Folding Short Legs

[Omicron]

Not really. I'm sure TLG could make legs like that, but as Aanchir points out, they just don't look very much like legs.

And Lego hands don't look very much like hands.

-Omi

[MAB]

On 2/24/2013 at 1:30 PM, Aanchir said:

TLG could probably introduce a short (1 x 2 x 1) torso and medium-sized (1 x 2 x 1 1/3) legs, but they'd face the same roadblock as customizers: such a design would not be especially backwards-compatible with previously released dwarf/child minifigures. And since posable short legs would be a pre-assembled part rather than just a simple new part, it would probably not be a worthwhile investment to introduce posable legs that have next to no impact on a figure's height, and which hardly look like legs in most positions.

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It is five years on from this comment, and interesting to see that LEGO have now decided to do something very similar to that hypothesised here by @Aanchir for the new Harry Potter figures. Slightly longer medium posable legs but keeping the torso the same. I guess we'll have to wait and see how they look when the figures are sitting. For posing for action, I think they will look fine. For sitting, I'm still not sure.

But nice to see how old speculation has finally come to pass!

 

[AmperZand]

On 6/28/2018 at 11:16 AM, MAB said:

It is five years on from this comment, and interesting to see that LEGO have now decided to do something very similar to that hypothesised here by @Aanchir for the new Harry Potter figures. Slightly longer medium posable legs but keeping the torso the same. I guess we'll have to wait and see how they look when the figures are sitting. For posing for action, I think they will look fine. For sitting, I'm still not sure.

But nice to see how old speculation has finally come to pass!

 

The long lags between when fans call for parts that ought to exist and when LEGO actually produces them never ceases to amaze me. Shorter, articulated legs are just the latest. Minifigure scaled skirt pieces are another. I think the record though may belong to the large cats. The time between when LEGO started producing moulded animals and the release of the first large cats for System was 34 years! A kid at the top of the recommended System age when the first moulded animals appeared would have to wait until middle age for a big cat      

[anothergol]

I have more problems with the too long arms than unarticulated short legs. While I have no problem with normal torsos because they can pass for long T-shirts, it's awkward to see kids with long arms IMHO. Lego has molded all kinds of alternate arms & legs, and can't produce a pair of shorter ones for the many kids they have released? They have produced very long arms for the quite limited basketball minifigs..

[Blondie-Wan]

1 hour ago, anothergol said:

I have more problems with the too long arms than unarticulated short legs. While I have no problem with normal torsos because they can pass for long T-shirts, it's awkward to see kids with long arms IMHO. Lego has molded all kinds of alternate arms & legs, and can't produce a pair of shorter ones for the many kids they have released? They have produced very long arms for the quite limited basketball minifigs..

The basteball minifigures actually had normal-length arms (though some of them had specialized, single-piece arm/hand molds designed to allow them to hold but quickly release a basketball). The minifigures with notably longer versions of the classic minifigure arms were all from the Toy Story theme.