Random figure of the day: rep003
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random figure is rep003 Repair - Overalls Red with Wrench Pattern, Red Legs, Green Cap, Male, a Town figure that came in one set, 6434 Roadside Repair, released during 1999.
Our members collectively own a total of 1,324 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $3.90.
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That face print is just... creepy.
Rep0 man's always intense.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"That face print is just... creepy."
It's like pressing the keyboard spacebar once between the colon and the closing parenthesis mark.
Now pressing the spacebar more than once, on the other hand... : )
Nock-off Super Mario
Is the mouth too low?
Looks colorful and fun. I woudn't mind having him helping people around in my town.
Yeah, that face is a decision. It's a decision we all get to regret.
Oh man, he’s from one of the first sets I ever got as a kid. Very fond memories of this fella
There is another. He has a twin...sister.
Actually, he has a twin brother, so the sister would be a fraternal triplet, I guess.
@Maxbricks14 said:
"That face print is just... creepy."
Accept it or not, but thats the precursor to modern minifig faces.
Previously all minifigs had solid black dots (sometimes intersected by their eyebrows/eyelids) as eyes.
This particular design was started with Divers in 1997. Around a time when they were experimenting heavily with minifig face expressions - see Western or Time Cruisers.
It wasnt fully embraced then, with Star Wars, Rock Raiders and other Themes still using the old black dot, but it would become the standard following World City in 2003.
On a side note, this torso is a rather obscure and rare one, only available in 1 main line set.
That’s not a face that inspires confidence in operating heavy machinery…
Pepper's second cousin once removed... Spray.
I like the face btw. It reminds me of the Divers figures. Amd Divers is just great! I don't believe this one was used there however, but there is a similar one with a headset.
Cletus
Maybe he is happy to see people bring their broken down cars to him? Or maybe he broke them. If he has the only repair shop in the town, then there is money to be made.
Also his mouth print is too far down his face I think compared to the normal smiling minifigure.
@Atuin said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"That face print is just... creepy."
Accept it or not, but thats the precursor to modern minifig faces.
Previously all minifigs had solid black dots (sometimes intersected by their eyebrows/eyelids) as eyes."
"All" minifigs Pirates had been around for a decade when this guy's set came out.
It's Mario and Luigi's knock-off, very low-budget competitor, Larrio. (pronounced Larry-o)
"Let's a get 'er done!" - Larrio
@Murdoch17 said:
"It's Mario and Luigi's knock-off, very low-budget competitor, Larrio. (pronounced Larry-o)"
We don't talk about Super Brunio.
What’s so disconcerting to people about this guy’s face print? He’s smiling, not pushing a really hard turd out. I don’t get the hate.
My boys got this set for Christmas in 1999. Very versatile and got used a ton.
Steve Spanner, if you believe the lore in Lego Adventures comics...!
Granted, I'm not sure how much I *would* believe that lore for Town / City character identities; while they used official character names in comics for the more story-driven themes, I've not seen any other Lego media sharing their names for Town characters, so I half suspect they just made up their own. Even so, though, it's still the name I know him by...
In the singular comic to feature him, he and Fay Fixit (the woman minifigure in the same set) had something of an ongoing rivalry, in which they would race each other to be the first truck to arrive at the scene of a breakdown to be the first to start repairs. (At least, this lasted until one such incident where Fay's breaks failed as she reached the location, with the result that she crashed into the mail van she had been racing to repair, and Steve had to show up and sort out the mess.)
That said, he apparently had a colour-switched doppelganger; because in a different comic a very similar minifigure, only with a red cap and blue overalls - the torso of which was never an official piece as far as I can tell, since it had the same logo as the one here instead of being the plain overalls print - named Oily Joe was a patron of 6329's truck stop.
I was just looking at 6434's database page. I hadn't realized that "Juniorised" was a tag. I don't own any sets with the tag, but 6477 *is* on my wanted list.
@TheOtherMike said:
"I was just looking at 6434's database page. I hadn't realized that "Juniorised" was a tag. I don't own any sets with the tag, but 6477 *is* on my wanted list."
Glancing through it myself, I see I've owned two sets with that tag; 2537 and 6564 (only the former of which I still have). Mildly surprised to see that 6425, which I also had as a child, isn't included, I would have figued that it counted too, since it's mostly made up of chunky pieces...
*sigh*. Fine. I’ll ask it. “Why the long face?”
@TheOtherMike said:
""All" minifigs Pirates had been around for a decade when this guy's set came out."
Pirates had facial hair, but the eyes were still solid black dots. White dots on the black dots came quite a bit later, and is apparently how you can tell the difference between microscale Spacemen and normal sized baby Spacemen, because Blue has been produced in both variants. Dark-Pink is only babies for now, while White is only microscale.
@graymattr:
Compare the distance between the eyes and the mouth to…just about any other human minifig. There’s about 50% more vertical space.
@ThatBionicleGuy:
Ooh, careful, there. This guy has a twin brother in the same set. Could be either of them that you saw. Are you ready to swear under oath before a court of law that this is the exact individual you witnessed that night?
Anyways, I own none of the “juniorized” sets, which is weird, because I own all of the 4+ DC and Pixar sets, at the very least. Probably a few of the City ones, too, either because I needed a part bad enough to buy them, or because I got them for free (door prizes and the like).
Something ain't right this boy.
@ThatBionicleGuy said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"I was just looking at 6434's database page. I hadn't realized that "Juniorised" was a tag. I don't own any sets with the tag, but 6477 *is* on my wanted list."
Glancing through it myself, I see I've owned two sets with that tag; 2537 and 6564 (only the former of which I still have). Mildly surprised to see that 6425, which I also had as a child, isn't included, I would have figued that it counted too, since it's mostly made up of chunky pieces..."
6425 does have the "Journalism" tag, so... close enough?