Or why my wife is awesome for not killing me.

Today I picked up some minifigures. Turns out, 58 to be exact… It seems according to what I found online there should 60 per display, so I ended up with a fairly undisturbed box which is what I set out for. I had set out to feel up the packages and see if I could distinguish what was in them and try for 2 of each, but I quickly realized that there wasn’t going to be much luck in doing that. I got fed up, picked up the display and walked it to an open register. TRU seemed cool with it, as one of the employees looked at me and asked “Are you buying the whole box?” to my response of “yes” I got “right on.”

I attempted to pick up a box that looked like it had been minimally tampered with. Now that I have them all open, yes, all of them, I found some interesting stats. I could have used the barcode method and left some sealed up, but that’s just not the point of Lego in my mind. Yes a set will get put on the shelf, but the rest are fair game for play.

The very first figure I opened, was the skater. I kind of groaned, partially because this was my second least favorite from the series, partially because it reminds me of the punks who live on my road. I also took note that the very last 3 I opened were the Crash Test Dummy, all in a row. Of the 58 figures purchased, I was able to only assemble 2 full sets of figures. I wonder if the 2 missing would have completed a third, but the numbers suggest maybe not.

As usual, Lego seems to be down on the apparent female minifigures, only 6 total figures were of female gender. Meaning in this case, I ended up with 3 of the only 2 females available in this release. Though some could argue the zombie really is an accurate portrayal of Avril Lavigne.

The most abundant, 5 of each, in this case were the divers, dummies and ninjas, oddly enough the name of Fox’s next show to replace something of Joss Whedon’s. The rest of the numbers aren’t that interesting to me. Believe it or not, I’m not a stats guy. I was almost done when I realized I should have been recording each opening to be full on nerd. I did keep track by column in the display however. Left to right, columns a-c in the numbers bellow. Funds depending, and wife permitting, I hope to try this each time a series comes out. It’s a bit overkill for sure, but one can never have enough minifigs, and it’s the only way I can figure of walking out with a display box too.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go stop the robots from causing more havoc with the cavemen.