Random minifig of the day: old007
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random minifigure is old007 Legoland - Blue Torso, Blue Legs, Blue Hat, a LEGOLAND figure that was first produced during 1975. It can be found in 7 sets.
Our members collectively own a total of 23,808 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $6.30.
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Poor guy. No arms, one giant leg, and his name is just "old." He wouldn't believe what the kids these days look like!
Doesn't look like any 007 I've ever seen, but I'm sure he's a master of disguise so...
Daniel Craig has really let himself go.
"I have no mouth, yet I must scream."
Seeing this minifigure really makes me appreciate the excellent detail we get these days on clone troopers and other modern minifigures.
The name is Old, James Old.
Nice to see the algorithm doesn’t prejudice against pre-1978 figures. Next up, maxifigs.
If you don’t come to the Brickset comments section, you’re missing some of the best crowd-sourced entertainment on the internet.
Am I the only one who thinks it would be funny to swap pieces between one of these and today's minifigs? For best results, use a modern minifig with hyper-detailed printing and dual-molded pieces.
@tedgarb said:
"Poor guy. No arms, one giant leg, and his name is just "old." He wouldn't believe what the kids these days look like!"
The fact that they can sit down without bisecting themselves would just blow his mind!
@peterlmorris said:
"If you don’t come to the Brickset comments section, you’re missing some of the best crowd-sourced entertainment on the internet. "
And that while still recovering from the recent trauma of belvmale17. I know I'm still feeling afraid to check the fig of the day after that.
@Brickbuilder0937 said:
"Doesn't look like any 007 I've ever seen, but I'm sure he's a master of disguise so..."
Is that a denim tuxedo?
He has a license to kill, but is unarmed.
@kyrodes said:
"He has a license to kill, but is unarmed."
He’s a master of unarmed combat!
@kyrodes said:
"He has a license to kill, but is unarmed."
Yes, but he isn't unlegged. Humans are so resourceful that they can hold people at gunpoint with their feet. Although it might be hard since he appears to be a monopod.
@kyrodes said:
"He has a license to kill, but is unarmed."
He's not got arms!
Tis but a scratch, he'll bite your kneecaps off.
oh wait, no teeth either...
He has survived among newer minifigs by being mistaken for a minifig looking the other way. Imagine the horror when they tap him on the shoulder to ask a question.
Ah yes, a mermaid pilot/captain/roadworker
Who is also an MI6 agent
I love how the torso and legs (in black) were resurrected after a few years of the 1978 minifigs introduction just to be used in 1592's statue. Does that then count as the first official monofig?
@B_Space_Man said:
"He has survived among newer minifigs by being mistaken for a minifig looking the other way. Imagine the horror when they tap him on the shoulder to ask a question. "
I had nightmare after a Sapphire and Steel episode with that plot. RIP David McCallum.
Those were the days...
When space came around with its smiley, modern minifigs, it was a revelation!
There was something so cold, impersonal about these early figs with their blank stares, splayed feet, and hands perpetually stuffed in pocketses.
Looks kind of like he’s throwing a huff and has turned, arms crossed, away from us. But then if even my official designation mocked me for being old I’d probably be in a huff as well
Considering the horrors of My Dad and Galidor that have graced these pages, it's nice to see a fig that's essentially 'armless.....
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I'll get my coat
@StyleCounselor: Well, my "AhhhhhAHHHHHH"(Angel-choir singing in one's head) came the year before w/the "updated" Coast Guard Platform 575 (but the Canadian version)...but then the ball reeeeeeally got ROLLIN':D
@TheOtherMike said:
"Am I the only one who thinks it would be funny to swap pieces between one of these and today's minifigs? For best results, use a modern minifig with hyper-detailed printing and dual-molded pieces."
I used to do that when I was little and had both sorts of minifig in my collection. The old-style torsos will happily take the new-style legs, and vice versa. And sometimes when I've pieced together sets with the old-style minifigures, I've used spare modern heads with faces rather than go to the trouble of acquiring blank ones.
Mostly Armless
But 6 of these are the answer to the ultimate question!
So close to being my very first minifig. Mine was from 369 - so had white hats and stickers of lifebuoys on their fronts.
Well,lego had to start somewhere with minifigs,I guess.
@tedgarb said:
"Poor guy. No arms, one giant leg, and his name is just "old." He wouldn't believe what the kids these days look like!"
Why so many comments about no arms? Have you not seen these parts?
They have arms. They are fixed by the sides of the torso. They don't have hands, but they are made to look like the figures have their hands in their pockets.
Ah yes, the blue proto minifigure. I had two of those in set 404. Possibly the best Christmas present I ever received.
I just noticed something funny: I thought I had 4 of those pre-Minifigs, but my list here on Brickset only shows 3. Turns out, from 617 only one is considered a minifig. The other one, which is kinda fused with a horse, is just in the parts inventory.....all chopped up in pieces, obviously. Poor chap....
Imagine being 007 until one day everyone calls you "old007" without checking with you first... ;0
@cm5878 said:
"I love how the torso and legs (in black) were resurrected after a few years of the 1978 minifigs introduction just to be used in 1592's statue. Does that then count as the first official monofig?"
I consider it to be so.
@Brickalili:
He’s turned his back on the entire world, in both directions!
@WizardOfOss:
How many men must a road walk down?
@CCC:
In my defense, he does have arms, but he doesn’t use them to fight with.
@PurpleDave said:
" @WizardOfOss:
How many men must a road walk down?"
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
I was born in 1979 and have always had minifigures around, but we have several of these older figures in our collection. I remember hunting them out as a youngster to fondly play with. I loved making them “sit down” by dismantling the torso and leg pieces, attaching the torso to a brick-made bench and placing the leg piece on the baseplate in front of the bench—I think these sit down instruction were in the era’s hospital kit—Then the old letter tile would be placed on the exposed studs of the leg piece, and you had a person sitting to read his mail. It was so simple and wonderful.
@Ridgeheart said:
"They wouldn't actually make it TO the eighties, but that's what you get when you don't eat, drink or breathe for five years."
But they did make it to the 80s in 1592 , and in the purest possible form for a figure that neither eats drinks, or breathes.
I have always found these things absolutely fascinating. They are like digging up a mummy—a glimpse into the relics of a long-vanished civilization, with the limbs tightly bound and the face effaced under a blank mask.
No cloth Kama? Unacceptable
Wow, a Sean Connery figure
@TheOtherMike said:
"Am I the only one who thinks it would be funny to swap pieces between one of these and today's minifigs? For best results, use a modern minifig with hyper-detailed printing and dual-molded pieces.
@tedgarb said:
"Poor guy. No arms, one giant leg, and his name is just "old." He wouldn't believe what the kids these days look like!"
The fact that they can sit down without bisecting themselves would just blow his mind!"
Technically there was such a character in Lego Legacy Heroes Unboxed, who had some brick-built 'prosthetics' to help him hold tools.
@Sam_A_Rama said:
"No cloth Kama? Unacceptable "
Damn! That's on point. :O
@Ridgeheart said:
" @AllenSmith said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"They wouldn't actually make it TO the eighties, but that's what you get when you don't eat, drink or breathe for five years."
But they did make it to the 80s in 1592, and in the purest possible form for a figure that neither eats drinks, or breathes.
I have always found these things absolutely fascinating. They are like digging up a mummy—a glimpse into the relics of a long-vanished civilization, with the limbs tightly bound and the face effaced under a blank mask."
Friend, I'm afraid that a blackened corpse in a dapper hat is EXACTLY what we got in 1592.
"
I'll never look at that set the same way again. *shudder*
@PurpleDave said:
" @cm5878 said:
"I love how the torso and legs (in black) were resurrected after a few years of the 1978 minifigs introduction just to be used in 1592's statue. Does that then count as the first official monofig?"
I consider it to be so."
On looking at the component parts, it would have been possible to create a black monofig as early as 1977, though not with that nice top hat from 1592. You could also have made up a similar red monofig in the same year. Wonder if anybody did that back in the day.
This guy would scare the hell out of any minifig included in a Halloween set.
He may innocently waddle around with his hands in his pockets and a blank expression but the Fabuland residents dug burrows when he visited.
YES! This guy and his twin were my first ever minifigures! They hold a special place in my heart.