LEGO Professional Surfer (71018)

About This Set

Every Collectable Minifigures series needs a character who is impossibly confident, and in Series 17, released in May 2017, that job falls to the Professional Surfer. He wears a sleek black wetsuit picked out with red printing across the torso and down both arms — arm printing was still a relative luxury on a blind-bag figure — with a small wave logo on his chest and plain black legs below. His tan, shoulder-length hair is the hairpiece first used for Luke Skywalker, swept back as if he has just come in off the water. LEGO's biography for him describes a competitor so driven that he races dolphins, manta rays and flying fish, and refuses to stop riding one endless wave around the ocean.

The figure's real headline is his board. The Professional Surfer carries the medium-blue surfboard element that was introduced with the Surfer way back in Series 2, but this time it is printed with a grinning shark face surging up from below — a playful nod to the Jaws poster, and a print found on no other board. Reviewers who were lukewarm about yet another surfer figure agreed the board carried the design. He is the male counterpart to the Surfer Girl of Series 4 and part of a small fleet of wave-riders the line has produced, but none of the others brought a shark to the beach. When he starts to wobble, his biography says, he looks down at the toothy face on his board and gets right back in the game.

Key Features

• Shark-printed surfboard — the surfboard element printed with a grinning shark face, a design unique to this figure
• Printed wetsuit — a black wetsuit with red detailing across the torso and printing down both arms
• Wave logo — a small wave emblem printed on the chest of the wetsuit
• Shared hairpiece — the tan shoulder-length hair first used for Luke Skywalker
• Established board mould — the surfboard element introduced with the Series 2 Surfer in 2010
• Blind bag format — sold in a sealed mystery bag with a black display stand and a collector leaflet
• Figure 1 of 16 — the first character on the Series 17 checklist

Theme Background

Series 17 (71018) was released in May 2017 with sixteen figures in azure packaging, and it kept one secret: the identity of its sixteenth figure, the Highwayman, was withheld from reviewers and early marketing, a first for the Collectable Minifigures line. The series mixed jobs, costumes and fantasy — a Battle Dwarf, a Corn Cob Guy, a Gourmet Chef, a Rocket Boy — between the two LEGO Batman Movie waves. Beach characters are a recurring thread in the line, from the Series 2 Surfer through the Series 4 Surfer Girl and the Series 12 Lifeguard, and the Professional Surfer's printed board is the most elaborate accessory any of them carried.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many pieces are in LEGO 71018 Professional Surfer?

The Professional Surfer contains 6 pieces, including the shark-printed surfboard and the black display stand.

What accessory does the Professional Surfer come with?

He carries a surfboard printed with a grinning shark face rising from below — a print unique to this figure, on the board element first used by the Series 2 Surfer.

Which series is the Professional Surfer from?

He is figure 1 of Collectable Minifigures Series 17, released in May 2017. The series has 16 figures to collect.

Whose hairpiece does the Professional Surfer use?

His tan, shoulder-length hair is the piece first used for Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars range.

Is there a female surfer in the Collectable Minifigures line?

Yes. Series 4 included a Surfer Girl, making the Professional Surfer her male counterpart; the original Surfer appeared in Series 2.