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!

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This is exactly the kind of post this community is for. You’re couldn’t be more wrong, take my upvotes you incorrect bastard!

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They are referred to as Minifigures by Lego themselves. https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/minifigures

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Lego is entitled to be incorrect.

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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.

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Pretty sure the inventor of the “gif” stated that it’s supposed to be pronounced “jif” but he too is completely wrong.

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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.

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Their old CEO pronounced it correctly, it’s the new guy who’s dumb

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Your stance is entirely reasonable and I support it.

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I was always partial to “Lego guys” myself.

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That is also acceptable.

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Lego dudes

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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.

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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

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