Better Late Than Never: LEGO Minifigures Series 27

This is a late discussion, since these figures came out several months ago, but I always intended to feature them.

I've enjoyed these Minifigures series spotlights on the blog since Series 25 (Series 26's post is here), and there were certainly a handful of figures in Series 27 that I wanted to discuss, too. I maybe could have also done a feature on the Dungeons & Dragons series that came out between S26 and S27, because it has great figures I want too...except I'd be way out of my pool of familiarity there, since, against all indicators and likelihoods, DnD and tabletop RPGs never became an interest of mine. I think I do want to pursue the figures to some capacity anyway because there's some spooky Halloween-adjacent characters in there and some good parts (as well as male and female head options for all of the generic characters!) but I'm still wavering on that. Maybe I need to set aside a space for Castle/fantasy monsters so I can amass figures that don't slide into direct Halloween tones and discuss some Castle enemies that I like.

Just as a sidenote, I built a new display for my Series 26 figures in the form of a simple black shelf stand to hang on the wall using two nails. I built in spots for the animals and baby to display securely, and put a in small foot stand from the DC Comics series to hover the UFO guy in the air.

I'll build displays for themed series I like everything in, but I don't intend to give this treatment to every series.

Series 27 was a long time coming. I got my complete set of twelve secondhand and boxed, like Series 25. Series 26 was assembled after unboxing, so I didn't get them blind there.

This is the fourth lime green series after Series 3, 13, and 19. With some past series colors like red and black being one-offs thus far, it frustrates me to see others enter third or fourth uses. I think red, only seen for Series 7's branding before, would have been a wonderful choice for this group, considering there's a Valentine character in the mix, a spooky Castle character, and a nightmare creature who would all be particularly flattered by the color. 

The collector sheet looks oddly empty. Less space was needed for this graphic design, though the complexity of a few assemblies required more space for instructions on the back.

The textiles are kept flat-packed in small card envelopes patterned like 1x2 bricks, as usual. 

I heard QR codes were added to the boxes for scanning to let people identify the figures inside, but the codes bring up a numerical string that won't tell you squat, unless, I presume, you find a list someone's compiled of all the number codes in the series so you can cross-reference. It's two layers of encryption and it's not super helpful to me as such. 

Reviews are in the order I randomly opened the boxes.

Pirate Quartermaster

It's a little strange to see Pirates and Castle characters now more common in Minifigures releases than in playsets. I can understand if LEGO found those themes to struggle with the current market, but it's still a little sad to see their only foot in the door may be through solo character releases or licensed themes. This is a really cool minifigure, though. She's exceptionally detailed and looks lavish and rugged in the right combination for a high-ranking member of a pirate crew. Her hairstyle indicates she's a Black woman, and her hairpiece is dual-molded with the bandanna and hair being separate plastic colors. Her face is confident with some cheekbone contour, and her costume is a teal vest over a white shirt, with gold-patterned dark red pants, black boots, and a hips-and-back tattered skirt that leaves the front uncovered. The gold pattern on her pants is exceptional, and her sleeves have lace designs, too, while gold bracelets are printed on her wrists. Both her arms and legs are dual-molded to block out the color split, with print on the edges to add more flair.

The Quartermaster's alternate expression is open-mouthed and more lively. 

She carries a basic grey pirate sword, which isn't too exciting, but her cockatoo is a new mold, and is a welcome new animal instead of a more typical pirate parrot! 

I can't say this is anything but a really well-done minifigure, even if pirates aren't all that much to me. 

Wolfpack Beastmaster

This is another LEGO Castle nostalgia piece, here referencing the very small Wolfpack subtheme from 1992, centered around a roguish faction of soldiers called...well, guess.

An original Wolfpack minifigure.

This Beastmaster isn't LEGO's first revival minifigure for the Wolfpack--just last year, in the collector Castle set "Medieval Town Square", we got another Wolfpack guy, though a less elaborate and characterful one.

In comparison, the Beastmaster looks dark, wild, and rough... and there's a very genuine possibility he's actually part wolf himself!

He has extremely bushy hair on his brows and cheeks, he's got a scar across his left eye, and what looks like a suspiciously pointy tooth showing in his scowl...

His hood is a relatively new LEGO sculpt which now coexists with the more common hood that was used before. The new hood doesn't have a closed lower edge and the sides come down more on the torso, which arguably makes more sense for blending it into costumes. It's a slightly edgier hood shape than the rounder sculpt.

The older hood sculpt, still going strong, beside the newer one.

Despite the newer hood being in use for a good while now, this is my first time owning one. 

The Beastmaster's cape is black and has a jagged lower edge and a thick felt material to make it look like a furry animal pelt. I don't think it would be dyed wolf fur if he's a wolf trainer and possible wolfman himself, but it's definitely meant to be a rugged fur cape. Bearskin, perhaps?

The Beastmaster's armor is made to look like it's mostly leather, but chain mail appears on the limbs. His printing is quite detailed, and includes the Wolfpack crest on the chest.

The Beastmaster carries a classic shield with the same crest, and a fairly fancy broadsword with a textured pommel.

I think the wolf companion debuts a new animal sculpt. It's lighter grey with some darker grey on the snout, and has one stud on the back. It stands on a 1x4 footprint of studs, making it very tricky to display alongside the Beastmaster!

The very best feature of the Beastmaster is his second face, where he's depicted doing a wolf howl!

Amazing.

Okay, so is this guy a werewolf? Are the two figures, wolf and man, actually the same guy? I can't confidently state that to be the case. He's not clear enough, and he's also a little too Castle, to be included in my horror collection. He fits more into the "grim Castle" genre of Minifigures characters like the Series 5 Evil Dwarf, Series 8 Evil Knight, and Series 15 Frightening Knight. I can certainly believe he was a feral child raised by a pack of wolves, though, and that perhaps the wolf that comes with him is a family member, or else he was magically sired by a wolf somehow in some kind of fantasy logic. He's a fun figure. Let's be real: he probably smells and is probably unpleasant to be around. But that wolfish spirit inside him makes him oddly endearing and adorable.

Hamster Costume Fan

Nope. Not a fan at all.

I don't like the open-faced animal-costume minifigures and I don't like hamsters. I have a sense of genuinely cute vs. cutesy, and this is ringing the latter for me. The 1x1 round tile printed as a cucumber slice is the best part of this figure for me. I know the Minifigures character is just a kid, but I don't want him here. Sorry.

Pterodactyl Costume Fan

I suppose this pairs well with the Triceratops costume from Series 25? (And the T-Rex from Series 24, which I don't have.)

The Pterodactyl is the better of the two costumes in Series 27, even if I still don't enjoy this minifigure genre. I think the Sand Blue color palette for the costume is great, the dark blue colors are nice and the hands can't be that common in that color, and the new wing-arms mold is a fun novelty, though it's functionally the same concept as the bat-wing arms that have been in use since 2012. The arms have the same articulation points as a normal minifigure arm, though the sculpted pose makes them quite different, and a bit awkward.

Here's the pterosaur-wing arms with the minifigure bat-wing arms on the first figure that used them, the Monster Fighters Bat Monster (one of an identical duo in the theme).

Both arm designs use only a single mold for both sides, which is flat and symmetrical so it can be plugged into both arm sockets. The Pterodactyl Costume Fan's pull this trick off better by not having any distracting mold marks or stamps that expose it was only one mold. The bat wings had marks on one side of the mold, meaning one wing from front or back shows those marks.

The Pterodactyl Costume Fan has a second face which is clearly depicting her imitating the famous screech of a pterodactyl (as portrayed in popular media)!

I like this figure's Sand Blue lipstick and shrieking face. It's a combo primed for sinister or villainous or spooky characters, so it's a worthwhile head print. I want to use this face on a witch or sorceress, but I think the figure as designed could also easily pass as a Z-list comic-book supervillain obsessed with pterosaurs!

Steampunk Inventor

While the Playmobil Fi?ures line transparently imitated several LEGO Minifigures concepts and designs, this archetype is a rare case where Playmobil's figure line had LEGO beat by several years!

Fi?ures Series 11 steampunk figure, 2017.

Playmobil's been dancing around with a few other Fi?ures steampunks since this guy, too, but LEGO finally got there, and they put on a darn good show. Their Steampunk Inventor is a dapper pre-electric cyborg gent with a mechanical right arm that must weigh as much as at least two human arms, and which makes his hand very bulky and long!

There's a slight conceptual resemblance to Monster High's Hexiciah Steam.

The gentleman starts on top with a narrow tall top hat mold. For decades, LEGO had a featureless shorter top hat with a perfect cylinder top and circle brim, and it's still in use. Then, The LEGO Batman Movie's Penguin introduced a more sculpted, taller, and more caricatured top hat sculpt which I love. Finally, the Disney 100th-anniversary Minifigures series introduced this other top hat mold, which is less cartoonish, but graced the heads of Jiminy Cricket and Dr. Facilier, and now this Inventor. 

The three LEGO top hats--classic, "Penguin", and "Disney". The Penguin mold is the tallest--perfect for a debut on a short minifigure!

The Inventor's hat is Dark Brown with a Reddish Brown band and goggles with green lenses printed above it. His face depicts dark tan facial hair and a monocle with a calm poised expression.

His torso and legs are elaborately printed with an Olive Green suit, with the trousers having gold pinstripes, a pocket of tinkering tools, and dual-molding for dark brown boots, while gold plating and other steam apparatus cross his shoulder and torso with straps and such to show how his mechanical arm is held on. The arm itself has lots of detail, including a piston printed on!

The torso gold print is metallic while the arm itself is flat pearl gold, creating a mismatch, and I'd sacrifice the shine on the torso to make the print and arm flow together better.

The Inventor displays well enough without the extra hand mechanics:

But the claw is really the point. It's built around a "machine gauntlet" hand piece that's been around for a good while, though I think it's my first time with it. It has a grip underneath for the hand, and hollow studs in the front and on top.

The minifigure hand is hidden enough for this to work as the Inventor's actual machine hand, though it's definitely clunky! The classic robot claw piece is inserted in the front, and the top has a three-part build of a "paddle stud" (1x1 stud with a horizontal bar sticking out) with a printed steam gauge tile on top, and a classic LEGO puff piece in white on the end of the paddle's bar to depict steam emissions.

Perhaps in an earlier series, this figure would use the standby robot-arm mold cast in gold with the claw hand in the end and had done with it, but I like this more visually detailed and whimsical depiction.

This is such an elaborate and well-executed minifigure. I'm begging for LEGO to make a Steampunk Robot for him to have created (such a minifigure could be an all-time favorite for me), and I'd also expect a lady counterpart to this design, which would be great. Maybe she could have a clockwork wheelchair! This could be the start of a fun little Minifigures subset.

Bogeyman

This is naturally the high point of Series 27 for me--a generic furry horned boogity-boo nightmare monster of the type who frightens sleeping children! This figure makes the review a bit more timely now, as he's perfect for a spooky mood. A LEGO monster in this style is much appreciated, and I love how he came out. His head piece is tall and pretty neckless, and his face is huge, with his head proportions giving him a really uncanny, eerie look on a minifigure frame--goofy in a perfectly wrong, eerie way. Being a blue furry horned monster might draw some comparisons to Sulley from Monsters, Inc., but this guy is significantly spookier with his midnight blue pelt, red eyes, huge fanged mouth, and generally less humanoid look. His bushy black brows and wide mouth give him an unclear expression, but it's not a sweet and charming one! 

The head mold is new to this figure and is mostly flat on the front, potentially promising wider print variation for future minifigures with this mold, if LEGO can think of reasons to make any. The back has jagged fur texture.

The bull horns are new in Sand Blue, and the hands are also Sand Blue. The Bogeyman and Pterodactyl Costume Fan could swap hands to have their hands match their arms!

The Bogeyman's body pieces are nicely printed with fur lines in Sand Blue, including on his shoulderblades which are fully covered by his head. I love the sharp claws on his toes.

The Bogeyman's fur detailing is highly similar, but not in any way identical, to the Series 11 Yeti's. The Yeti has a navel and his belly ends higher, while the Bogeyman's print implies a much longer belly hanging down to his knees. The Bogeyman has the sharp claws and shoulderblade print that the Yeti doesn't.

 

The third furry monster Minifigure is Squarefoot in Series 14, who's a recolor of the Yeti with far less printing.

The Bogeyman doesn't look all that much like the other two!

The Bogeyman's horns can be rotated if you so wish.

His accessory is fantastic--it's a scary storybook about himself, as if this is the spooky bedtime story a child hears and grows afraid of at night, and he is the monster from that scary book come to haunt them! I love the colors and prints here.

Very Babadook-coded. Maybe he's trying to be friendly, though, and tries reading it to kids for wholesome story nights while they just wish he would leave and take the scary book with him! While this is a character-specific accessory, it works well as a generic book of scary stories, and it's a better design (and the modern book pieces make for better function) than the book that came with Series 16's Spooky Boy.

I lost my copy of this book, but don't mourn it.

The Bogeyman is just a lot of spooky fun! I'll be reposting this review segment when I run through LEGO horror in October.

Jetpack Racer

This figure is in the modern mundane athletics sphere, but it wouldn't be too hard to put him into sci-fi, especially with that fancy dual-molded helmet with the red visor! This isn't generally my aesthetic, but I can appreciate the print detail all over this figure. He's covered in decoration, and he's sponsored by the omnipresent fictional Octan corporation.

His head is made to look cowled-up in his jet suit, but I prefer the face with the nose and mouth covered, because the more uncovered face reveals he has an extremely unflattering beard.

Leave that back in the '00s, dude.

His jetpack is a simple build attached to a standard neck bracket piece that goes on before the head does.

This isn't my area of interest, but the design is done well, and I'm curious to see the future of the helmet mold in LEGO sci-fi.

Cupid

This figure made more sense when this series released, ahead of Valentine's Day, but he's also a year-round figure thanks to counting as another entry in LEGO's classical mythology canon.

This display stand isn't fully polished, but it's nice to just have a place for these. The centaur is not a Minifigures official design; the Series 21 figure the horse body came from was too "forest-fantasy" in tone for me, so I put together my own design based on Greek myth.

The mythology bunch actually provides two exceptions now to the Minfigures naming convention--in a world of characters named by epithets and titles, Medusa and Cupid are the two to have unambiguous proper names instead of nicknames. I suppose this could be owed to their cultural status as public-domain characters, but the others in their subset don't follow that rule. The Poseidon/Neptune analogue is called the "Ocean King", and the Athena/Minerva analogue is called the "Battle Goddess". By that standard, Medusa could be the "Gorgon" and Cupid could be the "Love God" or "Cherub", but no. For whatever reason, they use proper names in a crowd of technically nameless Minifigures. I guess you could argue Minifigures Cupid is named as such in the sense of being "a cupid" in the generic impersonal-noun version of the word, but it's not clear that's what the scenario is.

Cupid here is really darling. He's on the unarticulated short legs and follows the cherubic-child interpretation of the Roman god of love, but also has clear nods to mythology with his toga outfit. His hair is the sculpt which debuted for Jay's Ninjago redesign in the LEGO Ninjago Movie, in a blonde color, and his face depicts a sweet rosy smile. 

His bow is new in this Valentine red color, though the sculpt itself is ubiquitous. His other accessory is a red 1x1 heart-shaped tile. His torso is printed with a toga, while his legs are dual-molded to complete it, and a heart-and-arrow brooch decorates the torso. His right arm has a golden band printed on it.

The wings are a new sculpt which is one piece mounted to a stud, and here, is placed on a white neck bracket. These wings have also been used on the studs of LEGO ponies to make them into pegasi.

Creator set 31175 "Unicorn Castle".

Here's Cupid's back print without the back pieces. I love the slight pink touches in the robe.

Cupid has a second face which goes full emoji with red heart eyes...

...but I don't think the designers were fully thinking it through, because the hair sculpt covers too much of the print and makes it very hard to read the visual gag. Do these look like hearts with the hair on?

What a shame. It's a good thing I like him so much with the simpler face! And I do. He's a really charming little minifigure, perfect for Valentine's or mythology theming.

Plush Toy Collector

Despite being a toy collector myself, and somebody who loves a good plush, I don't connect to this one at all. This specific air of cozy big-eyes plushie lover is evidently a real niche of passionate toy collectors, but there's something off-putting to the minifigure in my mind, like this is an influencer who adopts an infantilized demeanor and collects to collect more than to enjoy, all while making money off a child audience viewing her content. That's all a very uncharitable and unfounded way to view her, of course. This could just as well be her entirely innocent expression that's just to make herself happy, and I don't want to end up using "consumerist" as a disingenuous insult for "toy collector who collects things I personally don't like". I'm in absolutely no place to criticize consumption itself, and I can't say anybody's passion is hollow or bad for them, because I don't know that to be true. It's just harder for me to see real depth to the big-eyed chibi style of plushie, and the fuzzy onesie and dyed hair all make this character seem shallower to me. She has that same issue of being cutesy, which I'm allergic to. I'm sure this character is genuinely very sweet, and that people in this type are too, but I don't personally connect to personalities who present themselves especially kiddie or cute. Likewise, I know big-eyed colorful plush toys have an audience who finds them genuinely adorable, but I just can't understand it myself. 

The figure is interesting for the plushie pieces, which are the same mostly featureless new mold printed up as a green frog and blue dog. They sit on a single stud and have a slight gapped arc to give them stubby legs, and they have holes for pin accessories in the top.

These pinholes are used for editions in the 42674 Friends set "Comic Book and Game Shop", where a plushie alien and unicorn are sold.

The collector's onesie has an animal-ears kitty hood printed on the back, and her alternate face is a happy closed-eyes smile.

I don't know. This type of fan is just a hobby and it doesn't harm me, but it's not my thing. Making this a child character would have made it easier for me to swallow her fashion sense, or else grounding her design a little more so she wasn't dressed so much in the fantasy kiddie look, because I do healthily appreciate plush and a love for childhood charm, but this is a bit immature for me, and this niche is not the flavor of feminine kids' toy aesthetics I connect to. Alternatively? Push it even further, up the absurdity and devotion to theme, and put her in a full teddy bear suit like she's a plush toy herself! LEGO has the parts and has recolored the bear mask plenty of times. We kind of already have the suit that I'd enjoy with these accessories, but another version would be welcome, too.

Series 19's Bear Costume Guy would work great as a plushie fanatic!

Longboarder

This is more my speed, despite being equally as separate from my personal expression. I just love this girl's vibe; she's super cool. I really enjoy her color palette and street-fashion toughness.

She uses a spiky-hair-and-baseball-cap mold that's been around for a few years, with Bright Green hair and a black hat, and the hair matches the wheels of her longboard. She has a bandage on her face from some scrape or spill on her board, and its placement is more appealing to me than it going across her nose. I never like that look. Her costume is all greyscale with street-art designs on her baseball shirt and sleeves and ripped jeans in grey. There's very little printing on the back, only depicting the neck of the shirt. 

I like how neutral and contourless the torso is, too. I'm certain that in the late 2000s, this would have been printed with breasts and waist curves to signify she's a girl, but LEGO's overall been toning down the gendering of their torso prints in recent years, perhaps even as early as 2015, to make torsos more gender-neutral at large, which also keeps the female minifigures from feeling objectified and singled out. We still sometimes get waist contours for women in outfits that justify it, and sometimes get torsos with print that's clearly only for male figures, but breast curves on female minifigures are far less common now, leaving LEGO ladies less defined by objectified curves and making their torso prints more adaptable. Female representation is also more equitable by volume; now, Minifigures series, including this one, are half composed of women and girls (6 out of 12), when they started with two women in a set of sixteen back in Series 1. Things crawled their way up to four out of sixteen by Series 14, six out of sixteen by Series 18, seven out of sixteen by Series 19, then evened out completely by Series 20 (8 out of 16 female) and maintaining that proportion even when the series size reduced to 12 figures. I'm glad to see things more balanced and fairly depicted in toys kids will grow up with. 

The Longboarder has another face which is more happy and self-assured, but I think I prefer her more intense. She wears a grey compact backpack piece.

The longboard is a new mold with a similar build to the classic LEGO skateboard. It uses the same stud connections above and below the center, though the studs here are solid, not hollow. The wheels are the same piece and really roll, and the side of the board can be held by a clip like the older piece.

 Bart Simpson's skateboard demonstates.

This isn't a sphere I participate in, but I like a cool tough character, and this minifigure design is really striking. She avoids feeling like a City minifigure from sets, and elevating a civilian figure past something you could get in a set is a tricky line to walk these days.

Cat Lover

This one is highly relatable content to me. I don't look or dress like this guy, but I know this life as a longhair cat owner myself. 

The Cat Lover is a gentle-looking fellow wearing a knit sweater covered in cat designs, and his pants are covered in cat too--I know it well. He's got starry eyes for his kitty and a ball of yarn to play with. I love that the yarn matches the pink in his sweater, as he knit the sweater himself and these are the leftovers the cat got fascinated by, derailing the session! 

I like that they avoided some stereotypes here. Depicting the Cat Lover as a male character is refreshing, and not giving him multiple cats is also a fair move that shows love for cats can be devoted and genuine even with only one companion. He's not a "crazy cat lady" stereotype in any way, which is good, especially because there are easy misogynist readings in that idea. I've heard some fans have read his costume colors as signifying he's a trans guy, which is nice. LEGO has allied themselves with queer pride in their ways, like releasing a diversity-flag-themed "Everyone is Awesome" model that's been sold continuously past its Pride debut time, but they don't explicitly make any characters queer. 

The longhair cat is a new sculpt and his face is cute but also completely thoughtless. All fluff in that head, no brains. Again, something I'm familiar with. He's not always a good cat, however, as the Cat Lover has a face that shows the result of rubbing him the wrong way--glasses askew, a dazed expression, and a paw-scratch on his cheek!

I'm fortunate enough to have missed on this part of the experience. My cat is hard to annoy, and he never scratches or hisses. The most he'll do is swat me, but the vast majority of the time, he's completely affectionate. He did have fun batting and chasing the Cat Lover around, though!

I think this is a really fun minifigure.

Astronomer Kid

This is a young girl with a passion for space, with a telescope set up for her and a rocket on her cozy-looking light orange sweater. The kid has big curly hair and her face has freckles, and she has the mid-length articulated shorter legs. Her expression is suited to looking through her telescope as one eye is closed, though her other face has both eyes open and an excited face like she's caught something in her scope!

The back of her torso has similarly minimal print to the Longboarder's.

The telescope is a small eight-piece assembly including a new tripod rounded brick, though the 1x1 stud-with-pin inserted between the tripod legs doesn't actually reach the studs on a LEGO surface when it's pushed in all the way, making me wonder why it's included or if another stud is needed.

The Astronomer Kid is part of LEGO's ongoing dedication to disability visibility, depicting a limb difference in a manner totally incidental to the minifigure's main concept. She's actually one of two arm prosthetic users here, but she's far more realistic than the Steampunk Inventor! She debuts a shortened arm mold for LEGO minifigures, with the arm on her left side having no hand and being thinner below the elbow.

Next to the standard left-arm minifigure mold.

She wears a prosthetic hand piece on this arm, though the prosthetic isn't brand-new and debuted shortly before in the LEGO Friends theme for minidoll use. Core Friends cast member Autumn has a shortened arm on the same side and she introduced this hand prosthetic in the same color, though most of her appearances don't wear one. 

A typical Autumn minidoll.

Autumn wearing the prosthetic hand.

The piece works for both minifigures and minidolls and slides onto a standard LEGO bar connection, which the shortened minifigure arm ends in. How the symmetry works out for both minifigure and minidoll wearers is something of a marvel. I'd guess maybe the prosthetic was sculpted to end off Autumn's arm symmetrically, and then, with the measurements and specs of the prosthetic established, the shape and length of the shortened minifigure arm was very carefully designed for the established prosthetic to also be symmetrical on minifigures. 

The bar section of the arm clipped ontp by the hand.

If you wanted to, you could insert the shortened arm into telescopes or lightsaber hilts for more sci-fi cyborg assemblies. 

Autumn's short arm is typically bare or short-sleeved, while this minifigure arm is molded in one color, creating the possible impression that the sweater sleeve is enclosed on this side. Autumn has sometimes had her short arm molded in the color of her costume, creating the same enclosed-sleeve effect. I wonder if we'll see minifigures with this arm mirrored for the right side, and cast in yellow to show the arm bare. 

The camera does a bad job of capturing teal colors, but I assure you, the hand is blue while the legs and shirt print use a greener tone!

The prosthetic hand is fully perpendicular to the wrist rather than being slightly angled. There is a defined top and bottom to the hand, with one side being taller than the wrist than the other, but the bottom side of the prosthetic hand doesn't have the curved edge of a standard minifigure hand. 

The top of the hand has a normal stud connection like a minifigure or minidoll hand, but the bottom side of the hand is too short below the wrist to offer the same, similar to the standard minifigure hand.

The piece rotates on the end of the wrist like any normal minifigure hand, but this rotation quality actually adds atypical articulation when worn on on Autumn, since minidoll hands are static.

I think this minifigure is a charming depiction of a space hobby and a welcome representation of disability, especially as she's a child character. I do think, perhaps, she's a little indistinguishable from the design style of a LEGO City civilian, but she's still charming.

So that's Series 27!

I don't love every minifigure in this series, but I only have an absence of affection for two characters. Don't try cutesy with me; it doesn't play.

 As is usual, my favorites leaned into fantasy and spooky territory, but the Cat Lover edged into the top tier just because of his subject matter speaking to me.

I think the Pirate Quartermaster, Astronomer Kid, and Longboarder form a group below my favorites as figures I really appreciate, while the Pterodactyl Costume Fan and Jetpack Racer are just below that second tier in the sense of liking some of what they do but having less use for them.

I can't wait to see what's in the next assorted series of Minifigures, and stay tuned for October, where we'll be heading into the spookiest of LEGO's long history!