Adding Minifig Categories

[Orion Pobursky]

I think we need a few more Minifig categories and would like community input.

I'd like to add:
Minifig Upper => for Torso Assemblies
Minifig Lower => for Leg Assemblies
Minifig Complete => for Minifig that come as complete assemblies (e.g. Smart Brick minifigs)

(we should probably also extend these to Figure as well)

If you have an alternate suggestion remember that categories are limited to 2 words.

[Jeff Jones]

the "statue" figures like the hordika minifigs and sebulba what would they be?

minifig complete or minifig body?

[Manfred Schaefer]

I think we need a few more Minifig categories and would like community input.

I'd like to add:
Minifig Upper => for Torso Assemblies
Minifig Lower => for Leg Assemblies
Minifig Complete => for Minifig that come as complete assemblies (e.g. Smart Brick minifigs)

(we should probably also extend these to Figure as well)

If you have an alternate suggestion remember that categories are limited to 2 words.

You mean we should use “Figure” instead of “Minifig”?
That would mean, for example:
Figure Head,
Figure Torso,
Figure Arm,
Figure Hand,
Figure Hip,
Figure Leg,
Figure Upper for complete upper bodies,
Figure Lower for complete lower bodies,
Figure Complete for complete figures.

For the figures Jeff mentioned, we could use “Figure Statue.”
I wouldn’t use “Complete” or “Body” for these figures, since “Complete” refers to something assembled, and “Body” tends to refer to an upper or lower body.

For “Minifig,” I’d stick with the classic modern LEGO minifigure; for large figures like the Hulk, I’d use “Bigfig” as the category; and for the Friends figures, I’d use “Dollfig.”

[Orion Pobursky]

While I love specificity, I think this is a bit overkill to have a category for each individual component. As far a Minifig itself, that's not going away. Figure is what we use for non-minifigs.

Since the torso assemblies are new, I want to break them out into their own category.  That's the primary reason for this post. I figured that if torso assemblies get a category then leg assemblies should too and Philo pointed out the new Smart Brick minifigs come as a complete unit so we should account for those as well.

[N. W. Perry]

Would heads also belong in the Upper category? Would make sense, as you can't get much more "upper" than that. (And also since heads were traditionally manufactured as part of the torso assembly.)

[Orion Pobursky]

No. Upper will only be for torso assemblies.

[Gerald Lasser]

it is a good idea to seperate the assemblies from the rest, the minifig category is currently at 4300 parts, that IS a lot. amd makes browsing through in LDCAD tideou, although the Minifig part bins already seperate them to a certain extent.

A seperate "Head" section might be good as well, we do have 500 standard heads and around 240 specialized ones.


There would still be a lot left in the Minifig category, i.e. the single pieces of the assemblies. splitting it into too small items is not good IMHO, e.g. "hands" thoese are not really a lot.

[Orion Pobursky]

We could do Minifig Leg/Head/Torso as well.