I still have a few jack stone figures around here. Six years ago my dumb 12 year old self threw them into stupid videos where weird things happen. My friends think they’re amazing, but they’re just so stupid.
Also, from the first panel, how often do you want to wager that these girls ever see any people of the opposite gender? 😛
No, the Technicfigs (techfigs for short) are much bigger. The “Jack Stone” figures (I call them Four-Plusfigs, after the theme Jack Stone belongs to) are about…
*finds a few Four-Plusfigs*
5 and 1/3 bricks (5 bricks and 1 plate) high.
(Yeah, I have some. From a brick bucket, a few Jack Stone sets, and almost all of the Pirate sets.)
…the woman in question residing in a world where a less-than-basic understanding of maths is needed to actually be able to build said xenophobic robot?
Awww! +5 Dispassionate Rationality points to Olivia! And since it was Nubbin that did the vaguely xenophobic freak-out here (contrary to a long-standing trope of calcuating, emotionless Data-style automatons), then clearly she must also have some mad AI programming skillz at her disposal.
I also hadn’t realized the Friends dolls were almost exactly the same size as the standard minifigs. Say what you want about the limitations of this new line, but insofar as it being a compatible ‘gateway’ to other Lego, it seems TPTB really thought it through…
Yeah, I picked up the impulse-buy Friends doll for my daughter (no, seriously, it really wasn’t for me) and was shocked at how small it was. They really are compatible with standard minifigs.
And given the discussion going on above, perhaps “compatible” wasn’t exactly the best word choice. *ahem*
I remember the Jack Stone sets like it were yesterday. I also remember not buying them because they were ridiculously “out of scale”. I used to have some of the Junior Creator figures (Max & Tina), but I gave them to my cousin’s son.
Oh, I’d forgotten about the Jack Stone era (probably surpressed it).
(P.S. panel 2, it really looks like Nubbin is staring at, and is about to grab, her uh, posterior).
That’s nubbin’s extra features at work. It gets lonely in Heartlake City at night…
Ooooohhhh booooy. Chris, thanks for the imagery.
….and here Chris drives me to the inevitable conclusion that ‘silicone purple’ was a bad colour choice for that tool set.
Oh the horror!!
I somehow remember Jack Stone. Sort of impressive, considering that I was 3-5 years old during its three year lifespan.
I still have a few jack stone figures around here. Six years ago my dumb 12 year old self threw them into stupid videos where weird things happen. My friends think they’re amazing, but they’re just so stupid.
Also, from the first panel, how often do you want to wager that these girls ever see any people of the opposite gender? 😛
Were they similar in size to the Technic minifigs from around 20 years ago?
No, the Technicfigs (techfigs for short) are much bigger. The “Jack Stone” figures (I call them Four-Plusfigs, after the theme Jack Stone belongs to) are about…
*finds a few Four-Plusfigs*
5 and 1/3 bricks (5 bricks and 1 plate) high.
(Yeah, I have some. From a brick bucket, a few Jack Stone sets, and almost all of the Pirate sets.)
Scotch has suddenly gone strangely quiet … Which is very worrying! 😀
If YOU were a frog, would YOU talk i front of a scary mutant woman with a Xenophobic robot and what is clearly a laboratory?
…the woman in question residing in a world where a less-than-basic understanding of maths is needed to actually be able to build said xenophobic robot?
Awww! +5 Dispassionate Rationality points to Olivia! And since it was Nubbin that did the vaguely xenophobic freak-out here (contrary to a long-standing trope of calcuating, emotionless Data-style automatons), then clearly she must also have some mad AI programming skillz at her disposal.
I also hadn’t realized the Friends dolls were almost exactly the same size as the standard minifigs. Say what you want about the limitations of this new line, but insofar as it being a compatible ‘gateway’ to other Lego, it seems TPTB really thought it through…
Yeah, I picked up the impulse-buy Friends doll for my daughter (no, seriously, it really wasn’t for me) and was shocked at how small it was. They really are compatible with standard minifigs.
And given the discussion going on above, perhaps “compatible” wasn’t exactly the best word choice. *ahem*
Ah Jack Stone, I got mine from a toothbrush. Such a strange figure…Doesn’t really fit in with anything at all.
P.S.
I’M BACK!!!!!!!!!!!
What I find interesting is the Friends minidolls have a 2009LEGO on the bottom of the feet. How long have they been working on this?
4 years and 4 million dollars on a sterotypical girl pink overload theme. Honestly i think a second death would of been WAY more kind to whiskey.
IMHO Friends is certainly 4 years better than Belleville.
I remember the Jack Stone sets like it were yesterday. I also remember not buying them because they were ridiculously “out of scale”. I used to have some of the Junior Creator figures (Max & Tina), but I gave them to my cousin’s son.
is stark gonna make another appearance now that LEGO have bought out a minifig for him? That would be cool.