There are some collectors who are like ninja masters at feeling up LEGO Minifigures blind bags and knowing with 100% certainty what character is inside. I am not one of those people. At my best, I get maybe one out of every two blind bags correct with the “feel” method. Luckily, there’s hope for folks like me! And that hope is that, once again, there’s a LEGO Simpsons Minifigures Series 2 codes list, detailing some of the actual bump codes needed to pull the character you want every time…

Sometimes I’m lucky trying to decipher what’s in a LEGO blind bag solely by touch… and sometimes I’m not. With LEGO Minifigures Series 12, I was not so lucky. It took me over 30 blind bag figures to complete the 16-figure set.

Thankfully, there was salvation for me! Rich over at Pop Critica once again posted the “bump codes” guide for the new LEGO Simpsons Series 2 Minifigures 71009 set this week. He bought his figures in a different part of the country, so I wasn’t sure if his production batch would be the same as mine. But I took the codes with me to compare with the raised bumps on the back of the Simpsons packets at the store, and… BAM! Perfect match!!

While not every production batch of 71009 Simpsons Minifigures Series 2 will have bumps on the backs of the packages that correspond to the guide, the ones at my local store matched those of someone in another state–which means that this production batch is pretty widespread. How widespread? Try them out yourself in your area and let me know!

Remember: Your absolute best bet is to combine utilizing the LEGO Simpsons Series 2 codes list and touching the blind bags. If it feels like the figure in the bag might be Professor Frink and the bumps on the back of package back it up, you can be pretty dang sure that the Professor Frink minifigure really is in that bag!

In order to make the code list a little bit more mobile-friendly, I went ahead and cut up the images to make them easy to match up with on your phone when in stores. Printing the large-scale list and bringing a paper copy to the store is, of course, every bit as useful (presuming you have a printer handy)!

The sixteen figures that make up the LEGO Series 2 Simpsons Minifigures are as follows:

Bartman Minifigure

Sunday Best Homer Simpson Minifigure

Sunday Best Marge Simpson Minifigure

Sunday Best Lisa Simpson Minifigure & Snowball II

Maggie Simpson Minifigure & Santa’s Little Helper

Patty Minifigure

Selma Minifigure

Hans Moleman Minifigure

Mrs. Krebappel Minifigure

Martin Prince Minifigure

Fallout Boy Minifigure

Comic Book Guy Minifigure

Groundskeeper Willie Minifigure

Mr. Smithers Minifigure

Doctor Hibbert Minifigure

Professor Frink Minifigure

And for those of you who still don’t want to deal with trying to determine what character is in each blind bag–even by feeling up the bags and using the bump codes list provided–there’s still hope for you too! Individual minifigures and sets of LEGO Simpsons Series 2 are available for order for basically cost plus tax on the aftermarket right now, so if you want to get any specific figure(s) without hunting for them, now is the time to look!

Anyone else intending to give this Simpsons LEGO Minifigures Series 2 bump codes list a try? If so, be sure to leave a reply and let us know how well the codes worked for you!