Glinda - Minifigure, Lavender Dress, Wide Skirt (Panniers)

Glinda’s lavender gown and wide pannier-style skirt turn the standard minifigure into theatrical costume design. In Wicked, Glinda begins as socially gifted, fashionable, and deeply invested in popularity, then develops through a friendship with Elphaba that complicates the easy labels of ‘good’ and ‘wicked.’ Her visual brightness is therefore not merely decoration; it is part of the contrast the story eventually interrogates. LEGO’s 2025 figure has the unusual task of translating a stage-and-film costume whose effect depends on volume, fabric, and movement into hard plastic geometry. The result shows how specialized skirt pieces can make the minifigure function almost like a miniature costume mannequin.