I know she won’t read this, but I’d like to give an extra special thank you to my partner for helping me with this video; we went back and forth on what we felt were the best gendered terms to use when referring to LEGO characters. In the end, we went with masculine/feminine when referring to the characters themselves as male/female didn’t feel right when talking about minifigures. Unisex was the term chosen to describe the good old happy smile head as it wasn’t describing a character, but the piece itself. In our opinion, these were the best terms to use here, though your opinion may vary. Ultimately, there is no objective right/wrong way to go about it, after all. 😊 That was also us giggling our butts off trying to capture the Star Trek II footage, haha. 🤣 Oh, I *probably* don’t need to explain it, but the title of this video is in reference to the famous song sung by Kermit the Frog, (hence the thumbnail)! The next Slugger video is going to be a BIG one - probably the longest script I’ve penned for this channel. I highly doubt it will be ready by next week, so unless I come up with something small to release next Friday, I’ll see you all in 2 weeks time! ❤️ ~ Slugger

@bumfricker2487

Жыл бұрын

Gah, adorable. lovely. There's a reason your channel is so well regarded and it's because your calming means of expression and genuine passion for the hobby shine through. Nice work on another well-made video :) until next time

@Draconis_Eltanin

Жыл бұрын

As soon as the topic of diversity is brought up it always has me on edge. But this case was not for long. Thank you for the care you put in your words and keep up the good work :)

@digitalunity

Жыл бұрын

In awe at the size of this script, absolute unit

@employee472

Жыл бұрын

I'd say you definitely used the right terms, I always appreciate the amount of consideration you put into your content!! :)

@sarahstrongin4400

Жыл бұрын

The thought you put into this is much appreciated

Read the notification as "it's not easy being trans" and thought slugger was gonna come out as trans lmao

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Those last two words are important to the title, haha. It’s a play on the famous Kermit the Frog song, of course. 😊

@youmukonpaku3168

Жыл бұрын

Kermit tells us it's not easy being green, many can vouch that it's not always easy being trans, the question remains: is it easy being neon?

@ArianneBlaire777

Жыл бұрын

@@youmukonpaku3168 a recent video game suggests it's not

@ant6573

Жыл бұрын

Still not out of the question

@__-wm9lu

Жыл бұрын

He came out as wishing he was neon green

Slugger owning a Vectrex is both the most and least surprising thing I've ever seen

@HGHsChannel

Жыл бұрын

When's the new single from the Buttery Winthrops coming out? American Venom was straight fire

@riceman1

Жыл бұрын

least surprising

@NIRDIAN1

Жыл бұрын

Gods yeah that came TOTALLY out of left field and yet, as soon as the switch flipped and it turned on: "Yeah no of course Slugger would have this." :P

@redeye4516

Жыл бұрын

You watching Slugger's content is also the most and least surprising thing I've seen. Maybe you guys should collab or something

@alex-dh8zy

Жыл бұрын

I audibly laughed for this very reason.

WAIT. TRANS NEON GREEN IS GETTING RETIRED?! WHAT?! I LOVED THAT COLOUR IN THE ROCK RAIDERS SETS!

@yeeoof1995

Жыл бұрын

i've never played with a rock raiders set and i'm just as shocked as you are

@johnfoltz8183

5 ай бұрын

Or M-Tron

Trans Neon Orange and Trans Neon Green were staple colors for Bionicle eyestalks. Seeing them go away feels like a bit of Lego died along with it.

@uzunami810

Жыл бұрын

Honestly they were my two favorite Lego colors

@XaviHaunts

Жыл бұрын

Yeah

@Mothbean

Жыл бұрын

Losing trans-neon orange honestly felt like losing a friend. I know that sounds silly, but it's such an iconic color to me that it getting retired genuinely hurt.

@z01db3rg

Жыл бұрын

As a huge Rock Raiders and Ice Planet 2002 fan I'm mourning, too

@ThePotatoMan04

2 ай бұрын

shame those were the only colors used in metru heads after 2004 though, those unique eye colors are so expensive second-hand

Even despite regularly dunking on Boncle, you still refer to the Zamor Spheres correctly. Kudos.

@Bionickpunk

Жыл бұрын

The only things getting dunked in this video were those bowling pins with the Bionicle Zamor sphere shooter with an extended ammo extension, appropriately using Trans Neon Green spheres.

@Regeor

Жыл бұрын

Boncle is certainly a Lego theme that exists

@SpaceCowboy57

Жыл бұрын

B O N C L E

I'm usually not into Friends, even as a woman, and sometimes I believe it's just a simple feminine gendered attempt at a City or Creator type series or, put simply, Lego for girls, but it does have surprisingly fun models and set pieces like the arcade you showed here! Thank you for the upload.

@piens51

Жыл бұрын

Minifigs aside friends sets are prety good builds and also serve as a good way to acquire uncomon bright colors that main sets shy away from.

@skylarrose4176

Жыл бұрын

Friends was introduced when I was 13 and a very passionate feminist. I remember scoffing at the idea, and at how they could possibly dare to insult girls with something so stereotypical. "Did they even do market research? Who is going to buy these?" Turns out they did do market research. Turns out kids who wanted feminine toys, wanted feminine toys. Haha. Turns out here I am 10 years later buying my first friends set. Haven't warmed up to the mini-dolls yet, but Friends has absolutely dwarfed Lego city and licensed themes in value, inclusivity, and design IMO.

@eightcoins4401

Жыл бұрын

What I find disapointing is how Friends gets better Cultural venues than city with them brought brought down by the garish and cheap looking color schemes

@shazang0

Жыл бұрын

Friends has been better lately.

@landfillbaby

Ай бұрын

i have been tempted by some sets but i just can't stand the little polly pocket figures mixing with the lego. ocd maybe

Someone is gonna google “it’s not easy being trans” and gonna end up learning about a fricking Lego color instead

@shroomer8294

Жыл бұрын

“Broke though the glass ceiling” are these intentional?

@gabyyyyyyyyy

Жыл бұрын

@@shroomer8294 the comment about gender diversity could count as intentional too lmaoooo

@XaviHaunts

Жыл бұрын

I would be happy to learn about a lego color and not something that people care way too much about tbh

@tuscansun2320

Жыл бұрын

@@XaviHaunts based

@muddashucka9743

Жыл бұрын

@@XaviHaunts unbelievably based

The Star Trek bit was so unhinged, I love it. Keep on Sluggin' !

What a cute set with a ton of nostalgic festures. I love the minifig scale arcade machine, the table hockey, and even the bowling alley! Super well done set.

Slugger, everything about this was an absolute joy. Modern set analysis, unhinged Star Trek gag I couldn’t stop laughing over either, a Vectrex digression… all on top of the standard charm and production values. Thanks for the ungodly amount of work you clearly put into these. If the channel doesn’t blow up, there’s no justice in the world.

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! ❤️ I thought the channel already *did* blow up! 😅

Now that you mention glitter backed stickers ... The 90s /early 2000s space theme might be right up your ally too :) They used glitter backed stickers for the solar panels (for example set 6458) ;)

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Ohhhh yeah! I have one of those sets sitting right over here, haha but I never made the connection! 😅

@guest_4416

Жыл бұрын

They also appeared a lot in the Spyrius space theme which i think introduced it? I'm not sure but they look super cool!

@x3tc1

Жыл бұрын

@@guest_4416 You are right! Spryius used them for some display screens iirc. And Exploriens had similar looking (but more leaning into holographic) stickers on those deltoid panels that they used to represent solar panels.

With the 80s movie gag, I thought you were crying for a second, but then distinctively I heard laugh sounds and couldn't help but join in. I dunno what's going on with me right now, but that helped a fair bit. Thanks, Slugger.

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

I’m happy to share some laughs! ❤️

@SuperSecretBricks

Жыл бұрын

The sneers of the few, outs way more sneers from the many

@Robbuffet

Жыл бұрын

@@RRSlugger Thanks, by the way, for helping me get back into LEGO. It’s something I’m still working my way back into. I am aware that your content is organized well in advance- but something that could be good to add to what I’m sure is an already lengthy list of concepts to revisit for future content could be a guide on how to organize parts at varying sizes in a collection. Your Plague of 2002 video hit home for me as growing up, I had a fair amount of Bionicle, but very little technic. I had a fair amount of Star Wars, but not that much regular Ol’ System. By the time I foolishly gave away a majority of my collection, even then it was rife with “weird” and difficult to use pieces. Now I have a middling collection of what was leftover and a lot of vintage, “normal” elements. As for the latter, I sorted them (and the small amount of Megabloks out) into put-together structures. That is, for example, my 2x1x1 bricks are stacked in rings by color and then those rings are stacked together. However for the former, what remains of my original collection outside of the Bionicle (very few of the earlier ones sadly - Still got a Full Gali and Takanuva though) is a lot of misc pieces and what-have-yous reminiscent of your 2002 Plague video. I’m not sure how to approach it as of yet, although I’m confident that I’ll work it out and be more confident in building more complex works again. Since I had your attention, I thought I’d see if I could pick your brain regarding the concept. Thanks, once again, for being such a well-built creator and keeping things so consistently high-quality.

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

@@Robbuffet Honestly, I’m not a good slug to come to for advice on organization, haha. I commit the dreaded sin of sorting my LEGO *by colour* 😱

This is the perfect Lego KZread channel, you can tell he’s genuinely passionate about what he’s talking about.

God, you are such a joy to behold! Just by the sound of your voice I can tell, that you were smiling during the recording... Great video, great vibes! I'm so glad Solar Sands recommended your channel!

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

I'd like to think I always have a smile on my face! Hopefully my comments read this way as well, haha. 😊

1) Strongly agreed regarding the female minifig head situation. I remember being so overjoyed when I first saw that one female print in Exo-Force, it still feels surreal to see how many cute and cool heads we can choose from nowadays. 2) I've already joked with my sibling about how the new yellow is "The Kamen Rider Zero-One Color", but learning it even glows under blacklight just like him makes me wish for more minifig parts in it!

Incredibly unbroken review moving from topic to topic noone had a chance to interrupt - it was quite hypnotic.

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Top tier comment right here! 😂

@Visuwyg

Жыл бұрын

@@RRSlugger So glad you got the reference. The Star Trek II clip gave me confidence.

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

@@Visuwyg Oh you can fire away with confidence here - you’re talking to a true Trekkie! 😂 While all the other kids were watching Pokémon or whatever, Slugger was watching Star Trek and really hasn’t stopped since, haha. Our livestreams often divulge into just talking about Trek. 😅

Slugger having way too much fun with that Star Trek scene was priceless 🤣

I never expected to see a Vectrex in a Lego video. Such a niche and fascinating console!

Even as a cynical gesture from a megacorp, representation, especially of those who are disabled, is incredibly important for children. For young children to see disabled minifigures in wheelchairs or without limbs amongst their other able bodied figures goes a long way in normalizing those people to them. The “othering” of disabled people is a very important matter, and it’s honestly commendable that a global brand such as lego is taking steps to minimize it, motivations be damned.

6:58 Slugger crying at the discothek. Top review.

This was quite the meander through topics but a superb meander indeed. Lovely video!

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve! I had a lot of fun with the flow of this video, haha. 😊

honestly as a kid I always associated trans-neon orange and trans-neon green as lego colors, it makes me so sad that Lego is getting rid of these beautiful colors that add a lot of pop to any build.

@Bionickpunk

Жыл бұрын

Making our Lego cyberpunk futuristic tron like mocs is gonna be harder and harder without these trans neon pieces.

@jerbpickle175

Жыл бұрын

@@Bionickpunk fr! I love using these colors in space and futuristic mocs, I fear these pieces could end up being expensive in the future

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

@@jerbpickle175 Hopefully *distant* future. Even though Trans Bright Green seems to be the successor here, Trans Neon Green has still been included in nearly double the number of sets, meaning that there’s a huge supply of parts out there. 😊

I am always stunned by how slugger is somehow able to outdo himself with each and every upload, cheers!

when i saw the vectrex i was like "wow this is such an on brand thing for slugger to have" i love it

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

😎

I haven't touched a Lego set since about 1998 but I somehow got into reading about it over the past few years, and I started watching Lego content on here even more recently. Your channel came up as a recommendation like a month ago and I gotta say I love what you're doing and I see how hard you're working to make your videos as good as they are. Those stop motion animations are just 🔥🔥🔥. Much love + looking forward to the next one.

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad to hear you are enjoying the channel! 😊

Best thing is reciving a new Slug video notfication, definitely the best lego KZreadr right now

Ok, you're hitting all my hot buttons with classic Lego, Trek 2, and Vectrex.... and chasing squirrels. Followed.

You know I’ve never owned a single lego but your vids are really interesting. I’ve been binging them

As a person who is very specific and particular with my vocabulary, i really enjoy listening to your scripts slugger. Keep doing what you are doing!

While I don’t love minidolls I actually think they could be really cool to include in minifig focused sets, the only time we’ve seen this was in the Lego Movie 2 sets. Their taller proportions could really work for tall non human characters like the Navi from the new Avatar sets or the Kaminoans from Star Wars! It’s a super missed opportunity! Also on the diversity thing, I think it’s ultimately harmless and if anything a net positive, potentially helping kids of all backgrounds feel included and welcome! The thing you mentioned about a lack of female minifigs is definitely the most obvious example, I’ve had a ton of friends who were raised female who were interested in Lego growing up but weren’t allowed to get any sets as their parents saw it as a “boys toy”, products like Lego Friends actually turned that around and lets them actually give it a shot. Ultimately making these types of decisions are more of a bandaid then a real solution to closed minded parents, but I’d much rather kids have some chance at playing with Lego then no chance

@DasNordlicht91

Жыл бұрын

If anything, Lego’s diversity approach comes from a genuine place of wanting all kids to feel included. Even with the boys and girls-specific theme over the years, Lego’s appeal has been to be a toy for everyone to enjoy, no matter the theme. It’s a better, modern way to expand that approach to everyone, no matter what race, orientation, or disability they may have.

As a big FRIENDS fan I will admit this is one of best Friends sets created. It has actual space inside, has very well thought features and details and all that was in nicely priced set! HOWEVER! I would wait for DREAMZZZ to come. A dream beased theme surely will have some neons :D

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

One can only dream...zzz! 😉

My god this video is all over the place and I'm 100% here for it!

I loved how you were distracted by the tangents lol. Lego colors, friends theme, diversity, girl minifigures, the friends set, vectrex. I haven't related to someone like this in a long time 😂

If I already wasn't sad enough hearing about trans neon green and orange being retired you show the Spock death seen. You monster! Great video, can't wait to build that arcade on my daughter's birthday.. I bought one "for her".

After watching this video, I now deeply wish to see you and Technology Connections collaborate on a video! Even if it's not exclusively Lego related, your commentary is always interesting and informative!

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

That is simply one of the best KZread channels out there! I learned everything I know about dishwashers from him, haha! ❤️

@headcrabking9054

Жыл бұрын

@@RRSlugger for me, it's the joys of ice chests! He's probably in or around my top 10 favorite KZreadrs!

@loreescape47

Жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one thinking about Technology Connections during that tangent! +10 to that!

Man, this hurts. Trans neon green is one of my favorite Lego colors. From spaceships and lightsabers to rock monsters and power crystals, it was a mainstay in so many of my favorite themes. Sad to see it go. Trans bright green just isn’t the same...

I too was in tears when Kirk said Goodbye to Spock in thE Heartlake City Arcade.

as somebody who works around books, I'm relating heavily to the tangent about welcoming diversity even if corporate diversity is ultimately cynical, just there to check more boxes, sell to more demographics. it's good for folks to have options and see a little of themselves in something they love! and overall I'm so envious of your ability to make tangents like that feel natural in a video that, on the surface, is just about a lego color. invisible transitions into tangential topics are such a hard thing to do well; and doing it well can lead to a really good sorta conversational tone, like you're just listening to somebody talking about something they find cool! which is exactly the energy a channel devoted to a hobby should have, and something so many of them lack (and this goes for every hobby, mind; my favorite gaming, book or music channels have the same strengths. it's just wild to see those strengths exhibited so well by somebody who's only been making videos for about a year)

When I became a lego friends fan about a year ago all youtube comments seemed to hate the minidolls and the friends theme. It's nice that more people are starting to catch up on how well done some of these sets are. Hope you have a good time building the theater, that set is also amazing!

Another great video! I love these videos that highlight a color's history, also the Star Trek II bit was wonderful. Thank you for making our days a bit better with your fun and interesting videos.

I did not expect for the Trans Neon Green video to include Lego Friends characters watching Wrath of Khan, but I'm all for it

Quite fitting sendoff, as the most melancholic UV light tends to be the sun creeping into the disco at the break of signaling the party's end, and it winds down real fast.

Related to retired colors. What retired color do you think makes the most sense to revive, and which would you like to be revived the most? For me, those are sand red and sand purple, respectively. They're so wonderfully pleasant - not too bright or too dull, and I think they work amazingly paired with Dark Red and the more modern Dark Purple. Not only that, but sand red would just be a useful color in general. It could be made into the masonry bricks for an old brick house where dark red would be too bold, it's perfect for Light Gray Terracotta (and the old Netherrack texture) for Minecraft Mesa sets, in Star Wars, and as a nice semi-neutral color for lots of sets. It would also bolster the limited amount of red colors - we currently only have red and dark red, after all, plus transparent red. Sand purple, as gorgeous as it is, isn't quite as useful. Purple isn't a common color in nature or in Lego outside of Friends, and it's maybe a little close to one of the lavenders. You'd have to intentionally work it into a design for Friends or Monkie Kid or Ninjago, either as a central color, or as an analogous contrast color for Dark Purple. I think you could use the different sand colors together pretty well too for a muted rainbow, alongside dark tan in place of yellow, and maybe Medium Nougat in place of Orange.

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

I get this question a lot, and honestly I’m of the opinion that it was a minor miracle that we ever got Dark Turquoise back. Frankly, I seriously doubt we will get another retired colour again. ☹️ With that being said, in a perfect world I’d like to see the original Purple come back! ❤️

@jadethenidoran

Жыл бұрын

@@RRSlugger Sadly, you're probably right. A gal and a slug can dream, I suppose. Dark Turquoise probably made the most sense to bring back in my opinion, as the cyan wedge of the color wheel doesn't really have many options, even with its inclusion. It's also just a really nice, useful color, and its return was a crowd pleaser too, as both Bionicle and Rock Raiders MOC builders seem to be enjoying the new options, and the increased availability of old ones.

@Nadiki

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree, I’d love to see a return of sand red! Out of all the older colors I think it’s the most aesthetically pleasing, and it’s a niche that isn’t currently filled by anything else. I don’t know if Lego would bring it back though considering their current focus on vibrant colors.

@fanb1536

Жыл бұрын

Doubling on the Sand Red and old Purple, I think they were very pleasing colors that had their own character and stand out next to their contemporaries. That being said, I also wonder why trans neon orange/green specifically had to be axed anyway; yeah they have alternatives, but not necessarily replacements, I think. However, that's not something I can say for a lot of LEGO's *NEW* colors; have you seen how many different shades of blue, light purple, and even green they have now? I question why we even need so many - not only are a lot of them extremely similar in use (like the different shades of lilac/purple, etc), some of them are just kind of ugly (light aqua). Those are colors that I'd argue had way more of a reason to be shafted, rather than the two trans neon colors, but that's just me.

it’s so refreshing to hear a lego youtuber who doesn’t focus on lego friends praise it, especially since most afols who prefer older sets shoot it down as “bad modern lego” without giving it a chance. Anyway i remember trans neon green fondly as a part of lego elves (another theme that had minidolls, sadly retired now RIP) being a main color for one of the villains; because of that me & my sibling always called it “ghost green”

Slugger, from the bottom of my heart, i just want to say thank you. I’m 20, and have used KZread since i was in 1st grade, so i’ve seen many styles and channels come and go. In this age of Shorts, I just find that i’m struggling to keep the most inspired and touching videos on my radar. Often, rubbish gets pushed so hard that it’s hard to find the good. I found your channel around a month ago, and i’ve watched most of the videos on your channel since. such amazing production value, a unique and comforting personality, and as someone who grew up in the 2000s, i really find your Lego opinions very different from my own, but so refreshing!! sorry, if there are any typos, i don’t mean to go on and on. i need to eat my lunch before work and watch this video. but although i’m a new fan, your channel means so much to me. thank you for your work!! it’s on the level of art in my heart

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm so glad I can help be a beacon of creativity in the "age of Shorts", (don't worry - I hate them too). ❤

@girlhag

Жыл бұрын

@@RRSlugger if you haven’t, you should really check out the set Super Robot. it’s only $10 and i find it incredibly charming

Wow! After stumbling across your Rock Raiders content tonight, I'm excited to delve into your other work! And as a trans person who was watching partially because it kept me from looking at the news...it truly means a lot to see you signaling that this is a safe place. Now to find somewhere in my apartment where I can set up a display for Axle and her Chrome Crusher!

Slugger i just adore your videos! Your commentary is, as always, truly insightful! I especially love the thoughtful commentary on diversity in lego, not something many touch on. Keep on slugging!

@RRSlugger

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! ❤️

The amount of life you spread onto these plastic worlds is amazing! z

As a kid I noticed the color was rare, so any piece of that color I kept and deemed made of a rare material called “neonum” the rare metal could be used to generate huge amounts of electricity completely cleanly and with very little byproduct. And all of my Lego wars were over this very color. Kinda fitting for my long gone worlds that the mines have finally dried up for the piece

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

I love this! ❤️

The Vectrex is pretty badass. Awesome to see you have one. Sad to see the color go but at least we have a decent amount of sets to pull parts from.

Sets like this make me realize how underrated certain Friends sets are. They have some really neat stores, houses and buildings to potentially fill up a LEGO City, especially with how LEGO City can get overboard with their action oriented sets like police and fire at times. The mini-dolls aren't my cup of tea either. But their better than whatever Belville was. At least the hair pieces are interchangeable with standard LEGO figures.

I've long been a friends convert, and their pretty consistent dedication to diversity in their sets feels less corporate and more deliberate, as it's been ongoing and growing since the rebrand in 2016(?), that said, I do wish Minidolls had a BIT more life and posability to them, but the set designs, especially buildings and graphic designs for stickers are always TOP NOTCH. Great review!

@ClassicStudStudios

Жыл бұрын

A 👏 Fricking 👏men😊.

@ButteredBread201

Жыл бұрын

2018 actually. It was the same year as the Ninjago redesigns.

@GreyGaymer

Жыл бұрын

@@ButteredBread201 ah thank ya! Thought I might have misremembered that

My only problem with the mini dolls is the maneuverability, like the hands don't twist and the legs don't move separately TwT, also really love both the trans neon colors and makes me sad that they are going away. Also the Vector machine is wicked cool!

Whoaaah a Vectrex!!! I would absolutely kill for one with Tempest!

the rock raiders color palette has fallen, Trans-neon green, Trans-neon Orange, Chrome Silver, Light Gray and Dark Gray. Friends gone too soon, you will be missed 😔.

@MrJoeyWheeler

Жыл бұрын

At least we still have yellow.

@youmukonpaku3168

Жыл бұрын

@@MrJoeyWheeler ssh, don't let the Lego Group know or they'll start phasing it out too

@Nadiki

Жыл бұрын

@@youmukonpaku3168 they’ll replace all the yellow minifigures with flesh tones, Slugger’s worst nightmare!

@ClassicStudStudios

Жыл бұрын

@@MrJoeyWheelernd teal and black!:)

These kind of stickers appeared in the 90's "space port" theme Made my summer days so colorful Im now addicted to holo stickers thanks to them

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

I totally forgot about that theme! You’re right!

@philippak47

Жыл бұрын

They were the perfect summer time sets, the gold chrome domes and helmet visors. I need to buy those sets again

R. R. Slugger continuing being one of the best creators for niche themes i didn't knew i wanted/needed. Thank you for your work!!

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! ❤️

I might have to pick up that arcade set. I was enticed by the parts. The nice mix of colors seems to make for a good parts pack, if nothing else. I'm always on the hunt for purple.

this video is genuinely so amazing I love all the different topics that get brought up and segued though as you talk on the main topic its such a fun watching experience! Massively underrated channel such good work on here.

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I was really pleased with how this one turned out - flowing between topics sometimes leads to disaster, but I think it worked really well this time around!

I admit, the visual of lego friends watching classic Star Trek is quite amusing

This is one of my favourite videos you have made, despite going all over the place you always came back to the trans neon green topic central to this video.

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Honestly, I'm really, really pleased with how this one turned out, despite it being rather scatterbrained. I think there's a nice pace/flow to everything. 😊

I'm always impressed how good friends buildings are. Seriously considering both this and the theatre. Sad to see TNG go, although I was never really a fan of its use in town sets over trans yellow pieces. It always felt just a few hues away from "realistic" outside of the more fantastical themes.

WOW! thrilled to see a reference to a vectrex. I got one probably a little over 20 years ago when i first heard of them and you're right videos do them no justice.

You mentioned the change to the grays; I always felt that the old grays were better for organic stuff, the new ones are better for stuff that's supposed to be metal, such as most Star Wars sets. Either one can work for rocks, it just depends on how much metal content you picture the rocks having. and you may not be that big on minidolls, but that's no call to torture them with that scene! "I have been... and always shall be... your friend! Live long... and prosper."

Honestly I really love the friends sets as a. Adult man. They frequently have life and color and that creative jolt that I prefer in Lego sets. Standard city sets today are a touch too realistic much of the time for my taste.

I thought this was going to be a video purely about my favorite lego color, but it turned out to be a even better video, thanks Slugger!!

This feels like finding out the actor of your favorite character from your childhood died.

Slugger thank you for putting in so much effort to show us cool things!

100% agree with the masc/fem diversity, I SO wish we had a girl on the power miners team, which was the theme I played with the most as a kid!! We had 4 dudes that looked similar and they couldn't even decide which face prints to use. I remember being so pleasantly surprised when I learned that Jet existed on the rock raiders crew, even though that was out of my era she still holds a nice little place in my heart that I knew kid me would have loved to feel represented :) I guess the cool thing about Lego though is that I can now make my own, I have a mechanic that I include with my power miners sets that has doc's outfit except with dark grey hands, dark blue toolbox, and MINI HEAD, NO. 2589

I think I can say slugger is my favorite lego youtube creator it's always nice to see a vid

4:20 As a building toy, Lego was still primarily geared toward boys even in the late 90s. So, not surprisingly, most sets had the male characters that most boys preferred. As far as the Friends set though, thanks for recommending it because it was completely off my radar and seeing it now, I think it is unusual and totally cool. I'm going to purchase one up now. Thanks again.

Another BANGER of a vid! Thank you mister Slugger

I ate a Lego trans neon green 1x1

@marlaj.6109

4 күн бұрын

What superpower did it give you?

@hansydoot

4 күн бұрын

​@marlaj.6109 Autism

@marlaj.6109

4 күн бұрын

@@hansydoot omg thats actually the best superpower. Congrats!

Great deep dive! I love all the different directions you went with this one!

Welp. I made it. This is it. I found the channel yesterday and I pretty much binged it in its entirety. You do a damn good job, Slugger :)

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you! I don’t think I’ll be able to keep up *that* pace with production though, haha. 😉

One thing I feel worth mentioning is constraction’s usage of these neon colours. Almost every wave used neon yellow and orange for the brain stocks or eyes of bionicle characters. They even eventually just stopped doing the non neon brainstocks. Light just passed through these colours much better so they were much more ideal.

That little animation with the dinosaur was epic

I like how the videos lately have not been afraid to go way off topic. Somehow it's making the videos even better. Feel free to take the video wherever the slug you want :P

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

It’s rewarding to take a risk with a video script like this and see it pay off and somehow become a cohesive video in the end. Thanks for giving me confidence to try it again in the future! 😊

Lego retiring a color is like old yeller.

Love the diversions in your videos

This is the most all over the place video I’ve seen thus far. But then again I’ll all here for it

I love that Rock Raiders horse 🐎

Man TNG was my childhood, it appeared in as eye colors in almost every major Bionicle figure I liked as a kid and was prominently used in all themes I used to own as a kid and just like TNO they were awesome to have as gems and crystal as you tried to snag as many as you could from the brick pile before your siblings. The colors use in sci fi themes just elevated its coolness. I remember being disappointed the first time I saw trans bright green because it just didn't feel the same but I was happy that at least it was much easier to tell apart than between TNG and TNY when building past your bed time like the true LEGO Manic one was back then. Goodbye old friend, we will meet again, dunno where dunno when.

Duuuude, busting out the Vectrex like it's nobody's business. What a wonderful curveball tangent inside a Lego review. Amazing content, my guy.

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I kinda figured with a sticker like that in this set, it was now or never! 😅

What a wild ride in this video. Cool that you have a Vectrex!

slugger I liked this video out of principal before I started watching it but throughout the course of the video there were at least 3 different moments that made me want to like it again, good job

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! The rare quadruple like!! 👍👍👍👍

the "favorite 80s movies" gag got me.

It's not easy being trans any colour rn fr

Holy moly... VECTREX! RR Slugger hits all the nostalgia notes for me.

Needed a slugger video today. cheers.

I've always loved the neon green and orange colours, because they have a nice glow whenever I turn on the black light.

There are two things in LEGO that were important to me. Insectoids, and the orange transparent chainsaw. And the vestiges of both are long gone

Love this homage to a beautiful colour. In my RR stop motion, I learned how much it pops under a blue LED light-an effect that the new bright trans green just doesn’t replicate.

Another great video!! I’ve been watching your channel for a while now when you only did rock raiders videos with a few hundred views and seeing a LEGO KZreadr I really enjoy grow and expand is so much fun! Keep it up, I love these type of videos!

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! And thanks for sticking with the channel for so long! If Time Cruisers and Galidor didn’t turn you off, I don’t know what will! 😂😉

@shadyoder6055

Жыл бұрын

I’m in it till the end!

A wonderful send off is really truly wonderful color

since solar sands covered you and i subscribed ive been on a lego youtuber downward spiral and been watching lego content nonstop nice video

I love this video, you rock R. R. Slugger!

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊❤️

6:34 I always thought that Zamor spheres got retired after Hero Factory and Chima buildable figures and it was last thing I was expecting in this set

@RRSlugger

Жыл бұрын

I had to do a double take as well! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

8:25 Outstanding video Slugger! 🤣 You should retitle the video: "The retirement of trans neon green and a small recap of my childhood"