History Toys / LegoMinifigures

* MentallyUnwellSpecialSenses: Series 25 Train Kid contains an white dotted eye patch on his left eye.

* MultiarmedAndDangerous: The third wave of Disney minifigures features [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]] in his Experiment 626 form. He is depicted with four arms and has two laser blasters as his accessories.
** The Series 26 Blacktron Mutant applies to this.

** The Vampire Knight's cape recreates Basil the Bat Lord's original example and makes it even more impressive by having a red interior and grey exterior, and adding printed trim on the pointed lower edge below the returning bat insignia.

* FunnyAnimal: WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse, the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes series, WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, [[WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale Chip, Dale]], [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, Louie]], WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit, [[WesternAnimation/RobinHood Prince John, Robin Hood]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]], the Franchise/TheMuppets series (except for Statler, Waldorf, the Swedish Chef, and (maybe) Gonzo), [[Creator/MarvelComics Throg]], the [[Film/WizardOfOz Cowardly]] [[[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart Lion]], [[[WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie Orca]], the [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Chesire Cat]], the Fly Monster, [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Itchy, Scratchy]], and the Vampire Bat. The Minotaur also counts to a certain degree.

*** The [[InsectoidAliens Alien Beetlezoid]] resembles and shares a naming convention with the Alien Buggoids from ''[[Toys/LegoGalaxySquad Galaxy Squad]]''.
* CosmicMotifs: The Series 26 Flying Saucer Costume Fan and Orion are this.

*** The [[InsectoidAliens Alien Beetlezoid]] resembles and shares a naming convention with the Alien Buggoids from ''[[Toys/LegoGalaxySquad Galaxy Squad''.

** The Galaxy Trooper looks very bulky and unique among the various Space characters, but his armor bears the winged-rocket emblem of the Galaxy Squad.

** The Series 16 Spy worked for [[Toys/LEGOAlphaTeam Alpha Team]] (and closely resembles an updated version of Dash Justice), was seen infiltrating [[Toys/LEGOAgents Dr. Inferno's Volcano Base]], and rescued Galaxy Squad pilot Solomon Blaze. Since Blaze would later become a member of the [[Toys/LEGOUltraAgents Ultra Agents]], the Spy effectively ties together all three of LEGO's SpyFiction toylines.

** Series 26 Ice Planet Explorer is a remake of Doctor Kelvin from the 1993–1995 Ice Planet 2002 theme.
** Also Series 26 includes a remake of an M-Tron Astronaut.

** The Series 15 Frightening Knight was kicked out of the [[Toys/LEGOCastle Fright Knights]] for being too frightening. The Series 19 Fright Knight is pretty explicitly a native of the old Fright Knights theme, being a ghost in an updated take on their armor, as if he's an original Fright Knight still walking the earth. Series 25's Vampire Knight is his master, remaking the original Basil the Bat Lord figure.

** Series 25 Vampire Knight is a remake of Basil the Bat Lord, the chief villain from the 1997 Fright Knights theme.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A number of minifigures are nods to various celebrities. The Daredevil is a clear nod to UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel, the Thespian is Creator/WilliamShakespeare (coming with a skull to reenact the famous gravedigger scene in Hamlet), and the Hollywood Starlet from series 9 is a dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe. Series 10 also has a "Trendsetter" with a small dog who looks quite like Paris Hilton. The Series 15 Wrestling Champion looks an awful lot like Wrestling/UltimateWarrior. The Series 23 Ferry Captain is loosely based on Edward Smith. The N-POP Girl from ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGONinjagoMovie'' looks similar to Music/KyaryPamyuPamyu. The Conservationist is based on Steve Irwin. The Rococo Aristrocrat is loosely based on Marie Antoinette. The Series 26 Spacewalking Astronaut is based on Valentina Tereshkova.

* {{Fembot}}: The Lady Robot. She's named the Fembot in the ''LEGO Movie: The Videogame''. Also in Series 26 has a blue-haired female looking android nurse.

* MobileSuitHuman: Series 26 features a human robot piloted by an alien.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A number of minifigures are nods to various celebrities. The Daredevil is a clear nod to UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel, the Thespian is Creator/WilliamShakespeare (coming with a skull to reenact the famous gravedigger scene in Hamlet), and the Hollywood Starlet from series 9 is a dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe. Series 10 also has a "Trendsetter" with a small dog who looks quite like Paris Hilton. The Series 15 Wrestling Champion looks an awful lot like Wrestling/UltimateWarrior. The Series 23 Ferry Captain is loosely based on Edward Smith. The N-POP Girl from ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGONinjagoMovie'' looks similar to Music/KyaryPamyuPamyu. The Conservationist is based on Steve Irwin. The Rococo Aristrocrat is loosely based on Marie Antoinette. The Series 26 female astronaut is based on Valentina Tereshkova.

* MobileSuitHuman: Series 26 features a casual male piloted by an alien.

* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: Series 25 includes a Harpy. Being as she's a LEGO minifigure, her design is more humanoid than most harpies, with purple wings sprouting out of her back that are not part of her arms, which are themselves sporting some very sharp WolverineClaws. She uses the rare digitigrade mold for her legs to make them more birdlike, though.

* {{Fembot}}: The Lady Robot. She's named the Fembot in the ''LEGO Movie: The Videogame''. Also in Series 26 Space Nurse applies to this.

* {{Fembot}}: The Lady Robot. She's named the Fembot in the ''LEGO Movie: The Videogame''.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A number of minifigures are nods to various celebrities. The Daredevil is a clear nod to UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel, the Thespian is Creator/WilliamShakespeare (coming with a skull to reenact the famous gravedigger scene in Hamlet), and the Hollywood Starlet from series 9 is a dead ringer for Marilyn Monroe. Series 10 also has a "Trendsetter" with a small dog who looks quite like Paris Hilton. The Series 15 Wrestling Champion looks an awful lot like Wrestling/UltimateWarrior. The Series 23 Ferry Captain is loosely based on Edward Smith. The N-POP Girl from ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGONinjagoMovie'' looks similar to Music/KyaryPamyuPamyu. The Conservationist is based on Steve Irwin. The Rococo Aristrocrat is loosely based on Marie Antoinette.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When the Goblin's hat piece was released, many noticed its striking resemblance to the hat worn by Marvel Comics' Green Goblin, and assumed that a minifigure of said villain would reuse the piece in the near future in the Marvel theme. This guess turned out to be correct. Similarly, the Tiger Woman foreshadowed the release of a [[Series/Batman1966 sixties Catwoman]] figure through the distinctive shape of her hair-with-ears sculpt.

* ProductionForeshadowing: The inclusion of the Monkey King in Series 19 would serve as a preview to LEGO's Monkie Kid theme, which includes its own version of Sun Wukong using the same monkey hair-and-ears piece.