Random minifig of the day: 4224c01

Figure…but no arms…
It is Boxing Helena.

How did Lucy Van Pelt get in the database...:D

Also: "Basic"...yeah that's 'one way' to describe it...:)

@brick_r said:
"How did Lucy Van Pelt get in the database...:D"

I was thinking it was just that we set up our Detroit Symphony Orchestra display tonight. I included a couple Peanuts references,

@TheOtherMike said:
"Same here. Maybe the posters horrified by this are too young to have ever encountered these."
I was born like a full generation after these figures were around myself, so I'm not sure I really buy that theory, ha. It does seem to mostly be younger users making these comments though!

My parents only had pre-used Duplo given by relatives and it spanned multiple decades, meaning I had a few of those basic I think 80s? ones alongside the more minifig like 90s Duplo figures when I was really young.

@Eightcoins8 said:
"To be fair, the Fabuland comments are basically just a community meme on here. It’s very intentionally exaggerated."
I know, but in that case I don't find it funny at all. It might have been in the beginning, but it's a joke that got old really fast imho.

Where are the “this doesn’t count as a minifig” crowd now, eh?

Hmm? What’s that?

Oh they’re cowering in horror with the rest of us? Ok, that’s fair

Figure got Fingered...

Aww, isn't she adorable. That's a kick in the childhood

@AustinPowers said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
"My brother and I had a Basic bucket with a jumble of parts from a few sets when we were kids, and there were one or two of this style of figure in there. I was actually wondering recently if one of the finger puppet figures would ever be selected for RMotD.

@Robot99 said:
"Genuinely confused why half of you guys are getting horror vibes from this, it just looks like a toy figure to me lol"

Same here. Maybe the posters horrified by this are too young to have ever encountered these. "
Agreed. We who grew up with these figures and loved playing with them will always have a fond place in our hearts for them.
Simpler times.

Just like Fabuland, where always stupid comments occur about how the animals shouldn't be able to get along because predator/prey.
Hello McFly, anybody home? It's just a fantasy fable play theme (hence even the name alluding to it)."

Me and my fellow grasshoppers are shocked, but not too surprised at your sexist toys and your adoration of them. No wonder the world is in this state. ;)

@StyleCounselor : one can never have too many of these sexist toys.
Oh and since we played with Western toys featuring cowboys and Indians we apparently had racist toys too back then.
Fond memories.
;-)

@StyleCounselor said:
" @Atuin said:
"Whoa... That was a surprise!

I think I have 2 or 3 of those. "

No one should have a Finger Puppet Female. It just ain't right!"

You made that sound sooo much more sus than it needed to be...
I've got one of these. She's called Lucy.

@Norikins said:
" @WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"How did this eldritch horror worm her way into 25 SETS?!?!?1!?1"

She has no limbs. Were you expecting her to WALK her way into 25 sets?"

Very early effort at inclusion. Before everybody did it.

They remind me of the Fisher Price figures which had no arms and legs as too complicated for 2 year olds to manipulate. So strange they were included in Basic sets rather than Duplo, which now has far more complicated Mickey Mouse figures. I like the message on the box 'contains small parts', would now be updated to 'contains tiny parts'.

@alLEGOry_HJB2810 said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @Atuin said:
"Whoa... That was a surprise!

I think I have 2 or 3 of those. "

No one should have a Finger Puppet Female. It just ain't right!"

You made that sound sooo much more sus than it needed to be...
I've got one of these. She's called Lucy."

I DON'T want to hear that!!!

I remember these. They were included in the Basic sets designed for 3+ years. Sets for 5+ or older had the normal minifigs. I guess a small child could use them as fingerpuppets.

@AustinPowers said:
" @StyleCounselor : one can never have too many of these sexist toys.
Oh and since we played with Western toys featuring cowboys and Indians we apparently had racist toys too back then.
Fond memories.
;-) "

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E-MauMx4EXQ

Now this takes me back!

I don't own one, but I encountered these many times at schools. Later I only recently learned that the design deliberately allows it to be used as a finger puppet. When I was a kid I thought I was a genius for using them in such an obviously non-system way!

For some reason I mostly forgot about these despite normally remembering lego stuff surprsingly well. To me it was such an unusual sight I never really expected to want to learn in what sets they came (as they're all basic sets) and what years they came in.
To see it here on Brickset is a bit surreal.

@AustinPowers said:
"Agreed. We who grew up with these figures and loved playing with them will always have a fond place in our hearts for them.
Simpler times."

I grew up with the Homemaker style figures, which also seem to be treated as junk by people that grew up in the minifigure age. Of course, they have their deficiencies in that they are blocky, but were pretty much the ultimate LEGO figures if you want to customise the height, arm length, body shape, etc. If we were in an alternate universe where they had not done minifigures, but had continued with Homemaker style figures in an era when printing parts became common and had come up with a way to have more realistic legs, then I could see them being popular. I still think the arms are superior to minifigure arms.

It should be noted that this is a finger puppet for child sized fingers. A TFOL/AFOL putting this on their finger could result in a very embarrasing trip to the hospital, followed by the realisation that you now have a perfectly square finger.

@AndyB1 said:
"Aww, isn't she adorable. That's a kick in the childhood "

Indeed.

@LD_Brickmaster said:"It should be noted that this is a finger puppet for child sized fingers. A TFOL/AFOL putting this on their finger could result in a very embarrasing trip to the hospital, followed by the realisation that you now have a perfectly square finger."

It's been decades since I held one (I still have that Basic bucket I mentioned earlier, but just keep it around out of nostalgia; I never actually do anything with it), but I'm pretty sure that I could at least get my pinky in it. But then, my hands are small enough that shopping for gloves was always a pain.

It was my first minifig, so it's one of my favourite

Bwaahhhhh!!!! Fourth black-haired RMotD in a row, though!

Not a figure! He’s a finger!

@Maxbricks14 said:
"*Screams in horror*

This has got to be the stupidest minifig name ever, as well as the creepiest looking we have had on RMotD."

I feel like there should be a burning building behind her.

I still have my own from set 333, the first one! Sometimes I check BL to find how prices are and buy a few to give away to kids at LUG public events. It's a great piece of LEGO history!

@Norikins said:
" @WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"How did this eldritch horror worm her way into 25 SETS?!?!?1!?1"

She has no limbs. Were you expecting her to WALK her way into 25 sets?"

Ha ha, very good!

@TotalMaddness said:
"I love these things so much

I always make sure to put these in my cart on Bricklink whenever a store I’m ordering from has them, because they’re adorable and super inexpensive

"

Okay, I was all set to defend the honour of these staples of my childhood: innocent and noble creatures who, despite being much larger, played a Hobbit-like role in my Townland to the regular minifigs--but I don't see how I can top this display of devotion.