They're not "Minifigs," they're "Lego Men." Even the female ones. I feel very strongly about this.
Also, they've sucked ever since they stopped having just basic smiley faces.
Come at me!
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Great post, worst opinion I've seen here in a while!
This is exactly the kind of post this community is for. You're couldn't be more wrong, take my upvotes you incorrect bastard!
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.
Jraphics Interchange Format. 🤷♂️
Competing with J-Pheg
Ngl I assumed this (pronouncing the letters as letters) was the correct way, because I thought that the Ti had something to do with a little element called Titanium, and last I checked that is how one read symbols on the periodic table.
That's the best part. It is a reference to titanium.
I read the Ti in the periodic table as “titanium”, not as “tie”... I mean, if you don't read them as the names of the elements, what would you even read, say, Pb or Hg as..?
"Pee Bee", "Haitch Gee"?
Yes, of course, but I was trying to point out how claiming it means titanium doesn't really work as an excuse to pronounce it “tie”; it's either “tee eye” or “titanium”, but “tie” makes no sense.
Right but you wouldn't say "the symbol for lead is 'peeb'" you'd say "...P b."
Yes, exactly. It's either tee eye or titanium, but I can't see how it can possibly be tie.
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
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.
Minifigs are smashed up and used to create minifignewtons, which are the subsidiary units of fignewtons per square metre, also known as a FigPascal; a measurement of fig-based soft biscuitness.
Ok but how many bald eagles per football field is that?
Ask ShatGPT.
2.732 Firkins
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
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!
Lego mans*
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.
Blasphemer! That's like saying 'traffics'. Are you trolling? ;-)
If half the world can say “maths”, we can say “legos”.
As long as no one is allowed to say "Pokemons", I agree with that compromise.
One must capture all Pokemons
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.
Sounds like you’re not with them on any of it tbh.
I'm with them on the lego part...
Damn, you're absolutely right. What a thing to remember.
There's nothing to remember here, the dude just didn't know what they were called as a kid. They've been minifigs since their creation in the late 70s.
Yes there is. At least in in German everyone used to call them "Lego Männchen", which means "little men".
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
Who calls them minifigs?
Lots of people devoted to Legos. Especially the ones who hate that I just wrote 'Legos.'
The Lego company, since around 1980. It's been the official name since their creation.
The Lego group themselves, for one
As someone who will go to any length for a pun, certainly if it's a physical one, my fig jam will be more tasty due to this change
I believe you mean men jam.
I didn't, but now I do
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:
I just don't think simple smiley-faces would work with all the different ideas, though:
I like these ones far better than the hands-in-pocket guy, and infinitely more than the must've-been-4-inch figures in the old lunar rover set.
I agree that hands-in-pocket guy sucked.
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!
I agree with you, and thus have to downvote?
Why not Lego person instead of Lego man?
I don't understand the question. There are girl Lego Men and boy Lego Men.
Sure, that's true, but using Lego boys and Lego girls and just Lego people in general works too and is simpler, right?
I'm sure explaining that "Man is more like human in this case and not a gender or sex" is fun sometimes but ideas are evolving with more people and eventually it will just look too much like "Man is dogwhistle for subjugating women under men by calling them men".
Is this bad connotation that more people will see over time worth holding onto the word Man as meaning everybody when we could just evolve our usage of language?
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.
Yeah, this one definitely deserves to be unpopular. They've always been minifigs, they'll always be minifigs, you don't mess with perfection.