White Wizard Hat

[Spider-Man]

Hey guys I was just going through some bulk LEGO that was given to me by one of my mom's friends uncles. The pieces are all from pretty old sets, such as dragon knights, some of those yellow islander sets, and the old ninja(?) or samurai(?) sets that have spider and wolf capes. My LEGO knowledge doesn't date that far back so that is the best I can do to describe them But there are also just random pieces from broken down sets and I came upon a white wizards hat? I did a quick search on bricklink and saw that it isn't even in the known colors? So I am thinking that either it is really old and the color has faded away, or bricklink just doesn't have what set it is from?

Pictures: Hat on Gandalf

Just the hat

Any help you guys can offer in identifying this piece would be much appreciated

(If this is the wrong place to ask this could a mod please move it elsewhere )

Edited July 19, 2012 by Spider-Man

[Falconer]

That’s interesting. LOTR mentions that Saruman has a white wizard hat (in the scene where he appears to Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli in Fangorn Forest).

[CMP]

Make sure it's identical to LEGO wizard hats, has the same quality, and then take a picture. It could be a prototype, I guess, but I think there's already been red ones for that.

[Spider-Man]

Thats what I thought to. I wouldn't think of a white prototype? It looks identical, buckle and all. I'll have to work on getting some pictures up so people can have a better idea.

Edit: Added two photos. Hope I can get a better idea of just what this is

Edited July 19, 2012 by Spider-Man

[The Lego Wizard]

That was gandalf the white in fangorn. very confusing with them both being white.

[Pate-keetongu]

That was gandalf the white in fangorn. very confusing with them both being white.

No, it was not. They meet an unkonwn wizard with a hat on the edge of the forest, and when they later meet Gandalf IN the forest, he told that it was not him. The unknown wizard has always been a mystery to me, but I guess it was Saruman as Falconer said.

[Darkdragon]

That seem makes me think it is a clone.

[Clone OPatra]

I agree with darkdragon; from the pictures it does not seem good enough to even be a LEGO prototype.

[CMP]

Yeah, it looks more like a clone with that line down the middle. Dang, that would've been an interesting find.

[Spider-Man]

I was thinking the same thing about the seam, I just don't know what clone brand would have made it? It feels like LEGO plastic but who knows. It fits figs heads so I am sure I will be able to use it somewhere

[jawapro]

^ The Council of Wizards convene to determine the status of "Whitebeard"...

Sorry for digging up such and old thread, but I have also stumbled across a white wizard's hat.

I bought some minifigs loose at a market (Tasmania, Australia) - couple of old knights, a couple of fabuland figures, and a wizard. I got the wizard because just he looked cool. His hat has a hole in it (I thought he had probably been a keyring).

The minifig itself seems to be made up of a number of random pieces (the torso is a young Boba Fett with swapped arms) - but I thought he looked pretty cool and had him sitting on my desk for a while so I wondered if I could replace his hat with a non-holed one. When I looked it up on Bricklink, I discovered the wizard's hat didn't come in white - and eventually I found my way here after some googling.

I've compared him to the actual Lego wizards I have, and the mould is very similar, although the buckle is different. The classic blue wizard has a buckle where you can see the clasp (same as the Evil Wizard). On the other hand, Gandalf's hat doesn't have the clasp, but the buckle is otherwise the same size.

Whitebeard (as I call him) has a buckle with a small clasp, but the entire buckle is slightly smaller (see the attached images).

Brickset and Bricklink don't seem to differentiate between buckles styles in their databases - so I can't be sure if Lego has ever produced one like my white one.

The actual Lego ones all seem to have something stamped inside the hat (I think it says '10') but Whitebeard doesn't. I'm assuming he's a clone brand - but the quality feels really good - if it had been a standard colour I wouldn't have even considered that it could be fake.

Anyway - just thought I'd share...

Higher Res version of the image: http://www.headlessmoron.com/images/blogged/whitebeard_coucil_large.jpg