collection vintage LEGO castle/pirates commercials ('85 - '94)

[@thelittlebrickshack8402]

+30 years later and these commercials still get me excited!

[@ProfessorJones7]

Wow that stop motion pirates ad was amazing

[@Didojuice]

they have some pretty good effects and backgrounds for commercials

[@grantg7457]

Yeah!

[@jrwheeler81]

I had the castle and pirate sets! This brings back so many memories. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, my friends and I would spend hours building all kinds of crazy stuff. I always thought the Lego horses were the coolest things ever. I wish I still had it, because I'm sure this set would be worth quite a bit of money by now.

[@CloudlessStudio]

If LEGO brings back castle they will make serious buck

[@explodingcreeperanimatione1349]

And if they use like the old cameras and old things like the sand and like cloths for like water instead of the standard Lego floor everyone will buy more because of nalstoga

[@hanzocloud]

No they won’t, things get cancelled for a reason, and castle got cancelled bcoz it wasn’t making serious buck

[@doredumble9759]

hanzocloud but now it will

[@SxSxG666]

They make the most money with overpriced licensed sets for collectors with a very limited production quantity. Kids are not their customers anymore.

[@SxSxG666]

@CaptainHeckYeah When it comes to their ethics Lego proof to be flexible. They historically say that they don't make war toys. Yet they had published pirates, knights, star wars and war planes (with civil stickers) and they point their finger on competitors who are morally corrupted enough to sell our kids tanks. It is only marketing blabla. I am a kid of the 80s and Lego was my favourite toy. Back in the days everybody had a big box full of Lego bricks you could build your own worlds with. Nowadays the sets became a lot more expensive and you get a lot less bricks. They totally lost the focus on creativity. They just want to sell their licensed sets and everything else is secondary or got doped completely.

[@frankieyoung2528]

ahh i remember the good old days when me and my friends would watch the pirate show at legoland. lego was our favourite toy and we would spend hours a day building. we had so much fun.

[@steenkelm38]

great video. thanks for putting this together

[@johnathanlehrbass2406]

We all always went for the pirates over the red coats right?

[@ntcnetwork9934]

I am still in complete AWE of that Pirates commercial. How did they do that??

[@googiegress]

Stop-motion.

[@ntcnetwork9934]

@@googiegress sorry, I mean more how did they pull that off so spectacularly. 😂

[@googiegress]

@@ntcnetwork9934 Hahaha I'm gonna go with "hard work" and hiring people who were skilled at their craft ;P

[@ntcnetwork9934]

@@googiegress lol true. 😂

[@Autisticguywithacamera]

Expert stop motion animators and a LOT of patience.

[@legoclipstars7244]

I watched this commercial since i was year 10 and it was awesome!👏👏👏👏👏

[@thoughtheglass]

loving the bill and ted voice in the castle add!

[@danielwilliamson6180]

One of the Lego castle adverts featured the voice of a young Adrian Edmondson.

[@oscarvanwalstijn6902]

The big pirate ship ❤ I bought it back in the day, and it still is one of my most precious sets.

[@vintagelegos]

Simply the best!!!

[@wholeset]

Nice to see you here your personally one of my favorite lego youtubers and way better to me than td bricks

[@stormyy7104]

I remember having a castle set : )

[@criminalmind27]

Lol, that transition from 80s to 90s xD

[@11338325]

With all these sets and such, I'm surprised LEGO didn't try making stop-motion animation episodes of their products to get them to sell better, y'know like make a lego stop motion tv show

[@jonathansims525]

I wonder how the backgrounds for these Castle commercials were made. They have such a distinct aesthetic.

[@rock_it9771]

Back when Lego advertised the reconstruction possibilities and imaginary aspect of Lego. Now lego became more like playmobile

[@googiegress]

Honestly now it seems more like "neckbeards buy 3 sets, kids play with tablets"

[@Ahturos]

Oh man I remember this. I want to find the Castle Lego commercial that had a CGI dragon in it. I remember I used to love it so much, looked like Maleficent Dragon form. If I had remembered about the Lego-Maniac I whould have demanded they had a reference to that in the Lego Movies.

[@Sadler_bricks]

Sadler_bricks here This for sure was my fave themes to play with as a kid me and my sister always had great castle battles Sadler_bricks

[@Achromatic_0]

Ah, the nostalgia...

[@whositsnamewhatsitsname3269]

#0:34 I love this one. Something about the fog and the atmosphere is so cool. I also love the British accents. Feels nostalgic, even though I wasn't alive when these were made

[@googiegress]

And now, with vape pen-style small fog machines, you could do the same thing ;) *British accent sold separately

[@jrwheeler81]

I was alive (I was born in 81) and I had both the castle and pirate sets. They were the coolest things ever back in the day. I have so many great memories from the late 80s and early 90s of my friends and I just sitting in my room playing with Legos for literally hours. Kids don't do that sort of thing anymore! They're too busy on their smartphones and tablets to do anything else. 😒

[@meanmachine3453]

That first commercial is the epitome of the 80’s lmao

[@TonyMontanaDS]

It all went downhill after 1994 went they introduced dragons to castles and started making really cheap looking pirate sets. Space died around the same time too.

[@performer1100]

I actually don’t mind the dragon sets. They weren’t as good but not as terrible as the current ones

[@maciejmaciejj2003]

best lego era

[@kanichuagreatproductions2539]

I am fan of the old 1980s 1990s sets

[@EmmettDoyleDDR435]

me too

[@GeneralSturnn]

Ah, the good old days of Lego... I miss those days

[@PresidentoftheManosquare]

They need to re release these... now

[@ari4509]

Top 10 Popular Lego Vintage Set

[@BernyjackStone]

i miss old lego pirates sets

[@HiImRalph]

Wonder if we see classic Lego mini figure faces.

[@JOSH-qx7fm]

Nostalgia!

[@CervantesReturns]

Non sto piangengo, mi e` entrato un galeone nell'occhio

[@siskavard]

Me as a poor kid only wishing the kid down the street in the huge house will let me play with his set someday lol

[@Cahos_Rahne_Veloza]

Don't you just miss these former glory days of Lego? When the company put out their own themes, instead of licensing other media to milk money? Also I want Legoland Town to come back 😟😢

[@coolgamerblox3546]

lego is lego

[@thomasoakley1565]

is tht Little Pete for the Adventures of Pete & Pete?

[@hefellump1]

Lego was so white back in the day. It's nice

[@kanichuagreatproductions2539]

So cool

[@phubans]

1:07 - The Black DRAGON Castle?? Uh, excuse me, it's Black MONARCH's Castle! haha

[@robonaught]

I think that's what the set was named in the UK...though I could be wrong. Older Lego sets had a habit of being named different outside of the US

[@Bluhaj]

I have found a place to call home.

[@AlexHand]

The old ones are most charming. As time went on it seems the marketing industry got more aggressive and shamelessly manipulative. Now every commercial feels like someone trying to talk me into selling my kidney for quarters.

[@CatOnTheCouch]

Lego died in 2004, the body might have survived but its soul was gone.

[@boski0klusek]

@@CatOnTheCouch I wouldn't say that - nowadays LEGO is making great sets - Creator, Creator Expert and Ideas are marvelous. In my opinion the Golden Decade of LEGO were years 1987-96, then one series after another became too juniorized, or just too lazy and we had the Crappiest Decade of LEGO. But at least since 2009 we once again recieve some good stuff

[@CatOnTheCouch]

@@boski0klusek I think we can all agree that the most ambitious days of Lego were gone, the reason Lego almost fell apart in 2004 was partly due to it been too ‘innovative’; its old sets such as the Technic ones were packed with too many costly features, which might be great for the consumer, but not so good for the business as a whole. To keep innovating or not, that was the question. Apparently Lego chose to give up its children-centric focus, in turn for creating more sets aimed towards the young adults, whom had deeper pockets than your regular toddlers. Take the Creator line for example, it used to have a lot of the bucket type free-style building sets for young children, but in recent years they were all but disappeared, what came after were the single-themed sets, great as they were for display pieces, however not so much for free-style moc builds. If the recent retirement of the Creator Expert name (now is just 18+) is any indication, Lego would not want a simple child to go anywhere near a product that is geared towards the more ‘sophisticated’ (and financially sound) adult. The Ideas line were all the works of fans, Lego just took the idea and paying them 1% in royalty. Sounds great but is just another way to save money on the designing process (which can be costly and time consuming), and let its avid followers do the hard work for them. The Technic line used to be full of original and unique designs, but after 2004 more and more IP/OEM licensed sets were been produced, and many of them cost a fortunately (the 1:8 hyper car series in particular). Parts count in the flagship sets continued to go up, but in term of functionalities vs value they really fell short, the ‘classic’ sets were tiny in comparison, but they were feature packed and really designed to be played with, most importantly they were not costly to own(even after adjusted for inflation). In conclusion, is today’s Lego a successful business? Absolutely! But does Lego still treasure children and their development over all else? Not so much. Lego set are becoming more and more like luxury goods (who would have thought investing in Lego sets can be a thing right now) and decorative pieces, rather than keys that can unleash one’s imagination and creativity.

[@boski0klusek]

@@CatOnTheCouch Well I can agree with most of your arguments. 30 years ago they could design sets, with so few elements (compared to today products), but with very creative use, to make some fun mechanisms - I still very much like 6986 Mission Commander and 6989 Mega Core Magnetizer, both sets had approximately 500 pieces, but had sooo many features... I'm old now, so maybe that's why I like the Creator Expert line (nice sets to put on display). However, I recently started to buy LEGO to my son, and there is a line that can be treated as continuation of the old "LEGO Basic" - it's called "Classic", and I can honestly recommend this series, as an oldschool creative bricks. Check it out :)

[@radeadcool]

As an Australian, I never saw these.

[@wholeset]

Most of these commercials are better than the newer lamer and more cringy ones of today especially those 1992 commercials

[@arami453]

Vintage from the 85 - 94

[@berntengdahl1519]

"Each set sold separately" Lol... XD

[@FromtheHerts81]

My cousin had nearly all the Indigo Islanders sets, as seen in the last commercial (4:27).

[@kanichuagreatproductions2539]

From where you take this cool old commercial?

[@우리엄마-z4d]

옛날생각난다...다시갖고싶음..버리지말껄 ㅜㅜ

[@mesicek7]

Damn i had some of this :/ and then threw it all away

[@Tim.Hammer]

You threw... you... you what?

[@mesicek7]

@@Tim.Hammer The cats used the boxes i had lego's in as their shitting spot. It was so disgusting i didn't even bother...

[@xavierg.8809]

Lego Maniac for the win ❤️.

[@carmelomartinez7930]

They don't stop You can't find

[@Kgn-kgsjejdnne91]

Cool!

[@mikeytheone9878]

My brother has all the old castle sets. The instructions are gone though. What a shame. I use a few pieces on my channel! You should check it out i do stopmotion and speededits and speedpaints.

[@MrJoker5140]

Wow 😮

[@PaweCzarnecki]

still have this castle, and the pirate ship and a lot of 90's sets, they are the best ones. Lego never again made such a great systems. Modern Lego is a piece of shit

[@gandalfthegrey2592]

lol modern lego absolutely trumps old lego, get your head out of your nostalgic ass.

[@hellothere7598]

4 people playing playmobil

[@thijsbergman2424]

3:08 it was a simpler, politically incorrect time

[@boski0klusek]

and now are confusing times... what is politically incorrect in those commercials?

[@thijsbergman2424]

@@boski0klusek They now prefere to be referred to as furries or otherkin

[@boski0klusek]

@@thijsbergman2424 haha! xD Wolf People! Now I get it :D

[@rs411]

どのCMも見た事ないわ〜。 ウルフが出てるの初めて知ったわ。

[@serenechaosuk4682]

1990 - rap music is SO outta context with pirate and castle ! Mind you, seeing it's clearly an American advert (Forestmen set advertised was only available in USA) I'm not surpirsed it's so naff !

[@domar1]

very true, that early 90's rap was cringe inducing. I much prefer the serious British ads.

[@serenechaosuk4682]

oh, nowt wrong with early 90s rap, just NOT IN A PERIOD LEGO AD !

[@TRJ2241987]

Vanilla Ice effect

[@domar1]

@@serenechaosuk4682 Oh I didn't mean 90's early rap in general, but 90's KIDS rap is always lame AF and cringe inducing. And yeah, why RAP MUSIC to promote castle and pirate?? Maybe if there was some... inner city lego? haha

[@hakanstorsater5090]

@@domar1 I think it fits better with the Lego Space ads, honestly...

[@승락이-f4r]

🎉🎉

[@gnoctest]

the one at 1:27 is marveloussssss

[@inspirer4763]

I bet that cringe ass lego maniac song played its part in LEGO nearly going out of business in the 90s.

[@heliodoro2104]

Why is there ghost in every castle

[@ThePetaaaaaa]

Every proper castle needs a ghost, didnt you know that?

[@hakanstorsater5090]

@@ThePetaaaaaa I love the British sighing of the Wolfpack... "Ghost..."

[@jrome1178]

I was 1k like

[@vintagelegocastleandpirate3848]

thanks. :)

[@AdudenamedVince]

waAAAAAAAH! .. ghost. 3:12

[@imgarbageanimations3555]

48

[@cowboydoge5730]

I Want everyone to tell Lego to Make Sets Now Because They Came back but They did with a Pack So Tell lego To make these sets so I could let my little brother play with them so tell him on email or some app

[@BoredBricks]

Black knight? That's racist.