Birthday Cake Guy

I got this for my Lego loving grandson's birthday. It is very cute and the minifig can be removed from the cake. My grandson is blonde so I got a blonde lego hair-piece and with my dremel, will drill a tiny hole on top for the party hat piece to attach to it. more less

I can't help but love Cake Guy. A fun accessory coupled with a great minifigure design, and a new super happy facial expression make falling in love with this charming minifig a piece of cake. more less

For me, my favorites of Series 18 are the Party Clown, Dragon Suit Guy, Birthday Cake Guy, Race Car Guy, and Cowboy Costume Guy. The LEGO Brick Suit costumes are interesting and I do like how they are able to connect to other bricks. more less

With each new series of LEGO Minifigures, the LEGO Design Team seem to outdo themselves and you would expect them to have run out of ideas, but they have come out swinging for the 40th anniversary of the Minifigure. The new elements are great and it will be interesting to see where they appear next. The additional of an orange baseplate is definitely welcomed although it would of been nice to have the LEGO Minifigures 40th anniversary logo printed on it or even included in a tile. Despite a few minor gripes, this series of LEGO Minifigures is a fitting and fun way to celebrate the 40th anniversary and it's always nice to have a non-licensed series after so many recent ones being based on movies. more less

Series 18 isn't the first series to feature costumed characters. That began with Series 3's Gorilla Suit Guy, who is arguably the first “minifigure in a costume." Throughout the CMF's history, the costumed characters have been among the most popular, especially with kids, and this series finally indulges costume fans by putting nearly all of its characters in some sort of suit. In keeping with the festive style, this is also the first regular series to use non-black minifigure stands, featuring orange unprinted stands with all of the characters. more less

I love many of the accessories and head pieces included with this series, but my favourite would be the tile that comes with the young boy: it is printed with as small a representation as you could come up with to be a representation of the packet that the series one figures appeared in years ago. Also up there would have to be the balloon animals. As for my favourite figures? it is a toss up for me between the cowboy, the dragon and the two figures dressed up as LEGO Bricks! more less

I love the idea of a minifigure bursting out of a cake and am very pleased with its execution as both the cake and the figure inside look superb. The black hair piece is familiar, closely resembling the component introduced in 1979, but now features a pin hole on top for attaching accessories. The party hat has not appeared in pearl gold before so is also new. more less

Birthday Cake Guy comes with pink pants and a frosting splattered shirt. It's cute for the figure, but I imagine that it severely limits his uses in other scenarios. I do expect that cake piece to show up again in a bakery set. more less

In our opinion the LEGO Minifigures Series 18 collection is the best that's been released and we're sure many of our readers will agree. With so many unique minifigures and a costume party vibe, they will be fun to play with and display. more less