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[Karalora]

2 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

Well but that one is a friends animal and moulded to look exactly like sven, so IP locked or not, they wouldn´t have used it eitherway. They could have made an own mould for it, but I guess the deer mould was close enough to save that budget.

Sven is surprisingly accurate to the look of an actual reindeer, for a cartoon. They could probably reuse it with different printing to downplay the cartoony face.

[Accio Lego]

5 hours ago, Lion King said:

If there is a flying Phoenix mold shows up in Harry Potter, I wonder what Lego will reuse it in other themes (City or in-house CMF series) as a regular bird?

The phoenix in the Harry Potter theme is specifically based on Fawkes from the movies, so it will likely be IP locked just like the perched version appears to be. 

Edited April 23 by Accio Lego

[williejm]

10 hours ago, Lion King said:

If there is a flying Phoenix mold shows up in Harry Potter, I wonder what Lego will reuse it in other themes (City or in-house CMF series) as a regular bird?

I doubt it. What sort of bird would they use it for?  I think we will just see it as a normal plus patronus version of Fawkes. Plus it will surely be locked to the licence.

[cebelicamya]

16 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

New longhaired cat color and print leaked.
 

 

Where ? 

[williejm]

19 minutes ago, cebelicamya said:

Where ? 

DMed you 

[Lion King]

3 hours ago, williejm said:

I doubt it. What sort of bird would they use it for?  I think we will just see it as a normal plus patronus version of Fawkes. Plus it will surely be locked to the licence.

Oh but Nadine was introduced in Harry Potter CMF Series and she neded up in City as a “African rock snake”. I don’t know what Fawkes would be recolored as a nomral bird in CMF or City.  Fawkes in Harry Potter CMF series looks “normal” to me if it was brown or some blue in City. 

[williejm]

2 hours ago, Lion King said:

Oh but Nadine was introduced in Harry Potter CMF Series and she neded up in City as a “African rock snake”. I don’t know what Fawkes would be recolored as a nomral bird in CMF or City.  Fawkes in Harry Potter CMF series looks “normal” to me if it was brown or some blue in City. 

Yet the Mastiff is stuck. No snowy owl has ever appeared in an Arctic set. And the flying great grey owl prohibitively expensive on the after sales market or stuck in one set 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Accio Lego]

4 hours ago, Lion King said:

Oh but Nadine was introduced in Harry Potter CMF Series and she neded up in City as a “African rock snake”. I don’t know what Fawkes would be recolored as a nomral bird in CMF or City.  Fawkes in Harry Potter CMF series looks “normal” to me if it was brown or some blue in City. 

Recolored Fawkes’ being able to pass as a random bird to someone not fussy about ornithology (which Lego admittedly isn’t based on all the birds they’ve used the songbird mold to represent) doesn’t change the fact that his sculpt is very specifically based on the movie design which is almost certainly copyrighted several different ways. I’m not sure the exact legalities involved with IP specific molds, but I have little doubt that for a design specific as Fawkes, Lego couldn’t reuse it even if the wanted to. 
 

Real animals are different, obviously. Keeping certain colors and prints IP exclusive seems to be some sort of marketing decision, and the fact that the mastiff hasn’t been recolored in a City set yet  comes off as annoying laziness. Especially now – the new pug appearing in a construction site set is weird as hell, a guard dog like a mastiff would make at least a modicum of sense. 

[Lion King]

2 hours ago, williejm said:

Yet the Mastiff is stuck. No snowy owl has ever appeared in an Arctic set. And the flying great grey owl prohibitively expensive on the after sales market or stuck in one set 🤷🏽‍♂️

I have no idea waht Lego is doing if those animals form Harry Potter are pretty hectic for other themes. IP rules are that weird - Iroan Man’s helmets showed up in DreamZzz and Ant Man’s helmet showed up in non-licensed CMF series Those rules just make no sense. 

[Lion King]

15 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

Recolored Fawkes’ being able to pass as a random bird to someone not fussy about ornithology (which Lego admittedly isn’t based on all the birds they’ve used the songbird mold to represent) doesn’t change the fact that his sculpt is very specifically based on the movie design which is almost certainly copyrighted several different ways. I’m not sure the exact legalities involved with IP specific molds, but I have little doubt that for a design specific as Fawkes, Lego couldn’t reuse it even if the wanted to. 
 

Real animals are different, obviously. Keeping certain colors and prints IP exclusive seems to be some sort of marketing decision, and the fact that the mastiff hasn’t been recolored in a City set yet  comes off as annoying laziness. Especially now – the new pug appearing in a construction site set is weird as hell, a guard dog like a mastiff would make at least a modicum of sense. 

Eh, that’s fair but I still think it’s not making sense for Lego’s rules as those Harry Potter abysmal look pretty generic and can be recolored. Like that baby dragon form Dungeon & Dragon showed up as a chocolate dragon in CMF S29.

i don’t think Fawkes’ haste doens’t mean anytthing but the certain colors of his cannot be used in other themes so… Regardless of my opinion, that is a real shame that they cannot recolor Fawkes as a real bird. 

[williejm]

25 minutes ago, Lion King said:

i don’t think Fawkes’ haste doens’t mean anytthing but the certain colors of his cannot be used in other themes so… Regardless of my opinion, that is a real shame that they cannot recolor Fawkes as a real bird. 

I guess, for me, it’s more that I really cannot think of a ‘real’ bird that could be represented by the Phoenix 🐦‍🔥. I think, and have said before, that the closest living species is probably the Hoatzin, but that’s quite a stretch (although Playmobil have made one!). 

[Lion King]

46 minutes ago, williejm said:

I guess, for me, it’s more that I really cannot think of a ‘real’ bird that could be represented by the Phoenix 🐦‍🔥. I think, and have said before, that the closest living species is probably the Hoatzin, but that’s quite a stretch (although Playmobil have made one!). 

Ahh, i see. Thank you for pointing out. I guess it’s almost impossible for Lego to recolor Fawkes as that liviing bird species, nothing else. 

[Black Falcon]

19 hours ago, Karalora said:

Sven is surprisingly accurate to the look of an actual reindeer, for a cartoon. They could probably reuse it with different printing to downplay the cartoony face.

In a friends set, maybe. I just don´t think they would use it in a system set though, even if it has already happened before. Also looks maybe a bit to big to me compared to a minifig.

Edited Thursday at 07:37 PM by Black Falcon

[Roebuck]

10 hours ago, Lion King said:

Ahh, i see. Thank you for pointing out. I guess it’s almost impossible for Lego to recolor Fawkes as that liviing bird species, nothing else. 

He is a jumble of bird species so make little sense to have him in another set outside HP. I personally do not think there is a problem for Lego to use the owls or the mastiff outside HP sets, but there must be a "need" for them in other sets to defend the cost. To quote myself from the Harry Potter thread:
 

Fawkes ha the tail of a pheasant, wings of a osprey and body of a secretarybird 

[cebelicamya]

On 4/23/2026 at 5:15 PM, williejm said:

Yet the Mastiff is stuck. No snowy owl has ever appeared in an Arctic set. And the flying great grey owl prohibitively expensive on the after sales market or stuck in one set 🤷🏽‍♂️

Thank you. 

Why is the wolf still not available on pick a brick but arctic fox is? Any reason behind? Is lego trying to make it rare as goat.

Edited Sunday at 09:43 AM by cebelicamya

[Roebuck]

24 minutes ago, cebelicamya said:

Thank you. 

Why is the wolf still not available on pick a brick but artic fox is? Any reason behind? Is lego trying to make it rare as goat.

Only Lego know the reason behind it I think, but if enough people wright to CS about it they might include in PAB

[williejm]

31 minutes ago, cebelicamya said:

Thank you. 

Why is the wolf still not available on pick a brick but artic fox is? Any reason behind? Is lego trying to make it rare as goat.

Lego hate us and enjoy making us suffer: it’s all I can conclude.

That said, if the Arctic fox, which is about half the size of the wolf, was listed on PAB for over £11, we can only assume the wolf if it’s ever listed will be marketed at about £20 each. 
 

 

[Lion King]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

Lego hate us and enjoy making us suffer: it’s all I can conclude.

That said, if the Arctic fox, which is about half the size of the wolf, was listed on PAB for over £11, we can only assume the wolf if it’s ever listed will be marketed at about £20 each. 
 

 

Give us snow owl and mastlifff!

But yeah, Lego likes to make us suffer. Previously, I thought it was stupid to put wolf in CMF series but won’t put it on PAB after Arctic sets. Absurd. 

[williejm]

3 minutes ago, Lion King said:

Give us snow owl and mastlifff!

But yeah, Lego likes to make us suffer. Previously, I thought it was stupid to put wolf in CMF series but won’t put it on PAB after Arctic sets. Absurd. 

Whereas now the people who sourced that CMF look like the smart ones 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Lion King]

His emo blood shedding for chasers when it comes to wolves, please. 

[williejm]

2 minutes ago, Lion King said:

His emo blood shedding for chasers when it comes to wolves, please. 

Yeah - you’ve lost me there, buddy 

[Lion King]

6 minutes ago, williejm said:

Yeah - you’ve lost me there, buddy 

Oh i meant to say “no bloodshedding for animal chasers when it comes to wolves, please.” I guess Lego would love it see us tear each other apart once wolves are put on PAB. 

[RichardGoring]

1 hour ago, williejm said:

Whereas now the people who sourced that CMF look like the smart ones 🤷🏽‍♂️

I was lucky to be able to find eight of the CMF. I typically get eight figures or so from each faction, which is a good sized group, but not a massive army that always feels over the top and unmanageable. The wolf made it very easy to decide to get them, but also necessary given that they run in packs. I had worried that it would be like the mouse and flamingo and not come back. Although it was in the Bricklink Designer Program series 6, so even more bizarre that it's not been made available.

[williejm]

2 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

I was lucky to be able to find eight of the CMF. I typically get eight figures or so from each faction, which is a good sized group, but not a massive army that always feels over the top and unmanageable. The wolf made it very easy to decide to get them, but also necessary given that they run in packs. I had worried that it would be like the mouse and flamingo and not come back. Although it was in the Bricklink Designer Program series 6, so even more bizarre that it's not been made available.

Yeah I have to say that ‘Today Me’ is very glad that ‘Back Then Me’ sought out a bunch of wolves, *and* did some swaps for folks who wanted more of the figures (so I got more wolves). Assuming they’d be available on PaB would have been a big mistake, HUGE. 

And you’re totally right, some animals you need a bunch of (sheep, wolves, penguins, squirrels) whereas some you really don’t (red panda, koala, skunk) 

 

[Lion King]

4 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

I was lucky to be able to find eight of the CMF. I typically get eight figures or so from each faction, which is a good sized group, but not a massive army that always feels over the top and unmanageable. The wolf made it very easy to decide to get them, but also necessary given that they run in packs. I had worried that it would be like the mouse and flamingo and not come back. Although it was in the Bricklink Designer Program series 6, so even more bizarre that it's not been made available.

Good for you for 8 wolves. But i don’t need to build army. And i doubt wolves wou dld disapear like mouse, toucan, flamingo. It’s just odd that wolves haven’t spread that further yet beyond BDP.  I have been wondering if it would show up on PAB and I’m sure it will be a crazy chase. Personally, I need 3 more to put them in my city as an angry pack.