The next LEGO Ideas set was unveiled yesterday, but which characters from Tintin made it into the Moon Rocket (21367) set?
Shared all over social media yesterday, the Tintin inspired set captures the Adventures of Tintin perfectly. The main character, his dog, and his friends/enemies, were first introduced in 1929, with the red and white rocket appearing in two different stories, Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon. If like me you know very little about the characters, then continue reading, we can learn together.
Tintin & Snowy:
Tintin is the protagonist of The Adventures of Tintin, the comic series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The character was created in 1929 and introduced in Le Petit Vingtième, a weekly youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.
Snowy is a white Wire Fox Terrier who is a companion to Tintin. They go everywhere with each other and often offers help to Tintin when he is in need. Snowy seemingly talks to Tintin, though this is more a whimsical trait that owes nothing to any divine force.
Captain Haddock:
Captain Archibald Haddock is Tintin‘s best friend, a seafaring captain in the Merchant Navy or Merchant Marine, who was introduced in The Crab with the Golden Claws. The character is an archetypal sailor, depicted with a hot temper and capable of infuriating actions. He sailed for over twenty years. In the later adventures Haddock who has clearly retired, lives in Marlinspike Hall, his ancestral home.
Professor Calculus:
Professor Cuthbert Calculus (French: Professeur Tryphon Tournesol) is a good friend of Tintin, and one of the main characters in the series. He has invented many things, including the rocket in Destination Moon, the shark-resistant submarine in Red Rackham’s Treasure, and many more inventions. The professor is very nearly deaf, but he claims he is just a little hard of hearing in his right ear. It was he who generously supplied the large sum when Captain Haddock bought Marlinspike Hall.
Thomson and Thompson:
They are two intelligence service detectives, identical in both appearance (apart from slighly different moustaches) and demeanor, first introduced in Tintin‘s first introduced in Tintin‘s fourth adventure Cigars of the Pharaoh (1932-1934), although a 1946 version of Tintin in the Congo (1930-1931) gives them a single-panel appearance. Although they somehow share a similar sense of fashion, they are not related at all.
So there we have it, a short but very onsog description of each of the characters, and Minifigures, coming in the LEGO Ideas Tintin Moon Rocket (21367) set. Is this a set that calls out to you? Will you be purchasing it come 1st April (Insiders Early Access)? Let us know in the comments section below.
Images and captions courtesy of Wikipedia.org, Fandom.com, and Tintin.com
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The figures always come with the rocket set, or will they be sold separately as well?
They are sold with the Rocket set, they very rarely go on sale separately.