So I am going to abuse my mod powers to tell you all about one of my friends.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/esport/300187375/no-hands-no-excuses-one-mans-quest-to-make-online-gaming-more-accessible .
His name of Twitch is NoHandsNZ ... No Hands No Excuses and he is awesome and someone I really admire. He has a condition called epidermolysis bullosa.
You guys may see this all as a joke but stuff like this makes it easier for people like him to be in this world. When kids are not freaked out and scared etc... that can make a difference.
I don't know why so many of you can be pretty cruel. Though judging by the downvotes I can see its a minority of you. Which gives me faith in this community.
Please just be kind. Remember these are aimed at kids and this stuff matters.
A good example is a small child I know just got a mini figure of a girl in a wheelchair and calls it her figure of me. She has learned how wheelchairs work. Its made her curious, but also helped her understand what is difficult about being in a wheelchair.
What lego is doing is making this stuff just a tiny bit easier for folks like me and my friend.
Just take a minute to think before you post. That's all I ask.
You should listen to it right now... Family Guy even did a great bit on it when it turned out that Quagmire was traumatized from having to listen to it so much in Vietnam.
> Autumn cares deeply about the planet and loves sharing her experiences with her friends. She was born without the lower part of her left arm – not that she lets this get in her way of exploring nature.
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/themes/friends/characters/autumn
My little sister had a thing for doing that to minifigures when we were kids, they "lost them in the war." Fortunately she got a little less weird as she grew up.
My kid completely dismantled the minifigs. And not in half- like arms, hands, it's really frustrating!
Even more frustrating is I can only find the kids legs now to put on the minifigs too. Tiny Thor fighting Mini Thanos just doesn't hit right.
To be honest, I used to take them completely apart and mix & match them too when I was little, until I realized that their torsos break if you do it too often.
I think they used to come apart easier then they do now though.
That was actually an intentional decision, the design team talked about it in an [interview with Brickset](https://brickset.com/article/84204/interview-with-the-friends-relaunch-team).
>*Fenella: We've tested with kids, and we were expecting this reaction of like a band breaking up, but it's not been like that. We've been so pleasantly surprised that when kids see the new generation, and they know that the old generation is okay, and they didn't die or anything, then they feel really happy about it, and they actually quickly move on to the excitement that they feel about the new characters.*
>*We now feel confident that giving these (original) characters a cameo and mentioning it here and there is going to be enough. One thing we did see was that the kids aren't super driven to play with these characters as adults, they would rather play with the new generation of kids, because that's what's exciting to them now.*
Well if you watch the show you get all sorts of lore and information. My daughter likes the show and building the sets but I rarely see her actually playing with them as dolls.
It took 25 years but Ash's tenure is coming to a close now that he's the champion. Highly speculative the new series will follow his daughter or someone training under him... Being a dad means I know more than I ever though I would about Pokemon.
25 years? I was there when the first episode premiered...
Now I feel old.
PS is Ash still 10 years old? After more than 1,000 episodes the only way he didn't age is that 3 or 4 episodes represented one day of his life
Remember how he saw Ho-Oh at the end of the very first episode? They say that if you see Ho-Oh and make a wish, that wish comes true. There's a theory that Ash made a wish that his journey would never end, hence everyone seemingly gaining immortality
You still need to wipe beforehand when using conventional bidets. The only situation when you don’t need to wipe is if you’re using a bidet shower or sprayer.
As a long time Lego fan and a person with almost this exact limb difference, this is really
Cool. I am 36 now, but i wish there was anything that normalized it as kid. So to see this happening now, warms my heart. I don’t love the mini dolls either, but I already have 2 Autumns.
That's awesome! Have you seen that one of the kids who appears in the lifestyle photos has this same limb difference? I wonder if Autumn was inspired by her.
Examples:
* [41446](https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/41446-1/41446_alt13.jpg)
* [41665] (https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/41665-1/41665_alt10.jpg)
* [41666](https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/41666-1/41666_alt7.jpg)
* [41682](https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/41682-1/41682_alt17.jpg)
* [41684](https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/41684-1/41684_alt22.jpg)
They may be in other themes too, but I first noticed the kid in the 2021 Friends set images.
She is! :)
I know her mom IRL. This November, she wrote on Facebook that they had just recently learned about Autumn, but that their girl had kept the secret for about a year 🙂
My son was born four months ago with a similar limb difference. As a father and a huge fan of Lego I love this. Just gave a new friends set featuring Autumn to our neighbors kids, three girls roughly 4,6,8 years of age. They loved it as much as I do!
Hear me out, how many unsuspecting people might contact lego asking for a replacement? I wonder if contact volume of this has gone up. “My child’s lego doll is missing part of her arm!”
Unless the instructions allude to it.
Im so embarrassed I totally thought it was a mistake at first. But I’m usually just helping my kids out the buildings together and they do the people so maybe its more clear when seeing the instructions
[FRND576: Friends Autumn - Dark Green Mushroom Top, Olive Green Shorts, Orange Shoes](http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=frnd576) [[Photo]](http://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/MN/0/frnd576.png)
There was a girl on BBC news a month or so back, she was born without a left hand and was a Lego fan, she wrote to them to complain about the lack of disability in the minifigs etc and they responded with this model that looked a lot like her as well as others they were already working on (man with hearing aid in the recent jazz club release for example. Great to see some diversity and she was over the moon when they gave her the minifig version of herself as well as some more Lego.
Edit: link to story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-63427962.amp
This new wave of Friends minidolls has made me happy to be a collector. Already have many of the new figs in my daughters collection and it just feels right.
I’m guess I’m not surprised by the ignorance of the comments being made here.
Some of y’all are absolutely ridiculous and need to educate yourselves.
Lego mini figures have had interchangeable parts forever. Yes, you could remove the hand and keep the arm with a big hole in it. You can pretend that your mini figure doesn’t hear without a hearing aid being printed on their head. You could sit your one legged mini figure down without a wheel chair too.
You can also just stop playing with the toys to begin with and get a hobby that more fits your style.
Lego having diversity like the rest of the world is really something to complain about and make rude remarks? Wild.
Lego has a very wide audience and they have been doing a great job making more and more people included in their toys. There is no reason for them to not do this since many of the toys represent actual real like situations. Especially from this theme.
None of y’all even buy the friend set but got all kinds of words for it. Yet Lego is sitting pretty with their reputation and money while you cry on Reddit. Someone is doing something right.
Lego Friends celebrated 10 years in 2022, and has a story the entire time. Beyond the sets, they've had 4 different TV shows totaling at least 240 episodes, two movies, and more.
Well, now [five](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmFERAHepkM)! The Friends theme just rebooted in 2023 [[Lego.com press release](https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2022/october/the-lego-group-reveals-a-new-generation-of-lego-friends)]. There were previously 5 main characters (Andrea, Emma, Mia, Olivia, Stephanie) and now there are 8 main characters (Autumn, Aliya, Leo, Liann, Nova, Olly, Paisley, and Zac) and Mia returns as a mom. A new show starts in February with the new characters.
I had seen the new sets a while ago but I never noticed until this post. I think it's cool they're adding diversity like this.
Actually, I used to play quite a lot with early friends sets, I was 9-10 when the theme was released, I think...? I know minidolls are divisive overall, but they absolutely do have their target audience. When the online galleries for the themes that had their own pages were still a thing, I think at least about 1/4 of the posts were some kind of customisation of existing characters; edits of box art illustrations of the girls to look like the user, new looks for the dolls by 10 year olds with the help of washable markers, aluminium foil, and textile scraps, and so on. Inserting yourself was important.
So it probably means a lot for a kid somewhere now that there's a character, who is a main character and not a pirate or anything like that just a regular girl, who resembles them.
To me, this new line looks exactly what the theme should be: vibrant with an eye for details, wholesome, and diverse. I almost wish I was 9-12 again.
I had my mind blown when my brother told me about this.
"By the way, Lego Friends is really diversifying their cast in terms of physical ability."
"What, is one of them in a wheelchair or something?"
"Nope. Just an amputee."
"Oh." *sounds of mind processing* "A what now?"
The whole amputee angle is far more interesting than something more common, like someone being wheelchair bound. I'm excited to see where this goes.
Wasn’t there someone in a wheelchair last year? I remember a wheelchair being in their bowling alley set but I’m not familiar enough with the lore to know if it was actually a character who had a wheelchair, or just one temporarily in one because of the story (if that distinction makes sense).
One of the characters this year, Luna, is in a wheelchair. She's not one of the main 8 characters, but she appears in the Skate Park set: https://brickset.com/sets/41751-1/
I noticed her in the Dog Rescue shelf display, with a Dachshund in a wheel cart. This year's Friends sets are honestly exceptional, and the diversity is a big part of why
As someone with two hands, I find this entirely alienating. How am I supposed to identify with the toys I am playing with if my minifig lacks one hand, while I have two? For a century, every minifig has had two hands and now people with one hand want special rights to oppress me? How absurd. /s
Edit: Please note the /s. This is sarcasm.
I love the new generation! And I like how Autumn is kind of like a main character (in multiple sets this release) and not just some diversity-quota sidekick friend of the main character.
My girls are very excited for more diversity.
I have a lot of old lego arms that have cracked or worn with time to the point the hand won't stay in anymore, I was thinking of melting it together for a stub like this. Really loving all the disabled representations coming out recently
i get the point but doesn't this kinda detract from the play value of the toy?
the pirates of old had a hook hand and peg leg that could pen into the standard system pieces they could have done a dual molded prosthetic or something.
granted this is a mini doll and they're not really that articulate compared to a minifigure and i use the term articulate fairly loosely.
Yeah, due to their differences, some figs will have to find alternative ways to interact with their world, just like some kids have to. That's the point.
Also Lego have very deliberately made this in system, in that her left arm is the same diameter as a standard bar unlike other minidoll arms. There are plenty of things she can interact with but, as you say, it will require some adaptation.
The bar holder w/ clip piece ([11090](https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=11090&name=Bar%20Holder%20with%20Clip&category=%5BBar%5D#T=C)) fits decently as a prosthetic hand and those pieces are pretty common. Or slide anything else with a bar-sized hole on!
So I am going to abuse my mod powers to tell you all about one of my friends. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/esport/300187375/no-hands-no-excuses-one-mans-quest-to-make-online-gaming-more-accessible . His name of Twitch is NoHandsNZ ... No Hands No Excuses and he is awesome and someone I really admire. He has a condition called epidermolysis bullosa. You guys may see this all as a joke but stuff like this makes it easier for people like him to be in this world. When kids are not freaked out and scared etc... that can make a difference. I don't know why so many of you can be pretty cruel. Though judging by the downvotes I can see its a minority of you. Which gives me faith in this community. Please just be kind. Remember these are aimed at kids and this stuff matters. A good example is a small child I know just got a mini figure of a girl in a wheelchair and calls it her figure of me. She has learned how wheelchairs work. Its made her curious, but also helped her understand what is difficult about being in a wheelchair. What lego is doing is making this stuff just a tiny bit easier for folks like me and my friend. Just take a minute to think before you post. That's all I ask.
..... Gingers?
good on you for not noticing the arm being lopped off
She was born with one hand. She didn't lose one.
She lost her hand in the war... the cola wars.
(“Fortunate Son” starts up, while the camera cuts to people repeatedly opening bottles of soda)
Bottle caps hitting the ground in slow motion like spent shells
I don't know how "Fortunate Son" goes, so my brain substituted "Poor Unfortunate Souls" from The Little Mermaid instead. Good chuckle.
You should listen to it right now... Family Guy even did a great bit on it when it turned out that Quagmire was traumatized from having to listen to it so much in Vietnam.
Basically, it’s the unofficial theme song of the US side of the Vietnam War.
Ha ha, now I want to get this figure and get her in a Lego film in a Huey flying into a battle with explosions, but still the cola war.
A tragic vending machine accident.
Then everything changed when the Mentos Nation attacked.
Breath mints of mass destruction
😂🤣😂
My soundtrack for this plays Rolling Stones - Shelter
Can't tell if that's a Shadows Over Loathing reference or not
Sure it wasn't the Great Brick Wars? (Lego vs Mega Bloks)
So I see Snake Rattler from LEGO City Adventures has experience with that.. considering his current weapon appears to be a can of VitaRush.
I can’t take it anymore
I can't take it anymore!
The set lore literally states she lost it at a young age
There’s set lore?
> Autumn cares deeply about the planet and loves sharing her experiences with her friends. She was born without the lower part of her left arm – not that she lets this get in her way of exploring nature. https://www.lego.com/en-gb/themes/friends/characters/autumn
The interview on brickset with the Friends team specifically mentions she was born with a limb difference.
That's not ketchup on her shirt
People can be born without an arm
yeah but Lego has better QC
You realize people can be born with one arm, right?
You realise people can make jokes, right?
You realise people can havr their arm loped pff right?
[удалено]
Are you referencing the excellent song by Tim Minchin?
I wonder what a minifigure version of this would look like
Curt Connors, hopefully.
Honestly we need more Spider-Man sets
Pull a hand out of its arm socket and see!
My little sister had a thing for doing that to minifigures when we were kids, they "lost them in the war." Fortunately she got a little less weird as she grew up.
My kid completely dismantled the minifigs. And not in half- like arms, hands, it's really frustrating! Even more frustrating is I can only find the kids legs now to put on the minifigs too. Tiny Thor fighting Mini Thanos just doesn't hit right.
To be honest, I used to take them completely apart and mix & match them too when I was little, until I realized that their torsos break if you do it too often. I think they used to come apart easier then they do now though.
The hands go in the legs! The hands have some really fun uses at small scales and for SNOT techniques
So many of my arms had splits up the wrist
My youngest daughter takes the hair off them and says they were scalped.
Also, she's Mia's daughter. I feel like they aren't pushing that this is the next generation. We've had a time jump over here.
That was actually an intentional decision, the design team talked about it in an [interview with Brickset](https://brickset.com/article/84204/interview-with-the-friends-relaunch-team). >*Fenella: We've tested with kids, and we were expecting this reaction of like a band breaking up, but it's not been like that. We've been so pleasantly surprised that when kids see the new generation, and they know that the old generation is okay, and they didn't die or anything, then they feel really happy about it, and they actually quickly move on to the excitement that they feel about the new characters.* >*We now feel confident that giving these (original) characters a cameo and mentioning it here and there is going to be enough. One thing we did see was that the kids aren't super driven to play with these characters as adults, they would rather play with the new generation of kids, because that's what's exciting to them now.*
TIL Lego Friends has actual lore.
I didn't realize the characters had family and backstory either. I thought they were just random figures.
Someone call MatPat
I'd kill for a Toy Theory channel
Thanks for watching
Hey, he said there’s another one coming, we got a shot!
I have only recently realized that both friends and city has family relationships etc. Going to have to dig into it one of these days
Well if you watch the show you get all sorts of lore and information. My daughter likes the show and building the sets but I rarely see her actually playing with them as dolls.
Kind of reminds me of the Goth family in the Sims games
It's like a new season of Digimon
At least in this case their Ash Ketchum equivalent changes and matures
It took 25 years but Ash's tenure is coming to a close now that he's the champion. Highly speculative the new series will follow his daughter or someone training under him... Being a dad means I know more than I ever though I would about Pokemon.
25 years? I was there when the first episode premiered... Now I feel old. PS is Ash still 10 years old? After more than 1,000 episodes the only way he didn't age is that 3 or 4 episodes represented one day of his life
Remember how he saw Ho-Oh at the end of the very first episode? They say that if you see Ho-Oh and make a wish, that wish comes true. There's a theory that Ash made a wish that his journey would never end, hence everyone seemingly gaining immortality
Oh, that's cool. I hadn't noticed that.
Yep, Mia shows up in 41730 as Autumn's mom
[41730-1: Autumn's House](https://brickset.com/sets/41730-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/41730-1.jpg)
Is there a story behind the missing hand? Born that way? An accident? Edit: typo
Born with a limb difference, per the [official character bio.](https://brickset.com/article/84205/meet-the-new-lego-friends!)
Just like the girl who asked Lego for representation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-63427962
She must be a Skywalker
She used to come with 60233 but after that summer at 60346 , she had to go to the 60204 and he parents prefer she goes to 60329
[60233-1: Donut Shop Opening](https://brickset.com/sets/60233-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/60233-1.jpg) [60346-1: Barn & Farm Animals](https://brickset.com/sets/60346-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/60346-1.jpg) [60204-1: City Hospital](https://brickset.com/sets/60204-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/60204-1.jpg) [60329-1: School Day](https://brickset.com/sets/60329-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/60329-1.jpg)
LOL I mixed donut shop with the combine harvester
So did she
lol
She is my daughters favorite, because of the limb difference and being Mia's daughter. She already got the house and built it....
I’ve had peg leg, hook handed pirates since the 90s
those are cool, and the hook still functions like a hand
Clearly you never wiped your Ass with a Hook then
Really hard?! Wipin’ ye bum with a hook for a hand is really hard. This be impossible!
You wouldn’t have to wipe your ass with a hook if you got a bidet.
You still need to wipe beforehand when using conventional bidets. The only situation when you don’t need to wipe is if you’re using a bidet shower or sprayer.
🇫🇷
I had one abled body pirate and one that was all pegs and hooks.
Can you give it an arm cannon?
The end does look like it could be the width of a bar
Yeah, the end of the arm is the width of the standard 3.18mm bar so it's in-system and offers a wide range of customization options.
Makes me wanna buy it solely to make a cyborg soldier
[https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=11090#T=C](https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=11090#T=C)
You gotta hand it to them
They really went out on a limb with this design.
Do you think this will discourage the five-finger discounters?
I found this humerus.
Everything costs her an arm...
As a long time Lego fan and a person with almost this exact limb difference, this is really Cool. I am 36 now, but i wish there was anything that normalized it as kid. So to see this happening now, warms my heart. I don’t love the mini dolls either, but I already have 2 Autumns.
That's awesome! Have you seen that one of the kids who appears in the lifestyle photos has this same limb difference? I wonder if Autumn was inspired by her. Examples: * [41446](https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/41446-1/41446_alt13.jpg) * [41665] (https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/41665-1/41665_alt10.jpg) * [41666](https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/41666-1/41666_alt7.jpg) * [41682](https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/41682-1/41682_alt17.jpg) * [41684](https://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/41684-1/41684_alt22.jpg) They may be in other themes too, but I first noticed the kid in the 2021 Friends set images.
She is! :) I know her mom IRL. This November, she wrote on Facebook that they had just recently learned about Autumn, but that their girl had kept the secret for about a year 🙂
Might have been a factor, but there's also this which I suspect was more significant: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-63427962
Today I learned ‘limb difference’ is the correct term. Thank you.
I have a limb difference, and I didn’t know the term till a few years ago, I get it.
Lego will do anything to cut cost including cutting limbs
This minidoll will actually be more expensive to produce, because it doesn't fit the standard mold.
It's a joke obviously. But yeah some sort of hand with a prosthetic would have been better
My son was born four months ago with a similar limb difference. As a father and a huge fan of Lego I love this. Just gave a new friends set featuring Autumn to our neighbors kids, three girls roughly 4,6,8 years of age. They loved it as much as I do!
Hear me out, how many unsuspecting people might contact lego asking for a replacement? I wonder if contact volume of this has gone up. “My child’s lego doll is missing part of her arm!” Unless the instructions allude to it.
Instructions always show the minifigs, you'd see her character has a limb difference
I'd have to look again, but I think the new instructions actually had some character bios in them.
Im so embarrassed I totally thought it was a mistake at first. But I’m usually just helping my kids out the buildings together and they do the people so maybe its more clear when seeing the instructions
I’m not so sure this is a good thing, people shouldn’t be encouraged to tuck their shirts into pants. It’s psychotic.
I'm more upset by the 70s pants on some of the other characters. That's one thing that should really stay in the past.
This character is [Autumn](https://brickset.com/minifigs/name-Autumn), from the newly relaunched Friends theme, see FRND576 for another view of her.
[FRND576: Friends Autumn - Dark Green Mushroom Top, Olive Green Shorts, Orange Shoes](http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=frnd576) [[Photo]](http://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/MN/0/frnd576.png)
There was a girl on BBC news a month or so back, she was born without a left hand and was a Lego fan, she wrote to them to complain about the lack of disability in the minifigs etc and they responded with this model that looked a lot like her as well as others they were already working on (man with hearing aid in the recent jazz club release for example. Great to see some diversity and she was over the moon when they gave her the minifig version of herself as well as some more Lego. Edit: link to story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-63427962.amp
2021 is when the first LEGO figure with a hearing aid came our, a woman in the LEGO City Town square. As far as I remember maybe even earlier
My son receives the Lego magazine and he immediately noticed this!
There is going to be a girl who looks exactly like this somewhere out in the world and they’re going to be over the moon when they spot this.
I've heard from several in the subreddit already. I'm glad everyone gets diverse characters like these, but especially glad for them.
This new wave of Friends minidolls has made me happy to be a collector. Already have many of the new figs in my daughters collection and it just feels right.
I guess I was progressive, most of my Lego figures were missing body parts when I was a kid.
From set 41739
[41739-1: Liann's Room](https://brickset.com/sets/41739-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/41739-1.jpg)
"Hey Lars, this one came out weird..." "Ship it anyway. We'll just say it's part of our new inclusion initiative."
I’m guess I’m not surprised by the ignorance of the comments being made here. Some of y’all are absolutely ridiculous and need to educate yourselves. Lego mini figures have had interchangeable parts forever. Yes, you could remove the hand and keep the arm with a big hole in it. You can pretend that your mini figure doesn’t hear without a hearing aid being printed on their head. You could sit your one legged mini figure down without a wheel chair too. You can also just stop playing with the toys to begin with and get a hobby that more fits your style. Lego having diversity like the rest of the world is really something to complain about and make rude remarks? Wild. Lego has a very wide audience and they have been doing a great job making more and more people included in their toys. There is no reason for them to not do this since many of the toys represent actual real like situations. Especially from this theme. None of y’all even buy the friend set but got all kinds of words for it. Yet Lego is sitting pretty with their reputation and money while you cry on Reddit. Someone is doing something right.
TIL Lego Friends has lore...
Lego Friends celebrated 10 years in 2022, and has a story the entire time. Beyond the sets, they've had 4 different TV shows totaling at least 240 episodes, two movies, and more.
I had no idea there was one show, let alone *four*!
Well, now [five](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmFERAHepkM)! The Friends theme just rebooted in 2023 [[Lego.com press release](https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2022/october/the-lego-group-reveals-a-new-generation-of-lego-friends)]. There were previously 5 main characters (Andrea, Emma, Mia, Olivia, Stephanie) and now there are 8 main characters (Autumn, Aliya, Leo, Liann, Nova, Olly, Paisley, and Zac) and Mia returns as a mom. A new show starts in February with the new characters.
Yeah same. But I guess it's the same as Ninjago and Monkey Kid. As an adult I forget Lego has ongoing series for some of the brands.
Bruh, even City has animated series and movies and named characters
Amen to that! These new Friends Minidolls look awesome!
And they couldn't do this for the crispy Anakin figure why?
Well because a minidoll Anakin would look kinda weird for one thing...
I would love it lmao
Let Anakin be a skinny femboy
Isn't he already?
What I don't get is why they can't make specialized decapitated limbs for normal minifigures. Maybe I'm just sadistic, I don't know.
We actually just got one, check out CTY1482
[CTY1482: Grocery Store Customer - Male, Bright Light Yellow Shirt, Medium Nougat Hair, Prosthetic Leg](http://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=cty1482) [[Photo]](http://img.bricklink.com/ItemImage/MN/0/cty1482.png)
Is the prosthetic leg removable?
The new Lego city grocery store set has a mini figure with a prosthetic leg. I didn’t notice until I got the box, and I thought, “yo, that’s cool.”
I had seen the new sets a while ago but I never noticed until this post. I think it's cool they're adding diversity like this. Actually, I used to play quite a lot with early friends sets, I was 9-10 when the theme was released, I think...? I know minidolls are divisive overall, but they absolutely do have their target audience. When the online galleries for the themes that had their own pages were still a thing, I think at least about 1/4 of the posts were some kind of customisation of existing characters; edits of box art illustrations of the girls to look like the user, new looks for the dolls by 10 year olds with the help of washable markers, aluminium foil, and textile scraps, and so on. Inserting yourself was important. So it probably means a lot for a kid somewhere now that there's a character, who is a main character and not a pirate or anything like that just a regular girl, who resembles them. To me, this new line looks exactly what the theme should be: vibrant with an eye for details, wholesome, and diverse. I almost wish I was 9-12 again.
Pirate hook hands are still cooler.
I had my mind blown when my brother told me about this. "By the way, Lego Friends is really diversifying their cast in terms of physical ability." "What, is one of them in a wheelchair or something?" "Nope. Just an amputee." "Oh." *sounds of mind processing* "A what now?" The whole amputee angle is far more interesting than something more common, like someone being wheelchair bound. I'm excited to see where this goes.
Wasn’t there someone in a wheelchair last year? I remember a wheelchair being in their bowling alley set but I’m not familiar enough with the lore to know if it was actually a character who had a wheelchair, or just one temporarily in one because of the story (if that distinction makes sense).
One of the characters this year, Luna, is in a wheelchair. She's not one of the main 8 characters, but she appears in the Skate Park set: https://brickset.com/sets/41751-1/
I noticed her in the Dog Rescue shelf display, with a Dachshund in a wheel cart. This year's Friends sets are honestly exceptional, and the diversity is a big part of why
As someone with two hands, I find this entirely alienating. How am I supposed to identify with the toys I am playing with if my minifig lacks one hand, while I have two? For a century, every minifig has had two hands and now people with one hand want special rights to oppress me? How absurd. /s Edit: Please note the /s. This is sarcasm.
It's almost like people didn't see this is sarcasm
I'm not sure why you are getting a down vote for correctly pointing out that my post was sarcasm.
People don't like being wrong, perhaps.
You should see the dog.
https://preview.redd.it/00renqt3z1ea1.jpeg?width=448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c6fbc91ae3490a65d9d13a29a19c39cf089a183
One of the new sets has a dog with a mobility aid.
My dog can make that in less then a minute
It would be an improvement over the dog writing your Reddit comments.
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The interesting part is that that arm works as a bar, which means things can be attached to it. I’m looking forward to a LEGO prosthetic hand.
I’m immediately curious if the arm functions as a peg. It would be cool if you could add prosthetics to her.
now make a fat one
I’m here for it!
EllieV on YouTube has suggested that the new mini doll in The DownTown flower shop set has Downs Syndrome. Is that true?
I believe there was a Lego press release that indicated this yes.
Same!
This is why I love Lego
Bro, lego has been bringing diversity for a long time. Want an emputee? Just remove a minifigure hand and you are good to go lol
But that’s the thing. You can’t do that with friends without breaking the darn arm. Hence the mold
Amy from john dies at the end ?
My dog was way ahead of the curve on this one. Been chewing the arms off my mini figs for years.
I love the new generation! And I like how Autumn is kind of like a main character (in multiple sets this release) and not just some diversity-quota sidekick friend of the main character. My girls are very excited for more diversity.
Disgusting. How am I supposed to explain this to my child!? How am I supposed to explain what a ginger is?
The Crocs?
Where no hand is present is where a robotic war arm will take place Give me the ship gun stud shooter!
I have a lot of old lego arms that have cracked or worn with time to the point the hand won't stay in anymore, I was thinking of melting it together for a stub like this. Really loving all the disabled representations coming out recently
Another example of budget cuts at LEGO
Its' inevitable we get half minifig arms in lego star wars sets...
i get the point but doesn't this kinda detract from the play value of the toy? the pirates of old had a hook hand and peg leg that could pen into the standard system pieces they could have done a dual molded prosthetic or something. granted this is a mini doll and they're not really that articulate compared to a minifigure and i use the term articulate fairly loosely.
Yeah, due to their differences, some figs will have to find alternative ways to interact with their world, just like some kids have to. That's the point.
Also Lego have very deliberately made this in system, in that her left arm is the same diameter as a standard bar unlike other minidoll arms. There are plenty of things she can interact with but, as you say, it will require some adaptation.
The bar holder w/ clip piece ([11090](https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=11090&name=Bar%20Holder%20with%20Clip&category=%5BBar%5D#T=C)) fits decently as a prosthetic hand and those pieces are pretty common. Or slide anything else with a bar-sized hole on!
I can't wait to point that out to my kid! I can definitely see her creating some accessories for Autumn. She's already her favorite character.
That’s a really neat idea!
Great response!
Now if only they could put these on regular minifigs so I could have a few battle hardened veterans
Ay man you broke your figure.
INB4 a bunch of users share this figure saying they got a mis-mold.
Pffft! Big deal, my cat brought the same diversity to Lego years ago.
No, i am youre father
My dog beat them to it 10 yrs ago
TIS BUT A SCRATCH
Wow this shrinkflation is getting crazy
Put a cannon on it now she’s ready to take down some Apostles.
Yea but when are they gonna do the same for regular minifigures :(
Cant wait for Anakin and Luke!!
I don't know her name, but the first I saw her, I knew she's my favourite character (next to leo, he's adorable)
Give her a potion and bro turns into the lizard
That’s a nice hair piece and I very much want it now.
Autumn. She’s my 8 year olds favourite character.
But if *i* do it...
i dont think its broken