Shrek - Rumours & Discussion

[BrickBob Studpants]

12 hours ago, Takanuinuva said:

Weird Puss has a microphone and not his iconic fencing sword

Yeah, kinda strange. I guess they didn’t want him to be too similar to the minifig in the set we just got. The mic implies it’s based on the final scene in Shrek 2, so maybe he’ll also get a different facial expression At least it’s a very common piece!

[BrickBob Studpants]

I’m still curious whether the Hagrid-like body we saw in the leak will also be used in the CMF series. A regular minifig would likely look silly with that giant moulded head, but a non-traditional minifig being featured in a CMF series is pretty much unheard of  

Fingers crossed for some leaks soon! Other autumn CMF series like D&D, Spider-verse, and HP S2 had all long been leaked by that point

[cosmic]

On 2/1/2026 at 2:47 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

As with every series in the last coupla years beside Disney S3, I can’t help but wonder what it would look like had the reduction to 12 figures per series not occurred  I’m very happy with the choices here, but having 4 more would’ve added so much!

You know what's even more annoying about it? Before, when the "standard" was 16 figures, plenty of Series "broke" that convention. Series 18 had 17 figures, 1 more than the standard 16 of that era, Harry Potter Series 1 famously had 22 figures. And I believe all three Disney series have had 18 figures. So all this to say, back when the "norm" was 16 per Series, they still had special series that would get more than this. But ever since skimming down to 12, I think every series had adhered to this 12 figure system. Shrek certainly is an example of a theme that could use a bigger roster, and I know I'm going to sound like a bitter DC fan, but both DC and Marvel should also be strong contenders for Licenses whose CMF series get more than 12 figures. Like just because we're at a new standard doesn't mean every single series has to follow that standard! Thats so they don't run out of ideas and give us too many filler genderswaps in the mainline CMF, which is the rumored reason they chose to skim down, some of those last few big series (namely Series 20) had plenty of rehashed ideas and genderswaps and little new concepts. But Licensed CMFs shouldn't always adhere to this because as opposed to genderswapping tropes, the slots come frok pre existing material of which there is often an abundance of.

[BrickBob Studpants]

2 hours ago, cosmic said:

But ever since skimming down to 12, I think every series had adhered to this 12 figure system.

Every series except for Disney S3, which still had 18 figures, just like its two precursors

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 of the CMF minifigs leaked, namely Shrek himself, Farquaad, and Gingy. They all look great, but I definitely prefer the Hagrid-like torso from the leaked Shrek 5 set over the regular minifig torso. The head looks identical

[Black Falcon]

Farquaad looks good, Gingy just as expected but I am not sure I like the head of shrek that much. Can´t even put my finger on the exact reason why, I think the shape isn´t really true to the original but could also be because it works just to big compared to the body. 

[Murdoch17]

Shrek looks like nightmare fuel to me.

[Clone OPatra]

There's still a slight chance that series Shrek will be a minifig but set Shrek will be a Hagrid-like bigfig.

I'm a bit torn. Shrek's head just doesn't look quite right. Farquad is fun though.

[JeanGreyForever]

Shrek looks really off because of his proportions. The actual Shrek set will have an advantage with the different body.

[BrickBob Studpants]

7 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

There's still a slight chance that series Shrek will be a minifig but set Shrek will be a Hagrid-like bigfig.

Why do you think it’s only a “slight” chance? We’ve seen the leak, so I’d say it’s almost guaranteed  I can’t remember ever seeing an advanced prototype of a new piece in a leak that didn’t make it into the actual set.

[Black Falcon]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Why do you think it’s only a “slight” chance? We’ve seen the leak, so I’d say it’s almost guaranteed  

A leak that has clearly been prelim. I´d say it clearly isn´t unlikely to happen, still I wouldn´t take it as granted either. 

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I can’t remember ever seeing an advanced prototype of a new piece in a leak that didn’t make it into the actual set.

Whole sets with advanced prototypes have been canceled tbf, I don´t think it would be an issue to scrab the prototype, be it out of budget reasons or whatever.

[BrickBob Studpants]

16 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

Whole sets with advanced prototypes have been canceled tbf, I don´t think it would be an issue to scrab the prototype, be it out of budget reasons or whatever.

In the 90s perhaps, but there hasn’t been a single instance of a new piece making it this far and then getting replaced by an existing one in the last 20 years. At least not that I can think of  The only recent-ish sort-of example is a 2011 Clone Wars set where the leaked prelim showed a different bounty hunter character with a new helmet piece (Cato instead of Sugi), but that was more like a rough render than an actual prototype.

Might as well argue that Gingy might get replaced by a nanofig in the final sets  When have we started to doubt clearly real leaked images?

[Black Falcon]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

In the 90s perhaps, but there hasn’t been a single instance of a new piece making it this far and then getting replaced by an existing one in the last 20 years.

How many prelim pictures do we even see? It is actually rather a rare thing to happen, so unless you work for Lego, I´d say there isn´t much data to base on.

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Might as well argue that Gingy might get replaced by a nanofig in the final sets  When have we started to doubt clearly real leaked images?

You do remember the leaked prelim of the Medieval Town Square? Matter of fact we don´t know which state the prelim was, but there were clear indications that it wasn´t the finalised designs.

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, Black Falcon said:

How many prelim pictures do we even see? It is actually rather a rare thing to happen, so unless you work for Lego, I´d say there isn´t much data to base on.

They reliably happened twice a year between 2005 and 2017-ish. Sure, they’re not as common anymore nowadays, but my point still stands that we have never seen a new piece at an advanced stage in a leaked image that then didn’t end up getting produced.*

That said, prelim leaks did experience somewhat of a resurgence recently with the drawn sketches, which are directly based on leaked prelims.

1 hour ago, Black Falcon said:

You do remember the leaked prelim of the Medieval Town Square? Matter of fact we don´t know which state the prelim was, but there were clear indications that it wasn´t the finalised designs.

We’re only talking about new pieces here, not general designs. Of course lots of prelim images differ in that regard, like the prelim East Wing still having the snake door
 

* There is an exception, but we can blame higher powers for that one. The prelim picture of the 2013 Dol Guldur set allegedly showed the old Azog / Bolg design with a new hairpiece which then ended up being an orc torture master in the films that never showed up in a set. But it’s not a good example since A) design changes in the movie are to blame, and B) the piece did get produced in a very limited capacity, but without any printing. Copies of the piece were recently sold for outrageous prices on Ebay.

Edited July 5 by BrickBob Studpants

[Clone OPatra]

On 7/5/2026 at 4:44 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

Why do you think it’s only a “slight” chance? We’ve seen the leak, so I’d say it’s almost guaranteed  I can’t remember ever seeing an advanced prototype of a new piece in a leak that didn’t make it into the actual set.

Not exactly the same, but whole waves of sets have been cancelled with new pieces pretty far in production. Take Vidiyo for example.

Just because something is unusual or unexpected doesn't mean it can't happen. We're working with a pretty small set of data. There's no way to know for sure that they didn't ultimately decide to pivot to a Minifigure version for the final set until we see the final set. It's also unusual to have two different representations of the same character releasing at the same time, though perhaps that has happened too.

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, Clone OPatra said:

There's no way to know for sure that they didn't ultimately decide to pivot to a Minifigure version for the final set until we see the final set.

Sure, but my point is that there‘s no reason to even entertain the idea in the first place. Of course they were not gonna put a Hagrid-like figure in a CMF series. That doesn’t mean they might’ve scrapped the other figure from the leak

1 hour ago, Clone OPatra said:

It's also unusual to have two different representations of the same character releasing at the same time, though perhaps that has happened too.

Metalbeard from the TLM came in two different scales. Thanos and Hulk regularly get both bigfigs and regular minifigs, even within the MCU. Oh, and Gingy is also a proper minifig in the CMF series, yet his set version is a new specialised piece. You could as well argue we don’t know for sure if that piece is getting scrapped

[JeanGreyForever]

Shrek CMF minifigures have leaked. Honestly, most of them look so horrible that I really thought they were bootleg figures at first. Will easily be skipping this. Shrek seems doomed as a franchise between the new movie and this CMF wave.

[Tariq j]

Yeah those aren’t great. All 3 Disney CMF series had quite a few non humanoid characters but they still translated pretty well into LEGO. 

Merlin and the Executioner look pretty good. I’m not sure why they chose the Dragon as a CMF?

Who else do we have left? I could see Charming and the Fairy Godmother being good.  

[OttoRiver]

Big Bad Wolf and Pinocchio are the other 2 we haven't seen. Lego has yet to make a wolf figure I don't like so I'm hoping that streak continues here and Pinocchio will probably reuse the Disney head mold.

[Robert8]

Good god  

 

What happened? They look just 

 

[PastaChef]

Didn’t Merlin have a longer beard in the film? Or am I misremembering 

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, PastaChef said:

Didn’t Merlin have a longer beard in the film? Or am I misremembering 

He did! I guess it’s just missing from the picture, like most of the accessories

Am I the only one who likes them?  Puss looks a bit strange though. I definitely prefer the set version

[Clone OPatra]

24 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Am I the only one who likes them?

I think of what we've seen, some are excellent, some are fine and a couple aren't great - like most series! I am curious what exactly people don't like for those saying generally that they're horrible.

Executioner and Merlin look super.

Farquad, Gingy, Puss, Shrek and Fiona all look decent, though the ogre head moulds are a little off or strange I guess.

Dragon is the one to me where I go "what were they thinking?" and does look more like something a bootleg company would do. Donkey doesn't look perfect either but it does appear that his head and body are separate at least? And they'll be a standing body version in the set?

[PastaChef]

7 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Am I the only one who likes them?

I think the humanoid characters are the standouts from what we’ve seen so far. Shrek and Fiona in close second 

for me I think it’s a scale issue, I know Puss has to be figure but he should be smaller then donkey. Gingy looks more like Mongo and Dragon?? 

Perhaps a large scale Dragon set in the Style of this year Ender Dragon might’ve gone done better? 
 

 

[williejm]

9 hours ago, PastaChef said:

I think the humanoid characters are the standouts from what we’ve seen so far. Shrek and Fiona in close second 

for me I think it’s a scale issue, I know Puss has to be figure but he should be smaller then donkey. Gingy looks more like Mongo and Dragon?? 

Perhaps a large scale Dragon set in the Style of this year Ender Dragon might’ve gone done better? 

The size disparities are definitely exacerbated by this being a CMF. Had there been small sets with two or three figures then the relative sizes might not have looked so off. Also, of course, ‘leaked’ images rarely show the figures how they are best seen, I’m sure some are missing parts like wings, tails,  beards …

We have seen massive disparity in character size being standardised in minifigure form in other licences - not least Disney, where Baymax, Jiminy Cricket , Chip & Dale, & the Genie from Aladdin are all curiously similar in size. I think it’s more noticeable here as this is an ensemble cast, which we regularly see together, rather than standalone characters.