{"id":11684,"date":"2013-09-21T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11684"},"modified":"2014-04-26T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T07:39:20","slug":"lego-minifigs-series-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=11684","title":{"rendered":"Lego Minifigs: Series 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Lego Minifigs Series 11 came out about a month ago.\u00a0 Using the time honoured ‘bag-feeling’ method, Jen and I have picked up 14 out of 16 characters so far.\u00a0 We’re still missing Grandma and Blues Brother.\u00a0 We’ve been pretty successful with our blind buys so far – we haven’t bought a single duplicate in the entire series.<\/p>\n

I have to say, this has probably been one of the more creatively uninteresting releases from Lego in the Minifig range.\u00a0 Up to now, each new series has had a pretty good mix of entirely new characters and characters that compliment the theme of past releases.<\/p>\n

Series 11 feels like the Mortal Kombat 3 of the Minifig collection.\u00a0 There is a hell of a lot of palate swapping in there.\u00a0 So we get a female robot who is made from the same mold as Mr Robot, German Preztel Lady to compliment lederhosen guy, gladiator lady to pair up with gladiator dude and a rock climber who is a colour swap of the skydiver guy.<\/p>\n

The best new characters in this series are Female Scientist and the Police Constable.<\/p>\n

The Female Scientist is a welcome progression for Lego who are a tad conservative with how they choose to represent their ladyfigs.\u00a0 They’ve rightfully copped some flack in the past for some pretty dated gender stereotypes that they roll out.\u00a0 Plenty of female minifigs in Legoland are waitresses, bar maids or slathered in pink and purple colours.\u00a0 Scientist Lady on the other hand looks cool as hell and is a character that Lego have never done before.<\/p>\n

As for the Police Constable I love that classic British police officer look from classic movies.\u00a0 The handlebar moustache, that truncheon in his hand.\u00a0 I can just imagine him rocking up and saying “what’s all this then?”<\/p>\n

Series 11 isn’t the worst collection in the series but its probably one of the most boring.\u00a0 Hopefully Lego ramp up the ambition in the next set.\u00a0 If they’re having to release too many palette swapped characters because of the cost of new molds, I’d happily see them slow down from their current run rate of releasing a new set every 4-5 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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