Lego minifigure
A minifigure is the same height as four bricks
A Lego minifigure, or simply minifig for short, is a cartoonish model of a person in a Lego set. As minifigures are of a standardised scale — four bricks tall, excluding hair and hats[1] — so are the Lego sets that feature them.
They were introduced in 1978, as part of the Legoland standardisation,[2] and have been a prominent fixture of Lego sets ever since.
References
- Chapter 3: Populating the Lego World Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of Lego Bricks, 2022, ISBN 978-1-800-18350-6, pp. 58—83
- Chapter 1: Seeing the System Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of Lego Bricks, 2022, ISBN 978-1-800-18350-6, pp. 4—25
Further reading
Deep dives
- Chapter 3: Populating the Lego World Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of Lego Bricks, 2022, ISBN 978-1-800-18350-6, pp. 58—83
Downloads
Documentation
Patents
- "Toy Figure" Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Jens Nygaard Knudsen, US Patents, 1978
Lego: BrickLink Common Palette | Lego brick dimensions | Lego clone | Lego colour | Lego element | Lego minifigure | Lego model | Lego part | Lego scale | Lego set | Lego storage | Lego theme | SNOT
