How to identify a minifig?

CSC

Hi, how do you correctly identify a minifig, if you only have the figure itself and not other indication?

Thanks

Jay37

I would start with the torso; search 'torso', then filter by colour (remember the arms may be a different colour, so ignore these for now). Obviously there will be lots of the most common colours, so you can use filters (male/female) or keywords ('badge', 'pocket', etc), but sometimes it's not a quick or straightforward process. Websites like goatleg.com and avbricks.no can help, but are skewed towards BL, although I think goatleg is now more integrated with BO's catalogue.

P6tu

Any pictures or was this just a general question?

robwoolly

I tend to google either just the legs or just the torso as usually they will have some kind of distinguising mark or colour. Once you have a match, (I find that bricklink tends to be most successful) you can then click into it and it will tell you which figure that part comes from. Alternatively if its something that I am really really struggling with I will just post a picture on the forums here and so far I have not had a figure that somebody has not been able to identify.

CSC

It was a general question as these things start piling up and I need to sort through ;-)

CG - Belgium

I usually start with the torso and/or legs as well. As soon as I've found the torso I continue with "comes in" and then you usually get the complete possibilities of minifigures with that particular item. Final step is to check wether I have all the items (head, torso, legs, hat/hair, accessories) to complete the minifigure before it goes on sale.

So far only one mistake (wrong head) made in a year and a half sales.

area 51 Bricks

I use a free website (made by a friend) called https://figureitout.app/ it finds the part(s) on Bricklink and then I look at what set it comes from and look it up on Brickowl....

Jay37

@TheBrickRoom Will definitely check that out when I get a bit of time. Looks like another very useful site

Calibrick

You can also search this forum for hints... older threads have also suggested other web sites that can help you with your search also. We all go through this. Good luck! :-)

alexwilcox

Another recommendation for figureitout! has saved me hours of searching.