I've had Garry's Mod on Steam forever, but only played it a few minutes for my first time the other day. And for the past decade I knew of it, I always thought the spelling was "G-a-r-y" too, so I have no reason to yell at you :)
3:56 two things I learned today: Garry is another spelling of Gary, from Old German meaning "spear", and Ganger is the same thing as a foreman and pronounced as you said. Ah LEGO never stops teaching me things about the world!
They seemed to have chosen the term 'Ganger' for Garry, as its an aliteration with his name and profession. They did it for all the other characters. Dave the digger, Pete the pneumatic driller, Paula the police woman, etc.
I enjoyed the Rescue Team set growing up! I can still vaguely remember holding the box in hand in the car before coming home to open and build it. While I would get another medical figure like this in 2 copies of 1249 Tri-motorbike from Shell, I enjoyed this figure with the printed hat and always wanted to assemble Enter, Return and Dr Clickitt together from LEGO Island. The firefighter was the most unique of the 3 as I didn't have this suit from some of the other sets of the time, mostly the black torso, collared shirts. The cop with a bike helmet didn't stand out to me as much, considering I had similar police figures from a bunch of other sets, except for two parts: the printed helmet, which I only had 1 other copy from 6326 Town Folks, and the printed 3900pb01 signal paddle. I recall as a kid building a police walking mech using many parts from 6471 4WD Police Patrol but also this paddle piece as a sort of arm extending from the side. The mech walked similar to Granite Grinder and other similar mechs of the era. The card-collecting concept was not lost on me after this set. I later acquired some of the NBA figure packs to add more players to my smaller NBA sets, such as #3 and #7 so the cards and stands were fun to setup for a time. One of the neat concepts I learned as a kid was the Sports Basketball sets used these elements for a couple small hoop sets, like 3549 Practice Shooting, 3550 Jump and Shoot, and 3548 Slam Dunk Trainer. I had seen at least one of these as a kid in stores but didn't acquire anything until a year ago when I finally got the backboard card and its fun LEGO crowd with figures like Stuntman, Johnny Thunder and what looks like Stan Lee in an orange and white polo? And is that a green-and-red minifigure of Elmer Fudd behind him?? Thanks for the review and opening up this fun can of warms, I mean, memories :)
I also recall getting more mileage from Fred the Fireman, as my brother and I used his breathing apparatus to make an Ogel Henchman based on the Alpha Team PC game, particularly the ones that carried toxic cans on hand carts known as "Zombie Barrel Pushers".
