It’s not just that certain minifigs from certain product lines have been overlooked, entire product lines are absent including groundbreaking minifigs like the Yellow Castle knights and the NBA license figures, not to mention Rock Raiders, Ice Planet, Alpha Squad, Trolls and Dwarves, figs from the Ferrari sets, and probably many others I can’t think of offhand.

At first it was fun to look through this timeline and think “Oh, cool, that’s when such-and-such a hairpiece first debuted.” But with all those gaps, I don’t know if such potential insights are accurate.

I don’t mean to be a hater. It’s a very cool timeline, and it’s nice to see LEGO helping out with a cool project. It’s just a bit of a shame that when Gizmodo gets such an enviable “in” with LEGO it can’t be exploited to the full, maximum potential of all LEGO fans.