If you’re new to the LEGO hobby, one of the first things most want to do is create a signature minifigure (sigfig) of themselves. We wondered, how easy is that to do, especially if you’re a woman, or person of colour? To answer, we (or rather, our interns) looked at… Continue reading
It’s almost time for BrickCon, and like last year, we’re hosting a collaborative build! Many thanks to WBI members Kat Sipe (@drkatbuilds) and Naomi Takeuchi (@brickanista) for coordinating everything. Interested in participating? Naomi explains how to join below: 1) We’ll be using tan plates for the bottom of the aquarium… Continue reading
It’s time for another contest! We recently reached 500 members in our Facebook group, so we asked our members how to celebrate in a contest. One suggestion to build what WBI means to you, and another was having a build of no more than 500 pieces. So we’re going to… Continue reading
by Stephanie Taylor In the first half of our Disney Princess analysis, we looked at Disney Princess sets. We conclude the analysis by taking a closer look at characters in these sets and how they’ve been portrayed in minidoll form. After looking at the sets themselves, the second category… Continue reading
If you’ve been on social media at all over the course of the last few months, you’ve undoubtedly seen the ads for The Periodic Table of LEGO Colors. Last month, our friends from We Love What You Build sent us one of the periodic tables to check out. This is… Continue reading
by Stephanie Taylor As a building toy that generally markets towards children, it makes perfect sense that LEGO would want to partner with Disney. Afterall, Walt Disney himself said “I make them [films] for the child in all of us”, which is eerily similar to one of LEGO’s most recent… Continue reading
Four to one. That’s the ratio of male to female actors included in the June 2020 analysis of “Which Actor has the most minifigures?” on Brickset. The article profiles actors, both live action and voice, who have more than two minifigures of themselves as any character they’ve played. According to… Continue reading
In a previous article, we looked at people of color (POC) intellectual property (IP) minifigures. Next, we will be looking at how gender is treated in IP minifigures. IP minifigures are usually marketed as parts of sets in our favorite stories such as Star Wars or Harry Potter, so we… Continue reading
For most of LEGO’s time creating IP (intellectual property) minifigures, they have been the only figures that were in human skin tones, as all other LEGO minifigures are built with the classic LEGO yellow skin. Because these IP minifigs are the only source of skin toned LEGO figures and because… Continue reading
The latest in the highly popular LEGO Ideas theme is 21326 Winnie the Pooh. This was a favourite of mine as a child and I was very excited at the chance to build this set. Many thanks to LEGO for providing a review copy of this set to WBI. I… Continue reading
