dgherko

+1 for stacker9000 Thanks for the trade very good trading partner

The only problem with the unique torsos are you actually can have too many Legolas and Gimlis. You can never have too many blue soldier number two from the ambush set

Been collecting since 1990, have most of them. photo link below Doing the comparison, the LoTR and Hobbit sets are more ornate and I think it drives to cost up just a bit. Helm's deep is 130, most of the castles of the last ten years have been kept below or at 100. The small castle set is 12 or 13 bucks for four soldiers and a dog - great army builder the small sets for LoTR and Hobbit Gandolf arives 12 bucks The Riddle 10 bucks Wizard battle 12 bucks and limited release ploy bags 4 to 5 bucks: Urk hai warrior Frodo Mirkwood Elf Guard Gandolf I am not complaining, my Helms Deep arrived this week, it is an amazing set, combined it with four Urk Hai army sets I have 25 or 30 Urk Hai with trolls, orcs, cyclops, wargs and mineataurs moving to attack. The same $250 would buy the castle line castle, dragon keep, gatehouse, wagon and 5 ambush sets that's 20 goodguys and 18 bad guys with a damsel, three horses, five dogs

I call it the Lion head to draw a difference from the Lion creature from the 1980s which is still one of the best crests. The Lion head or lion head is more childish, but happy to have the castle line at all. The alternative Lord of the Rings/Hobbit are amazing models but can't Army build with them because they are charactor based and the licenced sets are more expensive. The crown crest is similar to the series a few years ago, but not exactly the same. Dragon symbol is the fifth dragon (the original and still the best small blue dragon, the second is a larger version on the first oval shield, the third was green, the fouth was the kingdoms green dragon now we have the red dragon. Lego needs to retire the dragon and lion head...we have had: Dragon, boar, lion, lion head, falcon, bat, snake, skull, troll, crowns, bear, monkey, blue falcon, wolf twice purple and brown, scorpion, crossed battle axe, dwarf wings, stag, unicorn (armored horse), bull, tree, some decorated with no creature, even the muskateer had a crest on the tunic. and the classic yellow castle designs (bring back please) I think we could have: Griffon Eagle Owl The sun the moon a horse clover diamond spade star and maybe some classic cheverons, stripes, crosses,

I think the new Revolutionary war soldier fits in quite nicely with these figure to make quite an impressive colonial era theme. British, French, Spanish, American Colonies later USA. Glad I picked up a number of these sets over the years. There are plenty of hats to make quite a scene.

I have to say I am not happy with the Willy wonka golden ticket minifig I look for only certain figures, the Native American, the Female Barbarian, Roman Commander, the Revolutionary Soldier. I am one of those that patiently stand and find only what I need. Now with the golden ticket guy, more stores will keep them behind the counter. I will have a tougher time getting what I need. I don't like getting spares, I try to trade on the website trading portal, but generally just want to buy what I need and be done with it. I like to think I have liberated many a historic figure from ending up being left on the floor and sucked up in a vacuum. brickshelf member dgh PS if Super Goblin reads this please check mail about a Minifig trade.

Super Goblin please contact

+1 for UsernameMDM great trading partner

Recommend pliers to remove the chain and some snipes to remove the base at the top of head. The head slips off and you can cut more of the post through the neck.

+1 for Teardrop Trashcan - international trade went well, would trade with TT again. dgherko

Latest pictures of the elf kingdom army - http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=519741 and the dwarven army - http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=519743 Elfs - 60 minifigs still need to get the Mines, Helms Deep and awaiting the new ones in August Dwarfs - 165 minifigures need Mines, Helms Deep, Bag End and other new ones Bonus little bit of trivia - see if you can spot the counterfeit figure from the early 2000's that mirrored the Ling King figure

+ 1 for the Masked Builder Thanks for the trade

Mine are their own faction. Brickshelf member name dgh http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3926548

+1 for ZCerberus. would trade with him again anytime

+1 for Fighter of Frizzies

Thank you Shushen for an excellent international trade I recommend you highly as a trading partner +1 for Shushen

Hello all, I have accumulated some excess CMF and would like to trade. I am a longtime member of Bricklink Jan 2001, profile name dfmswm. I have only done purchases and my first buy has only four digits in the order number. Anyway down to business. I have all opened packages, but they are stored in plastic bags inside plastic containers. I have black base plates to send in vast quantities. Willing to trade anywhere. HAVES: S1 Circus Clown (no horn I bought it second hand) Cheerleader with POM POMs S3 Fisherman (from the VIP pack with pole and fish) Space bad guy (from the VIP pack with ray and gun) Sumo Wrestler with trophy Gorilla suit guy with banana S5 Gangster with gun and violin case (three copies)(two traded) Eygpt Queen S6 Classic alien with ray and ray gun (one traded) Female surgeon with needle and xray Intergalactic Girl in pink with ray and gun Genie with lamp and head piece S7 Galaxy Patrol with ray gun (two copies)(one traded) S8 Bat Conquistador times 2 S9 Beat Cop S11 Grandmom with cat Lady Robot Welder Series 14 Lego fly man Series 15 Spaceman X2 Plastic man sealed in original package WANTS: No particular order, Goblins many S15 Tribal hunter Tribal chief Mohawk warrior Thank you for browsing

I am an AFOL with 20 years of collecting in castle. I have used Pirates, old west, Star Wars, Ninjas, Vikings, Ninjago to augment. The CMF have been a boon to my collection, as have Lego opening a store and a discovery center in Kansas City USA. There only 11 unique set I don't have from all years. This is a non-profitable hobby for me (I have thrown out all of the boxes), unless I count bagging up spare parts in ziplocks and selling at yard sales. I am a trained Army Force Designer, so that is my passion for Army design. I do enjoy the creations for Minifigs many have produced. I have never taken a CMF from a youngster, I will help anyone find the one they are looking for to include the store employees. Just crossed 5140 minfigs with several hundred CMF as listed above. Lego seems to walk a line between kids and us AFOLers and I am ok with it. I don't generally buy on the secondary market for CMF, way too over priced picked up several Forestmen and Muskateers in the build a figure bins in the stores . No kids are buying on secondary market. Just AFOLers. It is the profitters that are scooping up intial boxes of CMF at time of release and trying to sell on line to places and people that can't get them or can't wait. I did get several CMF in smaller quantities to augment my collection. Any female CMF in a dress has potential in Castle Lego theme that has very few female characters. The Graduate looks like a 15th century priest (kind of). Fishermen make good peseants, the ice skater can even be a hospitality specialist for those lonesome crusading minifig soldiers Will try and do more photos soon

The Eygptian Army has five hats: The new Gold with blue stripes (Pharaoh), Black, White, Yellow and yellow with blue stripes. Pictures I took last night sucked. But I have Pharaoh with gold, his wife and son (with Gold). Commanders with White and Yellow w/ blue stripes. Captains with just yellow. Elite Soldiers with black and regular soldiers with no hat or blue bandana.

There are many possible Army building CMF Knight - 44 Muskateer - 56 Pharoh - 39 Highlander - 76 see below Female Viking - 15 Viking - 31 Samauri - 24 Native American Chief - 14 Native American Brave - 1 Robin Hood - 10 Roman Soldier - 68 Spartan - 55 Dwarf - 76 Ninja - 1 Aztec - 19 Minetaur - 45 Gladiator - 48 Even the Red Riding Hood - 6 (female dwarf, child in town) Eygptian Queen Cave Woman - Native American female Hula girl - Aztec Queen Sorry I forgot Elfs - 40 Toughest thing about Army building is finding unique ways of having leaders stand out. Waiting for the Elrod figure for the Elfs, and Bag End for Dwarf Leaders

How about an 18th or 19th century American trader, 'coonskin cap and a brown bess rifle. Lego was heavily into the cowboy theme, part of the original park in Denmark is still an Old West town. Could lead to a new round of Old West, American Civil War or Revolutionary war soldiers at least in CMF.

In no particular order 2508 Ninjago Blacksmith 7188 Kings Carriage 6061 Wall Section 6041 Armor Shop 6067 Guarded Inn - two copies 10000 Guarded Inn - two copies 3739 Blacksmith Shop 10193 Medieval Market - three copies 7948 Outpost attack 6918 Blacksmith Shop - seven copies 7187 Escape from Dragon Prison - two copies 7189 Mill Village Raid - two copies 6277 Imperial Trade Post 4183 "PotC" The Mill 4192 "PotC" Fountain of Youth 4193 "PotC" London Escape 3050 Shanghai Escape 9376 DACTA Castle set pieces and 6095 Royal Joust set pieces for a small citadel The main photo folder on Brickshelf has photos of about 3500 minifigures as of Summer of 2010 Currently have 4784 minifigures with latest purchases build on

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=382863 Here is my castle village. Props to all for their imagination. enjoy and if you like try and name all the sets in the photos

Has anyone heard about the results of the exclusive results of the vote for favorite CMF from series #1 to #3. I thought the release is Feb or March