In a way, instead of an RFotD and an RSotD, we got for RFotDs today.

@Zordboy said:
"I can't stop looking at their faces. I just don't remember where else, in a City or Town sets, minifigs had those specific face prints. "

Not only do the heads all appear in other sets, but one of the minifigs is in 1296, and a second appears again in 6470 and 6600-2.

@BLProductions said:
"Edit: apparently 9371 isn't in the Brickset database? Seems strange."
Strange indeed because it’s in the Bricklink database that Brickset draws on: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=9371-1&name=Town%20Vehicles&category=%5BEducational%20&%20Dacta%5D%5BTown%5DT=S&O=%7B%2522iconly%2522:0%7D

@PurpleDave said:
" @Zordboy said:
"I can't stop looking at their faces. I just don't remember where else, in a City or Town sets, minifigs had those specific face prints. "

Not only do the heads all appear in other sets, but one of the minifigs is in 1296, and a second appears again in 6470 and 6600-2."

Yeah but they were all Town Jr, which is a very good explanation of why I've never seen them before.

@Zander said:
" @BLProductions said:
"Edit: apparently 9371 isn't in the Brickset database? Seems strange."
Strange indeed because it’s in the Bricklink database that Brickset draws on: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=9371-1&name=Town%20Vehicles&category=%5BEducational%20&%20Dacta%5D%5BTown%5DT=S&O=%7B%2522iconly%2522:0%7D

"

Doesn't Brickset only get minifig entries from Bricklink, not sets? Iirc, they maintain those seperately from BL.

@BLProductions said:
"Dude on the right is Dave. Construction man through and through, though he did try racing once ( 4587 ). He loves his diggers ( 1296 , 6474 ). "

He even combined those two to try racing using his digger in Lego Racers 2! And was mercilessly mocked by everyone else in Sandy Bay for thinking that a digger could ever win a race.

...as far as I'm aware this dialogue occurs even if the player character also selects a digger as their car for the Sandy Bay world, making them a bit of a hypocrite for making fun of him for using a digger to race when they're doing the exact same thing. Early 2000s Lego games didn't exactly allow for dialogue to vary based on the player's choices, though.

He also went under the name Workman Fred in Racers 2 for some reason. Gotta love Lego's consistency about character names!

(Likewise, Garry / Bob was known by the name "Mac" when he was the pilot for the flight to Mars.)

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I always loved these Mini Heroes sets, although I must say that the town ones were far less interesting to me than the ones from Rock Raiders, Ninja, and (especially, as a newbie fan of the movies) Star Wars. I only ever got three of the packs in the end, but they were such a neat way to get three cool minifigures (or one extremely unique minifigure in certain cases, specifically looking at Chief) for a nice low price. Even the less-interesting ones like this would be a neat start to populating a Lego world for a newcomer to the hobby, probably.

It's a bit of a shame they were so short-lived, because if there had been any more waves of these than just the one we got, I would probably have bought many more of them down through the years... I guess Lego figured they weren't worth their while to keep on producing, though. Another example of the early-2000s approach of 'throw everything at the wall and see what sticks', and I suppose these didn't.

The brown cap the minifig on the left wears is a prototype of what would be used by Mike from the Adventurers theme. The actual part is more wrinkled.

Anyway, these were fun and all but if at the time I would have bought one of the City Center ones over the Ninja, Rock Raiders or Star Wars ones... I would be dying inside a little every single day. Bear in mind that these were apparently mainly sold by mail order, in the Legoland parks and only for that year at most. So if you went through all those hoops to get this one you're either a construction minifugure fanatic, fished behind the net, or unlucky.

@Zordboy said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Zordboy said:
"I can't stop looking at their faces. I just don't remember where else, in a City or Town sets, minifigs had those specific face prints. "

Not only do the heads all appear in other sets, but one of the minifigs is in 1296, and a second appears again in 6470 and 6600-2."

Yeah but they were all Town Jr, which is a very good explanation of why I've never seen them before. "

I expected you to call out the Kabaya exclusive before the other two, but apparently Brickset’s database has the internal polybag pictured instead of the Kabaya-branded outer box.

@Samuel4El:
They do, but this is RSotD. Set info mostly comes from the LEGO website, but hand entries are possible to account for stuff that otherwise gets missed.

What's with 'the hat'...no, the guy on the left is a safety violation...couldn't TLG have made one more hard-hat in orange (as per how they were originally issued)...puzzling:|(:)).

I have some of the NBA packs but was never able to find the Star Wars packs since they sold out so quickly due to Hasbro complaining that the packs infringed on their license of being the exclusive provider of Star Wars figures. So Lego had their retailers clearance them out and didn’t make any more. (That’s how I remember it; didn’t look for references other than my own memory.)

@Samuel4El said:
" @Zander said:
" @BLProductions said:
"Edit: apparently 9371 isn't in the Brickset database? Seems strange."
Strange indeed because it’s in the Bricklink database that Brickset draws on: (link snipped)"

Doesn't Brickset only get minifig entries from Bricklink, not sets? Iirc, they maintain those seperately from BL."

Yeah, Brickset only pulls minifig data from Bricklink. The data for modern sets (and parts inventories) gets imported from LEGO.com directly, but older stuff I'm pretty sure had to have been entered manually back in the day by @Huw and others. I guess it's possible they missed this one? It seems like a rather obscure Town/Dacta set, so I wouldn't blame them. I had no idea it existed until I saw it while looking up the minifigs in this RSotD.

@graymattr said:
"I have some of the NBA packs but was never able to find the Star Wars packs since they sold out so quickly…"

I don’t think those were sold at retail. I think they were all LEGO Brand Retail exclusives. Notes say this one was sold at one LEGO Store, one LEGOLAND store, and LEGO.com.

"…due to Hasbro complaining that the packs infringed on their license of being the exclusive provider of Star Wars figures."

Baseless rumor, with no evidence to support it. And I think it’s been refuted by at least one LEGO employee. For one thing, Galoob was able to run several years with tiny articulated 1” figures in their Action Fleet line, and they didn’t get bought out by Hasbro until they’d pretty much exhausted the small OT spacecraft.

@BLProductions said:
" @Samuel4El said:
" @Zander said:
" @BLProductions said:
"Edit: apparently 9371 isn't in the Brickset database? Seems strange."
Strange indeed because it’s in the Bricklink database that Brickset draws on: (link snipped)"

Doesn't Brickset only get minifig entries from Bricklink, not sets? Iirc, they maintain those seperately from BL."

Yeah, Brickset only pulls minifig data from Bricklink. The data for modern sets (and parts inventories) gets imported from LEGO.com directly, but older stuff I'm pretty sure had to have been entered manually back in the day by @Huw and others. I guess it's possible they missed this one? It seems like a rather obscure Town/Dacta set, so I wouldn't blame them. I had no idea it existed until I saw it while looking up the minifigs in this RSotD. "

If Lego doesn't have information on a set's inventory (or at least doesn't provide it), then the inventory information shown here comes from Rebrickable.

@Binnekamp said:
"The brown cap the minifig on the left wears is a prototype of what would be used by Mike from the Adventurers theme. The actual part is more wrinkled."

Weird, if true, because the kepi part was first released in blue with the cavalry soldiers in Wild West in 1996, so you'd think that prototypes would be behind them.

It does look off in this image, but I think that's just because he's just wearing it backwards. Like all the cool kids do.

@Formendacil said:
" @Binnekamp said:
"The brown cap the minifig on the left wears is a prototype of what would be used by Mike from the Adventurers theme. The actual part is more wrinkled."

Weird, if true, because the kepi part was first released in blue with the cavalry soldiers in Wild West in 1996, so you'd think that prototypes would be behind them.

It does look off in this image, but I think that's just because he's just wearing it backwards. Like all the cool kids do."

It's probably just backwards. I forgot about the ones from the western theme

I remember these sets. The cheapest way to buy Scout and Stormtroopers as well battle droids. The stands make for a great material to create a bridge.

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"He also went under the name Workman Fred in Racers 2 for some reason. Gotta love Lego's consistency about character names!"

And the guy in the middle was called Foreman Stu.

EDIT: The guy on the left was called Workman Jon. I was thinking Workman Rob, but that name was given to a worker who never appeared as an actual minifig.

@phi13 said:
" @ThatBionicleGuy said:
"He also went under the name Workman Fred in Racers 2 for some reason. Gotta love Lego's consistency about character names!"

And the guy in the middle was called Foreman Stu.

EDIT: The guy on the left was called Workman Jon. I was thinking Workman Rob, but that name was given to a worker who never appeared as an actual minifig."

Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film?