I'm pretty sure it's a dismembered knight. You have the yellow cylinder for the head, the gray one for the helmet, the yellow 2x1 for a torso, and the blue and red for his clothes.
I was thinking that too! Especially if you consider that you can't really represent misc Lego body parts too obviously due to how unlike real bodies they can't be cut up into smaller parts
My first thought was "the thing being carted is a corpse" Then I thought about it some more and realised the colours of the bricks in the cart are the same as the knights. This isn't just a corpse, but the mangled remains of a comrade
Knight's Procession is only the US name. In the UK it's called Medieval Knights. In Dutch the name is 6 ridders met buit, which translates as 6 knights with loot. In French, Défilé des chevaliers or Parade of knights. In Luxembourgish, Wapenknechten or Armsmen. And in German it's, Ritter or Knight.
Yep. There are loads of historical images (and more modern ones, thanks to groups like the Knights of Malta) of knights parading about on foot with their treasures.
I was able to confirm this in less time than this video is long, and certainly in less than I'm sure it took to make. It's a loot cart. Mystery solved.
correction: the word Ritter in the german language can both mean singular and plural. In this case it definitely was plural, so it would translate to "Knights".
The term procession can also be used for funerals. Based off the colors and the round yellow brick it also appears to be, a disassembled (to appear less noticable) Lego Knight.
I agree. In addition, its weird that he refers to those soldiers as knights when, according to the title, its a knight's procession. Seem to me like those are regular soldiers carrying the body of their fallen comrade/commander.
@@txthtxth Yeah, the singular is very telling when you consider that none of the walking men-at-arms stand out as a singular Knight amidst the group. Where is the singular Knight? He's in the cart.
Exactly! Those little knights could be anything, i think me and my brother mainly used them as opponents to the robinhood set as well, but they quickly became enlisted in the army of a larger fraction, after all that's how things actually did work in the medieval Europe as well, especially for a lego knight... ;-) (And, yes of course one can hawe bot since they do exist, the rest is up to You ;) ) I am a huge fan of Hal Fosters books and i still have the magazines i could find on my bookshelf i use to read from time to time, Northern Sweden reminds a lot of the Canadian wilderness, unfortunately including the absence of actual medieval stone fortification, that he too had to add in to the landscape and he was in my opinion a true master of fusing the magic of the medieval old world into the untamed wilderness of Vinland.
I always thought it was like that "BRING OUT YER DEAD" cart early in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and "procession" meant like a funeral procession. That said your video is really well researched and compelling, and I can't decide which would be more accurate
I'm from Belgium and that set looks like the religious processions we still do in some parts of the counrty. Most cities have relics that we carry around the town, by foot, once a year. The tradition goes back to medieval time and some people are even dressed like medieval folks. Whan I saw your Lego set, I immediately thought of that so you might be right.
You have quite the head canon for this set. I'm betting someone at lego just said "we need a castle set in the $5 price range" and this one is what came out. "Why are there six knights instead of anything to build?" "Uhhh...it's a parade. Uhhh...make that procession to sound old-timey."
But why are the minifigures then printed with emblems different from the other sets? This wouldn't fit in as an army builder because they're not the same minifigures. That's like mixing clone troopers and storm troopers
I love the disssonance between the sentence "Have they just left the slaughter, or are they about to head into one of the most notorious in history" spoken over 6 lego faces that smile like they know no evil.
When he started talking about the Crusades I immediately thought that that set might have been a reference to the death, attempt at pickling, and subsequent burials of Emperor Frederick I during the Third Crusade.
Its the leftover body parts of the slain king of Legoland. The procession is in essence an honorary rite to return the body of the fallen king, mutilated as it may be, to the kingdom of its origin. After this event, a war of succession broke out between different factions. This plunged the once prosperous kingdom into centuries of war, between the known and lesser known factions to follow in succeeding generations of Lego Castle. Factions like the Black Falcons, the Wolf Pack and Lion Knights are all examples of these. And the previously small forestmen band of thieves expanded to become a dominant force of pseudo-democratic rebellion against any and all pretenders to the throne. This eventually led to the worship and unleashing of dark, forgotten forces of magic and legend, leading to the rise of Majisto, witchcraft, necromancy, the re-emergence of dragons, the creation of Basil the Bat Lord and the Curse of Orcus to turn men into Orcs. Or thats my headcanon, anyway. Gotta find some way to explain all these different castle sets in my possession.
I thought for sure you were gonna say they were carrying a dismembered knight because the colors of the bricks on the cart are perfectly matching those which the knights have. red and blue shirts, yellow head, and grey helms and pants
I know you said LEGO is a slippery slope collecting-wise, especially as a content creator, but those little dioramas you made to illustrate your points and your track record of intelligent commentary really makes me crave more RB LEGO stuff. I’m biased, though. I’m addicted to those little plastic bricks.
Never crossed your mind that it might be a fallen compatriot? I've heard of funeral processions. Never once have I heard moving loot referred to that way.
Cool theory! I like the idea. I was personally thinking of it being a Funeral Procession, the "person" (Whatever those bricks are) having been chopped to bits during battle is being carried by men that may have been allies/comrades? Perhaps a fallen general? A bit dark, but not too unlikely. (Take it with a grain of salt, of-course. lol)
Looking at the coloured bricks, seeing that a classic lego man is yellow skinned and wore a red shirt and blue trousers, and that the grey cylinder there matches the colour of the knights helmet, I immediately came to the conclusion that the thing being pulled in the wagon is definitely a dead body.
Ive had royal funerals on the mind since the death of Elizabeth the second and i think that this set could be a bunch of loyal knights carrying off the cut up body of their lord after a battle, a practice common to soldiers of medieval armies, and as this group of soldiers has no name they might be what remains of a once mighty force now deposed from power and forgotten by their fellow knights
Interesting take. But couldn't you better replicate a cut up body by just pulling the head and legs off a mini figure? The arms and hands are detachable too. I wonder how that would have looked in the box art? 🤔
Considering Elizabeth’s coffin was carried on a pull cart, escorted by soldiers, and that he coffin had various royal objects on top…. There’s certainly parallels between that funeral procession and what we see in this set.
As a child in the 70’s that set was a favorite because it was an inexpensive extra cashe of “Lego guys” … and all we kids knew the cart was for carry the dead one back to his funeral. The castle theme remains my favorite and when my kids were growing up they each had their favorite lego theme that we built together, but for me … it will always be the castles ❤
And sometimes it's just a reason to put together a set of extra mini figures without saying: hey airds, we were too cheap to include a reasonable number of knights in your castle set. Bug your parents to buy this to get half a dozen extra knights.
@@drrtfm then why do these minifigures have different printing? Their emblems do not match the other sets' knights, so if you want to use this to make a bigger army, you cannot. Even if kids don't care about printing, there is more to this set than simply "more dudes lmao"
At the time, the smiles were there primarily to be kid friendly, minifigs' faces are far more expressive now since the technology has advanced far beyond what they had then. Were this set to be released today you can bet the soldiers' faces would look a lot more somber like they're saying "The King is dead, what will become of us?"
I think it would be more ambiguous than that...but I agree, the faces would be much more detailed now. A face that looks weary, a face that looks angry or crazed (like maybe he is just a brute), a face that looks sincere, the kinds of expressions you would expect to see for a period of war and battle in it's time.
a procession is just moving forward in an orderly fashion, usually in a ceremony or festival. This would be a time where pull carts might be neccecary with lots of people around
My thoughts exactly. This whole video was pretty pointless, I feel. If he has studied the medieval period that much the title should be self explanatory, imo
I read it as the knights bringing along a fallen comrade. Look at the colors of the bricks at the back. They are the same as the knights. They are pulling along the hacked up carcass of one of their own.
Although that makes their smiles rather disturbing. I think they might have left the mouths blank if it were a comrade. Unless maybe it's a deserter or traitor they executed! Have a nice day!
Always figured it was supposed to be a funeral procession, but since it's Lego, they can't just imply death in a kids toy, so they simply replaced the coffin or body with random blocks
I had this set. The other ones that you are showing in your video are much younger. The Knight's Procession is from a time where there were no lion knights. There was only one Lego castle and it was made of hundreds of yellow bricks, and all the horses were made of bricks too. The main faction's crest was a crown on a pink background. The mini figures were blue. And if I remember correctly there was only one other set from that time, which was some sort of tournement grounds.The mounted knights had the same helmets as the astronauts, but with a movable visor.
I remember my mom telling me about this set when I was in kindergarten and eventually rewarding me with it for being good. I was so excited to have some knights to play with; I had no idea they had such a dubious origin.
It was what you wanted it to be, as this was and is the whole point of lego. This is just an idea If someone really wants a lore, but a band of heroes saving treasures from bandits in a tiny cart also works :D
Whats crazy is even adjusting for inflation that is still cheap! $1 in 1997 is about $1.85 in 2022 so at $15 for that set, that is still only $27.75 today.
The Danish name of the set "ridderoptog" is more akin to a showing off, the kind of word that applies to a procession that insinuates a parade of sorts, but in Swedish and Norwegian they are just called "knights".
Most likely the guys at Lego back int the day “hey let’s make a mini figure set with non factioned characters, to let kids build their armies, just make the side build as small as possible to keep the price low.” This guy “okay let’s figure out the meaning behind this small set with an obscure name!!” In all reality this was a very interesting video, the TH-cam algorithm once again showing me another great channel!
I collected the 80s era castle sets as a kid as well. A little set like that, to me, would really just be a cheap means of building up the manpower of my lego army!
I had this! In the UK this 1979 set was known as "Medieval Knights" and with German brevity in the same year just listed as "Knights" (Ritter). And I believe in Holland also as (Ridders). So maybe someone at Lego thought that the kids in the US needed some explaination what these guys are doing? A procession after the sack of Jerusalem? Loved the low-key promo of Kingdom Of Heaven. The directors cut of that one is one of the greatest movies nobody saw. Highly recommended.
@@PlasticGeordie , and yet ironically more death has happened at the hands of the people that are of the religion that claims to be an anti-religion or a non-religion than there ever were in the Crusades.
@@paxhumana2015 On the other hand, the 20th century (which you seem to be alluding to) had far larger populations, far larger armies much more easily capable of inflicting mass death, as well as the growth of large, centralized nation-states which had to confront issues very different from that of medieval Christian and Muslim rulers. World War I killed far more than the Crusades, for example, but I don't think you can blame it on either religion or atheism.
I miss their knight themes. One of my all-time favorite themes will always be the one with the Lion and dragon kingdoms. I occasionally will find pieces of the characters and rebuild them to continue their duties lol.
They're actually was a very dark medieval Lego theme that was planned called "Europa" but they never released it. It was basically Napoleonic era Europe with a bunch of colonialists looking mini figures like from pirates line
More pop-culture-history than actual history. A procession is simply a line of people, it doesn't have to be in a religious context. Equally in medieval times people could be knighted for battlefield accomplishment, even if they didn't have the wealth to be a proper knight. So this "knights procession" could equally be a bunch of common soldiers on their way to the war camps toilet area.
Wow this was cool you took the time to think this one out. I always had castle legos and space legos when I was a kid, I never thought they could ever be based on real history, however I was a kid then and I did not think of real history when playing with toys. Nice Work!
These are my first Lego sets I got around 1990 after my first visit of a "capitalistic" toy store in the Western World: The Robin Hood, the horse cart, a knights war boat and many more. I love the norman helmets and broad swords, the beautifully painted shields and so on. Later i progressed to the pirates skull hide out and 18th century soldiers they sold. It was really great stuff Lego showed up with during that time. Very creative in its simplicity.
I live in Canada and had an all yellow lego castle from the late 70s to early 80s, it had a draw bridge, 4 towers, inner court yard and came with 10 men at arms and 4 mounted knights. It was the first Lego kit I built closely following the instructions ( I was 12 or thereabouts) and was extremely happy with it and kept it till the late 80s and then gave it to a younger family member....man, I wish I still had it! Cool video....if not rather mysterious....just like my old castle. Cheers!
Don’t forget, we had to build our own horses in that yellow castle set. Could you imagine your baddest knight riding a f’king stack of blocks with no eyes into battle? Kids today don’t know how good they have it… when it comes to LEGOs I mean. The rest of their childhood sux compared to the 80s.
Some Danish guy at LEGO in 1979: We have some unused knight themed pieces. Might as well just put them with this little wagon and some random pieces and sell it for $30. This guy 43 years later: OMG IT'S THE SACK OF JERUSALEM
This is wild. The 6077 Knight's Procession was the only Castle System set I had as a child and I immediately recognized it from the loose pieces. I was unaware until this day of the possible significance of the "procession" in the title. Fascinating!
You're reading way too much into this. In Danish the set is called ridderoptog. Ridder meaning knight and optog meaning parade or closer in regards to knights; procession. The Danish name came first. I'm guessing Lego needed a small set for the small birthday presents. People wouldn't buy just four knights then there's nothing to built, so Lego gave you four knights and a few bricks and various ways to use them.
I remember I used to have the Kings mountain fortress set 6081. For me, it was always knights vs pirates with my space sets being impartial observers to the carnage.
I know this probably gets mentioned a lot, but the craft and intelligence that goes into RetroBlasting videos is always impressive. This one is one of my favorites.
The most disturbing set ever I remember was the early 80's lego police station. It was supposed to come with 10 little people, but after opening the box half of them had no arms or faces cause Lego cut corners, they just had blob bodies and a square block shaped like legs, and lumps where their arms were supposed to be. I was only 6 and I was really upset about it lol. I guess it creeped me out.
That wasn’t LEGO cutting corners. That was the original design of minifigs. There are no police sets from the 1980s that have those figs. 6 police sets from 1975-1977 only. After 1977 the modern minifig took over.
@@flyingstonemon3564 yep even the knob that you pushed the head on the body was really short. They came with caps but when you tried to take off their hat or whatever their heads kept "breaking" off. That was the part little ol me did not like at all lol How much did Lego save by making the neck knobs shorter? With what they charged for sets... it wasn't good. They seem to have changed things up since though. The sets I see in the stores today, many of the figures are pretty elaborate.
@@c.rutherford Honestly quite the mystery, would have been great if you had any remaining lego of that set to show off or have a video of the set in question on youtube
You know the part that makes this whole thing extra disturbing? It's the smiles the minifigs have on their faces...either they are paying grueling penance with a false smile on their faces to hide the pain, or they are all smiles after a conflict notorious for literally causing people to have to wade through blood. The first one is definitely less disturbing...but it is still weird.
This makes me want to cry as I lost this set as a child. I left it at some kids house who was the son of my mom's friend. I never got it back and I still think about to this day.
Knight's Procession was the very first Lego set I ever owned. I can still remember the Lego aisle in K-mart. Got me started on years of Lego enjoyment. Good times.
This reminds me of an old lego set I had back when i was growing up in the late 90's, a castle set with a giant green plastic base, a bunch of cannons and two warring factions ... haven't though of those in years
I also lived in England as a kid and owned some of these sets, I was really into things that celebrated medieval times until I grew older and learned about some of the truly horrific things that they did to people back in those days. This was a really good video, it made me think about something that was a part of my childhood, made me want to revisit my old Lego sets, made me want to read history but most of all taught me something.
Knight's Procession is one of my favorite sets. I just really love basic Castle soldiers, so getting a bunch of really similar ones all together is always great to me.
2:42 that picture brings back A LOT of freakin memories. I remember how creative you had to be with SO little. Like you barely got ANYTHING in those older sets but you managed to squeeze the creative juices right out of it. That's lego for you in a nutshell.
If I recall, during the barefoot procession a soldier discovered a spearhead that supposedly had pierced Jesus, this was one of the big reasons the soldiers had gotten so reinvigorated and made such an astonishing come back. Funnily enough, as of typing this, I am in an advanced world history class which had just recently talked about this. I was not really expecting such a detailed analysis of the first crusade in this video but I am very happy about it!
Not that I put any stake in religious texts or anything, but I believe Jesus was purported to be stabbed with spears, not shot with arrows, so that likely would have been a spearhead in that story, possibly the "spear of destiny."
Correct campaign, but the place and time was different - the supposed Holy Lance was found after the capture of the city of Antioch in 1098, and the next spring of 1099 the crusaders besieged Jerusalem.
I'm not as much of an expert on medieval history, but I immediately assumed the "Knight's Procession" was a *funeral* procession. The blocks in the cart are all suspiciously colored like the knights themselves, as if meant to represent a fallen comrade. Perhaps it would have been too obvious and questionable to have one apparently dead guy sit in the cart.
Holy Relics in the cart: 1x1 gray cylinder - Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch 2x1 yellow brick - Divine Accordion of St. Yankovic 1x1 yellow brick - Hallowed Cigar Humidor of Byzantium 1x1 blue brick - Blessed Scotch Tumbler of Aquinas 2x3 red brick - Sanctified Yeti Cooler of White Claws... For whence thou dost bring the Claws, there shalt be no laws.
That was really cool, as a kid growing up in Australia in the 80's I do not think I ever saw the "Knights procession" on our shelves (as I am sure I would have got it) look forward to the Lion Castle review. I do love mine.
This randomly popped up in my recommended and I wasn’t paying much attention but then you started talking about history so I restarted the video. Woah! I think it’s 100% a funeral procession, the colors match up too well with… slaughtered LEGO men. Cool video! Subbed.
I got this for my tenth birthday. It expanded my interest in arms and armor from the Medieval period, which led to my love of history and reading, which in turn expanded my education and defined the rest of my life. Thanks mom and dad. Thanks LEGO!
This video came out very nicely, doing the whole thing in lego mode and even making a lego version of yourself was really wild! one of your best, dude!
when I saw the word "disturbing" in the title, my mind jumped to the conclusion that, given the fact that it is a Procession, the knights are carrying the remains of King Barbarossa (also supported by the grey lego brick which kinda looks like a skull)
Oh my! These knights and the robin hood green archer figures takes me back to my 5 year old self. This was probably my first lego set ever, not the big castle though. I remember the shields, weapons and the pouch print on the green archers. I also remember having the knights with swords and axes and all of those helmet types. This video took me by surprise. I am amazed I even remember this. Cheers from a 40 year old dude in Norway!
Meanwhile, in lego headquarters at the time: "we need some more props for the castle seires." "i dont think we did a hand drawn cart yet" "ok, go do that"
It seems that many of the figures in these early sets were erroneously dubbed "Knights." But when taken in context with other contemporary sets, these figures are clearly meant to represent sergeants, or squires in service to a Knight and possibly his lady. As there are figures in other sets with visored helms. So possibly this is the Knight's retinue and baggage train?
Spoiler alert: the knights are pulling a cart that contains what's left of someone who has been Hung, Drawn and Quartered. The Knights are taking the remains to place them at various points throughout the city and/or kingdom, as a message to anyone else who might rebel.
many have pointed out in the comments here that this could be a knight's body being transported, likely for burial, and that they likely didn't use a minifig because of PG considerations. but it could also just be something relic-related-relics are oftentimes brought to battles, both for morale and divine assistance reasons. there's the Procession around Jerusalem as mentioned in the video, but there's also an anecdote about Henry V bringing a bunch of monks with him to Agincourt so they can pray while everyone else is literally in the heat of battle. the most extreme case is the Italian carroccio, which is a massive ox-drawn altar hauled out when your city is battling someone else. almost like Capture the Flag, getting your carroccio taken is a massive and shameful loss.
"Lion Knights" can mean, like, four different factions. I think it was around Kingdoms that they were renamed Crusaders, as the new guys were WAY more Lion-heavy.
Yet searching the internet for 'Lion Knights' only gives Lego references - not a single link to a group that actually existed and actually went on crusades was found.
Procession, funeral procession, colors of the knights in the set, a round yellow piece, and a round grey piece… I think this is a severely dismembered knight that they are walking to his final resting place
Yeah, I was thinking of something similar. Maybe the dude was really mangled in battle, with the blue and red bricks representing his clothes/armor, and the yellow being his remains.
Great theory with this one. Could these knights represent, Raymond, Tancred, Godfrey, the two Roberts, Gaston, or the other principal European commanders? Those crafty Danish small plastic brick engineers! "Behind those vacant smiles hid the most viscous sort of plastic soldier!" -Brick Bohemond of Taranto, Probably
I had this set as I child. It was part of the very first Lego knight series with the yellow castle and the tournament set. However it was a relatively rare set and I remember visiting toy shops in many different places my parents took me and none of them had the set. My parents secretly bought the last set in a toy store in Luxembourg, leaving me with the impression that this shop like so many others did not have this particular set, only to surprise me at my birthday a month later. I was over the moon. The other sets you show in this video are from later dates.
I got this set in 1980, in Zurich, Switzerland, and then my grandma bought me the amazing huge yellow castle set that complemented it, which you didn't show. Great stuff! I didn't know any of these existed until that trip. I don't think I'd had any explicitly ready-for-battle Lego before that.
It could be a reference to the processions of, bringing out the dead. From Monty Python's in Search For The Holy Grail. Lego couldn't call it that for copyright issues, but Python was very popular in the late 70s.
Wow Michael, I think you’ve cracked the code…. If you start putting out a few Lego videos like this one every so often, the channel will probably “blow up”! This was so entertaining and now you’re dragging me back into Lego 😅 -Mike’s G.I. Dojo
I love how there is this nearly universal thing when it comes to pairs of brothers in the 80s where one would collect the space lego and the other the castle sets, me and my brother were the same, and I was the castle set collector
IIRC, one of the reasons why Lego nearly went out of business was the sheer number of unique and rare blocks they had introduced. It made the sets a lot more expensive to sell as they had a bunch of injection molds for a bunch of unusual bricks.
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I'm pretty sure it's a dismembered knight. You have the yellow cylinder for the head, the gray one for the helmet, the yellow 2x1 for a torso, and the blue and red for his clothes.
Was thinking the same thing! XD
yeah it's a lod model
I was thinking that too! Especially if you consider that you can't really represent misc Lego body parts too obviously due to how unlike real bodies they can't be cut up into smaller parts
Yup, also my first thought, because of the title of this video.
I thought so too, but they would have used an actual minifig head if that was the intent, I think.
My first thought was "the thing being carted is a corpse"
Then I thought about it some more and realised the colours of the bricks in the cart are the same as the knights. This isn't just a corpse, but the mangled remains of a comrade
And look how all his comrades are smiling!
@@ian_b :)
Same train of thought here
@@ian_b it was one of those really annoying coworker
or they are simoly clothes
Knight's Procession is only the US name. In the UK it's called Medieval Knights. In Dutch the name is 6 ridders met buit, which translates as 6 knights with loot. In French, Défilé des chevaliers or Parade of knights. In Luxembourgish, Wapenknechten or Armsmen. And in German it's, Ritter or Knight.
So, it's basically a loot cart carrying spoils of war.
Yep. There are loads of historical images (and more modern ones, thanks to groups like the Knights of Malta) of knights parading about on foot with their treasures.
I was able to confirm this in less time than this video is long, and certainly in less than I'm sure it took to make. It's a loot cart. Mystery solved.
yep this vid is basically view bait@@Vesperas_
correction: the word Ritter in the german language can both mean singular and plural. In this case it definitely was plural, so it would translate to "Knights".
The term procession can also be used for funerals. Based off the colors and the round yellow brick it also appears to be, a disassembled (to appear less noticable) Lego Knight.
My mind instantly went to funeral procession and the dismembered nature of the corps creeped me out.
I agree. In addition, its weird that he refers to those soldiers as knights when, according to the title, its a knight's procession. Seem to me like those are regular soldiers carrying the body of their fallen comrade/commander.
@@txthtxth Yeah, the singular is very telling when you consider that none of the walking men-at-arms stand out as a singular Knight amidst the group. Where is the singular Knight? He's in the cart.
could be a dismembered Muslim Saracen enemy in the cart?
“Bring out ya deeeeeaaaaad!”
“I’m not dead!” “You’ll be stone cold in a moment…”
This is why the classic sets are so good. They let imagination fill in the gaps.
To me as a kid, armed with the Foster book of Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, these were robber-knights with their plunder.
@@SeekingNamelessly imagination isn’t really needed when the game’s just really good
@@swaggaming4953 , why not have both things instead? Why must it be one or the other?
Exactly! Those little knights could be anything, i think me and my brother mainly used them as opponents to the robinhood set as well, but they quickly became enlisted in the army of a larger fraction, after all that's how things actually did work in the medieval Europe as well, especially for a lego knight... ;-)
(And, yes of course one can hawe bot since they do exist, the rest is up to You ;) )
I am a huge fan of Hal Fosters books and i still have the magazines i could find on my bookshelf i use to read from time to time, Northern Sweden reminds a lot of the Canadian wilderness, unfortunately including the absence of actual medieval stone fortification, that he too had to add in to the landscape and he was in my opinion a true master of fusing the magic of the medieval old world into the untamed wilderness of Vinland.
@@paxhumana2015 that's called Atari 2600 /j
I always thought it was like that "BRING OUT YER DEAD" cart early in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and "procession" meant like a funeral procession. That said your video is really well researched and compelling, and I can't decide which would be more accurate
I feel fine!
You're not fooling anyone, you'll be stone dead in a minute.
god damn it you beat me
@@CT-ho6si You're not fooling anyone, you know!
@@ck2503 same bro those colors in the cart even look like Lego man colors
I'm from Belgium and that set looks like the religious processions we still do in some parts of the counrty. Most cities have relics that we carry around the town, by foot, once a year. The tradition goes back to medieval time and some people are even dressed like medieval folks. Whan I saw your Lego set, I immediately thought of that so you might be right.
this should be top comment
That's what I was thinking too!
(I'm from Antwerp~)
That sounds pretty cool. I would like to see that.
I think the european viewpoint here is the most apt.
We rlly do that?
You have quite the head canon for this set.
I'm betting someone at lego just said "we need a castle set in the $5 price range" and this one is what came out.
"Why are there six knights instead of anything to build?"
"Uhhh...it's a parade. Uhhh...make that procession to sound old-timey."
The set to get if you just want some more lego dudes
Yeah this channel thinks LEGO has their crap together, generous. They just sell bricks bro they don’t think that hard
But why are the minifigures then printed with emblems different from the other sets? This wouldn't fit in as an army builder because they're not the same minifigures. That's like mixing clone troopers and storm troopers
@@brysonthor That's a dumb thought. Spanish architecture, French-patterned soldiers, then British... Sure it's all just off-the-cuff.
Great story, found these pieces! And I love the armless Vader
When I hear procession I normally think funeral, but that would mean that the body in the cart is brutally dismembered 😟
Well medieval warfare can be brutal…
Yeah-that pretty much checks out, thought of a body as soon as I saw that thing because of the colours.
Exactly what I thought it was from the beginning.
Yes, and the 6 guys around it are showing a pretty smiling face
Parade has sort of overtaken the other versions but a procession is any formal march.
I love the disssonance between the sentence "Have they just left the slaughter, or are they about to head into one of the most notorious in history" spoken over 6 lego faces that smile like they know no evil.
The 666 likes are very fitting
The combination of Lego history and actual history in this video is fantastic. Nice detective work!
@@basic_avarage_person based😎
@@basic_avarage_person somebody didnt get enough attention as a child
lego history is actual history
Yeah but the cart has rubber wheels LoL, I'm pretty sure they didn't have rubber yet back in medieval times 🤔
When he started talking about the Crusades I immediately thought that that set might have been a reference to the death, attempt at pickling, and subsequent burials of Emperor Frederick I during the Third Crusade.
Its the leftover body parts of the slain king of Legoland. The procession is in essence an honorary rite to return the body of the fallen king, mutilated as it may be, to the kingdom of its origin.
After this event, a war of succession broke out between different factions. This plunged the once prosperous kingdom into centuries of war, between the known and lesser known factions to follow in succeeding generations of Lego Castle. Factions like the Black Falcons, the Wolf Pack and Lion Knights are all examples of these. And the previously small forestmen band of thieves expanded to become a dominant force of pseudo-democratic rebellion against any and all pretenders to the throne. This eventually led to the worship and unleashing of dark, forgotten forces of magic and legend, leading to the rise of Majisto, witchcraft, necromancy, the re-emergence of dragons, the creation of Basil the Bat Lord and the Curse of Orcus to turn men into Orcs.
Or thats my headcanon, anyway. Gotta find some way to explain all these different castle sets in my possession.
I thought for sure you were gonna say they were carrying a dismembered knight because the colors of the bricks on the cart are perfectly matching those which the knights have. red and blue shirts, yellow head, and grey helms and pants
Felt the same way, and the likes seem to agree as well.
I know you said LEGO is a slippery slope collecting-wise, especially as a content creator, but those little dioramas you made to illustrate your points and your track record of intelligent commentary really makes me crave more RB LEGO stuff.
I’m biased, though. I’m addicted to those little plastic bricks.
Plastic crack.
Much like collecting Warhammer, you can never have enough or too much
"Me who loves gaming and Lego" WHY DOESN'T SUPPORT THEY DIGITAL SET CREATOR ANYMORE!
Man i just wanna plan out a build...
@@last_dutch_hero258 “hah look at this guy! He wants to actually plan out a build! Nerd!!!!” -Lego probably
Use Studio 2.0
why the second reich pfp?
If Brickmania sold the "Knights Procession" kit today, they'd be like, "yeah... that'll be $650....."
I mean it does have 6 completely unique minifigures and it's from the 1980's.
and rare
@@RGC_animation the joke is that Brickmania is insanely expensive
@@thestumpinator5774 Any LEGO set that retired for more than a year is ridiculously expensive.
@@RGC_animation I don’t think you know what brickmania is
Never crossed your mind that it might be a fallen compatriot? I've heard of funeral processions. Never once have I heard moving loot referred to that way.
@@gh0stpa1nt That was my thoughts as well maybe a fallen knight in the after math of the battle?
That is definatelly a mangled corpse or bodyparts!
Exactly. It’s called Knight’s procession, not Knights’ procession
Cool theory! I like the idea. I was personally thinking of it being a Funeral Procession, the "person" (Whatever those bricks are) having been chopped to bits during battle is being carried by men that may have been allies/comrades? Perhaps a fallen general? A bit dark, but not too unlikely. (Take it with a grain of salt, of-course. lol)
That was my conclusion too. "Procession" has often religious connotations, and the blocks in the cart have the same colours of their attire and skin
The body seems to be bearing the colors of the Pallbearer types so ya know what I bet it is a fallen comrade
Nah it’s holy relics
Me, too
Seconding this. This is the first thing that sprang to mind, even when just seeing the title and thumbnail of the video.
Looking at the coloured bricks, seeing that a classic lego man is yellow skinned and wore a red shirt and blue trousers, and that the grey cylinder there matches the colour of the knights helmet, I immediately came to the conclusion that the thing being pulled in the wagon is definitely a dead body.
Ive had royal funerals on the mind since the death of Elizabeth the second and i think that this set could be a bunch of loyal knights carrying off the cut up body of their lord after a battle, a practice common to soldiers of medieval armies, and as this group of soldiers has no name they might be what remains of a once mighty force now deposed from power and forgotten by their fellow knights
That was my first guess, too. The "procession" meaning a funeral procession.
I had a similar thought.
Interesting take. But couldn't you better replicate a cut up body by just pulling the head and legs off a mini figure? The arms and hands are detachable too. I wonder how that would have looked in the box art? 🤔
Considering Elizabeth’s coffin was carried on a pull cart, escorted by soldiers, and that he coffin had various royal objects on top…. There’s certainly parallels between that funeral procession and what we see in this set.
Well, the color of the pieces in the wagon matches those of the minifigs quite well...
Fun fact about LEGO. They're the number 1 tire manufacturer in the world
I'm surprised that one of the manufacturers of Chinese knock-off Lego hasn't surpassed them yet.
Must be easy seeing as how they're 1/1000th of the size of a real tire.
Whoa
@@Loveistheirwholehapp still counts
Totally still counts lol
The blacksmith shop looks amazing honestly. I’m really sad they don’t make sets that are simple but so fun like this anymore.
Yeah, I miss the old castle themes. Lego's kind of given up on their classic themes like medieval, space, etc. I guess.
Lego really needs to make another siege tower
As a child in the 70’s that set was a favorite because it was an inexpensive extra cashe of “Lego guys” … and all we kids knew the cart was for carry the dead one back to his funeral. The castle theme remains my favorite and when my kids were growing up they each had their favorite lego theme that we built together, but for me … it will always be the castles ❤
i was born in 2000, but grew up playing with this very same set, because by father who was a child in the 70s saved his and handed it down to me!
@@bradthunderpants3283 I still have my castle sets from the '80s/'90s, but my kids aren't ready for it yet.
@@philhelm1318 you are not ready to part with the sets you mean :)
The castle sets are the cream of the crop Lego sets. That's all I had for Legos as a kid. I wanted nothing to do with the nerdy space stuff.
@@philhelm1318 I envy you... mine were passed onwards to some relatives and are gone. The castle sets were the best. Had almost all shown here :D
I had the yellow castle as a kid. I had a long “Knights are the most awesome thing ever” phase, so that set has always been my favorite.
I'm 19 and still in that phase 💀
Yeah 😂 knights are still the most awesome thing ever
Knights are still the most awesome thing
I'm pleased to be with the knights enjoyers
I still have it... and this set of part of the Lego knights theme at the time. The other stuff displayed is of a later stage.
Sometimes a knight's procession is just a knight's procession...
Ikr what a waste of time watching this was.
And sometimes it's just a reason to put together a set of extra mini figures without saying: hey airds, we were too cheap to include a reasonable number of knights in your castle set. Bug your parents to buy this to get half a dozen extra knights.
@@drafezard7315 it’s just an interesting take on something, shut up
@@drrtfm then why do these minifigures have different printing? Their emblems do not match the other sets' knights, so if you want to use this to make a bigger army, you cannot. Even if kids don't care about printing, there is more to this set than simply "more dudes lmao"
and sometimes it's so. much. more....
At the time, the smiles were there primarily to be kid friendly, minifigs' faces are far more expressive now since the technology has advanced far beyond what they had then. Were this set to be released today you can bet the soldiers' faces would look a lot more somber like they're saying "The King is dead, what will become of us?"
I think it would be more ambiguous than that...but I agree, the faces would be much more detailed now. A face that looks weary, a face that looks angry or crazed (like maybe he is just a brute), a face that looks sincere, the kinds of expressions you would expect to see for a period of war and battle in it's time.
I am truly awed and humbled by the passion you summon to read meaning into a lego set i ate as a child.
I would like to clarify the above statement is not sarcastic in the least.
@@CheerfuEntropy we've all done it
Ate?
@@retroblasting they could be having a precession of the spoils they plundered i guess
@@retroblasting lol he means eating the pieces, like when children swallow them.
a procession is just moving forward in an orderly fashion, usually in a ceremony or festival. This would be a time where pull carts might be neccecary with lots of people around
My thoughts exactly. This whole video was pretty pointless, I feel. If he has studied the medieval period that much the title should be self explanatory, imo
I read it as the knights bringing along a fallen comrade.
Look at the colors of the bricks at the back. They are the same as the knights.
They are pulling along the hacked up carcass of one of their own.
Although that makes their smiles rather disturbing. I think they might have left the mouths blank if it were a comrade. Unless maybe it's a deserter or traitor they executed! Have a nice day!
I had assumed it was the severed heads of their enemies
@@squirlmy at the time that was the only face print lego made
Does that mean at 2:43 they are eating their comrade?
Always figured it was supposed to be a funeral procession, but since it's Lego, they can't just imply death in a kids toy, so they simply replaced the coffin or body with random blocks
I was thinking burned witches or something.
This is basically a battle pack, like the ones lego does for Star Wars. I really wanted that for castle/knights' kingdom when I was little
I am always astounded by Michael's ability to analyze and then build a story off of it.
It is now an undeniable fact, that a RetroBlasting video guarantees excellence.
I had this set. The other ones that you are showing in your video are much younger. The Knight's Procession is from a time where there were no lion knights. There was only one Lego castle and it was made of hundreds of yellow bricks, and all the horses were made of bricks too. The main faction's crest was a crown on a pink background. The mini figures were blue. And if I remember correctly there was only one other set from that time, which was some sort of tournement grounds.The mounted knights had the same helmets as the astronauts, but with a movable visor.
This. ^
Yes the original castle line up was just three sets. This, a jousting tourney, and the yellow castle.
I remember my mom telling me about this set when I was in kindergarten and eventually rewarding me with it for being good. I was so excited to have some knights to play with; I had no idea they had such a dubious origin.
But knight's job is to kill people. What did you expect?
It was what you wanted it to be, as this was and is the whole point of lego. This is just an idea If someone really wants a lore, but a band of heroes saving treasures from bandits in a tiny cart also works :D
Retroblasting embracing the concept of multiverse storytelling ... i love it.
Insane that this thing went for $15 in 1997.
Whats crazy is even adjusting for inflation that is still cheap! $1 in 1997 is about $1.85 in 2022 so at $15 for that set, that is still only $27.75 today.
@@WolfLordMorgrim its insanely expensive for 6 figures and a small card, not insanely cheap. Or am I missing something here?
@@WolfLordMorgrim cheap??
@@manuelsotelo4242 Oh I thought he was talking about the larger lego sets not the small one. No that is expensive!
It's cheap if compared with Games Workshop.
The Danish name of the set "ridderoptog" is more akin to a showing off, the kind of word that applies to a procession that insinuates a parade of sorts, but in Swedish and Norwegian they are just called "knights".
Sounds like "Ritterumzug"
The same applies to German, in Germany the set was just called "Ritter" (knights)
@@hobbster42 yeah norwegian its called ridder
Sounds like Dutch “ridderoptocht”, i.e. a parade of knights.
The names really don’t matter. That’s why this guy freaking out over it being soooo specific… is just a waste of time.
Most likely the guys at Lego back int the day “hey let’s make a mini figure set with non factioned characters, to let kids build their armies, just make the side build as small as possible to keep the price low.”
This guy “okay let’s figure out the meaning behind this small set with an obscure name!!”
In all reality this was a very interesting video, the TH-cam algorithm once again showing me another great channel!
I collected the 80s era castle sets as a kid as well. A little set like that, to me, would really just be a cheap means of building up the manpower of my lego army!
I had this! In the UK this 1979 set was known as "Medieval Knights" and with German brevity in the same year just listed as "Knights" (Ritter). And I believe in Holland also as (Ridders). So maybe someone at Lego thought that the kids in the US needed some explaination what these guys are doing? A procession after the sack of Jerusalem? Loved the low-key promo of Kingdom Of Heaven. The directors cut of that one is one of the greatest movies nobody saw. Highly recommended.
Speak for yourself. I love that movie!
Time to get Mom to did out our old Legos... We were in Holland 72-76. If only I still had my Space 1999 Eagle too!
I think my brother and I bought this set multiple times as it was the cheapest way to get minifigs at the time.
@@PlasticGeordie , and yet ironically more death has happened at the hands of the people that are of the religion that claims to be an anti-religion or a non-religion than there ever were in the Crusades.
@@paxhumana2015 On the other hand, the 20th century (which you seem to be alluding to) had far larger populations, far larger armies much more easily capable of inflicting mass death, as well as the growth of large, centralized nation-states which had to confront issues very different from that of medieval Christian and Muslim rulers. World War I killed far more than the Crusades, for example, but I don't think you can blame it on either religion or atheism.
I miss their knight themes. One of my all-time favorite themes will always be the one with the Lion and dragon kingdoms. I occasionally will find pieces of the characters and rebuild them to continue their duties lol.
I remember something similar to Lego castle where it was like Bionicle sized knights
@@blacksepikseye7300 Knights Kingdom. They also had minigure sized sets. And those knights had some of the coolest armour and swords ever.
@@olafgurke4699 King Wyvin honorably served his people well...but King Jayco is the right and honorable leader the kingdom needs now more than ever.
They're actually was a very dark medieval Lego theme that was planned called "Europa" but they never released it. It was basically Napoleonic era Europe with a bunch of colonialists looking mini figures like from pirates line
Napolenic Era is NOT medieval lmao
Never have I seen someone go into historical background analysis of a Lego set like this before. Well done!
More pop-culture-history than actual history. A procession is simply a line of people, it doesn't have to be in a religious context. Equally in medieval times people could be knighted for battlefield accomplishment, even if they didn't have the wealth to be a proper knight. So this "knights procession" could equally be a bunch of common soldiers on their way to the war camps toilet area.
@@roberthartburg266 Window licking booger eater in chat
A real historical video would have researched the history behind the set, not the history behind what the content creator thinks the set is based on.
@@roberthartburg266 shut up
Wow this was cool you took the time to think this one out. I always had castle legos and space legos when I was a kid, I never thought they could ever be based on real history, however I was a kid then and I did not think of real history when playing with toys. Nice Work!
The plural form of LEGO is LEGO. Not legos.
These are my first Lego sets I got around 1990 after my first visit of a "capitalistic" toy store in the Western World: The Robin Hood, the horse cart, a knights war boat and many more. I love the norman helmets and broad swords, the beautifully painted shields and so on. Later i progressed to the pirates skull hide out and 18th century soldiers they sold. It was really great stuff Lego showed up with during that time. Very creative in its simplicity.
I live in Canada and had an all yellow lego castle from the late 70s to early 80s, it had a draw bridge, 4 towers, inner court yard and came with 10 men at arms and 4 mounted knights. It was the first Lego kit I built closely following the instructions ( I was 12 or thereabouts) and was extremely happy with it and kept it till the late 80s and then gave it to a younger family member....man, I wish I still had it! Cool video....if not rather mysterious....just like my old castle. Cheers!
Before those lazy prefab grey walls! And back when they gave you minifigs. Not like now "it's a $200 set with 7 minifigs".
Don’t forget, we had to build our own horses in that yellow castle set. Could you imagine your baddest knight riding a f’king stack of blocks with no eyes into battle? Kids today don’t know how good they have it… when it comes to LEGOs I mean. The rest of their childhood sux compared to the 80s.
That yellow castle is a unicorn in the collector’s world--if you can find it and it has all its parts, you can sell it for $$$$$. Not exaggerating.
@@amynazza It's lost to the time abyss, oh well.....fun when I had it!
Some Danish guy at LEGO in 1979: We have some unused knight themed pieces. Might as well just put them with this little wagon and some random pieces and sell it for $30.
This guy 43 years later: OMG IT'S THE SACK OF JERUSALEM
Oh man those carry cases take me right back. Loved those things.
The eighties had so many toys that were more than meets the eye. Great video.
LOL, niiiice
This is wild. The 6077 Knight's Procession was the only Castle System set I had as a child and I immediately recognized it from the loose pieces. I was unaware until this day of the possible significance of the "procession" in the title. Fascinating!
You're reading way too much into this.
In Danish the set is called ridderoptog. Ridder meaning knight and optog meaning parade or closer in regards to knights; procession.
The Danish name came first. I'm guessing Lego needed a small set for the small birthday presents. People wouldn't buy just four knights then there's nothing to built, so Lego gave you four knights and a few bricks and various ways to use them.
I remember I used to have the Kings mountain fortress set 6081. For me, it was always knights vs pirates with my space sets being impartial observers to the carnage.
Oh man, I had so many of the Pirate sets. Miss them so much.
I know this probably gets mentioned a lot, but the craft and intelligence that goes into RetroBlasting videos is always impressive. This one is one of my favorites.
The most disturbing set ever I remember was the early 80's lego police station. It was supposed to come with 10 little people, but after opening the box half of them had no arms or faces cause Lego cut corners, they just had blob bodies and a square block shaped like legs, and lumps where their arms were supposed to be. I was only 6 and I was really upset about it lol. I guess it creeped me out.
That wasn’t LEGO cutting corners. That was the original design of minifigs. There are no police sets from the 1980s that have those figs. 6 police sets from 1975-1977 only.
After 1977 the modern minifig took over.
Oh god that's disturbing alright
@@flyingstonemon3564 yep even the knob that you pushed the head on the body was really short. They came with caps but when you tried to take off their hat or whatever their heads kept "breaking" off. That was the part little ol me did not like at all lol
How much did Lego save by making the neck knobs shorter? With what they charged for sets... it wasn't good.
They seem to have changed things up since though. The sets I see in the stores today, many of the figures are pretty elaborate.
@@c.rutherford Honestly quite the mystery, would have been great if you had any remaining lego of that set to show off or have a video of the set in question on youtube
@@c.rutherford Thanks lad I'll check It out with the link
You know the part that makes this whole thing extra disturbing? It's the smiles the minifigs have on their faces...either they are paying grueling penance with a false smile on their faces to hide the pain, or they are all smiles after a conflict notorious for literally causing people to have to wade through blood. The first one is definitely less disturbing...but it is still weird.
Who would have thought a little Lego set would bring out such an amazing history lesson with it! Awesome work, buddy!
This makes me want to cry as I lost this set as a child. I left it at some kids house who was the son of my mom's friend. I never got it back and I still think about to this day.
This is, without doubt, the greatest toy set breakdown I've ever seen.
Knight's Procession was the very first Lego set I ever owned. I can still remember the Lego aisle in K-mart. Got me started on years of Lego enjoyment. Good times.
This reminds me of an old lego set I had back when i was growing up in the late 90's, a castle set with a giant green plastic base, a bunch of cannons and two warring factions ... haven't though of those in years
I also lived in England as a kid and owned some of these sets, I was really into things that celebrated medieval times until I grew older and learned about some of the truly horrific things that they did to people back in those days. This was a really good video, it made me think about something that was a part of my childhood, made me want to revisit my old Lego sets, made me want to read history but most of all taught me something.
Weak 😂
@@MORTIFICER true
Knight's Procession is one of my favorite sets. I just really love basic Castle soldiers, so getting a bunch of really similar ones all together is always great to me.
Really? This set is one of your favs?? Why? How long did it take to build that cart? 🤔
2:42 that picture brings back A LOT of freakin memories.
I remember how creative you had to be with SO little. Like you barely got ANYTHING in those older sets but you managed to squeeze the creative juices right out of it. That's lego for you in a nutshell.
If I recall, during the barefoot procession a soldier discovered a spearhead that supposedly had pierced Jesus, this was one of the big reasons the soldiers had gotten so reinvigorated and made such an astonishing come back. Funnily enough, as of typing this, I am in an advanced world history class which had just recently talked about this. I was not really expecting such a detailed analysis of the first crusade in this video but I am very happy about it!
Was a spear that the romans soldiers pierced Jesus with…
Not that I put any stake in religious texts or anything, but I believe Jesus was purported to be stabbed with spears, not shot with arrows, so that likely would have been a spearhead in that story, possibly the "spear of destiny."
@@Bryantang81 Apologies, I tend to make these little mistakes when I’m tired
Correct campaign, but the place and time was different - the supposed Holy Lance was found after the capture of the city of Antioch in 1098, and the next spring of 1099 the crusaders besieged Jerusalem.
@@00TommyTaylor00 Ahh I see, thanks for clarifying
I'm not as much of an expert on medieval history, but I immediately assumed the "Knight's Procession" was a *funeral* procession. The blocks in the cart are all suspiciously colored like the knights themselves, as if meant to represent a fallen comrade. Perhaps it would have been too obvious and questionable to have one apparently dead guy sit in the cart.
Yes, but they were smiling. Why would they be happy to cart their dead friend around? It was obviously some bad dude.
@@brucethedruid all lego smiled at that time
I had and loved this set. 6 figures in such a small set was the best deal ever.
Holy Relics in the cart:
1x1 gray cylinder - Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
2x1 yellow brick - Divine Accordion of St. Yankovic
1x1 yellow brick - Hallowed Cigar Humidor of Byzantium
1x1 blue brick - Blessed Scotch Tumbler of Aquinas
2x3 red brick - Sanctified Yeti Cooler of White Claws...
For whence thou dost bring the Claws, there shalt be no laws.
Hahahahaha
One…..two….five!!!!!! (Three sir)
Have to agree on the White Claw cooler relic, especially if we are setting this at the time time of the Siege of Jerusalem.
"No Laws, only Claws"
That was really cool, as a kid growing up in Australia in the 80's I do not think I ever saw the "Knights procession" on our shelves (as I am sure I would have got it) look forward to the Lion Castle review. I do love mine.
This randomly popped up in my recommended and I wasn’t paying much attention but then you started talking about history so I restarted the video.
Woah! I think it’s 100% a funeral procession, the colors match up too well with… slaughtered LEGO men. Cool video! Subbed.
I got this for my tenth birthday. It expanded my interest in arms and armor from the Medieval period, which led to my love of history and reading, which in turn expanded my education and defined the rest of my life. Thanks mom and dad. Thanks LEGO!
This video came out very nicely, doing the whole thing in lego mode and even making a lego version of yourself was really wild! one of your best, dude!
Why no horses? Because that would push its price past the price point LEGO needed for this line.
when I saw the word "disturbing" in the title, my mind jumped to the conclusion that, given the fact that it is a Procession, the knights are carrying the remains of King Barbarossa (also supported by the grey lego brick which kinda looks like a skull)
That's exactly what I was thinking too
I was thinking of... Nevermind let's not talk about it 😅
@@C3_the_tv ayo?
Oh my! These knights and the robin hood green archer figures takes me back to my 5 year old self. This was probably my first lego set ever, not the big castle though. I remember the shields, weapons and the pouch print on the green archers. I also remember having the knights with swords and axes and all of those helmet types. This video took me by surprise. I am amazed I even remember this. Cheers from a 40 year old dude in Norway!
Meanwhile, in lego headquarters at the time:
"we need some more props for the castle seires."
"i dont think we did a hand drawn cart yet"
"ok, go do that"
Damn son! That is a deep dive into the possible intent of a Lego set! Well done!
It seems that many of the figures in these early sets were erroneously dubbed "Knights." But when taken in context with other contemporary sets, these figures are clearly meant to represent sergeants, or squires in service to a Knight and possibly his lady. As there are figures in other sets with visored helms. So possibly this is the Knight's retinue and baggage train?
Spoiler alert: the knights are pulling a cart that contains what's left of someone who has been Hung, Drawn and Quartered. The Knights are taking the remains to place them at various points throughout the city and/or kingdom, as a message to anyone else who might rebel.
something interesting is that the colours of the bricks match the colours of some of the minifigures
many have pointed out in the comments here that this could be a knight's body being transported, likely for burial, and that they likely didn't use a minifig because of PG considerations.
but it could also just be something relic-related-relics are oftentimes brought to battles, both for morale and divine assistance reasons. there's the Procession around Jerusalem as mentioned in the video, but there's also an anecdote about Henry V bringing a bunch of monks with him to Agincourt so they can pray while everyone else is literally in the heat of battle. the most extreme case is the Italian carroccio, which is a massive ox-drawn altar hauled out when your city is battling someone else. almost like Capture the Flag, getting your carroccio taken is a massive and shameful loss.
"Lion Knights" can mean, like, four different factions. I think it was around Kingdoms that they were renamed Crusaders, as the new guys were WAY more Lion-heavy.
Yet searching the internet for 'Lion Knights' only gives Lego references - not a single link to a group that actually existed and actually went on crusades was found.
I just assumed it was a reference to Richard the Lionheart …
This was by far one of the most random and most interesting videos I have ever come across.
I rewatched the last few seconds…I love that he’s consistent in either universe. Lol. Nice touch!
Procession, funeral procession, colors of the knights in the set, a round yellow piece, and a round grey piece… I think this is a severely dismembered knight that they are walking to his final resting place
I immediately thought of knights returning from an enemy city with huge loot.
Great stuff! Could it be a funeral procession of sorts, where the blocks on the cart could be replaced by a body?
It really does look like a body cart
@@TheDigitalWatcher no, really. The colours work.
Yeah, I was thinking of something similar.
Maybe the dude was really mangled in battle, with the blue and red bricks representing his clothes/armor, and the yellow being his remains.
@@OneDapperFrog totally!
Great theory with this one. Could these knights represent, Raymond, Tancred, Godfrey, the two Roberts, Gaston, or the other principal European commanders? Those crafty Danish small plastic brick engineers!
"Behind those vacant smiles hid the most viscous sort of plastic soldier!" -Brick Bohemond of Taranto, Probably
A couple seconds into the video and I already had to rewind.
A friend bought you a $400 set as a thank you gift???
They could also be body parts of a fellow knight fallen in battle. That might also explain their psychotic smiles 🙂
Educational and entertaining - an instant classic....thank you, Michael!
This was the best informative Lego video I’ve seen so far on TH-cam!
I had this set as I child. It was part of the very first Lego knight series with the yellow castle and the tournament set. However it was a relatively rare set and I remember visiting toy shops in many different places my parents took me and none of them had the set. My parents secretly bought the last set in a toy store in Luxembourg, leaving me with the impression that this shop like so many others did not have this particular set, only to surprise me at my birthday a month later. I was over the moon. The other sets you show in this video are from later dates.
Love it, thank you for making such a minor set so intriguing!
I got this set in 1980, in Zurich, Switzerland, and then my grandma bought me the amazing huge yellow castle set that complemented it, which you didn't show. Great stuff! I didn't know any of these existed until that trip. I don't think I'd had any explicitly ready-for-battle Lego before that.
It could be a reference to the processions of, bringing out the dead. From Monty Python's in Search For The Holy Grail.
Lego couldn't call it that for copyright issues, but Python was very popular in the late 70s.
My family had this set! Thanks for making me remember something I'd completely forgotten.
I love how, non of the options (Showed in the video or said in teh comments) make this lego sets less unsettling
Seeing Michael as a minifig host and BV is an amazing choice. KUDOS
Wow Michael, I think you’ve cracked the code…. If you start putting out a few Lego videos like this one every so often, the channel will probably “blow up”!
This was so entertaining and now you’re dragging me back into Lego 😅
-Mike’s G.I. Dojo
Yes I was correct lol !!!!
I love how there is this nearly universal thing when it comes to pairs of brothers in the 80s where one would collect the space lego and the other the castle sets, me and my brother were the same, and I was the castle set collector
I don't think it was just an 80's thing. Me and my little bro were the same way in the late 00's.
Excellent video! Love the simplicity of the older themes
IIRC, one of the reasons why Lego nearly went out of business was the sheer number of unique and rare blocks they had introduced. It made the sets a lot more expensive to sell as they had a bunch of injection molds for a bunch of unusual bricks.