Chocolatier

LEGO Series 29 · 71052 No. 7
Chocolatier

Pralines and bars are the whole brief here, which puts the Chocolatier among the concrete, unhurried professions the Collectible Minifigures have always included — and which have always found their takers.

Data Matrix codes: Chocolatier

One of these codes is printed on the bottom of the box, next to the barcode.

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

Few jobs read better to a seven-year-old. Chocolate is specific and physical: you can picture the work without anybody explaining it.

The figure fits a sweet shop, a bakery or a cafe built from bricks, and it hands a child a role to play rather than just something to stand on the windowsill. It also makes a neat small gift for anyone who prefers cooking and baking to dragons and robots — and there are more of those in LEGO households than the set boxes would suggest.

In larger collections, minifigures like this are the raw material of a modular town, the residents of a street assembled from the adult sets. This is not a figure for auctions or eye-watering trades; it is one that works in the collection every single day and is still in the display case a year later.

Did you know: For most of its history chocolate was a drink — bars made for eating only started being produced in the middle of the 19th century.

Got a box? Check whether it is Chocolatier

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