![]() Starting with Lego Pirates in 1989 and spreading to Lego Town and Lego Castle in the next few years, minifigures were also produced with different facial expressions such as facial hair, eye patches, feminine makeup, and sunglasses. In 1989 for the launch of Pirates theme, minifigures also included hooks for hands, as well as peg legs this was the first departure from the traditional body parts. ![]() As these were made into pieces, the company decided to give them a simple facial expression, rendered as two solid black dots for eyes and a smile painted in solid black, and without any gender or racial components, believing that these factors would be "determined by the child’s imagination and play". These were designed by Jens Nygaard Knudsen, who had come up with the idea for having the torsos, legs, and arm pieces interchangeable. The first modern minifigures were released in 1978, included in Castle, Space, and Town sets. They had a small variety of headpieces in various colors, including caps, pigtail hair and cowboy hats. They had solid torsos without separate movable arms, solid lower body pieces that were not moveable, and heads without printed features. These were at the same scale as the current minifigures, but had a different design. Similar figures, often called "Lego compatible minifigures", are also produced by various other companies (often as clones/knock-offs), such as Kre-O (called Kreons), Lepin, Cobi, Block Tech or Mega Bloks.Įarly Lego minifigures without moving arms and legsĪ precursor to the minifigure was released in 1975. Minifigures are collected by both children and adults. The Lego minifigure is, together with the Lego brick, the company's mascot and one of the most popular toys of all time. There are also other types of figures from Lego sets, such as animals, Duplo figures or mini-doll figures. They are highly customizable, and parts from different figures can be mixed and matched, resulting in many combinations. While some are named as specific characters, either licensed from already existing franchises or of Lego's own creation, many are unnamed and are designed simply to fit within a certain theme (such as police officers, astronauts and pirates). under the Lego theme of the same name), or can be custom-built in Lego stores and on. ![]() Minifigures are usually found within Lego sets, although they are also sold separately as collectables in blind bags (e.g. They were first produced in 1978 and have been a success, with over 4 billion produced worldwide as of 2020. ![]() A Lego minifigure, often simply referred to as a Lego figure or a minifig, is a small plastic articulated figurine made of special Lego bricks produced by Danish toy manufacturer The Lego Group. ![]()
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