I built LEGO SHREK Minifigures...

Lego will never make Shrek minifigures, so I decided to design them myself with 12 extremely cursed versions of Shrek's most iconic characters. Starting with the big man himself, and Jar Jar is the key to all of this. His torso is probably the closest thing we'll ever get to an official Lego version of Shrek's iconic vest. So we can replace his arms with tan ones and give him lime green hands. I could give him brown legs or an extra fancy dual-molded set of boots, and then we need a fitting head to tie this all together. I don't have many lime green heads, so there's not a lot of good options, but I think this green goblin head will give us the exaggerated swagger that Shrek deserves. And then I have this head piece from a Killer Moth minifigure to give him his iconic Shrek ears. Somebody once told me you should subscribe if you're not. I know who you are. It would be really funny if we passed the official Shrek YouTube channel subscribers, and you'll be able to see the next time I build a custom minifigure's ears like this, so thank you. It's definitely not perfect. If Lego ever did make an official minifigure, they would probably do a lot better, but it only gets more curse from here. Take Donkey, for example. He really would not work as a human-sized minifigure, so we'd have to do something like Ash and Flash's Lego Ideas Project, where he used a Scooby-Doo body and then a donkey-shaped head to make a donkey-sized accessory. But Lego rejected the dozens of Shrek projects that reached 10,000 supporters, which just shows their lack of interest in this property. They're not gonna do it. So instead, I'm giving my Shrek the closest thing I have to a donkey, and that's Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. I guess I'll make him Shrek's accessory in the first of 12 of our hypothetical minifigure series. But next up is Shrek's wife, Fiona. Also, shout out to my wife for helping me build all these figures. They would not have turned out this great if it weren't for her. You know how I said I didn't have very many lime heads? I don't think either of these will work great for Fiona, so the best we've got is this, a fish face from the SpongeBob. This is kinda doing her dirty, but it's the best option we've got to put on this Lego castle peasant torso to get her dark green dress. And then we'll replace these white arms with Kermit the Frog's generous donations. And she's looking better already. I don't have another one of these killer moth hats to make her ears, but that's okay because not only does this look ridiculous, we can actually just give her this Lego friend's hair that's a little bit rubbery and fits around her weird-shaped head like that. I don't think it's fully connected, but it stays on pretty well. And it also has a hole in top that we can put her royal crown. This is a power couple. So there's Shrek's wife, but now I feel bad that donkey's kinda the third wheel, so let's build his wife next, Dragon. Another reason Lego would never make this series is that Dragon is just too big compared to the rest of the minifigures. They would have to scale her down so much that it would just look uncanny. But as long as we're designing this series, we might as well do it justice. So I'm not just gonna use the Series 18 Dragon minifigure with the Series 22 space creature mouth underneath it. I'm taking this opportunity to open this video set that did not arrive in time for my last video about Smart Bricks. This thing features an extremely rare red dragon head that later appeared in gold in the D&D CMF and has since skyrocketed in value. So I had to pay a pretty penny for this and would honestly be kind of upset if Lego did release a Shrek Dragon minifigure because then this would be worthless and then I didn't have to spend as much money on it, but that would never happen, right? So here it is. I've never actually opened a video set before or owned one. I've just gotten the minifigures separately, but there's the red head that we're looking for. And I might as well build this set in the process to see why video flops so hard. Okay, this would not be worth the $20 Lego originally charged for this. And it's definitely not worth the over double that price I paid for it on the aftermarket. I think these album covered tiles, you're able to scan them in the app, which is no longer supported and make a music video out of them. And then there's like storage for extra ones in here, which I guess it's a neat idea. I do appreciate how it encourages you to be creative and rebuild your own design on the back like this. But yeah, the only cool thing about this set is this minifigure. So let's take the best part of each of these figures to build the ultimate dragon. As cool as these rock punk clothes are, we're definitely gonna use the body and tail of the series 18 one. And then I didn't realize these came with different wing pieces. I guess these original ones wouldn't have fit in the stupid bandmates box. So they had to redesign them to be thinner and more regal. And then there's no contest here. We're obviously using the dragon born head with no gaping hole in its front. And there we have our completed Elizabeth minifigure. Now her and Donkey can live happily ever after and raise their incredibly cursed family of dronkeys together. By the way, should I use this baby dragon design or this more brick built hybrid approach? Let me know in the comments. But now let's complete the main trio and build Puss in Boots. In reality, I should probably just do what I did with Donkey and include Puss in Boots as a actual Lego cat so it fits better to scale. But he actually walks on two legs like a human. So we're gonna try our best with this one. Even though these boots would look extremely adorable on this kitty. At first, I was gonna use this series 14 tiger costume lady. But then I realized I have another Winnie the Pooh character that being Tigger, whose fur is a much brighter orange and I think matches better. So we're gonna use his legs, tail, torso, and the head's gotta go. Part of me wants to use a Lego Chima face because underneath the mask, they have printed faces with different expressions. This seems a little bit more cat-like to me, but it's not the right color. This face from the D&D series is the right color, but it doesn't look like a cat at all. He doesn't have a nose. Let me know which one you prefer in the comments. But for now, we're just gonna use this cape and cool hat from Johnny Thunder to try to just hide the face either way. He's more mysterious that way. If I had this swoopier hat from the series four musketeer, would have worked a lot better. But Johnny's hat is still kind of swoopy. So we're just gonna stick a feather in its cap and call it macaroni. I can't believe I forgot the most important thing. We need to replace his orange hands with tan ones so we can hold his swashbuckling sword. No, just kidding. So far, all we've built is a puss. And a sour one at that. We need to steal this fox minifigure's legs to give him his iconic boots. Now we've got boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots. Sorry, maybe video's not that bad after all. Figure number four is Dunzo. And as I expected, he looks really weird compared to Donkey and Shrek. If they were ever gonna make a Puss in Boots minifigure to scale, Donkey and Shrek would have to be massive buildable characters or something. But anyways, let's move on to the first villain minifigure that Lego will never make, Prince Charming. I found the perfect hair piece for this guy in my handy little minifigure hair bin. And this face from my decapitated head bin gives him his classic smug expression. There's a couple of different outfits this guy could wear, but I discovered that the Crown Knight King Rivet actually has the exact fit we need underneath this printed armor piece. Like, look at that. It's a sparkly little blue royal robe. It's incredible. Man, I miss Fantasy Era Castle. I don't know which is less likely, Lego making a Shrek CMF or Lego bringing back Castle. Let's hope that second one happens first. But Charming would be nothing without the help of the Fairy Godmother. So let's build her next. I'm upset about this one. For some reason, I have this random Elsa skirt that came in the Disney Series 2 CMF, I think, but I don't have the torso. There are actually very few torsos that come in this color, and it has to be this color because it matches her dress so perfectly. So the best we got is Sherry from Series 23. Her torso is the right color, but we gotta do something about those arms. I'm gonna flip the off switch and take them off and replace them with arms from this Little Mermaid mermaid. I thought about just using this torso itself because it's kind of blue, but it didn't quite match what I was going for. The head isn't perfect either. I don't know where this is from, but it has two different versions. We'll go with this one because it looks a little bit more sinister, maybe. And then this same mermaid's hair would have been the perfect shade of purple. It's just way too long. I don't know about this either. So we're just using classic gray and just pretending it's slightly purplish. And then we can use the Series 8 Tooth Fairy minifigure. I don't know what that's about, but we can steal her wings and her wand and give them to Evil Granny. And now it looks like she needs a hero, although I would not be holding out hope for Lego to ever make Shrek minifigures because that's not gonna happen. Uh-oh, she's giving a love potion to Prince Charming. Hey, stay away from Fiona. Anyways, we're officially halfway there and almost out of main characters. So we need to pad the roster with some side characters like the Big Bad Wolf. This is Winston, the Big Bad Wolf minifigure from Series 23. And if you turn his face around, you can see that he's huffing and puffing something fierce. He's getting ready to do the blow test because he's the Big Bad Wolf from the Three Little Pigs. In my mind, the Three Little Pigs one and the Little Red Riding Hood one are different wolves, but the Shrek one is kind of one in the same. This Big Bad Wolf, by the way, is from this Lego Ideas pop-up book set that I got a really good deal on at Brick World Chicago last year. It was already open, but most of the bags were still sealed and I've really been looking forward for a chance to finally build it. It was actually designed by two of my favorite Lego YouTubers and it has a genius mechanism built into it. Because if I slowly open up the book, you can see it actually pops up. Look at that, it all fits inside there and it is so satisfying. I've done this like a hundred times since building it. But this is supposed to bring the fairy tale to life. With Little Red Riding Hood bringing cookies to her grandma, but before she got there, Granny was eaten by a wolf who stole her clothes. And the set even comes with this hollowed out bed for the wolf to lay in and gaslight a child in. Which, by the way, is perfectly lined up with this tea table so when I close the book, they don't interfere with each other and you can fully close it. It's just so cool. And the set comes with alternate pieces so you can swap out the insides and make it Jack and the Beanstalk themed instead. With an amazingly detailed giant minifigure with a golden goose in his pocket and all sorts of minifigure skulls on the back and a little tiny baby micro Jack. You may be thinking though, oh, you gotta take this off cause it can't actually pop up. No, it can. There's this cool technique mechanism with a string so when you close the book, it closes this Beanstalk and it actually fits in the pop-up book. This is the coolest thing ever. Oh, I could play with this all day. I literally have. Anyway, sorry, there's really not much I can do to improve this figure. I guess we can give her the tail from Winston. Although the only image I was able to find it with a tail is this one from a Shrek racing game on the GameCube. I don't know, but then we can use some sticky tack to illegally attach its nighttime sleepy cat bonnet on its head. I don't know what it's called. It really wouldn't make much sense for Lego to include this figure since they've already made one before. But we're including it in my custom series just because of how ridiculously easy it was to build. You know, another easy one would be Pinocchio because they also made a Pinocchio minifigure in the Disney 100 CMF series in 2023. That was only three years ago and I highly doubt Lego would ever lazily reuse a concept like that so soon after originally doing it. But the cool thing about this minifigure is that it actually has a molded nose protruding out of his head. I mean, it's kind of cursed, but in the best possible way. Really the only changes I need to make to match the Shrek version is just giving him a stupider haircut. Perfect. And since this hairpiece has the hat molded on, we'll just have to cheat again and sticky tack the hat on top of him. He looks beautiful. I wasn't able to find a good torso that matches his suspenders look, so this is the best we've got, our shortest Shrek minifigure yet. But there is someone who is shorter, Lord Farquaad. Right off the bat, we're starting with the smallest size minifig legs come in and the torso was a tricky one. I was thinking I had a bunch of good options to choose from, but this is too blue, this is too blue, and this kind of looks like a pair of pajamas. But I actually found that this series four garden gnome torso is not only closer to the height of the source material, but he's also got a similar belt buckle and golden pattern at the end of his skirt. We'll just give him black arms, red gloves, and I'm getting extra fancy with these Lord Farquaad of the rings to add shiny wrist bangles on him. This head is some creepy old expression from some original Clone War sets and I think it fits the vibe perfectly. Then that haircut is his most iconic element and I can't decide between this haircut with the bangs or this cut with the length. Ideally, I would have a mix between the two, but I think this one is a tiny bit closer. Then his hat is an equally lost cause, I had no idea what to do for this thing. Finally, his cape, which is a little bit too big for him and he's got those fluffy shoulder pads. And he can steal the magic mirror from the Evil Queen so he can scroll TikToks on it. Why did they have to modernize it in Shrek 5? Speaking of which, because everyone hated the art style in the trailer and Shrek 5 had to get delayed, it's a really good thing that Lego isn't making this series because then it wouldn't have lined up with the release of the movie and that would have been really awkward. It's a good thing we don't have to worry about that. All we have to worry about is building the next minifigure for Gingy, the gingerbread man. And this is another free one because in series 11, Lego made their own gingerbread man with a mug that says dunk me. This figure with his cool flat cookie face was insanely popular and led to a gingerbread house. By the way, does anyone know who designed this set? Gingerbread train and gingerbread AT-AT, what on earth? This set got scalped to oblivion and it only just this week was able to find one in stock from lego.com. I'm guessing another reason Lego would never make this series is that it too would be a very hot target for scalping. I'm glad we don't have to worry about that. You know how every single time the castle minifigures are the hardest to find? This would be an entire series of castle minifigures like this next one, Merlin the wizard. I'm excited I already get a chance to use this wizard robe piece for my latest build a minifig haul. I don't have the torso that goes with it though so we're gonna use the troubadours torso instead. Now he's got two bags. He's not supposed to have all this purple stuff but thankfully his long beard, this is the longest I could make it, it should be like down here, covers all the purple up. And then I have hardly any flesh tone minifig faces with glasses. Best I was able to find is this and this is a little bit too on the nose for a wizard. So maybe Dr. Henry Jones will work better. His dark beard doesn't look as good but I think it's gonna get covered up by this white beard. We'll have to see, I haven't tested this yet. Okay, yeah, that works. I don't have this really cool wizard hat from series 12 but this classic Magisto style hat will do the trick instead. We can give him his magic powers and magic book and we've got our Merlin. And for our final minifigure Lego would never ever make, not only is it from Shrek but it's also incredibly violent, the Executioner. We're starting with the yellow eyes from a Jawa and I tested the black version of his hood along with a couple of others before landing on this one from Prince of Persia. His torso can be a generic Star Wars officer because most of it gets covered up anyways. We'll just add gray and black arms and these gray and black legs which are so expensive, Lego couldn't even afford to put them in a $1,000 set. It's crazy. But we'll give him an ax and now he's ready to build John Murphy a roof. But there you go, 12 Shrek figures that Lego would never ever make and I'm so confident in saying that that I can promise that if Lego for whatever reason does make a Shrek series, I will do a city for it. So I guess leave your ideas in the comments about what houses I could build for these guys. Don't feel bad if I don't use them though because hopefully I won't ever have to.