This week, we’re throwing out the rulebook and smashing the (injection) mould. Welcome to a Wild Card edition on Minifig Monday — a glorious grab-bag of minifigure madness where demons rub shoulders with space police, and chicken hags party with cake golems. You read that right. This week’s featured builders are a masterclass in thinking outside the LEGO box. Expect surprises, odd pairings, and a whole lot of imagination.

Our first pick is this incredible shark samurai from bricksnbeasts, featuring a vintage shark head from the early 2000s Harry Potter line, but also some fantastic dynamic posing achieved with some brick-built arms. Surrounded by an impressive shiver of almost every LEGO Shark to date. Aura off the charts!

Can you smell what synthbugfigs is cooking? It is a jaw-dropping cake golem. With dripping frosting and an impressively organic-looking build, this fig certainly defies categorisation… and makes us hungry.

 
Up next, we have a beast that has one foot in fantasy and another in sci-fi. artist_davs has created a monstrously muscular orc that combines big fig arms with a custom built body along with a clever use of a dark orange hair piece for the beard.

There is growing nostalgia for the Space Police III theme from 2009 to 2010 and Brickbot_studio has revived the theme’s most iconic villains with the arm printing and weapons we all dreamed of when the sets were on shelves. He has also updated the Space Police armour using a SW Savage Opress chest plate and a head design from Nexo-knights.

Continuing the space aesthetic, wyndgekko has gathered a colourful medley of classic space getups. LEGO has been slowly releasing these torsos, helmets, and air tanks in all LEGO colours, and this build shows how good a lot of them look side by side.

Alien Earth is the latest TV phenomenon, and Femmefromtheblock has put together Kid Cavalier, Wendy and some grotesque alien sub-forms. Yikes!

In 2023, we got our first official Baymax mini figure from the Disney CMF line, but brictacular_builds has produced an upgraded version that perfectly sculpting the character’s signature chunkiness using curved slopes.

Another nod to classic media, this cast line up from The Princess Bride comes from lily_book_brick_pics. The parts selection makes each character instantly recognisable, especially Wallace Shawn and Andre the Giant.

Armed with garlic and a brilliant crossbow built using Ninjago shoulder armour, Phiphibrick has made a rookie vampire slayer packed full of detail and mini builds (we always love to see the elusive barbed wire from the old Agents theme).

Modified heads are often a key draw in new sets, but rarely do we get to see a whole host of bespoke character moulds in one place. Foolsfigures has assembled a swashbuckling crew of 6 unique species with as many unique hats.

Traversing time and space, jdm_bricks’s Astrologer has a generous use or dark red robes and rubber bands making it look very distinguished. The whole scene is tied together nicely with the many globes, including the unusual globe mining head inside of the Mysterio crystal ball helmet.

For a while, 2p_figs has been a connoisseur of whimsical animal costume figs, but this chicken hag is a personal favourite. Utilising the white wonderful bird wing arms with a white cape to build out the feathered look, this hag is also geared up with a great egg staff build and a glamorous looking hen friend.

asortaokaybuilder has made a charming tribute to the Hollow Knight game series with their recent Hexblade Warlock post. the needle-like weapon is a great little build that is a nice use of the white Black Panther ear attachment.

Sven_h4ze has kitted out this witch with an amazing broom-boom 5000. Part shotgun, part magical transportation, seemingly running on crystal power, this whole fig oozes creativity.

In this spooky post, builds.from.the.crypt makes excellent use of various swooping black elements to simulate a gloopy liquid engulfing some unfortunate minifigs.

These retro-style space figs feel right at home with Lego’s recent Flying Moon Car 40789. Combining the new Mr Freeze dome helmet with the city diving oxygen tank is a great look, and that raygun using the antenna from the Space CMF Imposter fig is simple yet satisfying. Great job, _standaartwoudt_.

Finally, there have been a number of excellent homages to the iconic Tree Sentinel from Eldren Ring, but this outlandishly detailed creation from devoureroflego captured our attention this week thanks to the amazing chain horse barding and metallic and pearl gold armour. Other notable techniques are the elaborate axe build and the sentinel’s helmet which features the CMF gladiator helmet with a Mars Mission visor wedged over the front.

Our Wild Card edition of Minifig Monday has come to an end. If you enjoy Minifig Mondays, please give a follow to the creators featured and send them a kind word.