Random set of the day: Nepol and Shimmel
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8321 Nepol and Shimmel, released in 2002. It's one of 20 Galidor sets produced that year. It contains 27 pieces, and its retail price was US$20/£14.99.
It's owned by 240 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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I thought this looked cool as a kid... now? Not so sure.
Been a minute since we got Galidor.
Sadly, that's all I have to contribute. I really do need to get around to watching that show, but at the same time, the community's ironic love for it is two years old. I missed that train.
Just an FYI, I HATE KEK!
Thanks a lot Huwbot, don't need more issues since oil is plunging by 26% and stocks set for a 1300+ point drop!
decent earthquake too? Not a good evening lol.
5.6 is the size by the way, no issues.
What are the odds? What is that, 3 in 2 years?
^Yes, yes it is.
240 of you own this?!? If I had this I wouldn’t admit it ;)
If anyone owns the Dream Cottage and this thing, I'll eat a 2x4 brick.
Scala and Galidor in two days .... C'mon, Huwbot, give us Clikits tomorrow to complete the hat trick!
That is one creepy looking set
What the hell is this series? That's LEGO?! I've browsed through the 20 pictures of the sets and I didn't recognize a single piece. I would never have guessed this was made by LEGO. What is this madness?!
What the freak, HUE!?!
27 very useful pieces!
Thought this was one of the really weird Bionicle sets that showed up after the main narrative wrapped up in 2008, but it's much, much worse
I'm here for the comments.
C'mon Brickset. Don't disappoint me.
@Phoenixio
LEGO's attempt to get into the action figure market. The only recognizable LEGO elements were the technic pins that hold the ratcheted joints to the figure. So they could be swapped around, but otherwise bear no similarity or interactivity with LEGO components.
Does anybody else have trouble distinguishing the rider’s legs from the ridden thing’s legs? It so much looks like one of those cowboy on a horse costumes where the person dresses up as a cowboy on the top half with fake legs at his waist and uses his real ones as the back legs of the horse costume on his lower half.
Amiright?
The animal/thing being ridden (I’ll assume that one is “Shimmel”?) looks like a creature out of a Dr. Seuss book. Its legs are just wrong like that.
But its face is super creepy. Like it’s out of Seuss’s lesser known and extremely regrettable foray into darker, more adult-themed picture books.
Oh wow... Dark times I see.
Noooooooooooooooooooooo
Is it April 1st ? Thats never Lego. Wow good old random set technology, giving us a glimpse of an alternative universe. As someone has said I was convinced "it" only had a total of 4 legs for 5 mins.
Galidor? That Junkyard?
Knew we should’ve double-checked the Western Reaches!
@CarolinaOnMyMind it doesn’t help that the guy’s legs-and the guy himself-are both rather short.
So many youngsters commenting...I suppose you’d be horrified to learn that there was a show that went along with this. Live action, on a little network called Fox Kids...or was it the Fox Box by then?
Oh my... It's horrible!
My mind can't decide what it's seeing!
I heard rumours that a UCS Nepol and Shimmel set will be issued next year.
The horror... The horror... The horror
In the voice of Dr. Evil:
Riiiight.
Seriously though, the sets look more like Masters of the Universe than anything LEGO to me. Hell, even Bionicle, which I absolutely hate, has more LEGO feel to it than this.
What on Earth were they thinking/smoking at the time?
And this was supposed to be a TV show? That might explain some of the weirdness but not why TLG decided to waste resources on it.
Dear TLG,
Please stay away from selling buildable figures of any kind. Let Galidor be a lesson to you.
thank you
Gah, these comments.
So strange, weird for a "Lego set" ^^
@Phoenixio said:
"What the hell is this series? That's LEGO?! I've browsed through the 20 pictures of the sets and I didn't recognize a single piece. I would never have guessed this was made by LEGO. What is this madness?!"
Trust me, you don’t want to know. You really don’t.
I just checked. You could indeed buy it on Ebay or BrickLink if you so cared
Plastic gone wrong!
Is that someone who rides a zombie camel, or those 2 things are one entity?
OH MY GOODNESS.
That was the only response I could think of to seeing this thing on the front page, honestly.
Also, I'm with those who were very confused as to which legs belonged to which being. I kind of first was interpreting it as the long legs at the back belonged to the humanoid figure, who then had four arms extending from his torso. Then beside him, I thought, was walking some kind of two-legged bird-like creature with the same feet as the humanoid.
...that still seems like a plausible way to interpret that picture to me, honestly.
I actually kinda like these characters. The only thing I hate about them is that they spoiled the Lego brand, that's it.
excellent set!!
I really don't get it. Is there a fashion or some rules of how a fantasy creature should look like ?
What is the difference between this Nepol-Shimmel and Nijago fighting snakes, Jabba The Hutt (SW fans please restrain)?
If a specific mouse company would have decided to put this creature in a billion $ movie series, people would complain why its helmet was not produced yet in the new product range LEGO made 2 days ago.
Some people on Brickset are suddenly in a judging comity of Mister Universe Beauty Contest?
It is just a fantasy like any other. It's like deciding between 2 lies, which one is more beautiful because of the legs number.
We don't want our kids to play anymore with true human race history characters like Castle, Pirates, Western, but it is OK to play with monster, fantasy, princesses and other lies that will make them just suffer when they will face reality as adults.
If a global catastrophe will occur in the future, it is more probably we will face again periods of Castle, Pirates, Western, more likely than we will ever meet with Hidden Side, Olaf or Nepol and Shimmel.
Maybe we hurt Nepol and Shimmel feelings by commenting his looks. How strange for him in his world to be criticized by some strange looking humanoid shape creatures on a toys website...
I watch SF movies, I don't hate fantasy, I understand the role of it. I just don't understand criticizing a specific creature based on nothing.
I truly wish people passionate of SW and other trending fantasy to be able someday to meet their beloved characters.
Shimmel's head looks like Uncle Deadly from the Muppets.
https://jadensadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Uncle_Deadly
@CCC
Darth Vader is my witness I wrote a similar thing like you without seeing your comment. Since English is not my native language it takes me more than 30 minutes to post it.
What am I looking at? Is that a guy shagging an emu?
I never recall the TV series, but had several sets (including an McD's Happy Meal version of this character).
Honestly, if the series had not been better produced, and the figures not ugly as sin, I think it would probably be as well respected as Bionicle--not the laughing stock of everyone here, myself included.
Well part of the reason I mentioned liking it as a kid, is I had several Galidor figures. Nick Bluetooth Deluxe, Alegra, Jens, Euripedes, and Gorm. I never got Nepol in any of his set forms.
As previously mentioned, they are actually solidly built action figures. But they are terrible Lego products. Even in 2002 the 'Slizer-Bionicle' system had enough robust parts to build MOCs from (not to mention Bionicle had awesome collectibles like the Masks). No matter what you did with Galidor though, it looked almost Lovecraftian, misplaced limbs growing out of a foreign body.
The Galidor ratchets survived though and eventually got adapted for mechs and dragons in Lego System sets... Alpha Team even had a few Galidor style pieces of it's own such as arms on one of their submarine sets. So its not like Galidor's influence ever vanished.
Disgusting :D
It looks like the person-thing is part of the robot dog. Barf.
@Brainslugged said:
"What am I looking at? Is that a guy shagging an emu?"
That was my first thought as well, but since I reckoned that would conflict with Lego's brand values closer inspection was required. I think he is just using the thing as a means of transport, sitting on the aft part of the animal's back.
Wat.
Am I allowed to say "man-train"? Because that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the image. Yuck.
;-)
All the people commenting here are probably ignorant about the fact that in the last few years, Galidor has started to gather a massive cult following. It's already quite a popular theme among the Bionicle MOCing community, which at this point, uses Galidor Parts in MOCs quite frequently.
Galidor was homaged in 70620 Ninjago City. Speaking of incredible 5,000 piece sets like Ninjago City, with oil hitting $20 per barrel, there's a good chance plastic will be cheap enough that we'll see something that amazingly large again soon....even if it's not Ninjago themed.
@LegoDavid said:
"All the people commenting here are probably ignorant about the fact that in the last few years, Galidor has started to gather a massive cult following. It's already quite a popular theme among the Bionicle MOCing community, which at this point, uses Galidor Parts in MOCs quite frequently.
"
I actually have a vague memory of one of Lego's set designers is un-ironically a Galidor fan and collects a lot of the sets... not sure where that came from but I remember hearing it somewhere.
I love Galidor.
@xboxtravis7992 said:
"I actually have a vague memory of one of Lego's set designers is un-ironically a Galidor fan and collects a lot of the sets... not sure where that came from but I remember hearing it somewhere"
Yes, that is true. The designer's name is Nick Vas.
Out of all the Galidor sets, Nepol was my favorite. I don't know what it is about him, but he actually looks cute in a way and not like some Lovecractian horror like the others.
Ooni's also kinda cool. Might be fun to system moc 'im some day.
@LegoDavid said:
"All the people commenting here are probably ignorant about the fact that in the last few years, Galidor has started to gather a massive cult following. It's already quite a popular theme among the Bionicle MOCing community, which at this point, uses Galidor Parts in MOCs quite frequently.
"
And because it’s getting the cult treatment the theme should be good? I think it’s the other way around. Because it is a weird theme with weird pieces it is a challenge to reuse parts in MOCs
Someone needs to reboot Huwbot!
@Brickodillo
If you can actually use the pieces, then you gotta be good at building.
And the galidor cult is near and dear to my heart, as a disciple of Nick Bluetooth. My brick badge when I go to cons literally has Galidor on it.
Slow news day huh
How are there so many comments for this post?
^Just wait for a Clikits/Jack Stone set and see.....
Yeah. The bad sets tend to get the most comments.