City Advent Calendar - Day 14
Posted by MeganL,
We've had two festive builds in a row, with our snowman and then the holiday table. Of course, that really interrupts the flow of this microscale calendar, so I expect we'll be seeing something non-holiday- like today.
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Today we meet Bob! If that hat and outfit didn't give it away, the enormous axe he's wielding would definitely show that he's a firefighter. While the torso and legs are not new, the head is new this year.
Unfortunately, because of the hat, there is no alternate face printing on this minifigure, though a new face is always welcome.
Festive watch: good thing that red is associated with firefighters.....
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"If that hat and outfit didn't give it away, the enormous axe he's wielding would definitely show that he's a firefighter." I don't know about that. If he didn't have all the accoutrements, how would you know he wasn't just an axe murderer?
I’m kinda curious if that harness is directly patterned on something real, or just loosely inspired by various styles. The anchor point in the back of the belt suggests it’s not just pulled from thin air, at the very least.
Nice print! It’s come a long way from the firemen I had in the 80s...!
My first ever fireman minifig!
That's a very big axe he is dragging on the ground. I just hope all that red is paint and not something else?
@ambr:
Here’s Johnny?
@Ridgeheart: Good point, although you'd think he'd wear something else so he didn't risk showing up to work with a blood-spattered uniform.
It could be based on a fall arrest harness for working at heights, but seems incomplete
@TheOtherMike:
Or he _did_ show up in something else and had to ditch it to hide the evidence!
@bassplate:
There are a few problems with that idea. The first is placement of the metal ring. Modern fall harnesses put it between your shoulder blades so the harness doesn’t Gwen Stacy you when you fall. The second is where to attach it to. You need a stable anchor point, and a burning building is anything but. You can’t anchor to the ladder, because now you’ve got a tether that could yank you from safety into danger if something collapses on it. I would think it’s more likely to be a hoist point for extracting you from collapses wreckage, or a tie-down to keep you from falling out of a cherry-picker bucket. Keeping you from falling, and arresting your fall after the fact, are not quite the same thing.