This thread/Posts will cause a lot of panic around Lego Fans...:-)

Yep, at first I ignored it seeing as I don't think I have suffered cracks (I mean I may have a couple of old minifigs from outside of my own collection with a crack in, but who knows how those were treated?).

I did have a skeleton leg break at the top the other day (I was probably placing it under too much stress) and a pirate hook (known to be weak)...

Now I am worried that all my minifigures will spontaneously crack overnight.

But if they do, I probably won't lose sleep over it, the only ones I pull the arms off (mostly for customizing purposes) are not priceless or irreplaceable, and after all they are toys so they are meant to be played with.

We are all different human beings and don't secrete exactly the same oil and sweat from our skins. Depending on genes, diet, etc., some of us could be acidic. Acid could technically etch your fingerprint on to the paint or dull like acid rain on car paint or it can have no effect at all depending on the chemistry...

I have a friend who can't play a guitar without the strings corroding (metal strings), apparently his brothers can tell if he's picked up one of theirs because the next time they use it the strings break... hmmm makes me think I do not want this guy playing with my minifigures, ever, just in case.

After reading this, I checked all my minifigures and unfortunately my Deathstroke and Robin figures from the Batboat set are cracked. :( This has only ever happened to me once before, and it's weird seeing as they're the only ones cracked just from display, and they're from the same set.

A few questions...how severe are the cracks, how long have you had the figs before you noticed the cracks, where are the cracks, & how did you have them kept(displayed out or put away in containers)? I ask because I have had mine on a table since the day i got them, which is a couple of months.

I have a friend who can't play a guitar without the strings corroding (metal strings), apparently his brothers can tell if he's picked up one of theirs because the next time they use it the strings break... hmmm makes me think I do not want this guy playing with my minifigures, ever, just in case.

Interesting, I think you should have him wear gloves before letting him touch your minifigs.

I am not a fan of the greasy feel on my LEGO after letting people hold and examine my MOC. I wipe the MOC down afterwards.

I am not a fan of the greasy feel on my LEGO after letting people hold and examine my MOC. I wipe the MOC down afterwards.

Glad to know I'm not the only one!

A few questions...how severe are the cracks, how long have you had the figs before you noticed the cracks, where are the cracks, & how did you have them kept(displayed out or put away in containers)? I ask because I have had mine on a table since the day i got them, which is a couple of months.

It's pretty bad, on the right side of the torso going up to their arm on both of them, making their arm pretty loose. I've had the set since August and kept them on my bookshelf where I display my newest sets. They weren't attached to anything, just standing, and I never tried removing the arms or taking them apart, so the cracks pretty much appeared on their own. I handled them with care and never used them or let anyone else use them roughly.

I discovered yesterday few cracks on the lower part of the minifig legs (arms and torso are clean). It's a tiny crack between the square hole and the rounded hole. But it hurt when i see the cost of Lego products. I have several parts cracked, but not at the same level. For example Ecto minifig stand is build since less than one years, and a lot of plates and tiles are wildly cracked, plus the minifig legs, a shame for a display model that I intend to keep mounted forever. In what state will it be in 10 years?.

Also, models built since few days can have cracked parts, and others models built since 2 years dont have any issues.

I dunno for you, but even if i love Lego', that kind of issues really ruin my passion, sometime i'm asking myself to know if I should stop buying Legos...

Edited November 11, 20159 yr by Timoonn

My Thi Sen minifig is totally fine. I had it hold weapons several times with both hands.

But my Spiderman fig is cracked. He was holding both bike handles.

What's that supposed to mean? Is it because of Thi Sen's mold that he isn't cracked?

I dunno for you, but even if i love Lego', that kind of issues really ruin my passion, sometime i'm asking myself to know if I should stop buying Lego...

Isn't having slightly cracked Lego better than no Lego at all? This happens to bricks like the cheese slope and the curved 1x2 as well.

Edited November 12, 20159 yr by gamejutzu

My Thi Sen minifig is totally fine. I had it hold weapons several times with both hands.

But my Spiderman fig is cracked. He was holding both bike handles.

What's that supposed to mean? Is it because of Thi Sen's mold that he isn't cracked?

Isn't having slightly cracked Lego better than no Lego at all? This happens to bricks like the cheese slope and the curved 1x2 as well.

The molds are not responsible i think. Matter density, its quality, cooling, etc can affect, but not the mold itself (exept if in fact the plastic tickness is reduced, which limit the mecanical resistance)

For me this happen to slopes, 1x/12/3/4 bricks, sometime plates, dish (the top dish on my 31023 rotor is cracked), technic bricks (all kind of 1x2). Even a 4x4 plate can crack. The list can be long.

I have posted pictures of decreasing Lego quality in another topic on Eurobricks. It's shocking.

I hope many more people are about to complain to Lego and post pictures here. I have minifigs from the 70's/80's and recently checked on them. No cracks in them, and they were still assembled. Also for the bricks, no cracks. But sets from 5 years old, stored in the dark, all have cracks. From 7 new sets, 166 bricks with cracks (Assembled once and put away in Ziplocks). Mainly 1x1 plates, mini-slopes but also 1x1 and 1x2 bricks. Just put two 1x2 bricks on top of each other and you can see the pressure point right away. That's were the crack is gonna be.

And it's not about the environment you're living. I'm still in the same house as in the 80's. My new sets all have cracks in them, and some bricks had cracks in them, before assembling a brand new set.

Lego used to be super quality. Now we have to use gloves and can't put our sets on the shelf because it causes cracks.

Are we gonna accept that? Please post the pictures and let everybody know the current quality of Lego is not acceptable.

I took some photos

http://imgur.com/a/cp0iW

Edited November 12, 20159 yr by Timoonn

I took some photos

http://imgur.com/a/cp0iW

OMG!!!

This is Terrible especially these are new sets and not vintage

I took some photos

http://imgur.com/a/cp0iW

Wow, seeing those pics made me really glad that I don't place accesories on my figures or place them in studs anymore... Which is sad for people who really like to do that.

I took some photos

Is it a coincidence the same leg that is cracked is on a cracked tile? (the Ghostbusters)

Also, those have nothing on my cracks. While sure I never had legs crack (I only display figs for a few days in my MOCs), I've had

Torsos crack so much that the arm is loose

Arms crack so much that the hand is loose

Hands crack

Bricks crack so much they're loose when places

Broken studs

Broken hips (yes they actually broke)

And those flipping technic clip pieces! (the ones on Cyrus Borg) They ALWAYS break!

And all of my skeleton arms and boots are gone! I didn't even remove them! All I did was give them weapons!

Edited November 13, 20159 yr by gamejutzu

I have never noticed a crack in any of my minifigs and some of them go back to 1987.

FYI Guys,,,,some of the Legs are tight when placing them on a stud or in a set, while others are smooth fitting. Those which are tight, are highly to get a crack while the rest no....put this in your minds!

Just checked my Ghostbusters figs/stand, all is fine. Could it have been a bad batch from the factory, in the above case? Is there any way to narrow things down...try to get at least an idea of where/when the figs were made.

Edited November 13, 20159 yr by Legocrazy81

This is another case of mysterious cracking in parts.... except one bionicle part that I got used and came already cracked, I've simply not had the problem a lot of you seem to have with figures. My Ghostbusters have been assembled and on display for over a year, including holding their accessories, and there are NO cracks in them. I build little modular castle sections (as seen in my signature) that have been assembled for years - hundreds of the white cheese slopes that everyone complains about, and not a SINGLE crack. 256 CMFs on display, some since 2010, on their stands, holding accessories, and not a single crack. I have hundreds of sets, hundreds of thousands of bricks, and maybe have seen one or two cracks on 1x1 or 1x2 plates; I simply don't understand how this is such a problem.

The only time I ever had a minifigure problem was a castle battle pack where the figures were packed poorly and holding their weapons badly - not firmly in place, so pushing the hand apart so that they wouldn't hold the weapons securely when put in their hands the right way. But all I did was remove the accessories and let the figures sit on display for a while without them, and their hands eventually got back into good enough shape that you'd never notice.

There HAS to be more to this than "cheap Chinese" plastic or bad batches - I have enough sets that if there were really that many bad batches, I'd surely have gotten something by now. The claim is it's not environmental, then there has to be something to how forcefully people are putting their sets together (or taking them apart) or something... even that seems wrong, because I made sections of the brick-built monorail that capitalize on the flexibility of parts to make curves, and none of them cracked, either. I really don't get it, and I can't say it's not a quality control problem, but year after year I see these complaints, and year after year I continue to buy LEGO problem free.

Edited November 13, 20159 yr by fred67

I gotta agree with fred67. I'm only one persons opinion, but every specific fig listed in this thread I have & have checked. No cracks. I've never had issues like the ones listed. I guess I've just been one of the fortunate ones. It's hard to believe that figs just magically cracked out of nowhere...

I checked my Several sets from 80's and 90's and everything seems in Perfect status ( No Cracks )....i dont think if minifigures are on the stud, this will cause the crack, otherwise Lego will have the worst Quality issue!

Heavy play + applying a force on the Legs whether on studs or not wil might cause the crack and sometimes not!

Sad to see those cracks, but those are toys and toys sometimes break :( (high price should be =quality)

ps - I also collect Hot Wheels they don`t suffer cracking :)

Man where to begin...

My son is really into Nexo Knights and Ninjago. We bought him way to much sets etc. Just recently I noticed lots of cracks in a lot of minifigures. Some figures are quite expensive (Green Ninja and one of the villains in the Golden Ninja sets etc)

Most have torso cracked on one or both sides, some have an arm cracked so the hands are falling out. On one figure a leg came off, one of the pins was broken.

I have about 15 figures here that are broken out of 40.

Has anyone experienced this en will lego replace them for me?

Here's a picture from a few of them.

1) Check how they broke. Did they come straight out of the box like this? Or did it happen after your son playing with them? Frequently removing hands and arms from a figure will cause cracks like this. If your son has been pulling out arms, that would be a likely cause. Lego never designed their figures to have their arms removed frequently.

2) If this happened coming straight out of the box or after light play(I.e. your son is not removing arms), contact Lego customer service. They'll get the parts they have to you if their in stock.

3) If this happened due to rough play, purchase new parts from Bricklink or Lego's Bricks and Pieces store. This could be pricey though.

He just plays with the figures. Very rarely he pulls them apart. The Nexo Knights he got in februari. Many older figures do not have this problem. I also put some figures away and some are cracked aswell. The lightblue Batman from the Juniors set for example.

He has many Town sets from before his Ninjago time and those Are almost All okay. He plays just as much with those than these newer figs. Heck..my ancient old figures do not have this problem at all and they are played with much, much more.

And they are still toys, ment to be played with.

Edited April 17, 20168 yr by Cobb

So it sounds like it's a quality issue. Contact Lego customer service then. Should work :)

Even if you can't get them replaced, reporting this to LEGO Customer Service could help them know to look into this issue so they can prevent it in future sets.

I've personally had parts break like this but never this regularly, and usually after years of use.

I collect mainly DC minfigs and some CMF's, I'm afraid to check them. Like I said the lightblue Batman has a crack aswell.