What's the worst thing you've done to get a minifig?

[dark1san]

Collectable minifigs, or the one's in sets?

I've gone into stores and seen packets slit open, and parts taken out, never whole figures, just parts. Have any of you done anything devious like this? Or even gone and buy a set, open it up, take out the minifigures, reseal package and return it?

[The Blue Brick]

Ive stolen a couple of minifigures from a friend , and then secretly put a couple of mine to his collection. The funny thing is that about a couple of months ago he gave me his whole collection of minifigures which included about 200 minifigures from sets. Most of them were mixed and didnt have the original torsos and heads but i got them fixed now. Also he had many black skinned basketball minifigures and collectible minifigures from the first series. I got 8 zombies from the deal. He only gave these to me because he said lego was too childish and he knew i loved minifigures. I said thank you and told him I stole a couple of figs from him and he said," really i stole a couple of yours too." We both laughed it off and it turned out the jango fett i thought i lost he had all along. It was too bad that he didnt give me his brick collection. He said he sold the giant box at a yard sale for 30 bucks.Then he bought candy with most of the money. I was so sad but thats the worst i have done to get a minifigure.

Edited July 24, 2011 by The Blue Brick

[Lego Wargammer]

what a horrible discussion

to answer the op; nothing illegal

[Commander Adama]

I have been a good lad,I have never done nothing like that before.

I when I was younger used to hint towards buying sets.(about 10 years ago)

I once saw somebody drop a two pound and picked it up to buy a CMF packet (that was around 6 months ago)

[Sandy]

I might as well confess that I took a rare minifig torso from my previous workplace at the kindergarten. Stealing from kids is just plain wrong, yeah I know, but it's not like they even knew it was missing from among those many boxes of LEGO they had to play with. And I'd never take any kid's personal belongings, even though they often brought their newly gained LEGO figs to the daycare with them.

I aliken this "theft" equal to taking a pencil from your workplace. My work just has the benefit of having heaps of LEGO at hand - as badly mangled and broken as they are after having hundreds of kids playing with them over the years.

[Canada_7]

I guess I'm not as crazy about minifigures than some people are. Me personally, after building the 10175 Vader's TIE Advanced I felt it lacking without an actual Darth Vader minifigure being inside the cockpit. Didn't feel like purposely buying a whole new set just so I could get Darth Vader so I went on eBay and just bought one. Was about $18 Canadian shipping included. Not really "a lot" but I would normally not purposely buy a minifigure separately like that.

Edited July 24, 2011 by Canada_7

[Hoboman]

So far I have not done anything like this. But I have paid way too much for a minifigure just because I wanted it.

But to be clear, I am not judging those who have done stuff as I think we all have weak moments and I have done my fair share outside of Lego.

[krystalKING]

So far I have not done anything like this. But I have paid way too much for a minifigure just because I wanted it.

But to be clear, I am not judging those who have done stuff as I think we all have weak moments and I have done my fair share outside of Lego.

I have done the exact same thing, with ashoka tano. (Did I spell that right?)

12.99 off of ebay, I didn't want to spend 90.00 dollars on an at-te for that one minifigure.

[Professor Flitwick]

Most I've done is just trade some of my doubles to my cousin. Helped us widen our minifig collection, and helped me to cut down on having twenty Harry Potters.

I might as well confess that I took a rare minifig torso from my previous workplace at the kindergarten. Stealing from kids is just plain wrong, yeah I know, but it's not like they even knew it was missing from among those many boxes of LEGO they had to play with. And I'd never take any kid's personal belongings, even though they often brought their newly gained LEGO figs to the daycare with them.

I aliken this "theft" equal to taking a pencil from your workplace. My work just has the benefit of having heaps of LEGO at hand - as badly mangled and broken as they are after having hundreds of kids playing with them over the years.

Why do I suddenly have visions of you pushing these children out of the way so you can be the first to play with the Lego?

[22kane]

I was in a Target about 50 miles from my home town and I noticed they had a whole rack of series 4 ( about a month after they were released) and several people were crowding it. I was attempting to get close but the prospective buyers were almost nudging me out of the way so that I couldn't grab any. Each person had a basket with them and they were just grabbing handfuls of them. By the time they were done there was only about 5 packs left which turned out to be 3 soccer players and 2 werewolves. One of the hoarders was an older man, probably in his late 50's or early 60's, and I followed him toward the register area. He wasn't buying anything else, just the massive amount of minifigures he had just hogged. I blended in with the crowd of shoppers as I followed him out into the parking lot thinking maybe I'll make some kind of deal with him. At the last minute something came over me and I started running toward him frantically. I stuck out my elbow and hit him in the head from behind and his large bag of minifigures hit the ground with him. I scooped up the bag and ran like Forest Gump until I couldn't run anymore. When I finally caught my breath... just kidding. It seemed like this post wasn't going to go anywhere. Sorry, I had to do it.

[autobrick]

I was in a Target about 50 miles from my home town and I noticed they had a whole rack of series 4 ( about a month after they were released) and several people were crowding it. I was attempting to get close but the prospective buyers were almost nudging me out of the way so that I couldn't grab any. Each person had a basket with them and they were just grabbing handfuls of them. By the time they were done there was only about 5 packs left which turned out to be 3 soccer players and 2 werewolves. One of the hoarders was an older man, probably in his late 50's or early 60's, and I followed him toward the register area. He wasn't buying anything else, just the massive amount of minifigures he had just hogged. I blended in with the crowd of shoppers as I followed him out into the parking lot thinking maybe I'll make some kind of deal with him. At the last minute something came over me and I started running toward him frantically. I stuck out my elbow and hit him in the head from behind and his large bag of minifigures hit the ground with him. I scooped up the bag and ran like Forest Gump until I couldn't run anymore. When I finally caught my breath... just kidding. It seemed like this post wasn't going to go anywhere. Sorry, I had to do it. my mom got scared, and said, 'You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.' I whistled for a cab and when it came near The license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought, 'Nah, forget it. Yo, holmes to Bel-Air!' I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie, 'Yo homes smell ya later!' Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air

Fixed that for you; it's the proper way to end a story like that.

Anyways the worst minifig was pay too much for a couple of minifigures (Jessie+Rex+Hamn+Bullseye). I don't remember what the total cost was, but with shipping it ended up being a lot more than I intended. All I need are Zurg, Twitch and Stinky Pete to finish off my Toy Story minifig collection.

[Hinckley]

Ha ha.

No.

We won't be perpetuating funny stories about stealing LEGO figs. Sorry. Go talk about it somewhere else.