Benny

Benny is a blue spaceman from the space sets in the 1980's. He is a supporting protagonist in The LEGO Movie. He is voiced by Charlie Day.

Biography
The original version of Benny came out in 1984, in set 6824 "Space Dart", thus him being called "1980-something space guy" by Vitruvius. Since he is an old minifigure, he has a worn out appearance with his chest logo being partially erased and his helmet cracked at one spot. The cracked part on his helmet is said to cause oxygen to leak from his suit, which is alleged to affect his brain.

As a result, Benny holds an all-too-happy attitude and short-term attention span to everything but those involving spaceships. However, when times call for extended travel between worlds, his vast knowledge turns invaluable to those whom need it--and an undamaged spacesuit, too.

In "The LEGO Movie", he was in the meeting of the Master Builders in Cloud Cuckoo Land. He soon appears to help Emmet and the gang by building a spaceship, but soon knew that the skies are surrounded by the Super Secret Police and breaks the spaceship with disapointment. After being rescued by Metalbeard, he soon teamed up with him to infiltrate the Octan tower. He finally has the chance to build a spaceship when the gang needs to get out of the tower.

After the events of The LEGO Movie, it is revealed that Benny built 724 spaceships.

Appearance
Benny wears a cracked, bright blue space helmet. Benny's head is yellow, with black pupil-less eyes and a huge, open mouthed smile. He has a red tongue that is visible. Benny's torso is completely bright blue with the faded, classic space logo. He wears a bright blue jet pack as well. Benny's legs are completely bright blue. The cracked helmet is because many of the classic spacemen's helmets got cracked in that place.

Trivia

 * According to LEGO Shop Representatives, Benny's helmet crack was based on people bought the Classic Space sets and sometimes would have the spaceman's helmet cracked.
 * Benny's trademark in Master Building is anything "big, blue, and pointy"--as Bad Cop puts it--and compatible with technologies from the 1980s.
 * Despite being adept with old space technologies, he is unable to decipher more modern ones like those in Business' computer room. Or, they are just unable to decipher him.
 * In the LEGO Movie, Benny made three attempts to build a spaceship for the group. The first two were prematurely declared unneeded--which he showed with making it fall apart with a fist-bump on it--but the third was completed and needed, much to his obvious enthusiasm, since the group actually needed fast transport at the time.