Random figure of the day: old021

@PurpleDave said:
" @Harmonious_Building said:
"Excuse me, she doesn't look a day over fifty"

Many ages ago, those clothes used to be brightly colored, but like Greco-Roman statuary, the colors fade with time."

If memory serves, at least some of those statues show evidence of the colors being intentionally removed.

Wow! I own a copy of every set she came in, when I was a kid and again as an adult. I knew the membership around here was older but I didn't expect we own over 14,000 of them.

I am too high for this

I'm old!

That was when TLG had prosopagnosia. (No offence to people affected by that)

This is a mermaid and you can't convince me otherwise.

They all were merpeople. Faceless and with their arms in their pockets like a real merperson. Atlantis was real back then.

In all seriousness though, it's amazing to see how far lego fig design had come. Back then too, compared to the homemaker figs these must have been world-changing! If only because of the smaller more approachable size of the models that cae with them. 386 would have been huge, expensive and just plainly less fun if they had made that model homemaker scale! A Galaxy Explorer wouldn't have been feasable without the 'slabbies' paving the way for such sets. Sets would have continued to be like 565 Moon Landing if the slabbies didn't appear when they did.

@Zander said:
"Crude by today’s standards, but in the absence of other figures at that scale, we loved our slabbies."

I had a few slabbies. However, when I was a kid I thought nothing of using many of my toys alongside LEGO to include figures so I often built for Playmobil figures, moulded plastic soldiers and animals from toy farms, Kenner SW figures, Hornby / 00 scale figures, Little Big Man figures, Smurfs from the petrol station, any plastic figures from cereal boxes, etc. Even Fisher Price and Weebles got included sometimes.

Hey this must be the oldest random figure selected yet, I thought there was a 1978 start date to this feature?

...Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections...

One of my first minifigs ever. I had cowboys alike in a (red) ranch , which could sit on the surrounding fences thanks to a 2x2 plate. It was quite a looong time ago...

So... She started in 148 but got hurt and was taken by 386 / 770 to 363 / 555 where she clearly became a nurse for them. cute story Lego did there

@cm5878 said:
"Hey this must be the oldest random figure selected yet, I thought there was a 1978 start date to this feature? "

No, two other slabbies have been RMotD: https://brickset.com/article/100469/random-minifig-of-the-day-old007 and https://brickset.com/article/114609/random-minifig-of-the-day-old005. The 1978 start date is for RSotD, not RMotD/RFotD.

@TheOtherMike said:
"Faceless and dressed in white. Is this a ghost? Also,

@Zander said:"Crude by today’s standards, but in the absence of other figures at that scale, we loved our slabbies."

One of the sets this figure came in 386 / 770 , was similarly crude, but not a bad-looking set."

If you swap out the front for a 3x6x2 windscreen, swap out the outdated rotor bases for modern (1990s-on) rotor bases, and swap out the outdated wheels for modern aircraft wheels, this helicopter works surprisingly well for modern minifigs. I pieced it together with those changes and it's now the favorite ambulance/medical helicopter in my collection.

Who else is seeing the very first Princess Leia minifig here?

@Brickalili said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Harmonious_Building said:
"Excuse me, she doesn't look a day over fifty"

Many ages ago, those clothes used to be brightly colored, but like Greco-Roman statuary, the colors fade with time."

If memory serves, at least some of those statues show evidence of the colors being intentionally removed."

Yeah because the colours had faded in a lot of the biggest examples, people got it in their head that that’s how Greek and Roman statuary was supposed to look, hence Renaissance mimicry being pure white marble. So that meant that when examples popped up that -did- have colour people decided that couldn’t be right and sought to “fix” the problem.
Alternatively, given how ludicrously garish those paint jobs would have been, it’s possible people just went “oh god my eyes, get rid of it!”"

I would guess a combination of the two, but more the former than the latter. I’ve seen museum exhibits where they have an actual ancient Greco-Roman statue with an image showing what it probably looked like in antiquity next to it, and they look like something you’d see on a parent’s fridge door.

@Binnekamp:
Pretty sure merfolk have less pockets than women’s fashion. They definitely have less of some things, as Philip J. Fry found out.

@cm5878:
There’s an end date to VSotW, and a corresponding start date to RSotD (plus minimum piece count, and the ten-year hiatus based on year of release). I don’t recall there being a date limit at either end for RFotD, though there are themes that have been excluded.

I’ve never thought much of these manekin figures, but to @brick_r, Rose Tico’s hair is basically a modern equivalent to this, but it’s far too underutilized.

@yamaki said:
"Who else is seeing the very first Princess Leia minifig here?"

I see it too!

@Murdoch17 said:
" @yamaki said:
"Who else is seeing the very first Princess Leia minifig here?"

I see it too!"

I didn't see it originally, but I sure do now!

@Brick_t_ said:
"One of my first minifigs ever. I had cowboys alike in a (red) ranch , which could sit on the surrounding fences thanks to a 2x2 plate. It was quite a looong time ago... "
372-1 Texas Rangers. I had that set, too. It’s probably difficult for younger FOLs to imagine, but it and other slabby sets seemed innovative and exciting when they were released.

@Zander said:
" @Brick_t_ said:
"One of my first minifigs ever. I had cowboys alike in a (red) ranch , which could sit on the surrounding fences thanks to a 2x2 plate. It was quite a looong time ago... "
372-1 Texas Rangers. I had that set, too. It’s probably difficult for younger FOLs to imagine, but it and other slabby sets seemed innovative and exciting when they were released."

If you think about it, 700-12 was innovative when *it* was released!

@TheOtherMike said:
"Faceless and dressed in white. Is this a ghost? Also,

@Zander said:"Crude by today’s standards, but in the absence of other figures at that scale, we loved our slabbies."

One of the sets this figure came in 386/770, was similarly crude, but not a bad-looking set."

Ah yes, the set where the two medics were horrifically severed at the waist by a common stretcher.. or maybe it's just attached at the hips like those furniture-moving stretchers. :)