E-Sports Gamer
Most figures here need a scene built around them; this one needs a desk. The E-Sports Gamer steps out of the box into a world a child already lives in, where a tournament counts as work rather than an evening in front of a screen.
Data Matrix codes: E-Sports Gamer
One of these codes is printed on the bottom of the box, next to the barcode.
6472870first batch6472903production batch 26471969production batch 3
LEGO prints a different code for each production batch and region, which is why one item has several. The scanner recognises all 3.
About this minifigure
Every few series LEGO releases a figure that is a portrait of its own moment, and in Series 25 that job went to the e-sports player. For a child who games and watches streams, it is the easiest character here to warm to, because at last somebody is doing exactly what they do.
Collectors treat minifigures like this as time capsules. A decade from now, this is the one that will show what 2024 was preoccupied with. It also asks less of the builder than the rest: where other characters want a castle or a forest, this one is content with a table and a screen.
It slots into city play without any adjustment — a teenager's bedroom, a tournament stage built from bricks, a group of friends round a console. You do not need to know a single game to recognise it in a second. Nor will it date quickly in play terms, since tournaments, kit and screens are part of an ordinary day now, so the figure suits almost any brick-built scene set at home.
Did you know: The first known video game tournament was held at Stanford University in 1972. The game was Spacewar!, and the top prize was a year's subscription to Rolling Stone.
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