Revisiting DanTDM's Lab — A Decade Later

DanTDM’s lab I feel like in my mind, is about on the level of iconography of a building as something like Spongebob’s or Squidward’s house. They are simple, very rough, but have a cartoonish charm to them that allows for a sandbox of chaos in each time its featured

Once as a kid, I lost my way in a minecraft world. I couldn't find where my house and expansive property had been. This had happened once or twice before and I was very upset. I had made many builds and created many friends there from mobs. An island, a wolf adoption sanctuary based on Stacy's from One Life, a checkered house, a playground, a long railway all the way to a nearby village...I had a villager I called my mom, a little guy with a pumpkin head I called my daughter, just pretend games and stuff. I was overjoyed when I eventually found my main area again! However, I was shocked and upset when I looked at my builds and realized, after such a long while of being away, eyes reset from all that time, that my builds were ugly. None of them were as good as I remembered. I didn't play much after that, but I'll always be grateful for the good memories I had building and pretending and expanding my large estate. Even if the builds weren't actually that good, heh heh...

DanTDM’s old lab will always hold a special place in my heart and mind

My first memories of Minecraft were watching DanTDM videos and, not realizing they were modded even though they obviously were (I was young!) trying to go recreate whatever he had done on my laggy Minecraft pocket edition. I miss that.

The original lab felt like part of the channels identity, and when I learned that it was getting replaced, I was just overcome with despair and couldn't bring myself to watch anymore.

I never saw dntm as a kid I was mainly stampy, ibxtoycat, Jack Frost miner and many others but i watched him a little recently from like a decade ago and i could tell it was special for many kids

I think I stopped watching DanTDM around the time that the secret treasure room area became a thing because that was around the point that mod showcases interested me less but the lab itself is still incredibly nostalgic to me. I think I'll forever have its layout memorized in my head, as well as that pesky button to the entrance they would always joke about Dr needing to replace it with a pressure plate.

i still watch his cafe management video every once in a while, his stuff in genuinely timeless

They already discovered the seed to his world, 5021019576385777538 on java release 1.6.1, so why do people keep on checking out his lab in the incorrect world?

I can tell the camera man had a lot of fun with these shots

I still remember the video I first watched of him, I don't remember the name but at the beginning before he played his intro I remember "Don't squish me, don't squish me. Aww he squished me." He had said it in such a goofy voice it made me laugh and make me watch more videos of his

It feels like so long ago, watching a DanTDM videos after school, or with a friend. I am 21 now, turning 22 in a couple months. I cannot believe it's been 10 years already since I was watching Dan. Thank you for this video. It brought a lot of nostalgia back. I am definitely rewatching some mod showcases :)

Beside the odd long pauses and live redoing of lines without editing, this was a nice video to look back on DanTDM with

It's wild to me that I was like 6 years old when I watched Dan's videos. The world has changed so much since then, it's wild. The old lab and its treasure room, the new lab and the short time-frame it was used in, everything from that era was awesome, and even though I miss it, I'm glad that he's moved on to new and different content since then.

I really do miss his modded adventure most, I understand that it takes a lot of effort to create but that was one of the best era of modded minecraft that I love

A very nice video but that constant camera movement, specially tilting from side to side it just make things feel so dizzy

I miss the old days

Dan's old lab, Pat's arena, and stampy's lovely world has aged quite a bit

The new lab is very underrated. We just like the old one because we all have good memories of it.

I don't think you can call the original lab "forgotten" since there's dozens of parodies of Dan & Trayaurus committing various crimes in that lab