Lego Minis

[Guest 6801328]

My son was building a Lego Star Wars set, and while looking at the little action figure it suddenly occurred to me that what I want, in addition to a pony, is for Lego to sell sets of figures made for fantasy RPGs. Mix and match legs, torsos, heads, hair/helmets, capes, weapons, etc. etc. etc. to create a vast array of figs. Also a variety of bases.

They could package sets by race (Dwarf, Elf, Human) and then do the same thing for monsters.

I realize some of you are really into painted minis, and I admire the work and skill people put into those, and the cartoonish aspect of Lego figures might be a turn-off, but I would TOTALLY use these instead of traditional figures.

Anybody else? If we make enough noise you think they'd do it?

 

[Guest 6801328]

Yes, they do have some one-offs like this dwarf, but I would really want a bunch of parts so I could configure my own, and change it as my character evolves and changes his setup.

Or I could buy their Lord of the Rings/Hobbit sets and cannibalize those pieces, but then you're paying for all the other pieces with the figures thrown in. (Plus there's really only one aesthetic.)

 

[Sunseeker]

You can already go to the LEGO website and "build your own set" and they'll package the pieces and send it to you.

You can also go to third-party sites and pick your individual parts from there.

It's sort of a tossup on which will cost you more, the LEGO site is official but is limited to currently produced parts. 3rd party sites will get you access to more parts, but older and harder to find parts will cost you more money.

LEGO already has medieval fantasy covered, and they've also got their girl-oriented fantasy sets "Elves"? I think.
These sets now have the "new" minifigs

And are also the only sets you can get dragons in, albiet in MLP colors.
But there's some good stuff in those sets for fantasy settings.

 

[Ancalagon]

Legos can also be used to build pretty good battle set. I once had a circular fort the PCs were defending that was about 60 feet in diametre

 

[Bupp]

I run a game with my kids, and they use minifigs for their characters.

These posts are from a few years ago when we started.
https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/lego-minifigs/
https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/2014/10/05/lego-minifigs-in-action/

There are a few third party sites out there that sell individual pieces to customize. Haven't used them in awhile, but we were always happy with https://www.brickforge.com

 

[Satyrn]

There are a few third party sites out there that sell individual pieces to customize. Haven't used them in awhile, but we were always happy with https://www.brickforge.com

That could get real expensive real fast!

Though I guess that's true of minis in general.

 

[Bupp]

That could get real expensive real fast!

Though I guess that's true of minis in general.

It can, but all their stuff was pretty good quality. We can't see any difference between their stuff and actual Lego stuff. Like I said, it's probably been a couple years since we made an order, so take my review with grain of salt. We would only buy pieces for the PCs. If we used minifigs for henchmen or the like, it was usually with extra pieces. Brickforge was usually pretty good with throwing in a few extra pieces as well whenever we had an order over, say, $25. Usually stuff like an extra sword, spear, or odd bit of armor. Probably stuff they were just trying to get rid of. It was easy enough for my three kids to hit if they were all buying stuff. Of course, at the time they were all really into playing with their Legos as well, so they would buy stuff for that as well, not just D&D.

For monsters and such I would just print out paper minis on cardstock. I bought a bag of bases for them at some point that work well with those. They weren't always on the same scale, but we didn't play on a grid either. Just used them to represent general positioning.

 

[Li Shenron]

My son was building a Lego Star Wars set, and while looking at the little action figure it suddenly occurred to me that what I want, in addition to a pony, is for Lego to sell sets of figures made for fantasy RPGs. Mix and match legs, torsos, heads, hair/helmets, capes, weapons, etc. etc. etc. to create a vast array of figs. Also a variety of bases.

They could package sets by race (Dwarf, Elf, Human) and then do the same thing for monsters.

I realize some of you are really into painted minis, and I admire the work and skill people put into those, and the cartoonish aspect of Lego figures might be a turn-off, but I would TOTALLY use these instead of traditional figures.

Anybody else? If we make enough noise you think they'd do it?

We use Lego minifigs to play D&D already. For player characters they are great. For monsters it's more difficult. There have been many fantasy series as well as lots of collectable individual minifigs: zombies, mummies, vampires, orcs, skeletons, werewolves... the main problem is the lack of non-humanoids. Big ones like giants and dragons you can build yourself, but not the small ones.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

There is always the KRE-O line of building toys, which just happens to be owned by Hasbro, and there were D&D sets made, though sets were only made in 2013-2014?

Youtube commercial from 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OLjeJfHYsg

 

[pogre]

You are all HEATHENS! Heathens! I say!

Actually, these look pretty cool....