Karalora

Yes to all of these! If this were a real CMF series, I might not choose to collect all of them, but you've really nailed the "feel" of CMFs in general.

Gonna repeat what I said in the Ladies' Forum, kjm161--you are my hero for creating these. The last time I saw him he was in the little exterior corridor between the Pirates gift shop and the Haunted Mansion/Nightmare Before Christmas gift shop. They seem to have a hard time deciding on a permanent place for him though.

Including shipping, it came out to a little over $90, so that's a little over $5 per figure on average. Several of them were indeed marked down from retail--not by much, but enough to notice.

I caved and bought them all on Bricklink. It probably wound up costing me much less money than if I had tried to find them all in blind bags. (I have no patience for bag-feeling.) It definitely cost me much less time.

Definitely supporting all three! I love the density of the details in each scene, as well as the choice to focus on some of the more ignored Disney films. Do you have any more in mind?

I would have preferred Sleeping Beauty Castle for my own reasons, but I understand why they would go with Cinderella's and I will probably buy it anyway. I want an entire theme of sets based on the Disney theme parks and the only way to get that is to show interest in the ones they produce.

That's the name. I couldn't remember it off the top of my head and didn't feel like looking it up.

Yes, Old Flybait is from Disneyland's pet cemetery. But the sailor's tomb is from Orlando, so your MOC is still a mix of the two. With the WDW castle in the works, I am reeeeaaaaaallly hoping we get more sets based on the theme parks!

"Aaaaahhhhh, there you are! And just in time too! There's a little matter I forgot to mention...BEWARE OF HITCHHIKING GHOSTS!" I love you for this. The Haunted Mansion is one of the all-time great Disney rides, in no small part because of its cast of memorably quirky ghosts, and you recreated them very well given the limited tools available.

Not at all. The Indiana Jones series is highly episodic; Indy has implicitly had many more adventures that we haven't been privy to in detail. I think the best way to reboot the franchise would be to show us some of those--"midquels" rather than sequels. Yes, Indy would have to be re-cast. I don't understand why this is necessarily a bad thing. Characters are re-cast and re-interpreted all the time. It's pretty narrow-minded to say that no actor could ever do justice to Indy.

Yeah, there are cranks in every fandom.

I mention St. Nicholas's "various helpers" in the OP, with Krampus included by implication. I would love to have a figure of him; I'm just not sure TLG would produce one because he might be considered too religious. Might. The upcoming S16 Imp pushes that boundary, so they might be experimenting with a new standard for that sort of thing.

That was exactly my thought as well.

I can think of a few possibilities. They could make the halo a pin-mounted accessory (like the various plumes) and use a hairpiece with a hole to attach it. Or have a special hairpiece with a plate-like halo stuck to the back in the vein of medieval art.

Maybe not on Eurobricks, but I've seen it elsewhere. As well as related conversations about minidolls being the superior option for LEGO girls in general, because "real women don't look like minifigs." Well, duh. Neither do real men. Humans aren't trapezoids. It's just one of my pet peeves.

Funny how no one ever says male characters look too fat when rendered as minifigs, huh?

Some more possibilities: Baker/Pastry Chef Shopper Snowball Fighter Santa's Helper (not a "real" elf, but an adult minifig wearing an obvious costume, as often seen in malls) Santa Watcher (a kid in pajamas who sneaked downstairs to catch Santa in the act) Classic Santa (hooded robe and holly crown rather than red suit and stocking cap) Ugly Sweater Guy (accessory could be a second torso with an alternate sweater design) And since New Year's tends to get lumped in with Christmas: Baby New Year

Great ideas, Robert8! The only one I see being hard to justify from TLG's perspective is actually the Caroler Girl, since they went to the trouble of creating an entirely new design for the female caroler in the reboot of the Holiday Toy Shop. The male caroler was made using pre-existing pieces except for the head, so it would be nice to have a unique one.

Kind of an odd time of the year to be bringing this up, I know, but the upcoming Ice Queen in CMF Series 16 has me thinking about it. (And we still have the Santa tableau up on the main forum page, so...) Series 14, Monsters, had a release timed for Halloween. It was a huge hit, despite the fact that most of the really standout monster types had already been released in previous waves. Over the course of the CMFs line, we've also had several Christmas or winter-related characters, so I'm wondering if it would be possible to come up with a list of 16 more to create a Christmas-themed series. The CMFs I would consider Christmas or winter-related so far are: Santa Claus (S8) Holiday Elf (S11) Gingerbread Man (S11) Yeti (S11) Ice Queen (S16) I would also count the Toy Soldier that was included with the LEGO Minifigs book--he's not a CMF himself, but he's associated with them and clearly intended in the same vein. And I might count the Clockwork Robot and his female counterpart, which give the impression of being oversized toys. So what does that leave for a purely hypothetical Christmas series? We've got Santa, so why not Mrs. Claus (or Befana)? It wouldn't hurt the toymaker elf to have a lady friend either. Both of these concepts were included in the sets released for the 2014 holiday season, but it would be nice to have more carefully designed, unique minifigs. Jack Frost is another familiar character associated with winter, and someone besides DreamWorks deserves a crack at him. A Snowman seems like an obvious choice. A Gingerbread Woman would be markedly less pointless than most “female counterpart” minifigs, since gingerbread cookies often come in pairs. Other such characters are potentially controversial. Figures such as St. Nicholas (and his various helpers) and St. Lucia (and members of her procession) might run afoul of TLG's policy not to make overtly religious minifigs and sets. But then again, Santa Claus himself is still often referred to as Saint Nick, but is still considered a secular character. I get the impression that the aforementioned characters are also mostly for fun these days, without specifically religious connotations. Perhaps our European members could weigh in? Along similar lines, it's hard to say whether an Angel would automatically be considered religious, or whether the popular image of angels is sufficiently independent from actual belief in these beings. We are about to get an Imp that is a dead ringer for the equally popular image of demons... Following the example of the Toy Soldier, how about a Ragdoll, Teddy Bear, or other stuffed animals? If portrayed as minifigs wearing costumes, they could be used to represent a Christmas parade or re-purposed as generic animal costumes. On the subject of animal costumes, a Reindeer Suit and Polar Bear Suit would be thematically appropriate. Some famous Christmas stories might also provide inspiration. Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, and others from A Christmas Carol would be quite recognizable (and could potentially cross over with the Monsters series, what with all the ghosts). Out of all the colorful characters in The Nutcracker, two—the Nutcracker himself and the Sugar Plum fairy—have passed into the popular iconography of the holiday. Christmas-related characters obviously aren't nearly as fertile a field as monsters for Halloween, but I feel like I'm missing a lot. What else could be included in such a series? Would it even be wise to do one? Would you be interested? I'm especially curious to hear from members outside the U.S. and Canada!

I'm surprised to see so much demand for Sorcerer Mickey. He's definitely one I would want, but other than that I can't really narrow the huge pool of Disney characters down to my own "favorites" for a wishlist. I'd collect almost any character they release as long as it's not a total stinker like Amos Slade or Chicken Little. What do I want out of this line? Variety. The first wave is off to a great start; I was very pleased to see not just a variety of character types but a variety of animation eras represented--there's the Silver Age with Alice, Peter Pan, and Maleficent, the Renaissance with Ariel and Aladdin, and the current generation with Stitch and the Pixar characters. (And then Mickey and the gang, who are pretty robust and timeless. Know what's missing, though? The Golden Age. So I sincerely hope we get Snow White and/or Pinocchio in there at some point. Of course, Sorcerer Mickey would fit that bill too since Fantasia is a Golden Age film. Lots of great suggestions in this thread, both obvious and not...but as I mentioned in the main thread, I doubt we'll see any "sidekick" characters as accessories. Disney is just so protective of its licenses and trademarks--it's one thing for them to agree to have X number of characters rendered as minifigs, but they might balk at any suggestion of including more characters as extras. It might seem to them to be an attempt on LEGO's part to get X + Y licenses for the price of X. I can very easily see them insisting "No, one recognizable character per blind bag, period."

I'm pretty pleased overall. I'm very happy that the human and humanlike characters have regular minifig heads. I was about 80% convinced that they would all have molded heads, because Disney so fiercely promotes their own trademarked character designs. They seem like proper minifigs this way. I'm a huge fan of Disney, but I'm the first to admit that they throw their weight around too hard sometimes. What we have here are really "Disney characters as minifigs," not "Disney manipulating LEGO into manufacturing jointed figures of Disney characters." I'm actually really happy to see the Cheshire Cat. A lot of people are complaining that a) he looks weird as a minifig, and b) they have no interest in this specific character. To me, the fact that the Cheshire Cat doesn't have a lot of mainstream popularity is a reason to include him. There's a lot more to the giant extended family of Disney characters than just whomever currently has the most shelf space in the Disney Store. He does look weird, though. As a side note, a lot of people are wishing small "sidekick" characters had been included as accessories, and while I sympathize, I wonder if they reason they didn't do that is that then those minifigs would actually be two characters in one and it would complicate the licensing. Putting Santa's Little Helper or Snowball II in with a Simpson is one thing--those are inarticulate pets, not people. But Tinker Bell, Pluto, etc. are headlining characters in their own right and I can understand Disney being reluctant to permit extra characters to be included under the guise of "accessories."

MALEFICENT? (dies of delight) Need to swap out the gem on her staff for a green one, though.

But not Stinky Pete...to the best of my knowledge.

Stinky Pete is the Prospector from Toy Story 2. Mickey's nemesis is called Pegleg Pete, Black Pete, or just Pete. But I agree that he would need a molded head.

I tend to forget about the sax guy too. I think I get distracted by how much he looks like John Belushi in The Blues Brothers.