Random set of the day: Lisa Lamb's House
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random set is 3654 Lisa Lamb's House, released during 1982. It's one of 18 Fabuland sets produced that year. It contains 32 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$10.
It's owned by 520 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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Okay, now that's spooky. I think Fabuland is beginning it's long speculated takeover.
And dinner…is served.
This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!
What does a lamb have to do with a horseshoe? With the way it is fastened, there is no way it should be up like that, either. Maybe before they took the picture they put it upside down?
I like that rake element. Also, is no-one going to comment on how tiny the house is? Makes 41735 look palatial by comparison.
That place is a butcher’s shop these days.
"Lisa! I thought you l-l-loved me?"
"Why does it talk like a lamb?"
One of the best sets I own.
Seriously it is.
@MeisterDad:
Certainly if that nail is the only thing holding the horseshoe in place, it wouldn’t take much for it to invert, spilling all the good luck out. If you actually drive the nail all the way in when hanging a real horseshoe, it’s actually possible to force them to stay upright. Horseshoes usually aren’t perfectly flat, but have a few protrusions at the center and the tips that give the horse a bit of traction. If you place that side against a wooden wall before setting the nail, these protruding bits should dig into the surface of the wood and keep it from freely rotating on the nail. Of course, if you leave an inch of exposed nail shank, that doesn’t really work, does it?
Lisa just put a piece of double-faced tape on the ends of the horseshoe- to make others wonder why it didn't swivel down!
The horseshoe is clearly a macabre trophy, the latest sinister memento at Lisa "silence of the" Lamb's house of horrors
Two in a row?! Oh this will be a fine day...
Looks like Huwbots hit a bit of a rut...
A fabuland friday to you too, Huwbot!
House? That is a shed, sir!
With all the comments about the nail on the houseshoe and its strange reason for being there, I figured I would point out the other issue with it. You see whilst the sticker for the house number is the right width for the piece it is on, the horseshoe sticker isn't, leading to the right-hand edge having to creep over onto the door surround. It makes it look wrong.
I didn't know that the 'tiny house' was a thing back then.
Well I'm not complaining. Fabuland is fab-tastic!
I don't however, trust Lisa Lamb. She seems too wholesome to be true. And she looks like she's about to demolish her own garden with that rake! What -and who- might be hidden underneath...?
Fabuland: The socialist paradise where all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Ngl the way that lamb is holding the rake looks like she's trying to spear the flowers, javelin style.
@GSR_MataNui said:
"This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them! "
Bravo.
@EvilTwin said:
"The horseshoe is clearly a macabre trophy, the latest sinister memento at Lisa "silence of the" Lamb's house of horrors"
Silence of the Lambs? The Violence of the Lambs!
(and yes, that has actually been the tagline of a movie.....one from New Zealand obviously....)
Looks like Huwbot has been infected by the 'Five Nights at Fabuland' virus...
@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
""Lisa! I thought you l-l-loved me?"
"Why does it talk like a lamb?""
Eating meat is baaaaaaaaad.
Who is next?
Harry Horse?
Percy Pig?
Dave Dog?
Terry Turtle?
Basil Badger?
Henry Hedgehog?
Max Mouse?
…
…
In 1982 originally called the 'story of the flower garden', so may be more under the surface and possibly a shed and not a house where a 3 year old has put the horseshoe sticker upside down.
@GrosPanda1979 said:
"With all the comments about the nail on the houseshoe and its strange reason for being there, I figured I would point out the other issue with it. You see whilst the sticker for the house number is the right width for the piece it is on, the horseshoe sticker isn't, leading to the right-hand edge having to creep over onto the door surround. It makes it look wrong. "
I own this set and the stickers are just right, they don't overlap with other parts so not sure why the one on the image does, maybe it was a prototype used for the photo shooting.
In any case, it's a great Fabuland set IMO.
All I can add is two joke poems I once read in a youth magazine I bought in the street in Liverpool:
Mary had a little lamb,
she tied it to a pylon.
10,000 volts shot up its ar*e
and turned its wool to nylon.
And for the more liberal:
Mary had a little sheep
with it one night she went to sleep.
The sheep turned out to be a ram,
now Mary has a little lamb.
Disgusting but hilarious imho.
(now we can continue the story of poor Roger Racoon and his ex Lisa Lamb!)
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"
So one day he walked into town
Booked himself a room in the local saloon
Roger Raccoon, checked into his room
Only to find Gideon's Bible
Roger had come equipped with a gun
To shoot off the legs of his rival
His rival, it seems, had broken his dreams
By stealing the girl of his fancy
Her name was Magill and she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Lisa
Now she and her man, who called himself Dan
Where in the next room at the hoedown
Roger burst in and grinned in a grin
He said, "Danny boy, this is a showdown"
But Daniel was hot, he drew first and shot
And Roger collapsed in the corner
Now, the doctor came in stinking of gin
And proceeded to lie on the table
He said, "Roger, you met your match"
And Roger said, "Doc, it's only a scratch
And I'll be better, I'll be better, Doc, as soon as I am able"
And now Roger Raccoon, he fell back in his room
Only to find Gideon's Bible
Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt
To help with good Roger's revival
@AustinPowers: One I saw somewhere:
Mary had a little lamb
Her father shot it dead
And now she takes the lamb to school
Between two hunks of bread.
@560heliport:
Or it’s just a Fathead of a horseshoe and nail…
@Lego_lord:
Well, we are nice and warmed up!
@Binnekamp:
You should know by now they don’t _bury_ the bodies in Fabulandtown.
@PurpleDave said:
" @560heliport:
Or it’s just a Fathead of a horseshoe and nail…
@Lego_lord:
Well, we are nice and warmed up!
@Binnekamp:
You should know by now they don’t _bury_ the bodies in Fabulandtown."
You're telling me that they don't have a... pet cemetery?
Never mind the orientation of the horseshoe, where’s the rest of Henry Horse?
@Ridgeheart said:
"Alright, if we're really here to discuss the hidden dangers of Fabuland: let's ignore, for a second, the direction of the horseshoe and instead focus on its size.
Somewhere in or around Fabuland, there is a monstrous creature with a 2x3 footprint, implying that Fabuland-bigfigs are now canon. This means that https://brickset.com/minifigs/loc083/mungus was not the first, and he might not be the last. Something came before him, something angry, something dire. What DID cause the Fabuland-line to end so suddenly?
I pray that Lisa has been practising those javelin-skills, I believe she's going to need them."
The mental image of a Mungus style Fabuland horse bigfig.... Thanks, I hate it.
I lost my horseshoe in circa 1985.
I am sad now.
@bookmum said:
"I lost my horseshoe in circa 1985.
I am sad now."
That's very unlucky! Sorry to hear that.
@Ridgeheart said:
" @Binnekamp said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"Alright, if we're really here to discuss the hidden dangers of Fabuland: let's ignore, for a second, the direction of the horseshoe and instead focus on its size.
Somewhere in or around Fabuland, there is a monstrous creature with a 2x3 footprint, implying that Fabuland-bigfigs are now canon. This means that https://brickset.com/minifigs/loc083/mungus was not the first, and he might not be the last. Something came before him, something angry, something dire. What DID cause the Fabuland-line to end so suddenly?
I pray that Lisa has been practising those javelin-skills, I believe she's going to need them."
The mental image of a Mungus style Fabuland horse bigfig.... Thanks, I hate it."
In Malaysia, there are stories - whispered, not spoken - of the Tikbalang, which lives in the highest treetops. Half man, half horse, with teeth as sharp as razors, it dives down from the branches to snatch up innocent travelers.
With only the slightest effort, such a Tikbalang could turn out... Fabulous.
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?M=sh733
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=70751pb02&idColor=157 T=C&C=157"
That would indeed by very cursed.
Reminds me of
https://www.brickfanatics.com/wp-content/uploads/LEGO-Big-Chungus-meme-featured.jpg
I own this. purely because it's a copy of my oldest brother's first Lego set.
Not because it's Blacktron. Because, it clearly isn't Blacktron. The only black in the entire set is the printing on the Lamb's eye.
Too bad it's a HAMP: Horseshoe across multiple parts. I may have this set and see what we did with the sticker back in the old days.
Tomorrow's RSOTD: Sonny's Steak house.
Mary had a little lamb
It ran around in hops.
It wandered in the road one day
And ended up as chops.
@Binnekamp:
Meh. I long ago discovered that the minidoll, Scooby-Doo (just the dog, not the theme), and minifig baby heads were all interchangeable. Then my LUG ended up with a pile of minifig parts, and started holding speed build contests where the winner could keep all the minifigs they put together. Just out of boredom, I was poking around in the trays and seeing what I could put together. I ended up with a minidoll Ariel tail, some random Friends torso, the minifig baby head, and Chell’s Portal gun, which is something we had enough parts to create an entire invasion of. I didn’t, mind you, but someone in the LUG likes them enough that they show up every so often on our layouts.
@Ridgeheart said:
" @Binnekamp said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"Alright, if we're really here to discuss the hidden dangers of Fabuland: let's ignore, for a second, the direction of the horseshoe and instead focus on its size.
Somewhere in or around Fabuland, there is a monstrous creature with a 2x3 footprint, implying that Fabuland-bigfigs are now canon. This means that https://brickset.com/minifigs/loc083/mungus was not the first, and he might not be the last. Something came before him, something angry, something dire. What DID cause the Fabuland-line to end so suddenly?
I pray that Lisa has been practising those javelin-skills, I believe she's going to need them."
The mental image of a Mungus style Fabuland horse bigfig.... Thanks, I hate it."
In Malaysia, there are stories - whispered, not spoken - of the Tikbalang, which lives in the highest treetops. Half man, half horse, with teeth as sharp as razors, it dives down from the branches to snatch up innocent travelers.
With only the slightest effort, such a Tikbalang could turn out... Fabulous.
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?M=sh733
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=70751pb02&idColor=157 T=C&C=157"
Sounds like a Malaysian drop bear. Very dangerous down here in the Southern Hemisphere.
Speaking of geography, I wonder where Fabuland is? Seems like an English village, although the police dog was very American. Politically it would probably be the Soviet Union. Maybe it's in Cuba as it's communist and has lots of brightly coloured buildings and classic cars?
My first LEGO set ever!
It was old when I got it--a used set my parents had found (I know not where) and gave me as a present for Christmas 1992. I had the instructions then, but not for long, and I couldn't quite read, so I had no idea what this set was called, what Fabuland was, or how old it was, until the Internet era.
Since then, I've usually called it Country Cottage, thanks to whatever website (Bricklink?) I first saw it on.
My version wasn't quite complete: I never had the rake or blue cup until I picked them up on Bricklink, and (fortunately? given the conversation...) it was stickerless.
Given Sheepie's preeminent place in my collection, he* has become something of a chaotic, benevolent demigod, but in my childhood, he was just a denizen of Townland and this was just a quaint--rare--residence in that otherwise human settlement.
*"Sheepie" because you don't give figs interesting names at age 5. "He" because that's what ungendered figs became for me. He still goes by he, but I daresay Sheepie is quite sexless otherwise.
I have this set longer than my earliest memory goes back! Due to its child-friendly nature it might be my very, very first...
I have nothing extra to say about this set other than that Huwbot must know its great significance, for he has timed its arrival to give us twice as long to talk about it!
I know everyone has been talking about how the horseshoe is nailed to the wall, but is no one going to talk about the size of that thing? Does this mean that Fabuland characters ride horses?
@Murdoch17:
Or (and just hear me out), how about this:
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"
So one day he walked into town
Booked himself a room in the local saloon
Roger Raccoon, checked into his room
Only to find Gideon's Bible
Roger had come equipped with a gun
To shoot off the legs of his rival
His rival, it seems, had broken his dreams
By stealing the girl of his fancy
She was Lucy Magill, and she tasted of dill
But everyone favored mint jelly
Now with her sweetheart, who called himself Bart
Were in the next room at the hoedown
Roger burst in and grinned in a grin
He said, "Barty boy, this is a showdown"
But Barty was hot, he drew first and shot
And Roger collapsed in the corner
Now, the doctor came in, stinking of gin
And went right to setting the table
He said, "Roger, you're a winner.
I'd like to invite you to dinner."
And Doc Dog ate all he was able.
And Roger Raccoon wasn't seen again soon,
Some bones were all that were found.
Now Faye Dunaway heard Jack Nicholson say,
"Forget it, Jake, it's Chimatown."