LEGO Minifigures Series 25 QR Box Codes Identification Guide

January 5, 2024 | 111

There’s some potentially very good news for those wanting to increase their chances of identifying LEGO Minifigures Series 25, without having to rely on weighing them with scales!

Update: I’ve recently developed a new tool to scan minifigures, with no app required! Check out the Jay’s Brick Blog Minifig Scanner! Currently, Series 26 Space is supported!

It now appears that there are scannable QR codes on the bottom of minifigure boxes which anecdotally have a very high chance of revealing what’s inside the boxes, which is incredibly good news that LEGO has taken all the feedback onboard about the lack of a reliable way to identify the contents of these new blind box format.

This was first uncovered by u/wesandell on Reddit, and further evidence and data was collated in another Reddit post

So yeah, no need to ransack and tear open LEGO Minifigure Boxes any more, although it’ll be interesting to see of this actually reduces theft and damage!

I haven’t been able to independently verify these QR codes myself (Series 25 is delayed in Australia and will only arrive in February), but FourBricksTall was able to demonstrate this in her video, which you can check out below.

How to scan and read the CMF Series 25 Codes?

The secret lies in the QR codes found at the bottom of the boxes, however, this only applies to the larger version of the QR codes, which see to have been manufactured from the 45th week of 2023 (based on the 2nd and 3rd digits in the string beneath the QR code.

These larger QR codes should look like this photo above.

It seems like the smaller QR codes (seen above), likely from an earlier manufacturing run (week 40-week 44) do not work. The QR codes from my review copy were the smaller ones, so they were pointless in testing these.

You’ll need an app (some phone cameras do this natively) that allows you to scan QR Codes (any free QR Code Scanner App will do), which will spit out some codes.

The first 7-digit code will now help you identify the minifigure inside each box, BUT it also depends on where your LEGO Minifigures were manufactured in.

In the 2nd series (also the same as the printed code beneath the QR code), you’ll notice that the 5-character code should either have an S or R in the 4th position. This denotes factory where the Minifigures were manufactured and packed in.

R = Mexico, which should apply to minifigures sold in the USA, Canada and possibly Latin/South America.

S = Czech Republic, which should apply to minifigures sold in the UK, EU. In Australia, we got the S-factory codes for Marvel Minifigures Series 2, but I’m not 100% sure about Series 25.

See below for the codes and which minifigures they correspond with. Sequentially, the EU codes seem to be one number ahead of the Mexico codes.

Mexico/ US Series 25 Codes

Czech Republic / UK / EU Series 25 Codes

And here’s a pictorial guide of the LEGO Minifigures Series 25 QR Codes

So this is a really interesting development, and from what I’ve read and seen so far, this seems like a very reliable way to identify the minifigures you want from the modern blind box LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series.

In light of this, I really recommend not weighing them any more, unless you happen upon the smaller QR code batches, which don’t have this identifier.

Fair warning that LEGO could switch up the codes any time during the manufacturing process, so this information may potentially become outdated, so please proceed with caution!

Credit where credit’s due to u/wesandell on Reddit, and others that corroborated the findings, and also to LEGO for being quick to respond to all the feedback from the LEGO Community following the transition to the sustainable blind boxes.

I wish this would’ve happened sooner, but I think this might be the silver bullet that fans have been wanting to identify the minifigures they want from Series 25. I kinda like this system, as it’s a throwback to Series 1 and 2 where you could scan the barcodes to tell what was in them, so we’ve truly gone full circle now.

Special thanks as well to FourBricksTall for the additional imagery and also video putting this to the test!

If you manage to find Series 25 minifigures, post your findings in the comments below!

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