LEGO: Give Us More Options for Girls and Produce the Female Scientists Series!

[slimabob]

The big buckets of bricks have also vanished lately. It's like they aren't a building toy anymore and rather a build your own playset.

Yeah, I actually noticed that as well, which is quite a shame- because like you said, there seems to be less emphasis on creating your own stuff, and more on building these predefined "playsets"

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[Mounds Bar]

jesus Christ, we took feminism to loving yellow plastic people? God damn it, get your handicapped political trash out of here.

This is too far, we should all just enjoy our lego sets and be happy, we can switch out the hair on lego people if we feel a need for more female minifigures.

[Muslim]

if blockland suddenly became a smash hit on tumblr then i wouldn't be surprised if someone said that

ew tumblr.

^^^^

[Harm94]

jesus Christ, we took feminism to loving yellow plastic people? God damn it, get your handicapped political trash out of here.

This is too far, we should all just enjoy our lego sets and be happy, we can switch out the hair on lego people if we feel a need for more female minifigures.

I agree, this feminism/tumblr social justice has gone too far.

[Polar Bear]

this is the worst petition i've ever seen. here we are in an age where the government is trampling the constitution and spying on its citizens, theres civil war erupting in egypt and syria, theres internet censorship bills passing through the uk houses of parliament and this idiot wants people to devote their time to trying to get more female lego minifigs?

forget right off, tipex out the goddamn moustaches or something - nobodys got time for this stupid stuff

We are asking LEGO to produce the entire series so that our girls and boys can play with Minifigs such as female paleontologists studying their dinosaur bones.

omfg it's lego, swap the goddamn male paleontologist head for a woman one for gods sake. this is ridiculous i'm one angry polar bear right now

[Mounds Bar]

I agree, this feminism/tumblr social justice has gone too far.

Set #8459: Lip Stick Making Lab.

[Ronin]

The thing is, many minifigures are (or at least, were) genderless or could easily be interpreted as female. Anything without preprinted hair could be used for a female minifigure, it just requires a female hair piece (and for equality!!!!! males often required male hair pieces).



Circled in blue indicated gender neutrality. Some are a stretch, but my sister (and every girl I've ever met who has talked about related things) do not play with sci-fi soldiers blasting red and blue space mutants, or mining underwater crystals with giant crab monsters, and I think us boys can keep our ice planet destructo insect aliens (which still have female minifigs in them).

That said, a lot of the current non-licensed sets come with at least one female. City sets have a lot of females. Star Wars, believe it or not, has a lot of females. Even the dinosaur fighting sets included a female.

Another thing is that sets are not generally catered to "being built and put on a shelf" (aside from a few exceptions, eg millennium falcon, death star 2), and are more catered towards the "taken apart and made into something original". My sister had managed to outweigh her female-to-male minifig ratio with ~4 female hair pieces I gave her to change her indiana jones into laura croft clone #74.

Lego is not the place you want to be if you're defending feminism. It is a construction toy, and if you stop making the pre-assembled sets and make something creative it wouldn't be an issue.

That's essentially it in a nutshell. LEGO is a company and does what's in its best interests to profit and stay true to making toys for children. The brand itself is so powerful every boy growing up in the west looks forward to what the new set is. It's my interpretation that LEGO would like to see their retail stores and stockists appeal to everyone in niche ways. Gender neutrality is a big part of demographics as far as kid's toys are concerned but definitely the theme of the toy is what sells.

this is the worst petition i've ever seen. here we are in an age where the government is trampling the constitution and spying on its citizens, theres civil war erupting in egypt and syria, theres internet censorship bills passing through the uk houses of parliament and this idiot wants people to devote their time to trying to get more female lego minifigs?

forget right off, tipex out the goddamn moustaches or something - nobodys got time for this stupid stuff

omfg it's lego, swap the goddamn male paleontologist head for a woman one for gods sake. this is ridiculous i'm one angry polar bear right now

1^st world problems

prease stop bein so angry

[Madmitten]

jesus Christ, we took feminism to loving yellow plastic people? God damn it, get your handicapped political trash out of here.

This is too far, we should all just enjoy our lego sets and be happy, we can switch out the hair on lego people if we feel a need for more female minifigures.

wtf
who wants to play as a flat-chested yellow SHEMALE

[Ronin]

wtf
who wants to play as a flat-chested yellow SHEMALE

gender queer children who don't exist

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i'm actually surprised BLF is handling a feminism topic p well

[Bisjac]

any head can go on any body. thats the point of lego.

[Zanaran2]

Female scientists, eh?

[Menen]

any head can go on any body. thats the point of lego.

You might get called a misogynist pig for objectifying women by creating your own female minifigs, or making stereotypical female minifigs only designed for love appeal.

[Ronin]

You might get called a misogynist pig for objectifying women by creating your own female minifigs, or making stereotypical female minifigs only designed for love appeal.

*adds playdoh boobs to minifig*

...aeris i miss uuu.............

[Niff]

You actually make some good points but I've seen some stuff in the Target here that's marketed for girls. But its pink and stuff.

I support this.

all of my this