We’ve seen bits and pieces of these minifigures being leaked over the last few months, with some badly-translated lists of characters, but we finallyhave confirmation and a full image for the next series of LEGO’s popular Minifigures line. Series 14: Monster is only the fourth time we’ve seen an entire wave devoted to one theme; the others were for “The LEGO Movie,” and two series for “The Simpsons” (so far). Here’s what we’ve got coming September 1st:
Official names of the characters:
- Werewolf
- Zombie Pirate
- Crazy Scientist
- Wacky Witch
- Plant Monster
- Fly Monster
- Spectre
- Zombie Cheerleader
- Tiger Woman
- Gargoyle
- Skeleton Guy
- Monster Rocker
- Zombie Businessman
- Banshee
- Bigfoot
- Spider Lady
It’s a solid assortment, and although LEGO has made zombies and witches and ghosts in recent years, these offer enough new pieces that they’re worth buying. That witch’s hat and hairpiece are new, the zombies are all different than previous zombies, but would fit in nicely with them. The Spectre and Banshee both have a new ghostly leg piece that’s in the newest Ninjago sets, but haven’t been seen before that. The Yeti’s been repurposed as Bigfoot, instead of a traditional LEGO skeleton, we get someone dressed as one to go trick-or-treating. The outstanding ones (for me at least) are the Plant Monster, Fly Monster, Tiger Woman, and Gargoyle. They’ve got great new pieces, they represent classic monsters we haven’t seen before, and I can see things like Tiger Woman’s hairpiece being used to give us a classic Catwoman or Cheetah from DC Comics. Cool stuff.
It’s also great timing (way to go LEGO) that these will be on store shelves leading up to Halloween, but also because the new Scooby-Doo line of LEGO sets comes out August 1st. So for me, writing this, tomorrow. And I’ll be buying the hell out of them. Nice touch to have sixteen more villains for those meddling kids to round up.