Lego Rewind Ep.5- Adventurers

[@ethribin4188]

The adventurer series was one of the best lego series there ever was.

[@islandmaster5064]

I wish they brought it back for a special

[@kareemcallum4690]

Instablaster

[@Tamestraw327]

0:24

[@Rogerregorroger]

I love him carrying that giant videocamera around on his adventures. Reminds me of European comic book hero Tintin who's always celebrated within the comic as this great reporter, but he never bothers to do any interviews, journalistic investigating or taking any pictures on his adventures and even happely let's himself be interviewed by rival reporters. Seems Johnny is way better on that regard.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Yeah, that big goofy camera is great. I'm not even sure they're using it any more. So many cool old pieces get retired, then knockoff brands keep using them to this day.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Well he did do more traditional reporting back in the first couple book, it just unfortunately happend to also be incredibly racist.

[@legogandalf5453]

Tintin is the best!

[@schnek8927]

@@RAFMnBgaming So it's better for *two* reasons! Nothing unfortunate about that.

[@toadartho662]

"Orient Expedition, which is the best Adventurers line of all in my opinion" Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well

[@colinroberts2060]

I enjoyed it a lot, even though I only had the India and Tibet waves of sets.

[@SpacklerStudios]

@@colinroberts2060 Same here, though I only had the Dragon Fortress

[@colinroberts2060]

@@SpacklerStudios I always loved the design of that, even though I never had it. It was also the largest set in the theme in terms of piece count.

[@legogandalf5453]

That orient expedition box art is great

[@juicyestoranges4190]

I liked the Orient Express.

[@connormaskell4192]

No mention of the fact that the three Temple sets for Orient Expedition had a board game bundled with them which incorporated the buildings themselves.

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Oh, SHOOT! I completely forgot that was a thing! I thought I was just.... imagining things from when I was a kid! Holy crap...

[@LOUDcarBOMB]

They also had cards bundled with them too.

[@dabiggs9519]

To be honest I kind of liked Pharaoh's Quest characters design. A very serious and paramilitary sort of design.

[@elliotbishop231]

I'd love to see johnny thunder back, I mean he's already got a ride in places like legoland so it's not like he's totally unknown to the modern Lego crowd. Could really do with that rn

[@Veolynn13]

>mfw i'm reminded Lego Universe is dead [cries]

[@Chuked]

GammaWALLE and your comment is long forgotten

[@Chuked]

February 5, 2020

[@joaomotta7791]

@@Chuked january 27th 2021.

[@HubPie3]

The only time I saw Johnny Thunder as a kid was in this LEGO Studios game I used to play all the time on LEGO's website. It was this game where you would walk around a LEGO studio lot of some kind, and I remember seeing Johnny asking for his hat, I think. It's been so long since I played that game, and I don't remember if it was just his hat or anything else. I'm disappointed that I wasn't old enough to remember or experience LEGO Adventurers, but it is always nice to see what I missed.

[@tamamonia]

good old lego backlot. I miss a lot of the old flash games lego used to host way back when..

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

Lego Backlot! Loved that game, need to find a way to play it again.

[@Mael_Str0M]

Hub Pie Diamondbolt did a video on that

[@Mike14264]

The only time I saw that awesome aussie was when I played Lego's flash games. Anyone remember those? And yeah, I missed that awesome set as well, but it was one I saw in a catalog once. It was a tiny image, but I knew it was something special...

[@faselblaDer3te]

2:05 This little tomb was the best set ever. The german release came with an MC with a great audio play on it, which I loved to bits as a kid. Aah, memories...

[@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen]

What audio?

[@johannesseyfried7933]

​@@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen I believe it was called The Search for the Pharaoh's Ruby(?). You can actually find it here on KZbin. Exclusively on german however. 😅

[@darthtitteous1215]

I remember adventurers having a promo at some restaurant when I was a kid, it was either Applebee’s or Chilis, and it was part of the kids menu.

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

You put words to something I've felt for awhile now. While I loved Lego after this point, I do feel like early Johnny Thunder is quaint and almost minimalist compared to later trends Lego followed. Also the Orient Expedition was great, that series and the online flash games started my life long interest in the history of the Mongols.

[@soundblaster1987reviews]

That Super Secret Police Dropship set has a secret code hidden somewhere to allow you to unlock Johnny Thunder in the videogame

[@brandonm8901]

When I was a kid I would often get second hand assorted boxes of Lego rather than being able to buy new full sets. It's brilliant watching these videos and learning about what the series and sets actually were, as I am finding that I had a good cross-section of pieces without having many complete sets. I'm learning about all the old pieces I had!

[@dakedres]

Similar deal here!

[@pingucraft95]

Similarly, I rumaged through my grandma's lego bin and found some old blacktron I and II parts, oddly enough. Now i'm curious how they got there because it doesen't look like something she would have bought back in the day...

[@heyheyitsjae2475]

I love that Johnny is still popping up in Easter Eggs throughout all of LEGO's themes. Here's hoping he makes it to The Billion Brick race!

[@t.g.b.1164]

Johnny Thunder deserves his own Lego stop motion series on KZbin.

[@jacobrichards3635]

There's a few really good ones that I used to watch a ton when I was kid, one of them was called like the Tomb of Mysteries or something, sometimes I watch it for a big jolt of Nostalgia

[@Vrahno]

This was a significant line for me even though I only had a few sets. But I loved the browser games and got to play with more of the sets thanks to some classmates who had more money to spend on Lego. It was disappointing when I later found out that Lego got a pitch for a cartoon series about Johnny Thunder which they turned down. That would have been the perfect way to popularize the theme further, but Lego didn't capitalize on it. Maybe they had no interest in the line anymore, since that was around the time Orient Expedition came out.

[@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr]

It's interesting to me that these days, just about every story-based Lego theme gets a TV show to go along with it. When I was a kid it was up in the air if a theme's story would be told through comics, novels, flash games, animations, or a mix of all of them (*cough* Bionicle *cough*). I think today's kids are lucky that the stories to their favorite Lego themes are so accessible compared to how things used to be.

[@Vrahno]

@@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr True, Bionicle itself would in all likelihood be much better remembered by regular people as a story theme if its media had been just as accessible. Separating the story across such a convoluted multimedia release schedule (most of which was confined to the English speaking world at that) must absolutely have been detrimental to the franchise in the long run, and that's why nobody but the hardcore fans still care about its story anymore.

[@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr]

@@Vrahno I think the G2 story team had the right idea in having the story presented through a show. That said, I can't imagine who at Lego thought it was smart to only green light five episodes. Journey to One wasn't great by any means, but it had potential to be better if they actually had time to tell a more complete story.

[@Vrahno]

@@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr The guys at the top just didn't have faith in it, is what I'm guessing. That, and there was a hefty layer of general incompetence smeared over the whole reboot.

[@raquetdude]

I remember as a kid at Lego Land Windsor for the acrobatic act at the lighthouse the main story revolved around Johhny Thunder. Can't remember much of it cause it was like more than ten years ago but I was surprised more of the kids there didn't know who he was, guess I had just been playing with old kits.

[@Chronas9.9]

These sets looked extremely varied. I'm glad The Lego movie gave him a brief cameo even though most younger kids probably wouldn't have known about it

[@mv2e19]

God those flash games bring back so many fond memories... I spent hours playing Lego's online flash games with my brother. Alpha team, dino attack, johny thunder, that one where you drive an rc car in a store. Damn they were good. I remember all the little details. This series gives me so much nostalgia

[@JeremyBelpoisX]

I got the 3-in-1 Desert set and I STILL have the plastic mummy case it came in, minus the striped stickers on the mummy head's crown. I sadly didn't get any of the Orient sets, and I only got 1 Amazon and 1 Dino Island set, but I wanted them all more than anything because Johnny was so freaking cool! I also wanted the big plastic base from the final Amazon set to be used as a village for my early BIONICLE sets since I saw an old pic of someone doing the same. Also, that whole schtick about how Pharaoh Hotep annoying Baron von Barron/Sam Sinister (they were never really clear on his name) with corny mummy jokes? Well, fun fact, in the 10273 Haunted House set released this May, the Manor von Barron reveals that he REALLY DID GO MAD listening to those crummy jokes for eternity! Funny how that works, love these new sets making old references!

[@GandalfTheTsaagan]

That joke on the comercial at the end though It's super cheesy but so good that I wish the dinos on the Jurassic World spoke just so they could make this joke

[@classclown6ya]

You are one of the most earnest and down to earth content creators I've ever seen. Props

[@dtinagliastudios]

YES PLEASE IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Thanks for keeping up with these! The next episode isn't too far off.

[@rfbricks0606]

Dtinaglia Studios, you used a lot of the Egypt sets in your custom ninjago season (the twilight sands)

[@whyiwakeup6460]

Learning about older themes helps me build things.

[@levobertus]

I never had any of those but my cousin did and I quite liked them. I never bought one because I spent pretty much all of my money on Bionicle.

[@TheTrollMastah]

I miss these sets so dearly

[@Toaofvideos]

This was one of the most nostalgic Lego lines for me, so I'm glad you made a video of it!

[@kylefrank638]

2:04 I never noticed this Anubis statue with a body that's just a treasure chest. That's clever and adorable. :)

[@CameronM1138]

The little tan car with Johnny Thunder and the little biplane from the Egypt line were the first two Lego sets I ever got brand new in a store so this line will always be one of the all-time greats for me. I loved the old-timey vehicles and exotic locations, and their respective levels in both Lego Racers games were some of my favorites.

[@valkyriehero6271]

The mustache tells everything about the character

[@LeoxandarMagnus]

I had just gotten into Lego when Orient Expedition came out. I'm quite sad I missed the sets. I did play those flash games to death though.

[@JSN117]

Lego adventurers is my favorite all time lego theme. I owned almost all of the egypt sets.

[@oivinf]

I had so many of these sets. Thank you for this

[@Sturmdude]

Some of the first Lego toys I ever got were Pirates and Adventurers. Seeing Johny in that Lego Movie set warms my heart a lot. I didn't know they brought him back in that.

[@BrickTsar]

I agree Orient Adventures was the best. At the time I only cared about the Dino Island but it wasn’t until years later I actually had the joy of building them. Some good characters and neat features.

[@Mr.HeisenbergTheCook]

Loved Adventurers back in the day

[@monkeytomars8770]

Dude I love your videos. I've only recently discovered them and been putting them on speaker when I'm cooking in my own house. I'm only 21 at the moment and watching these videos is making me very nostalgic again. Faintedly regaining memories of which sets I had based on certain shapes, minifigs or even coverart I had. Thanks dude!

[@Maniac4Bricks]

Fun to come back here just as the City Jungle sets released, featuring Johnny Thunder. It's funny, I was hoping for that in 2017's City Jungle, which had a good amount of exploration. Whereas the modern Jungle Exploration....is less so. The focus is so much more on the vehicles than the terrain or treasures, or in this case, wildlife studying. It's kind of like the Animal Rescue we saw a few years ago but with less peril. And hey, shoutout to Friends taking on Jungle before 2017 CITY did. They had animal rescuing sure, but they also offered a glimpse of exploration. Jungle Falls is one of my favorite Friends sets and I'm glad I own at least this one from the Jungle line. A clever building technique for the gear function makes the model spring ro life while offering a reward of treasure and a small cave to explore.

[@TrikBrix]

One of my all time favorite themes... thanks for putting this together!

[@Excellsion]

1:40 That is the cutest little car I have ever seen.

[@goldenlightpictures6223]

Lego adventurers should really return that would be awesome!!:)

[@georggross1232]

It definitely needs a comeback.

[@alonikan2866]

My favorite theme as a child!

[@matthew_thefallen]

This was my favourite Theme! Although i never had the opportunity to get the big sets from it, i had small weird sets. But man do i miss them.

[@Sturmdude]

Johnny Thunder basically did everything when I was a kid, he, his comrades, and enemies managed to invade every Lego theme I played with in some way. I guess he ended up being the Gary Stu stand in character to vicariously live adventure for me when I was playing all those years ago.

[@DisAnimated]

I never new much about the adventure series as they where a bit before my time however i always remembered going to legoland and watching the live action stunt show with Johney thunder

[@TobyEchozap]

enjoyed this very much. looking forward to the next.

[@user-xc2ch2cv6e]

One of the best themes ever

[@findmestudios]

My favorite Lego series

[@legotimefuntime5438]

I’ve got several Johnny Thunders. Good stuff.

[@thatweirdgreenparrot7715]

Lol 7:03 the last picture on second line is from my MOC Johnny Thunder video here on YT... Nice video by the way, now I'm super nostalgic and sad that Johnny Thunder is dead theme for lego company.

[@lennertvandyck5185]

Every Lego adventurer should have a companion that wears that one adventurer hat.

[@adrianhoiland20]

That Lego Orient Expedition set number 7422 plane was the First Lego set i ever got when i was 2 or 3 years i slightly remember it and i still have some of the parts

[@CannaSama]

My favorite theme by far!! Hope it wins the 90s anniversary tournament!

[@IronPiedmont]

Out of all of the Lego themes Lego should bring back in it's original form, its Adventurers.

[@TreeckoGBC]

Holy shit, I wanted that 7418 set so freaking bad as a young kid but had completely forgotten it even existed

[@Mike14264]

Now this was one theme I always wished I had, but I never even saw it on stores in my country.

[@LFPAnimations]

looking back, orient expedition were some of the best designs lego ever made. The dinosaur one were also really cool. They were the perfect amount of storyline to get your imagination going, but not so much that you couldn't make up your own stories when playing. The theme also just had incredible variety while still maintaining a common theme. It would be really cool if they revived this theme again, but with more detailed builds.

[@brickjawns]

best lego theme ever

[@LEGOJediMaster]

6:49, You do know thats Johnny's kid, Josh, Right?!

[@masmustacheo891]

The Orient Expedition (For some reason I always called it The Orient Express) was my second favorite LEGO theme behind Bionicle.

[@Chronas9.9]

Don't forget about Exo-Force for me okay? Alright cool lol

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Oh lord, these kinds of comments stress me out.

[@levobertus]

I was just about to comment this haha... :C

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

+Nick on planet Ripple You shouldn't get stressed out, you'll do a good job

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

It's not that, it's just the people going "Do this, do this, do this," and it's like "Yeah! I'll get to it when I get to it! I'm not a puppet on strings."

[@Chronas9.9]

Nick on Planet Ripple wasn't implying you were nick. Chill

[@thecelestialtoygazer7816]

Looking through the pictures like, need that one, need that one, need that one...

[@QuantaSolace]

Johnny Thunder, now that is a blast from the past. I loved the Adventures line. One of the few sets that really sparked my imagination as a kid. My other favorite line was that deep-sea set that had the large stingray sub. I had the good guys from that set that had the large underwater base and a decently sized submarine. There was another outer-space+robot theme that I really liked as well. It came out long before Ice Planet and Mars Mission.

[@Radiosilenced]

I owned the entire Pharos quest line, every single set, I loved em all

[@Maniac4Bricks]

I just completed the collection a few days ago, the Sphinx was the last to pickup but I still have to find the Anubis guards. Very cool in their own way.

[@Radiosilenced]

Maniac4Bricks the Sphinx was the first set i got, Laos I looked up the line and realized that I didn’t get the poly bags but that was it. The Anubis guards are a must have if you like the line (did you get the pyramid and they didn’t come with?)

[@Maniac4Bricks]

@@Radiosilenced Yes, I got the pyramid without the guards. I haven't picked up the polybags yet but they look simple enough that I could build them. I go back and forth if they count as completing the collection.

[@grimm1206]

I found a huge trash bag in my Grandma's attic, and to my surprise it was full a lot of Lego pieces. Inside of the bag I found a Johnny Thunder figure. I was happy. The end.

[@skylordianandy2644]

The lego adventurers pharaohs tomb set was the first lego set i ever got! I still love the villain with his tophat and car.

[@markperl3869]

I think the Jungle line is really underrated. The sets were unique and sadly don't get enough attention.

[@pilkerton]

god this series is good

[@th3rasave]

Yay! Studios is my 3rd favorite lego theme!

[@philippaul6039]

0:43 OMG I remember this! It almost hurts my head to watch this XD

[@legeek217]

Lego adventurers, nostalgia)

[@TufteMotorsport]

Haha, listening to the LRW playlist when this came up while building my Adventurers/Dino mashup MOC. It is taking place 90 years after Johnny first found the island, and the vehicles and setting has been modded to be in vet service instead of keeping them from the city. Everything is Dino inspired except the Dinos and details that are from Dino Island. Even the cage from "5914 SAM SINISTER AND THE BABY T REX" is slightly modded to fit in the world.

[@codename617]

I love the Adventures line the best.

[@TheKeyblader133]

One weirdly specific memory I have about the adventure theme's last year was this...sort of board game element that came into play with it? I dont remember if it was just part of each major land mark set or not, but I remembee that the Ice location with the toppling bridge had extra parts to it that let you make a game out of it, and you could expand it further with the other sets. I think each mini figure was supposed to have their own ability or stats, or that you had to pick up the included weapons on "the board" while you were trying to collect stuff. It's been so long that I do not remember the details well at all, and I never got to explore the idea beyond the one set

[@whositsnamewhatsitsname3269]

I just realized the lego adventures trio is kind of like the spiritual predecessor to the uncharted trio!

[@felixbober9662]

Very cool video-series, keep it up!

[@breenotcheese746]

Never had any of these sets and I'm a little too young to remember more than one of the flash games, but this theme looks fun. I'd love to get that old car with classic Johnny Thunder minifig.

[@Chronas9.9]

It's about time you made another episode

[@od4361]

great episode, keep up with the good work!

[@victoriaevelyn3953]

i love these sets and always wanted some of the egyptian sets

[@DarkMatter280]

Dino island!! I used to have almost all of those sets...

[@toongrowner1]

I actually had the grave of anubis, as a kid, and it included a cassette, with a story of Johnny Thunder on it. I actually found the story again here on youtube. They actually did a pretty god job with the story and the voice cast. Also this is one of the themes that makes me wish that Lego sometimes would step away a litte from franchises and do some more own stuff again (Specially with star wars. They had so many wonderfull space/alien themes, but now everything is just star wars....). PS: The first lego racers game was awesome, me and my brother still play it at times. XD (one of the very view old pc games, that surprisingly still works on modern pcs)

[@andrewtaylor940]

While probably not too significant, we did just get a new Johnny Thunder figure in Lego CMF series 19. Fron and back printing, leg printing with duel molded legs. It's nice to see him again. He's taken up residence over in the Ninjago City portion of my city. It just seems appropriate.

[@Maniac4Bricks]

That's a great addition, I love that figure version too adapting him well to modern minifigure designs. There's a minifigure in the City Safari Off-Roader set 60267 that looks awfully alot like Pippin Reed/Gail Storm, all the more reason to buy that set. The set shows the tree costumed guy with the camera but we all know who it belongs to :)

[@makutazexia4176]

There's a KZbinr named Mustache Maniacs who made LEGO Adventurer stopmotion movies, and I still think they're really good

[@tyuk5107]

"you cant make this stuff up" waaaaitttt a minute

[@schluti6347]

Oh i remember i had a cassette with the egyptian theme wich cleverly connected all of the egyptian sets. I loved it

[@kingofhogwarts9499]

Dino Island and The Orient Edition Sets werd my childhood

[@drip_nick-8578]

Best line forever

[@MiguelCastro-ow5ho]

Great job this is an amazing video!

[@NickonPlanetRipple]

Thanks. More on the way.

[@MiguelCastro-ow5ho]

Nick on Planet Ripple awesome!

[@josephlowry4320]

WOAH! After I've watched your video, it got me thinking: Why can't I be a teenager in the 90s/2000s.

[@SlowBrow177]

The sort of latest appearance I saw Johnny Thunder in was Lego Fortnite, there was a picture of him showing a list of quest to complete in game but I didn’t see him anywhere when I played it, yet.

[@BullMooseFox]

When I was a kid I wanted these sets and the Pharos Quest sets so badly. But my mom liked Harry Potter so that's what I got instead. I got one little mini pack of these guys once and they were my favorite.

[@ODST_Parker]

I remember having an interest in this one, but not collecting the sets. I think I had a couple of them, a plane and that tracked car looking thing. I definitely remember thinking the last wave looked really cool, but I didn't get any of them.

[@rockstaar977]

Themes talked about in this video: Adventurers- 1998-2003 Pharaoh's Quest- 2011

[@Person-wz6iy]

I would love it if Universal (Who got the rights to make Lego movies in 2020 after TLM2 bombed.). made a movie about Johnny Thunder and his adventures in Egypt in 1932, trying to stop Sam Sinister and the explorers club from releasing an ancient curse. With potential sequels following his adventures in the Amazon in 1935, Dino Island in 1938 and Orient Expedition in 1948. I would describe it as a bit of Indiana Jones mixed with The Mummy, Tintin, and what Peter Jackson was going to do for Kong in 1996. What do you think?

[@WiiMan25]

I used to play with Johnny Thunder all the time! Instead of using the existing "storylines" from the sets, I'd make up my own temple/tomb/etc setups and have him adventure through them looking for things like ancient mystical swords or whatever. One of the recent lego blindbags has an unnamed explorer character who looks suspiciously like him. Maybe I should keep an eye out for that one.

[@lemonlimelukey]

i love these videos

[@Maya_Ruinz]

Pharaohs quest sets are go to for collecting, great sets

[@Autisticguywithacamera]

I kind of wish they'd bring this theme back someday, maybe where Johnny Thunder and the rest of the Adventurers gang mentor an all-new team of explorers, set around the mid-40s or 50s, somewhere around that time period. That would be interesting.