I find it amazing how even after the many years since Mixels ended, Lego still uses their ball and socket system pieces in their sets to this day, even going as far as to making new pieces for them too.

@NickonPlanetRipple

4 жыл бұрын

Mixels' contribution to the way we build overall can't be overstated.

@matthewbrown7834

4 жыл бұрын

@@NickonPlanetRipple it a shame that they can only come in gray and dark gray. It can cause problems for color schemes a lot of the time.

@jmaster2855

4 жыл бұрын

@@matthewbrown7834 Yeah, I am sad we don't see other colors. I heard (don't take this as fact) the reason for that is that other colors don't have the same tolerance as the grey pieces, or that the grey ones just are the most reliable color to get right. Maybe some day we'll see other colors. I will say that at least they're grey, and not, say... _bright red, blue, or yellow._ Still, it's about time they try and get the mixtures right, since using those pieces is basically cheating in some builds.

@matthewbrown7834

4 жыл бұрын

@@jmaster2855 interesting I didint know that. It is good that thare a neutral color and not made a bright red or blue to be easily spotted amongst other parts and it's weird that these small ball joints technically existed long before mixels. That one hook part and certain technic bushings have the ball part on them.

@jmaster2855

4 жыл бұрын

@@matthewbrown7834 Yeah, it's cool they were able to work that in!

Nick on Planet Dank broadcasting Dank Rewind.

6:38 Oh wow that's what that's from? I had that piece in my Lego bin for forever and never really knew. I went digging for it just now and it's still there.

@Massivelock

3 жыл бұрын

Sup squim

@gordonf5553

3 жыл бұрын

You're the last person I would've expected here

I remember we had some "classic" sets in the classroom hard to forget those weird peg people and eye pieces.

@th3rasave

4 жыл бұрын

What sorts of classes did you have?

@DustMug

4 жыл бұрын

My second grade class had that too

@th3rasave

4 жыл бұрын

@@DaymiianSFT oh yeeeeeaah, I remember that

@hkh8454

4 жыл бұрын

Yes mm

@schavi3526

3 жыл бұрын

I remember having those see-through pieces as some sort of money for lego pieces. You wan't my Darth Vader figure? that'll be 1 purple see-through (we called them rare glitter pieces) stud.

Thank you for that beautiful title.

@Gl1tch_XD

3 жыл бұрын

Wait

@africancouscous

3 жыл бұрын

1 likes and 2 comments from a famous youtuber wtf

@walkintobrickwallsfordays8756

3 жыл бұрын

@@africancouscous you meant to say 1 like and 2 comments from a walking fetus

@studebricker2845

2 жыл бұрын

Oh look, it's Mr. I complain about Lego when they don't do what I want. Lame.

I feel like mixels is an quite an important theme that is often overlooked

@masonjones7777

4 жыл бұрын

yep, also the best source for those delicious micro sockets, stud to joint connections are a great idea that I wish I had more to experiment with.

@ph7956

4 жыл бұрын

Important? That's an interesting way to say absolutely terrible.

@masonjones7777

4 жыл бұрын

@@ph7956 that's harsh, why do you say they are terrible?

@qtulhoo

4 жыл бұрын

The joints were heaven for MOCs.

@Xx_STRHMN_xX

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely terrible? That’s an interesting way to say Important

That title though. xXNickOnPlanetRippleXx Lego MW2 360 no scope compilation hours

I used to have a lot of the Mixels line. I LOVED them! they were so weird but likable. They were like Pokemon cards to me. I wanted to get them all, but could only afford so many. I miss them a lot, they were really fun. Thanks for bringing back the memories, Nick!

@ratbat1072

4 жыл бұрын

I wish they were still around, their parts were useful for building mechs

@fawkes6780

4 жыл бұрын

Wasnt the biggest fan of Mixels, but yeah, it had great parts like joints and all at.

4:32 " Wash away the anger! "

@kc_9970

4 жыл бұрын

@@pygmalion0451 Wash away the sorrow all the stains of time

I remember there being a huge classic bucket in my classroom when I was younger and everyone always fought over the printed computer pieces

Whenever I see one of the few sets I owned as a kid, nostalgia hits me so hard, it feels like I just had a flashback to a moment in time I had forgotten. That one yellow jeep with the bridge made out of ladders for example. I completely forgot I owned that an age and a half ago. Thank you for making these videos man. Its great to see all these old builds documented, even if briefly.

@CaptainKeen

4 жыл бұрын

I felt similar when I saw the little yellow jeep 6550. I think that was my first or second set after a lego bucket.

Mixels is the DIRECT aftermath of the first LEGO MOVIE. The standard Building is becoming outdated and shelved, to be replaced and updated with creativity and ‘fun’.

@stephencrawley2862

2 жыл бұрын

The Lego Movie and Mixels were the one-two punch that got me back into buying Legos after a seven-year hiatus.

Honestly, list of the worlds best accomplishments: 3: Completing school 2: stating a family 1: collecting all the mixels. I have all of them (I, with help of my younger brother) and dang, it feels satisfying Although we are missing a ton of pieces here and there, with a lot of replacement parts you can see from a mile away.

Nick is the best LEGO KZreadr because he's the only one who uses the correct names for Technic parts

my dad when he finds me at 2 a.m. eating all the *BEANS* 2:38

4:31 I heard that tiny bit of Metal Gear Rising amazingness. I aprove.

@mugiwaradarwin4504

Жыл бұрын

"Apple bottom jeans, Raiden." - Monsoon, of the Sussy Impostors

@labdG

Жыл бұрын

@@mugiwaradarwin4504 What the heck is this? I don't know all the Metal Gear Rising memes. x)

@mugiwaradarwin4504

Жыл бұрын

It's from Max0r's second Metal Gear Rising video.

@labdG

Жыл бұрын

@@mugiwaradarwin4504 Ok. Thanks

This is the best epidisode so far Dank in the title just finishes it all

@endeavor3406

2 жыл бұрын

Suomalaisia sielläki mis niit ei oota

Video: *starts to talk about mixels at **9:59* Me: OOOOOOOHHHHHH! :D

@mugiwaradarwin4504

3 жыл бұрын

To quote Nick on Planet Ripple, Mixels was designed from the ground-up to be bizarre. Is it any wonder why I tend to mention it and JoJo in the same sentence?

I can't believe X-Pods got shown, thank you so much! They were my holy grail as a kid, amazing video too

When someone talks about Mixels, i enter into memory lane. Most of my classmates collected them, i don't know why, but i never got a Mixel. So i built mine using my own ball joints and those eyes from the LEGO Classic line. I drew some of my creations on a notebook, creating tribes like crystal dragons, or Jungle creatures.

3:29 'Just look at this!' Um, I'd rather not if that's okay with you... Great episode again.

X Pods were awesome! I remember playing with them at my old doctors office as a kid.

10:03 Oh my God I was wondering what those things were for so many years, I had the Green one. For years I forgot where it came from and.....I can wonder no longer

10:42 me when I saw this video in my recommended

I had a nostalgic overload during the Mixels segment, gosh I loved that theme

this is maybe the best lego rewind episode yet. you killed it, man.

6:45 aren't we all walking, talking sentient wads of meat?

Lego: makes new beloved mixel joints based off a ball joint system made like 20 years ago. LEGO: proceeds to never ever recolour these mixel joints even though ball joints of that size caliber have been made colourful in the past anyways

Thanks for The mixels segment. Thanks you a lot

There was a Milky Way/Lego collaboration in 90's (only in Russia, as I know), when they bundled small Lego sets with their bars. There were the vehicle series and the farm animals series. And the vehicle series had some very obscure elements, like the glassy transparent 2x2 slopes and tiny 2x2 yellow wheel platforms. I used these wheels with 4x2 plates to make skateboards, lol.

90s animation always has that magical look and feel I'll cherish for all eternity. I love your flashback videos, Nick. ^_^

6:40 even 50 blessings weren’t sure if they wanted to recruit this guy

Dank you so much

“Whatever this one’s doin’ I don’t like it” XD

@marcellosilva9286

4 жыл бұрын

That doesn't sound anything like his voice, is it from a cartoon or what?

5:10 Funnily enough, that piece *was* used again: my sis has a pink one, I believe it was from a belville set.

@12171010011010

4 жыл бұрын

I've seen yellow versions before too.

@adenowirus

4 жыл бұрын

You can even see it reused at 6:51.

X Pods? I remember having two of those as Christmas gifts way back when. It's crazy seeing them here!

Occasionally I'll be digging through a bin of bricks and see one of those McDonald face pieces. Thought I've been hallucinating all these years.

@Mael_Str0M

4 жыл бұрын

Robbie Hoye I got one from my Dad’s friend. He got gave me a bunch of old bricks, including Palpatine’s Arrest.

I loved the X-Pods. I remember having two of them, they were so much fun.

@mtirado24

4 жыл бұрын

I loved carrying them everywhere.

@antenna_prolly

Жыл бұрын

So did I. I really hoped there'd be more portables like that.

I feel that this episode being all over the place perfectly emphasizes the quirky, frantic energy so many of these themes exude. It does right by them, I think.

I just realized that you missed the Nesquik theme it would have been perfect for this video since it has one of the scariest minifigure face prints ever printed

I remember when I discovered there being an Avatar line, I was so upset that it wasn’t available at the time

@JayTohab

4 жыл бұрын

That Avatar line is the reason I found Avatar.

I really loved the Avatar Castle set as a kid. It was just the best having the little creature and Aang and the gang, I just have such fond and nostalgic memories of that build. We lived in a really bad neighborhood but all I remember is putting together this LEGO set. I've watched almost this whole series today. Thanks for your content.

I have that creepy chicken in my LEGO box. And every once in a while, when I’m plowing through the boxes. I see his face....... looking at me.

Of course the late 90’s Town was “Extreme Town.” Mayor Fred Durst wouldn’t allow anything less. I got a few of the sets for the different Lego mini fig heads and helmets to help add some color and “extreme” characters to my castle sets. Great “mash up” episode btw.

Monsoon's theme is the last thing I expected in lego rewind.

Delightfully strange, thank you for showing me these themes I never heard of!

Thanks for the hard Work Nick ;)

I love how they're still making these weird themes like they made LEGO pants. That's not a joke it's really.

Holy crap, X-pods! I had two of them as a kid and absolutely loved them. Tried to keep track of all the pieces and keep them organised into their pod set, but the forces of nature wouldn't allow it. Those pod pieces are still floating around in my lego tubs to this day.

5:10, No that fan was re-used in a weir little set I have. It's pink and serves as a flower. I don't know what line it's from, but yeah. This fan could actually also be a re-use of the flower piece. Who knows.

@user-dv2vq6df5m

3 жыл бұрын

It even seems to show up again at 6:50 Or does the color matter?

@bartvanoosterhout1641

3 жыл бұрын

_ oh yeah that’s the same piece. But once again in another color.

For the longest time I thought the title was “dark themes”. I see how I was wrong

As soon as that Lego Mandela effect was on the table, I got those old Lego city crain flashbacks from 4:52

Man this was an amazing video! Thank you so much man. My childhood all in less than 13 minutes! XD. "Dank Themes 2"?

2:42 This made me laugh way more than I'd like to admit 10:18 Maybe it's just LEGO Universe nostalgia talking, but that X-Pod robot is one of my favorite builds ever! My brother and I collected Mixels over at our dad's a few years ago. Every time I went into his room there'd be some new and wacky combination of the characters, always colorful, creative, and fun. One of them is still his profile pic on my phone. I think they really hit home the pure essence and unbridled creativity of LEGO. My favorite was Flur. Such a cute little dragon!

@Saitam305

4 жыл бұрын

Wow you’re absolutely right! That does look exactly like the stormling mech. Man I got a little rush of nostalgia seeing that. Thank you, lego universe was my first online game, as weird as it is to say, and I always enjoyed breaking them and turning them into turrets. Thanks for the mini nostalgia trip.

The lego technic minifigs remind me of those clunky jackstone figs. But i do dig the early experimental cgi animations for both of those lines.

I should never have doubted you, I thought the whole universe forgot x-pods, my grandparents noticed we liked Lego and bought the original 4 just for us to have fun with, and good lord, they chose correctly. I think it was a great line too, with the variety it just begged for you to come up with your own ideas and build them, I remember my brother using the insect pod to make all sorts of weird spaceships, whereas I tried to modify the existing designs to look better.

Mixels were probably the only (I think) lego series that actually finished its story

I remember X pods! My little brother had them and it got me back into legos when I was in my teens. Those containers made awesome mecha weels and weapons

I binged watched this whole series at the beginning of 2022, but now I'm coming back to work on a little art project where I "unlego" as many Lego characters as I can and draw them sorta anime-ish. Started with Ninjago but I'm getting ready to move onto everything else. A lot of my list was from the last decade (Chima, Nexo, MK, The Lego Movie, Hidden Side, etc), so now I'm combing through these videos to find things I missed, get a feel for what's nostalgic, and idk, I feel the need to say thank you for providing so much knowledge, good source to give me a starting point to fall down some rabbit holes.

I read the title as "dank memes"

LEGO Master Builder Academy was designed to teach kids how to become better at LEGO building. You could buy the level 1 kit 1 (the starter kit), and then the following 2 level 1 kits and 3 more kits in level 2 could be bought in a subscription that would send you one kit every few months or so. They later released the level 1 and 2 kits separately to be bought instantly, and they released level 3 and level 4 kits at some point. I only ever got the first 6 kits, but I was very happy with them. The parts selection was really good for coming up with your own creations, and every time you got a new kit, you gained access to a whole new set of parts. It helped that each level had its own color scheme so the builds you came up with didn't run into the common issue of looking like a rainbow mish-mash. That way, you could focus on more of the shaping, though proper usage of color was one of the things taught by the kits. The instructions weren't just instructions. They were big handbooks made of a more durable material and contained tips and tricks about how to build better builds. There was this whole cool-looking website where you could watch videos and read about building techniques, and a gallery where you could upload creations you made. You could get achievements and graduate through several levels of master building and download and print diplomas showing your progress. It was a really cool experience with a surprising amount of depth to it. Unfortunately the website is long gone, but I would still recommend buying the kits if you can get them for a good price. They are a fantastic way to become a better builder. It certainly sharpened my skills.

All of the episodes you have made are so good. I just love this series, great job.

That chicken is always going to remind me of Living Chicken from Noah Productions' videos, and I actually have some of them

This was by far the most entertaining episode you've made so far! It's almost jarring going back to the early episodes, but also good that you had such solid themes to work with that helped you write the script for themselves. Keep it up man. This is a youtube gold nugget

who remembers the "lego with your dad roadtrip" thing

Dude, I'd TOTALLY forgotten about Factory! That was so cool! I *do* remember X-Pods, though. I loved those things.

4:00 OMG I had that hover-boat! Just slapped me with nostalgia!

I love your heavy use of the Gex 2 soundtrack in this one, so good.

Another good episode Nick! I’d never heard of most of it! I’ll be checking back into outback now. Keep up the great work.

Good job with this one. I really enjoy this series.

I wasn't expecting this, good job

I'm making a LEGO Ideas set which is basically a homage to Classic Town. I thought I'd bring it up since it's almost finished and kinda fits with the theme. I'm gonna post a video on my channel to advertise it as soon as I finish it up. Just thought I say it now. All of the information will be in the video or just ask me here.

6:17 one of my first lego sets :D

I think this episode has some of your best editing yet. Great work Nick, keep it up!

I remember getting X-Pod as my first legit Lego set for my 5th birthday, after so long of asking my dad to get a Bionicle set (like my older sibling), and X-Pod paved the way for me to build weird and strange creatures, I miss it so much Pd: I had the green one

MyBuild's MechaFrames are the natural evolution of Mixels and their ball-and-socket joints. *Prove me wrong.*

Dank indeed

watched all of your videos tonight. i love them

A litle hint of the Metal Gear Rising sountrack.

Great video Nick!

Nice vid! I highly prefer this kind of weird stuff and forgotten themes I discover while watching than just the story of a famous line, continue like this ! Your vids are awesome!

You just unlocked a memory with Xpods

you re-awoke so much in my memory when you mentioned expods dude omg

Haha! I think one of my earliest memories is playing with one of those McDonald’s legos. Ronald McDonald taught me in those weird VHS tapes that if you put your left hand on the left wall in the maze you’ll find your away out. I had no idea they did Avatar legos, and the the fire nation ship really reminds me of some boats I used to make.

I thoroughly enjoy your humor in this episode, the mixel bits about killed me 😂

Who remembers the Lego Designer Robot sets? Man it was cool.

These vids are so entertaining. Appreciate ya

For some reason I especially enjoyed this video. Good video!

That is Dank man, You're a Dank Master

these rewind videos are really cool i keep finding themes i never knew about or really cool ones i missed out on (wasn’t born yet lol)

Thanks for another great episode!!

a very nice episode. looking forward to the next ones.

Man I’ve had all those huge LEGO pods clogging up my parts bins for years but it’s been so long since I’ve actually heard the name x-pods. I remember trying to make builds where all the pieces would fit inside one of the pods. I actually think they were some of the first LEGO sets I tried collecting (as much as 6-year-old me could). Definitely an interesting relic of a line to be sure

Holy shit I remember X-Pods we had like 5 of them and i really liked them at the time.

holy shit, I had the Creator X Pod Robo Pod and I only just now remembered it from seeing it here. Thanks for that nostalgia blast!

It was really cool seeing the X-Pods in this one. Those things were some of my favorite sets growing up, I think I had almost every one from the first 3 or 4 waves. I really kinda wish Lego would do something like that again with the canister that's just as much part of the set as it is the packaging and storage; I used the lids as shields on Bionicle mocs on tons of occasions and even found some way, albeit fairly crude, to use the transparent canister as a canopy for a spaceship.

Nick, I really love LEGO rewind it’s just so interesting to look back at old themes and see what was good and bad about a theme, but this is the first time I’ve actually been surprised. Until today I do not no cyber master was a thing. Technic planet? I had no idea it existed. I knew about most things in this video (yes even that weird japan paper thingy) but today I learned something new about the LEGO companys history. Keep up the good work.

I'm sad for the Mixels too. I really wish they could make a special or something for a finale. One of the reasons they probably stopped making them is because Cartoon Network could not make enough episodes; After season 4, they only made a couple. I should have asked my parents to buy more when I was younger.

@burner555

2 ай бұрын

>season 4 It only had 2 seasons: -1st season composed of the 2014 shorts -2nd season composed of the 2015 and 2016 specials

Thank you Nick Very cool This episode made me laugh a lot

Those X-Pods were so cool! There was a print&play kind of "chess-y" tabletop game for the first wave that I didn't really get but loved to think about and often attempted to play. The game was called "X-Pod Play Off", there still is a side mirroring the rules (with the snappy disclaimer "Lego, if you're not happy about this, think about maintaining your sites better. Your URLs have lifespans measured in weeks", which I totally love). Come to think of it, that was my first ever contact with that kind of game, something that now is an integral part of my life.