Gorilla94

I think it is about where the stickers are used. For me it is ok in the Harry Potter sets to use stickers to give certain walls some texture. It is sad, because such walls with printed design were great to play with as a child, but it is still "ok" because the sets have a lot of nice figures and value for the money. The point where i think it's not ok anymore is when they make people feel annoyed enough to do custom prints. Things like the UCS-Millenium falcon, The Ghosbuster HQ or the Simpsons houses. What i can't accept is something like the Mystery Maschine set. You won't recognise the car anymore, when the stickers in the outside peel off - and mine are even printed wrong, so there is a piece in the middle of the "Mystery Maschine"-writing missing on one side. If the detail is so much needed that you won't recognise what the model represents without it, it should be printed.

I hope that will be the case and the legs will become a often used part. Orange and someday dual moulded red and black ones would be great to make Donald and Mickey more accurate with some custom printing. I would not think too much about that book. There are other strange things like the book with teeth, too. The Tea box, the paper thrown by the owl, Umbridges sweets or the Goblin coins... They all don't look like a real piece at all. The transparent thing Snake carries could be a mould? The troll from lotr was much bigger and didn't have a nose like all big figs i know. If that was a new mould it would be much more accurate. I mean the old one from the yellow-headded sets is far superior to that one. I am sure this is just an artwork.

Would be great for people, that don't like HP, too. A torso reusable for Hobbits and a head to give an orc army some varriation :) Do you think we will see more medium sized legs in 2020? I mean if the sets go on with the years Harry, Ron and the others are tall enough to use adult legs like Krum and Fleur did... we are still missing a grey (not sure if light or dark) and it would be nice to be able to get dark brown legs outside of the Stranger things set?

Awesome idea ? if i can get the tail on the backside off the Torso it will save me a lot of work. Thanks! ?

Sounds evil toward collectors... i guess that means it will probably happen? If it isn't in the cmf 20 i am going to bricklink it and print a torso. As long as the headmould is avaiable for a reasonable price i am fine with that? and the price of 99,99€ in Europe will make enough people buy the Set for the bricks and resell the figures ?

I didn't wrote just "new moulds". I don't count the Friends pieces here that will be reused for years. They are not what i meant. The "special effort" i mean are highly specific pieces that are made for a character to make him look perfect. An example: Blackbeard's Beard, Woody's moulded head, Homer Simpson's head or Bombur's Beard. You can not reuse them again unless for that one licenced character and it makes the figure beautifull. The generic sailor hat that was used for Blackbeart, Davy, Spongebob's flying Dutchman and Hidden side isn't like that. It is just a much needed mould in general that will keep for years in Legos mould library in case any pirate- or fishing-theme will be produced. Like Gandalfs Beard is reused by Dumbledore or Super Heroes. Norringtons Hairpiece went from PotC to Super heroes, Lotr and Harry Potter. The new Harry Potter Lantern piece is already a usefull addition in the cmf-Disney-Line and Hermoines hair is in the Stranger things set. Now look again at the licences you mentioned and think about how many waves the lines had, when you compare that to only one wave of Trolls Lego put such an insane effort into. I don't hate Trolls for that. I am happy for everyone who likes them. What makes me a bit sad is the lack of that effort when it comes to other themes. I'd like to get some of the accessory pieces we see in the videogames. If TT games felt like a special part is needed it is a good indicator it's absence in the physical sets hurts. Like for example Narsil or Orcrist...

Let´s wait and see. Maybe it is different in each country, too. I got a winter soldier buing a modular house. I have to agree that the D2C is gorgeous and the minifigure scale one is even prettier. But i won´t buy the first. It needs too much room and i can´t make funny Scenes with minifigs because of the scale. I will get the minifig sized batmobil even if i have to buy it from ebay. It is easily the best version out there and the first set i am going to get since two years. In my opinion it is a great mistake not to sell it as a normal set.

I see the problem that many Manga/anime-sets would just take sales away from ninjago. So i am not that sure about a lot of licences. It is my personal taste but every time Lego put manga eyes on Minifigure heads it looked terrible to me. But on the other hand dot-eyes wouldn't wouldn't represent many characters very well. There is one line i would buy as soon as it's released: I'd love to see a Donkey Kong Coutry line of sets as long as the cartoon apes get moulded head pieces. Tree houses with the pet rhino, the jumping snake or the race ostriches would be so cool and appeal to children, city builders with a zoo and Video game nerds as well.

Wow ? You did a great Job in all of that! I am most impressed by the door Mechanismus of the ambulance car ? About advices: I guess it's just a matter if personal taste, but i'd use a bit bigger wheels in nightmare scarecrow's mask. Besides that i absolutely live him ? Could you please tell me where Azreal is from. He is just such a great figure!

I guess the reason so many AFOLs are upset is the amount of effort lego put into this, while giving for example the Super Heroes-Fans so little. The amount of outside the theme absulutely useless moulds is insane... especially if all these heads really consist of two parts. A few examples: Theoden and Eomer got the same helmet mould. Thorin and Fili got the same hair piece as Kili which looks stupid without quiver.., and it was reused for Quinlan Vos in Star Wars again without quiver. Probably it will be reused again. A mould without hole for a quiver would have been perfectly justified. Dain reuses Dwalins beard and didn´t even get an own faceprint but Gloin´s. The Flintstones set left 3 figures of the ideas set away from the final product, didn´t use headmoulds (yeah, it is lego ideas... that doen´t mean you can´t make an exception for Fred and Barney when you are in charge of your own company and see how bad the product looks if you don´t) and used Standard legs for Barney while medium ones were available to destroy his proportions and make him as Big as Fred. Toy Story 4 could have given old fans at least Boo Beep. Instead standard minifigure legs and Arms were used for her as well as for Woody and Jessie, which made the figures look unrecognisable, too. Not even the existing moulded heads were reused. Buzz used Standard legs, too. So he became just as big as Woody. The new shepard staff looks terrible with the gigantic hook. Even Rex looks worse than before with this Bert-form-Sesame-Street-eyebrow-print. Goofy is just as big like Donald and Mickey. All have terrible proportions. Giving Goofy Long Toy Story limbs and a second version of Mickey/Donald the new medium sized legs would have been easy to do. Simpsons was well made but not continued because the Kwik-E-Market and Series 2 didn´t sell well enough while we still miss many extremely important characters. Now Lego goes all in... with the Trolls theme that has figures that are just perfect representations of the characters - some of them with 2 or even 3 exclusive moulds per figure (i am not sure about the centaur piece). While they are perfect representations even the people that like them are aware that it probably will be successfull on the same level as angry birds and like i said - the parts will be useless in the future unlike many much needed minifigure moulds lego doesn´t produce while their absence hurts since years... I think it isn´t wrong to say that Lego put the most effort into the minifigures of the probably least successfull/popular/long living theme. I can´t understand that. That the faces of the figures look to me like they would have been ripped out of nightmares is the cherry on the cake to me.

Cool! As a huge Tolkien nerd i would buy all of the Lord of the Rings figures Especially getting dual moulded short legs for the hobbits would be great. If it was a CMF done by Lego i would assume that there would be Gandalf, Legolas and Gimli included in some varriation to make the fellowship complete instead of Galadriel, Glorfindel and Tom. Maybe Gimli with printed arms and midium sized legs, Legolas in the outfit from the coronation. Old Bilbo could have his book instead to avoid smoking. Depening on if there would be sets to come along with the Cmf i´d like to change Boromir to his standard outfit with dual moulded printed arms. He needs them so bad

Thank you! ? Again no mad Hatter or Hush ? I hope at least Batmites cowl will be black. Would make a nice headgear for an orc and Mordor's army needs evry varriation it can get to make it look less like from Kamino ? Maybe he could have a Comic of Batman as an accessory. The new green Vankman-hairpiece for Joker is great. Allways wanted it and was going to paint a custom one this hollidays because i gave up hope ? Besides that, the black recolour of Hermoine's hairpiece and all the great Fantasy-pieces used for Aquaman this series sadly gives me nothing ? If there aren't some cool accessoires we don't know until now it is going to be the cheaper series until now for me with one purchased figure and 2 or maybe 3 hairpieces from Bricklink.

I am sorry if i missed it but do we know now what the minifig sized limited edition Batmobil wil be? It wasn't a Comic con exclusive, was it? It's such a gorgeous set :D

I guess just like Scooby Doo the best chance is a UCS car. The rest isn't that iconic, the target group is quite small (compared to other licences) and there is a minifigure scaled Version out, that many fans already own.

I guess it's personal taste to some degree how important it feels to you to have the correct wall colours. But i think most people will see the difference between the medium dark flesh colour of the outside and dark green on the inside (these colours match the show as close as possible) as similar to if not even more noticeable than between the blue and yellow of the Kwik-E-Mart (which Lego put into the set) - especially because you see much more of the green walls than the walls in the Kwik-E-Mart which are barely visible behind interior. On top of that there are wooden plates on the walls from the floor up to the height of a grown mans hips. If the wall has just one line of bricks, this would have to be done with about 50-70 stickers/prints or left away completely. It's true that the diamond pattern is no big deal. I will print mine like that, too. The problem is the window frame. It is brown on the inside and purple on the outside. If you make the inside medium dark flesh with purple window frames it will look terrible next to the brown and red seats and completely break the colour scheme of the show. You also have to build the frame in a way that works with the seats standing right next to the window because you can't put the Windows too high. The solution i came up with works as good as it is possible with the existing bricks but isn't stable enough for a official playset.

I think that, too. If the theme continues, one of the scene with centaurs in the forbidden forest would be a decent little set appealing to non Potter-Fans as well. Was the centaur teacher in the movies? ? I have 3 problems with the cmf picing. The first is that non licences ones should be significantly cheaper. That they cost the same shows that there is no thought about "how much money is required for good quality figures? Ok, Disney wants that much. We have to increase the price to give our customers a good product while still earning enough money" behind the price tag. It's just "how much more can we squeeze out of the consumers per bag before they completely stop buying?". And this becomes even more offending combined with the second thing. The second thing is the kind of new moulds. Dragon suit guy with great exclusive pieces so specific that they are useless for any other figure is one of the few figures that are worth the 4€ to me. I see they are putting a lot of effort into this figure (even if it's not so much per figure thinking about how many of each one is sold) and they have to make the profit they want (even if it's really much profit... Disney series one showed there is enough profit in 3€ even with highly non reusable moulds and costs of the Disney licence) with this one Cmf line instead of reusing a new hair piece over and over for years. But in general it seems to me that the cmf line is - while still wearing the allways increasing price tag for special figure parts - more and more abused to finance just most of the new moulds lego would do anyways for the regular sets. An extreme example is the hair-helmet- combination from series 19. The police woman got her even printed hat-hair-combination in a set. Ignore all the new pieces the Harry Potter series introduced and compare the amount of new moulds in the Lotr-Sets with the ones in new Potter sets. With nearly every piece reused except for Hermoines and Dumbledores hatless hair, the sorting hat and Hagrid they are probably more expensive compared to what Lego invests in the beginning. The third one is decreasing quality. It gets better again, but when the production was moved to China, the quality became worse than many knockoffs. I have a Catman that can't even stand because his legs are so loose.

We could get one for 4€ already. The Satyr from Series 15 was 3€ with 2 exclusive moulds at that time. Only Stranger Things and Gremlins reused the legs. The Dragon has two extremely specific moulds that will likely stay exclusive if there won't be a recolored version like the blue unicorn. On top of that tons of printing. 4€. The biker from series 19 included dual moulded arms and legs, a new bike and hairpiece for 4€. We can ignore the exclusivity at the moment because the bike and hairpiece will be reused again and again in the city theme for sure. But it shows how much plastic you can put in a bag. A centaur needs just one new part: a hip piece, that is compatible with a horse body the same way the neck of a normal horse head is. He doesn't require more than this one simple mould, even i could easily design in a 3D programm by combining the horse neck with a regular hip piece. The only problem for a private customiser is that you can't separate the horse head from the figure without destroying the body. Otherwise i wouldn't need Lego. The new mould could even be reused for Harry Potter. No dual moulding is required. More than 4€ is just greed.

Maybe it's because i am not very deep into the Comics or TV shows? i am just a huge Nolan Trilogy-, Arkham Games-, Batman Telltale Series- and the Lego Batman Movie-Fan. Characters that aren't included in any of these won't mean anything to me? Cheeta is very cute. Don't know her but i just like this figure ? Just wish that the money bag would be brown with black print. I hope it will appear in sets or minifigure building stations. Would be a perfect accessory for my custom Mayor Quimbi and i can't print on such objects. I'll probably get Aquaman. Very usefull Fantasyarmor, a nice bearded face with long hair for a Rohan soldier and a cool Claw-Hand for an Orc. Never ever heared of Mr. Miracle... I was hoping so much for Mad Hatter or Hush. I hope there will at least be one of them. I am quite surprised we didn't get an Arkham Knight with the new Firefly/Series 19 Bounty Hunter headpiece.

Oh, ok. I guess we'll have to wait then :/ Are d2cs always big sets? I mean... this is a batmobil.

Do we know what the limited edition - writing on the batmobil box means? Will it be a Comic con exclusive or is this just marketing like the regular sold ultimate collector series star wars sets? It seems to be minifigure scale, isn't it? Never liked any Batmobil Lego did except the one from the Jokerland set, but this is really pretty. Until now the cmf is a dissapointment for me and becomes worse with every figure. I can't help myself but cyborg looks like a pole dancer in that outfit... The only piece i could maybe use someday is the black hair from the woman in purple outfit. I wouldn't want the rest for free.

A rerelease of Mr. Gold would be too smart and customer friendly. It could even make the few left collectors of whole serieses keep collecting when they raise the price again - the "ok, i have the complete collection. I can't stop now" is a strong factor that was destroyed by Mr. Gold. I can't imagine that happening. A renaissance artist and a marmor statue would be cool figures. The statue would be perfect for the people who already bought many statue monsters from series 14 for their buildings and the artist could include a new medieval headgear and outfit.

If you are open to mild customisation you could easily paint one or two colours on an existing hairpiece. I did that a lot for my orc army.

It seems like it be an even cheaper series for me than Harry Potter... ^^' Don't know any of them besides Sinestro from the DC-Comics-Special of Robot Chicken. At best i'll get one of these lantern pieces from bricklink to upgrade my tbbt- livingroom. I hope there will be a mad Hatter and Hush :/

@MABI was hoping my worries were unneccessary ? Thanks for the response anyway ? @Lego-fireI am working on a custom Moe's Tavern since about a year. I am sure this building will never be officially released by Lego because of two reasons. 1. I went through the whole series to find good eastereggs and there is nearly zero that Lego would use. Lego became quite open to violent things, but nearly every joke in the Tavern is inappropriate because of alcohol or sexuality. The few others are mostly not possible to put into a playset. 2. It is nearly impossible to realise it with less than 3000 pieces in a pretty way, and it requires unusal building techniques and new moulds . The Tavern is so different in the colours on the inside and outside it has to be build with 2 lines of bricks per wall. The windows are nearly impossible to realise and need techniques that will never be used in a set. On top of that you would need special moulds for the front or it will look just terrible. I'll modify 6 tiles for that problem. Lego would need 2 new moulds just for that. I can't imagine King Tut's Music store or the Krusty Burger because there aren't enough eastereggs to fill a building like the two existing sets. There aren't that many gags in total, lots of them can't be put into Lego Form - like Abes Teeth in a Burger or Lou destroying the seat to free Chief Wiggum - and Krusty putting people into burgers is too dark. At best there will be open buildings with very little inside like the background in the TLBM-Catwoman-Bycicle-set. Besides of that both buildings aren't that iconic. The school has much more eastereggs to offer but would be insanely big if it is done well. I guess the best way to do it (thinking about selling sets) would be one Class room combining Lisas and Barts class, a Teachers Room and principal Skinners Office connechted by a hallway. Instead of a car it could have Willie's Tractor. Exclusive Character would be Skinner. To be honest i would still feel like this is unsatisfying without cafeteria and music room but that way we can leave Doris and the music teacher away and keep it with one new mould. The schoolbus with Otto and some reused kids as well as a small set containing Jebbediah Simpsons Statue would have potential. The savest bet is an Androids dungeon with Marges car. It would be iconic enough and a new kid could be put into the Set as an exclusive character. This one set combined with a third series containing the missing core family members in standard outfits with new accessory for the old collectors could even work without a full reboot.

Great review :) After seeing them in real life i like them much more, but i think it lacks charm, too. I don't get why the paper showing the whole series is now bigger than the old ones. Even when there were more figures than 16 in a series the pictures were printed smaller to keep the same size. It looked nice to put two of the DinA5-papers in a transparent sheet...