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LEGO Friends vs. regular minifigs comparison!

by Thita (admin) on December 13, 2011

If you have been following the news about the upcoming LEGO Friends line, you know the sets will come with some very different looking LEGO figures. They are skinny, curvy and very girly. Nothing like the square-ish, stocky LEGO minifigures we are used to. 😀

➡ See the upcoming LEGO Friends sets here: 2012 LEGO Friends Sets

➡ Close-up of the LEGO Friends figures here: 2012 LEGO Friends Figures

For some people it was love at first site with these cuties, for others it was instant suspicion, disappointment, and even hatred. The burning and defining question everyone had though is how the LEGO Friends figures compare to regular LEGO minifigures? How would they look in the same LEGO creation as regular LEGO minifigs? Are they taller? Shorter? And in any way compatible?

So wait no more! A Brickset member from France (see original post here) just picked up one of the #3931 LEGO Friends Emma’s Splash Pool sets – now why would the French have to have these first? 🙄

Here is what she says: “How does the LEGO Friends fig compare? I don’t know Polly Pocket or even Belville, I know Playmobil. The figs are a cross between Playmobil and LEGO. Emma’s got big, big eyes, a sweet face, a raised button nose (!), with a pointed chin (!!). Her hair is rubbery and very detailed with a braid. The LEGO Friends fig’s hair is interchangeable with regular minifigs. None of the other parts are (torso, legs, head).”

Regular LEGO minifigure vs. LEGO Friends figure.

“Beautiful printing on her shirt with a metallic flowery graphic, and her shoes are printed, too. Emma is the same height as the LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 5 Cleopatra, so look at any LEGO female with a wedge-piece skirt and there’s your LEGO Friends fig scale.”

‘The LEGO Friends fig comes in the same number of pieces as a regular minifig; head, torso, legs, hair. Her proportions are the most dramatic difference – she is elongated, with longer arms and longer legs, and skinny like hell. Full articulation everywhere – head spins, arms turn, torso bows – except for one key area: her legs are like Playmobil figs, fully immobile, you can’t do a split like you can with the regular LEGO minifigs.”

: LEGO Friends figure and regular LEGO minifigs with fully interchangeable hair/headgear.

So, there you have it! What do you think? 😉

Here are the links to other posts about the 2012 LEGO Friends sets:

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LEGO SUPER HEROES website now open!

by Thita (admin) on December 12, 2011

in LEGO Super Heroes

The LEGO SUPER HEROES website is now up and running – at least to some extent. The full site will be launched in January of 2012, but you can already do a few fun things. This is just getting us closer to the official release of the much anticipated LEGO SUPER HEROES line! 😀

One thing you can have fun with is to try to identify the 16 characters from the LEGO SUPER HEROES line just by their shadows. There is also a quiz to test your knowledge of the various super heroes. Questions like “Where was Batman born?”, “Who is the sidekick of LEGO Batman?” and “Who is the archenemy of Batman?”

The LEGO SUPER HEROES website is now live! Click on the image to get there!

Below are the the LEGO SUPER HEROES characters once you guess them correctly. There is also another version of the henchman (just a different face), but he didn’t fit in my layout so I left him out. 🙄