@Miyakan said:
" @PurpleDave said:
"OMG, someone stapled a bow to that poor turtle's head!"

If you go by the Lego attachment method it is nailed on.
Both are bad, but nailed on seems worse than Stapled on."

Maybe suction cups, like in the Dolphin Tale movies?

Where’s the friend?

Now that's just cute

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J clearly the Turtle *is* the friend

Come to an oasis they said.
I'd rather start a revolution from my bed.
But I won't look back in anger....

@NotProfessorWhymzi:
Not really. It was one of those inside-out sweatshirts, so there was a lot of fuzzy texture for the tips of the staple to snag on (and padding to absorb most of the impact), and it would have had to do some real damage before you’d notice where it hit once I plucked it loose. See, it was a really old pneumatic stapler that didn’t have any form of toe trigger. It fit 1/4” wide staples and could handle up to 1” in length. One of the other guys in the scene shop walked out into stage with it coupled to the hose, accidentally pulled the trigger, and I felt a light tap in the center of my chest. I looked down, and there’s a staple hanging by just the tops. Once it loses contact with the ram, there’s not a lot of force behind a pneumatic fastener, so that scene with Mel Gibson in the Lethal Weapon franchise is totally exaggerated. He’d have to actually press it against the bad guy to actually drive the nails in to any lethal depth.

@Zordboy said:
"I still love the idea that Emma was so obsessed with bows that she routinely ran around Heartlake City compulsively applying them to every living creature she could find.

I loved this little range of animal-themed Friends polybags. There were three in every outing, and then three more in a few months' time. "

The Wiggles/Friends crossover that I missed!

@NotProfessorWhymzi:
Oh, wait, you meant the framing nail gun? I dunno, maybe? That one was actually my fault. I was making some sort of frame using 2x4’s. Long ones ram the full length in one direction, but in the other I had to add short sections between the long boards. For some reason they had to be in a straight line, rather than being staggered (which would be a lot easier). There’s a technique where you nail the first piece in normally from both ends, and then the next section gets nailed normally from the outside end, but on the inside end you have to nail it at an angle from both sides because the previous section is in the way. The 2x4’s we had weren’t the greatest ever, so there was some twisting and/or bow that I needed to take out if I was going to make this work.

So, I’m kneeling on top of this frame as I’m assembling it, and using both of my legs and my left arm to help hold stuff in place, while operating this pneumatic framer with my right. It was going fine, and then I had one of these short sections where the nail caused the corner of the 2x4 to just shear right off, which in turn caused the nail to deflect off the sheared face. It glanced down towards the floor, and apparently just bounced off the Masonite surface. When it bounced back up, it slipped under the frame I was building…and my knee was on the other side. Now, as I said, after pneumatic fasteners lose contact with the ram, they lose most of their force. This had gone diagonally under a 2x4 cross-frame, and my knee doesn’t exactly fight into a right angle corner, so the ram had just about bottomed out by the time the nail contacted me. It popped right through my jeans, but only had enough inertia to go 1/4” deep in the soft gap between my kneecap and the end of the shin bone. About an inch to the left, and it would have been a very different experience. I never really even had a noticeable scar.

Anyways, if you think hurt, there was another guy who, while wearing all the proper leather gear, was welding and had a drop of slag burn right through his gloves and leave a pit the size of a Barraki eye in his hand. Or there was the girl who walked across what she thought was solid floor and fell two stories into the fully-lowered orchestra pit (and had a steel ball installed to replace her kneecap). Fun times!

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"Where’s the friend?"

The turtle has none. The set was made in honor of turtle single awareness day. Or Turtle SAD for short. Don't let the bow and painted smile fool you.

In all seriousness, this was a polybag. While they did have Friends sets that only contained animals, those were only in the first couple waves(although this polybag is a part of the early waves).

Nothing says "I love endangered species" quite like ensnaring them in loops of synthetic material.

Also, I can't believe this was 10 years ago. It couldn't have been that long!

I really enjoyed this cute little model. Inexpensive, a fun turtle, and a decent built for the limited parts.

@PurpleDave said:
" @NotProfessorWhymzi:
I was making some sort of frame using 2x4’s. "

I assume you mean timber?

I miss these little animal sets. They were proper “pocket money”/impulse buys from the supermarket (these plus Mixels).
The nearest thing now is buying the magazines for the sets (current Friends Magazine issue is a kitten on a cat play tower).

I miss the time when there were these sets, and the next year we got Mixels too.
That shelter looks tiny, but cozy!

@Bornin1980something:
This side of the pond, timber refers to the standing trees, or trees that have been felled but not yet sent to the sawmill. Once they go through that process, they’re either unfinished or finished lumber. A “2x4” is a standard piece of framing lumber that measures 2”x4” in cross-section, in its unfinished form. From that size, 1/4” is planed off all four sides to yield a finished board that’s nominally 1-1/2”x3-1/2” in cross-section. It’s still called a “2x4” because the alternative is a mouthful.

@iwybs said:
"Hi, my name's Ray. I'm a turtle. I'm a castaway too."

This really looks like mini version of 40566

Somehow all Friends/Elves I own contain turtles of some kind, this being the first of the line I ever got. I just couldn't resist getting the first minifig scale turtle ever.

This set came out the same time the TMNT sets were released, so he occasionally ended up as Raphael's pet turtle 'Spike' on some displays.

@Atuin:
Ah, so what you’re saying is it’s not a nail after all, but a railroad spike.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Bornin1980something:
This side of the pond, timber refers to the standing trees, or trees that have been felled but not yet sent to the sawmill. Once they go through that process, they’re either unfinished or finished lumber. A “2x4” is a standard piece of framing lumber that measures 2”x4” in cross-section, in its unfinished form. From that size, 1/4” is planed off all four sides to yield a finished board that’s nominally 1-1/2”x3-1/2” in cross-section. It’s still called a “2x4” because the alternative is a mouthful."

I believe Eighties Kid meant "I assume you mean timber, as opposed to 2x4 bricks or plates."

We got this for my turtle-loving dad, and I think it sat on his desk for a while. I currently have it stashed with me though. I really like that clam piece too.

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"Where’s the friend?"
I’m guessing it is the Oyster….his name is Wilson.