Sharpies, Cabbage, and the Early Years of Custom Clones

OboeBot explores some of the formative years of the Custom Clones Community courtesy of the Wayback Machine.

Footage used:

"Lego Star Wars My New Custom Clones" by @MGFCustoms

"Lego Clone Wars 501st Legion IV - Confederacy Strikes (filmed in 2007)" by @pizzamovies

"Part 2 of 2 - SQUAD 42 V - Alone in the Dark" by @spugesdu

"LEGO Star Wars 181st legion-Clone Outtake (HQ)" by @SolidBrixStudios

"The World's Only Custom LEGO Star Wars Store! Clone Army Customs" by @BeyondtheBrick

If you read this far, check out the book "Minifigure Customization: Populate Your World!" by Jared Burks aka FineClonier. It's an amazing time capsule of what the custom minifig community looked like circa 2011.

[spugesdu]

Man, what an absolute joy this was. Proper trip down memory lane. CABG was such a big deal for me back in the late 2000s, spent so much time there. So much creativity happened there, it was so inspiring. I hope everyone’s well.

Genuinely moved by the shoutout. So happy to see Squad 42 is remembered fondly. Thank you. Even if you were ragging on my videos ahahahaha.

Can tell you that Brad (pizzamovies) is alive and well and flew to England for my wedding last year!!

[rion-]

After spending most of my life spending all of my (and my parents) money on Lego, I finally got clean a couple years ago. Thanks for making me relapse, oboe

[sooperspeedy]

I would say something like “omg I regret sharpie-ing all my clone wars clones” but me and my friend had fun as 8 year olds thinking our custom clones were badass

[micahnike]

wuzzupbob turning into CAC was the plot twist of the century

[natelecarde]

That title gave me ptsd, I used to take sharpies to my clones and make them into special troops. Unfortunately I did it to ALL of my clones and ended up with no regular ones by the end.

[McSwaggerMuffins]

This is some Warhammer levels of effort and it makes me wish there was a fleshed out game to have these guys fight in

[joshvii]

Bro the nostalgia watching the video is crazy. Makes me wanna go rewatch all the good old stop motion Lego films 😭

[mintpalmer]

Was never into clones, but was big into what SaberScorpion was doing with Halo. I remember making my own horribly pixelated decals on MSPaint for The Arbiter! And Spawn, for some reason.

[knockrotter]

jesus christ man you just unlocked a deep seated core memory with those plinkett rifftracks over the stop motion, I dont think ive even ever actually seen the original videos just the commentary ones

[BrickMania]

Nowadays Lego Star Wars man-children just complain about getting random clone commander #53 instead of customizing their own

[Legohead]

It's funny how a whole generation of kids ended up customising their clones mainly due to the 2009 Clone Walker Battle Pack. I remember getting specialist even with waterslide decal paper and varnish back then along with those Arealight helmets which were so satisfying when they arrived in the post! :D

[legowars]

„Original clones could only dream of looking this good“
No need to dream, they already looked way more majestic and LEGOetic.

[MLPGamer]

I’m happy to see someone talk about this. Finger nail clippers, sharpie, rubbing alcohol, some old clothes and you could make so many cool clones. I ruined so many plain clones with my clippers and sharpies…and old clothes with small holes made in them to make custom cloth pieces. Also, man the CABG admins loved banning me for not posting properly 💀

[A-Creed]

I have mangled so many clones in my day, countless fins were removed, all thanks to the Noble artist. (love that guy)

[themocingbird]

I know he wasn't as early as some others, but The Noble Artist will always be the GOAT of clone customs in my eyes. I actually got the chance to meet him in person at one point (through honestly kinda stalker behavior on 12 year old me's part) and he was so nice and giving.

[MattemIgnorum]

I feel like this was a real personal video to you, mr. shoes. Thank you for talking about it, that was a lovely flashback.

[Chatter_Blocks]

Babe wake up Oboshoesbricks uploaded 🗣🗣🗣





Pizzamovies is the goat! ironically growing up in in the Clone Wars era I never really cared for customs. I tried with 3 sharpie clones and gave up and just played with the normal ones.... until fatefully moving to Batman LEGO in 2012

[austinwrighteous]

This is such a deep cut... the algorithm was spot on here.

[MrSaurusOfficial]

Man, this really hit me where I live. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I should really post my old clone stop motions

[aeopu]

Dude that was such a cool dive into a nice culture I had no idea existed. I hope you're able to do more of this kind of stuff!