I know it’s uncool to say this but the best way to experience it is on your laptop or desktop. It is a huge but delightful time sink.Ī note about usability: the MiniMan site is designed to be responsive but the details on the designs and the controls on the customization engine are too fine to be appreciated or handled on a small screen. With all this personalization power, expect to spend at least an hour on the site your first time around. Why anyone might want to offset a torso design is beyond me but I am not nearly as creative as most other toy photographers. Just about any printable element can be fine-tuned this way, including the torso design. You can make eyes bigger or smaller, push them together or farther apart, rotate them clockwise or counter-clockwise, shift them up, down, left, right, etc. MiniMan has plenty of well-designed elements and a range of colors to choose from in their current library, but the real power of their customization engine is in the adjustments that can be made to the designs.
MiniMan markets themselves as “the antidote to boring™” and indeed, the first step in creating your custom minifig on their site is already loads of fun. If you’re anything but a LEGO purist and can work around the raised printed texture, MiniMan-printed minifigs are a good option for expanding your photographic or brickfilming possibilities. MiniMan certainly isn’t the first company to offer one-off personalized minifigs, but their online customization experience and top-notch digital UV printing make them the best. Nope, this moribund minifigure was all my doing, designed and printed using MiniMan Studio’s Create Your Own Minifigure web app. LEGO doesn’t make nice bikinis for the ladies (see Exhibit A: Fun at the Beach people pack). Apart from the dead giveaway (I’m sorry, I had to), your second clue should have been her stylish swimsuit top. The lifeless beach babe above is definitely not a LEGO minifigure.
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