LEGO Star Wars Has A Minifigure Problem!

Our second step in this series. There's quite a bit to go over, so sit tight.

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[neptunemacaw]

the gunship could of also included pilots. we haven't seen a phase 2 pilot sense the head hunter. that mold was so sick.

[harrisonspooner]

I am so glad we have someone like you to thoroughly explain the problem with Lego Star Wars minifigures. We almost never seem to get a good set that meets every mark, ( Great quantity and quality of minifigures, Great build, and Good value/price). One of these is always missing, and because of that I haven't bought a set this year, and I was hoping to buy something in August but now I'm not sure.

[ThomasKnip]

LEGO just knows that - with all loudly expressed criticism - AFOLs will just buy the sets. So why add more value if you don't have to? They know their customers,

[DilbertChan]

It's nothing short of incredible how stingy LEGO can be when they pinch pennies in a LEGO Star Wars set. On the scale they work with, including cloth pieces in a $20-$40 costs them pennies. Yet, other than capes, they have chosen to omit them outside of $100+ sets(except in the case of Clones. They don't get cloth pieces anymore, period, unless it's Captain Rex. Even then they cheaped out and printed the waist cape).

They used to do it. They CAN do it. It's not inflation preventing them from including cloth pieces- it's greed. Pure unadulterated greed.

[robotigerproductions]

You really are spot on with the "added value" section. Great video.

[americathecountryball]

Sad to see you didn’t say “The Justifier really didn’t JUSTIFY its price”

[devincayton]

My biggest complaint is I hate it when they give us a vehicle with not enough clones, droids, stormtroopers etc to fully man it. I get it, they do that so you’ll buy a battle pack or something but just give me more basic variants to have a fully kitted vehicle.

[D-Grizzly_The_Spitter]

I congratulate you on being able to refrain from making a Justifier pun

[dominickbadial]

My biggest complaint with Lego Star Wars minfigs is the waist capes. It costs them less then a 1/10 of a cent and should be placed in sets that require them.

[GreenNinj]

I wish that you also mentioned in detail how bad the quality of figures is. Inaccuracies, lack of waistcapes and shouldercapes, most figures not even having leg printing or coming with plain legs when they need dual molding. The gunship is a good example: Instead of giving us a new Padme look, they recycle an old one and give her no dual molded legs although she clearly wears boots. Fox armor is inaccurate, pink instead of white and has no waistcape. The set is not worth its price, doesnt have enough figures and 40% of them are lackluster, all of that considered I dont see how this is a budget issue, unless the budget for this 150$ set was 50$.

[aslamc]

As a minifig-focused collector, I couldn’t agree more. I want more figs than we’ve been getting (and more builds that aren’t just ships; I want buildings and settings, something I can keep on a table and place figs and it’ll make a nice thing to look at).

[LLegaLLizeITxC]

Lego really is greedy on generic troops/grunts. Like in that Moff gideon vs Pre vizsla set - The scene has 3 pretorian guards, why only put 2 in the set? it's like a few cents in production costs

[Ruune__]

Lego Star Wars would be saved if they gave us Ben Quadrinaros smh

[uhsokka]

the point about adding more troops is something i agree with, even as an adult. id love to have gotten enough 212th troopers to fill out the at te and gunship. but you know lego does it so they can sell more battlepacks. money money money.

[MegaRayquaza]

So refreshing to see educated takes about the issues with the modern Lego era. So many just complain and take the reasons given as excuses for Lego being lazy. Feels nice to see someone actually recognizing themes have a budget with the amount of new prints they can introduce each year and because of that you instead offer alternatives like including more repeat figures across sets or in the same set, when it applies.
Keep up with the great content!

[peterpolus]

Thank you for making this video and making it so well argumented. I'm a Lego star wars fan and the pricing, quality and minifigure distribution issues are frustrating, it's important to talk about them.

[timebomb]

That minifigs per interval graph was really great, and a great way to communicate how many minifigs should be included at any given price point.
I do wonder what your opinion on UCS sets is though, say like a $500 UCS set that comes with over 4, 000 pieces. Would you still include that interval considering that would come out to be about 26 minifigures??
Or would it be that the interval doesn't matter with UCS sets because those are made primarily for display and not play??

[BMW-sdnn]

Amazing music choice btw, Metroid Prime is the GOAT.

[sonsofanarchy]

As a Lego Marvel fan, you should be glad that almost all of the Star Wars figures has leg printing😭

[BAUFmanBricks]

Well done, a solid systematic argument that doesn’t simply complain (although warranted) but brings facts and examples