Random minifig of the day: sw0125
Posted by Huwbot,
Today's random minifigure is sw0125 Dwarf Spider Droid - Sand Blue Dome, a Star Wars figure that came in one set, 7258 Wookiee Attack, released during 2005.
Our members collectively own a total of 4,903 of them. If you'd like to buy one you should find it for sale at BrickLink, where new ones sell for around $109.60.
Image and minifig data courtesy of BrickLink.com
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Wow, RSotD is early toda…um…
This is not a minifigure
Not a repeat, but it's not the first spider droid to be RMotD, either: https://brickset.com/article/106210/random-minifig-of-the-day-sw0965 Incidentally, why are spider droids allowed to be minifigures, when Lotso isn't? (Yes, I'm still salty about that.) "Oh, but Lotso's an animal!" Lotso was also an actual character! Remove Lotso from Toy Story 3, and you have no major antagonist. Remove spider droids from Episode III, and you have a little less cannon fodder.
The perfect Minifigure doesn't exi-
"Brick Built" Minifigure
It’s not accurate, but I do love the blue color scheme on this one.
That first wave of Revenge of the Sith sets was so good.
Yeah, I'm drawing a line here. This isn't a minifigure.
It’s a classic but not a minifigure
I like to call these “brick built minifigure scale figures”. I consider them part of my minifigure collection and play/display them along with all of my mini-figs. I ain’t Wuher. Droids are welcome here!
Not a minifig
I wonder what the biggest chunk-of-a-set is considered a minifig.
If Siddely from Cars 2 https://brickset.com/minifigs/crs080/siddeley-without-stickers is considered a minifigure, then shouldn't autonomous machines -at minifigure scale- like Hailfire droids 75085 be considered minifigures as well? I mean, where's the line drawn?
"I'm so confused..."
@Darth_Savren said: "I like to call these “brick built minifigure scale figures”. I consider them part of my minifigure collection and play/display them along with all of my mini-figs."
No, you do make a good point.
I consider the original Groot (who was entirely brick-built, in the first GotG line) a minifigure, at least, a figure in his own right.
It really is quite a subjective call.
I’m normally fairly open-minded about what pops up in RMotD, normally got no problem with the brick built figures or minidolls that other people object to…
…but this one feels like a stretch too far even for me
No, YOU'RE not a minifigure!
@TheOtherMike said:
"Not a repeat, but it's not the first spider droid to be RMotD, either: https://brickset.com/article/106210/random-minifig-of-the-day-sw0965 Incidentally, why are spider droids allowed to be minifigures, when Lotso isn't? (Yes, I'm still salty about that.) "Oh, but Lotso's an animal!" Lotso was also an actual character! Remove Lotso from Toy Story 3, and you have no major antagonist. Remove spider droids from Episode III, and you have a little less cannon fodder."
See also: Metalbeard
@ScholtzTKO said:
"This is not a minifigure"
This is not the minifigure you're looking for. Move along...
@Zordboy said:
" @Darth_Savren said: "I like to call these “brick built minifigure scale figures”. I consider them part of my minifigure collection and play/display them along with all of my mini-figs."
No, you do make a good point.
I consider the original Groot (who was entirely brick-built, in the first GotG line) a minifigure, at least, a figure in his own right.
It really is quite a subjective call."
Whether a brick-built construction is/isn't a figure could indeed be subjective especially if it isn't based on an existing IP character.
However, whether a figure is/isn't a minifigure is entirely objective: it's defined by law. If a figure uses at least two of the three components (head, torso, legs) from the minifigure patent to represent a humanoid, it's a minifigure. If not, it isn't. So brick-built Groot is a figure, but not a minifigure. By contrast, this figure https://brickset.com/minifigs/sh0743/groot-teen-groot-dark-tan is a Groot minifigure for example.
@Crux said:
"No, YOU'RE not a minifigure!"
Don't tell anyone, but I am.
Great fig of the thing, especially for the time! I love the trans neon orange eyes!
@Bengh_Zeran said:
"If Siddely from Cars 2 https://brickset.com/minifigs/crs080/siddeley-without-stickers is considered a minifigure, then shouldn't autonomous machines -at minifigure scale- like Hailfire droids 75085 be considered minifigures as well? I mean, where's the line drawn?
"I'm so confused..."
"
The new MTT 75435 or 75233 Droid Gunship should count too.
The wookie warriors that came with this set are the real mini-figures, and a far more interesting RSOD https://brickset.com/article/34020
This is a fun set with great colors. I love mine and 7260. Surprised they never remade these.
@Bengh_Zeran said:
"If Siddely from Cars 2 https://brickset.com/minifigs/crs080/siddeley-without-stickers is considered a minifigure, then shouldn't autonomous machines -at minifigure scale- like Hailfire droids 75085 be considered minifigures as well? I mean, where's the line drawn?
"I'm so confused...""
At least Siddeley is a named character with lines, which is more than can be said for any spider droids.
Why Bricklink have this listed as a minifig is beyond me. I’ve seen polybag builds with less pieces
This is not the minifigure you're looking for.
I wonder if we'll ever see 40820 as the Random Minifigure of the day. Sure it has 761 pieces, but hey, "Minifigure" is right there in the name!
Beautiful Sand blue!
@rahlmaclaren said:
"I wonder what the biggest chunk-of-a-set is considered a minifig."
Some of the Cars 2 characters, probably. Since Bricklink counts (some, but not all) the car characters as minifigures, you get sets like 8426 which Bricklink counts as having 'three minifigures and six pieces', despite being a 159-piece set where none of the characters are even hunamoid. The above-mentioned Siddely from 8638 is probably the 'minifigure' with the most parts to date (considering that Mack from 8486 is *not* counted as a minifigure despite also being a Cars franchise character). Or for a higher percentage of the set to be a single character, there's e.g. 9479 which is considered to 100% consist of one 'minifigure' and nothing else.
I can be fairly lenient in minifigure definitions, definitely counting e.g. battle droids, astro droids, skeletons and Ramas racers, even though all of them fall outside the traditional definition too: but I definitely draw a line at non-humanoid buildable objects, even if they happen to be characters. But Bricklink honestly seems to define a minifigure as 'anything vaguely character-shaped that people might want to buy independently from the rest of the set' (as long as it isn't an animal because they have their own catalogue category); its definition is far more informed by the site's function as a marketplace than as a coherent catalogue.
It's part of the reason why I wonder if Brickset might not be better forming its own minifigure catalogue that can follow more logic than the BL version does... although I do acknowledge that would be a whole lot of work to implement by this point...!
@Bengh_Zeran said:
"If Siddely from Cars 2 https://brickset.com/minifigs/crs080/siddeley-without-stickers is considered a minifigure, then shouldn't autonomous machines -at minifigure scale- like Hailfire droids 75085 be considered minifigures as well? I mean, where's the line drawn?
"I'm so confused..."
"
It’s only 125 parts…
@ThatBionicleGuy said:"I can be fairly lenient in minifigure definitions, definitely counting e.g. battle droids, astro droids, skeletons and Ramas racers..."
Did you mean "Xalax racers?"
This is what happens when bots get to pick minifigs, haha. Sand Blue?! Wow. Early Star Wars sets and their Sand rarties. Sand Red, Sand Purple (I need one hand in that color to complete a minifig! Guess how many minifigs have that hand? That one!) and now Sand Blue!
@Roloff said:
"This is what happens when bots get to pick minifigs, haha. Sand Blue?! Wow. Early Star Wars sets and their Sand rarties. Sand Red, Sand Purple (I need one hand in that color to complete a minifig! Guess how many minifigs have that hand? That one!) and now Sand Blue!"
I picked up maybe 5-10 of those sand-purple torsos when BL sellers were practically giving them away. And then I used one pair of hands to make my First Appearance Batman maybe 15-16 years ago.
By the logic of this being a minifig, shouldn't every Vulture Droid be one too?
Not a minifigure. No debate needed.
@TheOtherMike said:
" @ThatBionicleGuy said:"I can be fairly lenient in minifigure definitions, definitely counting e.g. battle droids, astro droids, skeletons and Ramas racers..."
Did you mean "Xalax racers?""
Those are the ones, yeah. Xalax was the planet they're from, but Ramas was the name of the species ^^
Is that because they look like little frogs?
@Bengh_Zeran said:
"If Siddely from Cars 2 https://brickset.com/minifigs/crs080/siddeley-without-stickers is considered a minifigure, then shouldn't autonomous machines -at minifigure scale- like Hailfire droids 75085 be considered minifigures as well? I mean, where's the line drawn?"
And Transformers like 10302 Optimus Prime... or is he too small maybe for minifig scale.
What even is a minifig anymore?
@cooljoe said:
"What even is a minifig anymore? "
Is that a philosophical question? ;-P