Random figure of the day: hky007
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random figure is hky007 Hockey Player G, a Sports figure that came in one set, 3578 NHL Championship Challenge, released during 2004.
Our members collectively own a total of 497 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at Brick Owl or BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $14.80.
Image and data courtesy of BrickLink.com
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That beard is giving me Count Dooku vibes.
Does anyone know where that picture came from? I don't recall seeing a minifig picture formatted like that.
I think that is the best looking minifig of the Hockey category.
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=M&catString=473.476
He seems to be a more mature player.
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Scott Hunter?!?
Oh man, this head was originally for Maharajah Lallu from Orient Expedition, but they got a lot of use out of that print
@ShivaMT said:
"I think that is the best looking minifig of the Hockey category.
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=M&catString=473.476
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That’s certainly a motley assortment if I’ve ever seen one. I’m not convinced E actually knows where he is or what’s going on
@TheOtherMike said:
"Does anyone know where that picture came from? I don't recall seeing a minifig picture formatted like that."
Actually, now that I think about it, I think it might just be from a Lego catalog or other promotional material.
Hockey pads? Who does he think he is, Batman?
Looks like a sea captain. Maybe this was his last season as a player before retiring to helm a fishing boat.
Ah, yes. After Babloo and his people, with aid from Johnny Thunder and co., overthrew his tyranical rule, former-Maharajah Lallu decided to make the best of things and started a hockey career. His former bodyguard https://brickset.com/minifigs/hky001 stuck with him, and together they were accepted onto the team, even making it to that year's NHL championship.
Ultimately, their hockey careers went nowhere beyond this, and the two parted ways. They would briefly cross paths again (somehow) in Knights' Kingdom II's 8813, this time on opposing sides of the conflict; but otherwise Lallu would spend much of his time in the world of the Vikings, before returning to the modern day to first be a maintenance worker on the coast guard platform of 4210, before becoming a railway engineer for 10194. Nothing more has been known of his career beyond this, so he may well still be working with the Emerald Night to this day.
(His former bodyguard in contrast, aside from also being a knight for a while, wasn't quite ready to give up on a sports career and played football for a little while (3569); and since then he has had such a varied career as being part of both Aqua Raiders (e.g. 7770) and Mars Mission (e.g. 7695), before returning to medieval times to battle trolls (e.g. 7038). He has not been heard from since, either, and may not have survived his attempt to raid the trolls' mountain fortress in 7097.)