Triceratops Costume Fan
The dinosaur head does all the work the moment this one leaves the box: children hold it up, turn it round and only later notice there is a minifigure underneath. LEGO has been dressing people in animal suits for years, and the habit has a very devoted following.
Data Matrix codes: Triceratops Costume Fan
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6472869first batch6472902production batch 26471968production batch 3
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About this minifigure
The costume tradition runs through series after series of collectible minifigures, taking in a cat-suit girl, a shark-suit guy, a banana man and a long line of other people in animal outfits. The Triceratops joins that list and turns up quickly on people's favourites from Series 25.
Plenty of people collect costume figures exclusively and top the mini-collection up year after year, which is why these tend to be the priciest in a set on the secondhand market. A child sees it differently and values the costume as a toy rather than as a collecting subject.
It works as a visual joke that needs no explaining, too. Somebody simply turned up to the match dressed like that and is having a wonderful time, with no weapons and nothing dark about it. Costume figures have the further advantage of needing no context at all: they hold up in a diorama and equally well as a single thing sitting on a desk.
Did you know: The name triceratops comes from Greek and means literally "three-horned face". Its skull, frill included, is among the largest ever carried by a land animal.
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