Unpopular Opinions about LEGO

[Alexandrina]

Another unpopular(?) opinion of mine: minifigure heads were better before Lego started giving them white pupils. The OG heads are imo the best by far - and worse, the transition to white-pupil eyes precipitated the end of the 'standard set' of faces as they were no longer compatible with the rest of the line. They tried to replace the standard smiley and female head with direct analogues (the decidedly-creepy heads with pupils but no eyebrows) before realising that if you're going into detail with pupils you need eyebrows too or it looks weird, but we never got a replacement for the pointed-moustache smiley

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

My unpopular opinion regarding minifigure heads: I dislike alternate faces on most minifigs, at least when they are not completely concealed by the figure's hairpiece. To be honest, I don't frequently flip the expressions on my figures, so I don't care much about the added value of an extra expression. Having minifigs look like Quirrell trying to casually hide an extra face on the back of their head is annoying to me.

[The Island Chronicles]

2 minutes ago, BrickHat said:

My unpopular opinion regarding minifigure heads: I dislike alternate faces on most minifigs, at least when they are not completely concealed by the figure's hairpiece. To be honest, I don't frequently flip the expressions on my figures, so I don't care much about the added value of an extra expression. Having minifigs look like Quirrell trying to casually hide an extra face on the back of their head is annoying to me.

Ok! That kinda of annoys me as well. Though for characters such as Duke Detain, I can understand. Sunglasses or without sunglasses. 

[Johnny1360]

I kind of wish they were all still yellow, lol, except for licensed sets, those I like fleshie. 

The funny thing is I consider LEGO and mini-figures to be separate things, I guess because in my formative years there were none. Might not be a popular opinion but I rarely buy sets for the minfigs.

But I have been quite happy with a few of them.

[Lion King]

28 minutes ago, Johnny1360 said:

I kind of wish they were all still yellow, lol, except for licensed sets, those I like fleshie. 

This doesn’t make sense? 

[The Island Chronicles]

31 minutes ago, DBlegonerd7 said:

This doesn’t make sense? 

He's saying that he wishes that all generic themes were yellow. But he understands that it makes sense for licensed themes to be flesh toned as they are mostly based off of movies. 

[Maple]

1 hour ago, Johnny1360 said:

I kind of wish they were all still yellow, lol, except for licensed sets, those I like fleshie. 

So you kind of wish minifigures are exactly how they are? 

[Johnny1360]

You got it, lol

 

 

14 minutes ago, Poodabricks said:

He's saying that he wishes that all generic themes were yellow. But he understands that it makes sense for licensed themes to be flesh toned as they are mostly based off of movies. 

Yes, exactly, thanks.

 

Edited March 30, 2022 by Johnny1360

[Ondra]

I think that speed champions needs to completely rework usage of stickers, some of them are really tricky and they can ruin whole model for me me when they dont fit properly. There is also milimeter gap, when placed as in instructions. My OCD is crying...

 

Luckily they get memo, and headlights are now printed or brickbuild.

When Im having problems to allign these stickers, I dont know if kids in recommended age are not struggling even more.

[Ondra]

12 hours ago, Alexandrina said:

Another unpopular(?) opinion of mine: minifigure heads were better before Lego started giving them white pupils. The OG heads are imo the best by far - and worse, the transition to white-pupil eyes precipitated the end of the 'standard set' of faces as they were no longer compatible with the rest of the line. They tried to replace the standard smiley and female head with direct analogues (the decidedly-creepy heads with pupils but no eyebrows) before realising that if you're going into detail with pupils you need eyebrows too or it looks weird, but we never got a replacement for the pointed-moustache smiley

Yeah I feel that too, basic details fit these figures better.

I have also problems, that these figures smile a lot less that in 90s. They feel like they are in constant tense or unhappy.

Or when they smile its mostly grin...

 

I think this started with world city sets, which were most post 9/11 sets as it can be...

[MAB]

I don't mind yellow figures in generic themes and fleshie colours in licensed. I tend to prefer fleshie figures and so the vast majority of mine are fleshie. I do have some displays that are yellow skins. I always keep the two apart.  Some people prefer fleshies, some people prefer yellow skins. I think it good that both exist, and neither should be got rid of.

I also don't like dual sided heads, especially as the expressions are often very similar anyway. If I have a head where I like the expression but the rear print shows, I wipe off the offending print. I prefer (fleshie) heads with pupils.

Mixing and matching torsos / legs from yellow/fleshie is getting better, but I'd prefer if they wiped out all of those little bits of yellow or flesh tones to represent necks from torsos, unless it is really necessary to have them. For example, on a bare chest for a male figure or a bikini torso or off the shoulder style dress for a female where the skin colour needs to be shown. But when it is just a little, is it really necessary? Similarly, I'd prefer most torsos are gender neutral as it gives them wider use, again unless it makes sense for them not to be gender neutral.

 

 

[williejm]

2 hours ago, MAB said:

Mixing and matching torsos / legs from yellow/fleshie is getting better, but I'd prefer if they wiped out all of those little bits of yellow or flesh tones to represent necks from torsos, unless it is really necessary to have them. For example, on a bare chest for a male figure or a bikini torso or off the shoulder style dress for a female where the skin colour needs to be shown. But when it is just a little, is it really necessary? Similarly, I'd prefer most torsos are gender neutral as it gives them wider use, again unless it makes sense for them not to be gender neutral.

💯% this. 

[Karalora]

Yeah, that's not an unpopular opinion at all.

[danth]

7 hours ago, MAB said:

I'd prefer if they wiped out all of those little bits of yellow or flesh tones to represent necks from torsos, unless it is really necessary to have them.

I.e. only Jeff Goldbloom minifigs. 😁

[williejm]

54 minutes ago, danth said:

I.e. only Jeff Goldbloom minifigs. 😁

A WHOLE JEFF GOLDBLUM CMF please!

[MAB]

2 hours ago, danth said:

I.e. only Jeff Goldbloom minifigs. 😁

There are plenty where it makes sense to specify the gender and have yellow skin such as these (there are similar examples with fleshie skin too).

 

It is this type that annoy me. If they had made that little bit of neck white instead of yellow, then it would have looked like a shirt collar, it would be possible to use it with fleshie hands and head, plus it would have saved them a print colour.

[Lion King]

Unpopular opinion - I like yellow / generic minifigures a lot than ones in fleshie. Yelllow is just a neutral color for generic minfigure. 

Although, I don’t mind fleshie minifigures.

[Bob]

Probably a very unpopular opinion:

I dislike the amount of licensed IPs that LEGO has now. I went into a LEGO store for the first time in awhile recently and I feel like over half of the store is comprised of licensed products, a majority of which comes from the IDEAs. LEGO used to be very good at coming up with their own counterparts to popular intellectual properties, i.e. Adventurers taking the place of Indiana Jones. 

It's lost its charm a little bit, but maybe I'm just nostalgic for a different era. I feel as though most of LEGO's big original themes (Space, Pirates, Town, Castle) are gone, with only Town/City remaining. When I look through the various themes on their webside, the majority of them are intellectual properties.

With that said, some licensed and IDEA sets have still been very good, I'm not knocking all IPs and IDEA sets. Just lamenting that there's a lack of originality and creativity and more reliance on established properties.

[icm]

My hot take on that: they (or at least some set designers) always wanted to do the licenses, they just couldn't get permission from the company (or the company couldn't afford the license fees).

[MAB]

9 hours ago, Bob said:

Probably a very unpopular opinion:

I dislike the amount of licensed IPs that LEGO has now. I went into a LEGO store for the first time in awhile recently and I feel like over half of the store is comprised of licensed products, a majority of which comes from the IDEAs.

Sure half the store would be expected to be licensed sets as roughly half the output is licensed. I'm really surprised the majority of the licensed stuff was IDEAS though,  as there aren't that many IDEAS sets out at any one time, and they are a mix of licensed and unlicensed.

13 hours ago, DBlegonerd7 said:

Unpopular opinion - I like yellow / generic minifigures a lot than ones in fleshie. Yelllow is just a neutral color for generic minfigure. 

Although, I don’t mind fleshie minifigures.

That's great if you want generic figures. But if you want specific ones, flesh colours can help.

[Feuer Zug]

11 hours ago, Bob said:

Probably a very unpopular opinion:

I dislike the amount of licensed IPs that LEGO has now. I went into a LEGO store for the first time in awhile recently and I feel like over half of the store is comprised of licensed products, a majority of which comes from the IDEAs. LEGO used to be very good at coming up with their own counterparts to popular intellectual properties, i.e. Adventurers taking the place of Indiana Jones. 

It's lost its charm a little bit, but maybe I'm just nostalgic for a different era. I feel as though most of LEGO's big original themes (Space, Pirates, Town, Castle) are gone, with only Town/City remaining. When I look through the various themes on their webside, the majority of them are intellectual properties.

With that said, some licensed and IDEA sets have still been very good, I'm not knocking all IPs and IDEA sets. Just lamenting that there's a lack of originality and creativity and more reliance on established properties.

You'd be surprised how popular the dislike of licensed IPs with LEGO is. Your comment about half the store being licensed is about right. LEGO is chasing what's popular for the almighty profit.

[williejm]

2 hours ago, Feuer Zug said:

You'd be surprised how popular the dislike of licensed IPs with LEGO is. Your comment about half the store being licensed is about right. LEGO is chasing what's popular for the almighty profit.

I’m confused if it’s popular or not, then 😜

[Lion King]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

I’m confused if it’s popular or not, then 😜

Same here, dude. 

[karmajay]

4 hours ago, Feuer Zug said:

You'd be surprised how popular the dislike of licensed IPs with LEGO is. Your comment about half the store being licensed is about right. LEGO is chasing what's popular for the almighty profit.

Chasing it right to the bank it seems lol

[MAB]

5 hours ago, Feuer Zug said:

You'd be surprised how popular the dislike of licensed IPs with LEGO is. Your comment about half the store being licensed is about right. LEGO is chasing what's popular for the almighty profit.

What's wrong with it? Would those people prefer that LEGO didn't make sets that are popular with other people, and only make things that are not licensed. It's not like all unlicensed sets are popular with people that class themselves as the "real" LEGO fans.