Random set of the day: Nick Bluetooth Deluxe
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 8313 Nick Bluetooth Deluxe, released during 2002. It's one of 20 Galidor sets produced that year. It contains 15 pieces, and its retail price was US$15/£9.99.
It's owned by 287 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $36.50, or eBay.
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Arghh! one of the worst sets from the worst theme ever!! try to change my mind!
Sally Wi-Fi was a better character
They would team up to stop Sam Dialup and the Dastardly DSL's
On the same day Huwbot gives us back the RPotD, he gives us this.
Straight from the alternate reality in which Johnathan Taylor Thomas plays Inspector Gadget.
Proof that mini-dolls aren't the worst things that Lego has ever produced!
Oh, brother .....
@iwybs said:
"Oh, brother ....."
Where art thou?
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Arghh! one of the worst sets from the worst theme ever!! try to change my mind!"
Dude, this is Nick Bluetooth Deluxe, one of the greatest toys ever made let alone Lego sets. He can connect all your devices seamlessly with Nick's Deluxe Bluetooth. His possibility, promise, and integrity have inspired generations. And he can fly across the room to shoot you in the face.
Overall, if you don't own a Nick Bluetooth Deluxe, all the other stuff you own should be destroyed. This is a PSA.
Wow. So glad this was my dark ages. What an awful whole lineup.
Do any of the Galidor sets have electronics integrated into them? If not, having bluetooth seems kind of redundant.
Gladidor… Almost as bad as Hero Factory Invasion from Below. Still wish Lego was still doing CCBs and technic based Bionicle and Hero Factory Brain Attack/Savage Planet like themes.
Would Galidor be considered a great theme and not a flop if it was any other toy company making it?
This is genuinely horrifying... this child's arms have been taken off and replaced with wings. How is he meant to live? He also appears to be in the vacuum of space without any protection... Can someone give me the lowdown on the Galidor lore, because I'm quite concerned.
Incredible.
@legodachi said:
"Sally Wi-Fi was a better character
They would team up to stop Sam Dialup and the Dastardly DSL's"
What about good old Ebenezer Telegraph? or Pontius Semaphorius?
@Bri3k_b01 said:
"Would Galidor be considered a great theme and not a flop if it was any other toy company making it?"
Easily. Better articulation and character likeness is something anyone could have done better.
I had Gorm growing up, and added Allegra at MSRP a couple years ago.
I threw a spare pair of GI Joe pants on Allegra because her hip joints are an eyesore. At least they were easy to get on as the legs are designed to detach. What I like the least is the awful hands and lack of elbow articulation.
Galidor is a bizarre, nightmare-fuel mashup of Mego’s Micronauts Aliens, Kenner’s Centurians, Mattel’s Masters of the Universe Modulok and Multi-Bot, Ruby-Spears‘ Turbo-Teen cartoon, and Knight Rider’s Bonnie Barstow.
What were they thinking?
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Arghh! one of the worst sets from the worst theme ever!! try to change my mind!"
3263 accepts your challenge.
No.
@MutoidMan said:
"Galidor is a bizarre, nightmare-fuel mashup of Mego’s Micronauts Aliens, Kenner’s Centurians, Mattel’s Masters of the Universe Modulok and Multi-Bot, Ruby-Spears‘ Turbo-Teen cartoon, and Knight Rider’s Bonnie Barstow.
What were they thinking? "
Lego realized that kids in the late 90s early 2000s liked action figures and Lego wanted to make their own so they could see their product across multiple sections in stores because they were nearing bankruptcy. It was a great idea on Lego’s behalf but it was very poorly executed like Hero Factory Invasion from Below.
He's a 'set'...he's a "mini"figure...he's two tastes that go lousy together...:) (That's not fair: I've got polybags and such that say otherwise...)
Tried watching this 'back in the day'...wow, how fair Lego's come: Ninjago's a juggernaut for broadcasting, Lego City Adventures is still going, DreamZzz is coming along...haven't watched any Monkie Kid (doesn't seem to broadcast in my area) nor Friends (but in fairness, still going w/a new cast, not many shows pull that off)...
@brick_r said:
"He's a 'set'...he's a "mini"figure...he's two tastes that go lousy together...:) (That's not fair: I've got polybags and such that say otherwise...)
Tried watching this 'back in the day'...wow, how fair Lego's come: Ninjago's a juggernaut for broadcasting, Lego City Adventures is still going, DreamZzz is coming along...haven't watched any Monkie Kid (doesn't seem to broadcast in my area) nor Friends (but in fairness, still going w/a new cast, not many shows pull that off)..."
Bionicle and Hero Factory was both a set and a figure. The idea for Galidor was honestly good however since Lego was experimenting with different designs for the ever growing action figure line in the 90s and 2000s they didn’t know how to execute it and that’s why it failed.
From 897 yesterday to today. That's some whiplash, Huwbot.
You might think that Nick Bluetooth Deluxe is better than plain ol’ 8310 Nick Bluetooth. But you would be wrong. You see, Nick Deluxe has 15 pieces of Galidor, whereas Plain Nick has 12. Less Galidor is better, so Deluxe Nick is the loser. The best Nick of all is 4040, which has only three pieces of Galidor to contaminate your collection.
Cursed, lol
How tall are these figures. …I really think they have some charm.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"Arghh! one of the worst sets from the worst theme ever!! try to change my mind!"
You are aware of the Galidor McDonald's sets?
Nick bluetooth device? Well, if you say so.
@Bri3k_b01 said:
"Would Galidor be considered a great theme and not a flop if it was any other toy company making it?"
No.
Compared to yesterdays RSOTD, this is a major let down.
Given that Galidor began development in 2000, while the electronics standard "Bluetooth" didn't see major commercial adoption until around 2001, it's very plausible that Nick Bluetooth was named instead after Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark, in reference to Lego's Danish origins. The technology Bluetooth was named after the same Harald Bluetooth, as it happens.
@TheCodFather said:
"This is genuinely horrifying... this child's arms have been taken off and replaced with wings. How is he meant to live? He also appears to be in the vacuum of space without any protection... Can someone give me the lowdown on the Galidor lore, because I'm quite concerned."
Okay, so from what I remember there was this other dimension (or possibly other galaxy) where the people living in it could 'glinch' with each other; a strange ability where you could touch each other to swap body parts. This dimension has also been largely taken over by a ruthless dude named Gorm and is in need of saving. Enter Nick Bluetooth (surname chosen I assume because of Lego's Danish connection) who is actually from our dimension but whose dad got dragged into the other one and became important there for some reason I have forgotten. Nick finds himself dragged there too by a band of his dad's old friends and discovers that while there he has the ability to glinch -without- the need of another person. While everyone else has to directly swap with someone else Nick can just summon different body parts for himself out of nowhere. All this is a slightly long-winded way of explaining that no-one's forced those wings on him in the picture, he's done that to himself and can undo it whenever he pleases
Ah, that perfect $1-per-piece price ratio
@TheOtherMike said:
"On the same day Huwbot gives us back the RPotD, he gives us this."
We’ll he did shaft us with the RPotD so he thought he’d do the double (apologies in advance if Huwbot isn’t actually a he)
I'm.... not familiar with the type of thing I'm seeing, here.
I never really understood the hate for Galidor, especially from people who have never actually played with them. I bought a job lot of figures when my kids were young and they had loads of use out of them. And as the kids got older, they started to built mechanical limbs and heads out of system parts.
The hands were a bit weird given the other detail but apart from that, they are not bad at all for making action figures.
Not gonna lie, if I see that at a collectables fair, it's coming home with me. It's just so endearingly dopey.
@AllenSmith said: "The best Nick of all is 4040, which has only three pieces of Galidor to contaminate your collection"
But what contamination they make! That's Chernobyl Nick, complete with pieces of reactor embedded in his skull, a badly mutated arm and a severe case of elephant's foot. If you scratch him the right place, you should still be able to smell the cesium-137.
@TheCodFather said:
"This is genuinely horrifying... this child's arms have been taken off and replaced with wings. How is he meant to live? He also appears to be in the vacuum of space without any protection... Can someone give me the lowdown on the Galidor lore, because I'm quite concerned."
They haven't been taken off. The storyline is that in the Outer Dimension, Nick has shape-shifting abilities and can transform his limbs into mechanical objects.
Let's stay positive: at least Bluetooth held up longer than other more recent electronic experiments by TLG. This one will work forever, if that's a good thing.
F%$k this!!
I don't have to tip-toe around this one (it's not Bomc).
To the Clouds I hereby Proclaim for Evermore: THIS IS NOT LEGO!!!
@TheOtherMike said:
"On the same day Huwbot gives us back the RPotD, he gives us this."
Huwbot giveth, and Howbot taketh away. Thou shalt not question the ways of Huwbot.
Galidor is truly frightful, but can someone explain to me the hate for the Hero Factory Invasion for Below line? Those minifigure versions of the Hero Factory construction figures were pretty cool, gave us some great body armour, helmets, and useful droid arms and legs. The ubiquitous mechs were not too bad, and overall as a play set there was quite a bit of value there. It was nice to change the scale of things to allow the play to seem "grander" with relatively bigger enemies and vehicles etc.
Also, on the topic of ubiquitous mechs, how long before we see one in the Friends line???
@lost_scotsman said:
"Galidor is truly frightful, but can someone explain to me the hate for the Hero Factory Invasion for Below line? Those minifigure versions of the Hero Factory construction figures were pretty cool, gave us some great body armour, helmets, and useful droid arms and legs. The ubiquitous mechs were not too bad, and overall as a play set there was quite a bit of value there. It was nice to change the scale of things to allow the play to seem "grander" with relatively bigger enemies and vehicles etc.
Also, on the topic of ubiquitous mechs, how long before we see one in the Friends line???"
I couldn't find it on the Spot, but they already came close with a big brickbuilt Version of one of olivia's bots akin to the big R2 and BD-1, although I don't think it had a cockpit
Easily the worst random set of the day we got. Even 3220 “My Dad” was better (look at the name of the set in rsotd article https://brickset.com/article/57248 )
One good thing did come out of Galidor: It pioneered the ratcheting joint system, which would go on to power most of Exo-Force, and is still in use today (e.g. 71454).
So I have seen the Galidor show and I have to say, it is one of the shows of all time. Most of the time I was moving at 1.5x speed or faster. The character design for the main cast was pretty cool though, just wasn't as engaging as a show as it could have been. The show also kind of had an actual conclusion to it, no cliffhanger, just that new adventures were to be had off screen, which is impressive considering everything going against it, so I'll congratulate it on that.
@TheOtherMike said:
"On the same day Huwbot gives us back the RPotD, he gives us this."
Praise Huwbot! I'm confident he'll continue blessing us once all Clikits are posted! Praise!
:skull emoji:
One of the two Galidor figures I own, that being this set (8313) and Gorm Deluxe 8314. This one was a gift, the other I picked up in a clothing store for one euro back in the day. I kept them as a reminder of how lego had strayed back then.
In fairness, these are not nearly as bad as people make them out to be. Sure, they're about as specialized as they get. And compared to the ball-and-socket constraction themes like Slizer and Bionicle these are not nearly as 'buildable'.
But that wasn't the point. For better or worse, these are action figures first. And the parts themselves are actually of pretty good quality. The moulds are as detailed and shiny as any other lego part, just huge. As stated before, the ratched ball joint system debuted for this theme. As a result these are still compatible with this year's 71453.
Even the building could work with sets like 8318.
BUT, from first-hand experience I can say that these aren't great either. With the two figures I have it's hard to make much else. You need to be particularly creative to get something different out of these parts (although that hasn't stopped some people who use these parts in incredible ways).
The theme flopped for a reason. Beyond the brand stretching too much from what most people associate with Lego it's also because Lego thought this would be the next Bionicle and put all their cards on this theme. Lego was financially failing because of follies like this. And as it turned out the marketing didn't work. And putting all your eggs in one basket isn't just dumb, it can be catastrophic.
This is from the SAME Lego that produces all the stuff we get now. That same company almost went under because of themes like this. And to drive the point home, it's even still compatible!
There's no need to beat a dead horse that died on arrival 21 years ago, right?
If we're going to argue whether it's 'lego' enough I'll just say that ONLY 2x4 bricks are REAL lego. The rest are too specialized and stray TOO FAR from what lego is all about. That is an objective fact and anyone who disagrees hasn't lived through the late 40s and early 50s.
So please don't.
@Miyakan said:
"Do any of the Galidor sets have electronics integrated into them? If not, having bluetooth seems kind of redundant."
That would be set 8316 KEK Powerizer. It responded to the type of head placed in the 'suit' and you could play 'missions' and 'games' on the torso. I've never owned one so I can't speak of their quality, but remember that handheld consoles from this era were the Gameboy and the like, so it wasn't exactly high-fidelity stuff in that relatively small figure.
This is why Lego had issues in the early 2000's.
Now THIS is an avengers level threat.
Galidor is honestly kinda over-hated, its actually pretty fun.
I have this, weird human parts aside it's not bad. Wings are pretty useful, but overall it's not the most Gormtacular set.
Wow, so many comments since I posted, and it hasn't even been up for twelve hours! One even posted before I finished writing this. Wonder if it will approach the 179 comments that 3220 got when it was RSotD...
@Bri3k_b01 said:
"Would Galidor be considered a great theme and not a flop if it was any other toy company making it?"
That would probably depend on which company. A company experienced with action figures and their associated shows (my understanding is that even some of the folks at Lego were embarrassed by the show) might have been able to make a go of it, although they'd still have had an uphill battle, from my understanding of the action figure market. A company trying to do what Lego did and branch out into an established market they had no experience in might well have crashed and burned, too.
@namekuji: Hey, at least 3263 was aimed at literal toddlers.
@lost_scotsman: My understanding is that the hate for Invasion from Below is because of the storyline, rather than anything to do with the sets themselves. See the comments in this RMotD article for more: https://brickset.com/article/99401/random-minifig-of-the-day-hf015
@Binnekamp: So now your entire Galidor collection has been RSotD.
@Binnekamp said:
"
The theme flopped for a reason. Beyond the brand stretching too much from what most people associate with Lego it's also because Lego thought this would be the next Bionicle and put all their cards on this theme. Lego was financially failing because of follies like this. And as it turned out the marketing didn't work. And putting all your eggs in one basket isn't just dumb, it can be catastrophic.
"
They didn't put all their cards on this theme, or put all their eggs in one basket. There were just 15 sets and 5 polybags. That was about 5% of their output in 2002. There were many other sets that year that had expensive single use parts, like spybotics, duplo intelligent trains, pretty much all of the explore toy range. And also still many system sets.
The second year I attended NYTF, they were launching Galidor. The first year, I had all of eight days warning when I was asked if I was planning to go, so I didn’t really manage to plan things out very well, so I kinda tried to make up for that the next year. On the day I arrived to get my showroom tour, I saw the Nick and Allegra actors walking back into the lobby (she wanted to know if the toy was going to be able to perform karate moves, since they spent all of two minutes establishing that as her backstory in the premiere before probably never having her perform another move the rest of the series). They were throwing a Galidor premiere party the following evening, so I attended that, and saw them again.
Apparently I’ve seen them both in subsequent roles (yes, they’re still acting), but neither had significant roles, and I certainly didn’t recognize them. I almost sprained my eyebrow, though, when I read Ewald’s bio on IMDb, where he describes the show as “highly popular” and an “international hit”.
So anyways, these Galidor figures. I got sent the entire first wave of basic figures, plus maybe the two Deluxe figs, with no warning. To this day, they’re all still sealed on card, in a box somewhere. I did try to watch the entire series, but I don’t remember if I managed to do so. What I remember was the sort of show that launches child-actor careers on Disney Channel, but with a more ambitious vision, and a less robust budget. I think the concept could have been a big success, if the show didn’t feel like someone just stretched out a typical toy commercial.
He's cool, I think the main thing that Galidor was missing was to have a small amount of technic or system parts to do these modifications to the characters. R.R slugger made the point that Dreamzzz and Galidor have some similarities (I mean 71458 is the same idea, colors, and placement as the canceled 8322) and that would be a large improvement for this figure.
If the wings were system, then they could become some kind of rifiles, maybe axes to defend with, or shoes to get through some unstable conditions. Another thing that did a concept similar to this well was Transformers in the last couple of years with "Weaponizers", basically a figure that comes apart into multiple pieces that can be attached to other figures to give them a firepower boost. A change like that could have gone a long way for Galidor... Still intresting designs though.
@Bri3k_b01 said:
"Would Galidor be considered a great theme and not a flop if it was any other toy company making it?"
no.
Bluetooth connection not included.
I am one of the 287 people brave enough here to own one.
I always gathered Galidor spurned from some of the same internal pitches in LEGO that lead to Bionicle/Slizers/Roboriders, etc. Faber's Cybots concept is the weird love child of Galidor and Bionicle, and while it seems that team stuck with Bionicle somebody at LEGO noticed and ran with Galidor. Combine that with the story I believe coming from an outside source from LEGO which they agreed to fund the TV show for in exchange for full rights over the franchise and you end up with the whole odd mess we famously got. It seems LEGO was all ready to go in on Galidor as being even bigger than Bionicle until the TV episodes started coming back and the show was... mediocre. If you haven't watched the show, you can probably find pirated clips on YouTube, it looks like a very strange Power Rangers thing with small sets and weird rubber suit guys. I watched some of it as a kid when it aired, and it had a wacky plot about another dimension and aliens, "glinching" and all that. Weird high concept sci-fi blended with pulp Saturday morning production values and you can see why LEGO thought it was a mess and pulled their chips so soon.
BUT... the figures are actually good quality (well other than the rubber rot, but that seems to be more prevalent in humid environments in dry environments the parts last longer). As somebody else has already postulated perhaps had any other toy company besides LEGO done them then they would have found an audience. They were the right toy in the wrong hand's, and maybe Mattel or Hasbro could have made it work (or perhaps had the TV show just been a bit more what LEGO was hoping to begin with)... or at least Galidor would have been seen as less of a flop had anybody but LEGO done it.
Oh also since the limb swapping was such a huge thing in the toys and the show, Galidor has some wild lore about "glinching." Nick Bluetooth was the "messiah" so to speak since he could "glinch" with anybody at will, no matter the distance from them and him, allowing him to use various robot limbs and alien limbs. The aliens that existed in the Outer Dimension could only glinch when in physical contact with each other, limiting their limb selection to the person nearest they could touch.
Also there was Alegra, Nick's friend and the token "girl character" of the show who was just a regular human. While her toy could "glinch" I remember it just being a thing in the show she couldn't since she was a plain old human. Poor Alegra drew the short straw in Galidor powers I guess. I'm not saying Bionicle was some super forward and progressive story, but when one considers the first Toa action most of us saw in that franchise was Gali beating the tar out of a Tarakava it does give the sense that the Bionicle team was at least making sure the few women in its story weren't relegated to sidekick status like Alegra was.
I believe the Kek Powerizer, the armored suit that LEGO made a really wacky electronic toy for allowed regular aliens to have Nick's more advanced glinching powers... which is odd since the toy doesn't really allow for limb swapping like the rest of the line. I might be remembering it wrong, but I vaguely recall that Gorm wanted the Kek Powerizer as some sort of tool to defeat Nick and his crew, take over the universe, blah blah blah.
@Miyakan said:
"Do any of the Galidor sets have electronics integrated into them? If not, having bluetooth seems kind of redundant."
Well, there is 8316 with a rather notable electronic function: if I remember correctly from r.r. slugger's Video, it could either connect with a galidor Video game or the Show itself, not sure...and I think you could also have two of them "fight" in some way, with a small dot matrix display showing stats
aw yeah
@Ideenvulkan said:
" @Miyakan said:
"Do any of the Galidor sets have electronics integrated into them? If not, having bluetooth seems kind of redundant."
Well, there is 8316 with a rather notable electronic function: if I remember correctly from r.r. slugger's Video, it could either connect with a galidor Video game or the Show itself, not sure...and I think you could also have two of them "fight" in some way, with a small dot matrix display showing stats"
Wait; they pulled from Mattel’s Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, too?
Wow.
@Ideenvulkan said:
[[Also, on the topic of ubiquitous mechs, how long before we see one in the Friends line???]]
I couldn't find it on the Spot, but they already came close with a big brickbuilt Version of one of olivia's bots akin to the big R2 and BD-1, although I don't think it had a cockpit]]
You're probably thinking about 41346 Friendship Box. I just checked my daughter's copy, and it is indeed possible to fit a minifigure inside of Zobo's chest compartment, although minidolls do not fit.
@Rob42 said:
"One good thing did come out of Galidor: It pioneered the ratcheting joint system, which would go on to power most of Exo-Force, and is still in use today (e.g. 71454)."
Technically this also appeared in a certain way in Alpha Team (Ogel's Shark Sub) and Bionicle (Bahrag, Exo-Toa) of the same year.
Maybe this system was even a little bit inspired by the ratcheting joints of 2001's Dinosaurs or the Rock Raiders Monster.
@Miyakan:
The Kek Powerizer did, and even recognized when you attached different Galidor components to it, but that doesn’t mean it involved Bluetooth tech. However, as @Aedificator points out, the Bluetooth standard was in fact named after a Viking king, which I _believe_ came up in the series premiere. Here’s a disturbing thought, though. If Galidor predates the Bluetooth standard, there’s a remote possibility that the standard was secretly named in honor of the Galidor character.
@CCC:
To really understand the hate, you have to go back to at least 1999. That’s when Star Wars launched as a LEGO theme, in the middle of the Ep1 merchandising blitz. Ep1 is notable for setting records for being the most successful (total sold) merchandising campaign up to that point, as well as the _least_ successful (most leftover unsold merch, including an entire warehouse full of nothing but Jar-Jar and Darth Maul neckties). Everyone expected the SW launch to be a success, and if they didn’t, Lucasfilm surely imposed contractual restrictions to prevent anyone from phoning in their production leading up to the Ep1 merch street date. Of course, the Star Wars theme riled up some older AFOLs simply because they didn’t like the idea of TLG expanding into licensed IP, especially when it was perceived to have started killing cherished original themes like Space.
And Throwbots and Roboriders also happened around this time, but weren’t really notable in terms of sales.
They did help get Bionicle greenlit, and probably helped convince the higher-ups that adding a cohesive story would be beneficial. And then Bionicle launched, and suddenly an internal IP with zero history was their next Star Wars. Except nobody expected it, and they had trouble keeping up with demand. They ended up having to construct a new production line so they could increase the production of Bionicle parts without impacting their ability to fill orders of other themes.
Bionicle wasn’t well-received, though. Where older AFOLs could simply ignore Throwbots and Roboriders, Bionicle was kind of omnipresent. Kids flocked to it, and then to any online forums associated with the brand name printed on the packaging, where they were promptly chased away by older fans who didn’t feel that Bionicle was “real LEGO”, and/or just didn’t like kids. But while Bionicle was hated, it was also successful. AFOLs could claim it wasn’t, but if you compared acreage devoted to different themes in the LEGO aisle, and paid attention to turnover rates, the stuff was very clearly selling like marshmallows at a campfire.
And it convinced TLG that they could have yet another massive hit. That hit was Galidor, and it punched them in the tenders. TLG secured the master license, meaning they paid an even higher fee so they could be in charge of all sub-licensing deals (there weren’t many). They designed action figures with a nearly unprecedented level of precision, resulting in very expensive product that looked like it was designed for preschoolers. As the launch date drew nearer, _someone_ became convinced it was going to be the most popular show ever, and had them ramp up production specifically so they wouldn’t be caught with insufficient product to meet demand as had happened with Bionicle in 2001.
And then the show came out. It wasn’t a hit (in spite of what the star of the show appears to think), the toys weren’t popular, and TLG took a Great Lakes-sized bath on the whole affair. Now, there were AFOLs who hated Star Wars because it was a licensed IP, there were AFOLs who hated Bionicle because they didn’t think it was “real LEGO” and falsely believed it was responsible for their two large annual losses, and Galidor just fed into both of those spheres and actually did lose them a lot of money.
This is the fourth random set from the line. Of the 20 sets listed under Galidor, 5 are McD promos and one was never released. So, for those that want mercy, it's still seems to be a long way away.
@CCC said:
"They didn't put all their cards on this theme, or put all their eggs in one basket. There were just 15 sets and 5 polybags. That was about 5% of their output in 2002."
On their end, the theme was quite a bit more than what actually made it to stores. There were other sets (and at least one game) that got cancelled before they went into production, plus they probably expected to start working on Season 2 sets at any moment. And that’s just in terms of set design output. On the factory side, they probably would have overproduced these sets by a significant margin if they’d kept to their original plan, but someone had to go and talk them into kicking production into overdrive, so it’s difficult to say what percentage of their total production output these fairly small theme represents. If they were banking on it to be a Bionicle-level success, I wouldn’t be surprised if Galidor was more like 10% of what rolled off the factory line.
@Miyakan said:
"Do any of the Galidor sets have electronics integrated into them? If not, having bluetooth seems kind of redundant."
Yes. The KEK Powerizer did. 8136
@Modeltrainman said:
" @Miyakan said:
"Do any of the Galidor sets have electronics integrated into them? If not, having bluetooth seems kind of redundant."
Yes. The KEK Powerizer did. 8136"
8316.
It's time for a Galidor minifigure. Maybe fit him in a ninjago set. Think they tossed clutch powers in a set.
@PurpleDave @CCC
The Galidor debacle, and Lego's near-death experience in general, is extensively documented in "Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry" by David Robertson. I highly recommend the book. It's a fascinating account, based on primary sources, of the scattershot thrashing that led to all these disparate product lines of varying quality. While the latter third or so is business-consultant fare, the first two thirds is a gold mine for anybody trying to understand what happened at Lego at the turn of the millennium. And yes, Galidor was a massive loss.
@Capybara554321 said:
"It's time for a Galidor minifigure. Maybe fit him in a ninjago set. Think they tossed clutch powers in a set. "
I don't recall seeing Clutch Powers included in a set, but it is possible to make him pretty much exactly as shown. The only sticky part is you'll need to hit the throat on the torso with a yellow Sharpie marker because the original Indiana Jones leather jacket torso shows flesh in the open collar.
@PurpleDave said:
" @Capybara554321 said:
"It's time for a Galidor minifigure. Maybe fit him in a ninjago set. Think they tossed clutch powers in a set. "
I don't recall seeing Clutch Powers included in a set…"
My son got him in 40342 : NINJAGO Minifigure Set. Clutch is also in 71741 : NINJAGO City Gardens.
Even Blacktron won't touch this.