The Legacy Of The DARK Forestmen

Hey guys, today we're taking a look at the Dark forestmen which has one of the best sets castle has to offer. I recently got some new lights so im hoping this video looks a little nicer on the eyes but im still getting use to them.
My last video seems to have blown up all thanks to you fellas! If anyone has any requests then feel free to say in the comments, i read all of them and try to reply when i get the time.

Пікірлер: 96

  • @cryptotost6161
    @cryptotost6161 Жыл бұрын

    Clearly an underrated channel, love the energy, first timer here, great humor, I love it

  • @kunu1990
    @kunu1990 Жыл бұрын

    Really unfortunate this faction didn't go longer, really liked the updated forestman look

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah! the minifigs were sick, wolfpack added similar looking ones but that theme also died after 3 sets -_-

  • @ThePetaaaaaa
    @ThePetaaaaaa Жыл бұрын

    Please keep those videos going, they are amazing!

  • @Maxdamageplus
    @Maxdamageplus Жыл бұрын

    Just found this channel I really like the little mini figure representing him talking, it’s so funny to me I don’t know why I don’t see this more often, maybe because you need to actually get out the sets and photograph them for each new topic lol But the effect is really fun

  • @saltytbone
    @saltytbone Жыл бұрын

    The small set was the first Lego set I ever got a duplicate as a gift. At first I thought "oh no. I already have this one." But then it dawned on me there's no rule against having more than one of the same Lego set. And I've been deep in debt ever since (ok, not really).

  • @rhcp8390
    @rhcp8390 Жыл бұрын

    I have no memory of these sets, but I found two Dark Forestmen that had been sitting in a box of mixed bricks for over 20 years. Of the two, Gary is my favorite.

  • @thecianinator
    @thecianinator Жыл бұрын

    3:54 that catapult totally works, I had this set when I was a kid and it blew my mind. You put a one by one cylinder brick on the end and physically bend the plastic of the ladder and then release it so that it bounces back and b'doings the brick really far. It's amazing.

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably why i couldn't get it to work! Bending plastic is a two word horror story for me 😬

  • @thecianinator

    @thecianinator

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RobrickLego haha all it takes is a few milimeters, try it! now that I think about it those ladder pieces might actually be a more flexible material than the standard bricks.

  • @AliSyd
    @AliSyd Жыл бұрын

    Great summary! Thank you! I do love Gary’s torso and as a whole fig! Such great detail.

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Gary is a real one!

  • @EnjoyerOfCastle
    @EnjoyerOfCastle Жыл бұрын

    Lego needs to bring back the ‘pencil shaped’ helmet design for the newer castle stuff!

  • @FrightBricks
    @FrightBricks Жыл бұрын

    This video is perfectly written, this channel is going to do very well. Hope you cover more classic lego sub-themes.

  • @Maniac4Bricks
    @Maniac4Bricks Жыл бұрын

    3:47 this is something I feel modern LEGO kind of lacks - function balancing with form. As I build back and forth between eras, I realize that modern LEGO goes for more show than play opportunities. Oh sure this wagon may look mundane by today's standards, and a lower parts count than a modern Castle cart (*coughs*), but there's more you can do within this simple model. The undercarriage storage genuinely shocked me and intrigues me! Just found your channel, thanks for this review entirely of this theme, and earned a sub! Looking forward to watching more!

  • @rumpelpumpel7687

    @rumpelpumpel7687

    Жыл бұрын

    agreed. When i came back to collect "newer" lego castle sets, i was really confused on why they made carriages without moveable front axle. It's fine for minifig cars but with a horse buggy, you would want to create a carriage that actually "follows" the horse, wouldnt you? :D

  • @4qu4h3x
    @4qu4h3x Жыл бұрын

    i cannot believe this channel is so small i already love it, i'd love to see more videos of classic older lego sets

  • @Cassianandor-ib2yy
    @Cassianandor-ib2yy Жыл бұрын

    I just found this channel yesterday and now I’m looking forward to Sundays. You make great content!

  • @thatoneguyjay54
    @thatoneguyjay54 Жыл бұрын

    I’m so mad that Lego cancel the dark forcemen line really like it

  • @just_a_duck3437

    @just_a_duck3437

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you having a stroke?

  • @thatoneguyjay54

    @thatoneguyjay54

    Жыл бұрын

    @@just_a_duck3437 what?

  • @RetroBricks1
    @RetroBricks1 Жыл бұрын

    I love your channel! I’m not surprised that it’s growing VERY quickly!!!!!!

  • @AsapAnimation
    @AsapAnimation Жыл бұрын

    Really enjoying these classic videos!

  • @DismayingHades6
    @DismayingHades6 Жыл бұрын

    i feel truly blessed to know money isn't everything, this is a blessing and a curse with colorful bits of plastic in existence.

  • @alexboyajian2096
    @alexboyajian2096 Жыл бұрын

    "after making this boy an orphan" Just earned yourself a subscriber well done

  • @brickingbad5302
    @brickingbad5302 Жыл бұрын

    I am excited to see more of your castle collection !

  • @nahumraccoon9212
    @nahumraccoon9212 Жыл бұрын

    You’re growing so fast! I’m loving your videos

  • @cowboydup
    @cowboydup4 ай бұрын

    Great overview thanks! I was curious about dark forest minifigs, and this video was the definitive source of info about them

  • @basilbrush9075
    @basilbrush9075 Жыл бұрын

    Ive been waiting for this video since i discovered the channel this morning!

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Sorry for the long wait 😢

  • @EmersonacReviews
    @EmersonacReviews Жыл бұрын

    Underrated channel! Love the Castle sets. Might try getting some one day...

  • @Maniac4Bricks
    @Maniac4Bricks Жыл бұрын

    Congrats for not only over 100 subscribers, but now I see you breaking into 800 subscribers, great job!!

  • @santiagomalagon6345
    @santiagomalagon6345 Жыл бұрын

    I love the variety in the minifigures, back then there were no uniforms

  • @palmtree8082
    @palmtree8082 Жыл бұрын

    Bro I love your videos,need more to watch

  • @chriscanul4075
    @chriscanul4075 Жыл бұрын

    Such a great, underrated channel!

  • @The_13th_Hussar
    @The_13th_Hussar Жыл бұрын

    I would actually agree with your take that they have a better lineup than the original forestmen, I think another reason for that which you didn't mention is that the trees in their sets are brown instead of black.

  • @danieljenssen8745
    @danieljenssen8745 Жыл бұрын

    Well this was absolutely hilarious! Thanks!

  • @tayzer9994
    @tayzer9994 Жыл бұрын

    Your videos are so good You deserve more views

  • @Kelpwoud
    @Kelpwoud Жыл бұрын

    I never had these sets or knew they existed, but I had the minifigs, horse and cart and some of those structure bricks. It's cool to see how my imagination basicly made the same kinds stories these sets portrayed.

  • @LAQuadling
    @LAQuadling Жыл бұрын

    Back when I was a kid in the 90s, I had no clue how rare these Dark Forest sets really were. The only one I had was 6024 (I still have that set in the box). Once I discovered eBay in the early 2000s, my collecting habits changed. I almost exclusively bought "vintage" sets (mainly 80s to 90s) that I had either missed out on or my parents couldn't afford, but I didn't go after Dark Forest until much later. Somehow I managed to get the other two sets boxed (I now don't care much about boxes, I just want the sets...). It's definitely easier to acquire these sets without the boxes, because I now own multiple copies of them.

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    I wish i didn't care about boxes to be honest but sadly my monkey brain wont let it go 😂

  • @Maniac4Bricks
    @Maniac4Bricks Жыл бұрын

    3:56 it doesn't function well, but it does function. I had to learn this with the Studios and Alpha Team lines which used a similar ladder-based catapult. The ladder on top can pull back and fling a minifigure standing nearby. I had a set from Studios like that when I was 6, and I didn't figure out the play function until 2015, when I was 20 years old as in the Alpha Team version.

  • @Violette_06
    @Violette_06 Жыл бұрын

    You’re my new favorite lego content creator! The shorter form videos are super fun to watch and though I’m a bit late to the party (you have 5,000 subs as of me writing this) I can’t wait to watch you grow and improve!! ❤️❤️❤️

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks :)

  • @SmackDab
    @SmackDab Жыл бұрын

    Great video!!

  • @clanker3885
    @clanker3885 Жыл бұрын

    man i wish i was born when lego was this good

  • @cadenfritz399
    @cadenfritz399 Жыл бұрын

    just found your chanel and i love the conent, keep it up

  • @SkeebzGamez
    @SkeebzGamez Жыл бұрын

    I love this channel, I’ve been looking for a more pg13 channel to watch as all the big channels are fine, but too family friendly. I can’t wait to say I was here when you blow up boss!

  • @ComicBoy750
    @ComicBoy750 Жыл бұрын

    0:56 I’m doing this right now for the Allay & Emerald Armor Steve from this January’s Minecraft sets since I refuse to spend $80 on 2 sets I don’t have space for just to get 2 minifigures.

  • @bricksfordom
    @bricksfordom Жыл бұрын

    1:29 lmao I need that head piece🤣

  • @MajorSvenGaming
    @MajorSvenGaming Жыл бұрын

    Living in the UK as a kid in the 90s I can say these sets were really not shown. I had no idea they existed until I looked back on the sets in my later years, long after they were discontinued. I would have loved them though as they are great. But in fairness I have a decent collection of forestmen (including the river fortress) and all the wolfpack sets so I could just mix the two anyway as I feel dark forest is a middleman between the two factions anyway. What I do love about the classic castle sets is that they would often have three or more factions fighting in out at the same time. Crusaders, black falcons and forestmen then wolfpack, black knights and lion knights (crusaders again) then royal knights, Dragon masters, fright knights and dark forest.... We really don't see this approach anymore as most themes have two factions only these days. I feel like classic castle was set in land full of factions gaining and losing power as the decades go by with some factions intermingling and evolving, new ones arriving and other leaving never to return.

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah having multiple factions and not just the good guys and the bad guys made it so much more exciting!

  • @razordad7546
    @razordad7546 Жыл бұрын

    Can't wait for more vids

  • @hamrichonn_pictures
    @hamrichonn_pictures Жыл бұрын

    One day I would love to get some of the Forestman or Dark Forestman sets. They have a great atmosphere and would be great for brickfilming! Well done on 479 subscribers! :D

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah, if i had more free time these would be a instant go to for stop motion!

  • @hamrichonn_pictures

    @hamrichonn_pictures

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RobrickLego If you ever do get some time that would be great!

  • @EpicoNubletto
    @EpicoNubletto Жыл бұрын

    Awesome, would love to get one of these sets 😅

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    I only recommend getting the small one unboxed, its a literal nightmare! 😀

  • @gopherasoda2492
    @gopherasoda2492 Жыл бұрын

    2:44 Damn, that's a good well

  • @unknownshows537
    @unknownshows537 Жыл бұрын

    love this

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Love you 😳

  • @Maniac4Bricks
    @Maniac4Bricks Жыл бұрын

    3:00 this reminds me of how the torches in Knights Kingdom I were built the same way, with a different base color. Topped with the Lion crest on one faction matching King Leo's legion and the Bull Knights derived from the Dark Forest in some publications, it leads me to further believe Knights Kingdom I was a sort of continuation or revival of the Royal Knights/Dark Forest castle themes.

  • @AToastMadeOfLego
    @AToastMadeOfLego Жыл бұрын

    You vidoes are the best made lego videos out there

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

  • @danielwilliamson6180
    @danielwilliamson6180 Жыл бұрын

    I've got a couple of Dark Forest minifigures. I recently bought two Series 24 Black Falconers.

  • @modman287
    @modman287 Жыл бұрын

    I recently got a castle creator set that has those black/blue raven knights as well as some falconers from the new random figure packs, and now I want to make one of them have the basic :) face and hair to reference you :p plus I made my own dark forest man since I don't have any of those sets, I got fright knight sets back in the 90s

  • @hakanstorsater5090
    @hakanstorsater5090Ай бұрын

    This theme has always felt as some kind of mashup between Forestmen and Wolfpack to me. The new torsos were cool, but as a whole, I don't find it impressive enough for the aftermarket prices...

  • @gregleuze6657
    @gregleuze6657 Жыл бұрын

    Always good to hide the war crimes😏. My youngest daughter wants to amass a group of skeletons. Harder than it seems as the arms come from Denmark and take forever to arive. The castle mini figures are what I live for. Not even sure I have a favorite faction, I want them all!

  • @RobTFilms
    @RobTFilms Жыл бұрын

    this is poggers content

  • @lego_manfacture7
    @lego_manfacture7 Жыл бұрын

    Few months and already 500 subs,nice

  • @Smiffew
    @Smiffew Жыл бұрын

    Both carts in the cowboy theme can turn, they are fairly topheavy and like to fall over though

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    I've not gotten to collecting the Western sets yet but damn i cant wait to make a video on them 😄

  • @Gameprojordan
    @Gameprojordan Жыл бұрын

    Drew like a dark, fucked up version of the Forestman haha. Just a glimpse into my dark reality. A full stare into my twisted perspective would make most simply go insane lmao

  • @RoninCatholic
    @RoninCatholic Жыл бұрын

    I got those guys from the first set second-hand. Brown haired lad had part of the paint of his mouth flaked off, so he had a skin flap of his center lips fused together, and the green tunic was missing like a quarter of the back of it and wouldn't hold in an arm. So annoying, I'd have loved a working version of the green tunic. I've got a few Forestmen minifigures now, which I paid of course an embarassing amount of money to get second-hand and love having.

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Its a shame they're all so expensive, its made worse when you buy a set that needs replacements for the figs 😭

  • @Colts08
    @Colts08 Жыл бұрын

    Every middle schoolers humor be like: "I might need a microscope to see it"

  • @MissyPops181
    @MissyPops181 Жыл бұрын

    2:26 behind those eyes are a million war crimes D:

  • @LucaMuzi
    @LucaMuzi Жыл бұрын

    Prices are SICK

  • @mgsbrick
    @mgsbrick Жыл бұрын

    W VIDEO

  • @alecjsanjian9923
    @alecjsanjian9923 Жыл бұрын

    I am the 700s subscriber

  • @lightthemoononfire735
    @lightthemoononfire735 Жыл бұрын

    i choked on my spit when i saw those prices. whoo whee.

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    You can get them cheaper unboxed but yeah, its not for the faint of heart :(

  • @Vroom-Vroom.
    @Vroom-Vroom. Жыл бұрын

    "babe its not just plastic! its plastic that looks like gandalf"

  • @vtr0104
    @vtr0104 Жыл бұрын

    Sweet Jesus, 600 quid for that one O___o And I thought I was overdoing it by paying almost 400 bucks for one of the older trains.......

  • @thelegoconnoisseur0880
    @thelegoconnoisseur0880 Жыл бұрын

    Bro I would skin a child for every Lego castle set set them up and have so much fun for hours

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Big dream of mine to own the whole lineup but god they're expensive!

  • @thelegoconnoisseur0880

    @thelegoconnoisseur0880

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RobrickLego my parents nearly kicked me out when I told them how much the original pirate ship I bought cost

  • @trevordible2566
    @trevordible2566 Жыл бұрын

    i don’t think the transparent orange flame piece was around in 96

  • @venenomecca5855
    @venenomecca5855 Жыл бұрын

    What your opinion on classic space and town???

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Space i adore! Im planning on showing off more of my space sets soon, town though? Ew! Nah i like the idea around making your own town but the theme just doesn't excite me like the others.

  • @criminalmind27
    @criminalmind2726 күн бұрын

    you are very funny

  • @roddlez
    @roddlez Жыл бұрын

    Wow, 0:55 I have three boxes of set 1547 that I picked up back in the day. Didn't realize they so rarely were sold. Hey, why are you sharpening that pitchfork? Please step outside of my personal space!

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah its a US exclusive so im not sure about in the states but over in Europe its really hard to find :)

  • @cakemanLHK
    @cakemanLHK Жыл бұрын

    "We actually managed to get over 100 subscribers recently" - video published 11 hours ago - 400 subscribers

  • @markusyeetus
    @markusyeetus Жыл бұрын

    You are the Goniloc of plastic bricks (a good thing I can assure you)

  • @RobrickLego

    @RobrickLego

    Жыл бұрын

    Do i risk googling it 🤔