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REVIEW: 8683 Minifig series 1 minifig #3 The Caveman

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#1 User is offline   ZeeK 


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Posted 24 March 2010 - 09:43 AM

Setnumber: 8683
Minifig number&name: #3 The Caveman
Numbers of different minifigs in series 1: 16
Parts in this bag: 6
Price: 89 Russian Roubles (30 Roubles per 1 USD exh. rate)
Release: June 2010


The Caveman looks pretty much like one of my favs from the past - the main charater of "Prehistorik" and "Prehistorik 2" arcade games.
New "prehistorik" club and new hair-and-beard piece are the most interesting here. The club is smaller than the troll's one.
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The new face print. Might be useful.
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The 360 degrees look at the new hair piece. Very nice!
Thogh it may look like the Hagrid's one, but it's made of ABS, not the rubber material.
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No accessories - front view. Nice printing, however this patterns are very specific - if you're in the process of creating the prehistoric world - it's what you need!
Also I think the leg pattern will go well
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The back view - no printing on the back.
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Very nice and really collectable figure.
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Many thanks to my fellow DoubleBrick member Dan for these high quality images!

Though I don't think there are any quality related questions are left after Cop Mike's reviews, I have to confirm that the quality is very good, printing has no issues at all, so the only differences from the ordinary figures are "the mark@ on the inner side of the arm-piece and digits on the hand-pieces.

Thank you for your attention!

This post has been edited by CopMike: 24 March 2010 - 12:48 PM
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Post icon  Posted 24 March 2010 - 09:55 AM

Thanks 'Zeek' for a great minifig review, that leg and torso set you can say hello - Fred Flintstone ! :laugh:
Oh, the monobrow - Ed from Ed, Edd & Eddy - I love chickens (Ed - Ed, Edd & Eddy) :grin:
Another COOL minifig - can't wait for these to become available.
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 09:58 AM

While the figure looks very nice, that extraordinarily large band of yellow above the leg printing doesn't instil confidence in me. Normal figs with leg printing have some gappage, normally visible when you bend the legs back, but here the yellow band is clearly visible even when the fig is standing straight! :sceptic: It reminds me of the lax printing on the Slave Leia magnet fig vs Normal Leia, where much more of the legs are missed on the magnet version than the normal version.

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Posted 24 March 2010 - 10:00 AM

Indeed, the printing looks sharp and the printed colours seem to match the plastic quite well. The final product looks almost like a promotional photo, quality-wise. I'm impressed!

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Posted 24 March 2010 - 10:21 AM

Nawww this Minifig is so damn cool! I like it a lot. Can't wait to get my hands on some of these new figs *does happy dance*

I hope that shaggy hair piece comes out in dark tan one day. . .
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 10:57 AM

This is my favourite minifig from the first series. :laugh: :thumbup:
The total look is great and I love the hair+beard piece. Thanks for showing the head, it looks very useful that too. I guess I could use this minifig in some fantasy MOC but it's also something I actually could have displayed for some time (very unusual for me :tongue: ).
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 11:13 AM

Ooh, next to the cheerleader and the clown, this is certainly on my list of favorites from series 1. The beard and hair combo is great. Lucky Ambassadors :classic:
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 11:41 AM

Thanks for the great review, ZeeK! I like this hairy dude, and I agree, the face could be useful.

Looks a bit like my old Facebook avatar:

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Apart from that, it's a Bill Oddie minifig! 'Goodies' MOCs on!

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Posted 24 March 2010 - 12:01 PM

Can't wait for them to be available. :cry_happy:
Apart from that printing on the legs this is an really great figure.


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Posted 24 March 2010 - 12:03 PM

What would the hair look like on a Hagrid torso?
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 12:06 PM

Hahahah. Ed Was my first thougt too wen I saw this head!

I really love the hair/mustache- great for dwarfs!

And he is my next fav- the cheerleader is first!

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Posted 24 March 2010 - 12:29 PM

So it's all the ambassadors who get these collectibles first. :tongue:

Aaargh, the envy is killing me. :sing:
Thanks for posting this news!

Although I can't see any photos (I hope you posted some) :cry_sad:
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 12:44 PM

I can't wait to get my hands on some of these.

This is one I like, thanks for the great pics, now I want it more.
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Posted 24 March 2010 - 12:53 PM

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Posted 24 March 2010 - 12:54 PM

View PostHolodoc, on Mar 24 2010, 03:29 PM, said:

Although I can't see any photos (I hope you posted some)

Actually I did. It's some technical issues with the our ftp. At least Svelte has saved one for the front-page.

Really sorry... I think they'll solve the issues very soon.
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