Random figure of the day: hky010

@Murdoch17 said:
"That face is certainly something.... what that something is, I don't know, but it's something."

Umm...Mirror Universe to Exo-Force?

The most powerful chin in all of Lego

Bert called, he wants his unibrow back.

That is an unnecessarily Fred Durst-looking minifigure. Nobody should ever have to look this Fred Durst, up to and including Fred Durst.

@dimc said:
"The worst era of faces, by far. These, Alpha Team, Knights Kingdom, even some of the later Adventurers. The early 2000s SUCKED. "

Yes strongly agree, they absolutely lost touch with why classic LEGO faces worked. It almost felt like the jack stone treatment for LEGO faces, and yet simple was better.

It’s a real shame, I remember enjoying alpha team a little but the faces (& off beat build styles) made it feel like it was Lego trying to be some other toy. Classic faces & builds rule!

I still wonder about those three symbols. The middle looks like the Alpha Team mission deep freeze logo. I recall people thought the one on the right represented the Kraahkan mask (from Makuta) from Bionicle (which I find a stretch looking at this image). They're probably random symbols a graphic designer came up with though.

"Oh my God! What's wrong with your face?" — Mr. Plinkett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62UzLgdb1GQ

I think it's meant to be depicting a mouth guard that hockey players wear. But it's not good is it, lol.

@Noahcat1 said:
"If you squint your eyes the beard turns into a huge smiley mouth"

That would also have been an entirely plausible character design for Lego at the time, as modelled by Agent Flex: https://brickset.com/minifigs/alp005

That said, I personally have to disagree on some of the above-stated opinions on this era of faces. While even I admit some of them were absolutely too much, including, yes, these Sports faces and especially several of the later Drome Racers ones (my favourite horrifying example is https://brickset.com/minifigs/rac103), I genuinely love the wild and wacky variety you got this era.

Perhaps I'm biased because it was what I grew up with, but personally I'd take crazy late-90s/early-00s minifigure faces any day: they made the characters feel so unique. Modern minifigure designs, in contrast, often feel to me like they practically have all the same face now that they're so standardised.

@Brickalili said:
"The most powerful chin in all of Lego"

7592 would like a word with you.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"The most powerful chin in all of Lego"

7592 would like a word with you."

Minifigures only.

@LuccaTalksYT said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"The most powerful chin in all of Lego"

7592 would like a word with you."

Minifigures only."

https://brickset.com/minifigs/47394pb128/duplo-figure-lego-ville-male-buzz-lightyear-(4580316)

@PurpleDave said:
" @LuccaTalksYT said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"The most powerful chin in all of Lego"

7592 would like a word with you."

Minifigures only."

https://brickset.com/minifigs/47394pb128/duplo-figure-lego-ville-male-buzz-lightyear- (4580316)"

I’d have gone with TOY018 if we’re nominating Lightyears, chin’s spilling out of his balaclava!
I would note, though, that all Buzzes lack the facial hair that is one of the components of this minifigure’s potency

@Brickalili said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @LuccaTalksYT said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili said:
"The most powerful chin in all of Lego"

7592 would like a word with you."

Minifigures only."

https://brickset.com/minifigs/47394pb128/duplo-figure-lego-ville-male-buzz-lightyear- (4580316)"

I’d have gone with TOY018 if we’re nominating Lightyears, chin’s spilling out of his balaclava!
I would note, though, that all Buzzes lack the facial hair that is one of the components of this minifigure’s potency "

That's not facial hair, that a cleft chin: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LanternJawOfJustice

@Noahcat1 said: "If you squint your eyes the beard turns into a huge smiley mouth"

One of the few that can compete with 70332 Ultimate Aaron from a few days ago!

@Brickalili said: "I’d have gone with TOY018 if we’re nominating Lightyears, chin’s spilling out of his balaclava!"

Nope, https://brickset.com/minifigs/toy004 is the proper Lightyear - the newer ones may score on minifig purity, but that doesn't help when they look dull, inferior and (thanks to Lego's rubbish light-on-dark printing) downright sickly.

@TheOtherMike in United States said: "That's not facial hair, that a cleft chin"

I know, but it still reminds me of when you have that *one* hair just outside the "beard area" that you keep missing, until it grows so long that you end up cutting it with scissors.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Murdoch17 said:
"That face is certainly something.... what that something is, I don't know, but it's something."

Umm...Mirror Universe to Exo-Force?"

You're right! Now I will imagine this helmet is actually red anime hair slicked back with far too much jell.