BrickLore Timeline – Every LEGO Theme in Chronological Order

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1. This is amazing! You even took the time to put captions on every second of this video, and you took so much care into crafting this timeline. Truly fantastic work.

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2. Great work!

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3. This is…wow.

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4. This is fantastic on so many levels. Being a LEGO nerd is the best!!

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5. Great Video & im sad it took me so long to find this. Gonna add some corrections/info.

   The Clutch in the Movie & in the Ninjago series are different characters (this was confirmed by Ninjago co-creator Tommy Andreasen), so it would be wise to think of Ninjago as its own thing, kinda like Bionicle, that this video sadly does not talk about, but i get why. My headcanon is that Bionicle takes place on a distant planet, the main timeline have not found/encountered yet.

   I would place the Clutch Power movie in the "Brickster Universe", because the Bricksters appearance in LEGO City A Clutch Powers 4-D Adventure.
   This universe clearly operates on different rules from the videos main timeline, since Castle (07) is shown to happen on a different planet & the Island game trilogy shows different themes having their own Islands for example Knights' Kingdom 1. This clearly is an different universe.
   The characters from Island do still exist in the main universe, in their forms from the Island Xtreme Stunts theme.

   Exo-Force lacks any info, sadly, so my headcanon is that it takes place in the Ninjago world, based on the small references.

   1 thing to mention is that in Hero Factory, Earth is mentioned to exists in the Hero Factory FM Radio & the heroes are send to help there. My guess is that Hero Factory takes place sometime in the space era (2079 – post 4060s).

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6. I've loved all your video's I wish I had seen this sooner, your video's are so good!

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7. Amazing work! Form Castle to City to Space with several themes in between. I never thought of Chief being a Power Miner or the Arctic asteroids being from Krysto, but it makes sense! I'm a little dissapointed you didn't mention the Time Cruisers comic that had Aquazone on the same planet as Insectoids though. The Space connection is there!

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8. A few timeline updates since this video was made:
   -The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks book provided some additional insight into the placement of some of these themes:
   –The World City subtheme was conceived of as a look ahead ten years or more into the future as of its release, so its setting is probably 2013-2014 or later. This has a knock-on effect that pushes several spy-related themes into the near future of when they were originally released. This is probably for the best given that Ultra Agents is set in the future anyway. The November-December 2004 LEGO Magazine crossover comic placed Alpha Team: Mission Deep Freeze during the same time period as World City. The Spy minifigure biography indicated that the Agents theme took place after Mission Deep Freeze, so that theme would be moved forward as well. I don't think this necessitates moving the other Alpha Team themes forward in time, but it's an option.
   –The inspiration for the space factions from 1987 forward was that they were the natural outgrowth of the civilization established by the Classic Space exploration missions. Not inconsistent with this timeline, but a very interesting story point.
   -The implied encounter between the new redesigned Galaxy Explorer and Blacktron Cruiser sets suggests that the original Blacktron faction is older than its Futuron counterpart.
   -As @J4R0D suggests, given the lack of time travel between the Insectoids and Aquazone storylines in the Klick Magazine Time Cruiser comics, the 1998 Hydronauts and Stingray themes probably takes place later (~4060s on this timeline) than the original 1996-1997 Aquazone themes (~4000s).
   -The LEGOLAND Windsor attraction Pirate Falls Treasure Quest gives the Pirates theme yet another date: 1697. (One of the character names, Blackheart, matches that of pirate cousins active 50-60 years before the Pirates: The Golden Medallion comic, so this may not be an issue.)
   -I'm a little more on the fence about whether or not the 2015 Pirates theme is actually a prequel to the 1989 theme after the new edition of the LEGO Book indicated one of the characters may not be the same, and a transitionary Redbeard with the 2015 head and 2020 body appeared in LEGO Stores. Still prefer that interpretation, but it's less likely than when I started the channel.
   -2025 consistently appeared after all of the UK set names for Time Cruisers, so this may be an alternate date for that theme. Still looking for hard evidence that this was the intent.
   -Robots with the same design as the Time Cruisers robot appeared in the City of Lanterns Monkee Kid set, so if that theme does indeed take place in the main LEGO world, it's probably around the same time as Time Cruisers. Possibly a few decades before, since the robot was said to be Dr. Cyber's earliest inventions.

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9. 2001: Bionicle. The theme the sabed the Lego company financially from bankrupcy. And even to this day it is being referenced in several themes. Even got its latest GWP set now.

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10. As a kid in the 90s, I remember thinking that perhaps there could be a big common universe where certain themes. I sort of had my own idea for a timeline and I really like how you made it into a grand timeline.

    I had the mentality that Magic existed in the Lego Universe and that Magic came from special objects that allowed people do certain things (such as conjure and control a dragon) It was discovered by Majisto who created a clan of mostly Dungeon Masters. In the castle timeline, more people keep messing around with magic, mainly the Fright Knights and this creates a societal collapse. When we played as kids, we also assumed that the castle era came after some sort of collapse.

    Magic was not rediscovered until the space era, however they had a more scientific approach and were using it to power their ships and bases. The Aquazone predated the Classic space and were looking for magical crystals at the bottom of the Ocean.

    A lot of the themes you mentioned all came after my time, but they sort of involve crystals being powerful and groups fighting over them. The Monster Fighters and Atlantis (which sort of goes with my idea of an ancient world before castle that collapsed)

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