i cannot BELIEVE i forgot about this but Phoenix Fire Hangars was created for an army (group that took part in roleplay and brickbattle themed around war) called Phoenix Fire that Reverse_Polarity (jacobxxduel) started with a few friends. Just gonna leave this here

EDIT: so flexiblebanjo (the F in FWM) was in this comment section, pretty helpful guy. Anyway he's brought a few things to my attention I'd like to add
https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxRoTGaYFG5fTYgoSxQTLPhaKSJMq_RZaq

- There's a duplicate (terminated) Lawrence Yamut account (id 7014 compared to the still-active id 3549) whose place is identical (well, no tools but map is the same) to the one in the trailer.
  https://www.roblox.com/games/15694/Lawrence-Yamuts-Place

- "DoomSpire and Towers" is (proooooooobably) "midevil times" (beautiful name) by Richu, opening the game (link) in Roblox studio shows that it isn't exactly the same as in the trailer, but you can definitely see the resemblance with the baseplate + towers. Flex has made available a version of the place without any of the colorful changes made to the game after the trailer's filming, which you can find (among other things I'm probably going to come back to in the future) in a post he made on his own channel (linked above).
 https://www.roblox.com/games/15799/midevil-times

       Regretting not writing this earlier (a couple days ago) when he first commented on the video while it was getting more views, but it seems his comments get deleted randomly by YouTube so this'll have to do.
                                     (Wasn't able to save or remember his @ before that first one was deleted :/    )

"The town has a condo"
That's where the highway to Hell is on Roblox

As a developer for FWM, I'm pleased to see it being used in this video! We made sure to include most of the games from the 2006 trailer too. I'm also surprised this only has 700 views, it's a well made video and deserves way more!

Excellent research on this. Everything seems more or less spot on.

"Neither the classic headquarters, nor its second version are available to play on the builderman account as they have been privated" The worst part is that those games, along with many on the official ROBLOX account were seemingly taken down because they were never given an age rating. It sucks knowing that ROBLOX cares so little about their history today they couldn't even be bothered to log back into those old accounts and re-open those games.

Aside from the rant, great video. Really well-edited and lots of niche history I never knew about!

4:16 the town has a WHAT NOW?!?!?? 😧😧😧

10:32 glad we didn’t end up with these 😭The body types seem to have kind of inspired robloxian 2.0 tho

Really awesome video! Here's a fun bit of Roblox history: when Roblox HQ was brought back for the 2010 Roblox HQ Improvement Contest, they actually used the original 2006 version; the one with the single tower and the FlyParts sitting in each corner of the map. Those FlyParts were leftovers from Roblox's earliest character animation system, most likely because the admins were rushing through contests!

7:37 BEAR ALPHA MENTIONED RAAAAAAAAAAAH

Roblox has recently now locked uploading 2D clothes behind a paywall and it's making me sad that roblox is just burning down their history and everything relating to it just to make some shareholders who know nothing about roblox happy

Say what you will about modern Roblox graphics, there was always such an interesting energy to the old lighting. The way the light hit surfaces and the fact that the stained glass looks so off. It was far more than just looks, it was everything, the way every game was cobbled together from hopes and dreams, the way the doors would bug out and some games were just broken from old engine stress. Looking at old trailers and screenshots of the old Haunted House build will always bring me back to when you'd constantly see cylinders rolling from broken game assets.

Clicked on this vid cuz it was in my recommended, didnt expect a jumpscare at 3:45 of MY OWN VIDEO from 8 years ago lol

Why on earth did Roblox never just make two separate versions of Roblox, classic and modern, like RuneScape did.  It’s such a travesty seeing all this stuff being destroyed with time and being replaced with this corporate brainrot hellscape that the game is today

awesome video! thanks for featuring FWM, as a FWM developer its cool to see our game being used for demonstrations! pls use graphics quality 3 next time tho it looks way more accurate lmao

Really enjoy the fact that most of these games cannot be experienced anymore because Roblox wants your ID and biometric information just SO BAD! What a moronic update.

Peak content bro, I hope you go big brother🫡🔥🔥

5:19 that sound when you tripped on a banana peel, such memories

Well it seems like in a few years time I’ll be an og to this guys community.

this is a pretty interesting idea and you executed it amazingly ! hoping to see more videos from you doood

it took me 9 minutes to realize that this channel only had 91 subscribers. this video is incredibly good, i thought you had more subscribers