Who are The Lego Royal Knights?

Great work!

Man the new intro goes so hard.

Love this series glad I jumped to see this new one so quick. Keep it up!

The Royal King was one of the first castle minifigs I owned. I lost his original head over twenty years ago & had to make do with De Martinet pulling double duty. Luckily I picked up an extra at a flea market, so now the og is back in charge and can once again lead his men in many a diorama.

I don’t even like the Royal Knights, but this was still great, Brad. The comparison of the crowned lion to the Denmark coat of arms is a genius bit of research.

This is the first faction I got as a kid. So many great memories came from playing with the Royal Knights!

I'm only missing one set: the blue catapult.

This was the era I grew up in, while definitely not as good as the themes before but there is some great sets, namely the Castle, it's one of the best from the classic era.

I honestly love this faction, they've always been my top 3 favorite along with the Crown and Black falcon factions!

I had to watch this one. What a blast from the past. I completely LOATHE the royal knights. This was the beginning of my “dark ages”. What an awful design, in my opinion. This theme knocked me right out of Lego for over a decade. Got back in with 2012 kingdoms. I can’t stand these Lion factions. Unfortunately I missed out on dark forest and fantasy castle because of this. Oh well, no regerts, we’re in the golden age of Lego right now. Good vid. Keep up the good work.

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The castle is my favorite set of all time. I remember my grandma got a bucket of 90s LEGO at a yard sale and this set was in it. I build the castle and I played with it for hours and hours without getting bored.

Absolutely love the Royal Knights. Such a cohesive theme. 6090 (Royal Knights Castle) has so, so much going on in it.

Awesome video!! This was a fun one! Love that people are discovering the drawbridge thing.

That intro is next level wow

Honestly one of my favorite things of this era of Lego is the variety of soldiers, from factions and prints. Having three torso prints for a faction is crazy tbh

A brother in-law got the Royal Knight's Castle for Christmas, and I had the pleasure of helping him assemble it. I had the smaller sets, including the royal king. I gave that away, a long time ago. Kinda wish I hadn't, now. Nobody I know actually got the river tower, though.

I take umbrage that the Dragon Masters are considered the replacements for the Black Knights. Especially when the two were in conflict. The Black Knights will never be replaced in this Castle Lego fan's heart. Never!

Always ready for a new Tavern Talk! :) In the two German audio dramas, a LEGO club board game and internal LEGO story documents, the land where the two castles stood on opposite mountaintops was called "Tarenta".

I never collected any of the Royal Knight sets besides the king. I thought they were ugly and too wide open-looking. The Fright Knights had a similar problem. The sets that came before, and after were much better.

These were my castles. I had the dark forest and the main castle. I don't know if I still have it, but this makes me smill so much. I miss these, and loved them so much. I don't know if I want this faction again, but I am happy to see them again.

Hell yeah! Comment then watch, excited for this one

Glad to see Royal Knights get some love and respect.

Royal and Fright knights are best Lego castle factions imo. They get undeserved hate in castle community.

We definitely need a tavern talk about the lego chess video game

Is frostholm dead :(

Really in depth lore discussion, great work. I wasn’t aware of some of those old video games and comics - cool finds.

My favorite castle and... my only castle. Excellent video!

Did you change your style of thumbnails? I love it.
Never actually thought of the Royal Drawbridge being connected to the Royal Knights Castle. Great research.

Will you be covering the Lions and Bulls in the next video of this series?

The 697 Idea Book, released in 1997, features building instructions for a Royal Knights fort. It's in a kind of 2D style and uses a skeleton as decoration. I really like that "set" and how it somehow resembles real medieval art.

So German localisation for Knights Kingdom 1 they had King Leo called King Richard. So I guess in Germany King Leo and his Lions faction are supposed to be King Richard and the Royal Knights but when he's older and having a slight change in coat of arms.
Though I think there probably is family relation between King Leo and King Richard. Like they could be brothers or cousins who went their separate ways off to rule their own kingdoms or King Richard could be Leo's father (this would explain Princess Storm's red hair).

My brother, my captain....my king.

The Royal Knights don't deserve the hate they get online. The 6090 castle is great and criminally underrated. It's my oldest son's current favorite set.

Great video Brad 👍👍

Their castle is really underrated, it’s a really impressive and grounded design even if some lego liberties were obviously taken

Great vid! Some much deserved luv to The Royal Knights!

First baught of the king with his trusty stead I've baught the set probably 4 times but wish I could have gotten more to build up a small garrison of spearmen the boat wuld be perfect

The sight of the castle fitting into the drawbridge so neatly made me inexplicably happy - would love to see that in modern Castle sets!

in skeleton surprise the goblet I think is knockoff because there is a ring at the bottom where lego never had that, might want to check for ID and lego logo

I gave Richard's torso black arms, dark grey gloves, a black waist and dark grey legs. Added an old dark grey helmet and it became a cool looking lineman. Just like a new faction.

My faction 🦁
My castle 🏰

Best castle before the lion knights castle (10305). I still have mine displayed and it is amazing.

Hi, great video as always !

I really think Lego missed something in the Royal Knights minifigures, especially the knights. As a kid I felt quite a disappointment after Dark Knights and Dragon Masters to have what : A king apparently going into battle with just a shirt instead of an armor ? A champion with just a tabard ? A third knight with just a Hauberk ? yuk ! for a total of only 3 mounted knights for the whole faction.


IMO, the castle is the best designed of all Lego castle before the 2020ies : no dead angle, two main gates and a secret way, the well... (I remember the well in the Black Knight's castle and a fountain in the middle-size Dark Forest set, but that was so rare !).

As for the ghost, its cache is much more similaire to the one in the Crusader's castle. I see it as the last standing parts of a former building the castle was build on the ruins.

And the outpost... I find it terribly lame and ill-designed, nothing to save ! What's the logic at all to give your ennemies the opportunity to hide and protect just under your feet, then undermine your walls ?

Oh, and skeletons were as many lost opportunity for an additional real minifigure (prisonner, princess, civilian, maybe even a magician).

Looking for your next videos !

Nice talk, as always!!!

On of the best castles Lego ever released. And the faction was so cool. The only flaw was that mounted knights didn't have any armor, as we were used to see for Black Knights, Crusaders, etc.

Don't know why but when I see the king with blue legs I can't help but see it as him wearing blue jeans.

Love your videos, thank you!

Really cool faction! The castle is amazing.

Denmark? Really?.. I guess it's just a coincidence how closely the lion knights, crusaders, royal knights coincide with English history. Nah, definitely quiet old Denmark, that didn't do a single thing worth talking about during the medieval period. Lmao