Galidor / YMMV - TV Tropes

Accidental Innuendo: "Nick's inside Gorm," from the last episode. Context doesn't help much, since he is literally inside of Gorm's body.
Adaptation Displacement: There are plenty of LEGO fans out there who didn't even know there was a TV show.
Audience-Alienating Era: The entire series itself for LEGO fans, even LEGO themselves. It's often considered their worst-performing toy-line, from which they've tried to distance themselves as much as possible. This is mostly because the toys required very minimal construction, and the pieces were bulky and overspecialized, mostly incompatible with "normal" LEGO parts. The theme served as a lesson for the company not to rely too much on tie-in media (like the TV show, video game and McDonald's promo), and instead focus on what they had already excelled at: making building toys.^note
Audience-Alienating Premise: An action figure franchise that was LEGO In Name Only owing to its complete lack of brickbuilding and incompatibility with virtually every other set in the LEGO catalog cements Galidor as this for the entire LEGO brand.
Cliché Storm: Just try reading the page description without groaning. This may as well be Generic Space Opera: The Series.
Complete Monster: Gorm, Conqueror of a Thousand Worlds, is the overlord of the Outer Dimensions, seeking to take over Galidor throughout the series. Having enslaved and wiped out entire species, Gorm also burnt Jens's organic body; wiped out Euripides's people and Tepol's armies; and keeps the Outer Realms dependent on him using a virus on their computers. Formerly the Chief Councilman of Queen Raina's court, Gorm saw her romance with Samuel Bluetooth as a threat to his power, and set up a riot on the world of Kek to kill him; failing that, he turns on Raina herself, later trying to kill her child with Samuel, seemingly tossing Samuel to his fiery death. In his pursuit of Nick, Gorm captures his friend Allegra, nearly forcing her into a pit of wasps; tries to corrupt Nick himself; and later forces Allegra to listen as Nick is mauled by a beast of his. Finally reaching the gates of Galidor, Gorm's self-justifications are dismantled by his former pupil Lind, at which point he absorbs her and Nick's friends into an explosive orb he intends to launch, willing to risk Galidor's destruction to breach the gates. Even when beaten, it is revealed he has been keeping Samuel alive and captive for years.
Cult Classic: It's a very short lived, esoteric show, but it does have its fans.
Friendly Fandoms: With BIONICLE. Though there is a bit of conflict and argument between the two lines, it is all in good natured fun. Galidor came one year after BIONICLE, and both were sci-fi, story oriented themes which deviated from the traditional LEGO builds. Though while BIONICLE became the long-running generational touchstone, Galidor faded away and never caught on despite heavy promotion.
Harsher in Hindsight: Gorm's line "Bluetooth is gone. He'll never see the Outer Dimension again!" in "The Gates Of Galidor Part 2." The show was cancelled after that episode, so neither Nick nor the audience ever saw the Outer Dimension again.
Hilarious in Hindsight:This show featured a planet called Kek. That name later became the World of Warcraft equivalent to the acronym "LOL".
No Problem with Licensed Games: The old Fox Kids website had a tie-in video game for the series that was very enjoyable to play, with smooth gameplay and character-customizing RPG elements that made good use of the "glinching" gimmick. Although the PC game was rushed and feels a bit incomplete, the GBA game is also quite enjoyable.
Special Effect Failure: Due to the show's low budget, the effects are not well made. The aliens are obvious rubber suits (ones with decent-ish animatronic heads, but rubber suits nonetheless) and the CGI is laughable even by 2002 standards.
Tear Jerker: Allegra staying behind and saying "good-bye" to Nick at the end of "Mr. Tager Goes To Earth." She comes back, but it's still a sad scene.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Lind, a Galidorian, was introduced very late into the series. While she did become a Sixth Ranger for the team, she interacted little with anyone but Nick, her combat training is barely shown, and when they finally get to Galidor, it's not shown what happened when she finally returned home. She even trained under Gorm, which would've made for more interesting plots and conflicts if it hadn't been brought up within the last 10 minutes of the last episode.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Nick. He is very self-centered for little to no reason and often causes conflicts due to his selfishness. While he might be The Chosen One, he has absolutely no combat training, so he's basically a Small Name, Big Ego Chosen Zero. In fact, Nicky from "A Tale of Two Nicks" might have some viewers wishing he was the Nick we were following since he's far more competent with fewer resources.
Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Nick's toys in the toyline are famously creepy-looking, thanks to the generally off proportions, weirdly smooth headsculpt, no attempt being made to hide the figure's articulation, and the "glinch" gimmick encouraging him to be turned into some kind of Body Horror freak of nature (it works well enough for aliens, but just feels off on a human). The McDonalds toy is particularly unnerving.
The Woobie: Euripides, whose entire race was destroyed by Gorm, Jens, whose body was destroyed by Gorm, and Nepol, whose physique was diminished by Gorm.

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