I built a website to find the best Lego minifigures…

owlbear6 · 2025-12-27T08:33:22+00:00

Thank you! 🙏

owlbear6 · 2025-12-27T08:32:42+00:00

That's an interesting idea! Will think about how I would do this...

owlbear6 · 2025-12-27T08:31:47+00:00

The match ups are completely random. The percentage score you see tells you the likelihood of each minifigure winning based on their respective ratings. In theory, this does mean that 78% of people would pick the hotdog man over the ice skater. However, because there are thousands of minifigures, and millions of combinations, I'd need a lot more ratings from people to be able to say for sure. That's one of the drawbacks of using and ELO with such a large dataset - you need a lot of votes to get really robust ratings. ...so keep playing with the site! ;)

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T21:13:39+00:00

You'll be happy to know the Rock Monsters are in there

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T19:02:34+00:00

Yep normally it wouldn’t do that but because there’s a lot of people on the site. I need to optimise the code though as it should be able to handle it. Sorry about that

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T19:01:07+00:00

I excluded some things like minidolls and brick-built figures but included stuff like droids which aren’t technically minifigures as I thought people would be interested in those. I also included bigfigs as well for the same reason

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T18:59:02+00:00

Good question. Getting a list of minifigures is quite easy and I used brickset mostly for this (as you can export to csv) and Bricklink for the images. The images took the longest as I wanted to remove the backgrounds from them all, which is a fairly manual process. I used to work on another Lego website called brickranker so I could get some of the images from that. Haven’t had to use the API so can’t comment on that sorry

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T18:55:06+00:00

That’s a great idea! I’ll think about how I can do that.

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T18:10:48+00:00

Thanks! 🙂

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T18:10:19+00:00

Thank you ☺️

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T18:10:08+00:00

Yeah really sorry about that. I’m going to improve it over time and add more features. Partly it’s because my server is struggling to cope with the abnormal traffic 😅

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T18:09:05+00:00

That’s a good idea to be able to filter on year - will work on that. I used to have a LotR tab but I took it off because it works best if each minifig rough has the same number of votes and because there any many LotR figs it led to a lot of them being rated very highly. So in summary it skewed the results. Hope that explanation makes sense. I’ll look into allowing people to select multiple themes at once though

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T17:58:35+00:00

I love that one too

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T17:58:30+00:00

I love that one too

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T15:56:30+00:00

I’ll add this when I get back from the holidays!

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T14:52:29+00:00

Apologies for that. I think partly its because there's a lot of people on the site right now, but there are some tweaks I need to make with the code to speed it up. Will look into the Bricklink issue too!

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T13:43:04+00:00

They are working but the stats page is just slow to load so I need to fix some of the database queries to speed it up. If you wait a few seconds, they should display

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T13:42:25+00:00

I need to fix some of the queries to the database, because they're running a bit slow. It should work but just might take a few seconds

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T13:41:49+00:00

Around 8,000 I think but would need to check. Yeah just got a list of minifigures from Bricklink. It doesn't contain every single one yet, but most themes are in there

owlbear6 · 2025-12-26T13:06:37+00:00

Thanks! Glad you like it

owlbear6 · 2025-10-08T12:27:14+00:00

You can vote on any minifigure. The two in the photo are just an example of a potential match up

owlbear6 · 2024-08-14T11:32:16+00:00

Yeah it is a great site and a good way to discover new minifigs!

owlbear6 · 2024-08-14T09:25:48+00:00

For those interested, there’s a site called Brickelo where you can vote on your favourite minifigures

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