One of the perks of working at LEGO Brand Stores is that if you’re in a management position, you sometimes get to conferences and you also get to bring some memorabilia back home with you. That’s what happened with someone’s friend in the AFOLs of Facebook page.
The OP’s friend was given the above packaged zombie minifigure by their manager who attended the 2015 LEGO Brand Retail Manager’s Conference. It appears that all the pieces of the zombie are official pieces minus the tattered yellow LEGO apron. I’ve seen some pretty cool stuff posted from these conferences but this zombie LEGO employee is probably the coolest one I’ve seen so far.
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Major props for them including alternate pieces to make a female minifig !
WANT!
Do you know how many of these that they made?
No idea.
Did a reader send in the picture? and.. did you already offer to buy it off of them?
I found the image on a Facebook page and no I didn’t not offer anything.
Way late to this party (and somehow I don’t remember ever seeing this article), but I remember being told by someone at our store that the plastic is authentic LEGO, but all of the print is custom work by someone outside the company. The same person was tasked with making the two LEGO Store clerk (American style) with yellow aprons, but reason two different versions exist is that the first batch was all ready to go when someone pointed out that the nametag was on the wrong side of the apron. A LEGO Store apron has two reinforced holes designed to allow you to pass the pin backing for the nametag through the material without having to repeatedly punch holes in it (saves the material some abuse, maybe allows them to use blunted pin backings, and might prevent someone from stabbing their fingers and getting blood everywhere). So, the second batch was printed to fix that error. Each manager at the conference was given a stack of the corrected normal store employee minifig to take back and pass around to their employees, but the zombie ones remain very rare and, unlike the error and corrected versons of the normal employee, Bricklink doesn’t even catalog the zombie.