With only four movable joints, a yellow bobble head and a placid, nonthreatening facial expression, Lego man is one of the most popular toy icons in the world -- despite the fact that he is the perfect size to get lodged in a child's throat.This week marks the MiniFig's 30th birthday -- he was first manufactured and packaged on
-- 3.9 mini-figures are sold per second, which comes to over 122 million per year.
-- There are 8 quadrillion (8,181,068,395,500,000) possible combinations of minifigures that can be made using all of the unique parts over the last three decades. We didn't even know that "quadrillion" was a real number.
--Despite all those combinations, it's impossible to equip Lego man with genitals, so we should probably just refer to him as "Lego person."
Finally, in further celebration of the Lego man's big 3-0, we've arbitrarily picked our top 6 MiniFigs of all time -- enjoy!
Lego MiniFig Turns 30
Here's your standard Lego man. He rocks white jeans even after Labor Day. What a rebel.
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Indiana Jones Lego man sports a bullwhip, man bag and five o'clock shadow. With a few small changes, he could look like a member of Wham circa "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go."
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Princess Leia illustrates the Sisyphean task of making a Lego man sexy. The female form is inherently anti-Lego, no matter how much cleavage you draw in.
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Even male characters can present difficulty, as Batman's curiously ill-fitting Speedo attests.
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However, this take on Harry Potter is actually to scale. Quite an achievement, we think.
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Believe it or not, this is the Steven Spielberg Lego man, though we highly doubt Steven ever wore an inmate's roadside garbage-detail vest.
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