Welcome back to the Outer Dimension, LEGO fans! Today we are looking at perhaps the rarest item in my collection: “Evil Nick”, aka “Kek Nick”.
Photography and other resources used in this video: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MZXa-KZwYg6CZcnFo705R-ObsCpvTjSd?usp=sharing
A huge thank you to Matthew Ewald for sharing his insights and stories of Evil Nick with me; without him, this video would have been vapid.
Updated logo design in video & thumbnail by Bailey Fullarton
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bfbricks/44608314111
Other links:
Lots of great historical coverage on Mask of Destiny:
https://www.maskofdestiny.com/news/financial-news
Rayque’s Blog has some great information on the Mokarr:
https://rayque.blogspot.com/2020/11/lego-mokarrs-head.html
There is some interesting Galidor lore compiled on The Gates of Galidor:
https://galidorinfohub.tumblr.com/
Mister Julius has some great Galidor stuff on his blog:
https://mister-julius.tumblr.com/post/160915675401/the-odd-aquart
As always, you can join the discussion on the Manic Miners Discord: https://discord.gg/na3rQmv
And for Rock Raiders United: https://rockraidersunited.com/discord/invite/general/
Original artwork by Brett Halland.
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Slugger really making history.
Galidor is on my list of themes I didn’t care much about before seeing your videos – but now I just find the history and mystery fascinating
I vote for the R.R.Slugger LEGO Museum.
Also thank you for explaining why I felt like I saw an unreleased figure before. Thought I was going crazy for a minute.
omg i LOVE that galidor logo in the corner like the old box designs.
It's incredibly interesting seeing actual documentation of prototype pieces, even if I don't care much for Galidor specifically. It makes me wish for someone to show off other prototype molds, like the Sea-tron alien minifigure and 90s Sea serpent dragon
Interesting! I never thought we would ever see new prototype parts from Galidor resurface like this!
I have zero connection to Galidor but the way Mathew is still to this day so passionate about it makes me appreciate the theme so much!
I like the weird blue eye thing
Here you go making me care for a line I didn’t even care for as a kid!
This was probably the lowest point of Lego.
that chest kinda remins me of the UFO and Insectoids minifigs, wonder if they shared the same crazy alien ideas with Galidor
Wow, that's amazing!
I feel like a fool for not catching that picture before; I guess I'm not up-to-date on my Galidor history.
That's so, so cool! I wonder what the feasibility is of making some reverse molds from the pieces, so that other fans can have some as well, or perhaps a 3D scan for printers or something.
Obviously, though, in small text somewhere, it would say "Recreation" or something, or have a detail changed so that people can't pretend it's a prototype part.
I've never really engaged with prototype parts before, so that's really cool! Seeing development history is always very fascinating to me, so it's great to see it here!
The way I see it, though, you ought to keep the part; at least, for a while. I follow Thomas the Tank Engine, which was originally filmed with models of everything. They're since switched to CGI, but the models are still floating around, and it's well-noted that, where most of them ended up (a theme park in the UK), they are mistreated and often broken. However, numerous other things have been collected and are held in safekeeping by fans.
You having that part is similar; it ensures it's in public, where it won't be broken, damaged, or lost, and preserves a piece of history in hands that can conceive how to take care of it.
Of course, it's your part now, so you can do what you want; I just figured I would offer my two cents!
I've really come around on Galidor, I'm starting to think about checking it out someday, perhaps. So good job!
Thanks for this video, I love showcases of development things! Can't wait for the next one!
Its really shame Galidor is almosta lost media at this point.
Kek Moment
bro looking like a Yu-Gi-Oh villain
I lost my shit so hard when you said 3 Kek related things in a short burst at 1:50. Or you could say, I kekked.
wow oh wow!! I never knew this existed! this is such a wealth of information that I'm glad you were able to document and photograph!!
I'm not a Gallidor Fan, having never owned any of the sets or even recall seeing them back then anywhere in catalogs or stores (were these even released in Europe?). But I have to give it to them, they are not bad toys like many Lego fans seem to think they are.
Lucky.
Also, if your interested, there is a Lego mini figure torso with Galidor printed on it, as well as a trans-neon-orange glass pane with a Galidor movie poster on it. Both of these can be found in the original Ninjago City set.
Have fun!
That’s pretty neat. Now there’s something else I didn’t know I wanted – lol! I can’t look in his store for fear I might buy something
Galidor was never my thing, but I know an R.R. Slugger video is gonna be good, so I watch anyway! Definitely cool to get your hands on such a rare item!
So that's where those pieces went off to! Thanks for showing him off for us, love the design of that armor
It's so cool to see that Matthew not only still cherishes their experience being a part of a small Lego spin-off, but has become an arbiter of Galidor lore gladly sharing their knowledge and memories with fans. What a rad dude.
What did he think when you showed him the prototype?
Heya, apologies if this isn't the right spot for questions. Do you know if there's a problem going on with the Discord links in the description? I get a message saying there's no text channels when I click them and open them up on Discord.
This figure shows galador had potential, like I already set its my least favourite theme (I really don't like 5 of the 10 sets and no have no nostalgia at all), but seeing this armour piece makes me wonder what cool things we could have gotten. And the head is such a step up from the other humans, one eye being cartoony and the other just not existing makes the head so much less uncanny, and makes me wonder again if they would have found other cool ways of obscuring the faces and there "fix" One of my two issues with the human figures
This is a really cool discovery, I wonder if the alternate paint @ 0:58 was the final decision by the designer…
I have 5 LEGO Galidor figures that my grandfather got for me years ago.
They should’ve called him Tech Nick and made him use Technic pieces for weapons
Wow! What a great thing to have in the collection!
I own all the sets, including Tager and Aquart
galidor would have been such a powerhouse if it had been done by any other company. they weren't bad toys, but people expect a lot more freedom from lego than what galidor offered.
Wait, are these like superhero mashers before superhero mashers?!
This is incredible thanks so much for documenting something so obscure! <3
I assume if there is a “Kek” Nick, then there’s probably a Cringe Nick
Okay, I confess. I didn’t know about galidor, only recently I saw 2 pictures of galidor, a photo with something like a babyface from toy story, and a nick bluetooth with wing-arms. I laughed from cringe. But if THIS was released, I would definitely buy it, no matter what I saw from galidor earlier. For me, this figure is better than any bionicle, even when I'm not such a fan of bionicle
Reminds me heavily of the Cyborg technic figures from Cyberslam, especially with the black and purple colorscheme. What an awesome score!
we can use the bricks with the joints they use to make 2 crosses and then we can through beans at him
How much did it cost? Great vids btw
I wish that show got it's third season, and the Evil Nick idea just makes me mad at LEGO more for not taking that risk.