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Lego stole the name Rodney Rathbone.

This site spelled it wrong, but Lego is spelling it Rathbone. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!
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A name is a name. And since it's not the same name...
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But it is the same name! Rodney Rathbone. This site just misspelled it. In the Lego magazine I received today, it was spelled Rathbone.
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Hmm, kind of like Arthur Dent?
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That's...interesting. However, I highly doubt that very many people on the LEGO staff have ever even heard of AIO, never mind Rodney. I'm more inclined to think that it was a coincidence. As far as the spelling goes, I would look at the packaging for the LEGO minifig. If it's spelled "Rathebone", which it probably is (most people who edit wikis check these things), then the magazine was simply wrong. Magazines don't always have the correct information.

And you're right, MrsJasonWhitaker, although Odyssey's Dent was (most likely) an homage to the original instead of being a convenient Names The Same LEGO minifig.
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It's probably Rathebone in British English. I noticed that his leg is of a new "mould" rather than a "mold." So maybe that's why packages in the US say Rathbone?

So... Rodney grows up, becomes a doctor (assuming a college degree and not a medical doctor), moves to London, loses his leg, and fights vampires. This means there's hope for the underachievers of the world?
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darcie wrote:It's probably Rathebone in British English. I noticed that his leg is of a new "mould" rather than a "mold." So maybe that's why packages in the US say Rathbone?

So... Rodney grows up, becomes a doctor (assuming a college degree and not a medical doctor), moves to London, loses his leg, and fights vampires. This means there's hope for the underachievers of the world?

And became a Lego figure. That's pretty impressive. Go Rodney.
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Mrs Jason Whittaker wrote:Hmm, kind of like Arthur Dent?
That is an excellent point...
AiO did steal that name from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
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I really couldn't care about them "stealing" a name from Odyssey. But I do like the speculations about what happened to Rodney when he grew up.
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*Bumps topic ten years later* Lego also has a character named Emily Jones. https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Emily_Jones
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Hmm, I don't remember this thread from the first time around. I didn't realize that all these random characters had names. A few months ago I set a Lego puzzle (it was a real 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle and the picture was tons of Lego minifigures) and I gave them all nicknames (as in, "Hey, I think I found the missing piece of weird guy's shirt and purple scientist lady's coat") but maybe they had official names.

I guess there are only so many names out there, but it does seem like an interesting coincidence that there are several names that match AIO names.
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