A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 5: Scooby-Doo

Not too long after Monster Fighters, LEGO was back with another spooky theme, just a less real one! As anybody who knows Scooby-Doo knows, the franchise deals primarily with a gang of teenagers and their dog investigating supernatural events that turn out to be hoaxes perpetrated by criminals in monster disguises, though the franchise has gone into actual supernatural territory quite often as the decades have gone on. LEGO's theme arrived in 2015 and is based predominantly on the original 1960s Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? series, though, where it's all elaborate hoaxes and all of the monsters are thus depicted as humans in costume. Buncha frustrated theater kids, if you ask me. Sign the crooks up for community plays and I'm sure there'd be no more incidents.

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 4: More Monsters from Minifigures Series

Another small batch of Minifigures cropped up between Monster Fighters and the next big crop of horror figures, so let's take a quick look!

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 3: Monster Fighters

2012's Monster Fighters was LEGO's first and only supernatural horror theme based on the classic horror monster archetypes. Studios was artifice, all being produced on sets for movies, though could be played as real if desired, while the supernatural Hidden Side theme afterward is fully ghost/possession-centric and closer tonally to Ghostbusters than traditional or Halloweeny horror. Scooby-Doo, the thematically and temporally closest successor to Monster Fighters, is all about monster hoaxes. 

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 2: Monsters from Early Minifigures Series

 After the original Castle and Studios monsters from the "pre-modern" LEGO eras, the Minifigures theme served as the next major repository for horror minifigure designs, and started delivering right at the very beginning! The Minifigures line gave us the first horror designs in LEGO's current minifigure art style which stabilized around the late 2000s-2010s and hasn't really changed since, though it's arguable early series still look a bit different facially from minifigures of today. The Minifigures line also gave us our first iterative designs repeating and reimagining monster archetypes we'd already seen. Let's take a look.

A LEGO Horror Chronicle, Part 1: Introduction to LEGO Monsters

Halloween season has begun, and this year, it's all about LEGO!

I've tried to figure it out before, but my love for the horror genre must be somewhat innate. I was always deeply enthralled by witches, adored Halloween, and monsters of any kind were my bread and butter. One of the bigger indicators for my belatedly-acknowledged passion came in the form of my LEGO hobby, and my singular focus therein on monster minifigures. 

Queen of the Golden Screen: Monster High Reel Drama Cleo de Nile by Mattel

That cover photo is edited, but only for shadows. That's a full-color photograph! That means it's time to finally talk about Reel Drama!

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.