Also, they’ve sucked ever since they stopped having just basic smiley faces.
Come at me!
Lego mans*
Compromise: Minimen
Yeah, this one definitely deserves to be unpopular. They’ve always been minifigs, they’ll always be minifigs, you don’t mess with perfection.
Damn, you’re absolutely right. What a thing to remember.
There’s nothing to remember here, the dude just didn’t know what they were called as a kid. They’ve been minifigs since their creation in the late 70s.
I don’t rememeber ‘men’ being prominent in the packaging and we just called the people ‘legos’ like the rest of the sets. So i’m half with you on them being kegos and not minifigs, but all of the people in the sets are just legos.
Yeah, but you have to be able to say the difference between Lego blocks (yes blocks, be happy I’m capitalizing Lego) and Lego men.
legos
Blasphemer! That’s like saying ‘traffics’. Are you trolling? ;-)
If half the world can say “maths”, we can say “legos”.
As long as no one is allowed to say “Pokemons”, I agree with that compromise.
One must capture all Pokemons
Sounds like you’re not with them on any of it tbh.
Our advertising policy requires us to call them “generic Danish interlocking children’s building set” men. 😆
But yeah, agree.
FWIW, one of the best parts of the Foosball Table set (21337) is the shear number of wigs and faces it comes with so you can totally customize your players. It comes with 22 “generic Danish interlocking children’s building set” men and 44 unique wigs/heads. It’s pretty cool imo
I feel like this would be a popular opinion amongst the Lemmy general demographic but then some psychopath below proved the opposite to be true.
I find the use of “Legos” more triggering, the plural is Lego ffs.
Wouldn’t you add an “e?”
Legoes
No, that is equally abhorrent. It is a brand name, you don’t add anything to pluralise.
Was always Lego figures for me. Or whatever specialty the figure I wanted had.
As someone who will go to any length for a pun, certainly if it’s a physical one, my fig jam will be more tasty due to this change
I believe you mean men jam.
I didn’t, but now I do
Flying Squid, I usually like your posts and comments but today. Today you’ve made me angry.
Whatever. You’re a “BigFig.” You won’t even fit with regular Lego blocks.
Leave my Dollar Store Chinese knock offs alone!
I was always partial to “Lego guys” myself.
Lego dudes
That is also acceptable.
You only like the plain faces? Man. I used to take a soldering iron to the beat up ones so I could create mutants to attack the ‘good guys’…
What- I ask you- what is the point of throwing a Lego space ship at the wall if your space man isn’t going to smile when he’s dead?
Who calls them minifigs?
Lots of people devoted to Legos. Especially the ones who hate that I just wrote ‘Legos.’
The Lego company, since around 1980. It’s been the official name since their creation.
The Lego group themselves, for one
They are referred to as Minifigures by Lego themselves. https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/minifigures
Lego is entitled to be incorrect.
Nvidia (who makes the RTX 4080Ti graphics card) can tell me the Ti is promouned “tie” all they want. They are wrong. It’s “tee eye”. I will die on this hill.
Pretty sure the inventor of the “gif” stated that it’s supposed to be pronounced “jif” but he too is completely wrong.
Jraphics Interchange Format. 🤷♂️
Competing with J-Pheg
Their old CEO pronounced it correctly, it’s the new guy who’s dumb
Ngl I assumed this (pronouncing the letters as letters) was the correct way, because I thought that the Ti had something to do with a little element called Titanium, and last I checked that is how one read symbols on the periodic table.
That’s the best part. It is a reference to titanium.
I read the Ti in the periodic table as “titanium”, not as “tie”… I mean, if you don’t read them as the names of the elements, what would you even read, say, Pb or Hg as…?
Right but you wouldn’t say “the symbol for lead is ‘peeb’” you’d say “…P b.”
Yes, exactly. It’s either tee eye or titanium, but I can’t see how it can possibly be tie.
“Pee Bee”, “Haitch Gee”?
Yes, of course, but I was trying to point out how claiming it means titanium doesn’t really work as an excuse to pronounce it “tie”; it’s either “tee eye” or “titanium”, but “tie” makes no sense.
Your stance is entirely reasonable and I support it.
This is exactly the kind of post this community is for. You’re couldn’t be more wrong, take my upvotes you incorrect bastard!