Random set of the day: Stuntman Catapult
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Today's random set is 1356 Stuntman Catapult, released in 2001. It's one of 46 Studios sets produced that year. It contains 29 pieces and 2 minifigs, and its retail price was US$4/£2.99.
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Getting over 2020 be like this.
No net or crashpad. What a relief it must be knowing you're made of hard, durable, plastic.
It’s all an illusion. He’s actually standing on fire. Nothing to see there ;)
Nor as good as Tree 2
Even during my dark ages I’d always get some small Lego set in a stocking, and this was one of them. The stunt man minifig is forgettable but I really love having a Lego Spielberg. Plus that clapperboard (?) is fun too.
That guy looks like he's regretting being catapulted across the set.
These small Studios sets are hilarious.
@Mr__Thrawn said:
"Nor as good as Tree 2"
(Light leaves the chat)
@xboxtravis7992:
From yesterday, I kinda wondered if “Fohrok” stood for “faux-rok”. Guess so. Having come over up with a few of those names myself (Muhzak, Ehgnok, and Yuhlok, I _think_, but with the archives nuked, I’d need to track down which hard drive all those images are stored on), it’s not hard to roll them back to the source words.
@lessjunkfood:
I actually bought several of this or similar minifigs because they were an affordable source of generic flight suits. My original pick was the Count Dooku torso, but that didn’t take long to price itself out of my range for bulk purchases. I mean, I’ve got a couple minifigs I dropped $250 on, but you can forget army-building at $20 a pop.
I honestly had no idea that ladder piece was 'springy' enough to use as a catapult until I acquired set 6774 Alpha Team ATV this year. My inner child found it amusing.
This was a cute little set, and the ladder-cum-catapult worked surprisingly well.
Wow look at him go, the absolute professional.
I wonder if that stuntman looks like the main actor for their character. . .
@Slithus_Venom said:
"I wonder if that stuntman looks like the main actor for their character. . ."
He looks nothing like Johnny Thunder
Bend the ladder
This doesn’t persuade me to think that a stuntman is the best career for me...
That stuntman is just screaming to get a black helmet with a black visor and a black airtank/jetpack. And of course, some black gloves.
Oh yes, the theme that gave us Tree 2! Do you remember?
The Studios theme must be the most random of all the random themes out there (with the possible exception of all those "desperately trying to appeal to girls" themes). One thing is classics like Tree 1, 2 & 3, but we have cameramen without cameras, cameras without minifigs, Spielberg, the Nesquick Bunny, lights, dinos, clappers and refreshments all as separate sets - it's as if a designer started with a semi-decent studio set, and then someone challenged him with "how many polybags are you able to split this into?". We *really* need to get the real story behind this theme.
POING
Say what you want about this set, but that catapult absolutely launched that fig across the room.
I used the director so much from this set.
I got this set for free at Legoland Windsor around 2001-2002 as one of the employees was just handing them out to kids that participated in a mini build! I was so happy!
Two mini-figs for $4 is good value, although I always thought he would fall off the ladder ledge before it had a chance to get fully vertical and throw him.
A good set to end 2020 and fly your way into 2021
@PurpleDave said:
" @xboxtravis7992 :
From yesterday, I kinda wondered if “Fohrok” stood for “faux-rok”."
It’s actually just a shortened version of “fake bohrok”.
This set is hilarious to me. Just fling that man across the room.
At this angle, that crash helmet won't help a bit when he hits a wall face-on!
I hope he got his hazard pay.
There were quite a few sets that used those ladder pieces as catapults. Always found it great fun but I do wonder how bad the stress was for the ladders...
And this was, apparently, where Sparks from Rock Raiders (rck005) decided it was time for a career change and, in between working as a football(/soccer) goalkeeper - for two opposing teams at the same time, no less! - also tried out as a stuntman on various Studios productions, including Lego productions of Spider-Man (1376, 4852) and Jurassic Park III (1371).
Additionally, he had a short-lived career as a racer in the Drome (4596), and part-timed as a cameraman during the Italian Grand Prix (8672), before vanishing from the scene altogether.
Not that the Director here had any less varied of a career, having worked as an arctic explorer, an astronaut, a train conductor, a boat captain, a Ferrari engineer, a firefighter, a mail worker...https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=3626bpx14&in=M
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(Don't mind me xD I just like entertaining the idea that, when familiar classic minifigure faces reappear in different contexts, it's the same character taking on various different jobs...)
@ThatBionicleGuy:
Finally, someone else appreciates Sparks' versatility.
I've always believed that this Director was based on Steven Spielberg; I got such a figure, but don't remember thanks to which set exactly…
@Mr__Thrawn said: "Nor as good as Tree 2"
Nothing is ever as good as Tree 2.
@Slithus_Venom:
https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3079065
They never do. That, BTW, is the actual minifig that I, and many other people, pulled out of sealed copies of 7621 due to a mixup of which head was packed in the set.
@Monopoly:
That’s not as cool. I’m sticking with my theory.
@CliveyB:
There are three trees in this line. The helmet is to keep him from braining himself on a low-hanging branch. Won’t keep him from breaking his neck when he pinwheels through the air, but at least his skull will hold everything in...
@essel:
Well, his name _was_ on the theme, which was also tied to Jurassic Park.
At that angle, the flames must have lit (the) Spark.
Amusing to see the juxtaposition of this next to 71747 in the news feed
I got this with my Steven Spielberg Moviemaker Set:
https://brickset.com/sets/1349-1/Steven-Spielberg-Moviemaker-Set
Complete with USB camera!
(Back in the days when it wasn’t that easy to make stop-motion Lego videos)
I need to get one of these Studio sets to fill the 2001 gap in my collection. (I have every other year back to 1977.)