Random set of the day: Lionel Lion's Classroom
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 3647 Lionel Lion's Classroom, released during 1989. It's one of 3 Fabuland sets produced that year. It contains 42 pieces and 3 minifigs.
It's owned by 253 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.
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From Clikits to Fabuland... Glorious.
Come on Scala, give me the Scala!
That croc is one of my favorite figures that I own! I like fabuland for being a nice unique theme.
Lion distracts the bunny with schooling, while crocodile sneaks up from behind?
@PurpleDave said:
"Lion distracts the bunny with schooling, while crocodile sneaks up from behind?"
Look at their faces, theyre up to something!
What da croc doin?
That croc is late to class and Lion-O there is gonna punish him with that Dark Sabre Sword of Omens.
That medallion, though.
You know, I bet if Stafford pitched an Animal Crossing series to Nintendo, they could bust out some of these old Fabuland designs.
I bet the Big N would go for it. Animal Crossing, as boring as it looks to me, is insanely popular.
Lionel is rocking a Flavor Flav look with his choice of jewellery.
"Good morning class, for today's lesson we will discuss how some philosophers consider it to be a morally defensible position to have stickers covering multiple parts"
@gorf43:
I wonder if they know what “rabbit starvation” is.
@Spidermanager:
He’s wielding a stack of textbooks in a rather menacing way.
@gorf43 said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"Lion distracts the bunny with schooling, while crocodile sneaks up from behind?"
Look at their faces, theyre up to something! "
You both know how Clive Crocodile would end up, don't you? (3643) I guess Lionel should focus more on teaching rather than being a mayor :D
Looks like the school budget went to Lionel Lions gold chain ;D
The school had to resort to picture of books and sticker of a chalkboard with globe.
"Okay students, today's lesson will be on building walls for the school."
I love that chain that Lionel is wearing
Chima was once a peaceful place
@legomaniac:
And they have to find alternative ways of sourcing school lunches, resulting in a staggering drop in attendance. I mean, how many here have been in classes with only two students? Er, make that classes with only one student...
@EvilTwin:
Maybe for a few more seconds, but not much more than that.
I feel like Huwbot is really enjoying his Fabuland sets, this year.
oh my gods i love the crocodile!! i've seen a fair amount of fabuland sets but never a crocodile fig
@tris:
The bunny hasn’t seen the crocodile either. Nobody sees them...until that’s all they see.
These Fabuland sets popping up always remind me of the delightful animated series (can be found on YouTube).
One of my biggest regrets is not geetting a single Fabuland set...
The mayor is teaching kids outside, with only a wall for a classroom. Fabuland must be pretty poor.
But then, we did agree Fabuland was a socialist paradise where all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others....
This should've been classified as an 18+ set for that bottomless pimp lion waving an adult toy around.
@Lego_lord said: "One of my biggest regrets is not geetting a single Fabuland set... "
I only own a single Fabuland set, and I'm quite sad about it.
As a kid, I wasn't into Fabuland at all, but as an adult with the benefit of hindsight? Yeah, I wish I'd bought a few.
The only Fabuland set I ever had was a gift (which I still have, all these years later), one of the little bulldog firefighters (and it was a good gift, I realised years later, because I come from a family of firefighters).
I can't believe this 1989 set already featured a reference to set 21332 The Globe.
Or is it Lionel Lion's Buffet?
Never was a fan of the ‘new’ eyes of the Fabuland figs. I sure was a fan of the crocodile fig.
Lionel Lion: "Today's lesson boys...er; boy and girl, is Economics...or: how broke are we..."
Let's see:
-Single wall (window's a nice touch though)
-Either grass 'rug', or the ugliest 'area carpet' you've ever seen.
-Only two students...so either 1) The parents put their kids into Private School or 2) The parents moved (and thus: kids are in other districts)...
-Oh, and the Mayor is also the school teacher...though that might just mean: Fabuland ain't that big...
"Now class, just remember, we tell the humans that the book 'To Serve Mankind' is all about helping them, when really it's a cookbook..."
@PDelahanty said:
""Okay students, today's lesson will be on building walls for the school.""
33 years later we see that the leson was not very successful. 60329
Homework essay: "Why we don't eat our classmates"
Looks like Fabuland has a nice climate where they can teach outdoors. That way they don't have to spend their tax payers' money on a school building and instead can reduce class sizes so that the teachers can give their students more individual attention.
End of the line for Fabuland, you could tell that the theme was definitely running out of steam by this time and struggling for fresh ideas.
Were these 1989 releases only in the catalogue for a single year? I wonder how long they sat on store shelves for after that.
Was looking for comments with dark interpretations of the Fabuland society. I was not disappointed!
See, schools without roofs are nothing new.
@legomaniac said:
"Looks like the school budget went to Lionel Lions gold chain ;D"
Technically, I believe, he was the mayor, so that was his mayoral chain. Why the mayor is also doubling as a schoolteacher, though, I have no idea. Though with only two children in the school, I guess it's not really worth employing a dedicated teacher...
@brick_r:
I lived in the surrounding Township, so she wasn’t actually my mayor, but my Jr High history teacher was mayor of the city where the school was located.
@jkb:
Someone died of starvation on the second floor because they couldn’t climb down! Maybe if someone had driven that bus around back, they could have jumped onto the roof and slid down the windshield to safety.
Also, what are the green sticks that the girl in the wheelchair is holding supposed to be?
@PurpleDave said:
" @jkb:
Someone died of starvation on the second floor because they couldn’t climb down! Maybe if someone had driven that bus around back, they could have jumped onto the roof and slid down the windshield to safety.
Also, what are the green sticks that the girl in the wheelchair is holding supposed to be?"
I thought it was supposed to be a boy. Now I'm afraid I'm going to be called out for being judgemental. o0
Anyway, I think the'yre supposed to drumsticks to match with the drumset standing in the entry hall/arts room. Either that or one of those bars Homer loses in the Simpsons intro.
How sad a state of affairs for LEGO: Walking and talking animals had classrooms 33 years before minifigure children....
@jkb
Hmm...no eyelashes...yup, classic boy. Pink shirt threw me off. And the boy with the blue hair is apparently a girl. So, CCW from lower left:
1. Artist - girl
2. Squirrel - boy
3. Photographer - boy
4. Bike thief - man
5. Apple - girl
6. Bike thief victim - girl
7. Drummer - boy
8. Crossing guard - woman
9. Skeleton - man
10. Bunsen burner - on
Someone better do something about that Bunsen burner, or it’ll burn the school down. When I had chemistry class, we used to hook those up to the gas spigots with a rubber tube. If the burner runs long enough to build up heat, it could cause the tube to split open and catch on fire. And there’s also the issue of whatever chemical they left suspended above it.
Anyways, I was thinking maybe the green bars were supposed to represent those foam sticks people bang together at sporting events, but there’s no sign of bleachers in this set. Homer came with a trans-bright-green bar. And maybe if Apple or Photographer had lent Skeleton one of their parachutes, or at least the apple to tide him over until they make another Fire Department ladder truck, he wouldn’t have starved to death.
Anyways, now I want to know how they rig a bass drum foot pedal so a paraplegic can operate it. I know they can rig the foot controls of a car to hand controls on the steering wheel or column so it’s possible to drive without using your feet, so there has to be a way to do something similar for drums. Whether anyone has actually come up with a solution is a different matter.
I own the smaller version of this, which came with the same figures. Will always have a soft spot for Fabuland!
@chrisaw said:
"These Fabuland sets popping up always remind me of the delightful animated series (can be found on YouTube). "
It is Edward and Friends and it was a Fabuland TV series from the 1980's. I updoaded them to youtube some years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjj9BBJ5_uE
Now class guess where I found this flag pole!
@Brickchap said:
"The mayor is teaching kids outside, with only a wall for a classroom. Fabuland must be pretty poor. "
Naw y'all, these sets were habitat builds before any of the AFOLs building habitats were even BORN