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* OffModel:
** The artists of the promo comics and the disk tampographs evidently had trouble figuring out what their faces were supposed to look like, since in some panels, the Slizers are drawn correctly with toothy grins on the side of their head, whereas other panels interpret their flip-up "helmets" as their mouth and the motifs drawn on said helmets as eyes and noses. And on the disk images, Torch and Scuba had the pegs holding their helmets in place misinterpreted as their eyes. This wasn't helped by the fact that their heads barely look the part: Their "grins" are more akin to air-vents, there is no genuine mouth opening or even a line connecting the two "grins", and though they have eye-holes, none of the characters have actual eyes. In addition, some have a whole face complete with eyes and a mouth printed onto their helmet. Further confusing matters, the Ultrarex fusion used whole Slizer heads as upper and lower jaws.
** The Slizer planet has its regions placed incorrectly on Millennium's black disk.
** Blaster's black disk showed Spark with two weapon arms and no throwing arm.
** The artists of the promo comics and the disk tampographs evidently had trouble figuring out what their faces were supposed to look like, since in some panels, the Slizers are drawn correctly with toothy grins on the side of their head, whereas other panels interpret their flip-up "helmets" as their mouth and the motifs drawn on said helmets as eyes and noses. And on the disk images, Torch and Scuba had the pegs holding their helmets in place misinterpreted as their eyes. This wasn't helped by the fact that their heads barely look the part: Their "grins" are more akin to air-vents, there is no genuine mouth opening or even a line connecting the two "grins", and though they have eye-holes, none of the characters have actual eyes. In addition, some have a whole face complete with eyes and a mouth printed onto their helmet. Further confusing matters, the Ultrarex fusion used whole Slizer heads as upper and lower jaws.
** The Slizer planet has its regions placed incorrectly on Millennium's black disk.
** Blaster's black disk showed Spark with two weapon arms and no throwing arm.
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* AnIcePerson: Ski is a snow/ice-based character.
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* CityPlanet: Turbo lives on one in the American continuity.
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* AnIcePerson: Ski is a snow/ice-based character.
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* MegaCity: In the European continuity, Turbo lives on a city that covers one seventh of the planet Slizer.
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* AerithAndBob: There's a fan-created but official character named Mike.
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* AerithAndBob: There's a fan-created but official character named Mike.Hiker Mike, whose ordinary name seems like the odd one out compared to the likes of Torch, Ski, Turbo, etc.
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* BarrierWarrior: Granite
* BuiltWithLego: But not with the classic Bricks.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Although some, like the yellow Blaster or the red/black/gold Millennia, didn't fit into any pre-established elemental group.
* CombiningMecha: Four-four regular Slizers and the three mutants could combine into even larger robots.
* BuiltWithLego: But not with the classic Bricks.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Although some, like the yellow Blaster or the red/black/gold Millennia, didn't fit into any pre-established elemental group.
* CombiningMecha: Four-four regular Slizers and the three mutants could combine into even larger robots.
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* BuiltWithLego:
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%%* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Although some, like the yellow Blaster or the red/black/gold Millennia, didn't fit into any pre-established elemental group.
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* DeadlyDisc: The main gimmick of the toyline is that every Slizer/Throwbot is capable of throwing discs as weapons.
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* DropPod: The containers.
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* ElementalNation: Ocean, lava field, jungle, rocky desert, icy mountains, perpetual electric storm, polluted city, with the arena at the top of the planet.
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* ElementalNation: Ocean, The planet is divided into distinct regions including ocean, lava field, jungle, rocky desert, icy mountains, perpetual electric storm, polluted city, with the arena at the top of the planet.
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* HandBlast: Jet can do this.
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* InsectoidAliens: Electro and Granite.
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* InsectoidAliens: Electro and Granite.Granite are somewhat more insectoid than the other humanoid Slizers. Like the others, they live on non-terrestrial planets (either a single Planet Slizer in the European story, or two separate {{Single Biome Planet}}s in the US story) and are therefore aliens.
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* MeaningfulName: The Slizers get their names from whatever element they represent.
* MerchandiseDriven: It is from LEGO, after all.
* MultipleHeadCase: Dynamo
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Some more than others.
* MerchandiseDriven: It is from LEGO, after all.
* MultipleHeadCase: Dynamo
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Some more than others.
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* MeaningfulName: The Slizers get their names from whatever element they represent.
represent. For example, the Slizer representing fire is named Fire (in ''Slizers'') or Torch (in ''Throwbots'').
* MerchandiseDriven: It is from LEGO, afterall.
all, so the little storyline we get is based directly upon the toys that are released.
* MultipleHeadCase:Dynamo
*Dynamo, as a combination model of multiple Slizers, has the two heads of Blaster and Flare.
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* MerchandiseDriven: It is from LEGO, after
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* PatchworkMap: Planet Slizer is a single planet divided evenly into seven distinct elemental regions. This results in a lively jungle right next to a raging volcanic hellscape right next to an ocean without any islands, each separated only by a straight line border.
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* SchizoTech: At least in most areas. Robots don't look too out of place in the city region or in the arena.
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* TwoFaced: Blaster's faced is half-Jet / Judge Slizer's face and half-Amazon / Jungle Slizer's face.
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* TwoFaced: Blaster's faced is half-Jet / Judge half-Jet/Judge Slizer's face and half-Amazon / Jungle half-Amazon/Jungle Slizer's face.
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** Jet, Amazon, Granite and Electro into a [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur-looking]] beast, called Ultrarex.
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** Jet, Amazon, Granite and Electro into a [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur-looking]] dinosaur-looking beast, called Ultrarex.
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''Slizer'', also known as ''Throwbots'' in the United States, was a line of Franchise/{{LEGO}} [[Toys/LegoTechnic Technic]] toys, sold between 1999 and 2000. Despite how short-lived it was, the line proved to be surprisingly influential, since its new building system, consisting of ball joints and sockets, would be reused famously in its successor, ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', and [[UpToEleven on a grander scale]] in ''Toys/HeroFactory''. Also, it gathered something of a fan following, because of how [[RuleOfCool cool]] the whole theme was.
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''Slizer'', also known as ''Throwbots'' in the United States, was a line of Franchise/{{LEGO}} [[Toys/LegoTechnic Technic]] toys, sold between 1999 and 2000. Despite how short-lived it was, the line proved to be surprisingly influential, since its new building system, consisting of ball joints and sockets, would be reused famously in its successor, ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', and [[UpToEleven on a grander scale]] scale in ''Toys/HeroFactory''. Also, it gathered something of a fan following, because of how [[RuleOfCool cool]] the whole theme was.
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* UpToEleven: The PowerLevels on the Slizers' disks ranged from 1 - 8, Millennia's disk went up to 9.
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* FeatheredFiend: Flare is a vicious bird-like Slizer.
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* HungryJungle: Trees have mouths in the jungle region
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* HungryJungle: Trees have mouths in the jungle regionregion.
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* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: Depending on which continuity, they either live on the fictional planet Slizer or a they each have their own planet but no Earth.
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* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: Depending on which continuity, they either live on the fictional planet Slizer Planet or a they each have their own planet but no Earth.
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What little story material we have tells us that on the planet Slizer, divided into seven [[ElementalNation regions]] and an arena, lived a group of [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience colorful]] MechanicalLifeforms, the Slizers.
They fought weird-looking wildlife and each other with [[DeadlyDisc energy discs]] and ElementalPowers, then competed in an arena located at the planet's North Pole. Initially, there were eight Slizers, all of them ruling over their own portion of the planet (except Jet/Judge, who ruled over the Slizer Dome at the North Pole). Some sources mention that 4 were good and 4 the other 4 were evil, but other sources suggest that it was more of a free-for-all.
They fought weird-looking wildlife and each other with [[DeadlyDisc energy discs]] and ElementalPowers, then competed in an arena located at the planet's North Pole. Initially, there were eight Slizers, all of them ruling over their own portion of the planet (except Jet/Judge, who ruled over the Slizer Dome at the North Pole). Some sources mention that 4 were good and 4 the other 4 were evil, but other sources suggest that it was more of a free-for-all.
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What little story material we have tells us that on the planet Slizer, Slizer Planet, divided into seven [[ElementalNation regions]] and an arena, lived a group of [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience colorful]] MechanicalLifeforms, the Slizers.
They fought weird-looking wildlife and each other with [[DeadlyDisc energy discs]] and ElementalPowers,then and competed in an arena located at the planet's North Pole. Initially, there were eight Slizers, all of them ruling over their own portion of the planet (except Jet/Judge, who ruled over the Slizer Dome at the North Pole). Some sources mention that 4 were good and 4 the other 4 were evil, but other sources suggest that it was more of a free-for-all.
They fought weird-looking wildlife and each other with [[DeadlyDisc energy discs]] and ElementalPowers,
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* Blaster - a huge robot, possibly the fusion of Jet and Amazon
* Flare - an orange-colored bird-like Slizer, possibly mutated from Granite/Rock
* Spark - purple-colored warrior, possibly mutated from Electro/Energy
* Flare - an orange-colored bird-like Slizer, possibly mutated from Granite/Rock
* Spark - purple-colored warrior, possibly mutated from Electro/Energy
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* Blaster - a huge robot, brute, possibly the fusion of Jet and Amazon
* Flare - an orange-colored bird-like Slizer, possibly mutated fromGranite/Rock
Granite
* Spark - purple-colored warrior, possibly mutated fromElectro/Energy
Electro
* Flare - an orange-colored bird-like Slizer, possibly mutated from
* Spark - purple-colored warrior, possibly mutated from
* DarkerAndEdgier: The second wave starts with half the Planet being destroyed and half the Slizers either being killed or mutated. The new "mutant" Slizers from the second wave are notably more brutal than the original Slizers, attacking anything "on sight", whereas the first wave of Slizers had enough self control to at least fight in the Arena (most of the time).
** Blaster's black disk showed Spark with two weapon arms and no throwing arm.
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* {{Retcon}}: The American version of the storyline featuring {{Single Biome Planet}}s is scrapped in favor of the European storyline featuring one big PatchworkMap planet for the second wave of toys.
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* {{Retcon}}: The American version of the storyline featuring {{Single Biome Planet}}s is scrapped in favor favour of the European storyline featuring one big PatchworkMap planet for the second wave of toys.
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What little story material we have tells us that on the planet Slizer, divided into seven [[ElementalNation regions]] and an arena, lived a group (full species?) of [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience colorful]] MechanicalLifeforms, the Slizers.
They fought weird-looking wildlife and each other with [[DeadlyDisc energy discs]] and ElementalPowers, then competed in an arena located at the planet's North Pole. Initially, there were eight (types of?) Slizers, all of them ruling over their own portion of the planet. Some think four were good guys and the other four evil, but LEGO never really explained this. They were:
* Jet/Judge - yellow flyer, possible leader, resided in the arena
They fought weird-looking wildlife and each other with [[DeadlyDisc energy discs]] and ElementalPowers, then competed in an arena located at the planet's North Pole. Initially, there were eight (types of?) Slizers, all of them ruling over their own portion of the planet. Some think four were good guys and the other four evil, but LEGO never really explained this. They were:
* Jet/Judge - yellow flyer, possible leader, resided in the arena
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What little story material we have tells us that on the planet Slizer, divided into seven [[ElementalNation regions]] and an arena, lived a group (full species?) of [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience colorful]] MechanicalLifeforms, the Slizers.
They fought weird-looking wildlife and each other with [[DeadlyDisc energy discs]] and ElementalPowers, then competed in an arena located at the planet's North Pole. Initially, there were eight(types of?) Slizers, all of them ruling over their own portion of the planet. planet (except Jet/Judge, who ruled over the Slizer Dome at the North Pole). Some think four sources mention that 4 were good guys and 4 the other four 4 were evil, but LEGO never really explained this. They were:
other sources suggest that it was more of a free-for-all.
* Jet/Judge - yellowflyer, possible leader, resided in the arenaflyer
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* Flare - a flock of orange-colored bird-like Slizers
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Slizer, possibly mutated from Granite/Rock
* Spark - purple-coloredwarrior
warrior, possibly mutated from Electro/Energy
* Spark - purple-colored
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: The Meteor destroyed half the Planet, yet left the other half almost completely intact, with Slizers surviving the explosion on the intact half.
* DumbMuscle: Blaster is "one of the strongest Slizers" (rivaled only by Millenia presumably), but is "not so smart".
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* InsectoidAliens: Electro.
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* ShockAndAwe: Electro is an electricity-based character.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Nearly all of LEGO's subsequent "Constraction" lines have been based around the concept (elemental-themed robots/cyborgs) first brought up in ''Slizer'', which has caused many fans to wonder if they take place in the same universe -- WordOfGod denied this.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Nearly all of LEGO's subsequent "Constraction" lines have been based around the concept (elemental-themed robots/cyborgs) first brought up in ''Slizer'', which has caused many fans to wonder if they take place in the same universe -- WordOfGod denied denies this.
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* DishingOutDirt: Granite is a rock-based character.
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* RockSteady: Granite is a rock-based character.
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* InsectoidAliens: Electro
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* InsectoidAliens: ElectroElectro.
* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: Depending on which continuity, they either live on the fictional planet Slizer or a they each have their own planet but no Earth.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The back-of-the-box promo images of the second wave of sets depict Blaster and Flare both wearing a strange mask that isn't the one they actually come with -- it's really the mask [[ChekhovsGun of a later]] ''Toys/RoboRiders'' figure. How it got there, no one knows, as ''RR'' sets didn't get to be released 'till the ''Slizer'' line was done with.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Planet Slizer, home of the Throwbots.\\
[-[[http://faberfiles.blogspot.com/2012/04/in-1998-i-made-this-illustration-of.html Image]] by [[http://faberfiles.blogspot.com/ Christian Faber]]-]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Planet Slizer, home of the Throwbots.\\
[-[[http://faberfiles.blogspot.com/2012/04/in-1998-i-made-this-illustration-of.html Image]] by [[http://faberfiles.blogspot.com/ Christian Faber]]-]]]
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''Slizer'', also known as ''Throwbots'' in the United States, was a line of Franchise/{{LEGO}} [[Toys/LegoTechnic Technic]] toys, sold between 1999 and 2000. Despite how short-lived it was, the line proved to be surprisingly influential, since its new building system, consisting of ball joints and sockets, would be reused famously in its successor, ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', and [[UpToEleven on a grander scale]] in ''Toys/HeroFactory''. Also, it gathered something of a fan following, because of how [[RuleOfCool cool]] the whole theme was.
While not nearly as complex as that of ''BIONICLE'', or even ''Hero Factory'', it ''did'' have a story, told through different media such as [[AllThereInTheManual set catalogs and promotional comics]], though it was often contradictory and infamously [[CutShort unfinished]] due to {{Cancellation}}. What more, Europe and the US detailed two completely different stories and settings, a [[PatchworkMap patchwork planet]] setting and several [[SingleBiomePlanet single biome planets]] respectively. Nevertheless, the former version seems to be the more "official" one.
What little story material we have tells us that on the planet Slizer, divided into seven [[ElementalNation regions]] and an arena, lived a group (full species?) of [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience colorful]] MechanicalLifeforms, the Slizers.
They fought weird-looking wildlife and each other with [[DeadlyDisc energy discs]] and ElementalPowers, then competed in an arena located at the planet's North Pole. Initially, there were eight (types of?) Slizers, all of them ruling over their own portion of the planet. Some think four were good guys and the other four evil, but LEGO never really explained this. They were:
* Jet/Judge - yellow flyer, possible leader, resided in the arena
* Torch/Fire - red user of fire
* Scuba/Sub - blue diver
* Ski/Ice - white skier
* Electro/Energy - purple electric "bug"
* Granite/Rock - tan-colored hiker
* Amazon/Jungle - green jungle warrior
* Turbo/City - teal "car"
Then, on December 31, a meteorite struck the planet, destroying half of its mass in an EarthShatteringKaboom. Only half of the Slizers survived (Torch, Ski, Scuba and Turbo), but the [[MagicMeteor meteor]] also gave rise to several new, "mutant" Slizers:
* Blaster - a huge robot, possibly the fusion of Jet and Amazon
* Flare - a flock of orange-colored bird-like Slizers
* Spark - purple-colored warrior
However, just before the meteorite struck, a mysterious, ancient warrior called Millennia/Millennium appeared out of nowhere. He challenged Blaster to a fight that would be called "Battle of the Big Bots", the ultimate clash that would decide over the fate of the planet...
[[NoEnding Then, the line ended.]] A similar theme, ''Toys/RoboRiders'' followed, although it [[ReplacementScrappy didn't turn out to be quite successful]], and never received the recognition its predecessor got.
[[WordOfGod LEGO's]] finishing lines still echo inside the minds of its followers: ''Yes, the Slizers/Throwbots had gone. We have seen the last of them. But one day, when the LEGO world is in great danger, the sound of throwing discs will be heard once again as the Slizers/Throwbots awaken and battle the enemy.'' Well, [[ProphecyTwist the disk piece did get to be re-used later in]] ''[[ProphecyTwist BIONICLE...]]''
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!!Tropes used:
* AerithAndBob: There's a fan-created but official character named Mike.
* AllThereInTheManual: What little story material there was only appeared in promotional materials and comic books.
* AnIcePerson: Ski is a snow/ice-based character.
* ApocalypseHow: A less severe case of Class X, in that half of the planet stays intact.
* BarrierWarrior: Granite
* BuiltWithLego: But not with the classic Bricks.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Although some, like the yellow Blaster or the red/black/gold Millennia, didn't fit into any pre-established elemental group.
* CombiningMecha: Four-four regular Slizers and the three mutants could combine into even larger robots.
** Jet, Amazon, Granite and Electro into a [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur-looking]] beast, called Ultrarex.
** Torch, Ski, Scuba and Turbo could merge to form a humanoid mecha, Robotops. A comic showing these combinations fighting may be one of the reasons why some fans separate the Slizers into two factions.
** Blaster, Spark and Flare formed Dynamo.
* ContinuitySnarl: For the US market. First, there were eight single planets, but when the meteorite struck, there suddenly was only one, as in the European story. Then, there are smaller-scale snarls: Blaster's mask pattern has [[TwoFaced half the face of Amazon and half of the Jet]]. So it's reasonable to assume he is a being that formed when they merged. But one of the disks his set comes with has a picture on it, showing several Blasters. Another disk shows Blaster, Spark, and Flare, as single entities, coming to life (we guess...), but then yet another one has a picture of multiple Flare Slizers flying in a flock!
* CoolBike: Millennia's motorcycle form, which he rides as a normal-sized Slizer.
* CoolCar: Turbo, unlike the other Slizers, is shaped like a car.
* CoolMask: Many characters have masks or helmets covering the top portion of their face, with neat decals that make it seem as if they had a second face on top of their head!
* CoversAlwaysLie: The back-of-the-box promo images of the second wave of sets depict Blaster and Flare both wearing a strange mask that isn't the one they actually come with -- it's really the mask [[ChekhovsGun of a later]] ''Toys/RoboRiders'' figure. How it got there, no one knows, as ''RR'' sets didn't get to be released 'till the ''Slizer'' line was done with.
* DropPod: The containers.
* DubNameChange: As is the case with many LEGO lines of the 90s, though this one competes with ''Toys/LEGOAdventurers'' for being the most notorious of the bunch. With the exception of Flare, Spark, and Blaster from the second wave of sets, ''everything'' had a different name between Europe and the US, including the very name of the toy line itself. Fans generally prefer the European title ''Slizer'' over the US title ''Throwbots'', but the character names from the US line (Torch, Turbo, Amazon, etc.) are usually preferred over the more generic European names (Fire, City, Jungle, etc.). [[SelfDemonstratingArticle This very TV Tropes page serves as evidence]], since this page is titled "Slizer" but characters are referred to by their US names.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: One occurs that destroys half of the Slizers' planet.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Various monsters formed from the elements of whatever region you're in. In the city, these are evil tanker trucks.
* ElementalNation: Ocean, lava field, jungle, rocky desert, icy mountains, perpetual electric storm, polluted city, with the arena at the top of the planet.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The poor Slizers have to put up with all kinds of nasty beasts that pop up literally everywhere... none of which actually got models.
* FusionDance: Jet and Amazon merged into Blaster, according to his TwoFaced mask pattern.
* GreenThumb: Amazon is a plant-based character.
* HandBlast: Jet can do this.
* HungryJungle: Trees have mouths in the jungle region
* IHaveManyNames: Each of the initial sets and Millennia/Millennium have one US and one European name.
* InsectoidAliens: Electro
* MacGuffin: All the Slizers seem to be after whatever artifact has been painted onto their most powerful disk. The exception is Jet.
* MakingASplash: Scuba is a water-based character.
* MarketBasedTitle: ''Slizer'' is the toyline's European name. This was changed to ''Throwbots'' in the United States.
* MeaningfulName: The Slizers get their names from whatever element they represent.
* MerchandiseDriven: It is from LEGO, after all.
* MultipleHeadCase: Dynamo
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Some more than others.
* OffModel:
** The artists of the promo comics and the disk tampographs evidently had trouble figuring out what their faces were supposed to look like, since in some panels, the Slizers are drawn correctly with toothy grins on the side of their head, whereas other panels interpret their flip-up "helmets" as their mouth and the motifs drawn on said helmets as eyes and noses. And on the disk images, Torch and Scuba had the pegs holding their helmets in place misinterpreted as their eyes. This wasn't helped by the fact that their heads barely look the part: Their "grins" are more akin to air-vents, there is no genuine mouth opening or even a line connecting the two "grins", and though they have eye-holes, none of the characters have actual eyes. In addition, some have a whole face complete with eyes and a mouth printed onto their helmet. Further confusing matters, the Ultrarex fusion used whole Slizer heads as upper and lower jaws.
** The Slizer planet has its regions placed incorrectly on Millennium's black disk.
* OnlySixFaces: Or, to be precise, only ''one'' head-mold was released. The characters wore either helmets or visors.
* PlayingWithFire: Torch and Flare are both fire-based characters.
* RageHelm: Every single one of the Slizers, both with the head-mold and with the helmet.
* {{Retcon}}: The American version of the storyline featuring {{Single Biome Planet}}s is scrapped in favor of the European storyline featuring one big PatchworkMap planet for the second wave of toys.
* RobotWar: The Slizers engage in battles with each other in an arena located on their planet's North Pole.
* RockSteady: Granite is a rock-based character.
* RuleOfCool: Who needs a solid story when the sets and concept sell themselves?
* SchizoTech: At least in most areas. Robots don't look too out of place in the city region or in the arena.
* ShockAndAwe: Electro is an electricity-based character.
* ShoutOut: One of the access codes in the ''Toys/HeroFactory'' web game is S-L-I-Z-E-R-S.
* SingleBiomePlanet: In the American storyline. [[RetCon Yet for the second wave of sets, it went with the European version anyway.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: Nearly all of LEGO's subsequent "Constraction" lines have been based around the concept (elemental-themed robots/cyborgs) first brought up in ''Slizer'', which has caused many fans to wonder if they take place in the same universe -- WordOfGod denied this.
* TransformingMecha: The smaller Slizers had "compact modes" so that kids could store them in their containers. Millennia could transform from a giant robot to a smaller Slizer riding a motorbike (the actual model had to be re-built). Jet's bio also mentions he could [[InformedAbility turn into a car]], but [[BlatantLies he could not]]!
* TwoFaced: Blaster's faced is half-Jet / Judge Slizer's face and half-Amazon / Jungle Slizer's face.
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''Slizer'', also known as ''Throwbots'' in the United States, was a line of Franchise/{{LEGO}} [[Toys/LegoTechnic Technic]] toys, sold between 1999 and 2000. Despite how short-lived it was, the line proved to be surprisingly influential, since its new building system, consisting of ball joints and sockets, would be reused famously in its successor, ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', and [[UpToEleven on a grander scale]] in ''Toys/HeroFactory''. Also, it gathered something of a fan following, because of how [[RuleOfCool cool]] the whole theme was.
While not nearly as complex as that of ''BIONICLE'', or even ''Hero Factory'', it ''did'' have a story, told through different media such as [[AllThereInTheManual set catalogs and promotional comics]], though it was often contradictory and infamously [[CutShort unfinished]] due to {{Cancellation}}. What more, Europe and the US detailed two completely different stories and settings, a [[PatchworkMap patchwork planet]] setting and several [[SingleBiomePlanet single biome planets]] respectively. Nevertheless, the former version seems to be the more "official" one.
What little story material we have tells us that on the planet Slizer, divided into seven [[ElementalNation regions]] and an arena, lived a group (full species?) of [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience colorful]] MechanicalLifeforms, the Slizers.
They fought weird-looking wildlife and each other with [[DeadlyDisc energy discs]] and ElementalPowers, then competed in an arena located at the planet's North Pole. Initially, there were eight (types of?) Slizers, all of them ruling over their own portion of the planet. Some think four were good guys and the other four evil, but LEGO never really explained this. They were:
* Jet/Judge - yellow flyer, possible leader, resided in the arena
* Torch/Fire - red user of fire
* Scuba/Sub - blue diver
* Ski/Ice - white skier
* Electro/Energy - purple electric "bug"
* Granite/Rock - tan-colored hiker
* Amazon/Jungle - green jungle warrior
* Turbo/City - teal "car"
Then, on December 31, a meteorite struck the planet, destroying half of its mass in an EarthShatteringKaboom. Only half of the Slizers survived (Torch, Ski, Scuba and Turbo), but the [[MagicMeteor meteor]] also gave rise to several new, "mutant" Slizers:
* Blaster - a huge robot, possibly the fusion of Jet and Amazon
* Flare - a flock of orange-colored bird-like Slizers
* Spark - purple-colored warrior
However, just before the meteorite struck, a mysterious, ancient warrior called Millennia/Millennium appeared out of nowhere. He challenged Blaster to a fight that would be called "Battle of the Big Bots", the ultimate clash that would decide over the fate of the planet...
[[NoEnding Then, the line ended.]] A similar theme, ''Toys/RoboRiders'' followed, although it [[ReplacementScrappy didn't turn out to be quite successful]], and never received the recognition its predecessor got.
[[WordOfGod LEGO's]] finishing lines still echo inside the minds of its followers: ''Yes, the Slizers/Throwbots had gone. We have seen the last of them. But one day, when the LEGO world is in great danger, the sound of throwing discs will be heard once again as the Slizers/Throwbots awaken and battle the enemy.'' Well, [[ProphecyTwist the disk piece did get to be re-used later in]] ''[[ProphecyTwist BIONICLE...]]''
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!!Tropes used:
* AerithAndBob: There's a fan-created but official character named Mike.
* AllThereInTheManual: What little story material there was only appeared in promotional materials and comic books.
* AnIcePerson: Ski is a snow/ice-based character.
* ApocalypseHow: A less severe case of Class X, in that half of the planet stays intact.
* BarrierWarrior: Granite
* BuiltWithLego: But not with the classic Bricks.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Although some, like the yellow Blaster or the red/black/gold Millennia, didn't fit into any pre-established elemental group.
* CombiningMecha: Four-four regular Slizers and the three mutants could combine into even larger robots.
** Jet, Amazon, Granite and Electro into a [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur-looking]] beast, called Ultrarex.
** Torch, Ski, Scuba and Turbo could merge to form a humanoid mecha, Robotops. A comic showing these combinations fighting may be one of the reasons why some fans separate the Slizers into two factions.
** Blaster, Spark and Flare formed Dynamo.
* ContinuitySnarl: For the US market. First, there were eight single planets, but when the meteorite struck, there suddenly was only one, as in the European story. Then, there are smaller-scale snarls: Blaster's mask pattern has [[TwoFaced half the face of Amazon and half of the Jet]]. So it's reasonable to assume he is a being that formed when they merged. But one of the disks his set comes with has a picture on it, showing several Blasters. Another disk shows Blaster, Spark, and Flare, as single entities, coming to life (we guess...), but then yet another one has a picture of multiple Flare Slizers flying in a flock!
* CoolBike: Millennia's motorcycle form, which he rides as a normal-sized Slizer.
* CoolCar: Turbo, unlike the other Slizers, is shaped like a car.
* CoolMask: Many characters have masks or helmets covering the top portion of their face, with neat decals that make it seem as if they had a second face on top of their head!
* CoversAlwaysLie: The back-of-the-box promo images of the second wave of sets depict Blaster and Flare both wearing a strange mask that isn't the one they actually come with -- it's really the mask [[ChekhovsGun of a later]] ''Toys/RoboRiders'' figure. How it got there, no one knows, as ''RR'' sets didn't get to be released 'till the ''Slizer'' line was done with.
* DropPod: The containers.
* DubNameChange: As is the case with many LEGO lines of the 90s, though this one competes with ''Toys/LEGOAdventurers'' for being the most notorious of the bunch. With the exception of Flare, Spark, and Blaster from the second wave of sets, ''everything'' had a different name between Europe and the US, including the very name of the toy line itself. Fans generally prefer the European title ''Slizer'' over the US title ''Throwbots'', but the character names from the US line (Torch, Turbo, Amazon, etc.) are usually preferred over the more generic European names (Fire, City, Jungle, etc.). [[SelfDemonstratingArticle This very TV Tropes page serves as evidence]], since this page is titled "Slizer" but characters are referred to by their US names.
* EarthShatteringKaboom: One occurs that destroys half of the Slizers' planet.
* ElementalEmbodiment: Various monsters formed from the elements of whatever region you're in. In the city, these are evil tanker trucks.
* ElementalNation: Ocean, lava field, jungle, rocky desert, icy mountains, perpetual electric storm, polluted city, with the arena at the top of the planet.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The poor Slizers have to put up with all kinds of nasty beasts that pop up literally everywhere... none of which actually got models.
* FusionDance: Jet and Amazon merged into Blaster, according to his TwoFaced mask pattern.
* GreenThumb: Amazon is a plant-based character.
* HandBlast: Jet can do this.
* HungryJungle: Trees have mouths in the jungle region
* IHaveManyNames: Each of the initial sets and Millennia/Millennium have one US and one European name.
* InsectoidAliens: Electro
* MacGuffin: All the Slizers seem to be after whatever artifact has been painted onto their most powerful disk. The exception is Jet.
* MakingASplash: Scuba is a water-based character.
* MarketBasedTitle: ''Slizer'' is the toyline's European name. This was changed to ''Throwbots'' in the United States.
* MeaningfulName: The Slizers get their names from whatever element they represent.
* MerchandiseDriven: It is from LEGO, after all.
* MultipleHeadCase: Dynamo
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Some more than others.
* OffModel:
** The artists of the promo comics and the disk tampographs evidently had trouble figuring out what their faces were supposed to look like, since in some panels, the Slizers are drawn correctly with toothy grins on the side of their head, whereas other panels interpret their flip-up "helmets" as their mouth and the motifs drawn on said helmets as eyes and noses. And on the disk images, Torch and Scuba had the pegs holding their helmets in place misinterpreted as their eyes. This wasn't helped by the fact that their heads barely look the part: Their "grins" are more akin to air-vents, there is no genuine mouth opening or even a line connecting the two "grins", and though they have eye-holes, none of the characters have actual eyes. In addition, some have a whole face complete with eyes and a mouth printed onto their helmet. Further confusing matters, the Ultrarex fusion used whole Slizer heads as upper and lower jaws.
** The Slizer planet has its regions placed incorrectly on Millennium's black disk.
* OnlySixFaces: Or, to be precise, only ''one'' head-mold was released. The characters wore either helmets or visors.
* PlayingWithFire: Torch and Flare are both fire-based characters.
* RageHelm: Every single one of the Slizers, both with the head-mold and with the helmet.
* {{Retcon}}: The American version of the storyline featuring {{Single Biome Planet}}s is scrapped in favor of the European storyline featuring one big PatchworkMap planet for the second wave of toys.
* RobotWar: The Slizers engage in battles with each other in an arena located on their planet's North Pole.
* RockSteady: Granite is a rock-based character.
* RuleOfCool: Who needs a solid story when the sets and concept sell themselves?
* SchizoTech: At least in most areas. Robots don't look too out of place in the city region or in the arena.
* ShockAndAwe: Electro is an electricity-based character.
* ShoutOut: One of the access codes in the ''Toys/HeroFactory'' web game is S-L-I-Z-E-R-S.
* SingleBiomePlanet: In the American storyline. [[RetCon Yet for the second wave of sets, it went with the European version anyway.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: Nearly all of LEGO's subsequent "Constraction" lines have been based around the concept (elemental-themed robots/cyborgs) first brought up in ''Slizer'', which has caused many fans to wonder if they take place in the same universe -- WordOfGod denied this.
* TransformingMecha: The smaller Slizers had "compact modes" so that kids could store them in their containers. Millennia could transform from a giant robot to a smaller Slizer riding a motorbike (the actual model had to be re-built). Jet's bio also mentions he could [[InformedAbility turn into a car]], but [[BlatantLies he could not]]!
* TwoFaced: Blaster's faced is half-Jet / Judge Slizer's face and half-Amazon / Jungle Slizer's face.
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