Michael Hickox (born: 1991 [age 32–33]),[1] better known online as MICHAELHICKOXFilms, is an American YouTuber known for his Lego Stop Motion Animation videos.
He quit Youtube in May 2021 after dissatisfaction with partner program updates and sponsors cutting back on their budgets because of the pandemic, ultimately resulting in him getting less pay. He later returned to Youtube in November 2023 and is now making videos again.
About[]
Michael made his first YouTube channel on July 6, 2007 called "MICHAELHICKOX". He originally made real life stop motion videos but later started making Lego stop motion videos, most of them based off video games such as Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and others. The channel was later abandoned as Michael later made a new channel on July 22, 2009 called "MICHAELHICKOXFilms", which is the channel he still uses today.
One of the series Michael is known for is his Lego Pizza Delivery series of animated videos. The series involves a pizza delivery guy who wears a red shirt, blue pants and a blue cap trying to deliver a pizza to his customers who ordered the food to the restaurant he is getting a job for. However, he gets into mischievous misadventures along the way as soon as many people around him smell of the pizza and chase after him to get it. Chaos ends in certain situations such as when the pizza gets ruined in the mud, gets eaten by a giant or a shark or him getting fat while eating all of them in a factory's vault prior to his successful deliveries. There have been 8 of these uploaded on his YouTube channel and it is currently unknown if there will be an 9th one when the ending of the 8th one has him finally succeed for real with him holding a 100 Dollar Bill. However, the Pizza Delivery guy made an appearance in the end of Lego Cooking where the Chef ordered him for Pizza and this is the first and currently, the only time he made a successful delivery prior to Lego Pizza Delivery 8.
He often uses music in his animations, many by Kevin Macleod.
His other projects included promotions for The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie as well as the 15 episode long Tim and Ralph series.
After uploading the last Tim and Ralph video on May 21, 2021, Michael silently left youtube as a result of partner program updates and sponsors cutting back on budgets due to the pandemic, making him gain less income. He only confirmed this on his personal Facebook page, so his channel remained dormant with the majority of his fans having no idea what happened. Theories began to pop up saying Michael was murdered, which were later confirmed to not be true.
In October 2023, Michael announced he was coming back to making videos on his community tab. A video was uploaded the following month.
Subscriber Milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
- 1 million subscribers: October 19, 2017