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Interesting Fact about Legos

Did you know that 19 billion Lego Pieces are manufactured every year and 2.16 million Lego bricks are molded every single hour? Click For more Lego Fun Facts 

[hiroshimishima]

This was amazingly informative, I only knew about 1/3 of the things they talked about.. though I did suspect a few of the others. As someone who both enjoyed the film, and LEGO things in general, this was really fun to watch.

[legomovie]

Which world was your favorite in The LEGO Movie? 

[dkpublishing]

LEGO Minifigure Facts

LEGO Minifigure Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle is now available!  Featuring more than 2,000 of the most significant, popular and rare minifigures, fans will learn little-known facts about their favorites.  Here are just a few:

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The modern LEGO minifigure as we know it was born in 1978 – this police officer was the first ever produced.

Without a hat or hair piece, a minifigure stands exactly four LEGO bricks high.

Since 1978 enough LEGO minifigures have been produced to circle the Earth four times.

Yellow was chosen for minifigures from the original LEGO color palette as an ethnically-neutral color – to represent all races and ethnicities.

All male LEGO minifigures wore hats until male hair pieces appeared in 1979.

The first to have printed arms, this unique variant of Boba Fett is one of the rarest and most collectible LEGO minifigures

This ghost, introduced in 1990, was the first specialized LEGO minifigure (and he glows in the dark!)

The 1989 launch of LEGO Pirates featured the first minifigures with different facial expressions, including Captain Redbeard here.

The Professor Quirrell minifigure from LEGO Harry Potter was the first to have a double-sided head. Turn it around and Lord Voldemort’s face is revealed

LEGO Batman’s ‘blank’ eyes are created by printing a white band across the minifigure’s forehead.

Only two 14-carat gold versions of this C-3PO minifigure were created in celebration of Star Wars’ 30th anniversary in 2007.

Alas, poor actor! Part of the collectable LEGO Minifigures line, he wears a hair piece usually reserved for females.

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How many do you have? #TheLEGOMovie

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