Pepper Roni is the star of the LEGO Island video game trilogy, making his debut as a physical minifigure in 2002's Island Xtreme Stunts theme.
Description
In his first appearance in 5731 LEGO Island, Pepper Roni wears a bright red shirt, bright blue pants, and a sideways white Mini U.S. Cap by default. His shirt is decorated with two thick white stripes, a thin blue stripe, and a pizza with one slice partially removed. His hat has a red circle with the letter "P" in the center. His face features red hair, freckles, black eyebrows, and white eyes with blue irises.
In LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge, Pepper Roni is redesigned with greater detail. The pizza design on his shirt has a more cartoony stylization. His sleeves are now bright blue and have modeled elbow guards. His hip is bright red, and his legs are decorated with pockets, kneepads, and shoes. His red hair is now modeled instead of a texture on his face. His Mini U.S. Cap faces forward and is adorned with a black headset, which is used to contact the Infomaniac. His eyes no longer have colored irises, instead having black pupils. He has a green backpack for storing his skateboard. This design is also used in the LEGO Island Comic Adventures, but with simplified details on the legs that remove the pockets and shoes.
For Pepper Roni's physical debut in the Island Xtreme Stunts sets, he resembles his LEGO Island 2 design with some differences. The blue and white stripes on his shirt are removed in favor of several printed creases. His bright blue hip is printed with a brown leather belt, and his pockets and kneepads are redesigned while his shoes are removed. His face has printed red hair, no longer has freckles, and his eyes are standardized to black with white pupils. His Mini U.S. Cap lacks the red circle with "P" and the black headset; however, both of these (as well as the modeled hair and elbow guards) are retained in the video game. While Pepper does not have a backpack in the sets, he sometimes has a dark green neck bracket that evokes this accessory.
In 9247 Community Workers, Pepper's white U.S. Cap is replaced with a dark stone grey Mini Pixie Cap.
The Pizzaboy in the LEGO Microgame uses Ronny's shirt from Hidden Side (himself a reference to Pepper). He retains the bright blue sleeves, legs, red hair, and white hat to closely resemble the original character, although his legs lack any decals.
In LEGO Fortnite, the unnamed Tilted Towers NPC reuses Pepper's head from the Island Xtreme Stunts sets, as well as the Ronny shirt with bright blue sleeves and bright blue pants from the Pizzaboy's previous appearance. He wears a dark red cap instead of the usual white, and his legs once again are plain without decals. As a named NPC in the Brick Life mode, Pepper Roni wears the same shirt and pants, but has a new, simpler face texture (lacking the hair or freckles of earlier versions) and a new modeled element representing his red hair and white cap.
Background
Pepper Roni was born on September 24.[1] His father, Bologna Roni, was an explorer who vanished mysteriously one day. Pepper was adopted by Mama Brickolini and Papa Brickolini on June 14.[2]
Pepper is the young delivery boy who delivers pizza to the citizens of LEGO Island. According to his card in Island Xtreme Stunts, his favorite colour is tomato red. He is a skateboard pro who can't read or spell very well, however he is surprisingly great at math. Because of his poor literature ability, he was taught to read by the police officer Laura Brick.
LEGO Island

Pepper's original appearance in LEGO Island
As Pepper arrives at the Pizzeria, he is given the task of delivering a pizza to the jail by Papa Brickolini. When Pepper delivers the spicy pizza to the Brickster at the jail, the criminal uses the fumes of the pizza to unlock the jail door, and then escapes in the nearby police helicopter. Pepper gives chase to the Brickster and finds the pieces necessary to rebuild the helicopter, after the Brickster leaves some of the pieces scattered across the island, after he steals bricks from many of the island's buildings and structures. With the help of Nick Brick, his sister Laura, and Papa's helicopter mounted Turbo Pizza (and Donut) Chucker, Pepper is able to trap the Brickster, allowing Nick Brick and Laura Brick to close in and arrest him. At the end, the Brickster is put back in jail, and Pepper is commended for his efforts by every resident on the island.
(See the LEGO Island page for more information)
LEGO Island 2

Pepper in LEGO Island 2
Papa Brickolini once again gives Pepper the task of delivering a pizza to the jailed Brickster. The Brickolinis assure Pepper that it is safe, because the pizza is not the spicy kind that the Brickster would need to break out of jail. When Pepper delivers the pizza however, the Brickster adds his own spices, then uses the pizza to melt the lock on his cell. He escapes in a nearby helicopter (once again), and proceeds to steal the Infomaniac's Constructopedia. This causes the destruction of all of the buildings on LEGO Island. (Although Pepper is mainly upset because the Brickster did not pay for the pizza, he is perfectly ready and willing to also catch the Brickster to keep him from hurting innocent people). Pepper is then tasked with recovering all of the Constructopedia pages, and once again capturing the Brickster. After chasing him from island to island, Pepper catches up to him on the Brickster's own Ogel Island. Pepper then defeats him using Papa's New White Hot Ogel Special pizzas, and subsequently returns with Mama and Papa Brickolini, victorious, to a rebuilt LEGO Island.
Island Xtreme Stunts

Pepper in Island Xtreme Stunts
Pepper is the lead stuntman in the new action movie Xtreme Stunts, which is being filmed and premiered on LEGO Island. The Brickster has also been let out of jail, in order to star as the villain for the movie, and has most of the islanders convinced that he has reformed, except for Pepper, Nick Brick, and the Infomaniac. Throughout the game, Pepper undergoes several stunts to pull off, but is triumphant in each. At the conclusion of the filming, the Brickster reveals that he and his Brickster-Bots have built a tower structure that can control every brick on the island. Pepper immediately races to the tower, avoiding several obstacles to make it to the top. Pepper once again manages to defeat the Brickster, and his friend, Sky Lane, shuts down the tower. As a result, The Brickster is put back in jail. However he escapes once again to attend the premiere of the new movie that he recently starred as the villain in, where he sits in utter embarrassment in front of almost everyone on LEGO Island, as Pepper is seen heroically foiling the Brickster's plans. Unlike the first two game's Pepper is now mostly a silent hero, but can say exclamations when doing stunt work.
LEGO Microgame

The default playable characters in the LEGO Microgame
In the LEGO Microgame, a tutorial project for the Unity game engine co-developed with LEGO, one of the four default playable minifigures is a "Pizzaboy" clearly modeled after Pepper. Changing the player character is the subject of one of the tutorials on the Unity website.
LEGO Fortnite
The LEGO Group created LEGO Tycoon: Tilted Towers as part of their LEGO Islands series of custom content in the game. One of the NPCs present in this area is a minifigure closely resembling Pepper. This minifigure works in a pizzeria that reuses the "Tarantella Napoletana" remix from LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge, and he sends players on quests to deliver pizzas to other NPCs. While all this evidence very strongly implies that the character is Pepper, he lacks any dialogue or name to explicitly confirm his identity.
The later Brick Life game mode reintroduces Pepper Roni as an NPC, now sporting a new modern redesign. Unlike the NPC from Tilted Towers, this NPC is explicitly named Pepper Roni in-game and his dialogue calls back to his iconic nickname "the dude with the food".[3]
Gallery of Variants
Appearances
- 3386 Pepper Roni
- 6731 Skateboarding Pepper (Neck Bracket)
- 6734 Beach Cruisers (Neck Bracket)
- 6736 Beach Lookout
- 6738 Skateboard Challenge (Neck Bracket)
- 6739 Truck & Stunt Trikes
- 6740 Xtreme Tower (Neck Bracket)
- 9247 Community Workers (Knit Cap)
Online Game Appearances
Video Game Appearances
Other Appearances
- LEGO Club Magazine (2016)
Notes
- Pepper's full name is a pun on the pizza topping pepperoni.
- A number of other similar minifigures have appeared in LEGO sets since Pepper's last physical appearance, including the young skateboarder in 7641 City Corner and Ronny from Hidden Side.
- He is voiced by John Morris in the original LEGO Island game, who's known for voicing Woody and Buzz's first owner Andy from the Toy Story films.
- He would have appeared in LEGO Adventurers on a quest to find his lost father, Papa "Rootin-Tootin" Roni.[4]
Gallery
See Also
References
- ↑ LEGO Magazine September-October 2002 - page 24
- ↑ Minifig Handbook: Mama Brickolini's Scrapbook - page 3
- ↑ PenPlays on X: "MODERN PEPPER RONI IN LEGO FORTNITE BRICK LIFE HE IS STILL THE DUDE WITH THE FOOD"
- ↑ https://brickstobytes.org/games/lego-adventurers/inhouse-preliminary-design