Gorilla94

To be honest? I buy what i need. I have some friends who study history or are Disney fans so i sometimes keep a few sealed figures like Donald Duck or Ceasar to have a little something for birthdays. Besides that i would never buy stuff and keep it sealed. If i sell something it´s because i don´t need it anymore. I will never be in the situation where i sell a "load" of sealed spartans. A single one is one thing but if you buy a big amount of a very popular figure just with the only intention to resell it with profit, i would already say that´s not the nicest thing to do with all the normal customers who would like to get one. If you say 6€ is not enough after buying it for 2€ and making 200% profit i´d say thats already very close to scalper behavior. I was often lied to on the flea merket ebay app about how poor they are and hooow much their child would want these figures... while they were so stupid that they were using the same account for their professional selling activity. Such people are on a moral level not better than confidence tricksters. But it´s easy to avoid them. If i sell something - and that doesn´t happen that often - i sell to people i know from forums a bit.

I see my Lego collection both as a piece of art and a toy i use for my photo montages. It´s about fun. I buy what i think is worth it for me and i am willing to pay a bit more if there is a figure like the caveman from series one, that is out of store since years and in good condition. i don´t expect to get my stuff for free. If someone took good care of his figures for years i am happy to give him a few euros more than he paid back then, too. But there is a point where it is enough and you are just a scalper. I bought a lot of old cmfs for the regular price they were at their release date because other AFOLs knew i was still a university Student with small budget. When i am at a store feeling for the minifigs i want i often help others to get their favourite one even if i know they are rare and i could make a profit by keeping and selling them. If old cmf prices would collapse, i´d be glad for kids, that would like to buy for example a lizzard suit guy, and army buiilders searching for spartans, even if my collection looses market value that way. That´s the spirit a community should have. Investors buying tons of Millenium Falcons and boxes of Cmfs are one of the reasons why Legos prices explode that much and even if they aren´t terrible persons they are a bad influence on our hobby. I also experienced an adult ***hole punching children, that came too close to the cmf box where he felt for every single desireable figure and left only tons of non-rare and unpopular ones for everybody else. He even damaged a lot of them because he brutally grabbed the bags searching for figures without capes or fragile accessory. When Wall-E was released it was THE big Christmas gift. It was sold out at every Lego Store i have been at while hundreds were offered for double the price by local traders on eBay. I am glad, when this bubble collapses and i would be happy if it financially ruins people who punch kids or abuse the emotions of parents to blackmail them at Christmas.

What do you guys think about the new rumour? It says Matt Groening answered a Fan it would be "likely" that there will be more Lego Simpsons sets. To be honest i doubt it. Even if Lego would do new Sets. With the old sets retired Lego would have to start again, wouldn't they? So it's quite unlikely to get much new.

I get, why people didn't like TLBM-Joker. Twoface is a funny idea but the result looks creepy :/ I really like his suit with his underwear showing at the leg where his pant is burned away. His meltet hair is also a funny idea but poorly executed. It looks just stupid that the melted side has so much more volume than the intact one. If the intact side had more structure it would look better, top. There should be a contrast not two smooth sides. Because of that the old twoface hairpiece is so much better looking than both newer ones. The face is a desaster. Minifigures should be simplified. There is much too much going on on that minifigure face. They should at least left the facial hair away. But the rest? The rest ist close to perfection in my opinion. Poison Ivy, Bruce, Alfred, Bane and Riddler are perfect in my opinion. Gordon would have been perfect without printing error on every arms i got :( If Lego did a Hush and Mad Hatter design in the series on that level i'd be very happy.

I love it :D

I use custom printed minifigure parts and custom moulds. I started with collecting just original purist Lego when i came from my dar ages. Even if i liked some custom stuff i would not have bought or used it because it would have "felt wrong" to mix that. The lego logo was in fact something that represented most of my childhood. Most of my toys were Lego and the lego logo was there every Chrismas or birthday. To be honest Lego changed that. There are too many important characters left out like Principal Skinner, the Witchking of Angmar, Gondor Soldiers and so on. The cheap reuses like Dwalins beard moul and Gloins Face for Dain make me angry. The customer unfriendly behavior like the higher price of 4€ for a CMF bag to press every cent out of it while the product quality decreases rapidly with misprints and moulding errors works that way as well. Wrong promisses and aggrivating lies are the cherry on that cake. When PR-managers talk about making lego plants from a special new plastic to save natural ressources while using a second bag of plastic in the cmf bags shows how much lego cares about nature and especially how stupid they think i am. It feels insulting. The promise of 3 years of Lego dimensions support made me buy it. After 2 it was cancelet. I will never buy anything from lego again because of such a promise. I still love the Lego product but i don´t like the company very much anymore. So the magic of a purist Lego world is gone for me and i am fine with any form of customisation as long as it improves the result now. Lego made many Lego fans brick fans that way. To your questions: I think it´s about nostalgic emotions based of childhood memories. To me there was a certain "magic" to purist Lego. Custom printed original parts had that "magic" still to a certain degree, too. Custom moulds don´t have that at all. How open peope are to customisations depends in my opinion how strong their emotional connection to the brand is.

The little toy soldier is a special mould or did i get something wrong? I thought we don't get new moulds with books or did i miss something?

Can such a figure with new accessory be in book?

Simpsons 1 I´m probably the only one who would prefer a third wave over any other licence or regular series xD

I would love that :D But please at least one per box :P

Languages. It is possible in English that way. But you have to be able to translate the text and many languages need the Information if it´s male or female. I can´t imagine any international company will make the effort to make every piece of translation as gender neutral as possible. And even if the sex is just named in one version i doubt it would make any difference in the eyes of the people complaining at the moment about the intended gender of minifigs without visible sex (or did i missunderstood that?). To be honest i don´t get that representation thing. Arthur Morgan is probably the first blond video game protagonist since Duke Nukem. Never saw a protagonist with red hair in western video games. In Mass effect 3 my character and i guess two NPCs where the only heterosexual people on this ship. Everyone was bi- or homosexual (or into robots and stuff). It didn´t hurt me to be not "representated" and i don´t get why it should. You all know how Germans are depicted in media all around the world as drunken morons on the Oktoberfest or nazimonsters and i don´t care about it. The place i was born says nothing about me as a person. Ever seen a bodybuilder in a film or videogame who wasn´t stupid or at least much less intelligent than every skinny or fat guy? That´s in fact a mean stereotype and i don´t cry about it as someone who worked his megablocks off to get that body while making my degree at a good university. There are things i worked hard for. Being a good son, friendships, my job where i help people and make the world a little bit better even if i could make more money somewhere else. These are the things that say who i am. It makes me sad, if skin colour, nationality, sexuality and stuff like that are even relevant when people are talking about their identity. Back to topic: Is that brown piece in front of the dog walker a new piece? O.o

Ironic?

Or make the one series better. Series 19 is in my opinion one of the weakest series of the last years with so many regular City figures in it. It's a waste to make two such series when most people i know wouldn't want half of the figures for free. Egyptian or Roman gods, a greek philosopher, Leonardo da Vinci with a cool new headgear-hair-combination for castlefans and Witcher-Kitbashs... it could be so easy...

To be honest i have pretty low expectations. What do you guys think? Any chances to see solomon Grundy as a bigfig in a set, Black Mask, Hush and Mad Hatter in the cmf or sets? :/ To be honest i would be fine with these 4 characters to complete my collection to a satisfying degree. I am basically a fan of the arkham games and Nolan movies, so i don't know (or want) the really obscure characters. i am pretty sure, we won't ever get the arkham knight... :/

I'd say the silver version an antman figure uses is even more accurate, if you paint the visor blue

To be honest i am not sure if it's a new mould. But it is certainly very usefull?

The Pizza suit and fox girl are adorable :D I am excited how the mummy will look. New ancient headgear is always great. The Black scifi figure is the most interesting scifi-figure to me until now. The monkey looks like chimafigures without their masks^^' i hope we will get a orangutan with a full mask and woodys long arms someday.

No problem. You can cut existing hairpieces and glue them to existing hats. Same for the scarf. There is an existing piece. cut of the end on the backsde, glue it on the front and paint it. Maybe you can reduce the number of different stripes you paint on it. So it gets easier to paint, which means cleaner results.

not the player himself but the printed new bugby ball accessory leaked

Is there any chance, these could be fakes? I am happy for everyone, who likes these figures... but i am shocked to be honest. The normal Panda suit from the TLM series is one of my favourite figures on Display, but i don´t know what to say about this one... I don´t know, if the rainbow tile is new. If not, the in my opinion terrible bear figure becomes even more lame. If it is new, the bear seems to me like a greedy abuse of the cmf budget for new accessory moulds to save money introducing a new building brick, which had to be released anyway... The knight´s shield print is ok, i guess, but the whole figure looks like it was build at a very bad minifigure station with no fitting or usefull parts left :/ I was collecting the numbered cmf line until now. Sometimes there was a figure i did not like that much like but i bought it to have the complete set. It was one figure per series at worst and i allways thought it was at least "ok". These are the first two, which are just ugly to me... I guess my "collector days" are over... :(

I don't know. Are there any missing characters from TLM2 to fill a whole series? I just know about fox suit girl. To be honest i doubt a Disney series 3 so soon. Which characters should be included? Goofy comes in the d2c. Roumors say Pluto, too.. I could see a Mulan but her antagonist isn't popular as the other villans. A series of mostly sidekicks to earlier serieses (like Megara and Phil for Hercules) won't sell that well. Series 20 will surely come. I would love to see a Mr. Gold from Series 10 rereleased with one per box. It stopped so many from collecting. It would be smart to fix that problem...

I guess we will see next year. The question is: will Lego go back after sets for the last books and do missing sets like the Chamber of secrets or Fluffy´s room or will it be the end of the line. If it is the end i have no doubt there will be a second one for the missing characters.

Do we know this pirate head is from cmf 19? Could be a Ninjago figure, too.

I love costumed characters like gorilla, dragon or giraffe suit, but i really hope they are better than the other 2 from tlm2. The melon is in my opinion easily the most ugly minifigure i know. The fox suit from tlm2 or something similar would be awesome. To be honest, i hope we won't get the new skirt piece or at least no metallic print so i can custom print the old piece. I hate the new piece and can't understand why Lego didn't just die the old one with Folge studs :/ The stylistic break on display is just awefull... Every pair unprinted medium legs would be extremely welcome.

Do other Comic Con exclusives have arm printing? I allways felt like they were done with much less effort compared to cmfs or the highlights we get in some sets (like Tlbm Poison Ivy compared to the the ps4 Spiderman). Except Deadpool duck i didn't like any of them very much. Zebra Batman is in my opinion a poor choice, because he would really need the printing.