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 💩 📱
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.
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
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.
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)
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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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
Thanks for the video. I remember sorting my Lego to remove all the fake ones by looking for the safety holes not knowing there were none in my newer ones. So basically Theory #3 worked the other way for me lol
@@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.
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.
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?
That's why they were originally made but we know now that the holes are too small to properly breathe and it actually make it harder to push the piece out if someone is chocking on it. The Heimlich technique work best when the airways are completely stuck.
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.
These holes would be pretty useless, considering Poiseuille's Law, that air flow rate is proportional to the radius of the windpipe by a power of 4. Reducing the radius even a little greatly reduces the air flow. I speculate that what little air that can pass through makes practically no difference.
Fun Fact: minifig heads are the perfect size to be used as bullets in .40 S&W and 10mm auto pistol cartridges. They aren't exactly practical, however. The jist of it is that the super-lightweight minifig head leaves the barrel before the powder completely burns.
@@Michael-dj6pd If memory serves correct, a picture of a cartridge with a minifig head instead of a bullet was posted somewhere on social media. Then one of the firearms enthusiast websites I visit decided to see if it would actually work.
1:07 Just realized I had somehow gotten ahold of a 30 year old lego set when I was 4 or 5 because I had that exact minifigure. Probably not the best thing that I kept chewing on all the pieces to get then apart.
When he started talking about the choking thing, it brought me back to when I was 8, I shoved a lego up my nose, it got stuck, and had a horrible bloody nose😂😂
Lego with a hole in its head: I'm not normal Little kid: no but I hope u taste good Also little kid: chockes on Lego, darn it's not candy o well it's still small enough to proably kill me
I'm afraid the holes for breathing is just an urban legend. Safety standards don't work with a "we'll just pick one style of the many pieces you make, and if you could make a token effort please that would be great". If it was legally required every stud, brick, plate and jumper would have to comply. Also as your video showed head pieces are generally contained in hoods or hair or hat pieces so what are the chances of you swallowing one without the other? You did somewhat touch upon the real (and rather mundane) reason, and it was simply a production change in the injection molds used. This has happened many times over the years for a variety of technical reasons with most pieces and more often then not the difference is undetectable to the general consumer.
@@potatoheadpokemario1931 I suppose they changed the equipment a bit and at that time the new machines on the factory were somehow able to distinguish between the front and the back of the torso not needing the dots. Maybe those new ones weren't as effective as the old ones were, so LEGO just brought up the old technique of dots (I hope I made it clear)
You could have asked the viewers to share their consuming stories. I once swallowed the hand of a minifigure. I still miss it like an old man that lost true love
The problem with these changes is they make minifigure heads incomparable with stud launchers, like dude I just want to make horrofying head cannons but NOOO minifigure heads have to be weird
Awesome. I just bought a entirely red torso and legs minifigure with yellow hands and head with "Lego" stamped on the top with no hole. It sparked my interest to see why. It's the same one in this video!
I never felt it was much of a compromise... if you swallow this single Lego head with little holes you may live but swallow any of the other thousands of styles of brick & you are SOL.
I always assumed they made it easier to put on and take off the head since the holes let the air move freely and doesn't turn the head into like, a giant suction cup (like when you stack cups into each other)
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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 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
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
Man wrote a movie script
@@OakleyBartells ??? Is two paragraphs too much to comprehend for you??
I'd dismiss that theory, because the prongs don't align with the printing but vary with every head.
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
@@rllynothere imagjne if like, it was *both*
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.
The hole is used to control the minds of children to make them buy more LEGO
Really
Lol
DonutFlikz Studios yes
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
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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
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.
oh no
Lego bricks
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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
Pian-0 G basically
@@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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I’ve been waiting for this, sounds interesting
Same bro
Its that menace Spider Man!
Ur a menace. I'm a huge fan of JJJ
Hmm something seems strange but i cant put my finger on it
2:57 I HAVE HIM, i use him as a detective
sombertownDS 1 no one cares
@@Hockeyshooter shut up
@@Hockeyshooter proven your rude ass wrong, I care
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 like these sorts of videos - keep them coming ;)
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I like your vids brickomotion
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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 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
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.
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.
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).
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
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
During quarantine anything is interesting to watch. Even this.
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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
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.
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
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
5:12 HEAVY BREATHING
Oh my god! I hear it know
Thanks for the video. I remember sorting my Lego to remove all the fake ones by looking for the safety holes not knowing there were none in my newer ones. So basically Theory #3 worked the other way for me lol
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
Holup
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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.
Now in 2024 we have new Lego heads with 2 holes.
2:03 But yet swallowing a Lego head with or without holes , to me still seems very hazardous.
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.
Ninjago and Star Wars are my favorite LEGO themes
Same
Same fellow lego brother
Who cares
Mine is speed champions and creator
Mine is lord of the rings and star wars 😁
I prefer the holed heads because they are a bit easier to put on and take off.
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?
They were introduced for no choking hazards, hence the fact that if one did choke on them, they would be able to breathe
That's why they were originally made but we know now that the holes are too small to properly breathe and it actually make it harder to push the piece out if someone is chocking on it. The Heimlich technique work best when the airways are completely stuck.
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
These holes would be pretty useless, considering Poiseuille's Law, that air flow rate is proportional to the radius of the windpipe by a power of 4. Reducing the radius even a little greatly reduces the air flow. I speculate that what little air that can pass through makes practically no difference.
loved when he said, "when a master builder starts choking"
1:04
"Lacked holes in their heads"
*shows a head with a hole in it
Interesting, i love your vids man, you always go behind the history of lego
This is very specific, the evolution of the “LEGO” “minifigure” “head” “holes”
Wait til he gets to the hand joints
2:57 *Coffin dance intestifies*
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
in childhood(like 2010)
i liked Lego agents and lego power miners
0:20 I remember this head
1:32 ah yes a young master builder... lol xd
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
Fun Fact: minifig heads are the perfect size to be used as bullets in .40 S&W and 10mm auto pistol cartridges. They aren't exactly practical, however. The jist of it is that the super-lightweight minifig head leaves the barrel before the powder completely burns.
So... Am I going to regret asking you, how you know this?
@@Michael-dj6pd If memory serves correct, a picture of a cartridge with a minifig head instead of a bullet was posted somewhere on social media. Then one of the firearms enthusiast websites I visit decided to see if it would actually work.
3:21
Now i know why leakers have figures early
1:07 Just realized I had somehow gotten ahold of a 30 year old lego set when I was 4 or 5 because I had that exact minifigure. Probably not the best thing that I kept chewing on all the pieces to get then apart.
Me: checks Minecraft Lego figure.
Also me: Oh there's no hole:(
I love when says:
- young master builders💖
Actually those are good theories I Love learning more about Lego...
I must assist to a Lego School xd
Another part to the theory “doesn’t stop choking” is the child could swallow the head sideways and the holes wouldn’t matter at all!
When he started talking about the choking thing, it brought me back to when I was 8, I shoved a lego up my nose, it got stuck, and had a horrible bloody nose😂😂
Spitbrix 2020: Talking about holes
1:10 SPACESHIP
Pre-90s lego heads makes me very uncofortable
Lego with a hole in its head: I'm not normal
Little kid: no but I hope u taste good
Also little kid: chockes on Lego, darn it's not candy o well it's still small enough to proably kill me
Lego Worker:sir but what if the three holes help the kids from not choking?
Lego: Nah let them choke doesn't matter, not our problem.
Heiser is that a mthrfckin Spiderman reference
I mean it is fun to stick swords on the LEGO heads for some reason lol.
Ya XD
Imagine being a lego minifigure and have a hole in the middle of your head...💀
the holes in the top of the head allow you to put a red gem piece and make it look like there’s blood squirting out of their head
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Lego actualy removed holes cuz the heads whoud brake
Grammar much
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@@SNinja91 cause*
heads are hard to break
I still have the head from the 1990 i was going to throw it away because I thought it was fake, then i saw this video.
Let’s face it. We’ve all chocked and/or swallowed a LEGO piece at some point in our childhood.
I'm afraid the holes for breathing is just an urban legend. Safety standards don't work with a "we'll just pick one style of the many pieces you make, and if you could make a token effort please that would be great". If it was legally required every stud, brick, plate and jumper would have to comply. Also as your video showed head pieces are generally contained in hoods or hair or hat pieces so what are the chances of you swallowing one without the other?
You did somewhat touch upon the real (and rather mundane) reason, and it was simply a production change in the injection molds used. This has happened many times over the years for a variety of technical reasons with most pieces and more often then not the difference is undetectable to the general consumer.
I remembered LEGo removing the black spot on the neck but latter added it back, do you have an explanation?
Lego spots are used for the machines to know on which side of the torso part must particular prints be
@@Vshmarov That doesn't tell me why they where temporarily removed
@@potatoheadpokemario1931 I suppose they changed the equipment a bit and at that time the new machines on the factory were somehow able to distinguish between the front and the back of the torso not needing the dots. Maybe those new ones weren't as effective as the old ones were, so LEGO just brought up the old technique of dots (I hope I made it clear)
Also minidoll heads had holes at some point. In 2018 they started to ad holes. But not in minifigures. Interesting 🤔. Also 06:06
LEGO MINFIGURE
I have the 2012 Lego Loki but all the other minifigs in that set had no holes… confusing…
Me: checks my original Jay where’s, hmmm no holes
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LEGO MINIFIGURE
1:04 Yeah, these seven holes in my head make me miserable!
I never thought the holes were odd. I had thought that they were needed in some way.
"LEGO MINIFIGURE"
I’m just going to say LEGO minfigure.
I have exactly one minifigure with three holes. Wow. All the other 600 are newer ones
The head holes enticed my young self to chew more than not having head holes lol
One of the hundred comments
You could have asked the viewers to share their consuming stories.
I once swallowed the hand of a minifigure.
I still miss it like an old man that lost true love
To put it briefly, the small hole in the head of the lego minifigures is for breathing if the figure gets into the throat.
I always thought these served the elimination of a vacuum forming during head removal
SpitBrix: hey there guys what's going on
me: there is nothing going on
The problem with these changes is they make minifigure heads incomparable with stud launchers, like dude I just want to make horrofying head cannons but NOOO minifigure heads have to be weird
With closed hole it will be also harder to remove head from body. There will be low air pressure.
Awesome. I just bought a entirely red torso and legs minifigure with yellow hands and head with "Lego" stamped on the top with no hole. It sparked my interest to see why. It's the same one in this video!
6:02 they were trying to protect literal consumers
It's the way LEGO gives us an headache!!!
I never felt it was much of a compromise... if you swallow this single Lego head with little holes you may live but swallow any of the other thousands of styles of brick & you are SOL.
The factory thing explains why the Jay XZ in 2012 lacks a head hole but my NRG Kai from the same year has a head hole
In the Palpatine’s arrest that I have, only Mace Windu has the holes on the stud while all the other minifigs have the updated head
dang, that was smooth sponsor plug transition
I always assumed they made it easier to put on and take off the head since the holes let the air move freely and doesn't turn the head into like, a giant suction cup (like when you stack cups into each other)
I gotta fetch a minifig now.
I swear I had never seen those 3 vents, only one hole in their heads.