The Definitive Guide to LEGO Costumed Minifigures

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As most collections do, it started innocently enough. LEGO’s Collectible Minifigure (CMF) Series 3’s Gorilla Suit Guy tickled me—something about seeing the minifigure’s eyes through the gorilla mask. The snowball began rolling down the hill with Series 5’s Lizard Man, and picked up steam with Series 7’s Bunny Suit Guy, and really hit a fever-pitch with Series 13’s Hot Dog Suit Guy. At that point, I knew I was on a quest to acquire every costumed minifigure ever produced, which has resulted in a collection of roughly 145 minifigs.

After Hot Dog Suit Guy, costumed minifigs started getting more and more CMF slots while also showing up in sets, not just in the CMF series. One of my personal favorites costumes is Stumpy, which came in 2018’s 60174 Mountain Police Headquarters. I clearly wasn’t the only fan, as LEGO reacted with Series 18 and 23, both of which were almost all costumed minifigs. Now, each non-licensed CMF series is pretty much guaranteed to have at least one costumed fig, and they’ve become annual additions in the City Advent Calendar and Lunar New Year series.

But a question plagued me… what if I was missing a costumed fig? What if a minifig dressed as submarine snuck past my radar? Being a completionist, I needed a list I could check but soon realized no list existed. So it was time to sit down and make a definitive costumed minifig list, a corpus if you will. What follows is my magnum opus: The Unabridged, Definitive List of Costumed LEGO Minifigures (updated December 2025).

A Costumed Fig By Any Other Name

What makes a costumed fig? For the purposes of this compendium, I’m specifically looking at traditional yellow head minifigs whose given accessories indicate their wearing a costume. Things like printed straps on a face mask or holes for faces to peek through. This means, for example that I will not include licensed characters or super powered costumes. Similarly, no Santa Clauses, nor the adorable Duplo costumes found in sets like 2002’s Theater Set.

The most obvious entries are from the CMF lines, and then those found in sets, but recent years have also seen a huge number of costumed figures in the Build-A-Minifigure (BAM) stands at LEGO Stores. The figs from the BAM stands don’t necessarily have a “correct” configuration or name, and most don’t have a listing on BrickLink. After digging around, I found this amazing site by AtomikWiwa that is cataloging the most widely accepted configuration of BAM figures by quarter, and that helped nail down the last few costumes for the list.

New Additions

Costumed minifig fans everywhere rejoiced when it was announced that January 2026’s CMF Series 23 would be 100% costumed minifigs based on animals, and they did not disappoint. LEGO provided BrickNerd with an early look so I could complete the database.

First up we have some strong new aquatic figs: a frog, goldfish, dolphin and crocodile.

As you can see in the list below, we already have quite a few bunnies and felines, but Series 28 brings a new bunny head with the following figures: a rabbit (with new head), lion (with a new tail), cat, and dalmatian.

Rounding out the group of 12 new costumed minifigs is a menagerie of other animals: a peacock, parrot (with two fabric piece tails), koala, and monkey.

I absolutely love these additions and they add so many new face prints and fun outfits. They could be mascots or meet and greet characters at a zoo. I can’t wait to see all the fun habitats people create for them. They are available for $5 each starting January 1st, though they usually pop up a little earlier in some retail locations.

These figures are not included in the list below which will be updated when official photography is available.

Non-Canonical Costumed Figs

There are two independent custom minifig producers that make costumed minifigs of such quality that it would be remiss to leave them out of this guide. In my own collection I have nine figuress made by Guy Himber from CrazyBricks. At any given time, CrazyBricks is selling either a new fig or a variant on a previous mold.

He’s well known for innovative ideas like Mr. Legume, Conversation Hearts, and a wide variety of Dino Dudes including the only two-person costume on this list. (Read BrickNerd’s interview with Guy about how his Dino Dudes were created, long before LEGO produced a dinosaur costumed fig.)

CitizenBrick also creates some costumed figs, usually printing on existing genuine LEGO parts. Here’s their homage to NYC’s Pizza Rat:

Official LEGO Costumed Minifigures

What follows is a comprehensive catalog of every officially released LEGO costumed minifigure to date, drawn from Collectible Minifigure series, retail sets, promotional items, Build-A-Minifigure assortments, and special products. Each entry lists the commonly accepted name of the figure along with its original source and year of release, ordered by oldest to newest within each category. Figures are grouped by broad costume themes to make it easier to spot patterns, variations, and gaps for completionists. This list reflects the best available information as of December 2025.

Aquatic & Reptiles

  • Lizard Man: Found in CMF Series 5, 2011

  • Shark Suit Guy: Found in CMF Series 15, 2016

  • T-Rex Costume Fan: Found in CMF Series 24, 2023

  • Triceratops Costume Fan: Found in CMF Series 25, 2024

  • Pterodactyl Costume Fan: Found in CMF Series 27, 2025

  • Rabona Soccer Shark Guy: Found in… Unclear! This image found its way to the internet back in 2022, but as far as I can tell it’s never been released. The pink shark headpiece was available briefly, and it can be purchased on the secondary market.

Birds

Bears

Brick Suits

Christmas

Fantasy

Feline

Food

Halloween

  • Skeleton Guy: Found in CMF Series 14, 2015

  • Cute Little Devil: Found in CMF Series 16, 2016

  • Halloween Cat Costume Woman: Found in BAM, 2020

  • Bat Suit Boy: Found in BAM, 2022

  • Happy Halloween Pumpkin Costume: Found in BAM, 2023

  • Mummy Costume: Found in BAM, 2025

Insects

Miscellaneous Mammals

Plants

Science and Technology

Rabbits

  • Bunny Suit Guy: Found in CMF Series 7, 2012

  • Bunny Suit Guy: Found in Iconic Easter, 2018

  • Bunny Suit Girl: Found in Easter Bunny House, 2020

  • Chocolate Bunny: Found in BAM, 2020

  • Green Bunny Suit: Found in BAM, (20??)

  • Rabbit Suit With Frills: Found in BAM, 2023

  • Camoflauge Bunny: Found in… the void? This polybag was cancelled before it was released. Conventional wisdom is that the picture on the outside of the bag, which features the fig using a carrot as a rifle, got flagged at the last second. A few copies escaped and can be found for many hundreds of dollars on eBay.

Vehicles

Zodiac Animals

All Dressed Up

At some point, a list like this stops being just a checklist and starts becoming a snapshot of LEGO’s sense of humor, creativity, and willingness to be delightfully weird. Costumed minifigures may look silly on the surface, but they represent decades of design experimentation, fan feedback, and playful storytelling—often in a single molded headpiece.

This guide will never truly be “finished” because LEGO will undoubtedly keep finding new excuses to put a minifigure in an oversized outfit, and I’ll happily keep chasing them down. If nothing else, I hope this list helps fellow completionists spot a missing costume and show just how far a simple yellow minifigure can go when you put it in a really good outfit.

The LEGO Collectible Minifigures 71051 Animals Series 28 will be available individually in January for $5 US | $6 CA | €4 EU | £3.5 UK | $6 AU.

DISCLAIMER: Thiese figures were provided to BrickNerd by LEGO. Any opinions expressed in this article are those of the author.

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