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From my humble collection, I'd say Space Villain and Evil Knight, I was lucky enough to get two of both of them, Evil knight has that great "spiky spikes of doom" armor and leg printing, and the shield is a great nod to Monty Python's own Black Knight, and the furious face with those red eyes is so badass (although I like Evil wizard's kickass beard and battlescars better, sadly I don't have one, anyone wants to trade? I got an excess of F1 Racers, plus I can add a Shell/Ferrari mint condition promo polybag :classic: ), and as for the Space Villain, I just love his design, those cybernetics, the Blacktron II logo, the helmet, everything about this fig is awesome, although I wish he also wore the "space marine armor", in dark pearl silver or black... I also have the Elf, and he's great too (Dat Green Cape and recurve bow), and I really hope, that we'll get more non-licenced, non-minidoll elves with classic yellow carnation, that would utilize LoTR Elves long braided hair (I just want Legolas' hair with yellow ears, duh...)

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I love the King minifigure. Great printing, wonderfull cape and very nice crown with hair. One of the best in my regard.

Another favorite is the butcher. It's such a recognizable design

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Too many to chose from for me; the elf, the Roman soldier, the Spartan, hazmat guy, conquistador, Musketeer, actor, ...

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Oooh tough decision... I really love the Hazmat Suit Guy. He's great ... My two favorites are probably the Demolition Dummy and the Magician.

But to choose just one, I'll say the Magician. His shark fighting cameo in The LEGO Movie was just hilarious.

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It would have to be the elf. I waited for years for TLG to produce an elf and when they did, they didn't disappoint. :wub:

My second favourite is the medusa and third probably the musketeer.

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One choice? No doubt, for me it's the Elf!

The Space Marine comes really close, though. Series 7 was just amazing... Apart from him, the Aztec Warrior, Evil Knight, Ocean King, ... well almost every fig in that series was great!

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It's got to be the diver, series 8:

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The helmet mold is beautiful.

I've been hesitant to reply in this thread because I like so many of them, would rate a good number of them as a "10," but for so many different reasons.

One of the things I tried to do at first is build vignettes for the figures... but there's just too many. Without going into a long, detailed story, I did make this:

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When the S8 diver came out, my jaw dropped - I regret that I still haven't made a proper vignette for it, it really deserves one - I just can't think of one that doesn't include a boat with a pump, and I can't think of how to do that in 8x8 vignette, especially given that I have a divided shadow box with 12 sections designed to hold baseballs; I could do 10x10, but can't get the height I'd need.

Still, it's one of the ones I really want to do.

The other reason it's too hard to choose is because some of the older ones that were cool to begin with, become even better - the Pharaoh was great, but it was just a Pharaoh - what do you do with it? But then there's the mummy they added.... suddenly you can make a pretty neat vignette with it. But it didn't end there - they followed up with Cleopatra, and more recently the Egyptian warrior... the value of the sum of these figures together is much greater, IMO, than the figures separately.

The elves - I loved the elves, one of the few "army builder" series for me; I think I have around 15 of them. But I loved them not just because hey, elves, but because I was a fan of Fantasy Era, and they made a mistake, IMO, by skipping elves. But even the elves became better, IMO, when they released the evil dwarfs.... which I also army built. The musketeer is OK - but three of them together are awesome! The witches, too (same deal... one is OK, three is great). Army building Egyptian Warriors, too... but don't need quite as many, just enough to make a proper guard for Pharaoh.

Then, of course, are zombies. My favorite horror/sci-fi genre, I can't get enough of them.

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The other reason it's too hard to choose is because some of the older ones that were cool to begin with, become even better - the Pharaoh was great, but it was just a Pharaoh - what do you do with it? But then there's the mummy they added.... suddenly you can make a pretty neat vignette with it. But it didn't end there - they followed up with Cleopatra, and more recently the Egyptian warrior... the value of the sum of these figures together is much greater, IMO, than the figures separately.

This is my favourite part about the Minifigures is seeing different groups of them emerge that are outside of the everyday lego themes... I like the Egyptian and wild west themes... sometimes I feel like the Minifigures are just there as bait for when lego decides to release full blown sets to go with... but as it stands at the moment I fully intend to build them into MOCs when I get the time :-)

Although Cleo goes better with Caesar than the Pharaohs :-)

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This is impossible to answer. But some of my all-time favorites are Medusa, the Clockwork Robot, Mr. Good and Evil, the Spooky Girl, the Goblin, and the Banshee and Spider Lady. Of course, I love almost all of the CMFs, but the ones I listed were some of the ones that instantly attracted me and made me very happy.

As for why I like them? Simply put, I think their designs are perfect. I don't throw that word around lightly, but these guys just did everything right. Instantly recognizable and very unique. Spooky's one of my favorites due to her subtlety and restraint. You know she's creepy due to her colors (or lack thereof) but the rest of her design also contributes to that vibe without making it over-the-top. On the reverse, I like the Spider Lady and Evil Wizard because they're over-the-top. It's variable, but this theme has contributed some truly spectacular designs.

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