Random figure of the day: old024
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random figure is old024 LEGOLAND - White Torso, Black Legs, Black Hat, a LEGOLAND figure that came in one set, 368 Taxi Garage, released during 1976.
Our members collectively own a total of 774 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at Brick Owl or BrickLink.
Image and data courtesy of BrickLink.com
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Isopropyl alcohol poisoning. That is all.
VFotW?
From the time before minifigures were an evolved species.
Definitely a character from a Backrooms stop motion video
He's just standing there... menacingly!
Two years later, evolution changed the world.
Bit of printing and these would make great ushabti for an Egyptian exhibit
How does he put his hat on with no arms and hands?
You talking to me?
You talking to me?
Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me?
Well, I'm the only one here. Who the brick do you think you're talking to?
With these figs it was difficult to see if you were facing their front or back if you didn't look closely at their hat.
@Brickalili said:
"Bit of printing and these would make great ushabti for an Egyptian exhibit"
That is the right thinking, could create an army of them.
I’m just going to put this out there for the record: We loved our slabbies.
@gunther_schnitzel said:
"How does he put his hat on with no arms and hands?"
In the same way that minifigures hear despite most not having ears, or smell despite most not having a nose.
@Zander said:
"I’m just going to put this out there for the record: We loved our slabbies.
@gunther_schnitzel said:
"How does he put his hat on with no arms and hands?"
In the same way that minifigures hear despite most not having ears, or smell despite most not having a nose.
"
Hearing: They have hidden hearing aids. The hearing aids you can see are the cheap ones.
Smelling: Anyone can smell without a nose. Just don’t wash for a week.
Everyone who dislikes minidolls? Psh. Posers. These old protofigures is why TRUE gatekeepers and hillfinders build gates to keep and find hills to die on (very possibly, those gates are built on those very hills). This is peak LEGO-anatomy, all those new-fangled usurpers with their movable legs, their fancy arms, and their facial expressions are just a fad.
The day of non-posable minifigures is coming. Just... you know, very slowly. It's hard to rise when you don't have arms and can't move your legs.
Look, Ma, no hands!
@Brickalili said:
"Bit of printing and these would make great ushabti for an Egyptian exhibit"
One made a great statue in 1592.
@gunther_schnitzel said:
"How does he put his hat on with no arms and hands?"
With the magic of 1976 XD
@gunther_schnitzel said:
"How does he put his hat on with no arms and hands?"
Dear Strong Bad,
LORE TIME!
According to theories proposed by the Adventurers' famed paleontologist Dr. Kilroy, these proto-minifigures (or "proto-figs") represent the intermediate evolutionary stage between the brick and the minifigure, with plastic-dating methods suggesting that they lived in the prehistoric era of 1975. Due to their lack of mouths or other body language, Kilroy proposes that they communicate by hopping and occasionally falling over, but this does not explain how they see each other without eyes. Any further theories will have to wait until after Kilroy feeds his baby T. rex (what a conveniently timed interruption!).
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20090719072223/http://club.lego.com/en-us/news/NewsDetails.aspx?id=127709
Grandpa?
@Zander said:
" @gunther_schnitzel said:
"How does he put his hat on with no arms and hands?"
In the same way that minifigures hear despite most not having ears…"
They put their hats on with their tympanic membranes?
"…or smell despite most not having a nose."
Well, now you’re just talking silly. If they don’t have mouths, they don’t have tongues, either.
@SJPlego said:
"Due to their lack of mouths or other body language, Kilroy proposes that they communicate by hopping and occasionally falling over…"
So…they’re professional soccer players?
Ahhh... so Blanky McBlankFace makes an appearance. You sir, and your ilk, were the bane of my childhood lego collection.
Nopperabo CMF
"It wasn't me! It was the zero-armed man!" (Jim Carrey, The Mask (nearly))
(not) joking aside, this minifig must be the husband of Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Melos, which is exhibited at the Louvre [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo]), I guess.
@SJPlego said:
"LORE TIME!
According to theories proposed by the Adventurers' famed paleontologist Dr. Kilroy, these proto-minifigures (or "proto-figs") represent the intermediate evolutionary stage between the brick and the minifigure, with plastic-dating methods suggesting that they lived in the prehistoric era of 1975. Due to their lack of mouths or other body language, Kilroy proposes that they communicate by hopping and occasionally falling over, but this does not explain how they see each other without eyes. Any further theories will have to wait until after Kilroy feeds his baby T. rex (what a conveniently timed interruption!).
Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20090719072223/http://club.lego.com/en-us/news/NewsDetails.aspx?id=127709"
You excerpted all the good stuff, but I clicked the link anyway, and what I learned there that shocked me the most was that Dr. Kilroy's comments are from 2009 (or, at least, that's when it was archived). That's 6 years after Orient Expedition. The amount of change LEGO had gone through was astounding, so I'm impressed that a reference to him was still on their website somewhere--even if it was a mere easter egg.
You younglings will never understand what a cool thing this figure was to us back in the 70s. Before that we had no figs at all, or the big figs - which were cool but required a much bigger scale of models. But the stiff fig opened the whole 1/35 world to us. And yes, just a few years later the Lego version of the Cambrian explosion happened with the minifigure - which basically changed our lives.. ;-)