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Do we know anything new about the rumored UCS-Gunship? If it is minifigure scale it would be quite tempting with the 501-armybuilding Set on shelves.

Well, then I am out. For 4€ I demand to get exactly what I want. The thought of ending up with multible creepy carebears is a bad joke i don't want to be part of. I don't believe it a second that saving nature is a relevant point for that decision. At best it is greenwashing for marketing reasons. They could have stopped using plastic bags in boxes years ago but did not care. Instead Lego often used even 2 plastic bags per cmf-figure since TLM2 now. The plastic from plants is only used for Lego plants and part of a big marketing campain. This is only an attempt to squeeze the money even more from customers.

I am pretty sure they do. That is part of the problem. Children aren't really the customer group for a 4€-minifigure. Sure: if I put Kids in a room and let them play they will have fun with a Series 19-surfer. You can swoosh him in his own, which is an advantage over other characters. I am not sure how he competes with a knight (to play with the knight you need a second fighter or a horse or anything to interact with so the type of testing would be relevant, too). But will they spend their pocket money on the surfer - or better: on the option of getting him thanks to blindbags? I read some guides on how much pocket money children should get... the "I love firefighters!"-age kid would have serious problems getting a series 19-firefighter without feeling for it. At this pricepoint you have to convince the parents. Most parents don't see any difference between the series 19 Firefighter with printed stripe on her arms and the 0,50€ to 1€-Firefighter-minifigures on every flea market in a good condition. If the child is really into that theme, they will already have a city set containing similar figures. Special figures - the kind of "wow, stuff like this exists in Lego form?" - makes these parents more likely to buy them for a kid. Donald Duck, Shakespeare, Caesar... In regards of the cmf-theme i think it is nearly impossible to overestimate the relevance of TFOLs and AFOLs. In fact the only times I saw children and parents buying cmfs at a store was when I was offering to feel for a certain figure while searching for my own.

I share that concern and I don't believe Lego is able to do that, too. But I also don't think Lego is completely insane planing a cmf-series with the goal in mind how they can make it as nonappealing as possible towards customers. I trust Lego enough to be at least aware of if a figure is just a cheap filler reusing/ntroducing a mould that would have been made anyways for a City set, eben when the ones making these decisions are ignorant enough to assume someone is going to buy stuff like that for 4€ anyways. As long as the money was arriving at Lego it worked fine and there was no reason to improve something. Lego now feels that it does not work because stores stop ordering cmfs. Getting rid of some of those cheap fillers seems to be a decision even a buisnessman without much understanding of the product could come up with. I think this is one further step to the end of the numbered cmf-lines, too. When Lego wants to make even more profit they will start replacing the few good figures in thw reduced 12-figure-cmfs with carebears and modern Firefighters :/ I hope we get at least Zeus and Hades before the cmfs are over. At least I can make my own generic centaur now with the Harry Potter-Legpiece.

A massive assumtion indeed. I would have agreed with that a few years back, but the price increase changed that as well as the pathetic production quality of some serieses after moving the production to China, which made a lot of people buy them at all and pretty much killed the completionist-motivation for those who came back when the quality level went back to an acceptable level. Regional ones like Team GB and "die Mannschaft" as well as this stupid Mr. Gold buried the completionism of many more. New completionists are unlikely now at series 21. It's not like joining in at series 10 and getting the few serieses that came before. Maybe this could be fixed with a new label starting from 1 again? In my personal opinion the selection of figures gets less interesting, too. There was always a neutral figure out of 16 i got for completion from series 1 diver on... that was fine for that price. 19 and 20 had 4 and 6 I don't really want... and Carebear was the first figure I really dislike and would not have for free. It might be arrogant but it seems to me that my taste is pretty much the taste of the average customer at my place... i can still buy full boxes back to series 18 at local stores and they consisting completely of the leftover ones I don't like. With the new price and the experience of not getting anything they like children and parents seem to have stopped buying them at all pretty much. The days when collectors buy 2 complete series as well as additional ones and the rest is sold to people grabing a bag or two without feeling for it seem to be over. Putting 12 relly interesting and well done characters in every box could indeed push sales. It gets cheaper to complete serieses so people will maybe buy them all again instead of the few outstanding ones. If there are 9 Vikings per box army builders are happy as well as collectors and children who would like to get at least one

I guess they will just use less and less special cmf moulds (like for example the Dragon guy guits headgear and tail) until there are only firefighter and drone-guy cmfs left, which include moulds which would have been released anyways... to the point at wich they became so boring nobody buys them anymore. I doubt they got much more expensive At all. Simpsons 1 sold for 2,50€ with tons of dual moulded arms and exclusive head moulds for each character worthless for any non-Simpsons-theme. On top of that it had licence costs. These days we have just a bit more dual moulding and printed arms from time to time with most moulds being reused for other themes for 4€ even without licence. It is just maximising profit at a degree that reached pure greed.

Cute and - knowing who's blood that is - disturbing at the same time :'D my only idea for a little improvement would be using a 1x1bracet in purple and a white 1x1 tile modified with Clip on top for Jokers arms instead of this 1x1 plate modified. So his arms would be completely purple :)

At least we are getting the ideas-Blacksmith. I hope for a recolour of the vikings helmet (a brown one for a kitbash-Eowyn) and the tournament knights sword.

i am very happy with him. My custom minifigures are just like original Lego. the only sad thing: he doesn´t print metal colours.

I think it isn´t allowed to share links or tell sites to leaks, isn´t it? let´s say: the usual place for leaks. a very popular site where people share pictures under the hashtag "legoleaks".

Could he be done like the leaked Seasame Street Character "Big bird"?

Or 2 new moulds for r2, so that the head has a clean line between the white Body and the silver head connected by one stud, so that he can rotate. It could also have the third "leg".

If it had Count of Count I had buyed it :/ Any Chances we get more sets? It seems really strange if lego put that amount of exclusive moulds in a ideasset and keep them exclusive.

Perfect solution. So we can be certain, it won´t happen :´D

Right, but I wanted to be realistic. I assume she is needed as a filler and 4€ for Silvester and Tweety would be such a great deal, that I can't imagine it happen^^'

I think we have at least a chance to get Tweety as a little mould. The Potter cmf-series had a lot of named animals in one bag with a character, so WB doesn't seem to be like Disney with the "one character per bag"-rule. He'd be great together with Granny, who isn't a character most people would be happy to get alone.

Oh my... he is adorable. May I ask how you did him? If it is a complete 3D-Model, you should really put it on shapeways. He would sell like crazy :)

SW ist the oldest licence theme and is not going to be discontinued anytime soon as far as we know. If we got a Mandalorian with Dual mozlding and Arm printing and so on, that would be great. But I highly doubt a CMF would be a good Idea from Lego's perspective. We never got the Witchking or similar licenced characters, because "something must be saved up for the future" - I an not sure from wich interview that was, but it was said by a designer. If we get the most popular designs with Dual moulding and printed arms in a perfect version for 4€ now, it will affect the sales of big sets in general and especially of some bad UCS ones, who have little selling points besides "having them all" and slightly improved minifigures the red stripe on Han's legs or something like that. Like it was said before: Cmfs for army builders make it a terrible experience for normal buyers, who would like to get one of two of the Stormtroopers or clones with printed arms...

Oh, I didn't think about that piece. I meant the other one included in the Detective office. That was intoduced in City sets as it should be.

That's the point. The female Police officer hat-hair combo is a standard mould required for the bread and butter-buisness and so it was introduced in regular sets instead of taking the budget of a 4€-cmf-figure for something that would have been produced anyways. It should have been done that way with the fire fighter, too. This figure should not cost more than the Police officers from series 2 or 9. The pirate girl might be a very plain figure offering just a cool hat-hair-combo and usefull pants, but at least it is a special hair-head-combo that would not have been produced just for the Ideasset without any big pirate-theme in the near future.

Makes this count von count more or less likely?^^'

Wow :D

I don't know Kubricks. Can you take off a Kubrick-Figures head and put it on a regular Lego Torso? The torso printing doesn't take long to Design and there are several 3rd Party produces of capes.

Maybe he is called different in German than the Original ? Edit: oh, i see. Didn't expect him to be written with "a"?

Oh, my.... looks like there is a new candidate in my favourite top 10 Minifigures :D Thank you :) Eowyn, Faramir and the Witchking (in his classic outfit) send their regards... so do Dino Pebbles and Bum Bum from Flintstones and Disney's Pluto ;)