Also, they’ve sucked ever since they stopped having just basic smiley faces.
Come at me!
Great post, worst opinion I’ve seen here in a while!
They are referred to as Minifigures by Lego themselves. https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/minifigures
Lego is entitled to be incorrect.
Nvidia (who makes the RTX 4080Ti graphics card) can tell me the Ti is pronounced “tie” all they want. They are wrong. It’s “tee eye”. I will die on this hill.
Pretty sure the inventor of the “gif” stated that it’s supposed to be pronounced “jif” but he too is completely wrong.
Your stance is entirely reasonable and I support it.
Their old CEO pronounced it correctly, it’s the new guy who’s dumb
I was always partial to “Lego guys” myself.
That is also acceptable.
Lego dudes
Our advertising policy requires us to call them “generic Danish interlocking children’s building set” men. 😆
But yeah, agree. I think they were better when they were just generic yellow humanoids with smiley faces and assorted wigs/hats.
I don’t think as I child I ever ascribed them a gender of their own; they were always the player character in the world’s I’d build. e.g. if I was playing with them, they were boys and they were girls when my sister was playing with them.
FWIW, one of the best parts of the Foosball Table set (21337) is the shear number of wigs and faces it comes with so you can totally customize your players. It comes with 22 “generic Danish interlocking children’s building set” men and 44 unique wigs/heads. It’s pretty cool imo
Lego are bricks, even the people. Minifigs are bullshit impersonations of Lego.
I can respect this stance when put angrily like this.
Every debate is improved with David Mitchell style angry logic.
It certainly works on Would I Lie To You.
Flying Squid, I usually like your posts and comments but today. Today you’ve made me angry.
Whatever. You’re a “BigFig.” You won’t even fit with regular Lego blocks.
Leave my Dollar Store Chinese knock offs alone!
I don’t rememeber ‘men’ being prominent in the packaging and we just called the people ‘legos’ like the rest of the sets. So i’m half with you on them being kegos and not minifigs, but all of the people in the sets are just legos.
Sounds like you’re not with them on any of it tbh.
I’m with them on the lego part…
Yeah, but you have to be able to say the difference between Lego blocks (yes blocks, be happy I’m capitalizing Lego) and Lego men.
Can’t think of a situation where that distinction would be necessary. Like for the castle set we called them knights or soldiers, police were police, that guy was that guy, etc.
Lego mans*
Also they’ve sucked ever since they stopped having basic smiley faces
Well now you’re just trolling, sir. The faces used for the Legoredo (western) sets are amazing. I particularly like the grinning Mexican with gold teeth. I call him Sanchez.
I don’t know why I have to keep explaining this.
There are girl Lego Men and boy Lego Men.
I was so enraged by the face thing, I didn’t even read that part lol
Was always Lego figures for me. Or whatever specialty the figure I wanted had.
You only like the plain faces? Man. I used to take a soldering iron to the beat up ones so I could create mutants to attack the ‘good guys’…
What- I ask you- what is the point of throwing a Lego space ship at the wall if your space man isn’t going to smile when he’s dead?
Compromise: Minimen
I feel like this would be a popular opinion amongst the Lemmy general demographic but then some psychopath below proved the opposite to be true.
I find the use of “Legos” more triggering, the plural is Lego ffs.
Wouldn’t you add an “e?”
Legoes
No, that is equally abhorrent. It is a brand name, you don’t add anything to pluralise.
Roombas
Teslas
Burger Kings
Band-Aids
I do agree that “Legos” is wrong, but it’s not because you don’t pluralize brand names in this way.
Well I like all the new helmets, hats and hairs ¯|(ツ)/¯
Those are all fine. But they’re still all supposed to have vacant smiley faces like the kind you’d find in a smiley face circle on plain yellow heads.
This is not okay:
You also probably hated the computer slant bricks too, or at least refused to use them on the outside of your spaceship… How boring.
How dare you! Space Legos were the best Legos when they were just Space Legos and not Star Wars or whatever.
Star Wars toys should have stayed with Kenner.
Oh yes, I’m going to piss people off with my strong toy opinions I am!
Who calls them minifigs?
Lots of people devoted to Legos. Especially the ones who hate that I just wrote ‘Legos.’
The Lego group themselves, for one
