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Re: I hate professor pith helmet
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Date: 
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 17:01:08 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Joseph Gonzalez writes:
Sorry to rant but I just have to express my disdain for the professor pith
helmet figure.  He seems to come in almost every medium-to-large adventurer • set
and he's the most difficult to make blend into a minifig crowd (not just the
dumb face but the conspicuous headware).

I've been able to avoid too many Timmy's in my collection but this guy just
keeps popping up (and I'm only now realizing that he comes in the 2995 set I
just ordered).  AAAARGHH!!!

..joseph g

I have to agree with you on the old Prof.  They at least changed Pippin's
outfit from one theme to the next.  I know it is partly due to the context of
following one set of adventurers from site to site, but my god I must have 30
Johnny Thunder's now, not to mention a platoon of Slyboots, Dr. Kilroys, Baron
von Barons etc.  The only figures that might be ok in large numbers are the
Rudy Villano and Gabarro the sailor and those only show up in a few of the
sets.   Why not include some generic mummies (not like Ho Tep), more
skeletons, more natives (is Achu the ONLY one?), or at least more named
characters.  I want to see some shirtless turban wearing workers in the
Egyptian sets, after all these are supposedly modelled after Indiana Jones
films.  How about the rest of you?  Any ideas of your own?  How about mine?

Mark Lindsey



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  Re: I hate professor pith helmet
 
(...) YES! I CAN'T STAND HAVING SO MANY JOHNNY THUNDERS! I *wouldn't* mind if his torso was a little more standard, since it could be used in a lot of places, but he's got a pistol right there! And I don't want Castle peasants or Town shoppers or (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
  Re: I hate professor pith helmet
 
(...) Lego has been poor at giving us the masses of common people needed to offset the special ones. I have 20 Witch figures. 15 Cap'n Redbeards. You can only mix and match so much. I've taken to buying heads, torsos, and other bits outside my usual (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)

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Sorry to rant but I just have to express my disdain for the professor pith helmet figure. He seems to come in almost every medium-to-large adventurer set and he's the most difficult to make blend into a minifig crowd (not just the dumb face but the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)

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