No please, don't make me look at the racist minfigs again! Please! Have mercy!

Actually, this one's not that bad.

Those springy-leg figs, I never knew what to do with them.

Wish I had this type of contraption when I was a kid. Why, back in my day the ball would bounce off the curb and you’d have to chase it halfway down the street. Kids these days have it so easy...

What do you mean it’s just a lego set

I wish the sports theme would make a rapid return

Rapid return to the store that you got this from

When I first saw the title, my eyes were distracted by the horrendous grid over the gross-looking blurry artwork, and I misread the title as "Rapid Rectum"

This would probably be a bigger hit if it could auto-load the ball into the minifig’s hands. As it is, you’ve got to chase the ball with your free hand, regardless of which side of the minifig it ends up on. Or if it bounces out of the cup and ends up rolling away from you in a random direction. Ideally you’d need enough balls and a large enough catch basin that you could always place your hand in the same spot and a new ball would be right there ready to go.

@Legodud9898 said:
"I wish the sports theme would make a rapid return"
No one wants that.

Still also hoping for a Sports return. These and the soccer sets were so fun.

Unique: None

Rare: 2
30492 6x6 field section with center pin hole in tan x1
3754 1x6x5 wall panel (solid) with NBA backboard print in red x1

@MCLegoboy said:
"No please, don't make me look at the racist minfigs again! Please! Have mercy!

Actually, this one's not that bad."

To be fair they weren't racist. The Sports faces were all hideous deformed freaks that barely look human, no matter the race.

@Norikins said:
"When I first saw the title, my eyes were distracted by the horrendous grid over the gross-looking blurry artwork, and I misread the title as "Rapid Rectum""

Dr Freud would like to have a quiet word with you...

Rapid Return: What Australia should do to those F35 jets we bought from America that dont work!

Although I have no interest in basketball, all these sports sets were pretty cool.

Btw how are these racist??? Of course putting any human face on a minfig head is going to look weird.
My only issue with the theme was that 'white' players were represented by yellow minifigs while African American players were brown which really sucks since the whole point of having yellow minifigs is that they are meant to be any race you want without stereotyping anyone.

Like somewhat recently there was a family in the City Fun at the Carnival or whatever it was people pack with a seemingly African American style family although they used yellow heads so you can decide if you want them to represent people of colour or not, perhaps everyone in your city is a person of colour and thats great!

Or like my city where the minifigs are all yellow but I have French, German, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian minifigs. (those are just the ones where I have stuff for the specific culture, everyone else is just whoever one wants them to be!)

Hmmm...wonder if you combine the 'spring-legs' with the 'jump launchers' from the super-hero sets...could a minifig reach escape velocity..?:)

@Reinier said:
"What's up with his arms?"

They were designed specifically to be able to hold the ball and lauch it when the spring legs are activated. This looks like a pretty fun gimmick, if you ask me.

@Brickchap said:
"Btw how are these racist??? Of course putting any human face on a minfig head is going to look weird.
My only issue with the theme was that 'white' players were represented by yellow minifigs while African American players were brown which really sucks since the whole point of having yellow minifigs is that they are meant to be any race you want without stereotyping anyone.

Like somewhat recently there was a family in the City Fun at the Carnival or whatever it was people pack with a seemingly African American style family although they used yellow heads so you can decide if you want them to represent people of colour or not, perhaps everyone in your city is a person of colour and thats great!

Or like my city where the minifigs are all yellow but I have French, German, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian minifigs. (those are just the ones where I have stuff for the specific culture, everyone else is just whoever one wants them to be!)"

Well actually they did the same thing with this Sports line. The non licenced standard minifigs were all yellow. The real players available in the collectible minifigure packs had skin tone reflecting their real life counterpart, whether Caucasian or African American.

Lowkey hate sports/sports culture because of my own life experiences BUT that said these sets always really made me want to build a basketball court of my own for some reason XD maybe I still will.

@Brickchap said:
"My only issue with the theme was that 'white' players were represented by yellow minifigs while African American players were brown which really sucks since the whole point of having yellow minifigs is that they are meant to be any race you want without stereotyping anyone. "
Forgive me for contradicting, but that genuinely wasn't the case! ^^ The basketball players who were based off real people were all various flesh-toned, whatever their skin colour - as in 3562 for example - while those who weren't based off any real-life player got the typical yellow skin. The only Lego set I've ever seen that made the mix-up of assuming yellow = white was 10123 Cloud City; immediately after that, flesh tones were introduced for any and all minifigures who were based upon specific people or actors.

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For myself? I thought the basketball gimmick was interesting, and the specialised minifigure pieces were cool, but never got any other than the smallest box set myself - that is, 3549 - just to try out the feature. My friend had 3432, though, so I played that with him a couple of times... I want to say I remember it being far more fun than the football set that I had, but don't recall much more than that!

What really fascinated me about this line, though, was that some of the minifigures - like the one in this set, you can see from the picture - had printing that extended all the way around the top of their heads. I'd never seen that before, and I don't recall seeing it since either; I suppose it was meant to represent a very close haircut that couldn't be achieved with a standard hairpiece, without making the figure look completely bald. In any case, it super-intrigued me.

@Be_hapi said:
" @Legodud9898 said:
"I wish the sports theme would make a rapid return"
No one wants that.

"

I do!!!

@Rimefang:
Remember how they posted annual losses two years in the early 00’s?

@ThatBionicleGuy:
Simpson’s did it! Not first, in terms of LEGO sets, but the CMF line included Dr. Hibbert in reddish-brown, and the fast majority of Simpons minifigs has yellow skin, but that’s because they appear that way in the show. That’s also a large part of the reason everyone automatically assumes yellow = Caucasian for regular LEGO minifigs, even though in real life, yellow skin was a derogatory association with people of Japanese descent.

For printing around the head, there have been a few others, even excluding the pile of dual-sided heads. The first Alfred Pennyworth has a strip of hair that extends around about 3/4 of the back of his head, and Lobot has his cybernetic dealy. Some of the Ninjago snakes have fully printed heads. Where the NBA minifigs were distinct, however, is that their hair appears to have been printed as a single application from above, so there are no seams to overlap/mismatch.