This is not ok

Did anyone else read it as 'Rocket Racoon' and get hyped for a Marvel RSotD?

^First set with him would be possible next year though.....

Liking the red exhaust system

@Brickchap said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Sure, maybe in the 1930s that was considered a Sports Car."

Err yeah that's kind of the point?? Fabuland was set in a fictional interwar village (similar to Winter Village).
A great set, I really wish we got more vintage vehicles from Lego.

Fabuland would also be a great theme to bring back, maybe as a full 'Juniors' type theme (basically Lego Sylvanian Families) with the animals in a peaceful fictional nostalgic village with larger pieces etc. It would be great having vintage car chassis pieces again that could be built upon with different customisation. A good bridge between Duplo and City for example but more than just the occasional Juniors set here and there."

Peaceful? There’s a fine bit of revisionism right there. Wave one would definitely include a butcher’s shop run by Larry Lamb, there would be a playground with graffiti, Walter Wolf visiting the Pig family. Kind of like a dystopian Friends line, similarly lacking in any law enforcement services.

A sports car as long as the sport is croquet and you need another hoop!

This is a sports car, with function over form. I mean, just look at the piece that looks like a windscreen: With glass it would give the car the aerodynamics of a brick. But secretly it isn't a windscreen at all, but rather a wing for some extra downforce!

And any car with an exhaust like this will break the sound barrier, obviously.

Gotta love Fabuland.....

I love Fabuland. Chimas peaceful siblings

@BrickTeller said:
[[ @Kynareth said:

Peaceful? There’s a fine bit of revisionism right there. Wave one would definitely include a butcher’s shop run by Larry Lamb, there would be a playground with graffiti, Walter Wolf visiting the Pig family. Kind of like a dystopian Friends line, similarly lacking in any law enforcement services.]]

Regardless of the implications of overthinking some of the businesses in towns, Fabuland does have police. In 3886-1 and 3789-1. And actually, I believe there is a police officer in one of this year's new Friends sets as well. ]]

You are of course correct that there was a police dog, and I see the delinquent crocodile in the back of the police truck was a student in the classroom set. I still stand by my observations on Fabuland’s social fabric. Lego City may be mostly populated by police officers and criminals, but the crime doesn’t seem as endemic.

Reads comments, shakes head.

They're in rare form today. Thoroughly entertaining.

@MeisterDad:
Just yesterday I saw a truck with oversized off-roading tires, and it had a somewhat offensive sticker in the window about how wheels should have “eight lugs”. Part of me wanted to follow him and take one lug off each wheel…

@Kynareth:
Once it’s served on a plate, it isn’t likely to fight back. Plus cemeteries are quite peaceful…at least during the daytime. At night, the peacefulness is kinda ruined by the screams of bored teenagers freaking out at anything that moves.

@BrickTeller:
In Fabulandtown, you either work for The Butcher, or…well, you get the picture, right?

@Brickchap said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"Sure, maybe in the 1930s that was considered a Sports Car."

Err yeah that's kind of the point?? Fabuland was set in a fictional interwar village (similar to Winter Village).
A great set, I really wish we got more vintage vehicles from Lego.

Fabuland would also be a great theme to bring back, maybe as a full 'Juniors' type theme (basically Lego Sylvanian Families) with the animals in a peaceful fictional nostalgic village with larger pieces etc. It would be great having vintage car chassis pieces again that could be built upon with different customisation. A good bridge between Duplo and City for example but more than just the occasional Juniors set here and there."

This little set looks amazing when I compare it to its Lego City (Town?) peers from 1983 like 6623 . I occasionally see Fabuland pop up, but I did not realize how ahead were they in production quality until looking at the full line of 1983 vehicles. 3638 3637 , I love them. I would definitely buy these for my son.

@madforLEGO said:
"Liking the red exhaust system"

This was the first set where those exhaust pieces were used.

Best theme ever.

I just realized that the street sign is mounted to the car. And then immediately after, I realized that the “street sign” is just a hole punch that happens to line up with a black antenna. I mean, c’mon, that looks like what you’d expect a Fabuland street sign to look like, right?

@WizardOfOss:
It’s not a windshield. It’s a forward-mounted Mansfield bar that doubles as a roll cage, in case someone gets a little hungry and sabotages your motorcar.

@Ridgeheart said:
"Richard Scarry"

*fistbump* Gold Bug rules, Waldo drools.

"…rich colour-palette…"

If you go back to the very start, medium-blue was one of the very first colors, and primary blue didn’t come along until later. Crumble trees had brown trunks and green raw ABS pellets for leaves. The color palette waxed and waned quite a bit during the 1900’s, and ironically it was the decision to cap the number of colors that seems to have finally stabilized it.

“Racoon”, with one “c”? Huh. Was that intentional on TLG’s part? Do other Fabuland characters have names that slightly alter the spellings of words for animals?

Adorable set, though. Maybe not a great building challenge, but what charm. I wish I had some Fabuland.

@Kynareth said:
"Peaceful? There’s a fine bit of revisionism right there. Wave one would definitely include a butcher’s shop run by Larry Lamb, there would be a playground with graffiti, Walter Wolf visiting the Pig family. Kind of like a dystopian Friends line, similarly lacking in any law enforcement services."

Huh. You think playground graffiti is dystopic on a level with mob violence? And more policing is the answer? Rudy Giuliani, is that you?

@Blondie_Wan Racoon can be spelt both ways. Racoon or Raccoon.

But why is the raccoon brown (or whatever nougat hue that really is)?

@PurpleDave said:
"I just realized that the street sign is mounted to the car. And then immediately after, I realized that the “street sign” is just a hole punch that happens to line up with a black antenna. I mean, c’mon, that looks like what you’d expect a Fabuland street sign to look like, right?"

Yes, I also thought that was a flag or something. I didn't realize I was staring into the void.

@AllenSmith:
There are three accepted extant species of raccoon (and quite a few others that got Latin names before being reclassified as part of one of the accepted three species). All have very similar coloration, and especially with the common raccoon, coats range from greyish-brown to brownish-grey. Look up images of “raccoon”, and you’ll almost certainly see at least one that looks very brown in the first page of results. That said, the majority certainly look more grey. I suspect that cartoony raccoon characters are depicted as brown more often than grey because grey with black stripes and mask isn’t very exciting compared to the same pattern on brown.

@PDelahanty:
“I stared into the void, and Fabuland stared back…”

@J0rgen:
I was once asked which of their songs was my favorite, and that’s the one I picked at the time.

@J0rgen said:
"Now somewhere in the Black Mountain Hills of Fabuland
There lived a young boy named Roger Racoon"

And one day his woman ran off with another guy
Hit young Roger in the eye
Roger didn't like that
He said, "I'm gonna get that boy"

Gotta go fast

@Binnekamp said:
"Gotta go fast"

That would work better if it was a hedgehog.

@Binnekamp -Proceeds to jump out of the car and push because the gasket is blown- LOL