Random set of the day: Tygurah's Roar
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7411 Tygurah's Roar, released during 2003. It's one of 20 Adventurers sets produced that year. It contains 94 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$10/£7.99.
It's owned by 3,743 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $54.80, or eBay.
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I've got that Tygurah figure right next to me. It's got a pretty specific color, Earth Orange, and I've got nothing else in that color, not to mention the parts are also pretty specific, too. Can't really use it for much of anything, so it just sits nearby on the desk.
Such a legendary set. The eyeless Tygurah is the stuff of nightmares, and I’m so here for it! Really need to get around to get one for the collection. So many interesting colors for a 90 piece set. Brown, Dark Orange, Light Gray, Earth Orange, just peak early 2000s set!
One of Lego's most iconic early 2000s sets. So peak.
One of my favorite play features of all times, I loved pulling the platform and seeing the planks fall down.
Orient Expedition mentioned, I feel all warm inside.
So did Lego just make up the name "Tygurah"? I always assumed they didn't, but looking today, the only references I find online point to this set.
And what a hugely expensive one-off for a cheap set!
The...'tiger' (?!?!?) looks like something done for Fisher-Price's 'Adventure People' line; or, nowadays 'Imaginext'...:)
LORE TIME!
As described by Babloo in the German audio drama "Die Suche nach dem Goldenen Drachen", the Sunstone is a magical gem that brings good weather and harvest. Tygurah is a half-man, half-tiger beast that serves the gods by protecting the Sunstone. No one knows where it is hidden, but you know you're nearby when you can hear Tygurah's roar (hence this set's name).
Our heroic Adventurers meet and rescue Babloo from the tyrannical Maharaja Lallu, who is demanding that his poor villagers hand over the Sunstone. Babloo agrees to guide the Adventurers to Scorpion Palace if they can find the Sunstone. By lucky coincidence, they happen to set up camp that night near the altar, which Dr. Kilroy stumbles upon while searching for firewood. He grabs the Sunstone and runs away as Tygurah gives chase, and the legendary beast ends up falling through the rickety bridge. With the Sunstone in Babloo's hands, he leads his villagers in rebellion against Lallu.
In terms of the set itself, it's basically an upgraded version of 1355 Temple of Gloom. Both sets have the same function: pull the "drawer" out and watch the bridge tiles fall through. This set also adds a trapdoor at the far end of the bridge where Tygurah stands, creating the illusion of Tygurah "lunging" forward through the ferns just as the bridge begins to collapse. It's simple but effective, and I love it.
As with many other Orient Expedition sets, this set is compatible with the board game in the three largest sets. The player's character must roll 8+ luck or 7+ speed to safely cross the shrine's bridge and retrieve the Sunstone, or bypass the challenge by carrying a torch (this can be put through the yellow pinholes, locking the bridge-collapsing mechanism in place).
"The dangerous traps of Tygurah" also are described in the synopsis of the LEGOLAND Deustchland live show "Johnny Thunder: The Search for the Jungle Diamond". I don't suppose anyone here has seen it and can fill us in on what happened? I'd love to know more details!
As a personal anecdote: I remember seeing Tygurah for the first time previewed in the November/December 2002 issue of LEGO Magazine. At the time, I believed that Tygurah was an ordinary human minifig wearing a tiger's skin over his head and torso! I didn't realize until two months later that Tygurah was much larger than your regular standard minifig. In fact, it's just a variant of the same build used for Orient Expedition's Yeti and Jun-Chi... and the Cobra Guardians from the unreleased 2005 subtheme/reboot Adventure.
I'm pretty sure I bought this set, just so I could have my Lego superheroes fighting a giant tiger monster.
Plus, the two big yellow swords were dope.
@AllenSmith said:
"So did Lego just make up the name "Tygurah"? I always assumed they didn't, but looking today, the only references I find online point to this set.
And what a hugely expensive one-off for a cheap set!"
I think they made it up, same as I’m pretty sure they made up Jun-Chi from the Chinese leg of the quest. Only one of the three big monsters they faced to have pre established lore was the Yeti
That's a much cheaper price than I expected!
This one has a good amount of brown 1x4 tiles. The play features are fun too.
Only just noticed the two hands holding the map, great box art for a $10 set.
Orient Expedition is such a fantastic theme! This set in particular has a great play feature, from the days when lego was a lot more play feature focussed than it is now.
By pulling the yellow plate the trapdoor Tygurah stands on falls, simulating him lunging forward. Then, when you continue puling it the boards of the bridge (brown 1x4 tiles) start to fall down one by one. You can control the speed of this happening. You can also place the torches in one of two holes. The first is the other yellow plate, which locks the whole mechanism from moving in the first place. The second is one the side, which prevents Tygurah's trapdoor.
Not only is it play-feature focussed, but it looks good as well. The printed brick at the top, the earth orange pillars (which debuted in this theme), decorative swords (debuted here) and torches, the vines and of course Tygurah with his striped back and even a tail (elephant trunk/tail, debuted in this theme)... they all make this set look so nice.
This set also came with board game cards. They are only usable if you have one of the three large temple sets though.
I recently rebuilt this set after it had been parted out for the past 20 years. To my surprise, it is the only set I own with dark blue 1x8 plates--or those white 1x4 notched slider bricks. I'm still using placeholders for one of each of them.
The Tygurah itself (and the Jun-Chi, because I also have that one--and I assume the Yeti likewise) occupies an interesting niche: it follows the original Harry Potter troll as an attempt at something in the size that would become big figs. You can see the thinking: this is is a bit more versatile than the troll (easier to swap other parts) and is actually more more playable: the troll's two points of articulation (head and right arm) are probably less useful than the two arms here--three if you count the tail.
It's going to take a few more years before the Fantasy Era trolls get it right.
Still praying, hoping Lego relaunches the Adventurers line, all updated, new takes on the classic kits.
A big kid can dream right?
@MCLegoboy said:
"I've got that Tygurah figure right next to me. It's got a pretty specific color, Earth Orange, and I've got nothing else in that color, not to mention the parts are also pretty specific, too. Can't really use it for much of anything, so it just sits nearby on the desk."
The only thing I know I own in Earth-Orange is the Ep1 Kaadu. Maybe Ron's hair, but I only bought a tiny handful of HP sets and none of them included Ron with that hairstyle. I would have had to pick him up loose.
@AllenSmith:
This set released in 2003, and the Maori protest over Bionicle names occurred in 2001, resulting in TLG agreeing to not harvest words from existing cultures. One could argue that "yeti" broke that agreement, but it was used to describe something that appears yeti-like in the region of the world where the word originated.
ADVENTURERS! Be still my beating heart - my childhood is calling me!
I bought the Tygurah figure to go with my own jungle temple I made almost a decade ago, which is an enlarged and modified set 21132
How is Kryptomite considered a minifigure and Tygurah isn't?
I remember that I started out 2003 with the hope of getting, if not *all* the Orient Expedition sets, then at least all the major plot-relevant ones: particularly the three big temples, but also any others that included minifigures that weren't in those bigger sets. As a kid who wasn't particularly good at saving my pocket money - I tended to prefer buying many small sets often, rather than few big sets infrequently - this was definitely going to take some effort; but I was extremely excited to see Adventurers return, didn't have any of the big location sets from the theme's previous years, and hadn't reached my Bionicle completionist phase yet, so I figured there was nothing stopping me.
Except my own lack of dicipline, that is. Ultimately, I lost interest shortly after getting the Scorpion Palace (which my parents had agreed to cover half the price of, so even then I didn't have to save the whole cost of that set myself); but even before that point, today's set was one that I passed on. I thought the Tygurah itself looked insanely cool, but the Dr. Kilroy minifigure being practically the same as the one from 7418 (admittedly with different coloured pants, but that barely counted) made this a pretty low-priority, relatively speaking. I may have intended to come back around for this one later; but at the time I went for the Elephant Caravan (two minifigures, Babloo and new!Pippin, who weren't in the bigger set, not to even mention an elephant too!) and then for the Scorpion Palace; and after that, as I said, kinda lost interest in saving any further.
(In hindsight if I'd only been going to get one of the big sets, I might have done better to hold out for the really impressive one, the Dragon Fortress that would come along later in the year; but I wasn't looking that far ahead at the time. And besides, by late-2003 Bionicle was stealing most of my Lego interest again, with the new Matoran and titan sets and the movie hype...!)
In the end, what I did also get was the equivalent set to this for the Mount Everest mini-arc, the 7412 Yeti's Hideout; so I still got to try out one of the Guardian proto-bigfigs. The Yeti, in my view, was not as cool as Tygurah; but that set had the advantage of its Pippin minifigure having a new outfit (complete with new hat mould!), which was the main reason I picked that one over either of the other guardian sets.
It was still a very fun set; but reading about it in the comments above, it does sound to me like Tygurah's set here got the best play feature out of the three...
@ToysFromTheAttic said:
"How is Kryptomite considered a minifigure and Tygurah isn't?"
Bricklink categorises Tygurah as an animal, which they have a separate catalogue section for; by their definition, anything animal that isn't explicitly made of minifigure parts goes into the animal category, regardless of if it's also a specific character; whereas anything character that isn't an animal counts as a minifigure, regardless of actual minifigure parts. Several other animal characters, such as Lotso, Rex and Hamm from the Toy Story franchise, get the 'animal, not character' treatment too.
And yet oddly enough, Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh *is* counted as a minifigure, despite also being an animal character with no minifigure parts. I'm not sure what their explanation is in that case...
@ThatBionicleGuy said:
" @ToysFromTheAttic said:
"How is Kryptomite considered a minifigure and Tygurah isn't?"
Bricklink categorises Tygurah as an animal, which they have a separate catalogue section for; by their definition, anything animal that isn't explicitly made of minifigure parts goes into the animal category, regardless of if it's also a specific character; whereas anything character that isn't an animal counts as a minifigure, regardless of actual minifigure parts. Several other animal characters, such as Lotso, Rex and Hamm from the Toy Story franchise, get the 'animal, not character' treatment too.
And yet oddly enough, Eeyore from Winnie-the-Pooh *is* counted as a minifigure, despite also being an animal character with no minifigure parts. I'm not sure what their explanation is in that case..."
A lot of it comes down to a combination of two factors. The people who manage the catalog are also the ones who set the rules and determine when exceptions should be made, and there’s a general policy of not countermanding someone else’s earlier decision. So you can have clearly defined rules, one person can wildly stray from them for a particular character, and nobody else will want to be the person to edit that decision.
One of the greatest Lego sets ever made.
@SJPlego said:
As a personal anecdote: I remember seeing Tygurah for the first time previewed in the November/December 2002 issue of LEGO Magazine. At the time, I believed that Tygurah was an ordinary human minifig wearing a tiger's skin over his head and torso! I didn't realize until two months later that Tygurah was much larger than your regular standard minifig. In fact, it's just a variant of the same build used for Orient Expedition's Yeti and Jun-Chi... and the Cobra Guardians from the unreleased 2005 subtheme/reboot Adventure.]]
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Cobra Guardians? are there any images of these? or sets and figures? I know parts lists leaked on bricklink for unreleased Egypt and dinosaur sets which are now unavailable, I would love to find anything for these.
@ZeeEssBS said:
[[ @SJPlego said:
As a personal anecdote: I remember seeing Tygurah for the first time previewed in the November/December 2002 issue of LEGO Magazine. At the time, I believed that Tygurah was an ordinary human minifig wearing a tiger's skin over his head and torso! I didn't realize until two months later that Tygurah was much larger than your regular standard minifig. In fact, it's just a variant of the same build used for Orient Expedition's Yeti and Jun-Chi... and the Cobra Guardians from the unreleased 2005 subtheme/reboot Adventure.]]
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Cobra Guardians? are there any images of these? or sets and figures? I know parts lists leaked on bricklink for unreleased Egypt and dinosaur sets which are now unavailable, I would love to find anything for these.]]
I also would like to know more about this Cobra Guardians subtheme. I haven't heard of it before.
@Formendacil said:
"I recently rebuilt this set after it had been parted out for the past 20 years. To my surprise, it is the only set I own with dark blue 1x8 plates--or those white 1x4 notched slider bricks. I'm still using placeholders for one of each of them.
The Tygurah itself (and the Jun-Chi, because I also have that one--and I assume the Yeti likewise) occupies an interesting niche: it follows the original Harry Potter troll as an attempt at something in the size that would become big figs. You can see the thinking: this is is a bit more versatile than the troll (easier to swap other parts) and is actually more more playable: the troll's two points of articulation (head and right arm) are probably less useful than the two arms here--three if you count the tail.
It's going to take a few more years before the Fantasy Era trolls get it right."
Don't forget the Rock Raiders Rock Monster which should be considered the original big fig. That had no swappable parts, and only one moveable arm. So these and the Harry Potter troll were a very different attempt at larger than minifigure scale characters.
@ZeeEssBS and @Miyakan
Regarding the Cobra Guardians, most of what we know comes from the leaked inventory for set 7430, which reveals that they share all the six common pieces (i.e. legs, two arms, 2x2 plate, and two 1x2 TECHNIC bricks) between Tygurah, Yeti, and Jun-Chi in earth blue, plus their own unique head/torso piece (part ID 50542, element ID 4251748, internally named "Cobra Being Dec."). In early January, a purported photo of the "Cobra Being Dec." piece was shared to a few Discord servers, and it's also been reposted on Brickipedia: https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/File:50542-4251748_Cobra_Being_Dec.png
I also took the liberty of editing a mockup of the Cobra Being as the complete figure would have most likely appeared: https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/storagebackend/attachments/monthly_2026_02/CobraBeingv2.jpg.f80a013117ffdd40c96340b97320fa67.jpg
For other unreleased parts from the 2005 theme Adventure, you can find them on theqelement or compiled in the gallery of this Brickipedia article: https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Adventure_%28theme%29
@SJPlego said:
" @ZeeEssBS and @Miyakan
Regarding the Cobra Guardians, most of what we know comes from the leaked inventory for set 7430, which reveals that they share all the six common pieces (i.e. legs, two arms, 2x2 plate, and two 1x2 TECHNIC bricks) between Tygurah, Yeti, and Jun-Chi in earth blue, plus their own unique head/torso piece (part ID 50542, element ID 4251748, internally named "Cobra Being Dec."). In early January, a purported photo of the "Cobra Being Dec." piece was shared to a few Discord servers, and it's also been reposted on Brickipedia: https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/File:50542-4251748_Cobra_Being_Dec.png
I also took the liberty of editing a mockup of the Cobra Being as the complete figure would have most likely appeared: https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/storagebackend/attachments/monthly_2026_02/CobraBeingv2.jpg.f80a013117ffdd40c96340b97320fa67.jpg
For other unreleased parts from the 2005 theme Adventure, you can find them on theqelement or compiled in the gallery of this Brickipedia article: https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Adventure_%28theme%29"
Thank you very much!
Is the jackal headpiece and bricks with stone prints and hieroglyphics also based on something official?
I really love seeing these.