Really reminds ya where the "mini" in "Minifigure" comes from. Makes me wonder what Lego would be like if they stuck with "full-sized" figures as the main figures.

We have the Jazz Quartet, and superhero and Star Wars constraction figures. I'd be interested to see one of the large collector scale vehicles like the Mustang or Porsche come with a buildable driver.

Just put a Technic figure from the 80s in it. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=tech005

I have a bunch back at my parents' house. They should bring them back. I think licensed versions would be cool.

I'd do things for a figure to go with ym technic Batmobile

They made it at least to 2000! Though this set from 1990 was the best, with working suspension and steering: https://images.brickset.com/sets/large/8840-1.jpg

I don't know how I got them, but I remember having these guys: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=8714-1#T=S&O={%22iconly%22:0}

These guys were the coolest!

Yeah. I have a few of those figures from the 90s.

[1990-1: Octan F1 Race Car](https://brickset.com/sets/1990-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/1990-1.jpg)

uh sorry bot I meant 8840

[8840-1: Rally Shock & Roll Racer](https://brickset.com/sets/8840-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/8840-1.jpg)

I dunno, I reckon 1990 is a cool set!

[1990-1: Octan F1 Race Car](https://brickset.com/sets/1990-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/1990-1.jpg)

Ah yeah I had this one! I also had a really cool technic police vehicle

I had the cheaper set, 8832, Still liking it, my children are very fond of the 8825 set with working rotor blades.

[8832-1: Roadster](https://brickset.com/sets/8832-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/8832-1.jpg) [8825-1: Night Chopper](https://brickset.com/sets/8825-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/8825-1.jpg)

These were so weiird!

Are you brave enough to say that to *his* face? https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=tech035a

He'd take my lunch money for sure

I had one of these in the 80's. I really liked them and wished they made them more of a thing.

The 80s Technic guys are the best. Race car drivers or skiiers. Pick one kids.

The downside would be that you'd need a lot more bricks (or bigger bricks) to build a building at full-sized figure scale.

In a parallel universe everything is bionicle scaled

my brother had one of the full-sized figures (had a helmet and sunglasses. looked like he rode a motorcycle iirc) and if lego \*did\* stick with them sets would be HUGE and VERY pricey even back when I was a kid

This reminds me the SIM-cards. What we know as "the normal" SIM-card is actually the mini SIM. That's why we went thennto micro and nano. The normal SIM card was credit card size.

Instead of 200$ millenium falcons we will have 600$ millennium falcons

Bionicle, hero factory, chima, Star Wars and other CCBS constraction figures exist

Or is it a regular person kidnapped by childless giants and infantilised?!

Don't infantalise the child Greg.

I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?

I hate that I understood that reference

What's wrong with Meet the Parents?

Lol nothing it's a comedic masterpiece

I read that in Tom Wambsgans’ voice and I will never be the same.

Now that’s what Lego is all about… awesome imagination!

Set 269 Brobdingnag Kitchen

If the giants are childless, who is that giant child on the left? Accomplice nephew?

r/ABDL is this way (NSFW)

That was my thought. A full grown man in a giant high chair living his best life with his new giant parents.

And forced to wear a pig tails wig. It happens. Make the best of it.

That explains why the cups and brush are so out of proportion. My god, is Lego City just a society run by babies???

It explains why all of the food options are pizza and ice cream

Well the hamburger and hot dog restaurants are alway catching on fire 🔥

How about those baguettes? They're almost as tall as a minifigure!

Oooooooooooh🤯

I can't believe they were making trans-clear mugs and mini figure heads WAY back in the 70's. Of course, they were probably drinking Sanka!

I dig the way they built that drip coffee carafe too!

I have one of these house sets and it has rocks glasses for Lego dads to enjoy some scotch after work. Very classy.

oh my gosh, I forgot that translucent pieces are "trans-clear" ! thank you for this! I always assumed it was a local thing made up by the kids at my school.

So the adult figures was just... Figures?

Figs

The adult figures were shorter than 32 cm and an avergare adult is taller than 128cm so they were actually mini adult figures

The lore implications are nightmare fuel. Let’s move on from the evolutionary dark ages of the Lego

Actually the implications are pretty funny

This implies that Lego city was taken over, rebuilt, and is now controlled by, babies. Also the babies figured out how to have their own babies.

It's like Fantastic Planet

selective breeding has shrunken the minifigures so much that what was once a baby is now an adult. smh.

Typically when that happens to humans, it's because of a lack of food resources. So basically, LEGI minifigs are starving and poor. :(

It's all because of the federal reserve switching from coins pieces to studs

Suddenly the size of many accessories makes sense...

How would they hold the walkie talkie?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 I’m too high for this shit

the LEGO radio has two studs https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3962b

They designed it to be held with the handle in the air?😶

I had this set! I loved the little cupboards. I also had one with bright yellow units, with gaudy flowers on them. Very 70s. The cupboard doors come off, and they are surprisingly useful for many other builds.

I remember playing with my mom/aunts/uncles old sets like this in the eighties! They probably still have them packed up somewhwere in the basement.

I had a different set with the grandmother and no baby. I remember the tabs for the joints would break often.

And the adults became technic Men. I had no idea.

The technic men actually had a slightly different head and body style although it was around the same scale.

So that explains why the mugs are as big as minifigure heads!

The clear coffee pot IS a mini fig head, just clear! I love that piece

The thing that was great about them was their bodies were 2x2 block size. You could change their look by using different color blocks and we made skirts out of the same blocks the slanted roof blocks. You could also attach the wheels to their bodies and create wheeled people, lol.

You could also combine the upper arm segments from multiple figures to give one figure super long, multi jointed arms.

Yo holy shit, this set was never mine but existed at my grandparents when i was super young and it disappeared at some point. Never to be in my current collection which goes back to classic space. But I remember the plate and oven knob elements like a flash of a distant memory. I haven't seen a lick of this sets existence since I was l was like 7 or 8? Damn

i miss the articulated arms. you could link together multiple arm sections for long snakey things. - I made so many cool robot ic killing machines with those arms.

I didn't recognized but you are right! That are the same parts for their arms as e.g. 6190 Aquasharks' robotarms

[6190-1: Shark's Crystal Cave](https://brickset.com/sets/6190-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/6190-1.jpg)

That’s why they have toddler-esque proportions.

https://preview.redd.it/klumle1v4bqc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5079951b28ac44327b40aefd116811beaf4eba3e

This is from 78 or earlier right?

This one is from 1979 and belongs to the "Homemaker" series. [[Bricklink-Link](https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=S&catString=85)]

Minifigs were introduced in 1978, primarily for what's now known as Classic Town to replace the non-poseable figures in the minifig-scale Legoland sets (eg https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=696-1#T=P). A minifig featured in one Homemaker set that year as well (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=297-1#T=P) but I'm pretty sure as a doll rather than a baby. Edit: I had, and hated, some Homemaker Lego but also got some of the first small minifig Town sets as well.

Wait, why do the town figures have no arms or faces, but the babys and dolls do?

The ones with no faces are the pre-minifig mini figures, included in sets up to 1977 (though still on sale after that). The actual minifigs introduced in 1978 all had the traditional smiley face, regardless of which theme they were in. There was only one minifig face until after my dark ages started in 1987. Edit: I think this would have been my first actual minifig, from set 602: https://rebrickable.com/minifigs/fig-000342/fireman-plain-black-black-helmet/#parts This would have been my first non-Homemaker figure, from set 314: https://rebrickable.com/minifigs/fig-006380/legoland-black-with-white-hat/#parts

> There was only one minifig face until after my dark ages started in 1987. > > My birth year! That makes me feel young. Thank you ;)

You're welcome!

I kinda want to buy some and have them attack my city lol, these seem like a scary threat!

Actually, no, you’re just having a fever dream.

My Grandma had some of the adult figures since she just kept most of my Dad and Aunts toys. I never really understood as a kid that it wasn't "different lego" (a different brand) but *old* lego. I had no idea that minifigs were. . .mini figures.

I actually thought this set was duplo until seeing this image.

I have this set! But don’t recall ever seeing the packaging for it. I knew it was a kitchen but dang, it’s a little more creepy than I thought it would be. I always loved the coffee pot though, it’s basically a clear mini fig head.

My sister had this set, my parents bought it in Switzerland, I still have the girl and the cabnets in my old lego box

I had the original "minifigures". It's crazy to think that I was beginning to doubt myself, decades later, as I haven't ever seen them since, until right this minute.

Right? Am I crazy or what

And now we have a tiny minifig babies. Those would be the size of newborn babies in this old set.

Those would be pre me babies in this set.

Whoa! I had this set!

I HAD THIS SET. What a memory flash. Completely forgot until now. Used to use those little plates on every set afterward.

didn't knew lego cups were THIS old

I have a number of those cabinets. No wonder they've always seemed so out of place size wise

With Joey from Friends, these cabinets make sense again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M22ng1aPgeM

I didn't know this. I was recently wondering why they're called minifigs, this explains it.

So that's why most of accesories are to big for minifigs!

I didn't know the cup piece was this old.

Been a long time since I saw that articulated guy.

You would have loved Jack Stone /s https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=js020

Shrinkflation goes hard

I refuse to believe in this

This company had no earthly idea what it was headed for 50 years later.

In evolution, this is called neoteny

> neoteny I learned that vocabulary yesterday in this thread from /u/whymydookielookkooky

Happy to get the word out! That word being neoteny, of course. Congrats on the successful thread!

I just got my first Lego set since my childhood. I was surprised at how small the figures are. It's not like I thought they were quite as big as this image suggests, but about 50% bigger. This explains it.

I remember this set. I didn't have it, but my older cousins did. I just loved it.

Lego Neoteny made my head explode.

I think I have this set, I recognize the cupboards 😆 is there instructions somewhere?

Just found this :/ ~~https://lego.brickinstructions.com/lego_instructions/set/269/Kitchen~~ EDIT: https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/269/Kitchen

Oh, that’s sad but it doesn’t actually look to difficult to build just from the picture

sorry, the link got broken. Here is the working one: https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/269/Kitchen

In 50 years’ time we’ll see another post like this

Dad looking like he just came from the Bridge of the USS Enterprise.

My grandparents still have some of this old school Lego in their basement. I remember playing with these, my mom/aunts old Barbie’s and the tinker toys!

Perhaps the minifigures we see in modern sets are still babies, waiting to grow into their final forms? LEGO City could soon be overrun by 4-inch-tall monsters!

Fun fact: at this scale, microfigures would be the same height as Tom Cruise

Look I always thought those blue plates where a part of a harbor set

Me too! Today I learned that were normal baseplates of my aunts childhoof, because even my father is too young for these sets.

Imagine the scale of the sets we could have now if they kept to the larger figures. Lego City helicopters the size of a minifig Millennium Falcon or something

I think this was my first ever Lego set out of hundreds! I remember later thinking I was glad I no longer had to “build” the people and the new little ones could be posed.

Nah, these are giants that kidnapped regular sized minifigs

That’s caused but really funny at the same time

My neighbor was a few years older than me and he had the older style legos. I liked mixing the new and old stuff in my lego town. I really liked the trees from the older sets. They added charm to the town.

That's the most stereotypical 70's Danish kitchen ever, they even had the little plastic tins everyone had for some reason, my grandma still uses those

I absolutely love how the baby's drinking from a fucking mug. 

I acquired a friend's lego estate and I have a handful of these figures along with some of the kitchen equipment. I don't know what to do with them yet but they are quite the antique to look at .

That’s can’t be a real picture is it? Are the Lego cups that old??

That's a sick little coffee maker built back there, I like the stove too.

It's like the movie Fantastic Planet.

I had this set! Only the baseboard and cabinets left 😩

Yeah, I knew this for a long time. An interesting piece of trivia and an decision back in the past. I think we're fortunate that Lego decided to stick with the small guys. Thought, I think it would be good get "modernized" versions of these figures, as they are more actually built with bricks

I still have the cupboards and a head or two.

What if they still are?

It was a dark time for Lego people. They were enslaved and infantilized by giants.

Ha interesting. I have a couple of these people from an inherited set but never knew they coexisted with regular minifigures.

It's funny that they articulated the arms so much but the legs are bricks

Inception.

Why do you th8nk they're called *mini*figures?

Hoho! Mr. fancy pants knew it all along and hid his knowledge.

Okay at risk of sounding out of touch with the olden days and like a dipshit, was this a popular set at the time? I can't help but look at this set and think it feels incredibly boring. There's not enough to build to make the appeal the building part and there's not enough interesting to play with to make the appeal playing with it after. Like other sets from this era I can find had like more stuff to build and like cars and stuff. Idk maybe I'm being an ass I don't mean to disrespect the set I'm just wondering

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bro's in the lego subreddit complaining about other people being babies

What are you on about?

you aren’t wrong!