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Re: Brown Forestmen
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Date: 
Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:29:08 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Richard Manzo writes:
> > The forestmen i have is just like any other forestmen except instead of the
> > 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
> 
> 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 back
> - Some color plume
> 
> Wierd! I haven't seen or heard of anything like this...
> Possibilities (that I can think of):
> A. Sometimes 'enemy' figs show up in sets from other genres... Wolfpack figs
> show up as 'prisoners' in Black Knights sets, etc.... Maybe he came from
> another "team"'s set?
> 
> B. Perhaps he came from a small baggy-type set that isn't in the Pause • database
> (or any set that wouldn't be listed, like possibly some European sets, etc.)
> 
> C. It's really a faded red one (sun faded or whatever)
> 
> D. The minifig is a valuable and unusual printing mistake!
> 
> Let us know if any further details surface! How did you acquire it to begin
> with?
> 
> DaveE
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 true)
amoung them was this brown forestmen. I found this about 1 week ago.
Rich



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  Re: Brown Forestmen
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)

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  Re: Brown Forestmen
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)

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