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Minidolls VS Minifigures - How to Resolve the War

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  Something very interesting has been happening with the Disney microscale sets. And by interesting, I mean something that has been making minifigure-lovers flip tables over. If you're at all involved in the LEGO Disney community, you know what I'm talking about. If you don't, well, just know we may be witnessing the turning of the tide. Or just Disney picking and choosing which movies are 'for boys' and 'for girls.' The first of these microscale sets was the Disney Castle, based on the iconic castle at Disneyland. The set included a fairly standard Mickey Mouse minifigure. Nothing unexpected or out of the ordinary. Then came the next one - a miniature replica of the Haunted Mansion. Again, it featured a minifigure, to absolutely no-one's surprise. But then came something that was surprising. The third set was based around the Palace of Agrabah, from 1992's Aladdin . Not only being the first set to be a model of a location from one of Disney's fi