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Hi guys, this is my first time posting so bare with me. I have a brown forestmen, and I don't know where I got him from. It is not the dark forest one it is an original forestmen. If anybody can help me it would be much appriciated. Rich (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) If it is a brown figure, with a wolf's head emblem, it would have come from the Wolfpack sub-theme. I don't actually recall any brown "forestmen" (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) regular red, blue, black, or all green tops it is brown. I checked all of the forestmen sets in the pause database but no brown forestmen. I am starting to think that i have a mistake on my hands here. Rich (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) So the minifig has: - Green legs - Green waist - Green Torso with: Brown notched collar Drawn on black belt w/ yellow buckle - Brown arms - Yellow hands - Standard Smiley Head - Green or Brown pointy Robin Hood-style hat - Quiver w/ arrows on (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) database (...) We had quite a discussion on this on lugnet.cad.dev (see (URL) when I did the torso for LDraw. I think the concensus was that there are a whole range of "reds" from crimson through maroon to brown. Maybe you just have one end of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) database (...) I got the forestmen in a lego set that was open already which I found in a Toys r Us. When I opened the lego set I realized that it was previously opened and it contained 16 forestmen and various forestmen parts. (a dream come (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Rich, The have printed forest men with brown chest designs. I know they were in the Forest Men's River Crossing (6071) and may have been in others. Its hard to tell form the pictures because they are either hidden or indistigushable from the (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I just checked the 6071 instructions the 5 forestmen that come in the set are the princess, all green, red chest, blue chest, and black chest. I have checked all of the forestmen sets on brickshelf and none of the sets come with a brown (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) I would expect that if it were the case that the forestmen fig was *intended* to be brown, that the arms at least would easily be distinguishable from the red, since the arms are actually made from the same ABS plastic as the other brown lego (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) with (...) I do not recall what kind of arms the forestmen came with but I am sure that it is a real lego made minifig. The brown has the exact same glossyness as the rest of the shirt the pattern of the shirt is exactly like any other (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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This seems a case for the Fibblesnork(tm) guide rather than pause. if you can find the fig in Fibblesnork you can find what sets he is in. For example; This fig (URL) in the sets listed. If you chase the URL you'll get the contents of THAT frame and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Naa... I never bare on the first post. Sorry, sailor! (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Are the notches squared off or are they pointed? I think this would point out whether it was a classic forestman or from the newer Dark Forest line. Dan (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) collar (...) What he meant was that someone took apart some 'figs and remade them (this is called a custom minifig), not that someone moulded their own pieces. Personally, I think it is probably a custom 'fig using Dark Forest parts. The two (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) The collar constists of notched off squares just like any other classic forestmen. Rich (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) out (...) Do you have a digital camera or access to one? I think a lot of people would like to take a look at it. Dan (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) No, I Dont have a Digital camera but maybe this weekend ill take a picture of it, go to the library and get it scanned. Rich (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Better yet - pop his head and legs off, turn his arms backwards and just put his torso on the scanner. Dan (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Ill do that but I wont have time till this weekend. As soon as its done ill post it Rich (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Umm... what lego set was it? Was it a castle themed set (I'm guessing yes)? Was it "supposed" to be a Dark Forest set? Were there other extra/replaced/used/etc pieces in it? Were any pieces in polybags? My guess is, that since there were so (...) (25 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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For Larry and people who were trying to deal with the frames problem Larry encountered while searching for a certain figure (2), I put up this page that I made when I first downloaded the Fibblesnork Lego guide. If you like being able to search for (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) figs in more of a fleshed out table, rather than just a single column... perhaps 5-10 wide? I'm not sure how big the images are (cuz I'm lazy), but perhaps fill up the "standard" 640 width for each row of the table? DaveE (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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This is exactly the view I wish the DB had. Thanks John. DO keep it up if you possibly can, till we convince the Powers That Be that it's a good idea and get them to implement it. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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