79000- Riddles for the Ring

I'm a fan of well-developed low price licensed sets, and this one fits the bill.  Representing a well-known scene in The Hobbit, this set includes Gollum and Bilbo minifigures, a boat, and an interesting cave/rock construction with special placement for the Ring.

5610- Builder

I absolutely love small sets like these.  Generally a fantastic price point and good playability.  A nice way to fill in the gaps in your Lego City (or any other theme) or build on things you already have.  For example, this little guy will give my small construction outfit a little more oomph.

In this set, we have our construction worker (builder) minifigure, his little cement mixer, and a few pieces of cement.  The figure is in a nearly all orange jumpsuit, with the hint of a blue shirt underneath and grey gloves. His torso print also features silver striping, a zipper, two breast pockets, and a pen sticking out of one of the pockets.  He comes sporting a red construction helmet.

The Padawan Menace- Young Han Solo

This little Star Wars guy came with the Blu-ray version of  the 22 minute animation The Padawan Menace.  As he is a licensed character, he is flesh coloured.  Little Han sports mini light-brown legs, a  wrinkled white shirt print on his torso, swoopy dark brown hair, and a fitting smug Han Solo expression.  Adorable.

71000- Minifigures Series 9

I've been trying to cut back on my Lego purchases and only desired about two of this series, but have now wound up with 10 of these collectible minifigures.  Most of these were obtained through feeling packets at the Lego shop at Chicago Watertower Place.  This was my first time there and I was happy to see that there was a big bin of mystery packets to choose from and being among my fellow Lego fans, I didn't feel odd standing there rifling through them, though I was the only one doing so at the time.  Sadly during that trip, I wasn't able to get the one figure I wanted (Battle Mech), and I had to eventually order that online.  The Chicken Suit Guy kept popping up quite a bit though, even though I don't think it was suppose to be a common figure.  Scroll to Additional Images to the bottom for a view of the back of the leaflet and loads of other alternate views of the figures.

8803- Minifigures Series 3

Like the other early series', I got interested too late and the only way to purchase any figures was online.  There are a couple more I would have tried to pick up if I could have, like the Tribal Chief and Elf, but I think my cost efficient picks of the Hula Dancer and Baseball Player was worth it.