Hello everyone,

 

I recently have decided to start purchasing bulk minifigures off of Craigslist. Being a novice LEGO enthusiast, I'm having a problem identifying the minifigures I am purchasing. For instance, I bought around 20 minifigures from someone and from doing a little bit of research, I can tell they are from the early 90's. My problem is that this person has switched the legs, torso's, heads, etc on these figures multiple times and I have no idea what parts go with what figures. Any suggestions on figuring it out? Thanks

I usually go here:

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogColors.asp

 

Then pick a color and choose "minifig, torso" or "minifig, torso assembly" or "minifig, legs assembly" until you find it. You can do the same with the head/color.

Just take a nice picture of all the minifigure parts together and post them in the Name That Brick forum.  Everyone there is always glad to help you identify your items.