As the holiday wheel spins faster and faster as we are barreling towards Christmas we thought it might be fun to do a countdown of our favorite figures of beloved holiday character – Santa Claus! Personally I have many Santa figures in my collection that I dig out of storage each December and display with my other decorations and seeing them all together made me start to wonder how many versions of “that right jolly old elf” has there been in the toy world?
There have been quite a few Santa’s from Lego over the years. I think a lot of collectors picked up this minifigure that came in the blind-bagged series 8
The Santa Mini figure has evolved a bit over the years:
Photo credit: jaysbrickblog.com
But some of the earliest Lego Santas were construction sets:
This year brought us a fun Mr. and Mrs. Claus in their new BrickHeadz format:
Not all sets are created equal… and not everything made of Lego is always charming!
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