Comments on: LEGO Friends 2012 parts review – sets 3933, 3187, 3183, 3936 [Review]

By: lady_bricker

lady_bricker — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:43:08 +0000

yay! thanks! :D

By: Nannan

Nannan — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:27:16 +0000

The winning comment comes from lady_brickster, who says: “well, once i’d taken away their hairstyles, i guess i would create an island of bald amazonian women.” Congrats!

By: legobucket

legobucket — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:11:53 +0000

I would take the mini-dolls and drop them into my 3 little step-sisters Lego bucket and they would probably say “That’s not Lego!”, to which I would say “it is now!”

By: Pisafe

Pisafe — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:57:44 +0000

whoops, and forgot to mention, I’m a 6’4 woman, so these “extra tall” mini-figs are just right, I usually stand a nub higher than the rest of the village anyway. Too bad these little things are all svelte, if they had a tubby one (a la the usual mini-figs) I’d really identify with her… got there marketing research right on that one :D

By: Pisafe

Pisafe — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:54:53 +0000

I’m getting my first set tonight. In three days the workplace/lab set will arrive. And when it does… I’m painting some pants and leather shoes on that mini-doll thing! Does she not know about OSHA?! In my lab she’d get her self turned around and sent home to change into more appropriate clothes, really, flip-flops around chemicals?! Tsk! As for her ultimate fate, I’m thinking she’ll join the other mini-figs, and have her legs seperated from her torso, then be inserted into a sharks gaping maw… the better to illustrate her legs disappearing into his fishy belly… MUHAHAHAHA (what can I say, I have boys, although my mother thought of that, well, and the pirate shooting the monkey out of the rigging on the pirate set). Maybe my brother can make another Zoolander skit on his Lego Creator web-cam… hmmm the possibilities are endless.

By: Siabur

Siabur — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:50:33 +0000

I make comic called Dreamers Ink and as soon as I saw detailed pics about these the first thing that came to mind was how cool the accessories would be for my comic. I can now build sets that would work for some of the female cast. If the rest of the regular CITY line had some of these designs it would allow for the police and fire departments to have some place to go on a call. As for the mini-dolls (really?) I have a storyline in the works that would be perfect for gigantic girls. Snusnu anyone?

By: JimmytheJ

JimmytheJ — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:48:26 +0000

I’d use them as size-zero mannequins for an unhealthily slim clothes shop, with regular minifigure protestors outside waving signs. Most of them female minifigures with the sort of torsos, perhaps even custom ones, that suggest muffin tops and such.

If you want, I’ll make into an animation, news report style. Studying animation at uni, see :D

By: TooMuchDew

TooMuchDew — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:51:50 +0000

I personally think the sets are great… I asked my adult daughter (who as a youngster was pretty much LEGO Adventurers, Western & Studio complete) her thoughts and she sees no problem. Friends remind her of the innocuous Polly Pocket sets she had then and seem like a good way to get girls interested in LEGO after Duplo.
Hinckley at Eurobricks http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=64241 has a great review of LEGO Friends 3061 City Park Café and amusing take on the whole Friends brouhaha.
Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/5872578/hey-anti lego-feminists-lego-for-girls-actually-kicks-ass also “gets” it.

By: Paganomation

Paganomation — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:39:31 +0000

The thing I really want to do is use the mini-dolls and sets in an animated short that has nothing to do with these characters or settings. It seems like a lot of people are overly focusing on what you get from “LEGO Friends” out of the box; I’d like to explore the cinematic potential of the new elements and figures this theme has introduced.

By: condor

condor — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:31:26 +0000

The figures will be perfect to use as “Barbie” figures for the Toy Story line. You can recreate the “I’m a married Spud scene”.

By: ReadWithMeaning

ReadWithMeaning — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:34:15 +0000

I like the new sets, particularly the Cafe! Interesting elements.

As for what I would do with the Friends figures? Well, they are all going to go bald – love those hairpieces! Friends like these are hair today, gone tomorrow.

Yes, I am trying too hard, kind of like Lego.
-Mezba

By: emummy

emummy — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:53:26 +0000

Friends scale Polly Pocket

By: xeagar

xeagar — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:39:06 +0000

Hmmm. My 11 year old daughter would be much more interested in your space ship than in any of these sets. I think the Friends line is still pandering. My daughter loves minifigs, she always asks for the collectible minifigs in the blind packs, so I don’t see the new figures as very enticing. I guess I’ll have to let her decide.

By: jeanniez

jeanniez — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:12:21 +0000

My daughters are already Lego fans and are looking forward to these sets. They were already using Legos to make houses for their other toys so these will fit in just nice.
As for what to do with the dolls, they will no doubt get to ride in my husband’s Galaxy Explorer (It looks like they will fit!) from time to time.

By: pirateplunder

pirateplunder — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:28:46 +0000

A Human Centipede