What is your favourite 'classic' minifigure?

I picked ghost as its the only one I have from 10176. Even though that ghost is bashed for looking like someone in a ghost costume with yellow hands its an easy fix to swap them for whites.

The one from this list I have the greatest attachment to is the pirate captain from the Black Seas Barracuda (I got the original as a reward for learning to ride my bike and I now have the reissue in my current collection)

Well, given the choice between Red and White Classic Spacemen, I have to choose Red... because we've had reprints of White in recent years ;)

I'll vote for Ice babe or the Ice Planet Chief if they show up in the polls - for now, Redbeard wins for iconic design.

Great poll idea. Any chance we could get photos or at least links attached in the future so we don't have to go off memory?

A coinflip between the two Reds

I like this guy and his variations: https://brickset.com/minifigs/pck002/jacket-green-with-2-large-pockets-green-legs-red-cap

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voted for Spyrius. His look is original and memorable.

Hours and hours of play mixing forest men, pirates, soldiers and even knights and medieval warriors in the Castles (including Eldorado fortress). But for my favorite Knights apart, this fierce pirate leader that is called Cap'n Redbeard had so impressed me when I got it with his crew, wooden leg and missing hand added to the details printed made him one of my favorite for playing - and he still is today in the category.

I have to go with Johnny Thunder. The Adventurers theme as a whole might just be the greatest original theme LEGO's ever made.

No Classic Knight is a serious oversight on the whole, but my favorite is definitely Captain Redbeard, which strangely I never had as a kid and still haven't got. Yet I was always so envious when playing with my friends and their Pirates sets. I "only" had City and Classic Space, which also had their fair share of nice figures, but not as cool as the pirates ;-)

A peg leg, a hook hand, how can Captain Redbeard not win this...

Johnny thunder is really cool !
My favourite in this list is him!

Blacktron I without a doubt.

King kahunka was probably my favourite, so I selected him. Although out of Minifigures I still own, (my brother ran off with kahunka for his needs and never came back...

Blue classic spaceman I have 2

Why isn’t the Blue Classic Spaceman on here? He is my overall classic minifigure favorite. From the list I chose Spyrius Droid. I love his transparent helmet and the smiling cybernetic head.

Just looked at the results then at the photo. It's rigged in Redbeard's favour XD

I imagine Redbeard is gonna win this in a landslide, and fair enough, he should. He was one of my favourite characters as a kid, too.

But ... as much as I wanted to vote for him or the Ghost (and the Ghost still has a presence in my Lego City), for only one of the figures, can I actually recall the moment where I opened the Lego catalogue, saw the figure and actually thought, "wow that is so cool".

Spyrius Droid all the way.

Captain Redbeard all the way. Such an iconic minifig. All the Lego Pirates figures were revolutionary back in 1989. The first to feature facial details and other variations like peg legs and hook hands.

I remember as a kid desperately wanting one of the new Pirate sets for Christmas just so that I could own the Redbeard figure.

Forestman is my favourite from those. Love the green colour and the quiver.

This is so difficult to decide!

Oh boy, black monarch's ghost. The best minifig from my childhood. It worth at least two g.i. joe. I also liked the classic skeleton as much as the ghost, but the ghost glowing ability was outstanding for me. So I bought a 6034 set for my son, believing (hoping) that he will fall in love too in classic castle...

I picked the Red Classic Spaceman, it has a very cool look.

My vote is for King Kahuka. Something unexpected and different rather than just another pirate. I truly miss the Islanders/Adventurers themes.

My main man Redbeard for the win!

Although forestman and ghost are close runners up

Had I own King Kahuna I would have chosen him and not Johnny Thunder. Thanks for this method.

I'm a Classic Space guy so I'm a little sad that the vote will be split between Red and White... but on the other hand it's moot because Blacktron I. Those sinister black visors were just the coolest!

Johnny Thunder since he's the only one I own on this list.

As a younger Lego fan I feel literally no nostalgia for these classic figs. I know they were cool at the time but they do not hold up against today's standard.

Well my personal favourite didn't make the cut :(
Out of this lot...I think Johnny Thunder takes it.

An excellent selection of characters. It is an extremely difficult decision to pick just one. After mulling it over and factoring in what speaks the most to classic lego (mainly its eclectic zaniness) I have decided on King Kahuka. His print is excellently detailed for his time and that mask is absolutely fantastic.

It's between Blacktron and the Spyrius droid, but I had to go with Spyrius since that was in my youth prime time of LEGO.

How about the classic Dragon Knights Wizzard - Majisto? From set 6048 among others =)

Johnny Thunder beat out Ghost for my vote. Such nostalgia with that figure, I had a few Adventurers sets when I was younger and I had at least a couple Johnny Thunders from those sets (and still do). I was also a big fan of the Xtreme Team sets when I was little, the guy with the blue outfit probably would have beaten Johnny if he had been a choice.

red classic spaceman for me!

I played with M-Tron and Pirates as a child, but I went with Johnny Thunder, even if he was late to the party. That was Indy 2.0 - even before Lego Indiana Jones was something!

'Twas a tough decision, but I ended up choosing "Ghost". They're just amazing!

Surprised nobody has voted Pepper Roni yet. :/

Slitting the vote by decade would have been better. 1978-1987, 1988-1997, 1998-2007, 2008-present.

Having two options for Classic Spaceman, red and white, will split the vote between them, unfairly under-representing this design.

I've gone for red, but could just as easily have gone for white. (I'm also tempted by the Ghost.)

Honestly I feel pepper roni kind of exudes that badly designed/badly drawn feel that was symptomatic of Lego as a whole around that time period (cough galidor). Face prints in general were becoming especially terrible. I guess he's not even the worst example, not by far. Look at these two: https://brickset.com/sets/4794-1/Alpha-Team-Command-Sub Like, what the heck?

@Judgeguy, Sure, there's a nostalgia factor, but that may not be the only consideration. If, for example, you used innovation as your main criterion, you would probably go with the Red or White Classic Spaceman. The difference between slabbies and minifigures is greater than that between minifigures of the 1970s and those of the 2010s in terms of innovation.

What a great feature. My wife is going crazy as I am now in an absolute frenzy to get my hands on Mineral Detector and Space Digger sets I cherished as a boy. Red Spaceman all the way .....

The classic spaceguys are automatic winners. Claw hands down.

I was really torn between Captain Redbeard; the most innovative minfigure of its' day, and Blacktron 1; the most intimidating and cool looking minifigure of its' day. In the end I went with the Captain, with his awesome peg leg, hook hand, and whole crew of no longer generic smiling faces but band of pirates with menacing beards and eye patches. Blacktron 1 will always have a special place in my heart as my favorite bad guys though. I used to turn their heads around so they had no faces, it made them look even more evil, haha, hahaha (evil laugh). Ok I'm over it. Sorry for that, moving on...

I had no other choice...Johnny Thunder dragged me out of my Dark Ages.

Well, since none of the pre-1978 armless/faceless minfigs made the list, had to go with the Red Spaceman. From the earlier listings, I have a sneaking suspicion that a certain Blue Spaceman from a certain movie will be also making an appearance in a later poll as well.

I also miss a Knight. Then I vote for the Forestman, one of the my favourites. However, I do not mind if Captain Redbeard wins!!

Spyrius Droid is an easy pick for me. A fantastic, highly detailed design that in my opinion still holds up to this day.

i have red classic spaceman but i'm missing the helmet and air tanks. :(

Oh classic you say .......well would have to go with RED and BLACK KNIGHT From 383

https://brickset.com/sets/383-2/Knight-s-Joust

King Kahuka!! Such a great minifigure

@waylander - you are a couple of weeks late with the nomination.

@Jumbo Bricks Blue - what exactly is a basic every-day minifigure? There were so many in Town but I really don't think any are particularly iconic - certainly not as much as spacemen or pirates.

For me, the Forestman. Nothing gave us that "castle feeling" like Robin Hood and his Lego gang. :-)

Red Classic Space all the way.

My heart said King Kahuka, but my head said Johnny Thunder. Having grown up in the 90s I like minifigs such as the classic spaceman but he can never hold the special place for me that he does for many others on Brickset.

I'm not only intrigued to see analysis of this final result, but also what the other categories are. Star Wars surely is a given, contemporary System themes, Collectible Minifigs, Harry Potter, girls and mini dolls, the list goes on!

Blacktron 1 all the way. Coolest minifig ever.

Redbeard, the minifig I most resemble.

Came down to RedBeard and Johnny I played with more adventurers sets but red beard was the first minifigure I ever coveted I still remember bringing him to show and tell

There is a picture of Redbeard, but no of the other candidates. Of course he will win:
"Hey, I remember him, let's vote for him"
Please insert pictures of the others and start over.
And there are two spacemen, tje votes will be divided between them.

Redbeard is the best. But as far as I remember the proper name is Captain Red Beard.

White Classic Spaceman is the hero of my childhood. I'm sorry but i'm allergic to Captain Red Beards red beard ... where is some shaving cream?

Redbeard is great, and I chose Forestman (with the full green tunic, belt pouch, and the back satchel), but my real answer is George. He's a red vest/breastplate Lion with blue sleeves. Blue legs with blue hips. Blue Lion shield. Gray bars helmet and red three plume. That's the minifig of choice.

(Or gray legged Lion siege cart crew guys. Yeah, it could totally be gray-legged Siege Cart Lions.)

Classic castle Blacksmith is my favourite from that era.

It's the Ghost all the way

As I’m from 2000, I think, I only have had Pepper. He was one of my favourite minifigures when I was born - along with Kim Cool :D Still have these figures. They’re so cool. Got a lot of minifigures from the series, when they were in Chupa Chups lollipops in Denmark from that time

I chose the "glow in the dark" ghost. He came to me in 1990 in my beginning dark-ages and since then still haunts my collection and makes everybody shake and shiver. Also my Captn. Redbeard is afraid, so the ghost is truly my winner!!!

I'm torn between Johnny Thunder and the Spyrius Droid! I think I'm gonna go with Johnny.

1993 wizard from castle
https://brickset.com/minifigs/cas249/dragon-knights-majisto-wizard-black-plastic-cape

My lonely vote for Pepper makes me feel my age a bit ?? I was only alive for 6 years of this category. ??

@SpiderMana I'm even younger but grew up with lots of 'classic' minifigures up to 90's. It's amazing how much of a difference that makes as I feel all the nostagia towards half of those listed but pretty much never heard of pepper.

Have to say having a list with two very similar Space men may alter the end result. As in if there was only one Classic Spaceman more people would vote for it than the now split. I went for Red, not sure why as Black was my favourite then Blue, Yellow, and my first was white... somehow Red stands out.... I probably had more of them and the White ones did fade a bit.

I'm missing the skeleton. So I had to pick the ghost.

The Spyrius Droid was my pick. the Spyrius theme was SO much fun for me when I was younger, and it's the reason I collected space kits for awhile. The ghost and Johnny Thunder were close though.

It's very hard to decide. I love Captain Redbeard, King Kahuka, Forestman and Ghost, but my vote goes to Forestman. All classic Castle minifigures were brilliant!

Damn, this is a tough choice! All of these looked great in catalogues. Wasn't fortunate enough to have them all, so my choice is biased.

I picked Johnny Thunder as a favorite, because he played the biggest role in all of my Lego tales and his theme is my all-time favorite. King Kahuka and the Spyrius Droid are close follow-ups. Having printed legs was very rare at the time. Captain Redbeard has enough love, I reckon :-)

I'm surprised that Pepper Roni is last. He seemed to be a favorite to many when they asked the initial question. I'm happy to see Redbeard in first, though.

Show love for pepper roni.

No Basil the Batlord? I'd say he's a fairly iconic minifigure and can't be omitted in such a list!

I have to go with Johnny Thunder. He's an absolute classic!

Amazed at how some folk are still asking "Why wasn't X included?" even after the explanation was literally the first line of the post and has been repeated several times in the comments to clarify :)

On another note, I'm away from home at the moment and logged in on a different computer and the poll allows me to vote again even though I've already done so (presumably due to cookies). So as I don't skew the results I'll refrain from voting again and will just have to wait to get home to see the results :(

Is Redbeard still winning?

Captain Long John Redbeard Pegleg Patcheye Hook! The scourge of the bounding main!

Most of these are not 'classic' if you ask me. I expected only minifigs with the classic smile. Where's the policeman? Where's the classic fireman?
Also think showing an image of only one of the candidates is rigging the voting...

Hard for me to choose--Forestman, King Kahuna, Spirius Droid, Baron von Barron, and Blacktron 1 all retain enormous appeal for me even without childhood nostalgia coming into play (I was already in my Dark Ages when the minifigure was invented!), but Captain Red Beard has to win the day, because if any series could have ended my Dark Ages prematurely it would have been Pirates. Even now, the Black Pearl is one of the few large sets I've bought since my AFOL emergence that I've actually built, as opposed to vowing I will build when I have the time. And once I built it, I rebuilt it to have a proper third mast down to a longer keel, with more gunports and many more cannons...so that set was also my gateway to the world of the MOC. Without Captain Red Beard, would TLG have ever thought about the POTC license? I doubt it.

Thanks, CapnRex101, for the rotating image. I had already voted (go Spyrius droid, though Mtron and Blacktron were contenders too), but I wondered whether a photo of just one minifig would give an artificial boost to that one. Probably a good idea to rotate photos for the other semifinal polls too. And I will admit that Redbeard was a revolutionary fig, one of the first with a customized face, as well as hook, hat, and peg leg. So not a bad choice if only one was shown.

Gonna go with Johnny Thunder. Always loved the hat he came with, and his general adventure-outfit was really cool too!

For me it would have been the old Norman Soldier from early Castle, but unfortunately none were here...