In which I look at the new Disney Collectable Minifigures, and come to the realisation that unlike previous series, this one (and the LEGO® Movie 2 minifigures immediately before it) was not produced solely in the Chinese LEGO® factory. How many figures does it effect? What is the deal with the inner bags? And finally, how many of the TLM2 figures were sourced from Europe? Curious? Read on…
LET ME TELL YOU A STORY. Last week, I teased my 71024 Series 2 Disney Minifigures Review. But there was something I had to go back and look at. Then I realised there was something else I had to go back and look at somewhere else. Now I have…
To paraphrase the late Carl Sagan, To make a minifigure from scratch, you must first create the Universe.
Let’s move a few steps down that path. Recently we took a look at some of the prototypes that were passed over on the path to minifigure development. Once you have a design, you need a way to put it together. Today, let’s take a look at the moulds that are in use.
Mold or Mould?
Over the last few years, I have been struggling with the word used to describe the thing that molten plastic is injected into, where it gains its special shape. Is it a mould or a mold? And which is the spelling that has spores, and was the bane of my bathroom back in my bachelor days?
A quick call out to to the Wikipedia suggested that both spellings would apply to those fungi, depending on where in the world you are standing. (Molds in USA, moulds in the rest of the English speaking world).
But what about the verb meaning to shape/form or the noun referring to the thing used to do the same? It turns out that that is also spelt mold in the USA and mould everywhere else! I am not about to revise every spelling of the world ‘mold’ over the last two and a half years. going forward, however, I will endeavour to use the form of spelling that my computer attempts to direct me towards every time. This dialogue from the Australian Writer’s Centre might shed a little light on the subject.
This awesome brick built mo(u)ld was used while prototyping different minifigure prototypes.
To paraphrase the late Carl Sagan, To make a minifigure from scratch, you must first create the Universe. 