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bringing the Logo back onto the head is pretty sure the main reason for that change - we also see the removal or fully open studs on other pieces, however heads with their often unique prints are very interesting to sell other brands as Lego.
I always wondered how I could tell if loose minifigures were indeed real or not given that there was no place to stamp a lego logo on the three slitted heads. Perhaps they could've stamped the logo in the inside of the head near the bottom rim? I do agree that counterfeit lego must be a very pressing issue for the company right now so stamping the logo on the heads is a right move.
You missed the most important thing: air pressure. Having the holes there makes the head easier to slide on and off, whereas having no hole means you create high pressure when putting the head on and suction when taking it off. I bet the ones with the holes don't make the same satisfying pop sound upon removal. It doesn't explain why the added the holes and then removed them, but I think it's more relevant than the choking thing.
As a child I swallowed a Lego minifig head after using the three little holes a a whistle. I didn't exactly choke, but I wouldn't have had the head in my mouth in the first place without the holes, so...
Was this a region specific thing or something? I had UK lego sets from the 80s to the 2010s and from what i remember i only had a couple of heads with holes the rest were of the other two types
I always thought the holes in the heads were to keep the heads mounted more reliably. It was supposed to allow air to flow out of the top and prevent air pressure from poping the heads off.
Having grown up in the 90’s I do remember having a handful of the oldest design of lego figure heads. I HATED them because they were difficult to take off and put onto other figure bodies. The holes let air in and out, instead of just compressing the air out while putting on and creating a vacuum while taking the head off.
I never had that problem the heads went in my mouth first then onto the figure to stop that happening . The head got larger with the heat of your mouth and lubed it up first to . At aged 5 I did not no I was doing this and it worked …kids learning back in the day before this 💩 📱
This. And by the time they had the 'force pressure' optimized (so they didn't need the holes anymore) they simply switched to a less cost intensive production method.
Good content, but you missed one possible reason for the holes. They were introduced around the time LEGO started having multi-colour faces on minifigs. I believe they used a 3-pronged holder to keep the head piece in a fixed position between different passes of the printing pads, to ensure all print passes were correctly aligned. I think newer print processes don't require the prongs, so the hole pattern is no longer needed. You could well be right that the reason driving this change is the need to have an easily visible LEGO logo to counter fake minifigs. If the reason for the holes was to prevent choking, I think we would have had one round hole, not the 3 small ones
Well, the holes on a pen cap aren't there to avoid chocking. They are meant to avoid vacuum when you take the cap apart because that would make the cap stuck to the pen. So for sure those holes on Lego mini figures are to deal with air pressure while assembling
Here are the reasons to save a bit of time 1. He head holes made it harder to put enough force to push it back up to cough it out 2. The holes are too small 3. Counterfeit Lego (the holes made it hard to put the Lego logo there)
I never though about the heads exploding but I did think for a while that it was both for chocking hazards and pressure. I noticed as a kid that it was harder to put the heads without a hole on the body and taking the head off gave a popping noise sometimes.
This reminds me how i once traded one Lego friends boy minifigure as a kid... FOR A FCKING GREY RABBIT *WITH BROKEN EAR* Because my logic was "i need a pet for every girl, so i have to trade a boy instead" *Meths skils*
I actually just realized this a couple days ago while looking at my Minifigures, I found it odd cuz growing up they've always had holes for me, so I just assumed they all did. But looking at my newer figures, they all are closed off and I found it quite odd.
Hmmm... I have season 1 Jay with the holes in his head, but then Jay DX without the hole... I got them off of bricklink so the Jay DX head could be a newer head on the older minifigure.
I buy mini figures from a store at the mall you can buy mini figures from 1-5 dollars and you can ask to inspect it closer (you cant touch them while on the shelf) so you know what head piece the figure has i really like it because its just figures and no sets so if you lost say a kai figure you could walk down give em 2 bucks and have kai back i really want to go there when this whole thing is over because i have lots of money saved up and want a hulk fig and some spiderman and ninja figs
I remember noticing the transition to the 3-hole heads one Christmas when my brothers and I got a lot of Legos. I noticed a few of my new minifigures had "funny heads," while the rest had the old-fashioned heads. If I remember, there were even a few cases in the next year where I would get a mix of the two head styles in a single set.
@@jeannefortin5603 Same I got one of the first Lego Ninjago set Witch was the Jay motorbike, and a snow trooper battlepack I saw them but i didn't know what it was for.
Even though this is a year old, something interesting I found was with my LEGO alien conquest sets. The news lady didn’t have head holes while one of the ADU soldiers did. These were released around the same time so I wonder how that happened. What’s even stranger was I think these were released around 2011 (correct me if I’m wrong).
I always thought that the holes were to make it easier to take the heads on and off. Without them it is possible for a vacuum to form, and make it harder to pull the two pieces apart. Clearly this isn't a major problem, so may also be an urban legend, I suspect the peices are so small that it would never be too much of a problem.
I always thought it was to make it easier to remove from a toro piece as it would prevent vacuum. If it was because of a choking hazard, why didn’t they put holes in all the other small lego pieces?
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The hole is used to control the minds of children to make them buy more LEGO
Really
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How?
It hypnotizes them so whenever they see a lego box they wine until they’re parents buy it to them (cause a saw a kid do that once so yeah
I like these sorts of videos - keep them coming ;)
Omg 🙊 BRICKOMOTION!!?? I love you videos 😍❤️ you got me to get the Harry potter diagon ally and it took ages but it looks grate and you video helped me alot to see if I really wanted it
I like your vids brickomotion
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I assume the holes were a way of easily removing or placing the air, allowing an entry or exit for air instead of having to deal with air pressure
bringing the Logo back onto the head is pretty sure the main reason for that change - we also see the removal or fully open studs on other pieces, however heads with their often unique prints are very interesting to sell other brands as Lego.
I always wondered how I could tell if loose minifigures were indeed real or not given that there was no place to stamp a lego logo on the three slitted heads. Perhaps they could've stamped the logo in the inside of the head near the bottom rim? I do agree that counterfeit lego must be a very pressing issue for the company right now so stamping the logo on the heads is a right move.
2:03 But yet swallowing a Lego head with or without holes , to me still seems very hazardous.
Ninjago and Star Wars are my favorite LEGO themes
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It was to make it easier for the figures heads to be pushed on without the issue of compressing the aid inside. But it made it too easy
0:19 1:42 The Squidward in the Lego SpongeBob sets from 2006 to 2008 has that Same design then in 2009 it was changed smooth
1:10 SPACESHIP
How do you remove a hole without making a larger hole?
Bit like a fishing net... the more holes you make in it, the less holes it will have in total
Actually those are good theories I Love learning more about Lego...
I must assist to a Lego School xd
It's the way LEGO gives us an headache!!!
2:56 pretty sure that was my first collectible minifigure
I never had a Collectible minifigure because my toy stores never had any but my store is selling the new dc cmf so I’m gonna get one
You missed the most important thing: air pressure. Having the holes there makes the head easier to slide on and off, whereas having no hole means you create high pressure when putting the head on and suction when taking it off. I bet the ones with the holes don't make the same satisfying pop sound upon removal.
It doesn't explain why the added the holes and then removed them, but I think it's more relevant than the choking thing.
I remember trying to breath through one of those pen caps (for some reason) and now I remmeber it was quite arduous if not painfully impossible.
The hole that looks like the top of a pen is the best one. I have a 2008 joker, 1999 Luke Skywalker and 1999 Obi 1 Konobi with that hole
When I find a mini-fig with holes in their head, I keep it because I think it's really old and worth money lol
As a child I swallowed a Lego minifig head after using the three little holes a a whistle. I didn't exactly choke, but I wouldn't have had the head in my mouth in the first place without the holes, so...
For some reason, the sith fury class interceptor has a mix of holes. Malgus has the 3 slits, while the sith troopers have the newer hole.
It's been years since I bought a set with a minifig. I didn't know they changed the head holes until now.
I have a few with holes but I've never seen the one with a flat head
I have the old lego heads and it was bought in 2013 and i still have them until now
This is such a specific topic
It's funny that LEGO bricks didn't have breathing holes. As if small bricks counldn't be 'eaten'. Why would the heads be so different.
I actually didn’t know that some minifig heads had the classic stud, instead of the unique hole stud
Damn I love your channel, even if i'm a year late to this videos upload
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they were probably trying to reduce production cost too
I have also the Zane. But with full iorn armour With 2bsnake soileders that figure also got lego logo on head
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now the holes are back, but the lego logo remains. the name on bricklink is vented stud
Wow I guess i have some 80s figures for some reason 😂
1:32 Consumed by a young “Master” builder. 😂
Lego Guy: Help me I'm in internal pain
i thought that they were so if you eat the heads or something and they get stuck inside you could still breath
guy: go check your lego minifigurs and see how there heads are you might have an old one me: but i have the minecraft legos they dont have holes...
I still have some original models
I still have some minifigs with the holes in the head
They should make a valve one. For Valve.
Very interesting 3rd theory
Also lego minifigure :>
6:16 Definitely not for 1999 Burger King First Pokémon Movie Promo: Pokéball Choking Incident.
Was this a region specific thing or something? I had UK lego sets from the 80s to the 2010s and from what i remember i only had a couple of heads with holes the rest were of the other two types
I got 4x of the og heads
The holes were added to help if children choke on them
Holes is for if you shallow and it stucks you can breath. Saved 7 minutes
I have a few of the second gen, not sure for the first though
3:54 seemless segway
Less complex designs cheaper and easier to injection mold
Found a Davy Jones with 2011 type head
Was that… was that a blues brother mini fig?
I just checked and I have all three different kinds!
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The holes are for in case you are choking you can breathe
Me and my brother were just talking about this very thing!
when i was younger i didnt eat legos, i shoved them up my nose duhh
6:03 a Lego Noob head.
6:05 Lego Minifigure!
Why do I have the first 2 mini figure heads, I have both the ball and the one with no face
I have some mini figures with no head holes
No,they have the hole because the hat or hair needs to click on to the head somehow.
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:56 omg i had those lolol
I always thought the holes in the heads were to keep the heads mounted more reliably. It was supposed to allow air to flow out of the top and prevent air pressure from poping the heads off.
i usually had the opposite problem
the heads would get stuck so hard i'd have to bite them off
@@roboticrebel4092 same
@@CallMe_Boris front tooth hurts just thinking about it
@@roboticrebel4092 man i was so close to swallowing it. My front teeth werent as hard as my back teeth so i had to do IT with backs.
@@roboticrebel4092 me too
To protect the "consumers"
I missed the part where that’s my problem I don’t consume legos
@@Maximum_Spider-Man NO FING LEGOS OR LEGOES, JUST. LEGO.
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Having grown up in the 90’s I do remember having a handful of the oldest design of lego figure heads. I HATED them because they were difficult to take off and put onto other figure bodies. The holes let air in and out, instead of just compressing the air out while putting on and creating a vacuum while taking the head off.
Modern minifigures are exactly like that. I can't even twist head to different side (some heads are two sided with two emotions).
I never had that problem the heads went in my mouth first then onto the figure to stop that happening . The head got larger with the heat of your mouth and lubed it up first to . At aged 5 I did not no I was doing this and it worked …kids learning back in the day before this 💩 📱
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I always thought they were so that the air that would get trapped in the hole when putting on the head would have somewhere to go
Tf?
So it dosen't force you to press down so hard
Maybe also prevent a seal/suction making it hard to separate the parts.
Sir Parker exactly
This. And by the time they had the 'force pressure' optimized (so they didn't need the holes anymore) they simply switched to a less cost intensive production method.
Good content, but you missed one possible reason for the holes.
They were introduced around the time LEGO started having multi-colour faces on minifigs. I believe they used a 3-pronged holder to keep the head piece in a fixed position between different passes of the printing pads, to ensure all print passes were correctly aligned.
I think newer print processes don't require the prongs, so the hole pattern is no longer needed. You could well be right that the reason driving this change is the need to have an easily visible LEGO logo to counter fake minifigs.
If the reason for the holes was to prevent choking, I think we would have had one round hole, not the 3 small ones
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I'd dismiss that theory, because the prongs don't align with the printing but vary with every head.
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The hole simply makes it easier to install/remove the head since it prevents a suction force. Some old heads were quite difficult to apply/remove.
Not actually it's for safety so if a kid swallow it they can still breath
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I’ve been waiting for this, sounds interesting
Same bro
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Hmm something seems strange but i cant put my finger on it
Well, the holes on a pen cap aren't there to avoid chocking. They are meant to avoid vacuum when you take the cap apart because that would make the cap stuck to the pen. So for sure those holes on Lego mini figures are to deal with air pressure while assembling
The hole was incase you choked. It was a somewhat common occurrence before it was added
Here are the reasons to save a bit of time
1. He head holes made it harder to put enough force to push it back up to cough it out
2. The holes are too small
3. Counterfeit Lego (the holes made it hard to put the Lego logo there)
Ryder Ace so basically it just didn’t work as intended, or at least we’ll enough
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@@pian-0g445 well*
You can swallow a LEGO head and you’ll be fine
I'm not a big fan of 3
I see videos like this where Zane is openly a robot, and I feel so old, I still remember the big reveal 😭
Yeah same
Why he rip off his own face tho 💀💀💀
Ahh I remember being young
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He looks like one but i wouldnt use him as a detective i would buy that one set
Bugget Noxes unfortunately, the saxophone has disappeared
Move over Yankee with no brim now we have: lego with no holes
I always thought the holes were to keep air pressure from potentially causing the head to explode when you assembled it
I never though about the heads exploding but I did think for a while that it was both for chocking hazards and pressure. I noticed as a kid that it was harder to put the heads without a hole on the body and taking the head off gave a popping noise sometimes.
This theory has blown my mind.
@@chamoo232 chocking
My siblings and i call the heads with the three holes “lagecy heads” and we trade them for other “high value” pieces like light saber pieces and etc.
Lmao
@@hal-fling hell yeah man 😂
This reminds me how i once traded one Lego friends boy minifigure as a kid... FOR A FCKING GREY RABBIT *WITH BROKEN EAR*
Because my logic was "i need a pet for every girl, so i have to trade a boy instead"
*Meths skils*
Your trades seem to be much better tho
@@hal-fling LOL
I actually just realized this a couple days ago while looking at my Minifigures, I found it odd cuz growing up they've always had holes for me, so I just assumed they all did. But looking at my newer figures, they all are closed off and I found it quite odd.
Same here, strange.
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Hmmm... I have season 1 Jay with the holes in his head, but then Jay DX without the hole... I got them off of bricklink so the Jay DX head could be a newer head on the older minifigure.
Kaelee Field yeah I got a lego deadpool fig without a hole but I saw a guy with the fig and it had holes so mine might be newer
Same
I buy mini figures from a store at the mall you can buy mini figures from 1-5 dollars and you can ask to inspect it closer (you cant touch them while on the shelf) so you know what head piece the figure has i really like it because its just figures and no sets so if you lost say a kai figure you could walk down give em 2 bucks and have kai back i really want to go there when this whole thing is over because i have lots of money saved up and want a hulk fig and some spiderman and ninja figs
Or you got a counterfeit head
I remember noticing the transition to the 3-hole heads one Christmas when my brothers and I got a lot of Legos. I noticed a few of my new minifigures had "funny heads," while the rest had the old-fashioned heads. If I remember, there were even a few cases in the next year where I would get a mix of the two head styles in a single set.
Ninjago is my favourite lego theme of all time.
:D
Mine too
And Star Wars to!!
I love ninjago as well
Me too your cool
who remembers lego power miners?i almost have the whole set.
I have the full farm set
They made a PS1 game of that there
I have lots of "fan heads" in my collection
Same! I think the holes are important for children not to choke cus they do
Same bro
I have lots of mordor orcs so me too!
@@warra7997 the thing is is the hole at the top is too small to breath through
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I never new about the 3 holes in the heads, it’s really cool
@@jeannefortin5603 Same I got one of the first Lego Ninjago set Witch was the Jay motorbike, and a snow trooper battlepack I saw them but i didn't know what it was for.
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3:11 bruh i didnt know there was a Lego factory in my city yet it took YEARS in my country for a Lego store to open
Even though this is a year old, something interesting I found was with my LEGO alien conquest sets. The news lady didn’t have head holes while one of the ADU soldiers did. These were released around the same time so I wonder how that happened. What’s even stranger was I think these were released around 2011 (correct me if I’m wrong).
Lego actualy removed holes cuz the heads whoud brake
Grammar much
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@@SNinja91 cause*
heads are hard to break
I always thought that the holes were to make it easier to take the heads on and off. Without them it is possible for a vacuum to form, and make it harder to pull the two pieces apart. Clearly this isn't a major problem, so may also be an urban legend, I suspect the peices are so small that it would never be too much of a problem.
It can be a bigger problem sometimes
Star Wars is my favorite LEGO theme
Bruh your profile picture is a 501st trooper, not boba fett
@@meganbenson1478 Boba Fett was a clone though
Interesting, i love your vids man, you always go behind the history of lego
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I always thought it was to make it easier to remove from a toro piece as it would prevent vacuum. If it was because of a choking hazard, why didn’t they put holes in all the other small lego pieces?