Lego Rewind Ep.11- Racers

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Enjoy the episode, guys. I don't expect it to get quite the same traffic the last one did (who doesn't love dinosaurs?) but I figured I'd strike while the iron was hot and try to keep momentum going. This series is just finally starting to take off about a year after it began. I just wanted to get people interested in older, obscure things.

[@gggfraser]

Nick on Planet Ripple I would like to see a Lego rewind on all the Lego shell sets and the history of the two companies relationship and cross promotions. I would find it interesting to see your opinion on the sets and the deal between an oil company and a kids toys manufacturer.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Hmmmmm.... maybe. I don't want to get my facts wrong.

[@Omgtired]

Absolutely a fan of this series, cant w8 to see aquzone, so many great set there, probably should be similar to Ice Planet episode, which is one of my favourite ones and made me subscribe to your channel in the first place, thanks!

[@Official_Anonymous]

Hey Nick, thanks for the video! :D

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Someday.

[@sonicrail5253]

"Street races of _questionable legality_ "

[@OttoGraff-fu8pj]

My favorite type of legality!

[@deeznuts-kw6yv]

Otto Graff *Edited* just like the legality of my drug dea- i mean gardener

[@kidz4p509]

8:19 Whoopee.

[@BenRusk11]

Imagine just casually looking up the Lego Xalax Racers on KZbin, and clicking on a video about them to find a picture you took of your own personal collection at 2:35. Cuz i took that pic lmao This is so cool and bizarre at the same time. Thank you Nick :P

[@Rogue_Nine416]

This brought back so many memories of browsing the LEGO website and watching commercials as a toddler in the early 2000s. Thanks, Nick.

[@ProjektF91]

This series, DEFINITLEY my favorite

[@kriskrieger9960]

5:40 Tiny Turbos were some of the first lego sets I ever got. Looking back on them they were really solid designs for really cheap & small builds. Now that I'm older & more familiar with real-world car models I can see what kinds of cars they were going for. Just realized they were competing with Hot Wheels & Matchbox cars, but the fact that they were constructive lego made them so much cooler. I'll definitely snag a few off of ebay soon.

[@kevinm5940]

The Speed Champions polybags they've made in the past few years are like a return of the "Tiny Turbo's" style, in a way.

[@Percival917]

I WANT THE ENTIRE SPEED CHAMPIONS LINE SO BAD YOU HAVE NO IDEA

[@Mael_Str0M]

So does my dad. I got him some of the sets for his birthday.

[@africancouscous]

Mael_Str0M a good man you are

[@XboxTF2Tidbits]

@@africancouscous agreed

[@KiwiKJ]

Whenever I took a ferry they would have the racers that came in canisters with the tire on top and MAN I MISS THAT PACKAGING SO MUCH IT HOLDS SO MUCH NOSTALGIA FOR ME 😭😭😭

[@rockstaar977]

Themes Talked about in this video: Race 1985-2000 Racers 2001-2012 Speed Racer 2008 World Racers 2010 Speed Champions 2015-present day

[@legoroan9866]

Technically, Racers was 1998-2012

[@RenegadeFighter9018]

Speed champions made me fall in love with lego all over again. Being a big Ford fan i bought the 2015 mustang, the 67 mustang, the Ford gt set and the rally spec fiesta. Recently I also got the lego creator mini cooper and ferrari f40, both amazing builds! Edit: Just received the lego technic Rally car! Cannot wait to build it!

[@unknownfusion4165]

I liked the wacky racers, but as i got older I truly fell in love with the tiny turbos and now Speed Champions

[@gearratio6773]

The 2001-2002 racers were my childhood. I remember going to the Lego store on my 8th birthday and basically buying every single racer I could find. It was the best, and I still have the parts for those sets, including too many of those mini-sized pull back motors to count.

[@rogeliomontes5604]

I remember Tiny Turbos came in McDonalds Happy Meals a long time ago. They only had about 3 or 4 pieces but they were cool.

[@Matze239]

Tiny Turbos was pretty much my childhood. I remember playing NFS:MW during the hour of PC time my parents gave me and recreating those police chases with my Tiny Turbos afterwards. Such a great time

[@theunderscoreddouble5740]

Man, speed champions sets are an absolute treasure trove of great pieces for detailing mocs

[@xXYannuschXx]

"Jak X OST" - Ah, I see you're a man of culture aswell. On topic: Oh, Drome Racers, the memories! That was easily my most favourite Lego Racers brand and I have tons of sets from them. I especially loved the sets shown at 4:07 and 4:51, I own both, but sadly the capacitors in the electric versions have worn out over time and they hardly work anymore :(

[@asahe8392]

This series of yours makes me reminisce so much of my Lego's & then I wonder why did I make mocs of so many, anywise great video

[@jefferyyangclip]

for me the tiny turbo was the highlight for me in this lego line. I'm not much of a car guy either but i just loved the amount of detail they manage to cram into the small car body, it just look so cool. I remember walking into toysrus as a kid and seeing the big sets with multiple tiny cars in them and absolutely falling in love with their design, yet sadly couldn't buy any of them :'). If they do I would love them to revise the tiny turbo line in some way, that would be amazing to see again on shelves!

[@HammaneggsAirborne]

This channel is so much nostalgia, you keep reminding me of sets I forgot I had, even though they're in a storage bin in my closet after all these years. I knew I had a blue bike on my bookshelf, and I keep the 1:24 Ferrari F1 car on my desk, but I forgot all about the mini cars and that orange thing from the early days, as well as the street-racery ones. I didn't follow it to the present day, but its nice to see that it is staying decent. Its generally pretty innocent and it seems to keep charm in some manner throughout the years. I think I also had a puzzle-piece-like track that acted as a Racers board game?

[@dtinagliastudios]

So much nostalgia here. You’re consistently my favorite channel because of videos like this. Excellent analysis!

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Thanks, dude.

[@dtinagliastudios]

You're welcome!

[@brownspottedcat]

GOD seeing the tiny turbos flash across the screen made me "yip" in excitement. I had nearly all of them as a kid, and they were some of my my favourite sets, even against my larger City sets from the same era.

[@arihytti5134]

Early 2000’s were LEGO’s peak. Maybe that’s the nostalgia speaking

[@Brixxter]

I forgot how great World Racers was. Nice concept, pretty well executed

[@MelindaColden]

your videos rekindle so many fond memories in me i didnt know i still knew all of the cars' names by heart i remember vividly playing with the nitro pulverizer with my cousin or building the hot scorcher (i think i had a broken piece with this one but i cant remember) lego used to be so good now it kinda lost much of its charm it gave me so much and i still love it thanks for making these videos!

[@mfesch7386]

They were called Exo because they were part of the exo force race team. There were exo force, nitro, r.e.d., h.o.t., zero and maverick. God i miss old lego.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Oh dang. Guess that's one I'll have to add to the update video (that'll be episode 13).

[@mfesch7386]

I love yoir videos though. They are the perfect nostalgia trip.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Thanks.

[@AdmiralOctopus]

TEAM MAVERICK FOREVER!

[@o00nemesis00o]

@@AdmiralOctopus We still hold the Desert Zone!

[@ironclaw3000user]

I remember having a red racer from the early 2000's i held it on my hand feeling a sense of accomplishment. And as i went to show it to my parents I ran up the stairs and to their room to show them. It fell apart in my hand as they said it looked good.

[@HubPie3]

Oh man, seeing those old LEGO Racers commercials brought me a lot of nostalgic memories of just being weirded out by the sheer energy of them.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Yeah. They paid a guy to yell "CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH" at the top of his lungs, as angrily as they could. That transcends stupidity to become amazing.

[@captainweaboo7348]

Just wanted to thank you for making this Nick. I love Town:Race(stunt rally) soooo much. And it made me so happy to see you showcase the sets and your opinions on them. ALSO YESSS I completely agree that world racers is the true successor to Original Race. This whole video was amazing, I hope all is well

[@legoroan9866]

Tiny turbos and drome racers were some of my favourite, I like the little pullbacks and the collectible cars, I got loads of them, the xalax were fun to race against the drome racers from 2002, I also have some of the larger ones and technic builds, I liked world racers despite the fact I didn't get them. Also remember that 12 stud wide city bridge transport?? The 10 stud wide double dump truck? My friend had both!! They were beasts on the shelf!! I hope Atlantis is mentioned in the underwater episode

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Oh, it will be.

[@llmkursk8254]

God I had so many of those tiny turbos sets. They were some of the best stuff to have fun with, especially the sets that came with the folding boxes. The only issue I ever took was their usage of stickers across multiple plates. Made it super annoying when you wanted to build something else.

[@berandom2000]

12:33 - You know what time is it....... "Under the sea, under the sea!"

[@viniciuscastro7397]

What a nostalgic video, the first Lego I got was a racers crash, the red one, and from that I collect I the crash sets, 2 or 3 from tiny turbos and 5 or so from other year, now being in college and having donated my Legos to my first Lego league team from highschool, is so great to have a look back

[@marcellosilva9286]

2:25 Pulse is actually my first Lego set ever, I was probably 6 at the time, dad gave it to me for my birthday, and that would influence me for the rest of my life because - A - Purple (featured prominently in Pulse) is to this day my favourite colour. B - I'm still a huge lego fan.

[@merm960]

I’m pretty excited for the next episode, Atlantis is my favorite Lego theme of all time.

[@anmeldungscrack]

Thanks for making these! You've got a very relaxing voice and the videos are a great throwback to simpler times :)

[@sunglassesdude4819]

Oh man the title got me in the nostalgia bone My favorite set of all time is this tiny turbo that I think was an exclusive from somewhere because I have never seen it since but it was the coolest looking race car and the memorable part about it was that it had these glow in the dark lightsaber blades and it blew my mind. Its a shame I only remember the blades and not the set name. That and the colors of the race car was red and black.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

You can probably find it on Brickset. I've included a link to Tiny Turbos in the description.

[@sunglassesdude4819]

Nick on Planet Ripple Oh wow thanks although I probably should have looked there first my bad

[@Monocausotaxophiliac]

Thank you for making these videos, as it communicates the nostalgic feelings we had from the 2000's. Interesting to look back on a time that really did not feel too long ago.

[@yerboi9420]

I don't know why but drome racers has this certain aura around it for me. It reminds me of simpler times. Definitely my favorite racers line.

[@Scientin]

I remember when I was a kid I got so many canisters of Tiny Turbos, and several of the Power Racers from the crash line. While looking back on it the gimmick wasn't that great, and made some of the cars a nightmare to keep in one piece, that line still has a special place in my heart for introducing my all-time favorite Lego Racer: Off Road Power. To this date I find that set to be the best looking, most creatively constructed, and most stable racer that I own.

[@Gameprojordan]

I had Hot Scorcher as a kid. Still got that pull back motor thing for it

[@Correctronic]

Tiny turbos were my favorite of all time

[@RandallDark]

I really like this series for how many sets I'm reminded I had. Like, I thought I didn't own any racers because I was never into cars, but lo and behold, I remember that I had some from that first Racers series, the Exo Force Bike, the first three Tiny Turbos that you showed, _and_ the Speed Slammer Bike. Neat. And that's on the low end for how many sets I recall having owned per video.

[@LeoxandarMagnus]

I loved the tiny turbos back in the day.

[@wookiesin3000]

I bought a speed champions set last summer just to test out other themes. I love what they can acomplish in the builds. But damn, if you don't like stickers, those sets are a nightmare, and the set I got was one of the more tame ones in that respect.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Josh Pierce Gotta keep those sponsors happy. >shrugs

[@xhearthfirex6571]

5:16 i loved These ! They were so welk build. The pieces were even printed with cool designs. They were Part of the drome racers. Drome racers had a Nice story with Nice characters. The cars are from Differen teams - each with Different Storys and personalities. It gave them so much life. Part of Drome racers were The ones with figures, The Little ones with tiny figured (Not The Little Alien ones), the technic ones and the pullbacks at 5:16. they had Different scales but were Part of the Same story. Drome racers were great !

[@takanuinuva]

I'd love it if Lego manage to bring back the RC cars. But with a smaller chassis that you could build upon.

[@JeremyBelpoisX]

That last set you showed at the end, 6546 Slick Racer, was one of the first LEGO sets I ever had in my life. You have no idea how much you made my day with that. Seeing all of these racers, even the dinky alien ones form 2001, really got my blood racing! I do enjoy what little I had (I got two of those Tiny Turbos in Brickmaster) and I still do! This just makes me wanna post my entire LEGO collection somewhere! (Once I make sure it's all in one place...)

[@grandgalvatron9604]

I've always loved looking at the backgrounds of the different sets. What a great video!

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Me too. Some of the older ones are downright haunting in terms of atmosphere.

[@mariodude345]

I bought Flash Turbo and Nitro Pulveriser a few years ago :) it was nice to get Flash Turbo again as I lost that set as a child and Nitro Pulveriser was something I always wanted but never got. I replaced Flash Turbo's Driver's mini body with an actual minifigure body and I think it still looks good.

[@khris1645]

Great video! Felt super old when you mentioned tiny turbos haha. Tho theres a very minor thing you didn't mention about racers. In 2010 there was this game called The Robot Chronicles. Basically, it was a crossover game between City, Agents and Racers which, at the time, you could access the game from the each individual websites of the aforementioned themes. Not sure wether it was a big deal or not back in 2010 to have a mention in this video, i just thought to bring that up.

[@frogmouth2]

I owned so many tiny turbos as a kid.

[@stoveapple]

You brought back a memory of these, I had only 2 of the single cars and now thinking of buying the sets I wanted when I was a kid

[@isaacsteen4828]

Tiny Turbos brings back a lot of memories for me. I would watch the Ads online over and over, so it was burned into my mind. I owned 2 of them, and the pieces and containers are still floating around my room somewhere.

[@iron54eagle]

My internals light up whenever I see a set that I had as a larva, and my cranium glows when I see one of the sets I wanted.

[@legogodzilla]

I just started watching these yesterday and a new one magically appears. Nice.

[@jazxsora]

Got this vid in my reccomended and it shot me down a Mocpages and Flickr nostalgia rabbit hole. I was fairly active in the custom tiny turbos community and knew a few people who pioneered techniques in making them who I wouldn't be surprised if they're working on the speed champions line given their integration. The sets coming out this year are insanely detailed since they've moved to a sorta 7-8 wide scale giving them even more detail to work with while still being accurately scaled for figs!

[@G-Force7]

8 months ago hold up there was a custom tiny turbos community

[@nym5qu17]

This theme besides bionicle was my absolute favorite

[@nym5qu17]

I miss the fantasy and worldbuilding aspects to the theme that the drome racers game and the art direction had brought to the table. I loved imagining a fat future world where the planet was wiped out and rebuilt with racing as the main economic source for countries. Past 2003 it sort of went in a slightly more down to earth direction with each passing year

[@etonTEC]

Wow I can’t stop watching this series, great quality, information, and editing. Thank you for the Lego throwback my man!

[@gsauceprimary9363]

I used to play that lego racers game all the time when i was a kid... the nostalgia

[@danielnewton2390]

There are so many iconic sets in my mind from the early racers theme.

[@Terrance_the_ugandan_knuckles]

8:00I still have some where these tiny turbos micro builds sets of some sort of

[@megs8654]

i miss racers for sure... especially those street race small ones... but at same time at least speed champions are making me happy.. tho racers, same as bionicle, left hole in my heart that will never be filled....

[@pastadinnertheater8657]

came back to this video when they announced the new formula 1 sets and ppls reactions to the collectable driver sets. they remind me a lot of the zalax and small drome racers sets with a bit more of a modern flare.

[@Onemanshowoff]

This video hit me with a real big Nostalgia bomb, your work have been hitting me with nostalgia bombs. I was a big ass Lego kid and I'm not as big as I was before, I can still appreciate some of the effort put into these creative ass toys and you certainly help show them off for more to see. Great work these videos my dude

[@TheEarthquake1001]

You are the youtuber i am always most excited for when i see you upload

[@matthewwiersma5008]

loved the video! to bad you didn't talk about my fav lego racers polybag, the lego nesquik racer XD

[@mariodude345]

picked up more of those little pull back drome racers last year haha, I always buy Minifig bodies because I'm not about the compacted bodies the tiny ones come with

[@SofaPop.]

Man world racers was the coolest series ever,I remember I only got 2 sets but they were cool,they were the swamp boat race thingy and the motorcycle race,they had so many unique pieces that I’d never get otherwise and they had such a cool premise,I don’t know why but cars with death race like accessories always fascinated me so this line was right up my ally

[@ryanwright1250]

Speed Champions is one of my favorite themes. The red Stingray that came with the 20(19?) C-8 Corvette is my favorite model from the line.

[@GrandRobo]

Watching your Rewind series is taking me to a nostalgia trip I thought I couldn't go anymore (plus I now have a craving to visit Legoland just to see what products they have at the shop)

[@jimlim4323]

My favourite ones were tiny turbos, collected like almost 30 of them. And u could combine 2 cars into 1 truck

[@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr]

This video introduced me to Speed Champions and I'm eternally grateful for that. Those cars are so fun to build!

[@lbricks7631]

Good to see a line last this long, even if it's only spiritually.

[@satters98]

Jungle Monster in 2003 was my first ever Lego set, seeing this video brought back so many memories

[@Mick0Mania]

The "race" line had a lot of personality IMO. I managed to collect all four of the minifigs but unfortunately either lost a bunch of their pieces or they got broken over the years (Rip wrench's visor piece. I still keep the two halves of it in a LEGO chest. A lovely old piece). I built a monster truck for the yellow tiger guy (forgot his name...) with the working suspensions that amazed me so much when I was staring at them for hours on the catalogs. I remember being really shocked to realize that the drone racers figures (the smaller ones) didn't have the usual body. I still appreciated them and had a blast playing with my friend, but I always tried and failed to incorporate them to minifig scaled cars as the engines weren't strong enough for that much weight. As a big fan of minifigs and minifig scaled builds, I didn't give the tiny turbos the appreciation they deserved. I did buy a few sets for their pieces though. Speed champions are great for their pieces. The detailed builds require a lot of intricate piece usage, bolstering my collection with great bricks! I personally think the vehicles look comical though, due to their windshield pieces. 4-wide on 6-wide is too big of a jump. I believe LEGO will come up with a more believable piece soon, like a 5 stud wide wind screen piece to better sit on a 6 wide build. I personally prefer using the 6x3x1 slope piece in transparent and keep the body slightly wider than 6 wide. As a big LEGO fan, I really appreciate these videos. Keep up the good work!

[@Mael_Str0M]

I had 8:08 and some Mater and Holly Shiftwell spy set and I remember getting my Cars toys and taping LEGO lances to them like when they had the guns coming out of the doors. Ah, nostalgia. A time when I would look in old LEGO books and not understand that a set was retired and I would just ask my mom for it and I just got old Chewbacca, young Anakin, and Ben Kenobi mini figures.

[@michaelfinlay1412]

I remember as a young kid i got those driverless mini cars, and by mini i mean even a normal minifigure would be comperable in height. I liked them a ton, and they were fun.

[@ptsdpamphletcompany5890]

God I loved Tiny Turbos, wanted the sets so bad but we were strapped for cash back then, I did eventually build my own limo though.

[@PalmdaleBombs]

I always look forward to these videos!

[@NoPatricioNo]

Yet another fantastic video in the series! I hope you cover Blacktron and Space Police eventually.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Eventually.

[@saiyanninjawarriorz]

I can't believe how expensive the speed racer sets are now, I wasn't aware of thier existence until recently 😭

[@Luvythicus]

I love the World Racer sets, I remember buying several of the car sets, including that big truck. Kinda wanna set em up again now, hahaha

[@WeedDigimon]

I think world racer is the closest thing Lego has gotten to a Mad Max style series. Great video as always.

[@dexaphobia8085]

My older brother owned the racers that had the mini fig head stick on the the little body, specifically the one that was green with white masked driver who had a little triangle on his face its shown at 3:44. I also owned a semi truck tiny turbo and my little brother owned the set shown at 6:37l And I owned the jagged jaws world racer set! 9:08 This episode is really nostalgic

[@renpan1835]

So much nostalgia. That weird red alien dude was so weird but I enjoyed playing with it :D.

[@profsrlojohn635]

To be honest, the ones with the air pumps were quite fun. You could also use the pump for almost anything else, such as rockets, or aircraft.

[@PlasticToa]

3:49 some offbrand lego sets from my local dollar tree use that minifigure body and steering wheel piece, I had no idea that was ever an official mold.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Huh. Well, at least somebody's giving it some love.

[@PlasticToa]

the mold might be slightly different though, I think the peg for the head is thicker than a normal minifig one

[@juanatethejetdryer7580]

I remember racers had like a Richard Childress Racing (nascar team) partner ship at some point as well with cheerios and hamburger helper and made some Clint Bowyer promo cars., it’s the first but definitely not the last time they would do a NASCAR themed car, in 2019, They made the Chevy Camaro stock car from the prior year. In fact, in a few months the first actually NASCAR licensed car will debut in the technic line for NASCAR’s 75th anniversary.

[@yi_hou3092]

I just bought the 2021 Jesko Set and 8 Studs wide is finally proving itself as an awesome Format for more accurate Lego Cars especially the Ferrari 512M and Countache the Building Techniques used on the sloping and Angles are so good I can't wait for the new Movie Tie-In Sets

[@infraredtoa9105]

Ah... the memories of getting into Lego thanks to this theme.

[@gamervictor6761]

Oh the childhood memories! I used to own Terrain Crusher and Raceway Rider. I loved them so much. Than Mom took them to the attic and the rest is history.

[@ShadowEclipex]

I remember turning some of those tiny race cars (mainly the blue and black) into a go cart thing for mini figs which could get multiple upgrades.

[@GeriatricFan1963]

I started off with Race (I played the hell out of Lego Stunt Rally) and Racers, but with Lego Ferrari I always wanted some of the other F1 teams/car manufacturers, which is why I absolutely love Speed Champions, because it's the theme I dreamed about as a kid.

[@shiethegal]

Does anyone else remember Lego Racers 4D? It's the movie they used to play at Legoland back in the day. I loved that movie, I'd try to see everytime I visited Legoland as a kid.

[@samuelneocros5977]

the tiny turbos are my favorite Racer sets, they just scream late 2000s to me

[@bingisboy]

If I were you, I would've mentioned the Tiny Turbo portable playsets, and the promotional racers found in McDonald's happy meals and various cereal boxes.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

I did show the playsets, at least. I just wasn't sure what to say about them, and I'm trying to keep these videos pretty short.

[@bingisboy]

Nick on Planet Ripple I mean the fold-out racetrack playsets.

[@henrlima87]

Speed champions is what got me back into lego. Got 3 sets waiting in the shelf, and im saving some mulah to buy a couple more this year. Namely, 007's db7. Its awesome. Gonna get 2 of those, one to build, one to collect in the box 😉

[@dergrat]

The cars that would explode when they crashed were the shit

[@charliemccutcheon6030]

Just remembered playing drome racer games on lego.com. also forgot there were ever tracks pieces for racers. Core memories coming back