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Right, and of course some conditions would mean a stick was fine one day, but another you may need a crutch or a chair.

Amen. Same as - It’s *the law* that you must answer a banana if a kid hands it to you as a ‘telephone’ ;) Nice idea. Don’t see it catching on though.

I dunno what was gayest, the pirates with their bushy moustaches, Paradisa, or the Drag Queen make up on those early female figures.

I mean I don’t. Except when I do. But you wouldn’t understand.

This is why I’m a dog person. My dog never makes me call the fire brigade out!

Me too. I was promised Dragons, Spaceships & a world full of men!

always said Miss Anne Thrope would be my drag name! 💅🏻

They will be getting jobs and being allowed to vote next! Then what?! heck - Kylie Minogue played a car mechanic on Neighbours way back in the 1980s. With a huge frizzy perm! lego took a while to catch up. It’s genuinely great, although I appreciate it may be ‘unpopular’ with *some* members, to see equality and diversity being better represented across all Lego themes, products and merchandising. It matters so much, for those who it matters to.

Men are so underrepresented! What colour did you go for Thorsten?

Totally not my call to make, and I like to hear from those who are identifying as having disabilities and learn what they prefer - but in my experience there’s a lot of flexibility about specific language to use or not use. I usually use the rule that if someone asks me not to use it, then I respect that - but just think it’s something we all vary with in cultural and language terms. Lego *did* produce Braille bricks recently - but I can’t remember what those were for - think they might have been specifically for schools etc. I see Lego also making an effort of people not just being defined by their ability, so for example we have someone using a wheelchair on a skate ramp, someone blind riding a horse, and a wheelchair athlete. I think that’s totally the right way to do it.

Faith is good, I grant you. But my favourite George Michael track is probably Outside - it’s a total bop. Oh, and I already have them all, thanks.

There’s definitely a concerted move by lego to include more ‘colourful’ hairpieces. Great move as far as I’m concerned, they’re popular with kids, fun, and certainly when I live, coloured hair is very common - so more people will ‘see’ themselves and their families/friends as minifigs.

Thankfully they all have natural bright yellow skin tones!

You know how it is, post battle of five armies weight …

Lol. And oversized eagles!

That’s kind of the point with interchangeable parts though 🤷🏽‍♂️

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Dude, you need a new hobby.

Next people will be changing the hairpieces around!

Ah sorry. Yes agree with all of that @MAB - I mean it’s hardly as if minifigs have human proportions anyway! I love the idea of interchangeable heads being more common … saw someone once suggest in CMFs that we should have dual sided heads with one ‘male’ and one ‘female’ to give some figures more flexibility or interpretation.

What’s confusing?

Crossing our little piggies for that one.

Friends set 41722 pics have shown up - not only is there a visually impaired minidoll with a white cane and assistance dog, but she’s riding a horse! 🙌🏼 Not at all. Statistically there are many people living with disabilities, something like 1 in every 5 people in the U.K., for example.

I agree it’s so good to see these figures and mobility aids being normalised across sets and themes. Representation matters so much. Would love to have seen some sort of revisit to the ‘teamGB’ Olympics or sports CMF series including some Paralympic athletes! I wonder what an ‘everyday’ prosthetic leg would look like in Lego terms? One of the impactful things is showing differences, but we also know that many eg prosthetics are so good as to be not readily visible. Similarly, there are so many invisible disabilities. I think that’s why the prosthetic leg is a ‘running blade’ - to be clear what it is. I think that’s also why the hearing impaired figure has a clearly printed hearing aid - despite so many heading aids being virtually invisible, and the fact that minifigures don’t have ears!

The standard wheelchair also came in red / green in the skate park set!