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  3. Posted

    21 hours ago, Robert8 said:

    Hmm maybe...

    No yet, but I might make one

    Dude I was working on one a long, LONG time ago (back before series O) and got completely distracted by life lol. 

     

    I should go through and list them off. Always happy when TLG looks at your excellent designs and decides to steal borrow them! 

  4. Posted

    13 hours ago, Robert8 said:

    @CMFanatic Glad to see you're back!

    It'll be interesting to read how many of the ones I've posted have been made by TLG

    I'm glad to be back, too! 2021 was a VERY hectic year for me...yeesh. 

    I think there are around 50 in total. TLG has been very liberal with taking your ideas and making them a reality - without hiring you, STILL. I understand you have a job already but you should at least apply to be a graphic designer for them at some point! They're hiring for one in Europe. 

  5. Posted

    Note that I refer to @Robert8's minifigs in bold, and TLG's minifigs are in italics.
     
    Series D: 
    • Ice Cream Girl was another Minifigure that wasn't released in a CMF, but was instead introduced in 2022's 60314 Ice Cream Truck Police Chase, where two crooks are wearing ice cream suits - one blue and one pink. (She was also the probable inspiration for the Ice Cream Guy in Vidiyo Series 1 - except he wasn't a suit, his head was a scoop.)
    • Virtual Reality Gamer got redesigned into the Video Game Champ from Series 19. (The one who looks like PewDiePie.) An improvement was made by TLG in that they featured an actual Xbox controller piece instead of just a printed 1x2 tile. 

    Series E:

    • Dog Groomer was released in Series 19 as the Dog Sitter. Instead of grooming, though, she takes pets on a walk. And instead of a single poodle, we got a dachshund and a French bulldog in white. 
    • Gingerbread Woman was released in 10267 Gingerbread House, a Creator Expert set which also had a Gingerbread Dad with a mustache. (I guess the S11 Gingerbread Man was off at college or something, having already moved out of the home.) She was redesigned to have a skirt instead of a different gingerbread hat to denote her gender. 
    • Castaway was released in Series 21 as the Castaway, with an orange hermit crab instead of a monkey, and long hair rather than a pirate cap. (They kept the "paper in a bottle" piece though!

    Series F:

    • Piñata Party Boy was released in Series 20 as the Piñata Boy, with a poncho and a Mexican hat instead of hair and a blindfold. Piñata piece was almost exactly as imagined - down to the color. The difference lies in the fact that Robert's has a little hole where one could suspend it on a pole or string, whereas TLG's doesn't have that. 
    • Spooky Knight was released in Series 19 as...the Spooky Knight. He got a light blue head, transparent blue sword and a piece of classic armor with printing instead of the more retro, green vibe Robert was going for. 
    • Minstrel was released in Series 22 as the Troubadour. They reused the old Foresters hat in a different color for his hat, instead of the new piece Robert had imagined. He also didn't come with a cape, but instead had 3 printed coins. 
    • Additionally in this series, the teacup piece and the Cartoon's hair both got made into pieces at a later date - the former with Professor Trelawney from Harry Potter S1, and the latter with Series 18's Party Boy (in blonde.)

    Series G:

    • Dragon Suit Guy was released in Series 18 as, well, Dragon Suit Guy. They went with neither dark red nor dark green (I really loved your idea about the different rarity ones, though!) but instead with the standard red....which reminded me of the Devil more than anything else, tbh. TLG also created their dragon hat to have removable black horns, instead of it being one piece. They did use the pieces suggested: S14's Gargoyle's wings (in red) for his wings, and also S14's Lil' Devil tail piece.

  6. Posted

    I've just spent waaaaaaay too much time compiling a list of the Minifigures that The LEGO Group has actually made from these ideas, going from Series A onwards. So here goes with the first three, and I'll update in a bit. (Eurobricks isn't letting me do a super long post for some reason.)

     

    Series A:

    • Giraffe Suit Guy was released in The Lego Movie 2 Series. TLG didn't give him a tail like @Robert8 did. (An injustice, IMHO.) They also added a piece of vegetation. 
    • Lifesaver Guy's float was used in two Batman Minifigure series - Joker in S2 and Batman in S1. The Batman one had a Batman mask, while Joker's was green. It was also used on a minifig suspiciously like the one created here, which was included in a Gift With Purchase CMF display stand from 2019, and was indeed yellow with a red beak and normal eyes. 
    • Robotics Engineer got a slight redesign (into the female form) and became the Programmer from Series 19, with a white laptop instead of a radio control, and with more of a relaxed "chillz with my bros" vibe, rather than the clean-cut scientist vibes that the Robotics Engineer exuded. 
    • It's arguable that the Galactic Traveler turned into the Retro Space Hero, but the resemblance is faint. 

    Series B:

    • Rapper Girl was released as HipHop Girl in Series 20. She got a recolor and a new hairpiece, but the resemblance still existed - down to the amount of midriff exposed! 
    • Archer was released as the Forest Rogue in Series 17. He kept elements of the dark red but mostly changed into dark green. Also gained a full-face mask, rather than the hat and feather, and he lost the apple. No new quiver piece - TLG reused the same one that they've had for ages.
    Series C:
    • Ladybug Girl (one of my personal favorites!) was released in Series 21. Nearly all of the elements came out as imagined, with the exception of the hat changing colors from black to red with black antennae. She also was released as an adult instead of a kid - a rather disappointing change. They could have at least given her teen legs!! C'mon, was that too much to ask, TLG?
    • Kayaker wasn't released in a full-on CMF series, but a kayaker (with a kayak!) was released in the City People Pack: Fun Outdoors set. 

  8. Posted

    Dang, Robert8! Blown away, as usual! 

    That steampunk guy is really cool - if LEGO made this series (which they NEED TO , as usual...) I would get him and use his torso/legs for Watson in my Sherlock Holmes MOC. 

    I also really like the Landscaper and the Expectant Mother. I would get them both and give the Landscaper to a good friend of mine who is actually one. And I could give my mum the Expectant Mother one - she's had 9 kids, and maybe it would get her to not be so indifferent towards LEGOs any more? :grin:

  9. Posted

     

    On 10/23/2019 at 3:06 PM, pooda said:

    I think they should make a crook with his tongue sticking out. You know....like blowing a raspberry. 

    I agree...something more than our typical CITY stereotypes: 

    1.  "bad guy in a boring, printed-on and hardly concealing mask"
    2. "bad guy or girl stupidly jailbreaking someone else out pf prison while still wearing their own prison jumpsuit", and the newest,
    3. "bad guy in a barely believable disguise", would be nice.

    And perhaps some jury members, or a lawyer for Series 20? That would be nice - we only have a judge and three police officers so far in the CMF line...and they can't exactly go anywhere without a jury and lawyers. :laugh: Come on, LEGO!

  11. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Rubblemaker said:

    Hmmm... Lego ideas... scratches chin in contemplation...

    And thanks! :) Its pretty much entirely jet black. I shot it in daylight to make use of all round 360 degree lighting to bring out all the nooks and crannies. Its VERY shiny, as all good Xenomorph's should be! consequently, it does look a bit silver in places. There's a bit of LBG in there but the bodywork is all in black. Lovely wonderful black!

    Do put it there! It could be pretty popular! I know I  would vote for it, sure!

    Also, perhaps if you were to add a minifigure... :wink:

  12. Posted

    Hey guys! I was able to pick up an ENTIRE CASE of Series 19 for $120! 

    What happened was, my best friend went to our local Walmart and he found that the new Series 19 minifigs had been mis-labeled so they were on sale for $1 apiece!!! And he was like, "WHOA!" So he got the entire box! Then he realized that HE couldn't exactly DO anything with it...so he sold it to me for $120. What do you think? Any similar stories? Our theory was that they had hired a new clerk and he had accidentally mixed up the LEGO Movie 2 minifigs with the new ones, and had put them on sale for that price. They'd had 2 cases, but the first one was gone in a flash. So he got the one remaining one. I have a list of the rarities of each one, if anyone needs them. 

  14. Posted

    Just now, K_Tiger said:

    I don't particularly like them, but they speed up the process when sussing out who is in the bag. I have more beef with the cheap, thin paper the inserts are now printed on.

    So right about that! I would rather they had kept the whole old system - even though we wouldn't get extra pieces, it would be worth it. The newer posters are literally onion-skin-paper-thin (ha! it rhymes!) and tear/fade/wash out REALLY easily. (I had one in my wallet when I went into a lake recently, and though an old-style one would have been OK, the newer ones just faded like crazy and tore like mad. Damn.) 

    The plastic packets are helpful for ID-ing them faster - you can get to know who has the inner packaging and who doesn't and it speed the process exponentially. BUT, in view of LEGO's newfangled "environmental awareness" program, I'm surprised that they switched to this newfangled and uses-more-plastic system of packaging! Come on, LEGO! Stick to your commitments.

  15. Posted · Edited by CMFanatic

    Saw some photos on eBay:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-Series-19-Minifigures-Complete-Set-of-16-71025-In-Hand-Ready-To-Ship/133147515543?epid=0&hash=item1f0035da97:g:S4UAAOSwjBRdXHI9

    So apparently LEGO is going to continue this new trend of including extra pieces with some minifigures - something that they only recently restarted with The LEGO Movie 2 Series, after dropping it after Series 2. (Waaaaay back in 2010!) The Ghost Knight/Frightening Knight minifigure will have an extra transparent blue sword and transparent blue plume. Monkey King dude is going to have an extra crest piece, an extra red rod and an extra gold lightsaber hilt.

    Also, what do ya'll think about those clear plastic "inner packets" that they're using for some of the minifigures? I thought LEGO was trying to become more "environmentally friendly", and that is one thing that will now add hundred of pounds more to the Great Atlantic Garbage Patch and our trash dumps.....any thoughts? Did they really have to put them in there? Would it be better if they just removed them?

  16. Posted

    9 hours ago, TeriXeri said:

    $102 shipping + add import taxes to that and it will be over $450 for a used set :rofl:

    LEGO sells it MISB for €350 if I wanted one new (which I don't, I was merely pointing out the lack of price drop on the Castle set over 3 years)

    Whoops! :facepalm: I'm in the USA so it would be cheaper for me - but I guess that shipping to Europe would be quite overpriced.

  17. Posted

    5 hours ago, RyanMe said:

    I just want a zoo sub theme :(

    Oooh! Totally with lots of re-releases of animals! I would personally like to see an elephant remake to replace the old, expensive one from Adventurers. And perhaps a lion, not just these panther-style big cats they have? Even lion cubs! Awesome!

  18. Posted · Edited by CMFanatic
    Didn't give pooda enough praise, duh!

    Just now, pooda said:

    @CMFanatic Which is a disgrace. They are just as heroic and valorous as police and firefighters. 

    People on this forum can make all the excuses they want to. There is no legit excuse of why paramedics want get a subtheme to themselves. 

    So true! Personally, I'll root for you all the way to 10,000 votes on LEGO IDEAS! 

    Oh, and beyond. I'll buy several of them if it gets made! No kidding - i need to expand my currently bland CITY collection of 9 vehicles and not a single damn building or paramedic station!

  19. Posted

    On 8/13/2019 at 3:12 PM, TeriXeri said:

    If it's anything like the Disney Castle, a price drop seems very unlikely, at least for online retailers around here, Disney Castle is out for 3 years, cheapest being LEGO themselves. €350.

    Other websites last known prices are €400 and €450 *oh2*

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-Disney-Princess-The-Disney-Castle-71040/352639000357?epid=230328168&hash=item521aec1f25:g:xj0AAOSwJyxcrWKI He's got it for $250! (Built and displayed, but still, if you just want one...) 

    On 8/13/2019 at 5:18 PM, legotownlinz said:

    8 studs wide :cry_sad:

    It must be smaller, not wider than other trains. It will look strange whenever another train is nearby. And it will get stuck at all existing platforms. Congratulations to Lego to produce a set that is incompatible with virtually any existing Lego train layout. They mess up a set that should have been a no-brainer. It's unbelievable. It's a set for beginners who don't notice that the scale is horribly wrong. I bet all train fans will be very disappointed once they run the train the first time and notice all the flaws.

    Maybe it was difficult or even impossible to make the train look good at a smaller scale. But if they cannot do it right, they shouldn't do it all and release something else.

    And as usual: price, stickers, plastic axles, ... nothing is done right in this set.

     

    Come on! At least it's a trains set! There hasn't been a good one since the Constitution Train Chase set, which I got for $60 recently. But it's still a cool set, nearly worth the price just to have the Goofy minifig. (Which fans have been requesting for a loooong time now.) Plus, it wasn't MADE to be a companion to existing Train sets - it was made to go with the Disney Castle set! So I see no problem. (But then, I'm not a giant Trains fan, either. So I can see where you're coming from. I build my own train stuff - generally out of the demolished remains of the sets I have.)

  21. Posted

    8 hours ago, pooda said:

    @CMFanatic I have asked other people not to do that and now I'm asking you. Please do not point out what has already been released. That really annoys me. 

    Ooooooops...sorry. I'm still new here and all. I won't do to you again. Pinkie promise.

    I think that an emergency subtheme would be cool! But it's not likely that LEGO would make it - most kids don't have EMS folks visit their schools, only firemen and police officers. LEGO probably knows that, thus we haven't seen more than that ol' hospital set and that ambulance helicopter. A-class bummer!

  23. Posted

    4 hours ago, pooda said:

    Back to ideas about City sets. Here are my ideas for a paramedic theme. 

    60300 Ambulance Helicopter - includes chopper, two paramedics and injured skier. 

    60301 Medicine Transport - Includes prop plane and two medics. 

    60302 Paramedic Command Center - includes building with two garages and treatment area, ambulance, four workers, injured children and parent. 

    60303 Injured Motorists Rescue - includes two mini ambulances, two cars, two civilians and two medics. 

    60304 Injured Biker Rescue (4+) - includes 4+ style ambulance, biker, bike and paramedic. 

     

    They did make that Ambulance Helicopter already: image.jpeg.0584e8426a4d27b09c413f53f30d37d4.jpeg:

  24. Posted

    4 hours ago, Digger of Bricks said:

    This is a highly wistful request I'm making of the LEGO City theme as we know it nowadays, but I'd dearly love to see People Packs that could supply us with urban denizens from more specific cultures/countries and recent decades of the past few centuries, just made-up of minifigures of everyday people not specifically defined by an archetypical occupation and not limited to the modern-day context of the LEGO City theme. You see, while you'd think the Collectable Minifigure theme is the best place for those kinda figures, that line's offerings are pretty much limited to what kinda occupation that archetype is built around, so the likelihood of seeing CMFs based upon a Victorian-Era Londoner, a 1950's suburban housewife, a 1930's factory worker, or someone in traditional Indian, Dutch, or Mexican attire might not be as possible under that theme since their occupations are either too vague or just not as definingly relevant.

    Oooooo! I LOVE that idea! I could totally see an American Indian people pack with lots of indians, deer, bows/arrows, tents...LOVE IT!

    And a Victorian-type people pack with a Governor, Queen, King, Prince, Street Sweeper, Carolers (think Robert8's cool ones from his custom series!), street urchins, cabman...I am totally gonna make an IDEAS project of that! 

    And we could even have an Oriental type people pack with awesome Eastern folks (emperor, prime minister, laborers - kind of like what we had in the LEGO Ninjago Movie sets, only more historically accurate). 

    I would especially like to see a "Famous People" battle pack or something like that - we could see Benjamin Franklin, Queen Elizabeth II, Mohatmas Ghandi, Thomas Edison, and lots more! (Suggestions, please?)

    Man! I just got my head in a whirl with superb possibilities! I wanna to write to Kjeld Kirk Christansen himself and tell him to make these! ("Dude, you should totally look up this obscure post on this website most people haven't heard of and make the sets that these two random LEGO enthusiast folks are tentatively suggesting!" lol. Yeah, I can see why they just might not make them...:tongue: )

    But realities aside, they could call the theme Historica, or something similar. (Any ideas, guys?)

  25. Posted

    Number one on my list would have to be (drumroll, please:)

     

    Taking. Things. Apart.

     

    Constantly.

    I was never really the kind of kid who could just leave well enough alone- there was always some higher, Holy-Grail-like epitome that I could build just by sacrificing a few well-loved but stale-by-now creations. Of course, I photo documented some of the creations that I made before disassembling them, but as I got better I realized that I'd never be good enough to the point where I could expect to not take a creation apart. So eventually I just gave up trying to keep them together and instead I focused on building newer and better versions, even if it meant losing the original idea that drove the build in the first place. 

     

    Another thing: Never be afraid to ask relatives, neighbors or friends, "Hey, do you, like, have some old LEGO in your attics that I could, like, have?"

    I've gotten some really good ones from friends, neighbors, cousins.....got a Lord of the Rings set in great condition once.  And most of the parts from the Star Wards brown droid carrier thingy. (Which of course got promptly disassembled and integrated into a mansion, which was then transformed into a haunted house, which was then turned into the Sign of the Three Broomsticks from Harry Potter, and then into a bank, and then a hotel, which has remained built for half a year- a personal record.)

     

    Third thing: Never be afraid to trade. (Hah! That rhymes!)

    I've gotten reeeeealy done in by trades before when I wanted something for a creation or MOC minifig assembly (bother you, little brother with light fingers!), but I'm much better at trading for what I want and getting a good trade. For instance, I "traded" (a.k.a. totally ripped off, because he had no idea how much they cost in the marketplace) for most of my best friend's LEGO minifigs that were in good condition, back when we were still pre-teens. He still likes me and LEGOs, though, so I guess I didn't really swindle him out of anything. *huh* (Of course, he had been given most of them in the first place by a random person at a Walmart who happened to have several tubs of LEGO in their trunk...never be afraid to ask for free LEGOs!)

    On 7/16/2019 at 11:16 AM, Masked Mini said:

    I'm a devotee of Bricks and Minifigs, a used lego resale shop franchise.
    I can fill a gallon Ziploc bag with bulk brick of my choice for 30-35$ depending on the store (they offer other volumes but I find the large bag to be best value).
    Same rules as PAB wall, pack it tight.. it just needs to close long enough to check out.
    My favorite stores have a 6% and 5% respective cash back loyalty program, carbon copy of Lego's old VIP system.
    They also have a version of the Build a Minifig tower, 3 for 10$. One of the owners will discount that some more if I strike it lucky and buy a bunch at once.

    It's gotta be said: You need luck and patience.
    These are used lego resale shops so the part availability is random as can be. But I've score tons of Black Falcons, Forestmen, etc. 3 for 10$. The bulk bins can have nothing of value (to me) one visit and the next I stumble on 2/3rds of a Black Pearl or a patch of 80s classic space parts. I've walked out with a 90% complete Queen Anne's Revenge (missing a couple minifigs and easily detached trim) for 75$ because it was gathering dust!! Same with the Black Pearl, hull for 25$ one trip, complete set of sails plus a couple extra QAR sails for 35$ next. Some trips I find no bulk of interest but stumble on three or four dozen classic pirates and castle figs or newer stuff I use to diversify my factions and armies. Or it's the other way around.

    Best part is the personal relationship I've cultivated with the Owners. They know what I'm after and will message me or hold things back until my next visit, making for wonderful surprises!
    One set of Owners will do after hours BYOB AFOL events throughout the year, which are super fun (and often an amazing way to get bulk brick for cheap or even "free" in exchange for labor like helping sort out non-lego from fresh bulk).

    Your mileage will vary! These kinds of stores are a reflection of their Owners and their selection a reflection of your area and the skill of the Owner in finding bulk lego.

    Aside from that, I utilize all the same sources as everyone else. Ebay (rarely, crazy prices and counterfeits galore), Bricklink, BnP, PaB, BaM, clearance sets (agree with MAB, gotta balance ppb with usefulness of said bricks), Amazon occasionally, thrift stores have contributed more than a couple gallons but I find they have pretty much all caught on now. I've also had great luck scoring vintage minis for little money at vintage malls, resale shops or cattlebarn style fleemarkets. The older the intended clientele and the less focus on toys the better the deals I find. Other than that my eyeballs are super calibrated for the Lego System logo colors and I will lock onto those colors from 50ft away. A hungry shark ain't got nothing on me when I spot a shoal of lego in the wild.

    Dude, have you ever tried out www.shopgoodwill.com? THAT's where all the good LEGO deals go, lol! When the thrift stores and stuff finally caught on to how much LEGO reselling was worth (LEGO listings on eBay have sold over $15 million this year alone!) they started selling them online! With a little well-phrased LEGO searching online, you can make some really good purchases! Check it out!