We Build LEGO Minifigure Vending Machine, a Working Toy Delivery System

But immoderate sets spell beyond conscionable depicting things from popular civilization oregon our ain world. Some sets really function, really do something. The LEGO Minifigure Vending Machine is 1 specified set, and it’s unthinkable that, fixed an acquisition manual and 13 bags of interlocking integrative pieces, you can, aft 5 oregon six hours, extremity up with a moving instrumentality that dispense LEGO minifigures. It’s conscionable plain awesome, successful each consciousness of the word.

For a afloat functional extremity result, the LEGO Minifigure Vending Machine physique is reasonably straightforward. You portion it unneurotic it from the crushed up, starting with the basal of the instrumentality and gathering retired the scaffolding connected which it each sits. As you portion unneurotic the walls of the base, the instructions often person you halt to physique a disc-like interior portion arsenic a abstracted constituent earlier placing it into the guts of the machine.

At a fewer points during the build, placing these components decently was somewhat tricky, which is wherefore it’s a LEGO acceptable for adults, aimed astatine the 18+ property group. For instance, you person to wedge a peculiar integrative flap just so betwixt a rubber portion and a integrative piece, successful a mode that’s hard to discern from the drafting successful the acquisition manual. But due to the fact that it’s a hard step, the designers dedicate an full leafage of the manual to amusement the close mode and the incorrect mode to marque definite you instrumentality other attraction connected that step.

Overall, the Minifigure Vending Machine is simply a amusive and satisfying build. Most of the bags see 1 of the 16 minifigures that you spot into wide integrative capsules, truthful you don’t person to assemble each of them astatine once. I ne'er got bored arsenic I built the set, thing that tin hap occasionally successful different sets erstwhile you person to portion unneurotic repetitive parts.

Of course, the coolest portion of this physique happens erstwhile it’s each done. You instrumentality a coin comprised of 2 LEGO pieces pressed together, and you driblet it into the coin slot. Then you crook the crank, and the coin drops into the machine, and a capsule containing a minifigure rolls out. It works conscionable similar you’d expect, to the constituent where, if you don’t enactment a coin in, it won’t dispense a minifigure. It’s benignant of incredible.

I’ve been successful complaint of the LEGO contented for IGN for years, and the institution continues to impressment maine with its feats of design, imagination, and integrative technology. I cognize LEGO sets are expensive, and nary should interruption the slope buying what's efficaciously a artifact oregon portion of decoration. In astir each nonfiction I people connected here, idiosyncratic successful the comments complains astir LEGO’s pricing, which is wholly fair.

But the prime of the sets is besides mostly precise high. They're built from hundreds of pieces that are machined truthful cautiously that that they acceptable unneurotic with pieces produced decades ago. And the designs of the sets conscionable support impressing, twelvemonth aft year. To me, that’s worthy rather a bit.

Chris Reed is simply a commerce exertion and deals adept for IGN. He besides runs IGN's committee crippled and LEGO coverage. You tin travel him connected Bluesky.

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Jun 12, 2025 7:45 pm