Comments on: Tell us your minifig facts and win a $25 LEGO Shop gift card [w00t!]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:13:26 +0000

This contest is long over, so I’m going to go ahead and close comments on this.

By: conner brown

conner brown — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:44:44 +0000

and there coming out with a indiana jones set modeled after the temple of doom. and 11 more star wars sets coming out this year and 5 more indiana jones sets. dont believ me check it out at http://www.brickset.com.

By: conner brown

conner brown — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:36:52 +0000

did you know that the first mini fig. was made in 1974 and it was only people. the set was called family.

By: Sophia Zucker

Sophia Zucker — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:08:53 +0000

Samuel: In response to your comment about Ogel, Lego also calls him Evil Ogel which, spelled backwards,makes “Lego Live” and if you switch the words, spells “Live Lego”. Kinda creepy.

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Wed, 14 May 2008 05:06:09 +0000

[...] Some more great minifig facts Jamie came up with: [...]

By: Samuel Christian

Samuel Christian — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:45:45 +0000

Oh yeah: You know Ogel (Bad guy from Alpha Team) OGEL is LEGO spelt backwards!

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:07:46 +0000

Brue: I only went with minifigs that were definitively based on a specific actor. I considered many of the ones you mentioned, but the minifigs of the Joker and Penguin are not based on on either cartoon version (and in fact look very different from their respective cartoon designs). If voice acting was considered, even more would open up, like Jim Cummings, who provides the voices for both Tigger and Winnie the Pooh. Since the Ewoks are not specified, I didn’t count them. Counting them, Kenny Baker has two for R2-D2 and Paploo the Ewok.

By: Robert Gurskey

Robert Gurskey — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:09:33 +0000

I did some rough calculations about 1.5 years ago and calculated that the total number of unique minifigs using legs, hips, hands, arms, torsos, and head was 8,181,068,395,500,000 or about 1.2 million per person on the planet. Of course, new torsos, heads, and legs patterns have increased this number greatly.

Don’t ask about headpieces (hair, hats, helmets) or shoulder pieces (capes, airtanks, etc.). I didn’t even consider footwear or hand held items.

This is worthy of a Brickfest (Fair, World) discussion.

By: Samuel Christian

Samuel Christian — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:12:48 +0000

Forget the second one.(I just realized the facts had to be about minifigures!)

By: Samuel Christian

Samuel Christian — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:11:09 +0000

Here are some more!
- There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world’s 6 billion inhabitants.
- Children around the world spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
- More than 400 million people around the world have played with LEGO bricks.
- More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949. Stacked on top of each other, this is enough to connect the Earth and the Moon ten times over.
- 7 LEGO sets are sold by retailers every second around the world.
- The LEGO bricks sold in one year would circle the world 5 times.