something just as good, if not _better_ on their own, their own past is proof of this. Classic Space is practically as iconic as LEGO Star Wars, but so long as they have every license under the sun then why should they ever try to make anything original? And the few times they do, why put in any effort? They'll just cut the budget to the original thing to put towards Ninjago, anyway, guaranteeing the failure of one line to prop up another, keeping one cash cow going while shunning anything that doesn't outsell their best in the first month. Hiddenside would have succeeded if it were for the mobile reliance, and box art, but you know LEGO will just jump to the conclusion "It's original, so it failed, back to licenses and Ninjago." It's so disheartening to say this about something I love, but that's just how it feels it's become. I want nothing more than to be wrong, but I feel the days of original themes are gone so long as LEGO has licenses, and one original that's popular enough to keep making new series under. Why have EXO-Force when we can give Ninjago mechs? (The Thunder Raider practically looks like an EXO-Force set.) Why have a cool racing theme when we can give bikes and cars to Ninjago? We already have Speed Champions, anyhow. I hope something changes, because I'm sick of licenses, and I'm sick of Ninjago being the only variety we get.

One thing to note about this is that one of the characters from this theme moves on to become the leader of the ultra agents in that theme, I love how they did that. BUT DAMN, I didn't know that many themes were connected!

"With a few sets each" You can could how many sets new individual star wars series get on one hand. And its sad cause lego currently is in its midst of 90s nostalgia, so many classic themes need a revival with new lines or at least one new set

I remeber a neighbor's kid showing me some of these Sets, I think he had the warp stinger and some others, but I distinctly remeber him being extremely protective of the antenni of the minifigs! He kept them in these "prison eggs" and said something along the lines of: "these are my most important possesion. I would not know what I'd do if I lost these!", which I always found weird. I get it, rare parts are rare parts, but he wasn't even using them on the minifigs this way, what's the point?

Is it just me or does the Galaxy Squad human side kinda remind anyone else of Voltron? I'd love to see someone make a big ass mech out of all of those vehicles, that would be glorious

I have got the Blue Fighter and the Orange Mech, easily some of my favourite Lego Sets to own and play with. I always thought the line was a little underrated. It combines really nice designs with a bunch of play value. Love it

Green was always my favourite, best robot, and best big set with best aline (buggoid)

i haven't watched one of your videos for a bit because I remembered you saying something about slowing down and or stopping rewind because you said something about there not being much else to do, so I forgot about the series till I randomly clicked on this video and got a wave of like recentcy nostalgia lol

Clicked so fast! And I remember buying one of these sets for a friends birthday party! (And I’m liking the pattern of planet ripple videos and an occasional LEGO rewind!;)

nice....love those compact space swarmers. the white with orange/black/yellow gunship's so cool too

I remember having one of the sets. I thought it was so cool. This is what led me down the Lego rabbit hole

when i was little i was reading the lego club magazine and there was a comic about the monster fighters theme and it was like a final battle or something between the monsters and humans and when they beat Dracula a giant beam went to the sky as a result and the bug aliens starter to come to earth. i like when the themes are in the same world

OH MY GOD I HAVE THE LEGO SYSTEM SET YOU SHOW AT THE BEGINING! I’ve had it for almost 20 years and had no clue what it was from, I was too young to remember getting it

Thanks a lot! When I was still young, I loved this line, but couldn’t afford it, and after that, promptly forgot about it, but thanks to you, I finally remembered! Thanks!

My personal headcanon for Galaxy Squad was the Insectoids ended up discovering a portal to Chima on Holox. They ended up letting through members of the beetle, mantis, and mosquito tribes. These Chima bugs befriended the Insectoids to get ahold of their cybernetic technology, and then used that technology to upgrade the Bilgen Bugs into space-faring cyborgs. A bit of a wacky take but I think it's fun.

Galaxy squad was incredible. The vehicles literally incredible.

I'm from the future, Lego sort of revived Space under the City umbrella.

For some reason for a long time I thought Galaxy Squad was a sequel to Alien Conquest, basically the aliens won and the Galaxy Squad was sent to get payback

Hell yeah, my favourite Lego set gets a video! I used to get 5 humans and 5 insectoid figures pitted against each other to resemble a 5v5 gears of war multiplayer matchup! I had parents who used "game time" tactics so whenever I needed more (because it's always inevitably cut short!) I would emulate the maps and leave weapon drops as if I was still on the Xbox! Ah memories

I love the hive crawler set, that was one of the last full on playsets I got where all the gimmicks were something I found really fun, in fact the build itself I still have intact and on display. It's also one of if not the only set I have on display that isn't based on some other property like Star Wars, Marvel or DC.

It's so weird to hear that Galaxy Squad is almost 10 years old. I worked at a LEGO Store at the time and between GS and Agents I was living my best LEGO life since Insectoids. They don't feel that old to me.

Oh my gosh I remember getting so excited for this when my Lego magazine came in but then never saw this on the shelves. I knew this existed!!!

This theme ended right as I got back into Lego as an adult. I looked everywhere for a Swarm Defender but couldn't find one😢 Amazing theme, ahead of it's time

We did it! We finally have a new space theme! And it spans almost every theme Lego's got!

I only ever bought 1 Galaxy Squad set and I was always disappointed with it, but seeing all of the sets together in this video made me want to rebuild that set.

I love the usage of Starfox Assault music. That game is one of my favorites of all time due to how nostalgic it is to me.

I've watched this twice and honestly I don't know how to comment, but I'll try. Nick, you did an excellent job reinvigorating a theme that I had a half interest in at its time. I bought some of them at the time, received some as gifts, and bought maybe one of them on clearance, also had the polybags but less for the set but for polybag collecting. But I still remember them vividly, and how they were presented here was more fun than I remembered playing with them. And I do agree, the Swarm Interceptor is also one of my favorite Lego sets from Space. Looking at these again it feels like we got two years worth of Lego sets in the span of 1 year. That's not always easy to accomplish, and being open minded, this covers Space designs and features better than previous lines like Mars Mission (which was one of my childhood favorites). Excellent job.

It sounds like Star Fox assault in the background… a clever choice, Nick!

This theme's great, i only have 2 sets (incomplete, though) but I love it, and thanks for making this. This is a theme that needs recognition!

I'm gonna miss space themes it was my bread and butter when I started to collect, sadly now a days lego is run by licenced themes...it's just not the same anymore