Republic Studs

Logan, better known as Republic Studs is an American YouTuber who is known for his LEGO videos.
== Content ==
Lego is Logan's main content focus, often with a focus on LEGO Star Wars as well as general LEGO themes. He tries to display all of the cool things you can do with the interlocking bricks from a $1 vs. $1,000 LEGO Star Wars Army to 100 Famous people in LEGO. 
=== Podcast ===
"The Republic Studs Show" is a podcast hosted by Logan in which he interviews various people who work within the LEGO and Content Creation space. It is available on YouTube and Spotify with season 1 ending August 30th, 2022. Some of the people he interviewed consist of SW Bricks, SacredBricks, TheB3, DaleyTactics, MiniSuperHeroesToday, AshnFlash, and ¨The LEGO Kid"
=== Set Reviews ===
Through 2020, 2021, and 2022 Logan uploaded reviews on every LEGO Star Wars set that had been released sometimes even before they were available in stores. He now uploads reviews on his 2nd channel.
=== Vlogs ===
In 2022 Republic Studs had a vlog through 2022 where he documented his day to day life as a person who uploaded content on a daily basis. It featured how he put together videos, his various adventures, and culminated in his Brick Fair Vlogs. 
=== LEGO News ===
Republic Studs gained prominence for his LEGO News show "The Republic Studs Show" videos through 2021 and 2022. He was often the first to report on major "LEGO News" events often before any others. His first news story came April 1st, 2022 where he revealed that the large UCS set of the year would be a UCS Razor Crest set. He then reviewed an in hand copy of the Republic Fighter Tank before it was revealed by LEGO and dropped the rumor for the AT-TE set with Commander Cody and 212th troopers. He also rumored a Ghost set for 2023 which will be coming to fruition. 
=== Rico A LEGO Star Wars Story and Clone Traitors ===
In 2019 Logan launched his "Cinematic Universe" with Rico: A LEGO Star Wars Story featuring Youtubers DaleyTactics, Captain Lukas, MightyMapper123, and 2nd Airborne Productions. This received an initial 10,000 views and was his first big hit. He followed this up in spring 2020 with his sequel and first stop motion animation Rico: A LEGO Star Wars Story 2, It was a massive success and featured much of the returning cast from the previous installment. After he started a series called "Clone Traitors" based on a clone named Gary and his squad going through a campaign to uncover the truth about a secret plot against the Republic. In season 2 we saw the return of Commander Rico and his squad who used to be a member of Gary's very own squad. We saw them reunite and try to uncover a secret base where the new AT-AT walker prototypes were being developed. 
== History ==
Logan is a 17 year old from New Jersey and has been a fan of LEGO since he was a young kid. He began uploading in 2019 under the alias "Commander Rico" as a fan channel to YouTuber DaleyTactics series "Rico's Brigade" but did not begin to take a more serious approach to YouTube until 2020 during the COVID-19 Lock-downs where he was finishing work on his stop motion series Rico: A LEGO Star Wars Story and began to upload daily videos documenting the process and the growth of his clone army collection. He received his first 1,000 subscribers on April 3rd, 2020. 
He started various series largely centered around LEGO Clone Troopers from a Building a Clone Base to Building a Clone Army series. Around this time he changed his name to "Republic Studs" and as the year continued he also kept making new LEGO Clone Trooper related content from customs to MOC's and hauls. He also launched a campaign to #EndTheStudShooters which turned out to be successful. Around summer of 2020 he began do do various videos surrounding the coveted 75409 501st Legion Clone Troopers Battle pack which became widely popular and launching his Clone Traitors series in the process. By November 29th, 2020 he had received his first 1,000,000 views. He also launched is news series "The Republic Studs Show" that very same month which would become widely popular. 
By January 27th 2021 he had reached 10,000 subscribers as well as began reviewing every LEGO Star Wars set that was released and kicking off a new vlog series, even starting a predictions series on his channel and concluded his series "Clone Traitors." He continued his various vlogs, news series, and reviews throughout the year and even started a Q&A series called #AskTheStud in late fall where he would answer fan questions. 
In early 2022 he started his podcast series with his first interview being fellow LEGO Star Wars Youtuber SW Bricks. He also continued to review all the brand new sets even getting some before release like the Dark Trooper attack. Around May that year a new LEGO Muppets CMF series was released which Logan had been a big fan of since he was a kid and these minifigures would become a hallmark to his channel later even building a muppet theater. 
Noticeably around September 2022, Logan's content style had begun to change to be a more highly edited and long term style of content that had a much wider appeal to broad audiences. Releasing various videos from "I Made Every Star Wars Movie in LEGO" to "I bought VISIBLY Fake LEGO Star Wars Minifigures." He then began to do even more general LEGO videos about other themes and building things like The USA and Disney World. He also worked on some star wars videos featuring various popular LEGO Channels.
On December 19th, 2022 during a livestream he had hit 100,000 subscribers, a lifetime goal thus receiving his YouTube verification and Play Button. He also launched his 2nd channel called "The Republic Studs Show" to cover a lot of the content which he had discontinued for a period. He also changed his profile photo in early 2023 from the animated minifigure which had followed him till then to a picture of himself. 
He now has a bi-weekly upload schedule and as of this edit is at 179,000 YouTube subscribers.
==References==
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu9vdnN2sBc&list=PL-FRz0CEjO2gTCdScNGu8b3NMbe1LoK04&index=39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yrTiOlfzCo&list=PL-FRz0CEjO2gTCdScNGu8b3NMbe1LoK04&index=26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvsIz0oSK9w&list=PL-FRz0CEjO2gTCdScNGu8b3NMbe1LoK04&index=15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YhcQqxVV3g&list=PL-FRz0CEjO2gTCdScNGu8b3NMbe1LoK04&index=16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vqwNkuvBEA&list=PL-FRz0CEjO2gTCdScNGu8b3NMbe1LoK04&index=10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhnH2NGbwGU&list=PL-FRz0CEjO2gTCdScNGu8b3NMbe1LoK04&index=5
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buff-nerd/episodes/HAPPY-STAR-WARS-DAY--With-Logan-from-Republic-Studs--The-Nerds-talk-about-all-things-Star-Wars-and-more-e234evl
https://open.spotify.com/show/6aCUCJK8WkJ4CH5Z7cC1jO
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2018