Citations › Citation ID: 132

C132. BOOK: Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks: The Inside Story of a Design Icon (Unbound, 2022), p. 209.

During the 1980s, designers had considered making special heads for aliens in a prototype LEGO Space theme called Seatron. In the end, however, the decision was made to vary helmets, hair and armour but keep the basic minifigure shape unmodified. ... Even the LEGO Space subtheme UFO, released in 1996 and premised entirely on aliens, saw minifigures with standard heads made transparent but not otherwise modified. But the Gungan alien from The Phantom Menace, Jar Jar Binks, cracked that wall, starting a small trickle, which, before long, became a torrent.

The head for Jar Jar Binks was the first custom-moulded LEGO head.