Random set of the day: Dungeon Hunters

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Dungeon Hunters

Dungeon Hunters

©1990 LEGO Group

Today's random set is 6042 Dungeon Hunters, released in 1990. It's one of 8 Castle sets produced that year. It contains 105 pieces and 3 minifigs, and its retail price was US$12.75.

It's owned by 3515 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.

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32 comments on this article

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By in United States,

Ah yes, the ever elusive dungeon... They're about as real as platypuses and narwhals guys, not like bigfoot, seriously, what are you doing?

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By in United States,

Top notch!

Unique: None
Rare: None

Although I'm sure at the time of release some of the parts would qualify

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By in Netherlands,

Minifig Horses in a small set , really miss that from LEGO in recent times.

Now with the Medieval Blacksmith bringing back horses in non-licensed, hopefully we'll see more horses again in future sets. (not including Friends minidoll horses as those are different)

1989 even had 4 smaller , 1 medium and 2 large sets with horses.

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By in United States,

So I assume the "dungeon" being referred to is the jail cart. Are they hunters with a dungeon, or hunters who are hunting dungeons? Who knows

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By in Australia,

I don't think those guys were really paying attention in Knight School, because they're making the prisoner walk, alongside the open cell. It's like, they missed a couple of vital cognitive leaps, there.

Then again, the prison is just walking along the carriage doing some kind of medival, "Put your hands up!" dance move.

What an odd slice of medival life.

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By in United States,

Legendary. I miss Castle. Heck, I even miss Lord of the Rings.

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By in Germany,

I got this set for my birthday many years ago after I got 6054.

The blue armored knight with his full dark grey helmet was really cool as were the somewhat rare white flags.

Many, many years later I discovered that someone at Lego at some point at least intended the red collared Forestman to be Little John from the Robin Hood and his Merry Men legend.

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By in United States,

Are they just hunting for random people to put in the dungeon?

Or are they hunting for dungeons to put in the dungeon?

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By in United States,

I always thought this set was odd, only one horse pulling the prisoner cell.

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By in Germany,

@brickengineeringdude:

Those are Sir (not to be confused with King) Richard's knights hunting for the renegades known as the 'Forestmen' to put into the dungeons of King's Mountain Fortress (King possibly referring to the king of Tarenta AKA King Richard Lionheart from the Royal Knights).

There have been renegades as early as set 6055 from 1985, but they ony really banded together in 1988 (some guys from North America claim it was 1987.,.)

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By in United Kingdom,

Wave your hands in the air like you don’t care!

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By in United States,

I loved this kit when I would set up the Castle theme for our Christmas LEGO village back when I was a kid at home with my parents. The small castle (Black Falcon Fortress?) connected with the inn and small blacksmith’s and weaponry stalls would form the village market and this dungeon cart would be parked in the center as a public-humiliation spectacle. Good memories from long ago. Wish we had the time and room to set up our LEGO collection as a Christmas village again...

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By in United States,

Not a whole lot of lore here but here we go.

The Crusaders were one of the earliest good factions of the Castle theme and were relatively generic knights.

The Forestmen were a rag tag group of forest dwellers who'd steal from wealthy kingdoms and redistribute the money to poorer peasants, making them the first major neutral faction.

Here we see a Crusader prison chariot that's just captured a Forestman, likely right after a burgling.

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By in United States,

The forest men are so misunderstood. All they want to do is hide in trees and bushes all day and shoot any passing soldier.

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By in United States,

So, when they find this mythical "dungeon", are they planning to squeeze it inside that tiny little cage?

@Yeetforlego:
Forestmen: the Blacktron of Castle.

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By in United States,

Dungeon Hunters would be a great name for a video game. Someone get on that.

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By in United States,

Easily one of my favorite sets of all time. Wish they still made them like this.

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By in United States,

All these comments about hunting for dungeons is making me envision this medieval prison wagon locking up captured Space Police cells (still containing their hapless smiling Blacktron figures within!)

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By in France,

@Atuin said:
"I got this set for my birthday many years ago after I got 6054.

The blue armored knight with his full dark grey helmet was really cool as were the somewhat rare white flags.

Many, many years later I discovered that someone at Lego at some point at least intended the red collared Forestman to be Little John from the Robin Hood and his Merry Men legend."


The red ones were always Will Scarlet to me. Little John was black, and Friar Tuck was a Robin Hood minifigure in a wolfman’s hood.

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By in Australia,

You know, I could simply get this and have a LEGO D&D Adventuring Party! Scenery, monsters and other species may be a slight problem though.

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By in United States,

I got this set from my dad. It's still in good condition and probably complete if I tried to complete it. Awesome set!

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By in United States,

Picked this up off of Brickset recently. Totally fun set!

Very much a Classic Castle set in the best possible sense. A+

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By in Poland,

I got this from my grandparents. The forestman was always Robin Hood in my eyes ! Oh great times!

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By in United States,

This just has so much charm.

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By in Croatia,

Oh, no! Robin Hood just got captured!

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By in United States,

@SpaceCadet said:
"Dungeon Hunters would be a great name for a video game. Someone get on that."

Absolutely. Some kind of roguelike, maybe.

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By in United Kingdom,

Shame they’re Crusaders and not the guys who came next or this could be Dungeons and Dragon Knights

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By in United Kingdom,

Legend has it they’re still hunting for that dungeon to this day.

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By in United Kingdom,

I tried to build this set in Bricklink's Stud.io program once without using the instructions, just going off what I could see from this set image alone. No particular reason, I was bored and it seemed like a fun challenge. I... had some moderate success, but it's trickier than I'd expected, even with the correct selection of pieces, to tell which parts use which bricks when I'd never seen the set in person; figuring out what was going on with the front wheels, for instance, thoroughly eluded me until I finally gave up and looked up the instructions!

In any case, looks like a fun little set ^^

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By in Puerto Rico,

@MCLegoboy said:
"Ah yes, the ever elusive dungeon... They're about as real as platypuses and narwhals guys, not like bigfoot, seriously, what are you doing?"

I think thw implication is that they raided a dungeon and spared that man.

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By in United States,

We are the dungeon hunters. We hunt dungeons...

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