{"id":400,"date":"2011-08-17T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dadequate\/?p=400"},"modified":"2011-08-17T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T17:44:15","slug":"lego-minifigure-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dadequate\/2011\/08\/lego-minifigure-extravaganza.html","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Minifigure Extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is a shelf in my son&#8217;s room.<\/strong> It&#8217;s one of two:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/262\/2011\/08\/minifigures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-401\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/262\/2011\/08\/minifigures.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>To say he&#8217;s into LEGO Minifigures<\/strong> is like saying Harold Camping is into the Rapture.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why we&#8217;re both excited to learn from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2011\/08\/for-the-love-of-lego-the-unofficial-lego-minifigure-catalog\" target=\"_blank\">GeekDad<\/a> about a new book\/project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minifigure.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Unofficial LEGO Minifigure Catalog<\/em><\/a>. Dr. Christoph Bartneck of the University of Canterbury is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartneck.de\" target=\"_blank\">one of those guys<\/a> who never grew out of his childhood LEGO obsession &#8212; and good for him &#8212; and set out to assemble a photographic, taxonomic field manual to all the LEGO minifigures produced between 1975 and 2010. That&#8217;s more than 3600 of these little guys. And girls. And skeletons and Harry Potter figures.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video about the catalog, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1463518978\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jasoboye-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=1463518978\" target=\"_blank\">available at Amazon for $64<\/a> or in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/product\/ebook\/the-unofficial-lego-minifigure-catalog\/16259479\" target=\"_blank\">on LuLu in a digital format for $24.65<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"510\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2VLRDt2JlLk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"640\" height=\"510\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2VLRDt2JlLk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s pretty expensive,<\/strong> but&#8230;the dude put a lot of work into this thing. How much is a labor of love worth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a shelf in my son&#8217;s room. It&#8217;s one of two: To say he&#8217;s into LEGO Minifigures is like saying Harold Camping is into the Rapture. Which is why we&#8217;re both excited to learn from GeekDad about a new book\/project called The Unofficial LEGO Minifigure Catalog. 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