Lego Collectable Minifigs: Stats

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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.

 

 Minifigure

Column A

Column B

Column C

Tot figs of type

Percent of box

 Deep Sea Diver

3

2

0

5

8.62%

 Forestmen

2

1

1

4

6.90%

 Magician

2

1

1

4

6.90%

 Ninja

0

4

1

5

8.62%

 Nurse

0

1

2

3

5.17%

 Skater

1

0

2

3

5.17%

 Robot

3

1

0

4

6.90%

 Space Man

2

2

0

4

6.90%

 Super Wrestler

1

1

0

2

3.45%

 Zombie

2

0

0

2

3.45%

 Tribal Hunter

1

2

0

3

5.17%

 Demolition Dummy

1

1

3

5

8.62%

 Cowboy

0

1

3

4

6.90%

 Caveman

0

2

2

4

6.90%

 Cheerleader

0

0

3

3

5.17%

 Circus Clown

2

1

0

3

5.17%

 

 Total per col

20

20

18

58

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Lego Collectable Minifigs now in US @ TRU

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Started seeing scuttle on the nets that the figures were now available. In calling my local Toys R US they could confirm they had them. For reference, about 58 fit in a firmly packed display box. GOing for luck on the first round, but will use the bar code method (thanks to http://www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=666 ) to fill in any gaps.

Unfortunately all the boxes were already open, messing up my chance to compute some statistics of chance as the boxes come from Lego. I was able to find a box that looked relatively undisturbed, or maybe repacked by an employee.

I’m hoping I have a good start to all 16, but might be looking for others to trade with.

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A Long Way till Home

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It’s been too long since I last built anything. I finally got the chance to build something and had a good time doing it. Again, I had an idea in my head as I began building, and a picture of where I wanted to get. Now of course it doesn’t mean this is exactly as I planned it, since as I build I always make modifications as things become apparent to how they would look better. This one, was purely an exercise in perspective. As I built the palace, to be in the background, it took on a MOC of it’s own. Something I’m rather proud of actually.

Please enjoy the microscale city and palace, that started out as a prop, and became a MOC all on it’s own.




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The Scorpian Deep-space scout

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I built this one some time ago. My wife makes fun of me a little when I build some of this stuff. Not because I’m building (playing) with Lego, but that I come up with a whole back story. I find though, that the MOCs I create that have a back story, usually come out best. As is evident that when Nick came to visit and saw this sitting on the table waiting to be photographed, he kept picking it up and playing with it, saying, this is cool!.

The Scorpian (misspelling intentional) is used as a deep-space heavy scout. What it lacks in size, it gains in venom if you will. Carrying two conventional tipped weapons (up top), as well as one nuclear tipped weapon on it’s under belly, it can deliver a punch before exiting an area at hyperspace speeds.

So yeah, an in depth story for a Saturday afternoon doodle, but when I got thinking about what I was building, I made sure to include details that backed the story up. Essentially ramping up the MOC itself. Anyone else out there who does this sort of stuff find it the same for you?

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