On 5/14/2012 at 4:09 PM, TheLegoDr said:

According to Brickset I own 1045 figures, but I haven't updated that in a while, so I should recalculate that sometime. Unfortunately I was in my Dark Ages for the last 15 years so I missed out on a lot of figures

Even if you hadn't been on your dark ages, unless you are rich, you would still have missed on a lot of them... That's my case.

Only... only 12

I am truly honored to be talking to people like you

I honestly have no idea. Other than official kits, I usually don't build in mini-figure scale so more often than not my minifigures just get shuffled away into storage. Still, I suspect with all the SW, HP, PotC, LotR, Modulars, Trains, Castle/Knights, Space and City sets I've picked up over the years, I've got to figure I've got quite a few at this point.

I know this probably horrifies the mini-figure faithful, but the bulk of my mini-figure collection is 'displayed' in 1 gallon Zip Lock bags (sorted by theme) in plastic tubs in a closet. I even have a bulging quart-sized bag of the old "slabbies" from the mid -70's from the days before mini-figures had movable limbs and printed faces.

Does anyone know the 'average' mass of a minifigure? I've got one tub that feels like it's about 15 kilos and another that's about half that. Deducting for the weight of the baggies and the tubs themselves, I think that comes out to the size of a reasonable sized angry mob (with blasters, swords, axes, spears, wands, and miscellaneous utensils).

This weekend I was actually trying to find a LOTR Legolas figure for a display I'm putting together and, although I like to think my LEGO collection is reasonably organized (for someone without a dedicated LEGO room) it still took 20 mins of rummaging through the crowd to find him.

Shay,

Hahaha! Reading your post made me laugh. Yup, it is a problem even thinking about counting minifigs. I decapitated most of mine a few years ago and stored the torsos by color to make it easier to build the needed color. Next I attach lt flesh arms because most of mine are pastel colored gals with lt flesh heads and legs. I do use some pastel colored legs and and arms as well. And I adore the torsos with darker heads and limbs because the contrast is perfect with pastel torsos. It would be great if they offered a wider variety of heads with features matching women from India, China, Japan and Africa to get away from the yellow heads of the past.

Except for a few complete licensed figs, most of mine are not assembled. This system does make me focus on the particular body parts missing so that I have enough female figs to make large scenes. It seems that the Prince of Persia sets were a source of lt flesh arms on BL, so I stocked up. And many male fig heads can be turned into females with appropriate hair, etc. Guess I'll have to pass on the body count for now.

  On 3/25/2013 at 2:24 PM, ShaydDeGrai said:

I know this probably horrifies the mini-figure faithful, but the bulk of my mini-figure collection is 'displayed' in 1 gallon Zip Lock bags (sorted by theme) in plastic tubs in a closet.

Au contraire, I think that this is the best way to store large numbers of minifies.

Well, after my large purchase today and according to Brickset, I have 1354 minifigs now.

After 2 more years of set collecting I'm up from 1,188, I'm up to 2,019

Maybe about 300

I might do a count

Well, my last post was almost a year ago in this topic and I only had a little over 1000. As of now, I have 1370 and will be making a large order for double VIP points, so I'll probably be getting probably about 20 more, so close to 1390. I am quite pleased with that number, but 2000! That is amazing.

By the end of the year will be a different story though..

Well I obviously don't hold a candle to many of you... Brickset says I have 165 but last I counted it was more like 150 (and I'm sure I don't have the figs from some of the sets I've listed). But after all how many do you need... ?

According to Brickset I own 515, but I also have a pile of figs from some collections I bought. These are not listed on Brickset. So I am probably around 600 now.

Like several here, no idea . I know its a lot, but most aren't organized, I've even got a whole bucket of random fig parts, so there could potentially be many in there.

Edited March 28, 201311 yr by Grimmbeard

700 about 150-175 are lotr/hobbit about 475 are sw. will do a cencus in dec

  On 2/20/2011 at 10:14 PM, Dazmundo said:

According to Brickset I have 261 Minifigs, although I haven't put all my sets on yet so it'll actually be more than that.

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Wow 2 years later and according to Brickset I have 615, plus a few odds and ends

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Really hard to count them all as many are put away and many are on display. If I had to hazard a guess though i would say around 600?

Hmmm.... my records say 5,721, BrickSet says 5,463, and neither of those count my wife's who probably has another 1000+ easily. So, I'll wager in the 7,000 ballpark, give or take 500, maybe.

DaveE

Brickset says 1368, how accurate this is, I'm not sure?

  On 4/14/2013 at 6:53 PM, paul_delahaye said:

Brickset says 1368, how accurate this is, I'm not sure?

If you've listed all your sets accurately, it should somewhere in that range, give or take a few.

I own at least 932 figures in my sets and I have about 700 spare/loose. In total that is 1632 (the other day I had even more but I sold all of my spare Star Wars figures for £110 ).

  On 4/14/2013 at 6:53 PM, paul_delahaye said:

Brickset says 1368, how accurate this is, I'm not sure?

Well, the problem is in defining what a minifigure is! Is Jar-Jar Binks a minifig? How about a skeleton? R2-D2? The Cave Troll? Jabba the Hutt? The rancor? The mutant dinosaurs?

BrickSet itself is pretty accurate-- it's just that it's up to you to decide if something's a minifig or not. Your opinion may be quite different from the admins at BrickSet, BrickLink, or even the people at LEGO!

DaveE

Brickset says I have 666, but I know I have at least 750 because I got dozens and dozens of minifigures at tag sales and flea markets, plus the CMF count is off.

edit: only about 300

Edited April 16, 201311 yr by SheepEater

Of the ones I have cataloged through brickset (which is by no means all of them), the total is 1679. I think that may be just the distinct ones and does not include duplicates. Oh yes, that is right.

Brickset says I have a total of 2878. Which is probably a little low, since I got a lot of figures second hand.

Steve

I own about 170 minifigs :)

I have at least roughly 100, but when I build all my sets again I'll get a more exact count. I know I've left some out.