Latest impact of other themes on historic themes

[Exetrius]

Despite the lack of an active historic theme, this year will have plenty to offer. I'm having difficulties with keeping track! The latest developments:

• City (regular): "Fun in the mountains" set introduces a new eagle, significantly smaller than the LOTR one.
• City (Arctic II): A mammoth, a big cat in ice (possible a sabertooth tiger) and an unknown small creature in ice. Furthermore, a new grey dog (I think).
• Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom: New dinosaur species, baby dinosaurs!! 
• Ninjago: Golden dragon armour, dragon hilts, sword and scythe blades, new cowl. 
• Ideas: Printed Leviathan flags
• CMF (Series 18): Red Dragon Suit guy, blue Unicorn Knight, Spider Suit guy, Cat Suit guy and Elephant Suit girl (comes with new mouse!):

 

 

All of this on top of what we already discussed:

• Star Wars (Han Solo Movie): New dress piece! Corellian hounds (for fantasy builders).
• Marvel Super Heroes (Infinity War): Four arms neck attachment, infinity stones (decoration for helmets and Friends hairpieces), various power blasts. Minifig Groot (something like Ents from LOTR). 
• Marvel Super Heroes (Black Panther): African-like mask, hair and torsos.
• TLBM CMF (Series 2): Hair with elf ears in black, apache chief, recoloured thunderbolts and flame pieces, black mermaid tail.
• City (Mountain Police): Puma, beehive.
• City (Mining): New crystals, white spiders.
• Elves: Elf hairstyles, recoloured flame pieces, crystal shards, a ton of others stuff. 

 

Now, if we could get this stuff more or less condensed in a single castle (fantasy) theme, that'd be great.. 

[SirBlake]

I went ahead and reposted your post to keep the Latest CMF thread up to date. Hope you don't mind. :)

 

Edited January 26, 2018 by SirBlake

[x105Black]

8 hours ago, Exetrius said:

City (Mountain Police): Puma, beehive.

Dont forget the black bear!

Nice list!

[AmperZand]

At the risk of causing two threads to collide for which I apologise: post from CMF impact on historic themes thread.

 

 

 

[Exetrius]

An then TLG dropped the Hogwarts Great Hall... and everyone fell in love.  There's a lot of good stuff (large images inside spoiler):

Spoiler

• Square lattice windows. 40 of them. Is... is this heaven?  
• Candles and candle flame piece!
• Lantern! Looks like it houses an ordinary 1x1 cilinder, great!
• Half bow brick and half bow corner brick. 
• Wizard wand. I never really had qualms with using a 3-long bar, but this is a treat. 
• Sorting hat!
• Hagrid! Can we have (half) giants like this in a regular castle theme? Pretty please?? 
• Conical rooftops in dark grey! 
• 'Pointy' cheese slopes. 
• Long wizard hair.
• Tan and dark grey spikes. Sand green skis.
• Updated mouse.

All things considered: Wow! 

The brick-built basilisk and phoenix are underwhelming, but they are not the focus here. Still, I would love to see at least the phoenix receive an update from the 2002 version.

 

[Orange Leader]

Hogwarts Great Hall is just wonderful and I can't wait to view it's inventory. I'm now more so excited of the rumored huge Hogwarts Castle set. If it's even better with the Castle parts then the Great Hall, I might have to buy a LEGO set that is beyond my price limit of €200,- and start up saving and adjusting my LEGO purchases for this year.

Edited February 19, 2018 by Orange Leader
excited instead of afraid

[Digger of Bricks]

On 2/18/2018 at 4:37 AM, Exetrius said:

An then TLG dropped the Hogwarts Great Hall... and everyone fell in love.  There's a lot of good stuff (large images inside spoiler):

Dang, I totally missed that article of The Brothers Brick's, as it's great to see all those new parts (as unfinished as they may be currently) up close!

Here are a few other parts which they highlighted that may be of broader significance to others:

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[x105Black]

Yes, there are some nice parts in that set for sure.

[AmperZand]

On 19/02/2018 at 9:17 PM, x105Black said:

Yes, there are some nice parts in that set for sure.

Yes indeed. I just hope that the candle and flame, lantern, wand, rat, Hagrid hair and torso parts appear in other sets, preferably small, non-HP ones. That way, they might be reasonably priced on the secondary market.

[Agent Kallus]

The first order riot shield is coming in dark red with the large hulkbuster set, its a nice shield piece and I think that this recolour will make it more usable.

[Wardancer]

4 hours ago, Agent Kallus said:

The first order riot shield is coming in dark red with the large hulkbuster set, its a nice shield piece and I think that this recolour will make it more usable.

Very interesting! I cannot find any picture of this. Could someone post one?

[Agent Kallus]

@Wardancer 

  I couldn't find a good picture of it alone but it is in the brickset inventory and it is shown as part of an assembly. 

Edited March 4, 2018 by Agent Kallus

[Exetrius]

Oh cool! I bet it would look great for orc shields, with some tooth pieces in those hollow studs. 

[x105Black]

Those pieces are great.  I hope I will be able to get them on Bricks & Pieces.

[Wardancer]

Thanks Agent Kallus. This looks very versatile. 

[MAB]

This is available on lego's replacement parts (71p for UK users), for any forestman fans.

 

[Orange Leader]

Thanks for the tip, MAB! I just ordered 5 Hunter Hats from the Dutch PaB, along with Nightwing Armor (6206331), Dark Tan Dragon Wings/Mynock Wings (6195496) and the Winter Station Clock (6195246) among some other pieces. I think the aforementioned pieces might be helpful for Castle MOCer's.

[x105Black]

5 hours ago, Orange Leader said:

Thanks for the tip, MAB! I just ordered 5 Hunter Hats from the Dutch PaB, along with Nightwing Armor (6206331), Dark Tan Dragon Wings/Mynock Wings (6195496) and the Winter Station Clock (6195246) among some other pieces. I think the aforementioned pieces might be helpful for Castle MOCer's.

Yeah, that Nightwing Armor is going to be fantastic for fleshing out a Bat faction.

[BrickJagger]

 

This set is from the upcoming Fantastic Beasts movie. Just look at that Thestral mold! I could easily see that showing up in fantasy-themed Castle sets. 

 

Edit: Also, is that a new downsized dragon wing mold? This bodes very well for us, I daresay.

Edited March 14, 2018 by BrickJagger

[SirBlake]

Whoah, that carriage set is awesome. 

[Bardan_Jusik]

Awesome! I was hoping that these new HP sets didn't let us down and so far they've delivered in spades. Love that carriage build.

[MAB]

The stems in black look good too. Although overall I prefer the stage coach from The Lone Ranger.

[x105Black]

Yes, the thestral looks amazing.  And the set itself is pretty nice, too.  I prefer the carriage from 2013 Castle, but this is a nice design, and a decent value at $30 from what I understand.

[Bardan_Jusik]

2 hours ago, x105Black said:

Yes, the thestral looks amazing.  And the set itself is pretty nice, too.  I prefer the carriage from 2013 Castle, but this is a nice design, and a decent value at $30 from what I understand.

According to Brickset the price will be 19.99 so even better.

[x105Black]

10 minutes ago, Bardan_Jusik said:

According to Brickset the price will be 19.99 so even better.

If so, I will definitely be getting more than one.