When you make a sigfig, what colour parts do you choose? The Women’s Brick Initiative (WBI) has updated the survey we conducted two years ago. Some people use yellow, some use other skin tones. Some have more than one sigfig in different colours. We published the results of the 2020… Continue reading
When examining the animals in varying LEGO sets, two different methods were used in comparing animals in sets made predominantly for girls and women and those made for predominantly boys and men. The first method is defining each animal as having “realistic” or “unrealistic” colors, based on the actual colors… Continue reading
Gender bias and discrimination could not be clearer when looking at the LEGO CMFs. Looking at and analyzing CMFs from series 1 through series 20, the representation of girls and women can be seen throughout time. In this article, we will compare and contrast the difference in names of female… Continue reading
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
Using Brickset, LEGO Designer videos, instruction booklet features, LinkedIn and Google, we’ve begun compiling a list of women LEGO creatives and designers and the products they’ve worked on. Some of these designers have created and maintained their own set lists at Brickset which is why their numbers are (currently) higher and more complete. We would love your assistance in making this list more comprehensive! 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
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
