Hexbug Nano...is it worth it?

Jett Kuso takes a nostalgic look back at one of his favorite toys, Hexbug Nano! Oh and by the way - The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/jettkus...
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[@jasperjavillo686]

The word your looking for is “future proofing”. It’s when something is designed with the potential to withstand future events. In the case of Hex Bugs, the habitats were future proofed with the inclusion of attachment points for potential future additions.

[@JettKuso]

Ayyy yes that’s the word!

[@protozenti5514]

@@JettKuso Yas tiny robot >w

[@hexbots]

@@protozenti5514 We've just always wanted to do MORE.

[@GiganX1]

We need the next hexbug vid we got the milestone

[@axjagfilms]

I think the word you’re looking for is “Space Ranger”.

[@MommyBee1589]

I was gifted this in a clear bag with no instructions from another mom and I had no idea what she’d given me. My 4 and 5 year olds started tinkering and ended up building it and we were amazed. I still couldn’t figure out what it was supposed to do and the internet brought me here. This video was awesome lol thank you!!!!

[@PlayerZeroStart]

I was prepared to hear about how this piece of my childhood was terrible in every way, but I was pleasantly surprised. I never owned Hexbugs as a kid, but always wanted to, and it makes me happy to see my childhood fantasies were well worth it

[@jhrshowoff4634]

fun fact. hexbug now adays stil go with bug based sets with rc red ants, micro ant, and rc battle tarantulas. they also dip into more non insectoid ideas. junkbots, dragons, and even liscensed stuff with discovy channels show battlebots which just got a new set with now rechargable batteries(others needed three trip a batteries to work with a controller they included)

[@hawktalon7890]

I think I saw fish Hexbug once. Fish/jellyfish, or something like that. It was before all the Toys 'R Us closed down in my country.

[@mocha5778]

they have rechargable batteries now? Oh no my wallet D: I didn't buy the old ones because of the battery thing.

[@jhrshowoff4634]

@@mocha5778 lol... could use optimums... they last a good long while

[@newmemer8070]

I have the battle bots. The idea is cool, but you can't battle them as the remote signals interfere

[@StrikerV3]

How hard would it honestly be to make “bristles” that snap onto the backs of the first gen?

[@clypeum5063]

It looks like the zipline Set also Just Clips on the back of the Robots so an clip on bristle could use the same system and would be really easy to make for the manufacturer. Just referencing the Pictures though, i dont own a single hexbot.

[@sr7mw]

Saw a youtube video with that

[@elysehass6636]

great idea

[@Daftanemone]

I haven’t watched the whole video but Hexbugs are one of the best cat toys in the world. Cats love watching and knocking them around

[@chaliceohearts4658]

I would totally care about you covering more of the Hexbug stuff. Not just the Nanos, but also the bigger robots too.

[@EwanTroioni]

These things and my Tomy Thomas the Tank Engine trains were literally my favourite toys to play with as a kid. Just laying down on the carpet and watching them go around the tracks I made for them was the best way to spend my after school hours

[@JettKuso]

Same exact appeal as train sets!! That’s a great comparison.

[@Kurazaybo]

I remember being intrigued by these, never knew they could do all of this

[@SylviaCrisp]

i had so much fun with these when i was a kid. The only thing I didn't have from this video was the zipline, and the new stuff after the orange, black, grey and white sets .

[@p7ay3r0ne8]

I remember a board game with these things where you had to flip cutlerry to score points

[@hisnamewasDelta]

I REMEMBER THIS TOY YOOOOOO I saw an ad of hexabug nano and I wanted it so badly so my parents got this for me on Christmas!!! seeing the little critters vibrating and moving around the courses set up was big nostalgic wave I hope I could see this toys again it was really fun having these before.

[@LolO36675]

man, I remember these. I have no idea where any of mine went but it was pretty fun

[@BraydonsGaming111]

Dude, I frickin LOVE these things! When I saw this pop up in my subscriptions, I got so exited! I've been trying to collect the glow in the dark sets, but MAN ARE THEY EXPENSIVE! I have some of the V2 and they're pretty neat, but it's a pain when they get stuck in one of the pipes. They get stuck in the vertical pipes a lot, especially if their battery is low. I even have one of the transformers ones (Bumblebee to be exact). I don't own any of the newer ones, so I'd love to see you compare them to the OG Hexbugs.

[@maxtube444]

yes because nostalgia All jokes aside, I love these things! They get stuck a lot, but it’s so fun to make stuff with them. I haven’t gotten them out in a while, but I should soon

[@ArcNeoMasato]

I love these old Hexbugs, and even at 31, still own a lot of them, and snag more when I find them at thrift stores.

[@babypinksnail]

I loved Hexbug Nano as a kid. I fondly remember going to Target and buying up as much as my mom would let me lol.

[@3mb4h]

Love jett’s story telling so much. Also not the dr. Who and the homestuck 😢

[@JettKuso]

It was a very time-travel-focused period of my life

[@richardkirkland6805]

I had Hex Bug when I was a kid, but I only had a few Bugs and the starter set... I would've loved to make an extremely complex Hexbug Hive with multiple stories, some ziplines, and a hive playset to take a few of mu favorites with me anywhere! But we didn't have the money nor space to do that...

[@jolttrontitan2755]

I loved Hex bugs man. I’d also love to see maybe another video on those other franchises like Transformers or those battle bots Probably cause I just like Jett 🤷

[@ezzyjanerlegend3456]

Ah yes battlebots

[@happinessandcats]

I had the hex bug nano v2 set as a kid and I loved it so much

[@jonkonketcham788]

The Triops, the references to consumeristic strategy and behavioral sink? This channel’s getting kinda high brow for a toy channel. Not complaining, just impressed.

[@galaxyjuice5849]

me : waiting for a new bakugan video. jettkuso : its HEXBUG baby....

[@treelayn6292]

I always wanted to collect all Hexbug species, but only got to buy Hexbug Ants and Hexbug Nanos, one day, Hexbug products disappeared of my entire city. Like a year ago, I found a Halloween Nano, now having my own money, nothing stopped me from buying it.

[@Goinmach8]

It’s been so long since I last seen these things, I’ll still never forget those ads

[@flying6476]

Oh my nostalgia, this toy brings back so much memories

[@violetrosenzweig]

Great video! I completely forgot about nano bugs AND Bakugan, those were my entire middle school experience.

[@camdencap4974]

Great video Jett! this brought back tons of memories. Also you should do a video on their large RC mechanical bugs like the battle spiders😀

[@misone01]

I've never laid eyes upon any of the habitat sets myself, but ten years ago i did stumble upon a display carton of those single bug test tube packages at a Source Store. I ended up getting one that i liked the look and colour scheme of... and a few months ago while cleaning out some stuff i hadn't touched in years, it turned up; and the dang thing still works.

[@valdragoncat]

This is the first of these I’ve seen in a while. I kinda forgot about them.

[@coldcommando4889]

god I remember those, i remember having fun with them with my elder siblings, time flies :(

[@Lucky_Logan]

God back I. The 90’s early 2000’s were the best days. That’s where all the cool toys came out, when I was just a wee lad, nothing but fun occupied my time and being with friends all day and everyday. God what I would do to have that freedom again. I wish I could go back in time to relive those such simple days.

[@derkrieger92]

Well get to it. I was a little too old for Hexbugs but enjoyed playing with them with my little brother and I wasnt even aware they were still going. Bring on the comparisons.

[@RedNosedLugia]

I have a ton of the OG Nanos from around 2011 and they still hold up great to this day. I lost all my habitat pieces sadly but the Nanos are just as fun by themselves. My favorites are probably the reindeer ones with the attachable antlers and the Gravity series ones.

[@KhanhPham-st8yb]

the original nanos were the coolest. I never had one but always wanted one as a child

[@cappo1178]

I always wanted the habitats but my parents wouldn't buy my any until I found a huge glow-in-the-dark set at the second hand store. I got my parents to buy me it and I spent hours with the 5 or so hex bugs I have collected watching them run around in the habitat. Hexbug Nano was awesome! I also fell out of it during the year 3 release.

[@haxor7372]

I had a glow-in-the-dark one with a star constellation, super neat

[@fur_gal]

"Hexagons are the bestagons" I love this reference.

[@PixeIated]

I found my old set that i played as a kid Found 1 full set(the one you could carry around) And 8 bugs(the tiny ones) Out of 8, 5 worked unfortunately Thankfully i just smacked one that i thought was broken so now i have 6 out of the 8 Brings back memories

[@mechanwhal6590]

I randomly remembered this last night.

[@mutanthenmars8323]

I remembered when i had 2 of those when i was small. so fun!

[@kennybuchanan5828]

Well, well, well! This video got me back into hexbugs! I can't wait to see part two so I go out and bye more of these little fellas!

[@nottoofast]

I never had any of these guys. But I remember the advertisements a lot!

[@ebmario874]

I would really like to see the okd and new sets combined someday! Imagine a Hive that connects to an open jelly wall area!

[@DocMedic]

I remember when I was in Elementary School, my teacher had us learn how to write letters and we all had to write to a company. Before the hexbug nano line came out, they had all sorts of other, larger, more complicated ones. Ants had six wheels, a pair of antennae on the front, and a wire on their butt, the antennae and the butt wire had electrical contacts, which made it so that when it touched a wall it reversed direction. They had the spider which was a robot you could control too, but it wasn't as fun because it broke the illusion of automy. One of my ants had a technical issue with it, can't remember what it was, but I'm pretty sure one of the contacts stopped working so it wouldn't reverse anymore. I wrote a little 4th grade hand-written letter to the company, and a week later I received one back in a pseudo scientific tone basically apologizing and letting me in on some new "research". They sent me back 2 brand new ants, my old one, and 4 nanos, which were the new research part since the line was just barely about to drop in my area. Those guys made so much money off that, I got hooked on the line and bought so many sets for it. Still have them all in the garage somewhere I reckon.

[@sobble2162]

I give my hex bugs names bc why not The names are Steel, Blaze, Lemon, Midnight, Sunlight, Waves and Camo

[@capcat5728]

Whenever I see hexbugs I get a wave of nostalgia

[@Foxhood]

Honestly. The old Nanos would make an a great companion for compulsive 3D-Printing nerds these days. It just begs for one to go and make perimeters and objects for them to interact with. Or maybe inspire one to try and create their own bristlebot with flexible TPU filament...hmm should probably note that down as a maybe project to toy around with in Fusion360....

[@geoshark12]

i loved these when i was a kid

[@Somiaz]

I had these, letthe cat go mental over them. It was fun to watch cause they kept pawing at it thinking it would die. It didn't.

[@zipzapzop1704]

Imagine all of those crawling all over you while you sleep. Not knowing they are on you while you have a peaceful dream

[@Ima_Tron]

Really wish they had an arena that opened an exit for the winner when one of the bugs got knocked out, I never liked having that one bug always stuck on the battle bridge. I got a rather formidable, although not huge collection, just buying them when Radioshack and my work cleared them out. I upgraded my battle bridge so the loser at least landed back in the habitat. I really want a rechargeable "Smart" hex bug, a little bigger but with dual motors and some kind of code reader to get an idea of it's habitat and amble around to different cells depending on time and battery level.

[@mrjuntti1109]

somehow i understand my childhood better now, thanks!

[@ironicprince5926]

I used to love these guys! I had managed to get around 9 of them before i eventually lost interest and stopped. I had no idea there was even playsets until I saw this video which was great btw!

[@SeaPen]

My cats loved playing with these.

[@car_enthusiast.4]

The way he said like your house

[@nielsholmlassen8275]

This gave me so much nostolgia

[@Joe_Potts]

I think i got one hexbug because it was cool, didn't see the point after a short while, then went back to my LEGO obsession XD

[@visage331]

I recently found gen 1 hexbugs being used in automatically-moving cat toys

[@morrisnakes]

@11:14 best summary of discord I've ever heard tbh

[@brytonsworld]

We need that second video now

[@rossreviews4779]

This is so nostalgic

[@juanmanuelurdialesmartinde9020]

The nostalgia, man!!!

[@lunareclipse1882]

I imagine the crazyness you can do with 3d printing

[@BugsyFoga]

I remember these being everywhere back then

[@zerospurgatoyabyss]

part of my childhood was these things

[@cardboardstudios5460]

Found a whole box of them for 8.50 thrift hunting totally worth it!

[@th4h3]

Actually owned starter set and this was very nice toy

[@miniminerx]

These toys were very worth it. Many loved hours

[@mystere869]

This is cool cause I started with the V2 series and it was great

[@mayajade6198]

Jett sounds like the target audience for Prehistoric Planet.

[@guiguinofake4626]

There are party hats for them. Best toy ever

[@JustShova]

I loved these little guys

[@KiiXii]

Create a WW3 against the old hexbugs vs the new hexbugs on the battle bridge.

[@AquosFrost]

cant wait for the Hexbug Gigas!

[@LetsPlayKeldeo]

Hell yeah cant wait for the next Hexbug video !

[@shaldurprime7154]

I only ever got 1 Nano, I managed to run the battery dry within 48 hours and spent the rest of the time i had it wobbling it on a hard surface while pushing it backwards to make the legs actually look like they were walking, i also had an ant, and maybe a beetle, i wanted the strandbeest so bad

[@cosmicseal279]

aight, lets get the comparison video

[@lancesrr4124]

That cat though it was just watching the Hex bugs like ooooooh new toy.

[@vjollila96]

It's actually battlebot stuff that's making me interested on hex bug stuff

[@Dansuperfly]

just saw a gen z nostalgia vid and i'm neither a gen z kid nor did i ever have any of these but that video does bring them up along with beyblades which i did play with a lot and i just felt intreagued by what these are since they do look cool ion that packaging and me being the geek adhd train lover since i was five i couldn't help myself but to research a bit more about these and now i'm thinking about which one to get 😂

[@cephery8482]

Loved my little bug guys.

[@firleon]

Its kinda... Fun to watch small worm pet walking

[@jamesfullecido9760]

Holy shit i remember wanting these so much when i was a kid

[@humanharddrive1]

i'd totally watch a comparison with new hexbugs

[@UnrelatedAntonym]

Hey, these bristlebots have better pathfinding AI than Minecraft mobs! 🤯

[@cinamon9843]

I just want a couple of these bugs now….. they just seem fun to let free around and scare people with

[@demifiend9690]

Make it man I will lose my shit such a nostalgia trip

[@waldencerneka2287]

I misclicked on this and saw an ad for the most uncanny of brand dolls I have ever seen

[@stumpycanplay]

big road for more bugs at once

[@snipermonkey7978]

Yeessss 3k likes and 1k comments let’s go I want more of these videos this is cool

[@affect2298]

Hexbug made a mouse toy for cats. My cat likes it, but not half as much as this guy likes them.

[@KamikazeCash123]

I forgot these existed

[@Currentlyalivehuman25]

Oh no..I forgot about these things..(I now need to buy them all)

[@TAP724]

This was my childhood

[@Lucas38739]

I just love hexbugs!

[@camcom278]

Now on my Christmas list: HEXBUG NANO HABITAT AND BATTLE NANOS AND NANO V2 AND SUPER NANO AND HIVE AND BATTLE BRIDGE THANK YOU!

[@superleo11a3]

same

[@PixelaGames2000]

Gosh, I remember seeing adds for these things. Thinking they were cool, and I…can’t remember if I had any or not.

[@saspurillie]

I had a cat toy version of one of these no idea where it ended up.

[@UnmatchedSol]

I have vague memories of something like hexbugs.