LEGO Meet the Minifigures: With Exclusive LEGO Rockstar Minifigure

The latest hard back hood edition (2022) of Lego Mini Figures, complete with a free rock star figure. The book isn’t as thick as you think it’s going to be, as the fist part is hollow, making room to store your rock star figure.A great book for any lover of Lego, from a renowned publisher (DK) so you know it’s going to be packed with fun facts, and it is. It features 74 mini Lego figures, giving jokes and other fun information on them. It also contains pages on models to make and games to play, ie put a pile of bricks in the centre, and the first person to build a certain item wins. Please see photos and video for examples.The book has 128 glossy coloured pages and I’m happy to thoroughly recommend it.

We’re Lego fans generally, and we’ve spent quite a long time perusing other books showing old Lego sets (and wishing we’d bought them back in the day). However there’s something about this book that somehow just hits the wrong tone. It ends up reading like a catalogue of things you want but can’t buy, but without the historical interest or enough trivia to make it engaging- like the whole thing is working as an advert for one of the minifigure lucky dip bag series.There’s no real progression in these minifigs, to see how the figures have changed over time- Lego openly admit they haven’t changed the basic design since 1978 (this book completely ignores the Lego Friends alternative design, it literally doesn’t get a look-in, it’s as though they’re pretending they don’t exist). And no disrespect to Lego designers, but there’s something fundamentally less creative about a minifigure character than about a huge Lego build with thousands of pieces. When you can make the helmets and accessories any shape you like, and draw literally anything on them, it feels less creative somehow. A couple of nods to 1978-style figures doesn’t offer much, except making me fondly remember the days when minifigures felt a bit more interchangeable and there were more valid possibilities to be had when swapping the body parts over.There are a few little tidbits and factoids here and there that do attract a tiny bit of interest, telling you about real-life pirates on the Pirate Girl page, about wheelchair racers, and fireworks on the Firework Guy page and so on. But at least half of the characters don’t get this. They get “mini facts” which are the kind of thing you would set a primary school child as the smallest creative writing imagination task possible, listing the fictional character’s likes, dislikes, catchphrases and so on.There are also some one-liner jokes and… OK, some of them are actually quite good. Corny, Christmas cracker like jokes certainly, but some of them do work. “What happened when the firework took an exam? He passed with flying colours”, that kind of thing. I’ll admit some of those are quite fun.The rock star minifig is a curious choice, especially as the style is a bit mixed- the lightning flashes and face paint is quite glam rock, the skull T-shirt is quite goth, but the hairstyle is frankly more The Osmonds or X Factor. The mic stand is a versatile storytelling item though for sure.Unfortunately this definitely feels like a cash-in, making Lego obsessives spend over a tenner for one exclusive minifigure and a fairly thin book non-comprehensively listing minifigures in a way that demonstrates that they aren’t the best thing about Lego.

Our Lego crazy eight year old is loving this. Lego books get this reluctant reader interested very time. Typical DK book quality again, great! The bonus mini figure is accessed from a card clap inside the front cover. This preserves the appearance way better than the transparent plastic versions usually used. Loads of characters get a page or double page with short paragraphs and info boxes to read. Mini facts, speech bubbles, build it ideas, games and jokes give plenty to dip into. The nature of it means he can flick through and read a character page that catches his interest or go cover to cover as it doesn't matter.

A fun lego book, showing you many different lego figures that's been created over time with a bonus surprise mini figure to unveil. The pages are all full of bright eye-catching lego figures you never knew existed, you wish you owned or ones you fully recognise. Each page has facts about each figure, facts about lego and random knowledge. It even shows a few fun easy builds/suggestions along the way. All the words are printed boldly and clearly. No complicated words which children wouldn't understand. The hardback book is of a book size, with 123 pages. Excellent quality, well made and bound, with thick pages.

The minifigure of a Rock Star can work with a number of sets. Lots of information about minifigures and some good ideas how to create your own, with parts from sets not usually for figures, such as joysticks as antennae for alien, and setting a legless figure in a wheelchair to represent a disabled figure. Good for kids to think of these things.