minifig question...

[boses]

I was wondering if there is a complete list (with pictures) of all of the specialized minifigs, figures like...



and...



I wanted to make some purist monster figs, and I was wondering what is out there...

Thank you, and please tell me what you think...

[Quickblade22]

BrickLink would be your best bet I think. Search under the minifigs section of the catalog and then by theme.

[boses]

Thanks for the response...I don't have the time to go through every category by every year though...but I agree that bricklink is a very useful site...thanks, any other thoughts??

[davee123]

The difficulty is in determining what constitutes a "specialized" minifig. Heck, there's enough of a dispute on what constitutes a "minifig" anyway!

Really, someone needs to go through and categorize EVERY minifig according to all sorts of crazy parameters and make it searchable. I know Christoph Bartneck is hoping to do something ~similar~, although I don't really know what he's got in mind:

http://news.lugnet.com/build/minifigs/?n=1611
http://news.lugnet.com/build/minifigs/?n=1617

DaveE

[rgurskey]

You might look at the category, "Minifig head, modified". That should show all the unusual heads and you can go from there.

[Ye Olde Republic]

That sounds reasonable. You can also keep in mind that these 'specialized' minifigs you're probably looking for are quite recent, there aren't too many crazy minifigs older than, say 2005(?) when Spongebob came out.

[ffilz]

I miss the Fibblesnork minifig gallery...

I would love to see an updated minifig gallery, perhaps a nice minifig database with some nice search tags...

Frank

[Bruce N H]

Hey,

Rgurskey's idea is the simplest, Minifig, Head, Modified gets you most of these. There are also a couple of things under Minifig, Headgear (wolfman, shark from Harry Potter, some of the Atlantis heads, Green Goblin mask, Islanders mask, Twilek headpiece, maybe the Batman cowl). The distinction is that first category are for those pieces that fit over the torso in place of a normal fig head and the second category are those pieces (along with your normal hats and hairs) that fit onto a normal fig head.

BTW, I think the oldest modified heads are probably Chewbacca and C3PO, going back to 2000.

Of course there are also normal heads that would be appropriate for purist monsters, like those from the Studios Monsters subtheme, the Monsters 4 game, etc.

Bruce

[KarenJ]

I really liked this site for piecing together some minifig history:
http://www.minifigs.net/webpage/fameset_e.htm

It's nice to go there and browse through the vampires, werewolves, and flying lemurs.
Hasn't been updated in awhile, though.