LEGO Collectable Minifigures Series 28. Rumors and discussion

[MAB]

11 hours ago, FinlayTheFaithful said:

This thought hit me a few hours ago, if you're gonna make a CMF that's completely based off of animals, why not just make a Sonic CMF instead? 90% of the characters are animals themselves anyway

Because they are very different things.

 

[icm]

Might as well say why not just make a Muppets CMF instead? Or Disney? Or Looney Tunes? Most of the characters are animals themselves anyway. 

Like @MAB said, an unlicensed series of animal costumes is very different from a licensed series of IP characters, most of which are stylized or anthropomorphic animals.

[williejm]

Whilst acknowledging the info we currently have is very scant, I think we can realistically rule out a licensed theme. A) that info would leak much more consistently than ‘it’s “animals”’, B) we will just have had two licenses in a row: a third seems vanishingly unlikely. 

Edited July 13 by williejm

[Lion King]

I agree that it’s unlikely for the first seires of 2026 would be licensed.. I’m totally okay  with “animal costumes” series. But if it’s mix of costume, citizens with aniamls (example, lumberjack with beaver), and anthromphic animals, that’s also okay with me.

 

[hikouki]

On 7/12/2025 at 7:25 PM, FinlayTheFaithful said:

This thought hit me a few hours ago, if you're gonna make a CMF that's completely based off of animals, why not just make a Sonic CMF instead? 90% of the characters are animals themselves anyway

 

On 7/13/2025 at 7:22 AM, icm said:

Might as well say why not just make a Muppets CMF instead? Or Disney? Or Looney Tunes? Most of the characters are animals themselves anyway. 

Like @MAB said, an unlicensed series of animal costumes is very different from a licensed series of IP characters, most of which are stylized or anthropomorphic animals.

The licensed minifigs are humanoid animals and not persons in animal costumes. So I don't think any of these licensed themes would be there. Also, license holders typically are not happy with their items being mixed with other licensed items.

I do wonder if all of the 12 would involve an animal costume minifig. Or perhaps it is just the cat and the koala? Others are regular minifigs that reference animals?

[Roebuck]

19 hours ago, hikouki said:

wonder if all of the 12 would involve an animal costume minifig. Or perhaps it is just the cat and the koala? Others are regular minifigs that reference animals?

We can hope 

[zoth33]

22 hours ago, hikouki said:

 

The licensed minifigs are humanoid animals and not persons in animal costumes. So I don't think any of these licensed themes would be there. Also, license holders typically are not happy with their items being mixed with other licensed items.

I do wonder if all of the 12 would involve an animal costume minifig. Or perhaps it is just the cat and the koala? Others are regular minifigs that reference animals?

I doubt it but we may luck out.  

[Lion King]

I’m totally fine with mix of diverse minifigures, similiar to Monsters, Party, Party 2.0, and Space. 

[Klaus-Dieter]

Thanks for the news! 

Don't get me wrong: I really like animal costumes.

But I don't like to get a whole series only of these:

1. In contrast to the first years, there's only one unlicensed CMF series a year. Making it themed, is bad for all who aren't fans of this theme.

2. We haven't had food costumes and musicians in unlicensed CMF series for quite some time now, so it would have had been better to get some of these.

3. The designers' budget even for the CMF series is limited. That means that many older moulds have to be used again. Consequently, we will see mainly already existing animal costumes (only in different colors and with different prints), but only a very limited number of really new animal costume moulds. This makes the series less attractive.

4. With Lego (apart from some absolutely limited number of sets every now and then) not releasing any unlicensed Castle, Pirates and classical Space Sets anymore, a regular CMF series has always been a great opportunity to get your hands on figs of these themes. But in a themed (animal costumes) series, there's no chance for this.

Beides, I really don't understand TLG: In regular series many people buy several copies of one minifigure for army building. In contrast, with a themed series, why should someone by more than one copy of each minifigure?! So TLG will make much less money with this series.

Edited July 17 by Klaus-Dieter

[MAB]

1 hour ago, Klaus-Dieter said:

Beides, I really don't understand TLG: In regular series many people buy several copies of one minifigure for army building. In contrast, with a themed series, why should someone by more than one copy of each minifigure?! So TLG will make much less money with this series.

To army build that character. I assembled armies of gorilla suit guys, lizard suit guys, and bee girls. It all depends on if someone can spot a use for them.

But I agree a series of all costumes will ge boring, so let's hope they have other animal related figures and not just costumes.  

[williejm]

7 minutes ago, MAB said:

To army build that character. I assembled armies of gorilla suit guys, lizard suit guys, and bee girls. It all depends on if someone can spot a use for them.

But I agree a series of all costumes will ge boring, so let's hope they have other animal related figures and not just costumes.  

Gorilla suit guy was an early icon. It also went really well with the cyborg in the same series: Gorillaborg army FTW

[MAB]

41 minutes ago, williejm said:

Gorilla suit guy was an early icon. It also went really well with the cyborg in the same series: Gorillaborg army FTW

I got a couple of the cyborgs from that series but I was too busy buying elves, samurai, mummies and gorillas to care. The nice thing about the gorilla mask is that it can be used for a person or an animal, unlike a lot of the recent costumes where the whole face shows through the 'mouth' of the mask.

Edited July 17 by MAB

[williejm]

5 minutes ago, MAB said:

I got a couple of the cyborgs from that series but I was too busy buying elves, samurai, mummies and gorillas to care. The nice thing about the gorilla mask is that it can be used for a person or an animal, unlike a lot of the recent costumes where the whole face shows through the 'mouth' of the mask.

100% this. I massively prefer those masks 

[Robert8]

There are some animal costumes that could be army builders like sheep suit

And I think we'll see maybe a couple of gender swaps, similar to Unicorn and Dragon in series 13-18-23(-28?)

[williejm]

44 minutes ago, Robert8 said:

There are some animal costumes that could be army builders like sheep suit

And I think we'll see maybe a couple of gender swaps, similar to Unicorn and Dragon in series 13-18-23(-28?)

Though one can, of course, gender swap any ‘costume’ figure by simply switching heads …

[Robert8]

22 minutes ago, williejm said:

Though one can, of course, gender swap any ‘costume’ figure by simply switching heads …

Yes unless they go with a recolor like both of those I mentioned. A Lizard Woman (to go the S5 Lizard Man) with an orange or black recolor of the suit

It would be a chance to bring back fan favorites costumes that were released when today kids werent even born yet

Also, there is the sexual dimorphism angle with costumes like peacock being quite different for male/female

[MAB]

16 minutes ago, Robert8 said:

Yes unless they go with a recolor like both of those I mentioned. A Lizard Woman (to go the S5 Lizard Man) with an orange or black recolor of the suit

It would be a chance to bring back fan favorites costumes that were released when today kids werent even born yet

Also, there is the sexual dimorphism angle with costumes like peacock being quite different for male/female

I'm not sure how they would do a peahen costume. It would look a bit like an anonymous brown bird costume. 

I'd also not want to see a lizard suit in the near future, we've had enough dinosaurs recently plus the green dragon (and red before that).

They've got a monkey tail for Monkey Kid, so a new monkey mask like the gorilla's might be nice.

Edited July 17 by MAB

[Lion King]

White and Gray Goat Costuems (male and female), anyone?

[1Panda]

I actually did army build the t-Rex and triceratops costumes and gave them some armor and weapons for a moc, I have about 15-20 each

Edited July 18 by 1Panda

[williejm]

19 minutes ago, 1Panda said:

I actually did army build the t-Rex and triceratops costumes and gave them some armor and weapons for a moc, I have about 15-20 each

Do you keep them with the faces or swap out the minifig heads for one if the ‘open mouth’ ones?

[1Panda]

On 7/18/2025 at 1:51 PM, williejm said:

Do you keep them with the faces or swap out the minifig heads for one if the ‘open mouth’ ones?

I kept the regular faces because I don’t have enough open mouth ones

[lifeinplastic]

One thing I am very glad about is the fact the cat and koala masks leaked before we were told this would be an animal series. At least there was then reasonable expectation this may be an all costumed series rather than getting our hopes through the roof  that each figure would have an animal accessory only to find out this wasn’t the case. I’m still expecting all costumes right now but secretly hoping the cat and koala masks are red herrings!

Edited July 22 by lifeinplastic

[williejm]

1 hour ago, lifeinplastic said:

One thing I am very glad about is the fact the cat and koala masks leaked before we were told this would be an animal series. At least there was then reasonable expectation this may be an all costumed series rather than getting our hopes through the roof  that each figure would have an animal accessory only to find out this wasn’t the case. I’m still expecting all costumes right now but secretly hoping the cat and koala masks are red herrings!

With you on this. Trying hard not to be overly optimistic, but still hoping the series delivers (plenty) new animals 

[hikouki]

17 hours ago, williejm said:

With you on this. Trying hard not to be overly optimistic, but still hoping the series delivers (plenty) new animals 

Lego has introduced unique/ exclusive animals to the CMF line in the past, right?

[Roebuck]

2 hours ago, hikouki said:

Lego has introduced unique/ exclusive animals to the CMF line in the past, right?

That is basically the default setting, normally each series gives us around 2 new animals (+-1)
Difficult not to get ones hopes up when a series is leaked as "animals"