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John Heaton
jheaton
28 March 2012 @ 10:33 pm
Guess who  

Spotted these on darkpoole's Facebook page today. It's a series of advertisements for LEGO, each one depicting… well, try to guess. You can click on the pictures to see them at a larger size, though I can't imagine that would help any.

LEGO ad #1 LEGO ad #2
LEGO ad #3 LEGO ad #4
LEGO ad #5 LEGO ad #6
LEGO ad #7 LEGO ad #8

[Hint #1]
Think animation

[Hint #2]
Bear in mind that LEGO is a European company, and some of the characters might be better known overseas than here.

[The answers and my brief comments]

The answers:

  1. The Simpsons
  2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  3. South Park
  4. Smurfs
  5. Asterix and Obelix
  6. Bert and Ernie
  7. Donald Duck and Huey, Dewey & Louie
  8. The Dalton brothers and Lucky Luke

I was able to identify all of them but #8. I had heard of the French-Belgian comics character Lucky Luke, but I've never read any of the comics nor seen any of the animated film versions, so I was in no position to recognize the Dalton brothers. I had a feeling the figure on the right was a cowboy though, but the only animated cowboy character I could think of was Woody from the Toy Story franchise, and I couldn't think of what Toy Story characters the yellow-and-black-striped figures were supposed to be.

Aside from that, the one that gave me the most trouble was #3. I was never a fan of the comics, and I've never seen even a single episode of the cartoon.

 
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Rustyrustydog on March 29th, 2012 03:46 am (UTC)
It's amazing how evocative simple bands of color in the right pattern can be! I didn't use the hints and got all but 5 and 8. (Once I looked at Hint #2 it still didn't help me.)
John Heaton: awkward piratejheaton on March 29th, 2012 04:04 pm (UTC)
The idea behind the second hint was that the one you didn't know were characters who were better known in Europe than in the US, which I thought might be moderately helpful for recognizing #5, since after Tintin those guys are probably the best known European comic book characters. I don't think there's any hint I could give that would help anyone guess #8 if you didn't just know it. If you haven't already sought out the answers, you can click on the ones you don't know and you'll see the answer in the comments.
Rustyrustydog on March 30th, 2012 02:15 am (UTC)
Oh, sorry, I wasn't criticizing your hints. I'm just not familiar enough with Asterix for any hint to help me, unless you had said "Viking" or something. All I could think of when I read European was Tintin or the Nick Park characters. (I was thinking the little white block might be Snowy or Shaun the sheep.)
John Heaton: bad bad bad badjheaton on March 29th, 2012 04:06 pm (UTC)
Or you could just read the entry, which I forgot contained the answers because I am a big dummy.
SNeaker: Wall-Esneaker328 on March 29th, 2012 05:53 pm (UTC)
Yep. Got 'em all (without hints) except #5 and #8, neither of which I'm familiar with.

How adorable.
Marina: evil jeffmoeexyz on March 31st, 2012 10:54 pm (UTC)
Is it weird that for number 6 my first thought was Troy and Abed before I remembered who it actually was?
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