Nice work on this video!

Oh my god, I had that green lizard thing! I never even knew there was anything more than that with it.

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@@EpicKZfaqHandle a gamer moment no doubt!

You know I watched so many videos on this topic over the span of years and this one is the greatest of all of them good presentation overall on the video

The moment I heard it, I felt some small part of my soul die. I may never be able to forget this line.

"The Kek Powerizer suit gives you Glinch ( gravity lynch ) an upgraded version of Darth Vader's force choke. Clear out commies in record time with Kek and the power of Glinch!"

> Be me > Put on Kek Powerizer > Start to Glinch > Turn arms and legs into whatever I'm thinking of > Get hungry, glinch arm into microwave > Feel lazy, feet glinch into wheels > 10/10 QT comes in, says my glinching is cool > P turned on > Start to glinch > MFW

@@jpar6031 Note: Glinching is universally recognized as a war crime, even in peacetime.

@@raycearcher5794 omg, I loved Galinor! My favourite moment was when the protagonist, Gali Glinch, said "it's glinchin' time!" and glinched all over the damn place!

That's what I was thinking. It honestly looks pretty well made? Specially the articulations. Holding up to similar effects in classic series like Doctor Who, PR, etc

How did I miss this comment! Completely agree. Lego had unrealistic expectations for the tv show. One designer even expressed his disappointment that it wasn't more like the new Star Wars film. Phantom Menace had like 50x the budget.

Looking at the CG in some of those commercials really drives that point home. I didn’t mind the suits… but I haven’t watched the show since I was 12, so I didn’t exactly have “taste” at the time. Maybe it could’ve worked if the whole thing was CGI, like Beast Wars, but even then…

Seems like one of their many mistakes was not making the show animated. Would have been way easier to do the concepts justice without needing huge budgets.

I think those costumes were great.

Including Nick Bluetooth.

Bluetooth makes sense though. Bluetooth is a Danish king or something. 🌈 ​@@normanclatcher

@@robertschnobert9090 just because it makes some sense doesn't mean it's not also very unhinged.

i swear glinch just SOUNDS foul

It all looks and sounds like a fake toy line in a movie or TV series.

No wait I do remember this actually but literally just the name "Nick Bluetooth"

I saw it mentioned in one issues of Lego Magazine. Saw it was on a channel I didn't get and that Bionicle just seemed less kiddy to me at the age of 12 so I locked Galidor in a memory hole for roughly 20 years before someone mentioned it again.

Agreed

I... I just realized that XD

You kind of glaze over it when you're doing research for the video and forget how absolutely hilarious it is.

I mean, there’s also a toy named Nipple. Who is a member of the main cast.

An ambitious project, I'm sure. But in the end, it was more cringe than kek...

Nick Bluetooth Glinched Allegra Zane with Kek Powerizer

Can it run doom

@@Local_pixel_artistprobably! 🤣

I had completely blocked all memory of this toy out of my brain until this video.

I don’t remember anyone having the suit of armor. I just remember people had the characters

If only it were easier to find them, I'd love to see an interview with Galidor's #1 fan.

A 100% true Im that kid with my beloved Olocoons O2 haha Nobody cares, nobody likes them, but they are just the coolest thing ever for me

I commented about how my brother and I got into fist fights over these that my dad had to take them away. Meanwhile other kids had literally no clue or care about em.

Yes. Most likely a mentally challenged kid. Perhaps they have some kind of disability that makes bionicles too complex. WHen I was 5, I was building bionicles with no help from anyone.

I unironically loved those toys for their gimmick, had a blast with them, and probably still have the pieces hidden somewhere. I'd be up for the interview, but I never in my life played the games, or watched the TV Show, not even sure if it aired here.

so you lied and have no way to prove it?

Looked up “Bionicle Galidor egg” and one of the first images is a blue mech, originally from Brickshelf and posted on Reddit. Any chance that’s it?

​@@blob5907 i'm mundane = everyone else must be mundane

Well, *of course* the Kek Powerizer exists! Because although you can already turn your body into vast, anatomically unbalanced monstrosities in mere seconds-- descendants of John Carpenter's Thing and cybernetic horrors-- sometimes _you just need to push yourself farther._ And when you do, that clumsy metal suit salvaged from Emperor Zurg's trashcan will win the day! All you need is a titanic race's young hanging around, savagely shaking you from behind to accomplish some goal only it knows.

Smoking that 90s shit my guy

That's certainly one of the statements of all time.

aye xD

I forgot it was a lego video at that moment

Dude, you absolutely hit the nail on the head, LOL.

I had to check the post date halfway through the video to see if it was all an April Fools joke. I can't believe this was a real thing. A stunning example of how capitalism spins its wheels inventing plastic crap no one wants complete with horrible multimedia tie-ins.

It's real. I have some. The black-masked dude was named Gorm, like my friend from school at the time.

@@TheDanishGuyReviews your buddy's actual name was GORM?!

@@slow_start Yes. It's a somewhat uncommon name here in Denmark, but yeah. It's actually the name of the very first King of Denmark, Gorm the Old.

That was my thought! They're incredible works of art, but I suppose the young and impressionable eyes of early Gen Z were not able to appreciate that yet.

@@werewolf1301Gen Z would’ve been like 1-2 at the time galidor released

​@@werewolf1301"gEn Z bAd" hey dumbass gen z wasn't even a thing back in 2002. They were literal babies.

There wasn't a huge saturated market with products that did it better at this time. You got this new cutting edge cool thing or you played with your old toys.

They do have a few movies and a Netflix show but I heard the reviews for the show aren't that good

you're right. It's strange that they didn't take Bionicle in the same direction during the initial launch. Almost felt like they were more cautious with the IP than they were with Galidor.

@@slow_start very likely. Also, considering their monetary struggles, they likely didn't want to spend too much money

Didn’t Bionicle have a show? Maybe not around the same time, but I remember seeing 3d animations at some point.

@@Elessar0wind there were 3 movies! maybe that's what you saw.

That's a genius idea, surprised no one on the galidor team thought of that

@@hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 I had a pack that came with the blue guy and his horse thingy

The toy is too dumb to be successful

Literally zero memory of the Galidor toys being on store shows. Only time I saw them before this video was a very brief mention in one of our history of Lego books.

With all the 'rediscovery"of older media going on ( Inspired by the whole Star Trek:TNG holodeck use of old pulp fiction for stories, perhaps?), Galidor is a good candidate; I've seen worse SFX in TV shows shred on KZfaq as "classics" for one thing. And I, for one, applaud it. People put effort into making all this; It demands appreciation out of simple human empathy.

the best part of Galidor was when he said "IT'S GALIDIN' TIME" and galied all over those guys

@@HellBuzzsaw THAT LINE WAS EPIC WHEN GALIDOR SAID THAT

You have an adorable avatar/pfp. X3

RRSlugger already did that. Although he does admit it was a financial flop even though he likes the theme.

Less than expected revenue isn't 'jack shit'.

@@CarrotConsumer Should have built more spaceships. Spaceships RARELY fail.

@@CarrotConsumer less than expected sales doesn’t mean the core product and its technology is out of style and, in LEGO’s case, it was the implementation that did.

@@CarrotConsumer yes it is lmao

They were an old company that had been taking the same general approach to making products for decades, weathering fads and trends so well some execs might've feared the other shoe was due to drop. Then a rather flashy, dramatic youth culture shift happened as Lego started to do badly. 'Being out of touch' was a logical enough thing to believe had caused their failures. It would've been a tempting theory to believe because it was a simple, neat one and the solution was uncomplicated: just follow the new youth paradigm. But it was a *terrible* idea to lay off Master Builders with decades of practical experience figuring out the aesthetic and engineering potential of _every single brick_ Lego'd ever produced. Their skill would have been just as useful crafting sets that followed the new themes, and Lego needed all the talent it could get to help them power through if they stumbled while reinventing itself. I think their recent themed line of augmented-reality sets is another ill-considered attempt to jump on a bandwagon. The color scheme it employs is dull and unappealing, and if you don't make use of the AR gimmick the whole thing becomes underwhelming. But at least the sets can still make for decent play that way.

I remember. I always got Jens

Same, and later when I got obsessed with Bionicle, I thought it was a Bionicle TV show.

Yup. Now I know

i love how this just SOUNDS like something dirty

@@neonthunder3261 It could be. I mean, he could take their arms. Imagine doing "the stranger" using someone's stolen arm.

You joke, but he actually did say "It's glinch time" at one point and destroyed a giant statue with a glinch.

Truly, one of the scenes of the show. 😂

Omg... did I go back in time?!? Is it 2021 again?!? Or was that just a really out of date joke?

Honestly I would have loved galidor when i was little and could still enjoy it now. I love making Lego characters look as ridiculous as possible it's fun.

Hoping for a hi def re-release in the future! Ive seen a few eps on youtube too, but for the most part the low res is too low for me haha.

@@slow_start yeah it was brutal lmao i thought it was my connection making it go down to the lowest resolution before i realized thats just the videos quality

same

I kinda disagree. Throwing so much money at Galidor was likely detrimental to the project as a whole. Not only did it mean that when it failed, it failed so hard it almost took the company with it, it also meant the designers had no constraints. What I mean by that is that they could have genuinely done anything with this product. Their only limitation was that the end result be made mostly of injection-molded plastic, but that doesn't give you anything to start with. Restrictions breed creativity, and they started with basically none. Furthermore, it meant the project could afford to have multiple, entirely separate teams with few lines of communication, resulting in issues like the toy people having no idea how bad the show was until it was finished, the video game people getting iced out entirely, and the writers/character designers coming up with cringe terms like "glinch" and "kek powerizer," with nobody in any of the other design positions able to question that. Tossing so much money at this produced a too many cooks situation entirely because Lego hired so many cooks, and their output was so stupid because they didn't have any good frameworks to work within. If this had all been the brainchild of one person instead, given creative control over all the different aspects of the project, it would have been both cheaper and less scattered a product line.

@@Frommerman lego isnt really very creative this days, mosy of their products are just based on movies tv shows or games that already exist.

@@tehdouglas1 they've leaned hard imto the disney money, but that's still 100% better than bionicle/galidor

@@ClockworkAvatar Bionicle is awesome.

@@ClockworkAvatar Better than Galidor? Yes. Better than Bionicle? Bro, are you high?

And then he glinched everywhere.

The moment that changed tv forever...

The first show to make glinchillion dollars

The fact that you just combined a toy series with a meme from 20 years after it's creation... Bravo

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It's definitely hard to tell at first glance that it's a Lego product, that's for sure!

Like when I knew Star Wars because of the Lego Star Wars game and I didn't know it was a franchise.

How didn't you know Galidor had a toy line? Even McDonald's had happy meal toys on it. I used to own some of the toys when it was at its peak.

I had no idea there was a show. I just knew it as this weird toy line. Part of what made it so weird to me was thinking it had no background, and was just some really random characters.

@@cerisem7727 I was a kid during this time. I loved Lego. Somehow Galidor completely missed me! Learning about Galidor now, as an adult, feels like something out of another universe. I don't remember any of the toys. Any of the ads. Anything about the show, or it's existence. I never got a Galidor happy meal toy. Nothing. Somehow it's entirely possible.

I actually had the triceratops as a kid. It was amazing in my opinion for displaying next to my normal dino figures

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i loved the lego dinosaur sets, i never really saw them as anything other than normal molded lego animals

My exact thought process

To be fair Galidor was the final show to air on the Fox Kids programming block in the United States before it closed down. It aired right at the tail end of Fox Kids life span, so it's understandable why most don't remember it.

Exo-Force came later, but the other two came out before Galidor

God Exo-Force was awesome

If only Exo-Force got an anime...

I still find it weird that Universal Cartoon Studios named his show Exosquad instead of Exoforce for fear that Marvel would sue their pants off… And then Lego pulled this.

@@kourii Knights Kingdom 2, which is what I assume they’re referring to, was also after Galidor

FOUR Kek Powerizers?! Your ability to glinch must have been off the charts!

People like to "hate" when something wasn't commercially successful. If you liked it as a kid, no one can take away those memories from you. ❤

@@salmansengul❤

No conflict here. If you enjoy something, more power to your elbow. Heck, I've spent the last few months following the 1949 to 1962 radio show "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" with great pleasure, how could I criticize?

Same!!!

Galidor Quest was SO much fun when I was 10!

Thank you for this wonderful comment! More to come, that's for sure!

With animation similar to the video game, it wouldn’t have been bad.

Marketing perception back then was that young kids watched cartoons, but older kids favored live action shows like _Power Rangers_ and the like. Since the target market for this toyline was kids 10-14, they consciously avoided an animated cartoon. _The Simpsons_ and _X-Men The Animated Series_ were really the only two cartoons at that time which were considered acceptable for teens and adults to enjoy. Lego would've been taking an even bigger risk by making this an animated series.

it would've just been a gimped Titan A.E. might as well make that a series.

they also probably went live action because it would be much cheaper and probably a lot quicker than animation

There was a Bionicle cartoon lol. You don't need a crystal ball to know a cartoon is a better idea

Yea same here. At first I thought this was something that never actually released, but nope. Weird

Then again, who remembers "New Coke"?

I had a toy of the blue alien when I was a kid. Played with him almost daily for years. NEVER knew what the heck he was from until now. 🙃

Same here. I was like, "Why is this familiar?"

Yeah this one ripped the memory out of a corner somewhere.

Same here dude. I’ve been trying to remember this for 20 years at this point.

I barely have any memories with it, even though I had some of the toys, bruhhh

Quality brings subscribers, not the other way around.

"These parts would look terrible with my bionicles" was a thought I distinctly remember passing through my head when I saw these things on the shelf.

Bob the killer goldfish

Like in Twin Peaks.

Bob Vader

It’d be like naming the supreme being in your Japanese sci-fi series Akira

"Don't have a memory" Dude, you were 1 year old The toy line ended literally 6 months after it's release How the fuck could you even remember it?

@@RazorsharpLT his whole family was into this series and is very upset baby him can't remember the power of glinching.

I was the target audience at the time. I was 11 when this toy came out. I don't remember it at all, and I have a damn good memory.

@@RazorsharpLT I must've played with them after the toy line ended. My father says that he found a bargain bin filled with Galidor toys that were 5 for $5 and, because he had $20 and cared for me and my older brother, got them.

It’s so weird that they wouldn’t promote the toys at the same time as the show…

This is such a kind comment! So glad you found it interesting even though its not directly up your alley. Wowwee sounds exactly like the kind of thing I would cover. I've added it to my list of topics to research in the future. Thanks again!

I saw they have butthead toys. The faces are bums. 😆

Yea I'm not interested in anything Lego really but this is one of the times that youtube recommending something somehow worked lol. I love finding new quality channels. 😊👍

What movie would that be?

@@badbusiness2113 The Lego movie, naturally.

@@AllardRT Thanks.

Chima has constraction sets. it has amazing character design. it has a stunning setting, world building, ideas and plot. It just had *bad* execution. Thanks, tommy. After thinking for a little while, I decided to edit this comment, summarizing how amazing Chima is. Chima is a lego theme about anthropomorphic animals living in a distant society. Their society is technologically advanced thanks to Chi, a naturally occuring chemical that can be used as an energy source for oneself or their machines. However, its abundance AND secondary effects, that are similar to drugs, were one of the reasons a civil war broke out in Chima. It is also the reason most villains came to life. Legends of Chima has a very deep story, with amazing character designs and sets, although its writing is unfortunately an abomination because of its writer Tommy, in favor of Ninjago. The fact that anthropomorphic animals were used in this theme is incredible, as not only does it synergize with the story itself, but it helps create this otherworldly feel. Creating new, fictional cultures is very hard; humans have been existing for a long while, and with the abundance of different real-life cultures comes the pressure of either making your story set in stone on said culture (like Ninjago, which failed miserably on setting its world) or mixing real-life cultures to make a new one. With anthropomorphic animals, you have creative liberties with the cultures, because anthros will *never* exist in real-life. It was a smart play, and one that showed how characters CAN and WILL affect the world in itself. The writing may be abhorrent (as a Chima fan, I really do mean it), but everything else about Chima is a piece of art. It tried to do what most themes didn't, but because of circumstance and bad writing, *it was swept away as either f*rry (look at the thread), which is blatant misconception, or as a "Ninjago copy" by children* . Also, please, ignore the bait comment in this thread. I seem a little salty, but this happens a lot because these types of comments are basically used as a way to underappreciate and discriminate franchises, cultures and etc. that use anthropomorphic animals, especially because these types of baits (who sometimes aren't baits, shockingly enough) use an *infamous* fandom as a comparaison, with drama that has nothing to do with the culture that the fandom is based on. I could write a long comment on this subject, too. Sorry for the long comment, but I seriously could ramble on and on about what Chima tried to do, what it is, why is it the best unlicensed theme (some people would say Bionicle is better, but I digress) and etc. Legends of Chima is a work of art, with love and care put onto it. I wished people treated this franchise fairly.

Also the name is terrible, "Galidor" does not sound sci-fi at all out of context, honestly it sounds almost Arthurian and would fit a high fantasy series better (honestly something like "The Knights of Galidor" where you had knights taking on aspects of the fantasy monsters they fought would have been a way better concept). Like I wouldn't say Bionicles is a self explanatory name, but it's one that feels right in context, whereas Galidor feels like they came up with the name first and then everything else second.

Galidor on the other hand...

It helped that Bionicle was kinda-sorta part of the Technic line. It was building off something that was already proving that it worked instead of tossing all previous successes of the LEGO brand out the window.

Its a plastic toy

@@timmyreobed5043 100%. Being rooted in technic meant that Bionicle's customisation ability was unparalleled. I would eye technic sets as a child thinking of them in terms of parts I could use on my bionicles. It did lost a lot of that in its later years as the parts began having fewer and fewer technic holes and axle slots though. Who designed that dumb hand piece?! I WANT NAMES!

bionicle was butt ugly crap with cringy backstory made of like 6 bricks in total truly a dark age of lego

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I don't think galidor's figures count as minifigures

Almost like Roblox’s developers might have been impressionable children during the Galidor saga…

The real problem becomes when they're so detailed and contoured, they can't blend in with the greater work they're part of.

Captain Power did it better back in 1987.

@@bobby-zx6177 I vaguely remember that show. What I remember of it... it was genuinely good at times.

I gotta be honest, as a tween at the time, even one with access to YTV and FOX, and one who dearly loved Lego, I thought Galador sounded cheesy and the toy and character designs seemed very generic? I understand that I didn't like action figures very much, but Bionicle managed to be far more interesting and engaging to me from a design and lore/setting perspective.

As a kid I felt like if I had spent actual money on a toy from a TV show I must have been severely scammed.

Thank you so much, seriously. Very happy to see such a positive response with this video :)

Amazing production quality for someone with 3k subs, very inpressive

Agreed. I wish they stuck with the animals...

Everybody in the cinema got out of their seats, put on their kek powerizers and proceeded to clap for an hour straight.

Yeah, it certainly was one of the shows of the early 2000s. Had actors, scripts, and costumes too.

Galimorb

Please for the love of God let this meme die

He doesn't say that

Exactly the same experience I think. It was fun for a few visits then we went back to Bionicle, or something like that.

what an incredibly kind comment. You made my day man, thank you!

Tom Lynch worked on this pile?

I was stuck on the basics, was super jealous of my friends with Sky and NTL hahah. I vaguely remember seeing some of it, just because I recognise the girl with the orange vest. I don’t blame you for not bothering with CBBC and CITV tbh, almost everything they showed which was worthwhile had already been shown on those other places

@@kaitlyn__L I discovered in more recent years that Citv aired a cartoon in the late 90s, Road Rovers, which I would’ve loved! However, by that point we got Sky and I didn’t go near the basic 4 channels again until we got Sky Digital which was the first time you could watch the BBC on equipment mainly used to watch subscription channels! Also, what you said about CBBC and Citv getting shows later than Sky channels isn’t 100% true: Cartoon Network didn’t air Animaniacs or TTA until YEARS after they started airing on Citv! At the turn of the century, I did (mostly) look down on CBBC as being inferior to the paid-for channels but I think I should’ve known better. Not to mention BBC2 aired Simpsons episode The Cartridge Family 4 years before Sky One’s first airing of it! Now that ITV are planning to close the Citv channel later this year, I’d like Channel 4 to re-enter the kids TV space by launching a 4 Children or Channel 4 Junior channel! It could rely on imports and Fourways Farm reruns at launch and start airing original programming before too long! (I know that would take a long time to make, hence why I said “before too long”!)

@@adultmoshifan87 that’s interesting, I didn’t realise there were a few things we got first. For most of the cartoons I liked, especially the anime, my pals with Sky were 1-3 years ahead of me lol. And I was also jealous of the pals with Sky One because they had actual brand new Simpsons, so it’s pretty interesting that Sky… chose not to show that one? Especially given it’s usually the BBC who didn’t show certain episodes/scenes over content objections. Of course, BBC2 was my only source of Simpsons for a very long time.

@@kaitlyn__L at least GMTV aired a certain episode of Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue that Fox Kids refused to air!

@@adultmoshifan87 that’s fascinating ngl. I didn’t follow it closely, but a bunch of mornings I saw various Powers Ranger on ITV lol. It’s possible, tho unlikely, that I saw that one!

checking back in now that i'm using my channel to get awareness on a hit and run on my e-bike. i'm glad to see your channel grew!

YOU MADE ONE ABOUT BIONICLE?!?!?! WhaaAAAAAT

Both are abominations.

I know what you mean about the Jack Stone thing. So many main or minor characters in poorly selling lines seem suspiciously like the same guy... a survivor claiming different identities to blend in, as he jumps from sinking ship to sinking ship. High-tech superspy work; planetary defense; prestige construction contract work; dinosaur hunting; fighting monsters during mining operations --- maybe even being a stunt double for the Prince of Persia-- the now-grown Nick has done it all. He can always be seen in the near or middle distance of things, having changed his name again so others won't recognize him and panic. 😂