Do you prefer quantity or diversity when it comes to minifigs?

[ziljin]

Especially if you mostly collect minifigs or build armies.

It's cheaper to get stuff like chess/tictactoe sets, impulse sets, and battlepacks to get mass minifigs. But on the other hand, the more expensive sets have unique minifigs, and trying to get multiples of those will be costly and difficult (especially after the sets go out of production). Just having one of a minfig seems unfufilling for some reason.

EDIT: It's too late now, but I didn't mean like in absolutes. Since I am a castle fan going to use it as an example. Quantity would be mostly regular soldier crownies with a 0-1 of the kings, golden knights, grey knights, queens, villagers, etc. Diversity would be a couple of more of those unique minifigs and less of the cheaper regular minfigs.

Like for star wars, is 2 senate commandos enough? or would you want more, etc.

Edited October 7, 2009 by lego40k

[Captain Green Hair]

Interesting discussion, i think it could do with a poll.

I'll vote diversity, as an army of minifigs with the same face seems kinda boring.

[Big Cam]

I'm going to leave my vote uncast, because I am a collector so I want all the rare minifigs, but on the same note, when you can get 4 clone troopers for $10 it makes me want as many as I can get.

I have found myself buying the big sets for the collecting aspect but then getting multiples of the battlepack sets to build small display armies.

[Rick]

Definitely diversity. Especially City could do with a few new faces and 'regular' torsos.

[Fluyt]

Mostly diversity. Since I mostly collect pirates (I got every different torso from the old line, and a few new ones), I do want an army of identical imperials, but most other figs are "unique" (even thought for now several groups of my pirates are identical for easy reference, in a display/moc I wouldn't want identical pirates or civillians, so I'll switch heads/legs/headgear).

[Eskallon]

I voted Diversity. This is because it is a lot nicer to see an army with different expressions and all different than to see the same minifigs over and over.

[ziljin]

lol yea. my cousin has a few city sets. All but one minifigs have the silver glasses head.

I want to get more golden knights, but it costs way too much (via bricklink or set purchase). But if I get additional drawbridge sets, I get more skeletons, weapons, grey bricks, and dark blue slopes. Not too concerned about the gray knights since I have zero of them. But ultimately the next castle theme will probably have more armored knights, so I guess I shouldn't fret over only having 2 golden knights. They could be generals or something.

[hewkii9]

I voted Diversity - I'm always trying to get the torso pieces I don't have [for more variation in serf figs or for the one iteration of the Doctor I haven't built, well three technically].

[Spyder]

I love to build an army of several of the same minifigs, like clones, or imperial soldiers and pirates. However, I also like to collect the rarer figs, so that I don't just have a bunch of one minifig. So even though I voted quantity, I usually like to have an even amount of both quantity and diversity, like making my soldiers have diffferent heads, and some have different armor.

[Sandy]

I collect diverse minifigs, not armies. I'm always drawn to new faces, torsos, hairpieces and hats, but there's just too many of them to get them all, so I'm focusing my purchases to Castle, Pirates, City civilians and the historical and fantastical licensed themes. However, the new Agents sets seem to offer loads of interesting new hairpieces and torsos, so I'm planning on getting some of them when they finally hit the store shelves here.

[Piranha]

Definitely diversity for me.

Especially in City sets.

I love new hair pieces, torsos and faces.

"Quality over quantity"

[ziljin]

Well they are all made by lego, so the quality is the same. =P.

[Piranha]

Well they are all made by lego, so the quality is the same. =P.

Not what I meant, By Quality I was not referring to the plastic they use.

Quality I meant that some really well designed figs over multiple of just one.

[Big Cam]

Well they are all made by lego, so the quality is the same. =P.

I know this is not what the TS was refering to, but this is not true.

There is a thread in the pirates section showing the differance in the tic tac toe sets and regular sets. I'd link it but I'm on my phone, so it would take me like 20 minutes.

Edit: I went and found it, I figured it was rude of me not to.

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=32278

Edited October 3, 2009 by Big Cam

[jonwil]

I prefer diversity since I like to have diversity in my MOCs.

[prateek]

Not what I meant, By Quality I was not referring to the plastic they use.

Quality I meant that some really well designed figs over multiple of just one.

Same here. I like well designed figs, and not just any random figs.

[RileyC]

I like diversity. I am not an army builder because of my tight lego budget. I prefer getting the sets with minifigs I don't have with a ship I don't really need than a ship thats cool with minifigs that I have or minifigs that can be bought in other sets. For example, the AT-OT with dropship is an awesome set. Both the ships are really well designed and look great. I didn't buy it because there were other sets with better minifigs with more diversity and I was patient enough that now I am able to buy the Tantive IV which has great minifigs and its also a great ship (which is just a bonus).

[The Cobra]

Castle is the only theme where I can accept quantity over diversity.

Therefore, my vote goes to "diversity". City sets need different figures!

[madoka]

Over 35,000 minifigs. I guess that puts me in the quantity category.

Edited October 4, 2009 by madoka

[RocketClone]

Personally i think it depends like if your a SW fan and you collect clones you would want quantity,But i hate seeing the same faces all the time so diversity.

[Alywin]

If you play City theme like me, you must prefer diversity! You don't want to have all citizens have the same look, definitely City theme is the one most desiring for diversity in minifigs...

[Tom Bricks]

I like diversity allot more. The only time that I use the same head more than once or twice in a MOC is when it's the classic smiley.

[ziljin]

they don't necessarily have to be the same face to be considered a clone.

Like whatever your theme is. Example being city, would you rather have like 50 firefighters(to make some epic firestation or something) or a 1-3 of each community worker.

Say for current castle theme, is 30 regular knights, a 5 grey and golden knights good enough, or would you want say 20 regular knights and 10 grey and golden knights (cost more obviously)

ETC.

Edited October 4, 2009 by lego40k

[Colonel]

I need quantity for my castle MOC's - but recently I started on the pirates theme and have to admit that 20 pirates with exactly the same face and body are no good - so diversity!

[Eilif]

I voted for diversity. I'm not a "collector" in the sense that I don't collect and catalog official LEGO minifigs, but I do love to acquire and assemble as many different minifgs as possible for my LEGO MOCs. This is especially true for city where -with the exception of some "uniformed" figs, I almost never have two of the same figure in the 600+ city figs that I have.

I'll usually keep the first example of a LEGO fig that I acquire in it's original configuration, but that's only a guideine that I use until I find that I need a part of that figure somewhere else. I often acuqire 2 or more additional figs of the same fig through PAB, sales and used purchases and for those I will nearly always mix and match to make new figs. The Indy Cairo set is a great example of a set where multiple purchases and mixing with other parts can make alot of diverse minifigs.

I don't mind some uniformity in areas where it makes sense (castle, and pirate soldiers and space figs) but those are not my main areas of interest.