Okay, so it's actually the minifigures from LEGO whose birthday was the day before my son's. You know the adorable action figures that can be assembled in 8 quadrillion little ways? I'm not kidding. And because I know you love trivia, I'm including a few fun factiods about these figures, who have their own Web site, too. Happy 30th Birthday, dudes. Thank you for enriching my childhood and that of my own kids, too!
Minifigures represent the world’s largest population, more than 4 billion people strong, making it 3 times larger than China, 12 times larger than the United States and 120 times larger than Canada.
Globally, 3.9 minifigures are sold per second, 365 days per year. That’s an average of over 122 million per year!
There are more than 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 30 years.
Film stars and comic heroes started to appear as minifigures in 1998 with LEGO Star Wars™; only two real people have been represented in minifigure form multiple times (Answer found on www.GoMinimanGo.com)
The standard minifigure is four LEGO bricks tall and has just over 970 degrees of movement.
Of all of the minifigure’s roles, the police officer is most popular, with 41 different versions appearing in 104 sets over the last 30 years.
