LEGO Collectable Minifigures Series 28 - Animals revealed!

Very cool, will likely get a number of these.

FROG!

Also, might have to upgrade my Easter Bunny, as this one has actual eyes on the hat. Or maybe not. There's definitely something unsettling about the original rabbit hat over the trans-red teeth head when there are no other facial features. For those keeping track, I now have Cupillithid for Valentine's Day (he loves you for your mind), a wereprechaun for St. Patrick's Day, and the toothy Easter Bunny for Easter. Toothy turkeys chasing a car with a plucked turkey strapped to the top also kinda work for Thanksgiving.

Kind of a fun series. My favorites are the dolphin and the alligator.

This will be the closest I’ll ever get to my dream chima minifigure series, so I’m VERY happy to see this.
It’s close enough, welcome back Lego chima!

These wouldn't work at all for a furry convention, because you can see all their human faces!

I'm glad people like the animal costume people, but I can't help but feel all these new moulds could have been far more versatile and exciting to me, personally, if they were to enable you to make full-on animal-people rather than fairground staff.

Took them long enough to officially reveal these… but anyway, they really swung and missed on the accessories. There could have been some really cool things, over half of them have very plain ones. Also, I mentioned it earlier in an Advent Calendar discussion, but this takes it to the next dreadful level. CMF figures deserve their own head print. It should be a unique one! By the looks of it, FOUR have reappearing head prints. That’s really bad. Yet, despite all of these cons… I do love the costume figures, even if they don’t have helpful parts for later on. So… I may, when these don’t sell super well, get the whole (yes… the whole series). Disappointment, but they may grow on me.

The peacock will be Dom de la Woosh.

Justice for the Shark army narwhal we never got from the movie!

The peacock is a redo of the turkey costume from series 23

https://brickset.com/sets/71034-9/Turkey-Costume

Best series in quite some time.

These guys are alright one-offs in a regular CMF set, but seem a real waste to dedicate a whole set to them. I mean here's the next 12 sets of animal people sorted!

Still better than the F1, as I will be getting one of each for my completionist brain (I didn't bother with F1), but otherwise nothing specific of interest.

Given some of the older sets, I feel someone at Lego really likes carnivals. Or things everyone else does. Or something. I don't get it myself.

They look really cool! A couple of them reuse existing face prints from City which I find interesting but they work. I quite like accessories too.

As a collector of costumed minifigs since series 1 will be getting all 12.

@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
"Took them long enough to officially reveal these… but anyway, they really swung and missed on the accessories. There could have been some really cool things, over half of them have very plain ones. Also, I mentioned it earlier in an Advent Calendar discussion, but this takes it to the next dreadful level. CMF figures deserve their own head print. It should be a unique one! By the looks of it, FOUR have reappearing head prints. That’s really bad. Yet, despite all of these cons… I do love the costume figures, even if they don’t have helpful parts for later on. So… I may, when these don’t sell super well, get the whole (yes… the whole series). Disappointment, but they may grow on me."

From the waves that I've actually checked, they seem to average about one completely new mold (as compared to the variant shovel from the S1 Zombie) per CMF. The F1 series obviously went a little light on this, as they all had the exact same physical design, and only used a handful of new molds. For this wave, it looks like all 12 animal heads are new designs, plus the lion tail and the alligator's pool toy (parrot tail looks like cloth?). That puts them two over already, and then it's further complicated by the fact that four of the minifigs can't even hold accessories because they have flippers or wings instead of hands.

@collectormom:
The tail does appear to be the same as the turkey, but the peacock head has a taller crest and thicker walls around the face. The monkey and cat tails appear to be older molds. The parrot tail might be layered cloth. The dolphin and gator look like the tails are molded into the heads. Koala, rabbit, and goldfish might be printed on the torsos. Adult frogs don't have tails, lion is definitely new, and I can't see what they did for the dog tail (but there are a couple existing options they could have picked).

I'll be skipping this series, but I do like the frog's bubble wand and the croc's floatie ring.

They all look really good and will make an awesome Halloween party when added to the others we have. Far better than the last two series which were the worst of them all.

@PurpleDave:
Fair enough, and I guess I’m a bit spoiled from the Muppets wave. Also, per pics of the City wave from a NewE article, that’s not an exclusive element I don’t think. It’s being released in other sets at the exact same time. It does look like cloth, actually. Not sure if it’s one piece, or two though. I’d probably guess one.

Parrot and alligator for me, gotta represent some of the great animals from years past. The monkey is a tad boring but maybe if I find it.

@RadioAllergy said:
"Finally, I can complete my Furry Convention MOC."

Brings a whole new meaning to the name 'Animal Crossing' XD

Oh and for rhe record I'm quite liking the monkey, crocodile, dalmatian, and lion for starters (but knowing me I'll half get the frog and cat too). The peacock is nice but not too sure about the other non-arm ones.

@Wallace_Brick_Designs said:
" @PurpleDave:
Fair enough, and I guess I’m a bit spoiled from the Muppets wave. Also, per pics of the City wave from a NewE article, that’s not an exclusive element I don’t think. It’s being released in other sets at the exact same time. It does look like cloth, actually. Not sure if it’s one piece, or two though. I’d probably guess one."

Muppets was also a touch high, but not as much as you might think. All twelve characters got new molded heads, as that was pretty much unavoidable. Otherwise, Kermit got a new banjo, and Waldorf got a new tea saucer, but everything else was existing molds. Looney Tunes was another one that went a little heavy. Eleven characters got new molded heads, and the twelfth got a new molded helmet. Roadrunner also got a new tail and crest. Marvin got a new skirt, but cloth elements don't really count the same way as molded ones. Everything else appears to be older molds again.

@Reventon said:
"Best series in quite some time."

100%, they are lovely. I think is the best series after the Disney one.

Too bad crocs head is attached to its tail piece. Of all of these figs the croc looks most like an actual animal (if you switch out the minifig head for a black one).
I think most of them look cool. For a cmf series just for random buyers this looks like a fun series.
Anyway will try to get the Dalmatian, Parrot, Peacock, Croc and Frog and maybe army build Goldfish

Lovely, but not for me. I'm waiting for aliens and creatures.

These are cute. Probably will get a set but most likely I'll be happy with just one of each.

@oldtodd33 said:
"They all look really good and will make an awesome Halloween party when added to the others we have. Far better than the last two series which were the worst of them all. "

By "last two series," do you mean the last two numbered series, or the last two series in general? Because the first definition includes Series 26 (Space), and the second definition includes Across the Spider-Verse. Either way, I must strongly disagree that "the last two series... were the worst of them all."

@TheOtherMike said:
" @oldtodd33 said:
"They all look really good and will make an awesome Halloween party when added to the others we have. Far better than the last two series which were the worst of them all. "

By "last two series," do you mean the last two numbered series, or the last two series in general? Because the first definition includes Series 26 (Space), and the second definition includes Across the Spider-Verse. Either way, I must strongly disagree that "the last two series... were the worst of them all.""

I meant to the last two CMF series, F1 and Spider-verse. I'm still miffed the F1 cars were categorized as minifigures and I'm done long ago with Marvel/DC. The first sets were okay but I'm so sick of the 100 versions of Batman et al I could throw up. What put me over the edge was the CMF "What if" series. It seems the only way comics can keep people's attention is to constantly rehash everything, kill off characters and miraculously bring them back to life or make new characters out of thin air. UHHHHHG.

I like the swim ring! That's it. I'm another one who generally considers the animal suits the lowlight of a series, especially the open-face design. LEGO now refusing to make closed-head animal masks that could at least be used for fantasy characters has made me enjoy the animal suits less and less. I like genre series (monsters, space, hopefully castle soon) but three series themed to silly costumes is at least two too many.

@fluffy39126 said:
"This will be the closest I’ll ever get to my dream chima minifigure series, so I’m VERY happy to see this.
It’s close enough, welcome back Lego chima!"

To me they remind of Fabuland :-)

I think the snack box with parrot food would have looked better if it was also a macaw. But the real missed chance here is that they didn’t use the og parrot design on this box. That would be a must-have for a lot of lego fans.

When the accessories are more exciting than the figures somethings gone wrong.

The real question is whether showing the winged and finned people holding their accessories is false marketing or evidence of some funky new connection element not shown in the images.

@Brickodillo said:
"I think the snack box with parrot food would have looked better if it was also a macaw. But the real missed chance here is that they didn’t use the og parrot design on this box. That would be a must-have for a lot of lego fans. "

I hope this is parrot design we will get soon. New Parrot mold with propper prints is WAY LONG overdue.

That is another year skipped for unlicensed CMF. I'm glad I stopped collecting.

They could make them more interesting by printing the back of the heads black, with a tongue and teeth pattern so they could be turned into animals instead of costumes.

Ugh. I prefer minifigs that I can use to populate my city.

Whelp. Koala with boomerang just made me feel homesick.

The Frog Costume guy is a must, but mainly because you can't reach Magus' castle without this guy in the party.

Not my cup of tea, but it is a numbered series, I'll take it.

Was wondering when these would finally get an official reveal as they've been leaked online for months now.

Dunno why, but my favourite ones the Goldfish.

Tempted to give them weapons and have a Fabuland Army :D

@tenfootgerbil said:
"Tempted to give them weapons and have a Fabuland Army :D"

Username checks out.

Username should probably also check out Chima.

Maybe the parrot, but idk. Not my theme.

@oldtodd33 said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @oldtodd33 said:
"They all look really good and will make an awesome Halloween party when added to the others we have. Far better than the last two series which were the worst of them all. "

By "last two series," do you mean the last two numbered series, or the last two series in general? Because the first definition includes Series 26 (Space), and the second definition includes Across the Spider-Verse. Either way, I must strongly disagree that "the last two series... were the worst of them all.""

I meant to the last two CMF series, F1 and Spider-verse. I'm still miffed the F1 cars were categorized as minifigures and I'm done long ago with Marvel/DC. The first sets were okay but I'm so sick of the 100 versions of Batman et al I could throw up. What put me over the edge was the CMF "What if" series. It seems the only way comics can keep people's attention is to constantly rehash everything, kill off characters and miraculously bring them back to life or make new characters out of thin air. UHHHHHG."

I'll agree with you that the F1 series was a miss (I only bought three of those), but the Across the Spider-Verse series is an awesome series based on an awesome movie.

@Vesperas said:"The costumed CMF are okay when they're sprinkled in with other figures but to see an entire wave of them is disappointing. This is probably the weakest line in the main series, overall.

It's still better than the F1 and Spider-Verse of last year though."

As I said, I bought three of the F1 cars, and the Spider-Verse was the third series (after Series 26-Space! and the D&D series) that I ordered complete on eBay.

@Crux said:"The Frog Costume guy is a must, but mainly because you can't reach Magus' castle without this guy in the party."

He's just dinking around with a bubble wand, though. Get this man a Masamune, stat!

These are cute! I've never been big on the animal suits, but my kids definitely are. I'll probably pick up the frog guy for myself, though.

Finally, I can complete the Dean’s office for a Community MOC

Welp, 8803-12 Gorilla Suit Guy, 8805-6 Lizard Man, and 71007-14 Piggy Guy aren't gonna decrease in price anytime soon....

@RadioAllergy said:
"Finally, I can complete my Furry Convention MOC."

well, no, because fursuits typically cover the human face, as that is the entire point

A concept like this could've easily become overkill but I think all of these minifigures are executed well! They're super cute, I like the graphic design and color schemes. I do wish we had some new animal molds in here (imagine a LEGO peacock!), since the accessories are weak for some of them. I don't like how the dolphin and fish figures are shown "holding" their accessories since it's impossible for them to do that with those flipper arms.

Since I often collected especially the Animal Costume fig in previous CMF series - this might be a costly one for me... ;-)

If they wanted make a line up where there will be no huge hype for one minifig then they succeded.
I guess there will be no ANY hype for those. Shelf warmers at shops like a F1 and spiderverse but at least those are colourful so kids will take.

I think this are brilliant. Really good series, the goldfish is amazing!

@AustinPowers said:
"Those animal costume characters in former CMF series have always been the ones I skipped because I have zero interest in them.
Therefore I can skip this entire series. Money saved.

The rubber ducky with the croc guy could have been interesting, if they hadn't used an existing piece but instead made one in a new colour. Alas.

Wake me up when there's a Star Trek CMF series. "

I totally agree! ??