A question to female AFOLs

[SheepEater]

I wander if lego will ever release female torso. I dont mean prints, i mean with proper breast shapes.

They just did.

[mrklaw]

This IMHO has to be the most gratuitous and extreme use of the hourglass figure printing. The dimensions are grossly rediculous for a woman who is supposed to be a warrior.

Since then TLG has gotten better at portraying women, but there is still room for improvement.

Considering that is a castle torso, I think it represents fairly well what we'd expect to see in a period drama set around that time - heavy duty corsets etc.

Likewise, I don't see much 'hourglass' going on with female torsos. There is usually a bit of shape applied, but women are a different shape to men so that seems reasonable. Most torsos don't go overboard with it.

[Redhead1982]

In general, my favourite and most often used minifig face is (the classic smiley) for both females and males. I distinguish between them by torsos or hairstyles. For females, I prefer to use faces with as few lipstick as possible, as I'm not fond of it in real life either. Some of my prefered faces: , and some of the worst ones (in my opinion): , .

As for the torso prints with hourglass shape, I don't mind them so much, as the shape is not as visible as some of the 'painted' faces are.

[Alasdair Ryan]

It does look a little funny, but she's meant to look like this character: http://potterincanta...stizo-promo.jpg

The woman in your link looks funny aswell.

[Cecilie]

I think in general a lot of the female heads wear too much makeup, and especially too much lipstick. I may be biased about that since I never wear any makeup myself, but it makes it harder to find good female faces that I want to use, especially since there are few female faces in the first place. And that's the real problem I think. While we have a plethora of male faces with all sorts of facial features and facial expressions, most of the female faces have very few distinguishing facial features or interesting expressions. It's usually a smile or some sort of shocked/scared/angry face. Although it seems there has been some more interesting ones recently, there's still way more interesting male faces coming out. And in sets, we often get new male faces, and then there's one female thrown in, with a standard smile. Bear in mind that I only care about the yellow heads, so I'm not talking about licensed themes.

As for the hourglass torso print, I actually find that a bit silly, as the torso itself is just as blocky as the male torso, so I think it just looks weird with that print on it. But I can see that it adds more detail in many cases, and it doesn't bother me that much, I just find it silly.

What I really just want is more variety in (yellow) female faces...

[SheepEater]

Here is the closest thing we have right now to a LOTR female figure, Galadriel from the LOTR game! And she does have lipstick and eyelashes.

[Asilla]

This lego girls head look's weird,It looks like someone put there hands in gold paint and pressed them to her face.Which then made her hypnotized? (judging from the eyes)

she looks quite dizzy :)

[AmperZand]

As for the hourglass torso print, I actually find that a bit silly, as the torso itself is just as blocky as the male torso, so I think it just looks weird with that print on it. But I can see that it adds more detail in many cases, and it doesn't bother me that much, I just find it silly.

What I really just want is more variety in (yellow) female faces...

I agree on both points.

TLG ought to make shaped female minifig torsos like those by Arealight: http://www.arealightcustoms.com/shop/Curved-Torso/