Karalora

What a terrific model! I love this movie!

The title of this thread is flawed. Since when does being marketed to adults mean that something isn't a toy? Adults play with toys...and no, not just "that kind." Who doesn't love toys?

With summer barrelling toward us, I think swimsuit parts would be in order: Bare male chests Swimsuit uppers/bikini tops in various colors and patterns Yellow legs with hips/wedge-shaped printing coordinating with the tops Yellow legs with new swim trunks printing And then beach-themed accessories. The hinged clamshell is probably too delicate for BAM stations--they'd get ripped in half too often--but how about a new conch shell accessory? Makes a good trumpet for mermaids as well as a nice find for beachcombers! A little sand shovel, and pails in new colors, would be good for child-sized minifigs.

Ha! You got me there!

Very nice! I like that you chose autumnal colors for the foliage.

It being Mer-May, I just want to reiterate my desire for mermaid tails in more colors (and maybe resurrect this thread, since it's a fun one). Various pinks, purples, and blue-greens are very popular in mermaid art for girls.

This is a cute concept! What, however, of the undeniable fact that dinosaurs survived in remote parts of the world well into the Town/City era? Johnny Thunder himself encountered them on his adventures! Then, too, there is evidence that the LEGOverse went through Stone Age and Bronze Age cultural periods between the dinosaurs and Castle/Vikings/Ninja, it's just that little to no architectural evidence has survived.* *I am referring here to some of the early historical CMFs like the Caveman and Cavewoman, Roman Empire characters, etc.

Absolutely classic pulp archetypes! Six seasons and a movie please!

That's true for ground-nesting birds, which almost universally have camouflaged eggs. Tree-nesting birds rely primarily on the location of the nest for protection. While the eggs are being incubated, the mother bird is almost constantly present and can give a "predator call" if a cat or raccoon approaches, prompting her mate to fly at its face and drive it off. After hatching, though, both parents need to continually leave the nest to gather food for the hatchlings, leaving them vulnerable. They still aren't all that visible from the ground, but an unhatched egg will eventually spoil and the inner shell of a hatched one gives off an odor, which alerts carnivores that there's something worth checking out up there.

What a lovely model! Is that an unhatched egg I spy in the nest, or just leftover shell? Either way, mama had better get rid of it before it attracts predators to the nest!

I'm not referring to official set names so much as the place-names that sometimes pop up within sets, suggesting that the people in the LEGO world know that they live in the LEGO world, and name things accordingly. Like the trail signs in the Outdoor Adventures People Pack, pointing to "LEGO City" and "Mount Clutchmore." In The LEGO Movie, the city is called Bricksburg. I'm looking for an expanded list of terms you could slip in to give that same feel of tapping on the Fourth Wall.

Thanks for the info! I was looking under the Minifig list instead of at the complete sets with the base and accessories.

The LEGO world always seems a bit self-aware, with cities, important buildings, and natural features given names that reflect their LEGO-ness. The presence of the word "brick," "stud," or "clutch" in the name reveals that on some level, the inhabitants know what they are and what their world is made of. What other LEGO-specific terms can be used to give this nod-and-wink feel to a MOC?

I found some at my local Target yesterday--full price, but I picked up a handful anyway. The good news is that they didn't appear to have been manhandled by bag-squeezers (which I find annoying in the best of circumstances, but would be an especial jerk move right now). I got some of the ones I wanted and some I wasn't interested in, but they haven't been added to Bricklink yet so I can't put the latter in my shop.

I know perfectly well what a plague doctor is/was. I was making a joke. Some people with dark senses of humor have taken to wearing plague doctor costumes when they go outside, in the spirit of the times. Hence, City theme.

This is likely because the kids already have City and enjoy opportunities to add to it. It is not always to the CMFs' benefit that they offer such unique characters. Not everyone is a MOCer, and of those who are, not everyone can visualize a scene from scratch without being inspired by an official set or theme. CMFs that don't belong to an existing theme can be great, but some people might view them as "orphans" with nowhere to go. At the present time, a plague doctor is a City minifig...they're just someone with a morbid and tongue-in-cheek sense of fashion rather than an actual medical professional. ...and now I suddenly want an assortment of Goth kids. I can probably build some decent ones with existing parts, but...

I for one think people sometimes get a little too excited about a CMF just because they like the accessory it comes with. I'm as happy as anyone to see new animals and items come with the CMFs, but in many cases I think those could be introduced in full sets and the figure itself is sort of bland. I would much rather have cool historical or fantasy characters with pre-existing accessories (maybe in a new color) than uninspired City figures that happen to have interesting toys.

Hear, hear! One of the most commonly reviled types are the costumed figures, but I can think of all kinds of uses for them: School plays Theme parks/carnivals Halloween parties Other seasonal scenes (we've got a few different springtime ones now, and I like putting the veggie-based ones in my farmer's markets) Sports mascots Hokey advertising icons

Super-cute!

I think Hercules would be very interested in shoes named after the winged goddess of victory!

My ideal Greek mythology theme would actually be a reimagining with a sampling of famous Greek characters as a hero team who wander the countryside tackling various monsters. You could have Odysseus as the leader and tactician, Heracles as the heavy-hitter, Perseus as the gadget-guy with his winged sandals and mirror shield (and maybe the charmer--he always seems to be portrayed in classical art as young and pretty), Atalanta as the speedster and wilderness expert (and token girl), and Daedalus as their version of "Q," making their weapons and inventing cool steampunk-y machines. Individual sets would recall the specific myths without being beholden to the traditional plots, and we'd get lots of brick-built monsters and a few monster minifigs.

My worry is that they have decided to axe the non-licensed CMFs and are giving them one last hurrah by scrounging up concepts that were nixed the first time around for being too dull, too weird, or too repetitive of ones in earlier series. (Not exactly a hurrah then...more like one last "meh.") My hope--though it's a slim one--is that they've been using the concept to gather provable data about the sorts of themes people will actually spend money on, and the more interesting figures are tapering off because they're actually workshopping themes built around the popular ones--either full-on themes with model sets, or maybe more themed CMF series.

This is one of the best observations I've ever seen on this forum. That said, I share @Digger of Bricks's puzzlement/suspicion over why the last few non-licensed CMFs have been so light on...let's call them "genre minifigs"--fantasy and sci-fi characters, historical figures, etc. They must know what attracts people by now, so why hold it back so hard?

This won't surprise anyone who knows me, but: Disney theme parks. We've had two official sets of structures from the parks, and two CMF series of Disney animated characters, but I want MORE! There are plenty of unique characters that made their debut in Disney theme parks, not to mention distinctive Cast Member costumes that would be a must for any proper Disneyland or Disney World MOC. Here are just some possibilities: Haunted Mansion "maid" Cast Member Haunted Mansion "butler" Cast Member (also seen in the image linked above) Constance Hatchaway (ghostly "black widow" bride from the Haunted Mansion) The Hatbox Ghost Redd the redhead (Pirates of the Caribbean) Jungle Cruise skipper Trader Sam/Chief Nami (Jungle Cruise character) Henry the Country Bear Jamboree emcee (you could almost do an entire CMF line of just the Country Bears) Dreamfinder and Figment (Journey Into Imagination) Fantasyland "page" Cast Member Tomorrowland Cast Member (the outfit isn't very exciting but one of my online friends works in Tomorrowland, so consider this a shout-out) Tomorrowland "Space Man" Bipedal Pluto costume (leaving the quadrupedal animated version for a set, maybe) Sonny Eclipse (Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe) Guest wearing mouse ears (adult) Guest wearing mouse ears (child) This is just a cross-section of the interesting characters you can spot in the Disney theme parks and pretty much nowhere else!

Micro scale turns the smallest, cutest dino (a baby velociraptor) into the biggest, scariest one (Rexie herself)! Or is it the other way around...? Either way, awesome design!