What the heck is that box art? It looks more like concept art.

It's certainly odd, but it looks cool.

Least generic alien name;

RMotD seems to have had a day off!

Kill it! Burn it with fire!

On the other hand, still better than Bionicle

This counts as both a set and a minifig in my eyes. The very, very cursed origin of a lot of figure building systems.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"RMotD seems to have had a day off!"

Gorm ate it.

GALIDOR
WHHHYYYYYY

@legodachi said:
"Kill it! Burn it with fire!

On the other hand, still better than Bionicle "

Them's fightin' words...

The most gormless set ever made.

@BCHaut said:
" @legodachi said:
"Kill it! Burn it with fire!

On the other hand, still better than Bionicle "

Them's fightin' words..."

Them's piano player stops, someone smashes a bottle on the table fightin' words.

I see Huwbot decided to combine Random Minifig and Random Set today. Galidor was so weird.

It's almost hard to believe that this line was an abject failure.

Is he DANCING?!

@legodachi said:
"Kill it! Burn it with fire!

On the other hand, still better than Bionicle "

23 years later and you people are still as childish as ever

One of the things Lego threw on the wall, and maybe the least stickiest.

@legodachi said:
"Kill it! Burn it with fire!

On the other hand, still better than Bionicle "

Yeah Galidor only had less connection points and more specialized parts, more overpriced models, a less engaging story, a lack of combiner models, more generic world building, a lack of play features in the packaging. But if you ignore all that introducing roughly the same ratchets Knights Kingdom and Exo Force would later use certainly makes it better.

Kinda looks like Mortal Kombat.

So anyone that doesn't own this set is Gormless?

Wait, is this the guy who hung out in Sam’s bar, the guy who tried to kill Kirk, or the guy who hung out in Quark’s bar?

Gorm is actually a really nice scale with the Star Wars buildable figures, so he makes a great alien if one were to make comics or stop motion with the Star Wars figures. And Jens makes a great droid. So Galidor isn't fully terrible.

I once read somewhere online that described Galidor as a great toy, but a terrible LEGO line. Buildable action figures with an interesting backstory and swappable limbs? sounds pretty cool. But when viewed as a LEGO line, it absolute garbage, bottom of the barrel.

But in a vacuum, actually kinda cool.

@Trigger_ said:
"Least generic alien name;"

In their defense, he shares a name with a medieval Danish king... the very father of Harald Bluetooth. This fact brought to you by the National Museum of Denmark, where I thought to myself, "so *that's* what Galidor was going for!"

@Brickbuilder0937 said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"RMotD seems to have had a day off!"

Gorm ate it."

NOM NOM NOM!

This is the sound that your stomach makes, when you see the picture.

Galidor, galidor, galidor. What a shame. They'd be great toys if they weren't sold next to similarly-sized action figures a quarter of the price.

@whw_iv said:
"Make that 359 members… lol."

You bought it just now!?!

@Maxbricks14 said:
" @whw_iv said:
"Make that 359 members… lol."

You bought it just now!?!"
Ha, absolutely not!! I just never thought to check off the ones from my childhood as ‘owned.’

For all of Galidor's flaws at least Gorm here has a good 'main villain' look.

Granted that's because it's mostly stolen from Darth Vader, but still...

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"Is he DANCING?!"

He's smelling his armpit.

I’m gonna Gorm. Yeah, this is awesome.

You know, I've watched the Galidor show, and I've completely forgotten what Gorm's whole deal was. He was the main badguy, but I have no memory of why he wanted to rule Galidor. I feel like it had something to do with Nick Bluetooth's parents, but I really can't remember.

@whw_iv said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
" @whw_iv said:
"Make that 359 members… lol."

You bought it just now!?!"
Ha, absolutely not!! I just never thought to check off the ones from my childhood as ‘owned.’
"

Ohhhhh, what a horrible childhood! I hope the ensuing years have dulled the pain!

Proud to be one of the 358 members who own this set

One of only 20 Galidor sets! Hunwbot feels generous today! Thank you!

@jkb said:
"One of only 20 Galidor sets! Hunwbot feels generous today! Thank you!"
Nerd addendum: interesting to note that 8314 Gorm Deluxe was RSOTD exactly three years ago to the day!
What a coincidence.

I have most of the Galidor figures. They are pretty decent for MOCing action figures, especially if you want robot-human and robot-alien hybrids and brick build their limbs. Galidor has lots of haters that have probably never even handled them, but have seen others hate on them on YouTube, so they do the same.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"What the heck is that box art? It looks more like concept art.

It's certainly odd, but it looks cool."

Well, it's not really box art for starters—Galidor sets came in a more unusual sort of clamshell packaging than most Lego (as seen here: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/a/a7/8311_Box.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100602203921 ). And like many Lego sets of that age the picture in the database here is not representative of what you'd see on shelves. I sometimes wish we had a good system for including alternate pictures of older sets on Brickset since often we have to rely on instructions images or the like, which don't always accurately represent the packaging on shelves or the out-of-box product.

@AustinPowers said:
" @jkb said:
"One of only 20 Galidor sets! Hunwbot feels generous today! Thank you!"
Nerd addendum: interesting to note that 8314 Gorm Deluxe was RSOTD exactly three years ago to the day!
What a coincidence. "

You still believe "Random" Set of the Day is random? This is not a coincidence. Huwbot is sentient! Wake up sheeple!

Aaargh comment swallowed and I didn't save it properly.

It's always good to see the mindless hate on anything Galidor manifest without fail. Where would we be if people formed their 'own' opinions?

This set shows well that... it's more action figure than building toy now, twisted and evil looking. It looks prety wicked cool in design, but it's hard to make other things with the parts provided.
This set in particular had an extra spread out hand part to swap with the regular one for dramatic poses. Pretty mid, even for the theme's own standard.

Oh, and did you know the back of the packaging included alternate models? Yes, really! That's more alt model images than we get on today's boxes, even current technic!

The thing is... the parts for this theme are actually of very high quality. They used regular brick making techniques to make double or tripple molded multi-section parts encasing other moving parts often with quality printing. And they're massive parts! It wasn't economically sustainable to keep them affordable, especially if the TV show tie-in (lego's first attempt since Edward and Friends for Fabuland, done 9 years before Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu) bombed. It did. Lego nearly went bankrupt for good reason, and this theme was a symptom of the underlying issues!

They were too busy to see if they could that they never stopped to think if they should. But the toy that was produced at least was quality for what it tried to do, far removed from the basic brick as it was.

@StyleCounselor said:
" You almost have to be a Boomer to still use that insult.

Not a Boomer. Proudly Gen X.

We made your technology. We can fix things, including electronic equipment. We have relationships with real women IRL, and we have all the mutherf%*ckin' money. Deal with it!

BTW, IRL = outside of your momma's basement "

Ew

@Lyichir said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"What the heck is that box art? It looks more like concept art.

It's certainly odd, but it looks cool."

Well, it's not really box art for starters—Galidor sets came in a more unusual sort of clamshell packaging than most Lego (as seen here: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/lego/images/a/a7/8311_Box.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100602203921 ). And like many Lego sets of that age the picture in the database here is not representative of what you'd see on shelves. I sometimes wish we had a good system for including alternate pictures of older sets on Brickset since often we have to rely on instructions images or the like, which don't always accurately represent the packaging on shelves or the out-of-box product."

Also these packets were GIGANTIC. They must have taken up so much space on shelves, which I can only imagine contributed to the theme's failure (lots of shelf space for an unpopular product = stores unwilling to stock more)

with all the talk about the image being weird i guess it got the attention of one of the editors, since the main image just got updated

I'm super happy about the informative and trivia comments that give more context about this period of LEGO and the theme itself.

And super sad about the flamewar that is totally uncalled for.

@legodachi said:
"On the other hand, still better than Bionicle "

No, even I, one of the most avid Bionicle apathizers out there, have to admit that its overcomplex and unorganized lore is better than this dumpster fire of a theme.

Hahaha, I recovered my Galidor collection last weekend from my mom's attic, where it was stored for 6+ years in a box labelled "books". Gorm and Gorm Deluxe were in it, as well as Nepal and his horse thingy, that red guy and a bunch of Nick Bluetooths. Great sets!

It's Gormin' time. Truly one of the sets of all time.

@Halex16 said:"Wish 4040 was allowed on the bot. A truly incredible set…

(unless it fits on RMOD… if that should even be called a “figure”)"

The "minifigs" tab on 4040's database entry says, "We don't have any information about minifigs or other figures in this set." So at least we're spared that potential horror. It still irks me that Huwbot has chosen Belville, Jack Stone, and Scala figures multiple times for RMotD (Jack Stone multiple times, even), but no Fabuland or Technic figures. Although one of the "slabbies" did get chosen once: https://brickset.com/article/100469/random-minifig-of-the-day-old007

@Arnoldos said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @jkb said:
"One of only 20 Galidor sets! Hunwbot feels generous today! Thank you!"
Nerd addendum: interesting to note that 8314 Gorm Deluxe was RSOTD exactly three years ago to the day!
What a coincidence. "

You still believe "Random" Set of the Day is random? This is not a coincidence. Huwbot is sentient! Wake up sheeple!"

https://xkcd.com/1013/

Could this guy take My Dad in a fight?

@Tuzi said:
"Hahaha, I recovered my Galidor collection last weekend from my mom's attic, where it was stored for 6+ years in a box labelled "books". Gorm and Gorm Deluxe were in it, as well as Nepal and his horse thingy, that red guy and a bunch of Nick Bluetooths. Great sets!"

I think the proper term is Nick Blueteeth when the are more than one. ;-P

The controversy over Galidor is stupid.
Lego is a toy company, they are allowed to make other toys than building blocks.

Woah, image glowup! Does that mean the rest of the sets in the Galidor theme will get the same treatment? Gorm kind of looks out of place without the black void and blue glow.

@ElephantKnight said:
"Gorm is actually a really nice scale with the Star Wars buildable figures, so he makes a great alien if one were to make comics or stop motion with the Star Wars figures. And Jens makes a great droid. So Galidor isn't fully terrible.

I once read somewhere online that described Galidor as a great toy, but a terrible LEGO line. Buildable action figures with an interesting backstory and swappable limbs? sounds pretty cool. But when viewed as a LEGO line, it absolute garbage, bottom of the barrel.

But in a vacuum, actually kinda cool."

Indeed, strictly in terms of manufacturing quality, these would have ranked as some of the best action figures on the market at the time…which was part of the problem. The quality was so high that they were some of the most expensive ones on the market, which combined with the lack of a tie-in to a popular IP, meant certain death for the line.

@whw_iv:
Actually…that would be 360. In my defense, a box showed up on my front step with no warning one day, and when I opened it, TLG had sent me the entire first wave of basic Galidor figures to review. Yes, they sent me more free _Galidor_ sets than Bionicle sets. I promptly closed the box, and haven’t opened it since. It’s somewhere in my condo, but I don’t even know where.

@EdwinJackson:
No, Galidor is that theme where they got greedy, and then got burned. Instead of just licensing it, they paid extra for the master license. That means if anyone else wanted to license, say, Galidor bed sheets or shower curtains, they have to sign a contract with TLG, who would get a cut of the action. And as far as I know, there was about as much interest in sub-licensing the IP as there was in watching the series. This, at a time when the company posted two significant losses, puts much of the blame on Galidor.

@PurpleDave said:
"
@EdwinJackson:
No, Galidor is that theme where they got greedy, and then got burned. Instead of just licensing it, they paid extra for the master license. That means if anyone else wanted to license, say, Galidor bed sheets or shower curtains, they have to sign a contract with TLG, who would get a cut of the action. And as far as I know, there was about as much interest in sub-licensing the IP as there was in watching the series. This, at a time when the company posted two significant losses, puts much of the blame on Galidor."

Galidor's licensing is wacky to try and figure out. I think it was created by a third party, then LEGO bought out the whole concept. I see a lot of Christian Faber and Advance's "Cybots" concept in Galidor as well, although Faber himself was working on Bionicle and not Galidor by the time Galidor was actually launched. I don't know if Advance as a company was involved in Galidor at all although they worked on a lot of LEGO themes in general.

But as action figures, they actually do rock. I own Gorm (and several other Galidor sets) and he's a neat figure; even if a goofy LEGO product. I remember watching the TV show a bit too as a kid, even if I didn't really sink into it that much my dad still says it was a decent kid's series for its time out of all the stuff I remember watching with him present. Galidor has the makings of something better, and I almost wish we saw Nick Bluetooth, Jens, etc. snuck into more LEGO sets as an homage the same way we are getting Johnny Thunder and an Exo-Force mech this summer (I know we got a Galidor poster in a Ninjago city set, but nothing else really beyond that).