Last year, a very extraordinary minifigure was added to the Bricklink catalog with little fanfare: Bone Saw, the wrestler from Spider-Man 1. This minifigure was notorious for being part of set 1375 Wrestling scene, a set from the Lego Studios line that never got released. How did this figure mysteriously materialize from nowhere? And was it real, or a custom-printed figure? I was determined to find out but no threads existed about it, and put the story out there.
After finding no information on how this figure was added to the Bricklink database, and finding no claimed owner of the figure, I tracked down the store that sold it and asked about it. To my delight, they responded! Here is what they had to say:
Simple as that: They were found in a random lot by a Bricklink seller and sold off via Bricklink. We’re lucky to even know it came to exist, and there are supposedly two copies in the wild. Unfortunately there seems to have been nothing else of interest found with it, such as the wrestling floor that should’ve come with the set, so it is very likely the set itself never went past the prototyping stage and thus has never got neither box nor instructions.
As to its whereabouts, I have yet to find whoever bought these, I haven’t seen any collector post about them, which is a bit of a bummer. I'd love to see the set reconstructed. If you're a prototype nerd like me, you're gonna want to keep your eyes out for this thing: I know for sure that this minifigure would fit right into my prototype collection, but I'm sure whoever got them treats them well!
If you know who owns it or if someone posted a picture of it, please let me know! And huge thanks to novabrick for answering my questions! Bonus: forum thread about adding the minifigure to the catalog (seems the lucky ones who got them got quite a bargain, but novabrick couldn't recall the price they sold for: If you remember feel free to comment it below).
