Take a look at the photograph to the left.
The minifigures (known as MiniFigs) are made by the Danish firm Lego. They are part of the Series 4 figures - 16 figures - one each in a foil package - and you never know what you are going to get inside.
Do you think Lego expected an earthquake to spawn a tsunami which spawned a near-nuclear disaster in Fukushima-ken, Japan? Of course not. But take a closer look at the two figures presented here. They are part of Series 4 released about one month ago in mid-April of 2011.
The one in red is a beautiful Japanese Geisha with a fan, while the one in yellow is a man in a radiation suit with some sort of clean-up device! What are the odds?
These Lego mystery figures are not your run of the mill figures... they are special... for example, the other 14 figures in this set include: a gnome-ish fisherman; a musketeer; a punk rock guitarist; a female surfer; a viking; Frankenstein's monster; a hockey player; a bespectacled skateboarder; an American sailor (which is also funny considering there's a Japanese Geisha in the set!); a soccer player; a Wolfman; a painter with paintbrush and palette; a female figure skater and; an Evil Scientist complete with wild hair, goggles and a flask with green liquid - radioactive, perhaps.
Lego is something I enjoy, but the combined figures of radiation suit guy and the Japanese Geisha is... unfortunate.
Somewhere making a Japanese scene,
Andrew Joseph
Today's song title is by Pink Floyd. It's Part 3... I'm saving Parts 1 and 2 for other blogs I have in mind (something about schools and perhaps something about airplanes). Yes... I do think about what I'm going to post up here for your reading enjoyment: LEGO and enjoy the short song.
PS: That choking hazard warning on the Lego package was apt as I nearly did choke when I found these two figures in the set!
PPS: It's been very frustrating. Of some 22 packages purchased, I have three Geisha, two Evil Scientists; four sailors; two vikings; two skateboarders; two skaters; and three soccer players. I mean... I'd kill for three musketeers and five or six hockey players (I am from Canada, you know!). And since they make an equal number of each... anyone want to trade (I also need the painter and gnome fisherman)?
PPPS: If anyone would like to purchase either the first and/or second issue of Evil Scientist Quarterly written by myself with art and graphic layouts by Steve Guzelis, it's $3 Cdn... and you can e-mail me at the address above the blog title! Obviously, it's all tongue-in-cheek funny (and clean - no swear words!)
