Do Minifigs count towards Piece Count?

[smoothbit]

I was just wondering; when you report the total number of pieces in a MOC, do you include Minifigs?

And if you do, do you break the Minifig down into their tiniest components (hands and arms as well as torso, hips and legs separately)?

Or is one Minifig one addition to the Piece Count?

And does anyone know LEGO's own policy in this regard?

[Superkalle]

Hi smoothbit.

I'm moving your topic over to our General Discussion topic

[emilstorm]

I am not 100% sure but i think Lego counts a minifig as 3 parts, legs, torso assembly and head.

[smoothbit]

…I'm moving your topic over to our General Discussion topic

Thanks. I wasn't sure where best to ask this, General makes more sense than Digital.

I am not 100% sure but i think Lego counts a minifig as 3 parts, legs, torso assembly and head.

That's how they appear in the inventory at the back of an instruction manual, plus another for hair or hat etc., so that would make sense.

Do you think it's the same for levers and lever bases? They're two separate pieces in my LDraw file but I think they usually appear combined in instruction manuals too.

Edited May 23, 2014 by smoothbit

[emilstorm]

I would think levers count as one piece.

[TheLegoDr]

I would assume whatever is sent out from the factory is how they count it. As in, full assemblies count as one, if that is how the factory produced it. LEGO can certainly be separated, so that's a nice feature, but I think how they produce them in the factory is how they are "intended" to be used. Therefore could be more at risk for breakages by separating.

Edited May 24, 2014 by TheLegoDr

[Blondie-Wan]

I am quite sure LEGO counts the hips / legs assembly as one piece, the torso assembly (w/ arms & hands) as another piece, the head as one more piece, and so on, and I don't see a good reason for it to be otherwise.

Peculiarly, in older sets it was common for LEGO sets to come with minifigure heads already attached to the torsos, even in sets in which other parts (capes, backpacks, etc.) were meant to be put on the neck posts between the torsos and the heads. I'm not sure whether they counted the head and torso assembly as two pieces or just one at the time (the piece counts always seem slightly off anyway, what with the spare parts and all).

[Admiral Goblet]

I don't think so, maybe I am wrong I don't know .

[legoman19892]

The part count on the sides of boxes include torso, leg assembly, head, and hair.