LEGO Series 14 The Fly Minifigure

Hot on the sticky heels of the Imaginext Series 5 Fly guy, LEGO has released their Halloween / Monsters themed Series 14 blind bagged minifigures, and they too made a mutated Fly guy! Now all we need is a Playmobil mutant fly and we'll have one hell of a triumvirate of terror!

More 'fly' than 'fly-guy,' this LEGO minifigure is clearly inspired by the classic Vincent Price film The Fly. He even has the single mutated hand.

The head sculpt is a real thing of beauty, with massive translucent red eyes. It's a great piece that will turn any LEGO minifigure into a mutant fly-man. I might have to pick up a second of this figure so I have a spare head to swap around the place!

Sadly the body, well, it's very fly... but not fly-guy enough for my tastes. Not-Baxter-Stockman comes across more as an actual anthropomorphic fly than a guy who was mutated into a half-fly monstrosity.

So I swapped his body out for this mad scientist body that came from I don't remember where. It's perfect for the scientist-turned-fly-mutant, all the way down to the weird splotches of goo on his smock.

'Heelllppp meeeee!'

I used the 'squeeze method to find this guy, and it worked (obviously) - seek out that head with it's distinct muzzle and antennae.

Pretty Fly for an Imaginext Guy Series 5

"Heeelp meeeee!"

Of the three Imaginext figures I picked up from Series 5, I am most excited about the Mutant Fly.

I can still remember the first time I saw the Jeff Goldblum version of The Fly, I loved it, and it led me to track down the original Vincent Price version, which I loved even more. Heck, I even remember liking The Fly 2, although I haven't seen any of them since the mid to late eighties.

Regardless, when I learned Imaginext had a mutated man-fly as part of their blind bagged Series 5 I was elated, and in hand this little buzzer does not disappoint!

Not-Baxter-Stockman comes with some sort of exterminating fumigator that clips to his back. It reminds me a lot of the Ghostbusters' proton pack, especially with the circle/slash on this guy's hat. The translucent wings look really nice and the paint applications are simple but well done and in all the right places.

Something odd I noticed, however, is that Fly Guy has three fingers and a thumb on his 'human' hand. Most (if not all) Imaginext 'human' figures have four fingers and a thumb. Weird.

Anyways, Series 5 is only showing up at Walmart (so far,) and the following embossed codes can be seen on the back upper corner of the packages:

63 - Chinese Warrior
66 - Genie
65 - Fly-Man
68 - Crash Test Dummy
70 - Cyclops
71 - Warrior Queen
74 - Werewolf
75 - Ghost

Honestly, the Ghost is great and the Werewolf is loads of fun, but if I could only have one from Series 5, it would be this (fly) guy!