I love the minifig because LEGO minifigs are the perfectly interchangeable toy. Whereas action figures might be slightly different sizes and never fit in each other’s tanks or planes, LEGO minifigs always match each other, and they always match the other minifig’s vehicles.

With Star Wars sets it became possible to see your favorite heroes as minifigs, and now the interchangeability was multiplied. Minifigs are better than action figures because once you have your hero minifig (through a LEGO set or customization), that minifig fits in with every other LEGO brick in the universe, every LEGO house and airplane in your collection.

So the collecting potential grows and grows with each unique minifig element, and the minifigs will always be redeemed by the bricks they call home. And it is icing on the cake that minifigs are aesthetically comforting with their ridiculously simple smilie faces and stubby, oh-so-adorable design.