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Analysis of LEGO Disney Princess – Part 2

  By MeganL May 13, 2021 May 15, 2021 Research

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

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Review: Periodic Table of the LEGO Colors

  By MeganL May 5, 2021 May 2, 2021 Set Review

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

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Analysis of LEGO Disney Princess – Part 1

  By MeganL April 22, 2021 April 23, 2021 Research

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

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Which Actors Have the Most Minifigures? A Gender Analysis

  By MeganL April 8, 2021 April 10, 2021 Research

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

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Female Minifigures in lP LEGO Themes

  By MeganL April 1, 2021 April 2, 2021 Research

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

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People of Color representation in IP LEGO themes

  By MeganL March 25, 2021 March 26, 2021 Research

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

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Set Review: 21326 Winnie The Pooh

  By MeganL March 17, 2021 March 17, 2021 Set Review

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

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Minidolls vs. Minifigures – Which Costs More?

  By MeganL March 11, 2021 March 11, 2021 Research

By Emelyn Chiang Introduced in 2012, LEGO minidolls are more intricate versions of the classic LEGO minifigure. They also are more expensive than LEGO minifigures, and fewer minidolls are included in sets of equal value when compared to sets with minifigures. We did a deep dive into the price disparity of… Continue reading

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Celebrating International Women’s Day

  By MeganL March 8, 2021 March 8, 2021 Of Interest

There have been some excellent posts today from all corners of the internet celebrating women in LEGO. We would recommend that you check out Jay’s Brick Blog, whose entry today highlights 50 women LEGO creators everyone should know about (thanks for the shout-out for WBI, Jay! We also love that… Continue reading

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A History of LEGO Catalogs

  By MeganL March 4, 2021 March 3, 2021 Research

Catalogs are published once or twice a year, and especially avid LEGO users can subscribe to the Club Magazines. Catalogs enable users to connect to the LEGO world and keep up to date on exciting sets, like the newest Ninjago or Star Wars collections. LEGO also uses the catalogs as… Continue reading

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