Now that the LEGO The Simpsons House set has been released in LEGO Stores and online (and will be available for non-LEGO VIP members starting this weekend!), LEGO Simpsons fans can start looking forward to the next (and only known) addition to the Simpsons LEGO theme: the upcoming LEGO Simpsons Minifigures Series! While it’s still too early for the grandiose full reveal of the whole LEGO The Simpsons Minifigures Series of blind bags, we did get a small sneak peek at the Nuremberg Toy Fair 2014 this week…

They say that the simple things in life are often the best things, and LEGO is definitely following that train of thought with their packaging for the LEGO 71005 The Simpsons Series Minifigures blind bags. Rather than assigning the series a signature color, as each regular series of LEGO Collectable Minifigures have had, LEGO instead opted to decorate the LEGO Simpsons Minifigures Series blind bags and cases with the familiar Simpsons clouds motif.

In theory, I wasn’t sure how well the Simpsons clouds would translate to covering the packaging for the 71005 LEGO Simpsons Minifigures Series. However, after seeing the prototype case for the series (with the actual minifigures blanked out to preserve their identities), I’m totally sold on the clouds–the case looks exquisite and easily differentiable from prior LEGO Minifigures Series blind bags releases.

The other thing we learned at the 2014 Nuremberg Toy Fair is that the first revealed figure in the LEGO The Simpsons Minifigures Series is Homer Simpsons himself. This comes as no surprise, as the Homer included with the LEGO Simpsons House was in his work attire, so “casual” Homer was pretty much a lock for the Simpsons blind bags figures. The LEGO Homer Simpson figure will have a benign expression, a plain white shirt, a 1×1 round LEGO donut, and a 1×2 LEGO remote control.

The LEGO Simpsons Minifigures Series 71005 is scheduled to be released in May 2014, with a retail price of $3.99 per blind-bagged LEGO Simpsons Minifigure. I’ll post an update when the identities of the rest of the Simpsons LEGO blind bags characters are revealed, and you can ‘Like’ Bricks and Bloks on Facebook to have photos, news and updates beamed right to your Facebook Newsfeed.

Now that you’ve seen the packaging for the series–and the LEGO Homer Simpson minifigure–what do you say, LEGO fans? Thumbs up or thumbs down thus far?