Enjoy the episode, guys. I don't expect it to get quite the same traffic the last one did (who doesn't love dinosaurs?) but I figured I'd strike while the iron was hot and try to keep momentum going. This series is just finally starting to take off about a year after it began. I just wanted to get people interested in older, obscure things.

"Street races of _questionable legality_ "

This brought back so many memories of browsing the LEGO website and watching commercials as a toddler in the early 2000s. Thanks, Nick.

Imagine just casually looking up the Lego Xalax Racers on KZfaq, and clicking on a video about them to find a picture you took of your own personal collection at 2:35. Cuz i took that pic lmao This is so cool and bizarre at the same time. Thank you Nick :P

Themes Talked about in this video: Race 1985-2000 Racers 2001-2012 Speed Racer 2008 World Racers 2010 Speed Champions 2015-present day

The Speed Champions polybags they've made in the past few years are like a return of the "Tiny Turbo's" style, in a way.

Whenever I took a ferry they would have the racers that came in canisters with the tire on top and MAN I MISS THAT PACKAGING SO MUCH IT HOLDS SO MUCH NOSTALGIA FOR ME 😭😭😭

Early 2000’s were LEGO’s peak. Maybe that’s the nostalgia speaking

I WANT THE ENTIRE SPEED CHAMPIONS LINE SO BAD YOU HAVE NO IDEA

for me the tiny turbo was the highlight for me in this lego line. I'm not much of a car guy either but i just loved the amount of detail they manage to cram into the small car body, it just look so cool. I remember walking into toysrus as a kid and seeing the big sets with multiple tiny cars in them and absolutely falling in love with their design, yet sadly couldn't buy any of them :'). If they do I would love them to revise the tiny turbo line in some way, that would be amazing to see again on shelves!

Tiny Turbos was pretty much my childhood. I remember playing NFS:MW during the hour of PC time my parents gave me and recreating those police chases with my Tiny Turbos afterwards. Such a great time

I remember when I was a kid I got so many canisters of Tiny Turbos, and several of the Power Racers from the crash line. While looking back on it the gimmick wasn't that great, and made some of the cars a nightmare to keep in one piece, that line still has a special place in my heart for introducing my all-time favorite Lego Racer: Off Road Power. To this date I find that set to be the best looking, most creatively constructed, and most stable racer that I own.

I remember Tiny Turbos came in McDonalds Happy Meals a long time ago. They only had about 3 or 4 pieces but they were cool.

Speed champions made me fall in love with lego all over again. Being a big Ford fan i bought the 2015 mustang, the 67 mustang, the Ford gt set and the rally spec fiesta. Recently I also got the lego creator mini cooper and ferrari f40, both amazing builds! Edit: Just received the lego technic Rally car! Cannot wait to build it!

This series of yours makes me reminisce so much of my Lego's & then I wonder why did I make mocs of so many, anywise great video

I liked the wacky racers, but as i got older I truly fell in love with the tiny turbos and now Speed Champions

The 2001-2002 racers were my childhood. I remember going to the Lego store on my 8th birthday and basically buying every single racer I could find. It was the best, and I still have the parts for those sets, including too many of those mini-sized pull back motors to count.

GOD seeing the tiny turbos flash across the screen made me "yip" in excitement. I had nearly all of them as a kid, and they were some of my my favourite sets, even against my larger City sets from the same era.

Man, speed champions sets are an absolute treasure trove of great pieces for detailing mocs

I forgot how great World Racers was. Nice concept, pretty well executed

"Jak X OST" - Ah, I see you're a man of culture aswell. On topic: Oh, Drome Racers, the memories! That was easily my most favourite Lego Racers brand and I have tons of sets from them. I especially loved the sets shown at 4:07 and 4:51, I own both, but sadly the capacitors in the electric versions have worn out over time and they hardly work anymore :(

I remember having a red racer from the early 2000's i held it on my hand feeling a sense of accomplishment. And as i went to show it to my parents I ran up the stairs and to their room to show them. It fell apart in my hand as they said it looked good.

Oh man, seeing those old LEGO Racers commercials brought me a lot of nostalgic memories of just being weirded out by the sheer energy of them.

12:33 - You know what time is it....... "Under the sea, under the sea!"

So much nostalgia here. You’re consistently my favorite channel because of videos like this. Excellent analysis!

your videos rekindle so many fond memories in me i didnt know i still knew all of the cars' names by heart i remember vividly playing with the nitro pulverizer with my cousin or building the hot scorcher (i think i had a broken piece with this one but i cant remember) lego used to be so good now it kinda lost much of its charm it gave me so much and i still love it thanks for making these videos!

They were called Exo because they were part of the exo force race team. There were exo force, nitro, r.e.d., h.o.t., zero and maverick. God i miss old lego.

This channel is so much nostalgia, you keep reminding me of sets I forgot I had, even though they're in a storage bin in my closet after all these years. I knew I had a blue bike on my bookshelf, and I keep the 1:24 Ferrari F1 car on my desk, but I forgot all about the mini cars and that orange thing from the early days, as well as the street-racery ones. I didn't follow it to the present day, but its nice to see that it is staying decent. Its generally pretty innocent and it seems to keep charm in some manner throughout the years. I think I also had a puzzle-piece-like track that acted as a Racers board game?

I loved the tiny turbos back in the day.

What a nostalgic video, the first Lego I got was a racers crash, the red one, and from that I collect I the crash sets, 2 or 3 from tiny turbos and 5 or so from other year, now being in college and having donated my Legos to my first Lego league team from highschool, is so great to have a look back

I'd love it if Lego manage to bring back the RC cars. But with a smaller chassis that you could build upon.

I’m pretty excited for the next episode, Atlantis is my favorite Lego theme of all time.

I don't know why but drome racers has this certain aura around it for me. It reminds me of simpler times. Definitely my favorite racers line.

My internals light up whenever I see a set that I had as a larva, and my cranium glows when I see one of the sets I wanted.

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I can't believe how expensive the speed racer sets are now, I wasn't aware of thier existence until recently 😭

2:25 Pulse is actually my first Lego set ever, I was probably 6 at the time, dad gave it to me for my birthday, and that would influence me for the rest of my life because - A - Purple (featured prominently in Pulse) is to this day my favourite colour. B - I'm still a huge lego fan.

I really like this series for how many sets I'm reminded I had. Like, I thought I didn't own any racers because I was never into cars, but lo and behold, I remember that I had some from that first Racers series, the Exo Force Bike, the first three Tiny Turbos that you showed, _and_ the Speed Slammer Bike. Neat. And that's on the low end for how many sets I recall having owned per video.

Just wanted to thank you for making this Nick. I love Town:Race(stunt rally) soooo much. And it made me so happy to see you showcase the sets and your opinions on them. ALSO YESSS I completely agree that world racers is the true successor to Original Race. This whole video was amazing, I hope all is well

i miss racers for sure... especially those street race small ones... but at same time at least speed champions are making me happy.. tho racers, same as bionicle, left hole in my heart that will never be filled....

Great video! Felt super old when you mentioned tiny turbos haha. Tho theres a very minor thing you didn't mention about racers. In 2010 there was this game called The Robot Chronicles. Basically, it was a crossover game between City, Agents and Racers which, at the time, you could access the game from the each individual websites of the aforementioned themes. Not sure wether it was a big deal or not back in 2010 to have a mention in this video, i just thought to bring that up.

Thanks for making these! You've got a very relaxing voice and the videos are a great throwback to simpler times :)

Thank you for making these videos, as it communicates the nostalgic feelings we had from the 2000's. Interesting to look back on a time that really did not feel too long ago.

Tiny turbos were my favorite of all time

I used to play that lego racers game all the time when i was a kid... the nostalgia

My favourite ones were tiny turbos, collected like almost 30 of them. And u could combine 2 cars into 1 truck

You brought back a memory of these, I had only 2 of the single cars and now thinking of buying the sets I wanted when I was a kid

Tiny Turbos brings back a lot of memories for me. I would watch the Ads online over and over, so it was burned into my mind. I owned 2 of them, and the pieces and containers are still floating around my room somewhere.

I just started watching these yesterday and a new one magically appears. Nice.

This video hit me with a real big Nostalgia bomb, your work have been hitting me with nostalgia bombs. I was a big ass Lego kid and I'm not as big as I was before, I can still appreciate some of the effort put into these creative ass toys and you certainly help show them off for more to see. Great work these videos my dude

Wow I can’t stop watching this series, great quality, information, and editing. Thank you for the Lego throwback my man!

Good to see a line last this long, even if it's only spiritually.

I always look forward to these videos!

Watching your Rewind series is taking me to a nostalgia trip I thought I couldn't go anymore (plus I now have a craving to visit Legoland just to see what products they have at the shop)

Ah... the memories of getting into Lego thanks to this theme.

This video introduced me to Speed Champions and I'm eternally grateful for that. Those cars are so fun to build!

That last set you showed at the end, 6546 Slick Racer, was one of the first LEGO sets I ever had in my life. You have no idea how much you made my day with that. Seeing all of these racers, even the dinky alien ones form 2001, really got my blood racing! I do enjoy what little I had (I got two of those Tiny Turbos in Brickmaster) and I still do! This just makes me wanna post my entire LEGO collection somewhere! (Once I make sure it's all in one place...)

You are the youtuber i am always most excited for when i see you upload

I remember as a young kid i got those driverless mini cars, and by mini i mean even a normal minifigure would be comperable in height. I liked them a ton, and they were fun.

Jungle Monster in 2003 was my first ever Lego set, seeing this video brought back so many memories

After watching this I can see where Turn 10 studios got it's models for the horizon 4 lego DLC.

I think world racer is the closest thing Lego has gotten to a Mad Max style series. Great video as always.

Speed Champions is one of my favorite themes. The red Stingray that came with the 20(19?) C-8 Corvette is my favorite model from the line.

I've always loved looking at the backgrounds of the different sets. What a great video!

Tiny turbos and drome racers were some of my favourite, I like the little pullbacks and the collectible cars, I got loads of them, the xalax were fun to race against the drome racers from 2002, I also have some of the larger ones and technic builds, I liked world racers despite the fact I didn't get them. Also remember that 12 stud wide city bridge transport?? The 10 stud wide double dump truck? My friend had both!! They were beasts on the shelf!! I hope Atlantis is mentioned in the underwater episode

Maaaan I still have my 2005 Tiny Turbos and Speed Racer sets on my shelf!

I bought Flash Turbo and Nitro Pulveriser a few years ago :) it was nice to get Flash Turbo again as I lost that set as a child and Nitro Pulveriser was something I always wanted but never got. I replaced Flash Turbo's Driver's mini body with an actual minifigure body and I think it still looks good.

I started off with Race (I played the hell out of Lego Stunt Rally) and Racers, but with Lego Ferrari I always wanted some of the other F1 teams/car manufacturers, which is why I absolutely love Speed Champions, because it's the theme I dreamed about as a kid.

I had Hot Scorcher as a kid. Still got that pull back motor thing for it

5:16 i loved These ! They were so welk build. The pieces were even printed with cool designs. They were Part of the drome racers. Drome racers had a Nice story with Nice characters. The cars are from Differen teams - each with Different Storys and personalities. It gave them so much life. Part of Drome racers were The ones with figures, The Little ones with tiny figured (Not The Little Alien ones), the technic ones and the pullbacks at 5:16. they had Different scales but were Part of the Same story. Drome racers were great !

There are so many iconic sets in my mind from the early racers theme.

The "race" line had a lot of personality IMO. I managed to collect all four of the minifigs but unfortunately either lost a bunch of their pieces or they got broken over the years (Rip wrench's visor piece. I still keep the two halves of it in a LEGO chest. A lovely old piece). I built a monster truck for the yellow tiger guy (forgot his name...) with the working suspensions that amazed me so much when I was staring at them for hours on the catalogs. I remember being really shocked to realize that the drone racers figures (the smaller ones) didn't have the usual body. I still appreciated them and had a blast playing with my friend, but I always tried and failed to incorporate them to minifig scaled cars as the engines weren't strong enough for that much weight. As a big fan of minifigs and minifig scaled builds, I didn't give the tiny turbos the appreciation they deserved. I did buy a few sets for their pieces though. Speed champions are great for their pieces. The detailed builds require a lot of intricate piece usage, bolstering my collection with great bricks! I personally think the vehicles look comical though, due to their windshield pieces. 4-wide on 6-wide is too big of a jump. I believe LEGO will come up with a more believable piece soon, like a 5 stud wide wind screen piece to better sit on a 6 wide build. I personally prefer using the 6x3x1 slope piece in transparent and keep the body slightly wider than 6 wide. As a big LEGO fan, I really appreciate these videos. Keep up the good work!

Got this vid in my reccomended and it shot me down a Mocpages and Flickr nostalgia rabbit hole. I was fairly active in the custom tiny turbos community and knew a few people who pioneered techniques in making them who I wouldn't be surprised if they're working on the speed champions line given their integration. The sets coming out this year are insanely detailed since they've moved to a sorta 7-8 wide scale giving them even more detail to work with while still being accurately scaled for figs!

Love the use of music from Jak X: Combat Racing

Does anyone else remember Lego Racers 4D? It's the movie they used to play at Legoland back in the day. I loved that movie, I'd try to see everytime I visited Legoland as a kid.

*Humming the music of Lego racers PC game joyously*

Yet another fantastic video in the series! I hope you cover Blacktron and Space Police eventually.

I have some of the tiny 2004 ones and some of the 2005 tiny ones... Oh gosh nestalga.

this brings back good memories...

I remember racers had like a Richard Childress Racing (nascar team) partner ship at some point as well with cheerios and hamburger helper and made some Clint Bowyer promo cars., it’s the first but definitely not the last time they would do a NASCAR themed car, in 2019, They made the Chevy Camaro stock car from the prior year. In fact, in a few months the first actually NASCAR licensed car will debut in the technic line for NASCAR’s 75th anniversary.

Speed champions is what got me back into lego. Got 3 sets waiting in the shelf, and im saving some mulah to buy a couple more this year. Namely, 007's db7. Its awesome. Gonna get 2 of those, one to build, one to collect in the box 😉

I just bought the 2021 Jesko Set and 8 Studs wide is finally proving itself as an awesome Format for more accurate Lego Cars especially the Ferrari 512M and Countache the Building Techniques used on the sloping and Angles are so good I can't wait for the new Movie Tie-In Sets

Another great episode!

I love the World Racer sets, I remember buying several of the car sets, including that big truck. Kinda wanna set em up again now, hahaha

Finally I’ve been waiting for this

Your videos are awesome, I didn’t know about all these themes! Plus I liked your use of the word heel, very nice lol

Man world racers was the coolest series ever,I remember I only got 2 sets but they were cool,they were the swamp boat race thingy and the motorcycle race,they had so many unique pieces that I’d never get otherwise and they had such a cool premise,I don’t know why but cars with death race like accessories always fascinated me so this line was right up my ally

Never realised how many Race / Racers kits I had as a kid.... I recognise almost every set featured in the first half of this video

Oh my word I forgot about world racers, loved those!!!!

And now we've got a _Top Gear_ line coming out

6:35 dude I remember that one!! I thought that was the coolest shit when I got it!! and that alternate mode was cool too!

To be honest, the ones with the air pumps were quite fun. You could also use the pump for almost anything else, such as rockets, or aircraft.

Racers was one of my favourite lines, and I loved the sets I owned with passion.

This is really cool

I owned so many tiny turbos as a kid.

I bought a speed champions set last summer just to test out other themes. I love what they can acomplish in the builds. But damn, if you don't like stickers, those sets are a nightmare, and the set I got was one of the more tame ones in that respect.

I got so many of 2004's good memorys

This theme besides bionicle was my absolute favorite

i love the use of jak x ost here

Great video.