Minifigure Museum: Explorer (Series 2)

It's been awhile since I've added to my Minifigure Museum (nearly a year)!  Today, we are going to go all the way back to Series 2 and the Explorer as our featured minifigure.  

The Explorer comes complete with a khaki outfit, binoculars, a magnifying glass, and his pith helmet.  I do like the printing on the torso (as well as the printed pocket on his legs).

Unfortunately, there's nothing interesting on the back of the minifigure - an issue that was fairly common with some of the early Collectible Minifigure series.

For me, the star of the show here is that pith helmet in white.  It's not a unique part (having appeared in at least 50 sets) but it is a unique part for my personal collection (if I'm not mistaken).  

For comparison, here's the full checklist for Series 2:

I do think that the Explorer is in the top half of the minifigures in this series.  Unfortunately, I'm still missing a handful of the minifigs from the series so I can't do a complete ranking but looking at the checklist the Explorer has to be in the top half (and probably even in the top quarter of the set).  I think that the Spartan Warrior and the Egyptian Pharoah will both place higher than the Explorer but since I don't have either of those two figures in hand, I can't be sure!  

Anyhow, one of the great things about the Explorer is that he was lots of fun to pose for some photos outside.  I couldn't pick which one to feature here so you get two!

As usual, I also like to include a LEGO scene for each minifigure in my Minifigure Museum collection of posts and the Explorer fit right in with my Jurassic Park area.

I do hope to do more writing here at Playing with Bricks moving forward, I know posts have been sort of slow in the past couple of months.  That said, I haven't given up on LEGO at all - more that I've had plenty of other things eating at my time!