Random minifig of the day: sw0024
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random minifigure is sw0024 Obi-Wan Kenobi (Young with Hood and Cape), a Star Wars figure that came in one set, 7161 Gungan Sub, released during 1999.
Our members collectively own a total of 6,180 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $40.50.
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It's some dude doing Jedi Bob cosplay!
I love those Episode I figures.
“…you were right about one thing: the yellow head negotiations were short.”
Gungan Sub Obi-wan! For when your RotJ Luke head was actuality Ewan MacGregor first.
Major nostalgia for the Episode 1 figs, even as they’re a bit imperfect in many ways. No hair for Obi-wan, for example. And also generally making Obi-wan difficult to obtain! But darn if I don’t like this fig.
Hello there! Brilliant minifig.
No dual-molded legs? No goddam waist cape?! ARE THOSE HELMET HOLES ON HIS HOOD?!?
Why does Lego hate fans? I’m just asking the obvious questions
Impostor. That's not Obi-Wan, it's Jedi Bob
@ItisNoe said:
"Impostor. That's not Obi-Wan, it's Jedi Bob"
*Padawan Bob, Jedi Bob has a thick grey beard.
Anybody else remember when heads and torsos came preassembled, but then you had to take them apart to add a cape? I'm not saying they were good times, nor am I nostalgic, I just want confirmation that's how it used to be. Sometimes the machines did their job a little too well and it took quite a bit of effort to get them unstuck.
"Hello there"
@MCLegoboy:
That could just be the result of the paint on the neck post sticking to the head.
Thief! He stole Jedi Bobs clothes!
Based on the comments I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this was Bob at first
A surprising number of Obi-Wan variants have soulless Lego eyes…
Which admittedly is preferable to the two or three with anime eyes.
@MeisterDad said:
"“…you were right about one thing: the yellow head negotiations were short.”"
Good call, my young padawan.
A yellow Obi-Wan? That’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time…
I love these early SW minifigs. Less is more, and this figure conveys everything it needs to with colors alone.
@Maxbricks14 said:
""Hello there""
"GENERAL KENOBI"
The internet mandates this must be done!
...
Visible confusion...
25 years since The Phantom Menace.. but 25 years of LEGO Star Wars!
@Maxbricks14 said:
""Hello there""
*Epic MagnaGuard staff noise*
General Kenobi. You are a bold one.
@Binnekamp said:
"I love these early SW minifigs. Less is more, and this figure conveys everything it needs to with colors alone."
The only thing I feel is missing is the padawan braid. My long-time assumption has been that Lego didn't know how to achieve that detail in 1999, since it's part of the hair but would be incredibly thin and fragile if it was moulded, and that making young Obi exclusively have his hood raised was their way around that. By 2002, I suppose AotC Anakin forced them to find a different solution, since I don't remember him ever wearing his hood raised in that movie, so from then on we got the braids printed on the torsos and standard hairpieces for a while.
The version of Obi from right after that change, from 7203, was the one I had as a kid... and one of the ones that I low-key regret selling when I downsized my collection, since TPM Qui and Obi are one of my favourite duos of the franchise. (Thanks in no small part to the Jedi Apprentice series of young reader novels that I had several of when I was younger and that starred them.) My Qui-Gon minifigure looks lonely without a matching Obi xD
That said, I otherwise completely agree with you; and I find the hooded version here very nostalgic as well, even though I never owned him, because it was the appearance of these first TPM minifigures when they were shown in Lego Adventures magazine that prompted my interest in the franchise as a whole. I'm honestly not sure which version of yellow TPM Obi I prefer, I like them both!
So glad they went skin-tone. Minifig faces have come such a long way...
H e l l o T h e r e
@AverageChimaEnjoyer said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
""Hello there""
*Epic MagnaGuard staff noise*
General Kenobi. You are a bold one."
Kill him!
*Magnaguards destroyed by Obi-wan*
Back away! I will deal with this Jedi slime myself.
Your move.
You fool. I've been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Dooku.
Attack, Kenobi!