TLG should make new hands.

[fred67]

So... my wife is not quite the LEGO enthusiast I am, although she loves a lot of the new collectible minifigures. She was playing with the weightlifter, and of course we ran across the old situation where a minifig can't hold a straight bar with both hands.

Has the idea of having hands that can hold something straight across been brought up? I'm not saying we'd get rid of the current style, but I think it seems appropriate occasionally.

[CMP]

A yellow hook would be fine.

[Sisco]

It's been done before. Not the holding a bar with two hands thing, but different hands. For example, the basketball sets, i.e. this. It's a good thought though.

[meschepers]

I have never had a problem with the figs not being able to hold a straight bar. Just turn the hands so that the "curved" part of each hand is facing each other, inward. Then the fig should be able to hold the bar level and evenly.

[Rick]

I have never had a problem with the figs not being able to hold a straight bar. Just turn the hands so that the "curved" part of each hand is facing each other, inward. Then the fig should be able to hold the bar level and evenly.

It doesn't click in fully that way, which causes the hand to stay under pressure. But having a separate mold for these situations... Most other accessories look much better in the standard hands.

Don't these basketball arms do the trick? I don't know as I don't own any myself.

[Vindicare]

I have never had a problem with the figs not being able to hold a straight bar. Just turn the hands so that the "curved" part of each hand is facing each other, inward. Then the fig should be able to hold the bar level and evenly.

I've never had an issue, either. I've always done the 2 hand hold with spears, sure they aren't quite as sturdy and in there as they should be. But, it works.

[fred67]

I've never had an issue, either. I've always done the 2 hand hold with spears, sure they aren't quite as sturdy and in there as they should be. But, it works.

I've done really long pieces, too, but the weights from the weightlifter is a short bar and doesn't really work well.

Like I said, I actually like the way they are now the majority of the time, but for something to fit correctly (not under stress) with two hands would require something different.

[The Green Brick Giant]

I have no clue what you are complaining about, I'm just going to blame it on being made in China.

Let's never talk about the LEGO Basketball minifigures.... let's pretend they are just some nightmare.

[Aanchir]

The problem with releasing new hands at a different angle is that no matter what angle they're at, they could only hold a bar perfectly straight with the arms at one particular angle. Given how the arms. It's this dynamic relationship between the angle of the arms against the body and the angle of the hands from the arms that makes many uses of minifig hands so complicated (on LEGO Digital Designer it's even more of a hassle).

All in all, a new hand mold would have about the same restrictions as the current one. And furthermore, given that minifigure hands are not meant to be interchanged (it weakens the connection to the arms over time), having multiple hand molds available for use wouldn't solve any problems either. So really we're probably best with the mold we have currently.

[Rick]

The problem with releasing new hands at a different angle is that no matter what angle they're at, they could only hold a bar perfectly straight with the arms at one particular angle. Given how the arms. It's this dynamic relationship between the angle of the arms against the body and the angle of the hands from the arms that makes many uses of minifig hands so complicated (on LEGO Digital Designer it's even more of a hassle).

So we need a new square torso mold as well.

Seriously: you're right, clever thinking, didn't even think of that yet.

[Brickdoctor]

As a miniature builder, I can see other potential uses for a new hand mold, but the complications the others have posted are so very true. To answer the basketball arm question, they're the same as the normal hands, just with a curve cut into the fatter side of the hand to allow the minifig to hold the basketballs. (it'll work with soccer balls, too, but that'd be a handball )

[Artanis I]

(it'll work with soccer balls, too, but that'd be a handball )

For 20 of the men on the field it would be...