Why on earth does this set have "Ashlar" as a tag?

Wait. What about the neutral wizard?

A Roy Wood minifigure.... nice.

It looks like a nice set. Nice figure and an owl. He could have used a cape though...

I guess the 'Bad Wizard (no cookie)' was another set.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Zordboy:
Semi-competent Wizard
Underachiever Wizard
Held Back Two Grades Wizard
Valedictorian...’s Roommate Wizard
Went To The Wrong Classroom All Semester & Never Realized It Wizard
Tattooed Eyes On His Eyelids Wizard
Bought A Certificate Online Wizard"

So I guess we’re talking about Ron Weasley or Draco Malfoy then? (No hate plz)

Reminds me of 7955 which I have.
Don't know whether he's good though. But he is very green, that at least is certain.

What are those two things hanging out of the top of his pants; the family jewels?

Oh yeah, I really liked these small wizard sets from 2000s.

I don,t think there are good wizards ;-). In many movies they were quite selfserving :lol:. It is handy though to have one on your side.

@Brickalili said:
" @Be_hapi said:
"Wait. What about the neutral wizard?"

Too busy hanging out with the Earth wizard and Live wizard "
:~D
Funny to those of us familiar with the type G plug. But your joke probably doesn’t travel well as that plug is only used in a few countries exclusively : the UK, Ireland, Malta, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States plus some others (and more but with other plug types). How many US posters who have never been outside of their home country have ever re-wired a three-pin plug? Not many, I imagine.

So, is he Lawful Good, Neutral Good, or Chaotic Good?
@Zander: Thanks for the explanation. I thought the joke might have something to do with electricity but I wasn't getting it.

Whether this set was actually available in Canada or not, I don't know, but I certainly couldn't find it in Alberta, and I got three of them when someone on Classic-Castle.com was putting together a chance to buy them. In hindsight, that might have been overkill, but I never had cause to regret getting those sand blue fig parts. Admittedly, the hats are very one-use.

@Be_hapi said:
"Wait. What about the neutral wizard?"

Ah, that’s Jeff Goldblum.

@Zander:
You’re kidding, right? There are dozens of different 3-pin electrical connectors used around the world. I’ve rewired at least two styles, being the NEMA 5-15P “Edison” plug (the standard grounded plug used in household applications in the US) and the 3-pin stage lighting connector (used around the world). I don’t think I’ve ever rewired a plug for an electric stove, but I know I’ve rewired that type of outlet.

The only reason this joke doesn’t carry well outside the UK is the terminology. In the US, we refer to hot, neutral, and ground wires. Even with your style of plug, I wouldn’t be surprised if the joke doesn’t work in the Middle East just because they may use incompatible terminology due to speaking a different language.

@PurpleDave , While there are indeed many kinds of three-pin plugs used around the world including the type B used in the US, I doubt most people know what the functional difference (beyond shape) is between the pins except in the countries that use the type G (UK, Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Arabian Peninsula states, Singapore etc). The reason is that most other types of plugs are sealed in their casing and you never have to know what each pin does. You just plug the appliance in and you’re good to go. You say that you have re-wired type B plugs in which case you are very unusual among US adults. I used to live in the US and never met anyone - including several electricians- who had ever re-wired a plug. They may have *replaced* a plug but actually cut open the casing to access the inner workings of the plug and made a change? I never heard of that in the US. Happens all the time in the UK where the type G plug is designed to be easily opened.

I love this thread!

@Zander:
In the US, commercial electronics products typically have sealed plugs (stage lighting being a notable exception). But you can go to any hardware store and buy replacement plugs in case one gets damaged. However, stuff like portable radios usually have removable external cords, so you just buy a replacement cord. Lamps for home use you'd just buy an entire replacement cord and rewire the entire thing (or buy a new lamp). Major appliances like stoves you would never discard over a damaged plug, but most people would end up paying an electrician to do the work for them (and rightly so, because most people have no idea how to wire 120v, much less 240v).

The reason most electricians have never rewired a plug is because it’s not economical. If a homeowner breaks a plug on a $20 electronic device, unless it’s got sentimental value, or it’s absolutely impossible to replace (my parents have a tiny barrel fan that blows air up at a cone-shaped structure that redirects it horizontally 360°, and we couldn’t find a replacement switch for it anywhere, so we direct-wired it with a switched cord), paying a professional electrician to come swap the plug will cost several times as much as a new replacement, not to mention having to wait around for someone to show up and fix it. Besides, replacement plugs are bulky and ugly (typically they are safety-orange or safety-yellow). To actually use one, you have to be knowledgeable enough to replace it yourself, and cheap enough that you can’t to just replace whatever it’s attached to. I most likely replaced at least one of these at college, either because I was a poor college student, or because I worked for the maintenance department during the summers.

For stage lighting, however, any squint worth their salt has rebuilt or replaced at least one 3-pin block connector, because the round, split pins wear out as you use them (particularly as we were taught to “rock” the plug into the socket to make sure both ground and neutral made contact before the hot), and sometimes one side of the pin will shear off. Even basic ellipsoidals and fresnels are expensive enough that any light crew will have a boneyard where they can scavenge replacement parts from truly dead fixtures, but for 3-pin connectors you’ll just have a supply of fresh replacement parts.

A Good Wizard is never late...

LMAO
Current value
New: ~€15
Used: ~€8

I a trying to sell a spare one for 1,50 with no succes so I wonder who makes these prices

@watcher21:
Market value is usually based on one or two things. One is average sold price (Bricklink tracks the previous 6 months sold by New and Used). The other is average list price. In either case, all it takes is one significant outlier to throw off the numbers if there’s little movement. Bricklink shows 22 Used sold in the last 6mo, ranging from $5.27 to $16.16. List prices range from $5.46 to $11.55 at the moment. New prices, both sold and listed, range from $12-$28. Two of those sales were for 6-7 copies, which could be army-building, or they could be destined for dealer tables with an additional markup.

For yours, it doesn’t appear to be listed on Bricklink (if it is, it’s under the minifig category, where this is the full set), but people like to bundle purchases there, and will often pay more per item to avoid splitting the order and paying even more in shipping. On other sites, I’d be very surprised if many people actually try to hunt down and purchase these tiny sets that many people weren’t even aware of. Most people would be going after mid-range to the large D2C sets I'd think.

@Zander: Ah yes, the 'old' "Can't let 'Villains be 'Villains'" shtick that's now permeating/strangulating Pop/'Hero' culture...anywho...

I guess the 'Ugly' Wizard would be Vol...er, that bait-n'-switch guy from the 'Potter' (which proves my above statement, with regarding Snape...)

Funny how there appear to be more posts about electrical plugs than wizards :-)

By the way, I didn't get the joke either, as we in Germany have two-pin plugs.
Plus, at the moment I am more into CCS plugs ;-)

@PurpleDave
Thanks for explaining, price still seems high but now I understand it better

@Zander said:
"I have two of this set: one opened with the wizard still in my display collection and one MISB. I don’t record my sets on Brickset so my ownership doesn’t show in Brickset’s count.

@brick_r said:
"Hmmm...guess the 'Bad' Wizard, and the 'Ugly' Wizard show up later...:D"
In a sense, yes. I believe that 7955 was originally intended to be an evil or bad wizard. While it wasn’t called that, the minifigure’s description in LEGO’s marketing as being irascible but formidable was similar to how later evil characters were described.

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The green Wizard was very likely associated with the similarly colored Dragon Knights of 2010. Those guys were kind of portrayed as the 'evil' faction, kidnapping princesses, raiding villages and such stuff... What is weird though, is that the green wizard is the only time that Kingdoms was shown to have fantasy elements.

This Wizard was the counterpart to the Evil Wizard (Mallock the Malign) who raised the skeleton army to invade King Revet's lands. I think in "Adventures of Clutch Powers" a bit more information was given on him, but I haven't seen that movie yet, so I'm not sure.

Not to forget, that there were other spellcasters as well in Ashlar: the Evil Witch (not to be confused with Fright Knights' Willa/Hylia or the CMF Series 2 Witch) found in both the Advent Calendar and the Chess Board and secondly the Troll Sorceress/Troll Queen who resided in the Troll King's Mountain Fortress. Both seemed to be allies of Mallock as well.

The other impulse set from this wave was a great army builder. This one, not so much, unless you are into an army of wizards.

No black parts, and the only white parts are an owl and a beard. This is very Blacktron unfriendly.