Random set of the day: Jimi Stringer
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 7170 Jimi Stringer, released during 2010. It's one of 15 HERO Factory sets produced that year. It contains 17 pieces, and its retail price was US$7.99/£7.99.
It's owned by 2,025 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 $25.00, or eBay.
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Wait, that is only 17 pieces?
I thought he was going to be the bass player for the Hero Factory band.
@Miyakan said:
"Wait, that is only 17 pieces?"
Even better, 4 of those are arms
This set has a “Musical” tag…
Am I missing something?
The guy who maintains Hendrix's guitar, I assume.
@SearchlightRG said:
"This set has a “Musical” tag…
Am I missing something?"
I think he has sonic powers. The musical tag seems to be for things relating to music not sets based on musicals.
Music artist cmf series when?
@kongutahu said:
" @SearchlightRG said:
"This set has a “Musical” tag…
Am I missing something?"
I think he has sonic powers. The musical tag seems to be for things relating to music not sets based on musicals."
Besides the sonic powers (and the fact that the barrels of his weapon look like speaker cones), he was named after a famous musician.
@AndyB1 said:
" @Miyakan said:
"Wait, that is only 17 pieces?"
Even better, 4 of those are arms"
Even better, 3 are arms/legs! The right arm is built into the weapon!
@TheOtherMike said:
" @kongutahu said:
" @SearchlightRG said:
"This set has a “Musical” tag…
Am I missing something?"
I think he has sonic powers. The musical tag seems to be for things relating to music not sets based on musicals."
Besides the sonic powers (and the fact that the barrels of his weapon look like speaker cones), he was named after a famous musician."
His weapon is supposed to resemble a guitar to some extent as well, thereby the triangle shape at the bottom.
... and the wind, cries; LEGO.
Giving new meaning to the term “Jimi-jacked”, a joke that will have precisely zero meaning to anyone who hasn’t watched Night at the Museum 2 recently.
@WOLKsite said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @kongutahu said:
" @SearchlightRG said:
"This set has a “Musical” tag…
Am I missing something?"
I think he has sonic powers. The musical tag seems to be for things relating to music not sets based on musicals."
Besides the sonic powers (and the fact that the barrels of his weapon look like speaker cones), he was named after a famous musician."
His weapon is supposed to resemble a guitar to some extent as well, thereby the triangle shape at the bottom."
Slightly more obvious in one of his later forms, 6282
Of the 2010 heroes I think the rookies (Furbo, Breez and Surge) were the better sets as they had both arms. The three more experienced heroes (Stormer, Bulk and Stringer) had basically a stump with the special tool arms over it, which are hollow on the inside and are limited in what you can do with them. Also, they are only connected with a single axle, which can break, as I found out in bulk lots. The same goes for the chest armour and the leg armour. Combined with the 2009 style ball sockets and you can easily break most pieces.
In that regard CCBS couldn't come soon enough the next year!
Funnily enough a second version of Bulk in 7179 Bulk vs Vapour has BOTH arms as the special type. The left one is his usual one, but the right arm is Stringer's. Crippling overspecialization much?
By the way, I like the design of the 2010 heroes. Although their build was similar to Bionicle 2008 matoran / 2009 Agori / 2010 Stars, they had better shaping (a limb that isn't bent 90 degrees!!!) and the layering of armor pieces allowed for good color distribution and color contrasting. The parts were just mostly hard to reuse elsewhere. Except for the limbs and feet. The feet actually stayed in the CCBS days with Breez from 2012.
Looks cooler than he sounds. I think I only ever saw the opening episodes to the animated show, and he has this southern drawl. Like, I don't know, maybe it's a bit racist on my part, but given the subwoofers and speakers, and the black color scheme, I'd expect something a lot more different than country hick.
I had this set and I was not impressed.... BIONICLE Stars (from that same year) had it's flaws, but it was mask and shoulders above HERO Factory's entire run. (Sorry Not Sorry!)
Look man, you can listen to Jimi but you can't hear him. There's a difference. Just because you're listening to him doesn't mean you're hearing him.
@PurpleDave said:
"Giving new meaning to the term “Jimi-jacked”, a joke that will have precisely zero meaning to anyone who hasn’t watched Night at the Museum 2 recently."
Considering that I've only seen that movie once, and that was when it first came out, yeah, that means nothing to me.
@xoddam said:"Look man, you can listen to Jimi but you can't hear him. There's a difference. Just because you're listening to him doesn't mean you're hearing him."
So we're going from Jimi Hendrix to Simon and Garfunkel? "People hearing without listening..."
Real Quick Lore, this guy was a musician and a part of Alpha 1 Team
@GSR_MataNui said:
"Real Quick Lore, this guy was a musician and a part of Alpha 1 Team "
Not to be confused with Alpha Team.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"Giving new meaning to the term “Jimi-jacked”, a joke that will have precisely zero meaning to anyone who hasn’t watched Night at the Museum 2 recently."
Considering that I've only seen that movie once, and that was when it first came out, yeah, that means nothing to me."
Okay, Amy Adams did her show-stealing performance as Amelia Earhart in the second film, and they gave her some really quirky dialog, like, “You haven’t been able to keep your cheaters off my chassis,” when she’s telling Stiller’s character she’d noticed him checking her out. At one point she says, “We’re Jimmy-jacked,” as a way to say they’re screwed. The really weird thing is, from the commentary tracks, either the director or one of the two screenwriters used to actually say that in real life.
@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"Giving new meaning to the term “Jimi-jacked”, a joke that will have precisely zero meaning to anyone who hasn’t watched Night at the Museum 2 recently."
Considering that I've only seen that movie once, and that was when it first came out, yeah, that means nothing to me."
Okay, Amy Adams did her show-stealing performance as Amelia Earhart in the second film, and they gave her some really quirky dialog, like, “You haven’t been able to keep your cheaters off my chassis,” when she’s telling Stiller’s character she’d noticed him checking her out. At one point she says, “We’re Jimmy-jacked,” as a way to say they’re screwed. The really weird thing is, from the commentary tracks, either the director or one of the two screenwriters used to actually say that in real life."
For some reason, as a kid I read the novelisation of that movie several times over before I ever saw it. That, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
@RogueWhistler said:
"For some reason, as a kid I read the novelisation of that movie several times over before I ever saw it. That, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."
That was a little more common in my day, since no home video (unless you recorded it yourself). I saw each of the OT films _once_ in the theater as a kid, and thereafter it was whenever they did a broadcast airing, or my brother had the novelization of RotJ (as well as The Making of RotJ, if you wanted a day-by-day rundown of the filming process), and I think the picture book of ANH. I had the novelization of ET, which I’ve probably read more times than I’ve yet watched the movie. And my brother had the Tron picture book, which is a highly condensed form of the movie, and let me tell you there’s some nutcase bizarre stuff in that film that I was not prepared to see the first time I watched the actual movie.