How to buy minifigures in bulk?

[Bobo The Bear]

Hello!

After lurking on this site for about 2 years, I finally decided to make a MOC with my sons and need some help from the community.

We need upwards of 20 or so minifigures each in tan and black. Torso prints don't matter as they'll be covered up. Legs can't have prints on them.

We've been scouring brickset and peeron for appropriate minifigs to check on Brinklink, but I'm hoping someone knows an easier way.

Here's a good complete minifig for black: . Any of the Lego Police minifigs will work due to ease of availability I'm guessing. A pure black minifig would work but I have no idea how to look for one. Ditto for tan.

That minifig head works good for our purposes. Dark grey/black hands would be ideal (something like this: ) but if I can't find something better, we'll go with that one.

We're trying to set a budget of about US$2 a minifig (ideally cheaper). So I thought about buying the minifig pieces separately.

I found black and tan legs easy enough searching for 970c00 on Brinklink:

We're stumped on how to search for torsos with arms.

We did come across this index from peeron:

I guess we could just scroll through all 900+ and look them up on Bricklink, but again, I'm hoping someone knows an easier way.

I'd appreciate any help or suggestions, thank you!

Note: All links removed by me, new members can't post them.

[LuxorV]

You could check the PickABrick section (link so IT, but you can change the region to yours) on LEGO.com. I see they have black and tan legs, an all black torso and black head; nothing for tan torso and head, though.

[Bobo The Bear]

PAB, of course! Thank you!

We found the perfect minifig head, and at $0.25 each the price is good.

Black legs, $0.45 each. I can't seem to find tan legs, unless Lego lists it as a different color?

Black torso with skeleton/rib cage torso or Ninjago with black hands, $0.60 each. Can't find anything in tan either.

That brings our black minifig to $1.30. Fantastic!

Thank you LuxorV :) Need to track down tan now.

[Hobbestimus]

Try searching eBay for "Lego Torso Lot" or "Lego Leg Lot". You can often stock up on pieces this way.

Good luck.