Roebuck Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Did my phone get lost in translation or is it a animation film if so that should narrow the field a fair bit Quote
MAB Posted January 19 Posted January 19 6 hours ago, jonwil said: IIRC Lego can't do an LOTR CMF or battle pack or something else with too many minifigs compared to brick content because of the Warhammer LOTR thing. I imagine that is a umour based on similar rumours for SW. The contracts are never made public so we never know what agreements they have made. Quote
GreenhouseBricker Posted January 19 Posted January 19 On 1/17/2026 at 9:53 AM, BrickBob Studpants said: Rumour has it that the next series is based on a 2026 film that constitutes a new license. The leaker calls it S30, but that doesn‘t make any sense If it‘s a film getting released after the series does, it’s either Street Fighter, Jumanji 4, or Narnia. Any other ideas? Maybe a Hunger Games Series? If it was a 2027 film then I might guess Shrek. Quote
CloneCommando99 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 I severely doubt that Lego would make a Child Murder: The Movie CMF. Quote
FinlayTheFaithful Posted January 19 Posted January 19 28 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said: I severely doubt that Lego would make a Child Murder: The Movie CMF. I think the Anakin shaped elephant in the room would like a word Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted January 19 Posted January 19 14 minutes ago, FinlayTheFaithful said: I think the Anakin shaped elephant in the room would like a word The difference is that children murdering each other for entertainment is the focal point of the story, whereas a hero-turned-villain slaughtering a group of kids is just one scene Quote
Karalora Posted January 19 Posted January 19 9 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said: The difference is that children murdering each other for entertainment is the focal point of the story, whereas a hero-turned-villain slaughtering a group of kids is just one scene Thank you for this. It gets very frustrating trying to discuss what is and isn't suitable for LEGO conversion in an all-ages market when you have people going: "Why wouldn't they do a theme for my favorite movie, The Dismemberment Explosion Squad? They did sets for Toddler Central, which has an episode where the kids sneak downstairs after their bedtime and the background audio heavily implies that the parents are watching an R-rated action movie!" Quote
Black Falcon Posted January 19 Posted January 19 21 hours ago, Accio Lego said: I also think you’re overestimating/underestimating the average level of Narnia knowledge people have – it’s been long enough since the last set of movies that anyone considering themselves a fan of the series will have read the books and be familiar with the prequel characters, while people only casually familiar with the lore will see Jadis, some kids dressed in period clothes, some adults dressed as royalty, and a handful of mythological creatures and consider it familiar enough, especially if they’re seeing trailers with the ‘new’ characters already. The bigger obstacle is that two of the most iconic characters to the story, Aslan and Fledge, are large animals instead of humanoids, but considering the people have already been having a similar conversation about Donkey from Shrek I don’t think that should rule them out yet. Just because someone is a fan of the Films doesn´t mean he would read the books afterwards. Same as not every Fan of the books watched the movies (though likely, the later is the smaller group of that two). And people that are fans of the films would want the 4 kids, I guess many preferably in battle attire. Sure, for others it might not make much difference if they get Peter and co. or other characters (though it is to be seen how they will look in the new movies) and if the Netflix Movie becomes well received, maybe not so much either, but that is just still unknown. Quote
GreenhouseBricker Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Yes I do agree that the Hunger Games it doesn't necessarily work with LEGO's Brand image. It is just a popular license/movie franchise that hasn't been done before and is releasing this year. I know there are a number of Hunger Games IDEAS submissions that are quite popular with fans and have reached 10,000 supporters. You never know, LEGO has done things like Stranger Things and Twilight due to a popular license. My bet is still on Shrek. If they do a CMF Shrek Series, I assume it would be similar to how the Simpsons license has been used. They could use some of the minifig elements in future sets. That way the CMF new element budget could help with getting some of the reqired pieces. Quote
RichardGoring Posted January 19 Posted January 19 4 hours ago, Karalora said: Thank you for this. It gets very frustrating trying to discuss what is and isn't suitable for LEGO conversion in an all-ages market when you have people going: "Why wouldn't they do a theme for my favorite movie, The Dismemberment Explosion Squad? They did sets for Toddler Central, which has an episode where the kids sneak downstairs after their bedtime and the background audio heavily implies that the parents are watching an R-rated action movie!" I loved that movie, although the book was better Brickset looked back at polls of popular licenses from five years ago and many have since been made into sets - LEGO licensed sets: What is left to do? | Brickset Some good choices for future CMFs in there, several of which have been discussed as possible 'series 30' ones, per the rumour. Quote
Accio Lego Posted January 19 Posted January 19 (edited) 5 hours ago, Karalora said: Thank you for this. It gets very frustrating trying to discuss what is and isn't suitable for LEGO conversion in an all-ages market when you have people going: "Why wouldn't they do a theme for my favorite movie, The Dismemberment Explosion Squad? They did sets for Toddler Central, which has an episode where the kids sneak downstairs after their bedtime and the background audio heavily implies that the parents are watching an R-rated action movie!" It gets even more frustrating when we’re having this whole conversation in a thread about Collectible Minifigure Series. “Lego already made a $300 18+ set and Brickheadz for the Teens Fight Supernatural Monsters streaming show, why wouldn’t they use the potentially R-rated movie based off my favorite Adults Beating Each Other Up video game as the license for their latest line of traditionally 5+ blind boxes that commonly gets sold in checkout lines next to the candy and soda?” Edited January 19 by Accio Lego Quote
GreenhouseBricker Posted January 19 Posted January 19 which CMF do you think will have the recoloured DND Dragon in brown? The Witch? Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted January 19 Posted January 19 18 minutes ago, GreenhouseBricker said: which CMF do you think will have the recoloured DND Dragon in brown? The Witch? No, it's said to be the chocolatier Quote
Mandalorianknight Posted January 19 Posted January 19 (edited) 4 hours ago, GreenhouseBricker said: Yes I do agree that the Hunger Games it doesn't necessarily work with LEGO's Brand image. It is just a popular license/movie franchise that hasn't been done before and is releasing this year. I know there are a number of Hunger Games IDEAS submissions that are quite popular with fans and have reached 10,000 supporters. You never know, LEGO has done things like Stranger Things and Twilight due to a popular license. My bet is still on Shrek. If they do a CMF Shrek Series, I assume it would be similar to how the Simpsons license has been used. They could use some of the minifig elements in future sets. That way the CMF new element budget could help with getting some of the reqired pieces. If anything, I think the fact that hunger games ideas projects regularly reach 10,000 supporters and still don't get in is a mark against lego making sets for it- whether that's because they view it as inappropriate (which, I would say it's not super likely we ever get anything for it, but we did get Dune and Stranger things) or the license holder doesn't want to play ball. Shrek is probably the most likely, but I do think if lego got the Shrek license they'd want to go all-out and make actual sets for it. 1 hour ago, Accio Lego said: "Lego already made a $300 18+ set and Brickheadz for the Teens Fight Supernatural Monsters streaming show, why wouldn’t they use the potentially R-rated movie based off my favorite Adults Beating Each Other Up video game as the license for their latest line of traditionally 5+ blind boxes that commonly gets sold in checkout lines next to the candy and soda?” This really isn't the same thing- Street Fighter isn't something like Mortal Kombat where there's a ton of blood and gore. I'm not sure how aware you are of street fighter but you seem to be imagining a much more violent and dark concept than what the games actually are. They're fairly campy, the combatants wear bright costumes and a number of them have special powers. It's in essence on par with your average MCU movie- brightly costumed characters- many with powers- have largely bloodless fights. And the MCU's had multiple CMF series. Also, "potentially R-rated" feels like a pretty big stretch when the games are the equivalent of PG-13, as was the last movie they did. (and for that matter, isn't the fact that the combatants are adults better than if they were kids? I feel like children fighting eachother- much less murdering eachother in bloody fashion like in Hunger Games- is a lot worse than a fighting tournament for adults.) Edited January 19 by Mandalorianknight Quote
Accio Lego Posted January 19 Posted January 19 15 minutes ago, GreenhouseBricker said: which CMF do you think will have the recoloured DND Dragon in brown? The Witch? The list of observations put out by the leaker seems to be one for each fig in the same order as the character list they put out (for instance: ‘Soccer Goalkeeper, Marine Biologist, Tuba Player’ corresponds to ‘new soccer ball, new Nemo fish element, new tuba’). That means the observation about the brown D&D dragon piece goes with the Chocolatier. Meaning the dragon is likely appearing in brown because it’s a chocolate sculpture. The Chocolatier is also stated to be Willy Wonka adjacent, so we should expect a character with period clothes instead of a modern chef’s jacket. Quote
Renny The Spaceman Posted January 19 Posted January 19 1 hour ago, Accio Lego said: “Lego already made a $300 18+ set and Brickheadz for the Teens Fight Supernatural Monsters streaming show, why wouldn’t they use the potentially R-rated movie based off my favorite Adults Beating Each Other Up video game as the license for their latest line of traditionally 5+ blind boxes that commonly gets sold in checkout lines next to the candy and soda?” Okay, I'm not a fan of Street Fighter so maybe I'm missing something but literally everything I've seen from it is that it's a campy, pretty bloodless, regulated fighting tournament between people or monsters with super powers to win a prize or title or something right? Why are some people here acting like it's even pushing LEGO's boundaries? I think what's stopping it would be if kids give a shit about it even remotely. 28 minutes ago, Accio Lego said: The list of observations put out by the leaker seems to be one for each fig in the same order as the character list they put out (for instance: ‘Soccer Goalkeeper, Marine Biologist, Tuba Player’ corresponds to ‘new soccer ball, new Nemo fish element, new tuba’). That means the observation about the brown D&D dragon piece goes with the Chocolatier. Meaning the dragon is likely appearing in brown because it’s a chocolate sculpture. The Chocolatier is also stated to be Willy Wonka adjacent, so we should expect a character with period clothes instead of a modern chef’s jacket. Interesting architype to do pretty much immediately after a Willy "Wonker" set, hope it means there's some really inventive spin on it Quote
CloneCommando99 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 56 minutes ago, GreenhouseBricker said: which CMF do you think will have the recoloured DND Dragon in brown? The Witch? Robot T-Rex without a doubt Quote
FinlayTheFaithful Posted January 19 Posted January 19 21 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said: Robot T-Rex without a doubt Not really the new dino costume I was expecting, still not saying no to such a figure tho Quote
Karalora Posted January 19 Posted January 19 2 hours ago, Accio Lego said: That means the observation about the brown D&D dragon piece goes with the Chocolatier. Meaning the dragon is likely appearing in brown because it’s a chocolate sculpture. The Chocolatier is also stated to be Willy Wonka adjacent, so we should expect a character with period clothes instead of a modern chef’s jacket. Aw, but I wanted an Amaury Guichon expy! Joking aside, flamboyant period clothing (and if it's a Willy Wonka-alike, it will be flamboyant) is always fun to have for minifigures, you can reuse it for some very fun characters. Quote
Accio Lego Posted January 20 Posted January 20 5 minutes ago, Karalora said: Aw, but I wanted an Amaury Guichon expy! Joking aside, flamboyant period clothing (and if it's a Willy Wonka-alike, it will be flamboyant) is always fun to have for minifigures, you can reuse it for some very fun characters. The Minifigures team seems to be consciously going out of the way to give us at least one period (but not medieval or pirate) character in recent normal series. We’ve had the Steampunk Inventor, Noir Detective, Newsboy, and the Marie Antoinette expy. I like the trend, personally. It breaks up the rut of castle-city-futuristic space that CMFs could easily get stuck in if they only went with popular demand, and it definitely fits the ‘not wanting something that could come in a normal set’ ideal a lot of people mention as wanting from the theme. (also, all these characters are just objectively fun, even if they’re not all something I’d personally buy) Quote
MAB Posted January 20 Posted January 20 8 hours ago, Karalora said: Joking aside, flamboyant period clothing (and if it's a Willy Wonka-alike, it will be flamboyant) is always fun to have for minifigures, you can reuse it for some very fun characters. But not if it has chocolate splashes on the torso and legs. Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted January 20 Posted January 20 14 hours ago, Karalora said: Aw, but I wanted an Amaury Guichon expy! Only if he has a really unsettling smile straight out of the Smile duology Quote
Karalora Posted January 20 Posted January 20 6 hours ago, MAB said: But not if it has chocolate splashes on the torso and legs. Are we assuming that it does? Quote
Lion King Posted January 21 Posted January 21 16 hours ago, MAB said: But not if it has chocolate splashes on the torso and legs. That woudl be useful if it’s a piece of poop it must on clothes… Quote
MAB Posted January 21 Posted January 21 18 hours ago, Karalora said: Are we assuming that it does? Characters like that often have splats to emphasise the role such as the various mechanics, the cake boy, artist, etc. Quote
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