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Re: Raccoon Mask Types and Names
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Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:06:18 GMT
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In lugnet.fabuland, Sheree Rosenkrantz writes:
Starting at the beginning...

Looking at my box of figures, trying to decipher which ones are older based on
some new info I read on Sybrand Bonsma's UFHP relayed to him by Henriette
Hoffmann-Schläger, I noticed that I had 2 Raccoons with yellow arms, black • legs
and white torsos.  This is not unusual, as I have been collecting Fabuland for
a bit and am fortunate to have repeats of several figures... but what is
unusual it that while the eyes appear to be the same style, black with two
white dots, the masks around the eyes are very different, with one being
significantly larger than the other.  What is going on here?  At first I
thought it just to be a case of my having removed a head and then having
replaced it at a later date with the wrong head.  Feeling guilty about past
head popping, I decided to look around the lugnet set ref to see if maybe I
wasn't so evil.

Lo and behold there appear to be two authentic mask versions for this Raccoon
white body /yellow arms /black legs color combo.
BIG mask 3669 from 1982
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=3669_1&v=z
SMALL mask  3681 from 1985
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=3681_1&v=z

I don't know if there is a correlation between the year and the bigness or
smallness of the Raccoon mask  or if it is random.  It will take some time  to
sort.  If anyone already has the answer (or any other observations), I would
love to hear.

Also, are all the Raccoons meant to represent the same character?  In English,
I only know of him being called  "Ricky".  Are there other English names for
the Raccoon.  Does he have a different name (or multiple different names) in
other languages?  I tend to think of the Raccoon only as one character, • "Ricky"
with multiple sets of clothes.  I could be quite mistaken...


sheree
semi-reformed head popper

Aarghh... Even more things to check. I've been just checking my figures to see
what type of legs and what thype of eyes the have, but I didn't look at the
size of the masks.
The list will all different types of figures (incl. different types of eyes and
legs) is almost finished, I still have to add information from Henriette and
then, after also checking the masks, I can put it on the website.

Some interesting things I found out when looking at all my figures:

The crow from set 3634 ( http://guide.lugnet.com/set/?q=3634_1&v=z ) comes in
three different varieties. The eyes are in all cases the same, but the legs
have either no copyright mark, the old copyright mark or the new copyright
mark. As this is the only set in which this crow appears (at least without cap)
this might indicate that there have been at least three production runs (which
each a different type of legs), or that the different types of legs have been
mixed before the contents of the set were put together.

The bunny from set 3708 ( http://guide.lugnet.com/set/3708 ) has two different
types of legs 1 leg with the old copyright mark and 1 leg with the new
copyright mark. The same is true for the goat from set 3637 (
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/3637 ). This seems quite odd to me. The different
types of legs have to be mixed before the figure was put together.

I'm also planning to add the names to all the characters. For the raccoon I
don't know English names, I think for set 3626 he is called Willie Wasbeer
(still have to check that out also).

Greetings,

Sybrand



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Starting at the beginning... Looking at my box of figures, trying to decipher which ones are older based on some new info I read on Sybrand Bonsma's UFHP relayed to him by Henriette Hoffmann-Schläger, I noticed that I had 2 Raccoons with yellow (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-03, to lugnet.fabuland)

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