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33 comments on this article
A fox and a pig running a shop together? Reminds me of Beatrix Potter.
"Can I have a pretzel?"
"No, I'm afraid we're sold out."
"Ok, what about a cake?"
"We're also sold out of that."
"What do you have?"
"Well let's see, we have baguettes, and, uh, baguettes, also baguettes, um..."
"You only have baguettes?"
"It appears so."
I don't think I get the economic system here.
It's .3 for a loaf of bread, 7.6_ for a pretzel, 51.~ for a stack of pancakes covered in marshmallow fluff and very unfortunate looking candles, and no price for a wedge of cheese. And it seems that baguettes are the currency to barter and trade with.
I was able to figure all that out, but it just isn't adding up to anything clearer. I'm just left with more questions. Why trade bread for bread? Where do you get the ingredients to make your baguettes in order to barter? And who/what are those black scrumbleteepuffs?!
That smile on Freddy’s face says, “mmmm….bacon.”
Ah, Fabuland. The place of dreams and nightmares.
You know, I didn't notice the unfortunate shape of the red candles on top of the cake until it was pointed out to me, now, I can't unsee it.
The pig seems happy to be a customer of this fine food emporium. The fox seems happier because the pig isn't a customer but will soon be tomorrow's bacon.
@Randomness: Still better than the Cheese Shop.
I was putting together a couple of Fabuland sets I happened to get out of a Technic bin of parts. Those stickers were in perfect condition, far better I'd wager than the stickers of today.
Also it is plain to see the inherent hierarchy here of the Fabuland system: the pig with a glint of fear in his eyes has lowered ears in submission to the perky-eared predator, because he knows that shovel is for unruly customers.
@Zordboy said:
"You know, I didn't notice the unfortunate shape of the red candles on top of the cake until it was pointed out to me, now, I can't unsee it.
The pig seems happy to be a customer of this fine food emporium. The fox seems happier because the pig isn't a customer but will soon be tomorrow's bacon. "
Looking at the "candles" from far back I thought they were strawberries, but looking at them up close it became obvious they were not. Whoever drew them was either extremely pure of heart and saw nothing but candles, or was just trying to have a good laugh.
Mmm, bonemeal!
@MCLegoboy:
That was one thing that always bugged me about Dragonlance. They used steel for their main currency. Do you know how many weapons and armors are made of steel? If you pay with a sword, how many knives do you get back in change? Better stay out of the rain or your currency will literally depreciate into rust.
@Zordboy said:
"The fox seems happier because the pig isn't a customer but will soon be tomorrow's bacon. "
Of course! What else would the shovel in the back corner be for?
I never had this one but my best friend did. I was always baffled that they were pushing bread around in a baby pram.
I do not remember this set having that blue umbrella.
I am now going to Google every image I can find to prove to my brain.... results for follow shortly.
Well.....my brain was wrong.
There is a blue umbrella.
I'm going back to sleep.
(It's 5am here)
Yip, I'm right, that fox looks shifty to everyone...
@rljf311:
Burying the bones?
A nice little set, I really like the store counter using what I assume is the bottom part of the trunk piece?
That fox does look very suspicious. Also the animals have clearly taken 'Thy daily bread' far too literally. I see there are 5 loaves of bread, perhaps Fox thinks he can get 3 pieces of bacon and feed 5000 foxes...
Anthropomorphised animals I can get, but what on earth are those things either side of the signs supposed to be? Is this a crossover with some of the ink warriors from this year's Monkie Kid sets?
Me? I'm just trying to figure out what those 'store mascots' are suppose to be next to the pretzel and cake...also: nice stack-job on the carton and jug near the door; something's gonna' fall there...
@SearchlightRG: Every time I see 'Fabuland'; I think of Richard Scarry, and his "Busytown" series. Sans 'worms' of course.:)
And, of course, obligatory: TLG, recycling various 'failed properties' (Videyo, Chima, and such)...a new '4+' series? With minifigures instead of these oversizers...
My sister got this when very young (she's nearly 43) before building up a sizeable collection of Fabuland, some parts are a bit chewed up and the animals have loose joints, but it's all still there. Even the stickers, though the big ones are currently attached to a storage box.
Some of the baguettes are inevitably missing too, but I read recently that this part is still made by Lego, same colour and completely identical. Must be some sort of record for a part to last so long unchanged.
@MCLegoboy said:
"I don't think I get the economic system here.
It's .3 for a loaf of bread, 7.6_ for a pretzel, 51.~ for a stack of pancakes covered in marshmallow fluff and very unfortunate looking candles, and no price for a wedge of cheese. And it seems that baguettes are the currency to barter and trade with."
You can buy the building for 67.
Why is there a spade lurking behind the counter? Just what have they been burying out the back? Is it the leftovers from their 'special ingredients'..?
Just bought this set off Ebay a week ago
Great to see 80's kids buying and selling with decimals at Kindergarten. Interesting only re-use of the yellow pram with Lisa lamb 3602 as a red cart as there are no babies in Fabuland, but wonder how many baguettes you can push and are they really that heavy?
That's a lot of baguettes. And not a lot of anything else. That's the 80s for you, I suppose. I still have to mentally adjust to all the parts I later learned originated all the way back in Fabuland. Including baguettes.
I guess they're needed. A cake that costs 51! In 1982!? Last year they cost 38!
Bartering with excess baguetess will be needed for sure at THOSE prices!
@TheOtherMike said:
" @Randomness: Still better than the Cheese Shop."
Well, it's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.
That's a lot of baguettes. And not a lot of anything else. That's the 80s for you, I suppose. I still have to mentally adjust to all the parts I later learned originated all the way back in Fabuland. Including baguettes.
I mean, back in town just LOOK at what were hamburgers one year later in set 6683 Hamburger Stand. It still blows my mind how many relatively modern accessories already existed through Fabuland, only to re-appear way later again!
I guess they're needed. A cake that costs 51! In 1982!? Last year they cost 38!
Bartering with excess baguetess will be needed for sure at THOSE prices!
Wow, just realized I had with this when I was very small. Totally forgotten about it. Those baguettes are engraved in my memory.
@cm5878 : I'm forty-three as well, but I was completely unaware of the existence of the Fabuland line until I was at least a teen at least. I think it must have already left the shelves by the time I (and my brother) got anything other than BASIC sets. Granted, 5510 had a Fabuland shovel like the one in this set (speaking of Fabuland pieces coming back after a while like @Binnekamp said, and that shovel came back in 2000, in 3348), but sets stayed on the shelves for longer then, and I didn't get it when it first came out. I was only six, after all. I'm not sure when I did get the set, Fabuland was just a name on a shovel for years, until the Internet came around and I found out what that name meant.
@Ridgeheart:
“Moneys” is the favorite currency of Pepe the King Prawn from the Muppets.
Reminds me of the picture book, "My Lucky Day," by Keiko Kasza (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68788.My_Lucky_Day)
Will Pat last 5 nights at Freddy’s?
@PurpleDave: Ah, Dragonlance...my 'Middle Earth':)
I loved the explanation of how steel overpowered gold in Krynn: basically, overmining/devaluation vs. an alloy that had to have its components mined and forged...Now that I think about it: really wished I'd run that Dark Sun game that I wanted to; no gold, money was in ceramic pieces. It fact: metal for the most was a 'bad idea' there what with the three suns. And I had players within that group that valued "gold" (well, any 'valuable' metal really) to the point of absurdity...