30133 minifig is NOT new

 

  • 30133 minifig is NOT new

    Posted by Huw, 31 Aug 2011 13:54. Filed under New sets.

    30133: Jack Sparrow
    Pirates of the Caribbean, 2011
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    ©2011 LEGO Group

    Following on from the heated debate we had earlier in the week about this set, I have some good news and bad.

    The bad news is that despite the image on the bag showing a white Jack Sparrow face, it is in fact the plain, normal, face that's appeared in other sets.
     

    The good news is that PotC minifig collectors won't now have to tear their hair out trying to get hold of it!

    Thanks to keithkram for sending me one to photograph. I've now scanned the bag which clearly shows the white face. What a disappointment!


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Posted by Alemas in Germany, 31 Aug 2011 14:00

Blame the lighting, then. :P

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 31 Aug 2011 14:30

I've contacted customer service who will either (a) tell me the picture is a mistake or (b) send me a white face. Hopefully the latter!

Posted by Alemas in Germany, 31 Aug 2011 15:14

@LEGOlas: It's the lighting of the minifig face which makes it look white. :P

EDIT: Now that there's a clearer image, it looks like it's a normal head. Good and bad. :P

Posted by Mr. F in Canada, 31 Aug 2011 16:20

Until it was explicitly mentioned in this article, I couldn't even tell it was supposedly a different face. Clearly a trick of the light.

Posted by starfire2 in United States, 31 Aug 2011 16:41

it looks white to me.

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 31 Aug 2011 16:55

^ I have to disgaree, the bag clearly shows a white face. The black markings are the same as the regular face but the bit between the cheek lines is definitely white.

Posted by Alemas in Germany, 31 Aug 2011 17:10

@Huw: I think it's just the lighting, really. And why would Jack have a white face anyway?

Posted by gunoz in United States, 31 Aug 2011 17:59

The bag clearly shows a white face. Does it make sense? Not really. But then again it wouldn't really make sense to have same old Jack in a polybag.

Posted by TBOC in United States, 31 Aug 2011 19:04

Looked LtFlesh before to me... maybe it was just me.

Posted by macmon in Philippines, 31 Aug 2011 19:31

That picture is really confusing.

Posted by collect-that! in United Kingdom, 01 Sep 2011 01:59

Any news on how this is going to be available though?

Posted by Gandalf1 in United States, 01 Sep 2011 09:36

To me it just looks like the lighting, but that is just a picture if the bag, so I could be wrong.

Posted by Rabtastic in United Kingdom, 01 Sep 2011 12:13

It looks white in the pic to me. Could be a trick of the lighting, or it could have been badly retouched from the original photo.

What no-one seems to have said (does anyone even know) where did this come from? What was it released with as a promo?

Anyone?

Posted by legomatt in United Kingdom, 01 Sep 2011 13:38

That's not bad lighting on the photo to result in white face. It's a BAD bit of retouching. It's most likely that the original photo was a poor shot, and the graphics department had to re-light the model using editing software - but accidentally left the face looking white during the process... OR they intended to include a white faced model, but changed it last minute - but forgot to adjust the bag.

Posted by dewballer in United States, 02 Sep 2011 06:18

hmmm... is it really the bad lighting and bad touch ups??? where this polybag info came from?? seems to me someone intended to alter Jack Sparrow minifig face/ In that case people will think it's a new polybag set and it will generate quick $$ for the seller... may be I'm over reacting but that's the only direction my thought headed and went.

Posted by legomatt in United Kingdom, 02 Sep 2011 12:42

@dewballer: The newspiece says that Huw scanned the actual bag - so the whitened face is on the actual bag itself, not a retouched photo OF the bag by unscrupulous seller.

As I don't think a minifigure can be lit in such a way to effect the face over the mouth but not under it, it has to be a retouching error. So the retouching i think has happened occurred within the graphics department of the Lego company, when designing the bag. I think somebody selected the face-area in order to make the features more prominent and clear, but accidentally left a slight white 'mask' effect over the pink area inside the face features.

Posted by legomatt in United Kingdom, 02 Sep 2011 12:46

Or it could be the reverse of what i thought... i.e. that they had to darken the skin tones of a too-bright image, (rather than correct for shadows of a dark image), and actually FORGOT to retouch the area of the face. :o)

Posted by LegoCloneFanatic in United States, 08 Sep 2011 06:23

This is a jack sparrow from curse of the black pearl.

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