Comments on: Dissecting the new LEGO Friends mini-dolls [Guest Post]

By: joeledition

joeledition — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:28:59 +0000

Very interesting! I love the customized fig.

About “The tab that connects the waist to the torso”, I was able to make it fit under a round 2×2 brick (I put a picture on this page to illustrate : http://www.joeledition.org/jblog/lego-friends.html).

By: tensor

tensor — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:15:27 +0000

This was both very fascinating and nearly psychopathic in execution :)

The only gripe I have with the figs is the lack of wrist articulation.

By: Catsy

Catsy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:25:01 +0000

Thanks for the highlight, Andrew. For all the criticisms I have of the bad design choices in these figs–and there are many!–they have opened up a lot of new options for customizers, and even gotten people who weren’t into customizing–like Mike, for instance–to give it a shot.

I just wish in retrospect that I’d taken something other than a crappy iPhone photo for this. ;)

By: Ochre Jelly

Ochre Jelly — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:57:11 +0000

…atrocity-tastic!

Yeah, I was kinda bummed to see that the legs didn’t hinge independently. It’ll be interesting to see if the custom fig market will start taking advantange of these new models.