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Maybe we are lucky and Lego already made some moulds that will be used in other themes... i could imagine the shoulder armour working wonderfull for an Orc or evil knight. To me it seems that Lego is completely unable to put a fitting price tag on digital content. There are wonderfull videogames with hundreds of hours gameplay for very few bucks and free music on youtube (yeah, sure, in theory you are paying by watching commerials, but everyone uses add blockers) ... with a well made minifigure worth 4€ Lego tried to charge 16€ for a hand full of cheap little animations and music. Lego Dimensions offered much more value for the money and failed... I think Vidijo would have benefited from more parts usable outside of the Vidijo theme. For example the punk pirate really only works as punk pirate. He doesn't fit into a city as a generic punk nor does any of his pieces work for a regular pirate. The most popular figures seen to be mostly the ones like the vampires that are still working with classic themes.

Oh boy... that monster metal poster looks cool. Especially the shoulder armour is just awesome... It is very sad to see the lost potential. The axe guitar is by far my favourite Lego piece of the year. I wish Lego would have started with stuff like that...

Well... I probably was a very strange kid but the largest appeal to me back then was that minifigs were superior action figures. They had all the same scale and were able to use each others helmets and accessories. I build quite many castles and so on but never saw that as the main fun. It was just the preparation for the roleplay part. If I had a great Batmobile like the Tumbler or the Mystery Maschine I would have build less and played much more with the original model. Never changed anything about the Green Goblin vehicle from the first Spiderman wave because it has been perfection to me.

Ah :D Thank you :)

Oh, those legs on Bane are woderfull. May I ask where they are from? :)

Warhammer fantasy. Of course it won't happen, but the world has potential for gorgeous sets as some mocs have already shown.

I am happy for you and I know if my experience was average Lego would be pretty sure bankrupt by now. I don't know why I have such an overpropprtional amount of bad luck, but to me personally it is irrelevant. I also had for example a Simpsons house with 3 errors: Flander's brown beard colour went down over his lower lip down to the imaginary chin, Homer had a big gap in the mouth printing below his nose and a plate was missing. That is just not good. Most problems where in the first few serieses after Lego moved the production to China. If there was no Lego store where I get a replacement If something like that happens I would have stopped buying them.

Stuff like this is the reason I would not buy a single cmf anymore if I didn't have a Lego store in the city. Had a Catman unable to stand upright, German soccer players with smeared print, Hades with the face print not in the right place... one time there was a part missing but I can't remember which figure it was. No printing at all is something new xD

I made a lot of characters Lego didn't release in physical form. That includes custom printing, new 3D-printed-parts, parts created by cutting and gluing stuff together as well as painting. I can't help you with doing the printing yourself. I just know flat surfaces work well with pixel grafics, too. If the surface is curved you need vector grafics which is just annoying at the edge of painfull to do. Metal colours seem to be a problem for every printing service I talked to. One Eastern Europe printer solved the problems by painting a piece for example silver by hand and then print on top of that. There are some 3rd party companies offering printing your designs on minifigs. Their prices and quality varries very. I never researched about the American market. If you want to glue Lego you will have to look some time for a glue that works with ABS-plastic.

UCS-Dark Knight-Trilogy Bat-Motorcycle? Maybe with Bane/Catwoman-Minifig? Less than 1000 seems like a price we could expect for 100€. Well, we will see...

Hard to say. I never played Zelda, but to me it looks like there would be very little usefull stuff for me coming from that IP. I won't use for example a Hyrule Shield or sword with blue handle. From the moulds I would expect to appear only Link's hat could be cute for my generic western fantasy characters. World of Warcraft has lots of gorgeous designs. A little hut with Orcs could be gorgeous for example. A Lich king would rock hard, too. But it could also be strange stuff with neon colours and Pandas so I'd say it depends on the individual set, if i'd be interested... Right now I am pretty happy with the constant releases of new minifigure weapons and accessories from other companies - especially the amount of gorgeous dwarf accessories we got in the last few years. At least Lego gives us printed bricks with wooden patterns and other stuff usable for Castle trough bricks&pieces. The average moc is in my opinion better than the ideas blacksmith anyways.

I think it is also not that unlikely that we will get another popular vehicle from the past. At least at my place the minifig Tumbler seems to be more than successfull.

To me 2021 with this awesome minifig Tumbler was the best DC year since the Lego Batman Movie. To be honest I'd love to get no DC movies for years if it means more nostalgia sets. They could make Schwarzenegger Mr Freeze or Sets for the Arkham Games then (there was a Moc not long ago showing how great the Arkham Knight Batmobil would work as a minifigure model)- maybe with a well executed Azrael, Hush or Mad Hatter. They could also milk the Teen Titans fanbase and give us an updated Deathstroke.

I'd say one of the problems were terrible sets that needed to be done to include certain characters. Weathertop is bad to a degree that hurts. If they put for example Merry, Pippin and Ringwraiths into a cmf and focus on sets that are good playsets in general, it would be certainly more successfull.

We already know there will be nudity and stuff, don't we?

I don't think they need to do every character again. I am happy to have Galadriel and Grima, but it isn't like they are that necessary. If there really needs to be a Eomer Set it could for example be a Rohan Army set with tents, horses Camp fire and so on. I think there are 2 ways to make successfull lotr sets: The first option is to do very few and only focus on the material that makes great play sets leaving big gaps for new collectors that do not have the old sets or Koruit/Xinh figures. It would only be sets like Brickbuild Fellbeast+Witchking vs. Eowyn and Balrog vs. Gandalf. A Pranching Pony would be about as good as the Laketown sets so it should stay untouched... to make this successfully work there needs to be a cmf filling the worst gaps. Many of the main characters are outdated anyways. Especially Boromir needs printed arms. The Hobbits need dual moulded legs... and the standard witch hat looks like a bad joke on Gandalf. So they do not have to make a set like Weathertop just to have something where the Hobbits can be included but still have the whole fellowship. On top of it it would help to get rid of the Idea to have to squeeze the licence into a wave of certain price points before even taking a look at what sets could be produced. If there are only 3 very small sets, one 30, one 50 and a big one ~100€ all well executed that is fine. Making a set bigger than it needs to be or reducing an otherwise popular model to a degree that makes it really bad just to have a set for the 70€ price point is pointless. The second option would be to take really big artistic freedom with the material. It would be basically be a generic castle theme with lotr-characters. This could for example bring a battle at the Black gate sceene with Smaug-like Fellbeast and Witch-King instead of the Mouth of Souron. Another thing that bothers me: The fantasy trolls, Nexo knight monsters and goblins in the Ninjago D&D wave show how evil monsters can be done with still quite cute cartoonish faces... In the lotr-line the Uruks looked good with their helmets on but the orc faces with these small mouths look just terrible.

Yes, they were introduced with Harry Potter a bit later. It just bothered me back then already that there were no shorter legs. I totally agree with the costume feeling... with chip&dale using medium sized ones I think it shows that they arent meant to be costumed characters - just poorly designed ones. The 4+ sets would have been a great chance to make them more accurate to the Comics while keeping the d2c ones as costumes. Hm... In my opinion most of the heads are very nicely done. The only one I don't like that much is Scrooge's. That would indeed be the best option. I think the pig would have been a great figure with a baby body like Grogu. Sorry :'D I knew Disney always changed lots of names in different languages like Dagobert/Scrooge. I meant Genie. It is pronounced exactly the same as in English while being written quite different xD You are right about him... I wasn't aware of the Incredibles anymore as I am not that invested in them^^' Yes xD At least minifig Hulk would be usefull for s brickfilm with Bruce transforming :'D

Is it possible to mix several interpretations of Batman in one official set? Than I could see a Wayne Manor or Arkham Asylum with a huge amount of details and iconic scenes work out well. If not I can't really see a desirable set delivering enough for such a price.

The short legs appeared dual (like for Harry potter Dobby) and tripple moulded (like many Simpsons kids) quote often. I think the colour combination is new. Can anyone say what colour the school bus has? I was hoping for litteraly anything other than the minifig face yellow but it seems to be it :/

Well... sets like 30-35€ for "Balrog vs. Gandalf" (including Gandalf and a brickbuild Balrog maybe with a special piece for the face and nothing else) and 50€ for "Witchking and Fellbeast vs. Eowyn" (including the Witchking with his mount and Eowyn Eowyn maybe a horse, too, because they appeal to children very much) would sell great. These would be beautifull display pieces for fans of the licence and still awesome "generic" monsters and characters for kids, who never watched the movies... Sets like the Uruk Hai forge for 50€ of course didn't sell that great... same for the terrible Dol Guldur Ambush with Beorn... I think combining lotr and Lego is a challenging task. The characters work great as minifigs, if done with the required special moulds, but the locations are mostly very difficult. Most are huge in comparison to the characters, often plain and really need the lighting effects. The best location for a set is Bag end. It is quite small in size, colourfull with bright light and a joyfull scenery that fits Lego perfectly. Pretty much the worst is the Uruk hai forge. It is a boring pile of wooden planks in the movie and the scene gets the emotion from flames glowing in the darkness and music. Selling or better trying to sell children an overpriced model of a boring pile of wood sounds like a "great" idea.

The only important question to me is if the new Rex' helmet will have the same "cartoonish" design close to the animated series as the ones from the 501 battle pack. I am fine with him being Phase 1, but without the grey cheeks they really wouldn't fit together.

Too late for anything with army building. Koruit and Xinh saw the demand Lego ignored for years and simply fullfilled it for little money. The joints are not the best, but still by far better than the worst original Lego cmfs I got (like a Lobster loving Batman unable to stand upright) and the faces are disgusting (paler flesh colour than lego, creepy designs and completely unfitting colours for example really dark orange wrinkles), which can be easily solved by switching them against original Lego ones. The rest is pretty much perfection with an insane amounts of gorgeous specialised moulds, arm printing etc. There is no doubt Lego's Iron hill dwarfs would look like the cheap "fake" minifigures in comparison. The only thing successfull now would be a cmf focussing completely on unique characters... and even that would be a challenge with for example Gandalf's and Aragorn's swords made by brick forge years ago. But well... Printed arms would drastically improve Boromir and Aragorn. The Hobbits need Dual moulded legs like Dobby had. 9 Members of the fellowship, Faramir, Eowyn and Witchking. That would still sell towards old collectors, new collectors, kids and Castle fans just using the pieces.

I think the problem isn't just that Donald, Mickey and Goofy are the same size. It is that each figure looks on it's own strange because wrong proportions. Normal legs are too long for the Mouses and Ducks. Goofy is nearly as thin and huge as Woody so the normal limbs look strange. It is pretty much the same as with Hercules' and Dschini's upper body... Those would really benefit from a new Chest piece like the one Nexo knights Character got.

@cosmic Well, I am happy for you, if you like them. I really am. Minifigures are little pieces of art. So of course it is a matter of taste. The carebear is just pretty much dadaism in minifigure form... it can not get much more polarizing. To be honest "taking risks" is the last thing I expect Lego to do with the cmf. There are literally "to do lists" online, that would lead straight to a huge success if somehow nicely done. In my eyes it is not "brave" to do a care bear when in pretty much every threat people beg for example for a sheppard, everyone knows children love animals and the sheppard has army building potential especially when given a castle civilian outfit... it is just stupid. I also don't say these boring "BAM"-Figures with nice accessory are very good (the foal girl could have been a young female squire with a torso also useable for a boy for example). But I'd say these boring random figures are way better with than without a nice animal, instrument or something like that. Another figure from my top 10 worst cmf figures would be for example the Nasa Rocket girl. The boy from the new Lego book "how to be a knight" would rock as a cmf. A wooden Wheelchair (standard Wheelchair piece in brown with new wooden wheels) would work well in any historical or fantasy setting. The whole figure in wheelchair would work as a costume in a City setting, too. The castle fans would buy the figure several times just for the prints on torso and legs. We could give him a second new mould like the wheelchair racer got: A wooden toy sword. An item appearing again and again on so many wish lists and would be reusable in so many settings ...

Yes. I felt that way since the day I saw Disney series 1 for the first time... the Mouses and adult Ducks really need medium sized legs (the best minifig piece Lego introduced in the last 10 years in my opinion). On top of it the Dual moulded boots look just terrible on the Ducks. They would be much superior with orange legs printed with a white round shape like the cmf-Chickensuit Guy (Same for Duffy Duck from the Looney Toons). Sadly there is no custom printing service able to print on top of a minifigure's feet. That makes it impossible to fix that by myself in a perfect way because of Uncle Scrooge's red footwear, but at least it will be much better. I am still doing research on what to use to remove printing from pieces. Then I can use Woody's long limbs with a custom printed yellow torso. I wish the arms were available in orange, but there are enough pictures of Goofy wearing white or yellow shirts, so it is still a good option. I partly hope we won't get a Pete figure... It would frustrate me that he is no Big Fig as he should be xD