So for a year now I've been interested in a supposed animated series based on the old Lego theme known as "Adventurers". I came across this on a thread on BZPower asking about the series. Next to no evidence of it's existence remains. The only evidence for it was an ad in a UK Lego magazine from 1998 which advertised the series. According to the ad it first aired on cartoon network (presumably UK) on March 23rd of that year. There are no screenshots or videos of it anywhere. As well as that others have claimed to have searched Lego fansites with no success. On the thread someone did come forward claiming to have seen it and gave a description. However there is no way to verify this. I've checked trademarks and old scans but still nothing that mentions the TV series other then that ad. I was wondering if anyone could help me dig this thing up. Assuming it was ever aired or even existed.
I know there are animated series based on Lego sets, such as Ninjago, Nexo Knights and the ill-fated Legend of Chima, as well as a few animated movies, but I don't recall this one at all.
There is the Adventures of Clutch Powers movie, but that came out in 2010, years after the "Adventures" set you mentioned was discontinued.
I know there are animated series based on Lego sets, such as Ninjago, Nexo Knights and the ill-fated Legend of Chima, as well as a few animated movies, but I don't recall this one at all.
There is the Adventures of Clutch Powers movie, but that came out in 2010, years after the "Adventures" set you mentioned was discontinued
It looks to be from the 90' judging from the artwork.
I doubt the cartoon itself looks like lego though. Many cartoons that are based off toys use the design but not the not the actual style as the original.
I know there are animated series based on Lego sets, such as Ninjago, Nexo Knights and the ill-fated Legend of Chima, as well as a few animated movies, but I don't recall this one at all.
There is the Adventures of Clutch Powers movie, but that came out in 2010, years after the "Adventures" set you mentioned was discontinued.
Yeah before that the most well-known Lego animated effort would be the bionicle movies. But in 2006 and 2009 there were so called "TV series" for the themes Exo-force and power miners. You can find these online. They boil down to nothing but over-glorified 1 minute commercials. Both of these consisted of four 1-minute episodes which gave some brief explanation of the world and characters. Here's the first "episode" of the Exo-force series:
Not too interesting but I just find it amazing that this series disappeared off the face of the Earth. From the testimony given it sounds like it was very similar to the above mentioned ads. Where they were these cheap 1-minute animations. Except given the description of the animation sounds like it was even cheaper. According to the testimony they don't remember how it was animated but that "I know it wasn't a 'cartoon'. In my head, the story was told using a montage of still images of the Adventurers sets, with voice acting over the top. However, there might have been a bit of camera movement like in this commercial, I'm really not sure". This seems to suggest that it may have been some form of stop motion. This actually would fit their TV efforts prior with their first TV series "fabuland". Based on the toy line for younger kids. If the episodes were one minute in length then that means we're looking for 9 minutes worth of animation. If the series was as cheap as it sounds I wonder if Lego made it internally. It would make sense seeing as they nearly went bankrupt around this time.
That does seem to match the description quite well. However I still couldn't imagine CN airing something that cheap. IDK. I'll email Lego directly and see if they can tell me anything about it.
Hold the phone. I'm not too comfortable with all the information they're asking from me (such as address and zip code). If anyone else is willing to give those out could they possibly contact Lego about it?
That does seem to match the description quite well. However I still couldn't imagine CN airing something that cheap. IDK. I'll email Lego directly and see if they can tell me anything about it.
Considering that it was a one/two minute segment in between shows, I would probably assume it was a paid advertisement disguised as a show, basically they pay whatever CN wants, and they put on whatever lego wants. But the main thing is it must have been popular enough to warrant a compilation episode (well, if that post on the message board was true). And considering a show like "Action Legaue Now!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GihnbWsv_1U) lasted longer, shows that these sort of shows are apericated.
So I now believe that the show was a series of shorts considering that the magazine says that the episodes would air Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and an Omnibus on Sunday. The definition for omnibus is a volume containing several novels or other items previously published separately, so basically all the previously aired shorts fused together.
That does seem to match the description quite well. However I still couldn't imagine CN airing something that cheap. IDK. I'll email Lego directly and see if they can tell me anything about it.
Considering that it was a one/two minute segment in between shows, I would probably assume it was a paid advertisement disguised as a show, basically they pay whatever CN wants, and they put on whatever lego wants. But the main thing is it must have been popular enough to warrant a compilation episode (well, if that post on the message board was true). And considering a show like "Action Legaue Now!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GihnbWsv_1U) lasted longer, shows that these sort of shows are apericated.
Then that really begs the question of why did it go missing and why does no one seem to know about it? Maybe it was because it aired only in the UK but there'd still be more then one person who remembers this.
So I now believe that the show was a series of shorts considering that the magazine says that the episodes would air Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and an Omnibus on Sunday. The definition for omnibus is a volume containing several novels or other items previously published separately, so basically all the previously aired shorts fused together.
This is where the information just stops. And there is no way of finding this unless we contact someone involved in production. Again Lego might be a good seeing as this may have been created internally.
I remember watching something around 6-7 years back with Lego Adventures in the title, I'm pretty sure there was something after that in the title. There were these skeleton guys trying to kill this team of 4 lego figures. At one point near the end theres some magical security camera and the main character spells "LEGO" in bones while locked in a cage. Then the rest say "LEGO... build on top of each other. That's it!" yada yada I don't remember to much only seeing it once on a portable TV
I remember watching something around 6-7 years back with Lego Adventures in the title, I'm pretty sure there was something after that in the title. There were these skeleton guys trying to kill this team of 4 lego figures. At one point near the end theres some magical security camera and the main character spells "LEGO" in bones while locked in a cage. Then the rest say "LEGO... build on top of each other. That's it!" yada yada I don't remember to much only seeing it once on a portable TV
I appreciate your attempt to help but I'm afraid that's not it. What you're referring to is a film called "Lego: The adventures of Clutch Powers". This is a film released in 2010. It's fairly easy to find on DVD (not really worth unless you're a kid or a really hardcore Lego fan). The series I'm referring to was released in 1998 and was a 9 episode series consisting of (at least according to a testimony) 1-minute shorts that could be combined into like a ten minute story. As you can tell it's incredibly obscure and there's next to no concrete information on it (or really any confirmation it even aired).
I remember watching something around 6-7 years back with Lego Adventures in the title, I'm pretty sure there was something after that in the title. There were these skeleton guys trying to kill this team of 4 lego figures. At one point near the end theres some magical security camera and the main character spells "LEGO" in bones while locked in a cage. Then the rest say "LEGO... build on top of each other. That's it!" yada yada I don't remember to much only seeing it once on a portable TV
I appreciate your attempt to help but I'm afraid that's not it. What you're referring to is a film called "Lego: The adventures of Clutch Powers". This is a film released in 2010. It's fairly easy to find on DVD (not really worth unless you're a kid or a really hardcore Lego fan). The series I'm referring to was released in 1998 and was a 9 episode series consisting of (at least according to a testimony) 1-minute shorts that could be combined into like a ten minute story. As you can tell it's incredibly obscure and there's next to no concrete information on it (or really any confirmation it even aired).
Darn, sorry. That's before my time goodluck to ya.
So has anyone emailed Lego about this? I'm really not comfortable with having my zipcode anywhere on the internet. Ugh I remember they didn't used to ask you for that.