The 18th series of collectible minifigures were released in the US on 1 April 2018. There are 17 minifigures in this series and they retail for $3.99 in the US. After the Ninjago movie minifigures and the second set of Batman movie minifigures, I am glad to have another original, creative set. This series is being released along with the 40th anniversary of the minifigure so there is a party theme to celebrate. So here they are...
The first four minifigures are costumed with tails. The cowboy has the back half of the horse that he's riding. The unicorn and cat just have tails. The dragon has some impressive wings and horns on the back as well as a tail. In keeping with the Batman Series 2 minifigures, these also all have orange base plates to stand on versus the standard black base plates in many of the past series.
The next four all have some impressive costumes. The first is a spider. He has a pretty impressive spider on his back and is holding a small spider. The next is an elephant with a tutu. She is next to a mouse and has an alternate face where she is pretty shocked to see the mouse. I'm a big fan of the cactus. If you have never seen an actual Saguaro cactus up close, they are pretty impressive and some get rather tall. I think this minifigure costume is a good representation. Next is a firework of some sort. The sun glasses definitely add to the costume.
Here are four more party minifigures. The first is a clown that makes balloon animals. There are two balloon animals and the scale and accuracy of each were well done by the LEGO designers. Next up is the blue brick girl. Along with the red brick guy, they were the most numerous in the orders that I placed. The last one to mention is the flower girl. There's a flower costume hat and a pot to go around the pants. This one is definitely outside the norm for what LEGO creates and I'm a fan.
Next up are two with some bigger pieces that are quite different from the past 18 sets of minifigures. First up is a guy popping out of a cake. He is a full minifigure and just fits in the larger cake piece. The splashes of frosting on his shirt are a nice touch and the gold party hat helps too. The next one is a race car driver. He has some creative patches on his shirt and the car looks like it could be a part of the Speed Champions line.
Finally there is a boy who is a party attendee. He is holding a balloon and has a gift that includes some past LEGO collectible minifigure bags. Then there's the original LEGO policeman minfigure from back in the day holding the original set he came from. I ended up purchasing 3 orders of 17 from LEGO Shop at Home (they only allow you to purchase 17 per order) and I only had one of the policeman minifigures. There is a girl to attend the party too, but she did not come in the first 51 minifigures I ordered. If I get her later, I will add her picture to this post.
I was about to wrap things up with this post and then had to save it as a draft. In the meantime, another order of series 18 minifigs arrived and the party girl showed up. She is similar to the party boy only she has a purple party hat and balloon. Her gift is full of 1x1 round tile sweet treats.
It took 4 orders of 17 minifigures from LEGO to get all 17 minifigures. I'm thankful to have a store to sell the extras in otherwise this method is not the way to go to collect these. With that being said though, this series is awesome. These are some great minifigures that were creatively designed. If you're a collector of these, I recommend picking these up over some of the past licensed minifigure sets.
