The Legacy Of The DARK Forestmen 

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

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

Please keep those videos going, they are amazing!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

Really enjoying these classic videos!

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.

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.

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.

man i wish i was born when lego was this good

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

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

2:44 Damn, that's a good well

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.

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.

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

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

1:29 lmao I need that head piece🤣

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!

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

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

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...

I am excited to see more of your castle collection !

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

Well this was absolutely hilarious! Thanks!

Bro I love your videos,need more to watch

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!! ❤️❤️❤️

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!

Such a great, underrated channel!

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

Few months and already 500 subs,nice

Your videos are so good You deserve more views

Can't wait for more vids

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

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

Great video!!

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.

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

You vidoes are the best made lego videos out there

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

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

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

Awesome, would love to get one of these sets 😅

love this

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.......

Prices are SICK

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

this is poggers content

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

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

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

W VIDEO

I am the 700s subscriber

What your opinion on classic space and town???

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!

you are very funny

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

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