LEGO Zombies: Your Ultimate Guide to Undead MOCs, Dioramas & Display Ideas

From Plants vs. Zombies Chompers to Marvel’s Zombie Captain America—techniques, parts, and 10 instruction-ready models to build your own zombie apocalypse.

When you mix LEGO with zombies, you get the perfect playground for texture, storytelling, and gleeful chaos. Cracked walls, boarded windows, creeping vines, and scattered “last-stand” gear instantly sell the scene—whether you’re staging a LEGO zombie apocalypse MOC or just adding a few LEGO zombie heads to spook up a city block. Start with a gritty palette: dark bluish gray, light bluish gray, dark tan, olive green, and reddish brown. Then layer in damage. Use 1×2 masonry bricks and SNOT techniques for chipped stone; sprinkle cheese slopes and jumpers to break grid-perfect lines; and leave some studs exposed so it feels raw and unfinished. Clip-and-bar pieces (with chains and whips) make great tangled rebar, while leaf elements and flex tubing turn façades into overgrown ruins—your LEGO zombie plants practically write the story for you.

Minifig choices supercharge the vibe. A LEGO zombie pirate looks right at home raiding an abandoned dock; a LEGO zombie cheerleader adds a darkly funny twist to a school-gym safehouse; Minecraft mobs like the classic LEGO zombie pigman (now “zombified piglin” in game terms) let you stage Nether-meets-city mashups; and pop-culture builds such as LEGO Zombie Captain America and Zombie Hunter Spider-Man bring Marvel’s “What If…?” energy to your shelf. If your fandom leans tower-defense, build a backyard “lane” for a LEGO Plants vs. Zombies 2 garden line—Peashooters versus Bucketheads! For large displays, anchor your layout with one or two modular-scale buildings, then scatter story vignettes: checkpoints, supply closets, rooftop farms, and barricaded stairwells. Add signage and “noise”—printed tiles, sticker remnants, and dropped accessories (binoculars, radios, crowbars)—so every glance reveals a new micro-story.

As you sketch, plan how the eye travels. Give viewers a hero read (a survivor group), a mid-read (broken architecture), and a background read (smoke plumes, overgrowth). Build destructively: assemble, then remove or offset a few plates; swap a window for boarded slats; angle a wall on hinges to look collapsed. Texture your ground with mixed plates/tiles in mottled colors, then lay “tracks”—tire lines in dark tan, footsteps in dried-blood browns (use restraint), and debris micro-builds. If motion is your thing, integrate light bricks (emergency strobes) and even Power Functions/Control+ to drive a rattling “loose shutter” or flickering generator. Whether you’re designing a compact BrickHeadz duo or a sprawling ruined-city diorama, the same principles apply: breakup symmetry, layer surfaces, and let your pieces tell the tale.

Tips for Building LEGO Zombie MOCs (Tech & Parts)

• Damage textures: Mix masonry bricks, headlight bricks, and SNOT panels to chip edges; stagger tiles for cracked sidewalks.

• Boards & barricades: Use 1×4 tiles on clips/bars at odd angles; hinge plates for “nailed” planks across doors and windows.

• Overgrowth: Layer leaf clusters in olive/dark green; run flex-tube “vines” through grille tiles and clips.

• Greeble clutter: Grille tiles, round plates, minifig utensils (wrenches, syringes, crowbars) = instant abandoned-lab or garage mess.

• Minifig makeup: Swap in LEGO zombie heads and torn torsos; vary hands (LBG/DBG) to imply decay; add bandages and backpacks.

• Color grading: Keep a muted base; save bright colors for focal points (a first-aid sign, hazard barrel, superhero suit).

• Display tricks: Build a small riser at the back and angle modules 5–15° for dynamic, photo-friendly shelves.

Ideas to Expand Your Undead Scene

• Backyard PVZ lane: Garden beds vs. lanes of shambling zombies—perfect for Plants vs. Zombies fans.

• Rooftop farm safehouse: Greenhouse panels, water tanks, a radio mast—refuge above the chaos.

• Quarantine checkpoint: Road barricades, signage, floodlights, and a makeshift decon tent.

• Abandoned music store: Smashed glass, scattered records, stage lights—band posters still clinging to the walls.

• Gunshop strongpoint: Steel shutters, ceiling hole for “overwatch,” ammo crates (1×1 rounds in boxes).

• School gym scene: Bleachers + a toppled scoreboard; enter the zombie cheerleader.

• Harbor raid: Boarded warehouse, broken pier, and a zombie pirate crewed skiff.

• Marvel crossover: BrickHeadz or figures of Zombie Captain America with Zombie Hunter Spider-Man patrolling a ruined avenue.

Models & Instructions 

Apocalypse World Diorama

Designer: gabizon
Get the instructions for Model: Apocalypse World Diorama — Designer: gabizon: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-85267 . 

Ruined City | build from 9 different mocs

Designer: gabizon
Get the instructions for Model: Ruined City | build from 9 different mocs — Designer: gabizon: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-32889 .

Zombie Hunter Spider-Man & Zombie Captain America (BrickHeadz)

Designer: Eugenio Iacono
Get the instructions for Model: Zombie Hunter Spider-Man & Zombie Captain America — Designer: Eugenio Iacono: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-98758 . 

Zombie the Pooh (Alt Build of 31112)

Designer: dvdliu
Get the instructions for Model: Zombie the Pooh — Designer: dvdliu: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-64381 . 

Up-Scaled LEGO Minifigure – Zombie

Designer: ZTBricks
Get the instructions for Model: Up-Scaled LEGO Minifigure – Zombie — Designer: ZTBricks: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-158896 .

PvZ Garden Warfare – Chomper

Designer: legobičas
Get the instructions for Model: PvZ Garden Warfare – Chomper — Designer: legobičas: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-193664 . 

PVZ 2 Buckethead Zombie

Designer: EXCALIBURtheONE
Get the instructions for Model: PVZ 2 Buckethead Zombie — Designer: EXCALIBURtheONE: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-156366 . 

Music-Store Z (Apocalypse Modular)

Designer: Iphigenie
Get the instructions for Model: Music-Store Z — Designer: Iphigenie: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-154968 . 

Modular Abandoned Gunshop

Designer: LucSoleBricks
Get the instructions for Model: Modular Abandoned Gunshop — Designer: LucSoleBricks: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-197178 . 

zombie apocalypse (Survivor Base)

Designer: ash.jr
Get the instructions for Model: zombie apocalypse — Designer: ash.jr: https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-134233 .