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Yeah, those legs have been mentioned and linked in the description for that wave. But per earlier discussion, it's not really a sure thing, so I've left the picture off for now.

True, I suppose. But I don't know, keeping in mind that BAM elements are manufactured separately anyway (and thus have their own Element IDs), it seems possible that they just kept the original number for that one. I've tentatively removed it for now, but if anyone finds a sighting post with that torso design in it, I think we'd safely be able to re-add it. I tend to trust Brickset's inventories; they're often missing elements for older sets if LEGO's own database isn't tracking them properly, but the elements that do show up are usually correct, right? I might be misremembering here. Brickset certainly isn't copying inventories from other fansites, the data is pulled from Customer Services. In other news, I went into the store today to pick up the March wave, and it just so happened that the cashier was himself a BAM collector, very knowledgeable about the previous waves. We cross-referenced a few examples; notably, he confirmed for me the configuration of the Reddish Orange brick suit lady from last year, which many people had built as a male character. This gives me greater confidence in the AG Certified Stores configurations from that period. He also was able to get me a few boxes of pre-built minifigures from behind the counter, which saved me a bunch of time. Worth asking I guess! With the online listing for these minifigures having vanished, I've decided to use the photographs from twogayafols on Instagram going forward, for as long as they're being shared. The photographs are very similar in style to similar stock photography the LEGO Group puts out for retail sets, and quite unlike anything else twogayafols have shared, which makes me very confident these are actually official stock photographs being disclosed by LEGO. :)

I had seen that, but assumed I was mistaken, because it's such an old torso—but turns out it was rereleased as late as 2016! So I think you're right that that's correct. Agreed. Anyway, the site has had an update with the new waves and recent findings. Still lots of things uncertain but thanks to everyone here some great progress has been made!

Thanks! This information will be incorporated into the next update. Absolutely right on the Alien Villainess dress, the legs I think there's still a bit of ambiguity over, but almost certainly right. In other news, I have done some digging on that upcoming April wave. The set number is 40933-40937 and I can confirm that it is indeed just the four minifigures! This is unprecedented in known BAM history. Presumably they are indeed switching to more regular releases of smaller quantities, though I expect the overall number of minifigures will probably remain steady. Sadly, AG Certified Stores still have not restored their build-a-minifigure product listing—presumably it has just been discontinued. Shame that I won't be able to get those nice consistent photos going forward!

Hmm, weird! This is the first time I've ever seen a wave of just four minifigures be advertised. My only prediction is that there's going to be a themed trio of three minifigures also dropping in April, completing the usual wave of 7, which has simply been withheld for a later reveal...? As an aside, we're reaching the end of the 409XX number range, so it's quite possible that BAM is going to be occupying another block of set numbers going forward. Will need to wait to see how seasonal/promotional sets are getting numbered during the rest of the year. Thanks! Already mentioned on the site. We can't say for sure which of the two white torsos it is, though my money's on NO. 3814.

Thanks! Will mention this in the next update. The Indian torso, almost certainly, so I've swapped it in the next update. The Dark Green color mixup is a result of LEGO/BrickLink terminology confusion: LEGO's "Earth Green" is BrickLink's "Dark Green", while LEGO's "Dark Green" is what we'd view as regular green. See this website for information. However, the Sand Green one is confusing! The image comes straight from the official inventory, so there should be no confusion there, but you're right that it being described as Sand Green is odd. The name of the part, "MINI BODY UNDER PART GRE", is also strange and unhelpful. I have no explanation for what's going on there. Finally, 3626pb3104 is tricky. Head 1557 in official sets and inventories definitely appears to be the version without eyelashes. Either the eyelash version is categorised under the same name, or it's a different element with its own name, meaning it could be one of the heads unaccounted for from 2019. BrickLink claims the head was from 2019, but we know that might not be reliable. I've made a note for the next update. Yep, absolutely. Will add this next update. I had assumed they were printed/painted, the bat I remember having a sort of glossy feel. Have nothing to back this up though. I feel like all-white Q elements could exist but that's by-the-by with respect to BAM. Anyway, I'm conscious that this discussion of older elements has gone on for a couple of pages now, and we've really been getting into the weeds with it, so if I can make a request: please send future questions and corrections to me via DM, so that hopefully this thread can get back on-topic. Thanks all!

Thank you for this information. I have no way of knowing whether a given element has back printing or not, but especially in 2018, it seems reasonable to assume that all of these were variants without back printing released via BAM. This information will be incorporated into the site with the next update. Curiously, the palm tree shirt and construction hoodie both appear twice, but the second appearances have different Element IDs. It seems reasonable to assume that the later versions restored the back printing. That's just how LEGO displays that part in official renders. It'll actually be the standard painted variation seen in CMF. You can tell because the name specifies "No. 1", which is a designation for prints/paint applications. I'll make a note clarifying that, again in the next update. Thanks all!

Honestly, I think this one is no big mystery! There are three versions of this torso, with the difference being the pattern of horizontal wrinkles across the torso. The official image for that BAM part has no wrinkles, but I can clearly see in the stock photography for the Parisian Restaurant that the version in that set does have wrinkles. There's also a version with fainter wrinkles. All three of these versions overlap in time, and indeed a given set might have included either of the variations. My assumption, looking on Brickset, is that the original version has obvious wrinkles, with the idea being to have a chef with a bit of a paunch. Perhaps someone at LEGO decided this was playing too much into stereotypes, and made the wrinkles fainter, before finally removing them altogether. It would be this most recent version, still appearing in sets as recently as 2025, which appeared in BAM, explaining its high number.

Good news and bad news! The good news is I have found the remaining product numbers and wave names for 2021-2024. These have been added to the website. The bad news is that the AG LEGO Certified Stores listings all seem to have been deleted. I hope that isn't my fault! Will have to monitor the situation, and will replace the links on my site with archive links at some point. This probably also means that those lovely high-quality images won't be available going forward. Very annoying!

Ah, that explains that then! Possible! Just vanishingly unlikely. Across all of the other parts on the site, I never found an example where LEGO had one part under two different names. The number given in the name seems to identify them uniquely. In fact, for the variants missing back prints, even though the Element ID is different to the original variant... the name of the piece is the same! So I really think the Ringo legs, which evidently did show up in BAM sometime in 2016, can't be one of the missing pieces from my list. But you're right that it's very strange for them to show up so soon after the set's release, if that is indeed the only alternative possibility. Hmm. Yeah, could well fall outside the sequence, this speculation sounds reasonable. Did you ever actually see this piece in BAM? The problem is that BrickLink and LEGO identify pieces and colours in completely different ways--and in fact, not only that, but the Element IDs for many of the BAM pieces are different from the Element IDs LEGO uses for the versions of those pieces that appear in sets, because BAM pieces are manufactured separately and can have some differences. Most of the piece numbers on the site are thus basically useless. Your best bet is to search the name of the piece, find it in a Brickset inventory, and then use Brickset's crosslink to BrickLink to see the BrickLink listing. I unfortunately do not have the time to add BrickLink hyperlinks to the site... The images are taken from LEGO (if the official inventory had images), Brickset (if I could find an official image via one of their inventories), or BrickLink (if it was missing from Brickset's inventories but I could still identify it). Both LEGO and Brickset unfortunately use a different numbering system. Sorry that it's so laborious to find the BrickLink listings, I'm sure it's a Herculean effort.

Hi Bertrand! Although I made a cursory effort to line up obvious pieces that went together, the configurations were otherwise total guesswork, so don't put too much stock in them. I've swapped that pair so at least the genders line up now. I have access to the official inventories for 2017-2019, and can confirm that the panda head is correct! If you look earlier in this thread, you'll find reports of it from that time. Sometimes extra hats/hairpieces would appear in the accessory slot, or vice versa! That's just how it works. Weird though! Again, I have access to the official inventories, so that's how all the pieces were identified. Unfortunately, for those without images, I wasn't able to match up the description in LEGO's inventories with online part listings—though I'm sure the pieces are documented on BrickLink and the like, it's just that the official names aren't associated with them. The mechanic shirt and pirate head have both been matched up already, but the Chimpanzee is a very curious one! If you refer to these inventories, there is no piece in 2017-2018 that remotely matches that description. There are several possibilities: The piece was BAM exclusive, and I'm missing at least one wave of parts from 2018 The piece was BAM exclusive, and BrickLink has miscategorised it as coming from 2018, when really it was released earlier The piece wasn't BAM exclusive, and BrickLink has somehow miscategorised it as being so The official inventories are incorrect (vanishingly unlikely) Without more information on this piece, it's impossible for me to say, but let me know if you have any leads! Actually, LEGO does sort of differentiate! The pieces have different ElementIDs to the original versions with prints on the front and the back. They would have been manufactured separately, simply reusing the graphic. Bertrand, thank you for tracking down the single-sided versions of these parts! I've added links to them in the notes for the corresponding waves. Yes, that's definitely it! Added to BrickLink in 2021, so the timeline matches up. Thanks! So on the website, you should see that a handful of images don't actually load: that's because I don't have images for them, even though I have the Element ID, Design ID, color, and name of the part. Your speculations are good, but I'm not convinced by a lot of them. A key thing is that new part names are assigned basically sequentially in batches: so if a set has X number of new legs, usually they'll have a series of X sequential names. For instance, the Beatles submarine has legs 1193, 1194 (the pinstripe ones you mention, so they must definitely predate 2017), and 1195. For some of your speculations, the number I'm looking for is way higher than the appropriate range for whatever you've suggested. Still, I've done my best to take the guesses into account so we know what we're working with. I've considered documenting number ranges for all the CMF waves for head, torsos, and legs, to try and spot gaps in Brickset's records and cross-reference with my gaps. But that seems extremely time-consuming, and my one shot-in-the-dark attempt to identify a particular part that way completely failed, as it didn't fall into a CMF number range. But that would definitely be the correct approach to identify the last few pieces—by identifying parts on either side of them. A list is as follows: Heads: MINI HEAD NO. 823 MINI HEAD NO. 1029 MINI HEAD, NO. 2831 MINI HEAD, NO. 2833 MINI HEAD, NO. 2834 MINI HEAD , NO. 2899 MINI HEAD, NO. 2900 So, that 2831-2834 range is looking doable! Head, No. 2832 was in the TLM2 CMF series. However, Brickset already accounts for all the other heads in that wave, so 2831, 2833 and 2834 must be from some other source! Torsos: 6222464 / 88585: WHITE MINI UPPER PART NO. 614 6222216 / 88585: BLACK MINI UPPER PART NO. 1947 6222629 / 88585: MEDIUM AZUR MINI UPPER PART, NO. 2028 6222483 / 88585: WHITE MINI UPPER PART, 3814 6254591 / 88585: BLACK MINI UPPER PART NO. 4597 Nothing jumping out here. Legs: 6016049 / 88584: BLACK MINI LOWER PART 26/199 6228368 / 38917: BRIGHT YELLOW MINI LOWER PART, NO. 1240 6255037 / 49717: BRICK YELLOW MINI LOWER PART NO. 1655 6255055 / 21019: EARTH BLUE MINI LOWER PART NO. 1656 6255074 / 49718: DARK STONE GREY MINI LOWER PART, NO. 1657 6255075 / 49719: BRIGHT BLUE MINI LOWER PART, NO. 1658 6255098 / 49741: BLACK MINI LOWER PART NO. 1661 Again, that 1655-1661 range is looking tantalising! If we found a set with those colors, where the legs are missing from Brickset's inventory, from around 2019, that would probably be it. 1639, 1641, 1644, 1642, 1647, 1648, 1649, and 1652 are all TLM2 parts. So that's where to look, I think? Thanks for all the help, everyone!

Haha, no worries! The way I see it, there's three possibilities regarding the BAM configurations: LEGO disseminates official guidance on the builds to stores, but management might not necessarily do anything with it, or different regions might not receive it at all, as you say. LEGO didn't disseminate guidance in the past, but now does. LEGO still doesn't disseminate guidance, but greater communication between stores as well as stronger theming of the parts themselves means store employees are quickly able to agree on suggested builds. I think this is unlikely, just because things have been so consistent for the last couple of years. I had noticed the teal guy's head wasn't pushed all the way down! Definitely supports the idea of that one being incorrect. Have added a note to that effect. Anyway, I've now trawled this thread and have been able to identify a bunch more of the pieces I didn't have pictures for. Still a lot of more anonymous pieces missing. In particular, I'm very bad at looking up head prints, so haven't attempted to make guesses at those. But in many cases it's like, oh, this lavender torso was newly sighted this month, and there's only a single unaccounted for lavender torso in my inventories, and the timeline matches, so... that must be it! You can view my progress here. Still need to figure out a way of marking the new pieces. Finally, I've added a brand-new page to the site, consisting of photos from PABfinder of BAM stations in situ during the pandemic. It gives a really nice overview of what stores were doing with the pieces. It's usually pretty obvious when they've just made something up!

2018 was the first year there were exclusive parts. This thread seems to start in 2011, which maybe sounds about right for when BAM was introduced? A lot of the elements from 2017 through to ~2020 seem to be from the Collectible Minifigures series, only afterwards getting replaced with a mix of more generic prints and exclusive pieces. So, as for that mermaid—New Elementary's image shows it with that cool yellow hair you mention, but I think that was entirely creative license on the part of the person who took the photo. If you have any other sources from before then which show that same combination, that might lend more weight to it being an official configuration? But keep in mind that the inventories given on my website are 100% confirmed to be accurate for those waves, I had an official source for those. So that hairpiece definitely came from a different wave. I chose to associate the dark brown curly hairpiece with the mermaid, because the curls are the closest thing to salt-swept hair, but it could have been any of the three wigs pictured really. The orange one would have more of an Ariel vibe. That Flickr is interesting! The fact that it correctly matches up the banana and trophy for the luchador—something which I hadn't even known about until getting my hands on some of the inventories—lends credence to those images being reliable. But then going back to 2024 Q3, I'm absolutely confident "boy and dog" and "girl in pink with apple" are wrong, because those magenta legs definitely go with the smoothie torso, and the apple also obviously seems to go with the smoothie torso. 2024 Q2 also has obvious errors with the space torsos, as the gold-handed one goes with the armor. I suspect that until we know exactly what materials LEGO disseminates at the top level regarding these minifigures, then except for waves where LEGO has deliberately distributed the waves to influencers and the like, or where we can rely on secondary sources (like with Ninjago or Dreamzzz) to know what the minifigures are supposed to look like, then there'll just be no way of confirming. AG Lego made the cat/buzzsaw mixup as recently as 2024 Q4. But it does feel like they've become much more consistent in recent years, yeah. I'll make notes about things like Ted E Bear and Block Guy where there seems to be notable ambiguity, and add it in my next update. Thanks for the help!

Hey everyone! I've finally finished updating my BAM website, which shows the parts for every minifigure from 2017-now, and official (or near-official) configurations from 2020-now. (There are a few errors in the official photography, but I've done my best to document them.) You can use it for quick, reliable reference while you're in-store. There are still a few bits of information that I'm missing, so if anyone reading this has any insights to share, I'd really appreciate it. I still need to comb over a lot of this thread for anything I might have missed. Hey lego_bam! I've found your photographs to be very helpful in the past. Jsyk, though, I do think 40 minifigures is standard? For 2024 Q1, you have eight minifigures photographed, when only the usual seven were actually released; the eighth seems to just use a different combination of the same parts. So I think that's where the discrepancy is coming from!