>>7260026This. The professor looked like an unhinged dude who was building his shit out of stuff he got from scrapyards.
>>7259871A lot of current Lego fans were either in their dark ages around the era of Time Cruisers, or were too young to even be into Lego back then. I was about 10 when Time Cruisers came out and my friend and I loved it because it provided a means for cross-play with all of our sets. We used to do epic time travel stories all that madness. I remember he had most of the Time Twister sets, but I had the flying time ship. I used to struggle to carry it to his house while riding my bike all the time. Luckily there were never any accidents.
Even if it WAS just Lego finding a way to deplete surplus random pieces, it was a pretty fucking clever way. I think the grand majority of hate for Time Cruisers came from casuals who got into Lego through the movie a few years ago, where EVERYTHING had a clearly defined theme, and then they looked through Lego history and saw these Time Cruisers sets which had no identifiable theme, and it made them confused and angry.