EXHIBIT 04 · A TINY ICON, MADE MONUMENTAL
The minifigure was designed to disappear into a larger world: small enough to inhabit a house, drive a car, or crew a spaceship. These models reverse that relationship. Enlarged many times over, the figure becomes architecture. Familiar curves must be rebuilt from slopes and brackets, simple joints become mechanisms, and printed identities become surfaces assembled one plate at a time.
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OBJECT 01 · Harry Potter
Harry and Hermione established the modern up-scaled character format in 2021. At roughly six times minifigure scale, the pair preserves the familiar movable hands, legs, and hips while translating robes, hair, and wands into substantial brick-built forms.
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Here the costume falls away and the minifigure archetype becomes the subject. The blue cap opens to reveal a standard-size figure inside—a playful reminder of the enormous change in scale.
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OBJECT 03 · LEGO Brand
Created for LEGO House, this pirate is both character and monument. Its maps, peg leg, hook, and shoulder parrot turn the classic minifigure language into a richly detailed tribute to the stories that tiny figures make possible.
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OBJECT 04 · Space
The baby astronaut is enlarged about sixfold but remains deliberately compact. Printed details preserve the tiny original’s expression and Classic Space emblem, while the brick-built body recreates a figure whose small counterpart was never articulated.
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OBJECT 05 · Sculptures
Octan graphics and a full racing helmet push the basic silhouette toward speed and machinery. Beneath the removable helmet, a hidden detail rewards the same curiosity that makes builders take finished models apart to see how they work.
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OBJECT 06 · Holiday & Event
Santa tests the format with a silhouette defined by beard, hat, and rounded costume rather than the clean geometry of a classic figure. Movable arms and a body that can sit or stand keep the sculpture connected to play.
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OBJECT 07 · Space
The blue astronaut reaches back to the 1984 Classic Space figure, then hides a miniature world inside its helmet: a tiny robot and rocket waiting behind the visor. Nostalgia operates at two scales at once.
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OBJECT 08 · Star Wars
Darth Vader pushes the up-scaled format toward armor and machinery. The helmet, mask, chest controls, cape, and articulated body rebuild one of cinema’s most recognizable silhouettes at 1,028-piece scale—while a standard minifigure hidden inside the helmet preserves the line’s favorite joke about scale.
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OBJECT 09 · Sculptures
Long before LEGO developed today’s line of up-scaled characters, 3723 Minifigure explored the idea in remarkably ambitious form. Released in 2000 and standing nearly 20 inches tall, it transformed the familiar minifigure into a large brick-built sculpture while preserving unmistakable details such as the cylindrical head, simple face, cap, and articulated arms. It was not yet the standardized up-scaled figure format that would emerge decades later, but it established the central idea behind everything that followed: the minifigure itself could become the model.
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