The dynamite explosion spring is a very fondly remembered play feature from this theme. I feel like I had two Western sets that had that feature. I remember once using the money instead because of the absurdity of the idea of "paying for an explosion". Fun times!

The colors of the minifigs are crucial for the visuals of these sets. Landscapes and buildings are all brown, sandy yellow or grey... So the green, red and blue clothes really pop and make it super interesting.

Hi Slug!!! I made a realization when building some modern Lego that I was hoping to share. I’ve noticed that as modern Lego sets have gotten more complicated, it’s made it exceedingly hard to casually modify them and make your modification not stick out like a sore thumb, as well as trying to recreate building techniques. Maybe I’m just not as good at Lego building as I think I am, but I think I’m probably better than the average target demographic member. I feel like I’m having to compete with the professional designers just to make something that fits in with the rest of a set or scene. What are your thoughts? Anyway, I’m excited for another Summer of Slug video :))

I think one issue with modern sets is how the tides of battle always seam swayed in the heroes’ favour. It’s hard to see the heroes as underdogs when they’ve got a tank and a fighter jet and an army of minifigures compared to the bad guys who just get a couple foot soldiers and maybe a side build if they’re lucky.

I just realized that Summer of Slug slugger has chest hair but normal Slugger doesn’t. This means that A. Summer of Slug Slugger grew chest hair for the summer B. Normal Slugger wears cloths that look like just like skin Or C. Summer of Slug Slugger is a different person than normal Slugger

When I saw this pop-up on my phone, I was the fastest new video watcher in the west. Hmmm, I wonder if the Bandit hideout was depicted in the old wild west commercial? The one where the narrator told the story in rhyme?

Those crazy alliteration techniques would have left my english teacher in awe! Great video as always!

You have to know. Sometimes I sing "it's the summer of slug" at work now

I really wish we could see a return of western that is done with an inclusive focus on native tribes (basically let them choose what their role, if any, is in the sets). The wild west is a great source of design and story ideas. Worst case i wanna see another spin on the western genre.

7:42 @RRSlugger this alliteration is 10/10 😂😂

Trikbrix was such a good channel

I always seen the rifle piece that lego made as a shotgun. For me it just has the look of a single barrel shotgun.

I first discovered minifigure arm swapping with Deputy Zach! I was so excited when I realized that a simple change could turn his vest into a jacket.

Great fun video, these features really are great! Using the dynamite piece to blow open the prison is amazing haha, though I’m not sure about the survivability of anyone actually inside the jail. Also love you using the Western LEGO Chess game theme, as that game had some great music themes. I love this era of LEGO where some faces look complex while also looking simple and innocent. That nose on Flatfoot Thompson always looks a bit freaky though imo lol

90s sets at some point were crazy packed with play features, LEGO used to surprise you with creativity of these, builds were simple leaving quite a bit to our imagination, it was a real fun playing and rebuilding, it was a damn TOY after all, these days after couple hours of building kids may find themselves too exhaused to play with it. 🤔

I'm stunned that you've been able to keep up the SoSlug, great work and fun video as always!

omg having to actually use the dynamite to blow the wall off is so fun

I didn't realize how great the cell wall flying off was until now, these days we'd just have a bar flipping it down or mildly pushing it off, but this makes for a great explosion

2:22-Maybe Zack is the blonde Ice Planet astronaut’s ancestor.

Slugger!! You’ve done it again. You made me interested in a theme I have never touched and now I need 😂

I own both of these sets from when I was a kid. They were indeed wildly fun and, as someone with a few more bricks available, offered a lot of expansion-possibility! They're sets I really want to restore. Great coverage and photography! The baseplate of the Goldmine Hideout could probably use a bit more attention, but you did have a LOT to cover already! :)

The “different careers” section either the mini figures was such a nice touch

Black Bart becoming a Time Twister is another story... :D

oh boy, this double review really good the creative juices flowing. `It was a hot summer afternoon, Zack stood guard atop the town's lock-up trying his darnedest to ignore all the whining that Flatfoot Thompson was doing from inside. The Sheriff was tending to a visitor to town, that old Doctor Cyber fellow, seems like he was coming to warn the Sheriff about some nasty outlaws from out in his parts, wherever those were. Gosh darn it, why did the sun have to be so bright on the day he was working extra? He pulled his hat down to keep the sun out of his eyes, but as he kept watch, the boredom of staring out at the desert for hours on end started to set in. And as his eyes drooped ever so slightly, he failed to notice a figure approaching from the distance. "So what yer saying is that some spies stole some of yer gizmos and now you ain't allowed to go home?" The Sheriff, Wyatt asked as he took a sip of his coffee. "Oh yes, that about sums it up, I have a home away from home that Timmy's staying at for the moment, so that he can have some kind of a normal life outside of going everywhere with me or staying cooped up in my lab." Replied Doctor Cyber, who then let out a deep sigh. "Anyway, I wanted to place a bounty on these hoodlums, not for capture, they're much too well armed, but for information. If anyone sees or hears anything about the Spyrius, I'm willing to pay them $1,000." The Sheriff's eyes nearly bulged out of his head at the amount, but before anything else could be set, the entire building shook and there was a very loud noise. Rushing outside, they found Zack lying on the ground while Flatfoot Thompson stepped out from where the wall of the lock-up used to be, he joined with the one who had blown out the wall in the first place, Dewey Cheatum. "Thanks Dewey, but who the blazes is that?" Flatfoot asked, pointed to a new outlaw that he'd never met before who wore all black and had a bandana that when matched with his black hat made it all but impossible to see his face. "Oh, this is the newest member of our gang, cost me an arm and a leg, but he does the job just right." Dewey replied as the newcomer remained quiet. Meanwhile, Wyatt ran up to attend to Zack, "Zack! You alright partner!?" Zack pulled himself up "Just fine Sheriff, nothing's really hurt 'cept my pride." He then stood up and picked up his rifle from where he dropped it. "Now, let's try and round up those troublemakers before they get away." To which the Sheriff agreed, pulled out his revolver. Realizing what was about to happen, Doctor Cyber dived back inside as the firefight started. While Dewey and Flatfoot took cover the new quiet one moved forward before tossing a spare piece of dynamite at the Sheriff and his deputy, who dived out of the way, then a few moments later, nothing happened, and then over the next few moments, nothing continued to happen. Slowly looking up, the Sheriff realized with indignity that the fuse hadn't been lit in the first place! "Come on then, let's chase after 'em" was all he said about it. A few hours later, as the three of them, for Doctor Cyber apparently wanted to see if the bandits had talked to the spies at any point, were riding out on the open trail, when they ran into a couple men in uniform. "Hold on there stranger, where are you heading? The only thing that way is that hideout of Black Bart and his gang of thieves" "That's exactly why I'm going sir. I'm the sheriff of that town over yonder and some of Black Bart's gang busted out a no good outlaw we had locked up. So we're going to bring him back." Wyatt explained. "Well, then, we might as well go with you, five heads are better than three I'd say." The Lieutenant declared and the group rode off once more. It was just before sundown when they arrived. They couldn't see any of the outlaws, but that didn't mean they weren't being watched, suddenly there was a loud noise as a large barrel came tumbling down from the roof, curtesy of Dewey, who quickly fled inside the hideout. While Zack managed to dodge the barrel, the lower ranked soldier did not, knocking him flat on his back. Then, they saw Black Bart himself wheeling out a cannon, but before he could fire it, Wyatt and The Lieutenant fired on him, forcing him back into the hideout. As Doctor Cyber tried to duck into cover he the misfortune of running right into where Flatfoot was hiding for his part of the ambush. Fortunately he managed to catch Flatfoot off guard and unarmed. Before the outlaw to make for his gun, the good Doctor managed one good punch between the eyes and knocked the outlaw right out. Meanwhile, the rest of the group went the stairs into the hideout, but then Zack stopped them, "Wait, do y'all hear something" indeed he could hear a faint hissing noise, that he recognized only a moment later. "Dynamite! Everybody get down!" at his word, they all leapt off of the stairs just as they were blown to smithereens. But this left them right in the line of fire of the quiet one, who was manning the biggest gun the Sheriff ever did see. Seeing the massive gun pointed at the other, just for a moment, Doctor Cyber forget his rules about protecting history, and grabbed Flatfoot's gun, and fire on the Quiet one before the outlaw could fire on his friends. The quiet one fell all the way down the cliffside the hideout was carved into, and when he hit the ground, his head popped off revealing many sparking circuits and wires. "What in the tarnation is that?" the Sheriff asked, utterly perplexed. "Oh, that my friend is a robot," Doctor Cyber explained, "A Spyrius Robot to be precise, that means that those fellows I told you about have been here." As the group mopped up the rest of the outlaws, totally caught off guard by the defeat of their invincible rookie, who was reprogrammed by Doctor Cyber to be a second deputy for the town as a way to pay for his crimes, a figure in the distance watched though a highly-sophisticated set of binoculars that wouldn't be built for another thousand years. The Spyrius Chief scoffed, this venture had been a gamble, but at least now he knew more about his opposition. It seemed that he would indeed have to keep an eye for Doctor Cyber in the future, and the past. A moment later there was a crack of thunder as he went off to make his next deal.`

Recently got the Sherrifs lockup in a Bricklink order (an expensive impulse buy I might add), yeah it's pretty sweet and I agree with your points. Simple but packed with features for an instagrammable package two decades or so before Instagram.

I had quite a few Wild West sets and loved this setting. I didn't have the big fort, so crafted a fort from cardboard :)

also interesting that Lego used the old rails, i haven't seen them for a long time

One of our figures in my and my brothers' shared collection was a classic floppy armed skeleton (we were short one skull somehow), Flatfoot Thompson's head, and a top hat (we never had Dewey Cheatum, I'd have remembered that torso if we did). He was named Magic Bones, and was an evil magician whose hat keeps his head alive; he also had an invisible magic cat that would sometimes do things when he commanded it to, but was fickle because it was a cat (more often, it would grant what he asked for in a way that was detrimental to his immediate goal, such as when he said "Magic Cat, make me fly!" the cat lifted him up and threw him head first into a wall instead of lifting him onto the roof of the building he was trying to scale)

I wass born a little too late to get my hands on these sets, but I remember seeing them in my brother's old catalogues. I know they represent two entirely different eras and parts of the world, but my lizard brain really wants to see these sets alongside 6444 Outback Airstrip.

I remember as a kid i was so fascinated by the bad guys' face prints.

Love the bandits hideout. It was the source of one of my favorite base plates and the only set of one piece stairs i had as a kid. Unfortunately my base plate has seriously warped with age.

This tickles my nostalgia hard! Thank you for diving more into Western! I like the town junction set too, complete with destructible bank vault!

Impressive sets! I love that door blasting play feature.

Lego doesn't do wild west very often, but when they do it's a good time. The short lived Lone Ranger theme has some fun sets as well.

The Roller Coaster Tycoon music fit perfectly!

I wish there was a video somewhere of the coolest themed baseplates. It's a design detail that really inspires me looking back at the sets from before I was born, and I'd love to try and collect 'em all.

The Nostalgia for the Sheriff set! I had it back in the days. I can also hear the Lego chess PC game music in the background nice touch!

"Leaving behind the icy mines of Krysto, the deputy turned in his space chainsaw for a rifle to help the sheriff maintain civility on the frontier." Sounds like a good premise for a movie.

Wow, I had only the base-plate for the bandits secret hideout in my random assortment of LEGO I had when I was a kid. Had no idea it was part of that set, had a wave of nostalgia when I saw it in the thumbnail.

The Wild West theme pulled me out of my first Dark Ages. I had always wanted Lego to release cowboy sets. The play features and minifigs are fantastic!

Weesnaw! An excellent and entertaining review of a couple sets I've never had the inclination to think about before! Great work as always, Slugger!!

I think putting the Brickster minifig in the jail cell like they finally exiled him from Lego Island would be funny lol

Interesting sidenote - Black Bart was the nickname of an old west highman that robbed lots of wells fargo stagecoaches! But he gained a reputation as a gentleman robber never stealing from passengers and he in fact never even loaded the weapon he carried as he didn't want to harm anyone! Really a stark contrast to the outlaw here by the same name who seems armed to the teeth!

That intro lol... perfection!

Summer of slug!

Me and my brother used to have many of this sets. Now the Kids of my sister have most of the Families Lego and they somewhere in the boxes. ^^ Top sets.

Awesome video, as always!! I got all my friends to subscribe your channel ;) + love the inclusion of your figure again!

That is some impressive alliteration there at 7:43 :)

You’ve inspired me, Slugger. I’m sorely tempted to piece Sheriff’s Lock-up back together and buy a used Gold City Junction to go with it.

Amazing video as always! If only Western wasn't so expensive to buy today 😅

I was going to comment about the whole pistol-revolver thing, but I found “pistol” can also be applied to a revolver in a “squares can be rectangles” kind of way. The more you know!

Ahahah I've just noticed Summer Slug's chest hair....

aw, the hideout set looks like it'd really fun to play with! reminds me of those classic play sets with figures and objects and cool stuff. i also noticed that the background on the boxes looks like breadsticks!

Wow! These are really amazing sets

I had both of these sets and the Bank/General Store sets, and they are easily some of the best Lego sets ever and my personal favorites of all time

surprised you didn't note the added nose on Flatfoot's face. It's a pretty unusual sight.

I love how you used the LEGO Chess Western Theme for the second half of the video. I just recently finished playing through that game (fighting through the general instability it has on modern systems).

This sets looks like pure fun, I will love to see a 90 years westernd set, will be a dream. Also great video!

Ooohhh!!! More LEGO Western content! TBH, I’d love to see LEGO revisit this theme at some point, as there’s a lot that could be done with a Western Reboot.

Totally agree with your takes on these sets! My friend had 6755 and we would play with the dynamite play feature for ages! I only had three small sets from the western series and I would have loved to have these sets!! Hopefully one day!

Incredible breakdown as always. Your content is so comfortable and charming, a lovely watch.

The Legends re-release of Sheriff's Lock-Up is how I was introduced to Western as a kid, and seeing the other sets on the Time Cruisers board game made me yearn for more when it was obsolete. Only a handful of years ago did I require this set, and around then the Bandit Hideout as well from another source, and enjoy them all over again. I do agree Sheriff's Lock-Up is one of the finest LEGO sets to have been released, the exploding jail never gets old to me. The giant barrel to hide in is fun. The build of the Sheriff's office is quaint in its simplicity. I'm also happy to have most of Gold City Junction to further expand my western town. The traps of Bandits Hideout are also wonderful. I even have an additional 2 curved baseplates for sandy roads in my beach town.

Nice video I actually owned set 6761: Bandit's Secret Hide-Out and set 6765: Gold City Junction as a child and I have very fond memories of playing with them

The sheriff lockdown was such a cool set

Is weird how that Flatfoot Thompson has a nose being a LEGO Minifigure ._.

These were the only two sets I ever played with from this theme. It was a friends but I very much loved these both and always wished I got western sets but my parents were harsh and only let me get Space, City, Pirate, Technic, Aquazone and Islanders. Poor me lol

Classic LEGO truly is the best!

Wouldn't mind a remake of the sheriff's office like legos been doing lately!!

I think Gold City Junction is my favourite Western set, it pairs really well with the Sheriff's lockup though

I actually came to know about the Western sets through Doug Vandegrift's Brickfilm "America: Outlawed" It's an absolute treat of a movie at a 30 minute runtime! Similarly his Pirate movie introduced me to classic pirates!

my childhood glee can't help but be sparked by all the nifty and fun little play features, all very much the kind of thing I would have loved as a kid. I can practically imagine me and my childhood friend playing around with bandits fighting calvary or the sheriff and deputy or whoever!

Liked the vid for the cascade of chaotic calamity!!

Woo summer of slug!

The Sheriff's Lockup is what got me into LEGO. Even roughly 20 years later, I still vividly remember my older brother showing me that dynamite explosion feature and being blown away by it (pun intended).

Amazing video!!! I have a long, happy, and nostalgic history with the Sheriffs Lockup. Around 10 years ago, I went to my older cousins house and I played with their old LEGO collection. One of which being the Sheriffs Lockup (they also had other Western sets like 6765 and 6761) Out of the dozens of sets they had, the Sheriffs Lockup was always my favorite, probably because it had the amazing jailbreak feature and an attractive design. My parents must of known that I loved it, because I got a copy of it for my birthday that very year! It happened to be the set that got me into collecting LEGO, and still sits on my display shelves to this day.

I have sheriffs lockup and I’ve only ever rebuilt it once in my life. I really need to get around to that. Also rip trickbrix

I love the Western Sets! The mine unfortunately is still missing in my collection. Great Video as always!

Someone is bringing memories back with the Lego chess soundtrack!

You are easily my favourite content creator. No one gives credit with so much love as you do! Thanks you for sharing your creativity with me!

2:09 Could he be... another wandering Time Cruiser, perhaps? 👀

Recognized the LEGO Chess OST immediately. Good times.

Awesome video! And the sets are cool, form the age when the form didn't overcome the content.

Anybody ever seen the brickfilm made with these sets? It’s called “America: Outlawed” and it’s fantastic!

Love the RCT nod ;)

I had (most of) 6755 as a kid! It was already old at the time. So much fun to revisit it. I never knew the characters had names!

Yes! Thank you so much! This made my day :) ❤

yes!!!! Iove lego western!!! I have the 6761 baseplate!!!

Feeling intrigued and inspired as always. Thank u Slugger!

I just learned something new. The Lego lone ranger theme featured a new mold for the revolver that was super detailed and accurate, and was retired after that theme for being too accurate!

One of the most well-rounded, thought-through themes ever, imo. The Sheriff's Lock-Up will always be near and dear to me since I was so happy I could buy it thanks to the re-release in 2002. Oh, and you definitely managed to add something valuable to Jamies thoughts! And I don't just mean the alliteration, which is also appreciated.

Lego western was never a theme I was into, it’s still not one of the ones I’m more fond of, but they DO have lots of charm!, no matter how simplistic they are they are still more charming then then almost ALL the 18 plus sets imo. I think I agree with you on Sharifs lock-up being the better of the two, though it always to haunts me to see a minifigure with a noise 😂 it’s too cursed for me, Timmy was charming, flat-foot is..uncanny!, both sets are great though! Especially for the time!, the photography is was also nice!. Have a wonderful day mate!😄😄.

Lovin the rct western music 😏

Fantastic video!

Woah the Best of The West? Sounds like my kinda video!

When the prospect of a perfect lego set comes up I tend to think of 9445 Fangpyre truck (it's perfect in my opinion, I don't know how others feel)

I like how plain the heroes look compared to the expressive unique faces of the villains :p

Cool sets! The sheriff building is so iconic.

I bought both of these second hand and used them in my Legoredo E-Prix video a few years ago; the person who I bought them from off of eBay had noticed that the stickers over multiple pieces on the Sheriff sign and the windows had seen better days, and actually included a few replacements/reproductions they had somehow either made themselves or got their hands on. Either way, it was a really nice bonus to have. It's kind of fitting in a way that a theme about the 1800's frontier (Similarly to Pirates and Adventurers, it's a very romanticised version of the time period, especially with the Native American sets thankfully having zero conflict with the Cowboys/Army) is now itself one of the more nostalgic Lego themes.

I would like to get these one day, the Lockup is very hard for me to justify getting though cause it’s so expensive for it’s size. The Hideout seems “underpriced” to me, that’s gotta be my love for unique baseplates shining through.

Oh funny enough... I had both sets. Only those two out of that line