Celebrating 30 years of the iconic Lego minifigure designed by Jens Nygaard Knudsen, iconeye put together a gallery of highlights showcasing many of the personas from over the years. We'd love to see more characters from the day's when they looked like members of the Village People.

...since 1978 the design has only been modified by a matter of millimetres. Each body is three bricks high and comprises eight parts. It's designed to hold a Lego brick in its hand, and to plug stand or sitting on top of other Lego elements. The figures were totally asexual until the first female figure, a nurse, arrived in 1980.

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