You may recall a prior post featuring Dale Harris and his Neo-Fabuland concept. It was Boris’s Post Office, an adorable little scene, and while it may have looked like big, clunky Fabuland pieces designed for littler hands, it was actually meticulously constructed out of “regular” LEGO bricks. Back then he alluded to the fact that it was merely a small module that would eventually be part of a much larger layout. Well, feast your eyes on Edward’s Island! The aforementioned Barty’s Post Office is there about centered on the island but that is accompanied by a whole assortment of adorable Fabuland denizens and their primary-colored buildings.
Here’s Wilfred’s Lighthouse offering a guiding light for the Fabuland Ferry any other ships and boats coming in to the harbor.
Hannah the Hippo toils busily at her greenhouse and garden…
…while Bonnie keeps her B&B clean and tidy.
The entire island is rich with truly satisfying details to behold. I really enjoy the retro-fabulous vehicles along the dock…
…as well as this little guy selling his wares.
But my favorite detail has to be this little ‘gator on a skateboard!
Although a later fabufig redesign, and a different colored skateboard, the skater ‘gator looks very similar to set 3721 “Clive Crocodile on his Skateboard”.
https://brickset.com/sets/3721-1/Clive-Crocodile-on-his-Skateboard
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=3721-1#T=P
(I should still have most of the set in my collection, although the skateboard unfortunately lost one wheel…)
Amazing.
Off topic: I’ve never looked at Fabuland sets but they seem like they’d be great for kids, each representing a scene or a place, with their own baseplates. You could build a community and have a lot of play options and the animal heads are more fun than people.