Space, Castle and Town minifigures.

Minifigures are the small, plastic Lego people, who populate the Lego Worlds. They are also known as minifigs. Space, Castle, and Town LEGO minifigs, photographed by Wapcaplet. ... Space, Castle, and Town LEGO minifigs, photographed by Wapcaplet. ... Lego Group logo Lego sets feature a large variety of themed people (called “minifigures”), including the Space, Castle, and City figures above. ...

Design

Minifigures are composed of several separate parts: head, torso, arms, hands, hips and legs. Minifigures typically come as three separate parts in Lego sets: head, torso/arms/hands, and hips/legs. A human head In anatomy, the head of an animal is the anterior part (from anatomical position) that comprises the mouth, the brain and various sensory organs (e. ... Torso is an anatomical term for the human body without the head and limbs. ... ARM may stand for: Most likely: ARM Ltd (originally Advanced RISC Machines) ARM architecture CPU design or one of its derivatives developed by ARM Ltd (originally called The Acorn RISC Machine) Adjustable rate mortgage Annotated Reference Manual (C++) Artificial rupture of membranes (see amniotic sac) the ISO 3166-1 3... A human hand typically has four fingers and a thumb The hand (med. ... Bones of the Hip In anatomy, the hip is the bony projection of the femur, known as the greater trochanter, and the overlying muscle and fat. ... Leg has multiple meanings: For the limbs of animals that support them above the ground: in the case of the legs of humans, see Human leg; in the case of the legs of horses, see Equine leg; in the case of the legs of crabs, lobsters, and their close relatives...

The legs can rotate independently almost 180 degrees. They also attach to normal Lego bricks in either a sitting or standing position. The hands of a minifigure make a "C" shape, which allows them to hold many Lego accessories. There are hundreds of different accessories, from axes to wands to swords to laser rifles. Minifigure heads are cylindrical, and attach to long narrow cylinder at the top of the torso, which allows the head to rotate. This also allows items that go over the torso, such as air tanks, capes or breastplates, to be attached. The heads also have a stud on top (which is the same size as studs on Lego bricks), which things can be attached to. Head accessories are varied, including hair, helmets and hats. These choices allow minifigures to be quite customizable. Fashion accessories and theur jewelry counterpart referred to as costume jewelry are items that used as fashions complementary. ... axes is the plural of both axis and axe, and may thus be: Axe An axe is a tool with a metal blade fastened to a handle at 90 degrees, commonly used to split wood. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... The SWORDS system allows soldiers to fire small arms weapons by remote control from as far as 1,000 meters away Robot soldiers have long featured in movies (The Terminator, Robocop), but until recently have remained that, fiction. ... A cape is an article of clothing, and can be used to describe any sleeveless outer garment, such as a poncho, but usually it is a long garment that covers only the back half of the wearer, fastening about the neck of the wearer. ... Cuirass ( French cuirasse, Latin coriaceus, made of leather, from corium, the original breastplate being of leather), the plate armour, whether formed of a single piece of metal or other rigid material or composed of two or more pieces, which covers the front of the wearers person. ... Stud could refer to any of these : Look up Stud on Wiktionary, the free dictionary stud, a horse or other male animal employed for breeding, or stud farm, an establishment for horse breeding: see horse breeding, animal husbandry, dog breeding, selective breeding a traction device used on the bottom of... Hair with a round cross-section will fall straight, as opposed to curly hair, which has a flat cross-section Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of the skin found only in mammals. ... Pith helmet of Harry S. Truman For information about the band Helmet, see Helmet (band) Pickelhaube of a Swedish Royal Guard soldier A helmet (a 15th century loan from Middle French, a diminutive of Frankish helm, from Proto-Germanic *khelmaz, PIE *kelmo- a cover) is a form of protective clothing... There are many different styles of hats A hat is an item of clothing which is worn on the head – a kind of headgear. ...

Variations

While almost all minifigure torsos, arms and legs are the same size and shape, some sets and themes have included figures that differ from the standard. Some minifigures for women, particularly in Castle and Pirate sets, have used large sloped bricks instead of legs to resemble dresses or skirts. Skeletons, in Pirate and Castle sets, have the standard minifigure head, but have specialized skeletal arms, legs and torso (which are still detachable from each other). Shorter legs, without joints at the hip, have been used for children, Yoda and Ewoks in Star Wars sets, and goblins in Harry Potter sets. Pirate minifigures have had peg legs and hooks for hands. Hagrid, from Harry Potter, uses a larger minifigure, with only the head being separable. Recently, some minifigures have also had heads that differ from the traditional cylindrical shape. Traditional accessories, such as hats and helmets, cannot be placed on these different heads. Examples include Yoda, Ewoks and goblins as mentioned above. The term dress may refer to either clothing or attire in general a specific type of garment, discussed in the article on skirt and dress This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A skirt is a traditionally feminine tube- or cone-shaped garment which is worn from the waist and covers the legs. ... In biology, the skeleton or skeletal system is the biological system providing support in living organisms. ... The Jedi Master known as Yoda (896 BBY–4 ABY), voiced by Frank Oz, is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe. ... Alternative meanings: Ewoks (cartoon) In the Star Wars series of films, Ewoks are sentient furred bipeds native to Endors forest moon who help the Rebel Alliance defeat the forces of the Galactic Empire in the Battle of Endor. ... Lego starwars is a video game where you can play as mutiple charecters such as General Grevous Obi-wan Kenobi and so on. ... A goblin is an evil or merely mischievous creature of folklore, often described as a grotesquely disfigured or elf-like phantom. ... A United States soldier demonstrates Foosball with two prosthetic limbs Artificial limbs are a type of prosthesis and are classified by the type of amputation they would replace, for example: Transtibial: Below the knee Transfemoral: Above the knee Transradial: below the elbow Transhumeral: above the elbow For congenital (from birth... Look up Hook in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The word hook has many meanings: A fishing hook is a device used to catch fish. ... Rubeus Hagrid (born December 6, year ca. ...

Child-friendly versions of minifigures, which are much more difficult to take apart, are being designed. Also, some of the newer figures have special transparent features that can light up (such as lightsabers and flashlights). These are exciting new features, but the inability to take the figures apart may discourage those who seek to personalise their minifigures. A lightsaber handle The lightsaber is the traditional weapon of the fictional Jedi Knights in the Star Wars universe. ... Green flashlight Flashlight is the NATO designation for the Yakovlev Yak-25 Soviet military jet. ...

Lego Storylines

Lego has made several "storylines," where there are particular sets that have a central theme or story. Some examples include the Orient Expedition, Lego Star Wars, Alpha Team, and Knights Kingdom. Some of the minifigures from these sets are from popular movies or series such as Star Wars and Harry Potter. Also, Lego has some spinoffs or spoofs of popular series. An example is Johnny Thunder, a Lego spinoff of Indiana Jones. The word set, which is among the words with the most numerous definitions in the English language (at 464 definitions according to the Oxford English Dictionary), may have one of the following meanings. ... Lego starwars is a video game where you can play as mutiple charecters such as General Grevous Obi-wan Kenobi and so on. ... Alpha Team is a building toy line manufactured by LEGO, and first released in 2001. ... Knights Kingdom is a new LEGO line, aimed at six to twelve year-olds, and was launched in Spring, 2004. ... Star Wars began with a 13-page treatment for a space adventure movie which George Lucas drafted in 1973, inspired by multiple myths and classic stories. ... Cover of the original novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. ... For the computer security term, see spoof attack. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Indiana Jones is a fictional bullwhip-toting fedora-wearing archaeologist with an overdeveloped ophidiophobia (fear of snakes). ...

Other Lego figures

In some lines of products, Lego has used figures other than the standard minifigures. Technic has used larger action figures since 1986. These figures are more realistic, although still angular, and have more degrees of motion, including knees and elbows. However, they cannot be easily disassembled; even hair is non-removable. The Fabuland line of the 1980's consisted of larger anthropomorphic animal characters, which also couldn't be easily disassembled. Belville and Scala, Lego lines aimed at girls, also have larger figures. They are similar to Technic figures in range of motion, but have less angular legs, arms and torsoes. Scala figures more closely resemble dolls, in that clothes are separate from the figures and the hair is composed of strands and not molded plastic. More recently, Lego has introduced Bionicle figures, such as Toa, which are many times larger and have more flexibility in pose. Tractor made using LEGO Technic components. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... FABULAND was a line of LEGO toys with fable animal figures, and whose packages were printed with comic strips that told the stories of those animal characters. ... Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. ... Belville can refer to: Belville, North Carolina in the United States Belville, Córdoba Province in Argentina Belville, a line of LEGO See also: Belleville This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Scala is a multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. ... Look up doll in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Bionicle is a line of toys made by the Lego Group that is marketed towards those in the 8-12 range. ... Toa are the heroes of the fictional Bionicle mythos, a storyline of adventure and evil made by the Lego toy company. ...

External links

• Official Lego Website
• Lego Shop at Home Catalog
• Legofigs.com - Large fan-site with a huge list of minifigs. In Chinese and English