>>8437120>I think Lego's legal attempts to stop Chinese companies have been exaggeratedYou're not taking into account that minifigs listings disappeared almost overnight; listings of sets with minifigs have them as anon here
>>8437037 described; no-one is selling any of the masses of minifigs that presumably were still unsold at the time of the Minifigcaust. As a once-avid collector of these minifigs I noticed early on when my favorite stores suddenly dried up and were only getting in stuff that wasn't minifigs. Case in point, this store:
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/2826026This was my go-to for a lot of the newest minifig offerings. They had a massive selection, good prices and fast shipping. Then one day at the beginning of the month when they would list the newest arrivals, none of the new stuff were minifigs. Some time after that the minifigs disappeared entirely from their store, along with their prominent minifig front-page advertising. The store is still called Bricks Minifigures Store but they don't sell a single minifig. They have Star Wars droids, mini Godzillas, Unikittys, Baby Yodas and other near-minifig products, all of which presumably haven't been affected by the technicalities of the crackdown.
If it really was a supply and demand situation as you're suggesting, there would still be stores trying to offload figs produced before this alleged shift in priorities. As my final counterargument I point to these guys here
>>8410725. Nobody would be troubling with a new minifig design that isn't attached to a proprietary brand (like Wange's blockheads or Sluban's figs) unless they had no other choice.
