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Surely he'd be Kenny... wearing all orange... just like Kenny from South Park..... and he could be the token guy that always gets killed in a moc

I'm ashamed to say, it's not a new creation... Its been on my Flickr for about 5 years, displayed at a show once, but I'm not really into sharing things far and wide and my friends list is small. I also then went through some life stuff and it got tucked away pretty much since it got built. I should have posted this up in October, but oh well... First off, the basic figure structure design isn't mine (I wish I could remember his name so anyone feel free to jump in if you know, but genius either way for doing it) it's part of a lug group I'm in, and it's not mine to share, so I won't be posting any LDD file for the figure. But as other design variations have been displayed at exhibitions and of course pics put on Internet etc, I see no harm posting this. But I can take credit for making the sword, chest plate, making the head out of almost purely 1x2 plates, and the horse design was entirely mine. The fig is designed as 6x the size of a normal minifig, and I really wish I could link pics of all the others I've seen as they are amazing... Roman soldiers (yep, helmet and shield which look impeccable), luke skywalker, rebel pilot, and many others. So I designed the horse to follow suit, and while not perfect, is as close as I could get. The head was thinner initially but then I realised it looked too small compared to the rest so I enlarged it a bit. The legs could probably do with being 1 brick taller, and I have modified the LDD file as such, but never got round to modifying the actual physical horse. So the earlier pics show a smaller head. The horses head can tilt down at the base of the neck, and I *think* the head itself can tilt up and down too. But that's it. It's based on a mix of the old and new horse animal mould. The 'flame sword' is too heavy to hold upright, but being held down low doesn't look too out of place. The head from the fig is supported in the hand by a couple trans clear round bricks resting against the saddle as the arm pivots too easily to be able to support the weight (head is quite heavy). A pic next to the minifig version I made which inspired the larger build Head also fits on the body and rotates, looks pretty neat I think :) And a pic of just the horse (smaller head) with minifig horse to show scale I think the saddle used one particular part in reddish brown which was extremely rare (only a handful available on bricklink) and wasn't available in any set so no idea where it came from but bricklink had it luckily. Other than that, all easy to obtain parts. And I do believe the horse can be made in white too with available parts.

In all honesty... I don't get how you can create such decent, imaginative characters for nothing and those paid to do this barely get half a series anywhere close to as good as this. (OK, S14 was really good, but this still blows that out the water). I absolutely love each and every single one of them! Especially your headless horseman. And the scary tree. And and... Well damn, all of them! I do wonder though... If the skeleton horse would be better off with the headless horseman instead of the dead cowboy otherwise he's a headless horselessman Also... I neeeeeeeeeeeeed that mini frankenstein monster!!! Why would you go and do a thing like design that when it probably will never become a reality! Get your resume/cv in to TLG design team right this instant! Heck, send a physical copy with a cover letter and all your designs. We need you there!

Jesus... some people don't know how lucky they were... That is a great little set, literally perfect for being an army builder/playset that can be bulked up with a couple of multiples, then you got yourself a full scale mini battle. Some people...

There was this baby in a blanket https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/123697777605 There is also the same mould of Harry Potter baby in blanket, but has some Harry Potter specific print on it which could easily be wiped off with careful application of acetone or whatever other people use. Lego sheep would definitely be cute! Imagine a whole pen of them

What a brilliant looking creation! The house is done really well, I love the stoney side bit on it with the walkway on the roof leading to it. But also the style of the house is definitely medieval looking, and the garden area definitely helps to that spooky vibe with the small cornfield bit with the pumpkin head scarecrow, I love it!

The amount of things they release giving a vast array of choices, I can't honestly see how figure sales of battle packs could go up but brick sales would go down, when there isn't any (in company) competition with regards to historical fantasy battle packs. Completely understand what you're saying, while it'd be awesome to see a Lego style Warhammer/40k, I think leave the game style stuff to companies like GW. But they could easily release even just one battle pack a year would be an amazing boost for historical fans. They literally already have a ton of parts to use, throw some updated prints and bobs your uncle, army building potential in the style of star wars incoming. Regardless, I seriously hope this rumour is true, and is actually a fantasy castle theme, not intertwined with some random crossover making it a scificastle like theme. Nexo Knights was nice in its own merit, but not as any form of castle related theme

Being the grumpy bugger that I usually am about spoilers, I'm about to watch it in a few hours... I gotta say, thanks for being respectful/mindful . I'm usually the first to complain, so I want to make a change, be positive, and also say thanks :)

That'd be the one job I wouldn't support them in having. Do what they want, but work for it. I wouldn't give them *that* much of a free ride!

Not everyone wants more money than they can spend. If you believe my stance would change if it actually happened? Then you simply don't know me Back on topic, it'll be good news if that packaging is only from a closed survey, means it's not a definite final design choice, and something else less 'random' could be on the horizon.

Couldn't be that difficult to make an abandoned run down building. Just buy a normal modular, and leave bricks out, lay them dotted around

Considering I'm highly probably a very cynical person, I have to say I think TLG are damned if they do, and damned if they don't with this (if true). They have an opportunity to go green for something they sell a lot of (they must sell a lot or I'm sure we wouldn't be into series 21 at this point). It's kind of at a good time too, as it assists the 'covid situation'... And it truly provides the '1 random fig' experience. However, it can also very easily be seen, as mentioned above, a way to sell more full boxes as people will want to be guaranteed a set and there's less to collect, so, a sneaky way of ensuring more get sold... people would potentially buy more as they'd have to put up with the chance of getting ones they don't want in order to get the ones they do want because truly blind... I do not believe the latter is intentionally intended, it is just a potential result which may be seen to benefit them financially. However, for me, unless I explicitly want an entire set, I probably won't bother with them anymore unless the names are printed on the boxes, but, I doubt they will be. I personally don't want to have to buy a whole box just to ensure I get the ones I want and then have to sell off the rest, people typically want to know what they're buying but a lot want new too. It'll create a wider market for opened figs that'll leave people with the ones no one really wants at a price that's highly likely close to rrp but not quite, because that's the only way people can guarantee what fig they are selling once they've bought a box, so there'll literally only be sellers selling opened ones. Maybe... Who knows I just know I prefer to know what I'm buying. Got to praise them for going eco though

It's not harsh, I've seen similar opinions within the warhammer community and knew what I was letting myself in for (point 2) Just a slight correction, I didn't say its difficult to say no to a kid... I said it's easier to say no to a kid than it is to yourself. (I have no kid of my own, but I have no problem telling someone no, but if its for myself, sliiiiiightly more difficult because I've been a kid, learned to appreciate what I have by being told no. I now have my disposable income, but it doesn't mean I have to spend it on lego. But, because I have it, and they release a very decent looking set that really spikes my interest, it becomes more difficult to find reason not to buy it, other than 'I'll live without it'. (point 1) Oh without a doubt they are making good sets, and without a wide range of sets to become available, we wouldnt have half of the decent sets we have today. However I now find myself in the position to afford sets, but not buying any, because there's too much choice. Even the ones I want. I feel saturated with it all. If there was less choice, I'd likely be happy to continue with my purchases, which typically consist of Star wars ucs, modular, fairground, and recently Harry Potter. But seeing the potential incoming size/cost of the next Harry Potter wave, I'm literally only going to get the Diagon Alley related set (rumoured, not concrete) and perhaps modular, but likely none else. Unless they knock the ucs Republic gunship outta the park with its design. But just because I don't have to buy it, doesn't mean they aren't getting greedy. Just because it's a business and businesses exist for profit, doesn't mean they're exempt from the possibility of becoming greedy. I have to say, I don't fall in the category of pushing for more bits, more quality, more printing. I entirely love the zombie figs, and am happy if they have no accessory or hair. It's how the fig goes best. I loved the crash test dummy fig (although didn't get it, that series came and went before I became aware of cmf's) and again, see no desire to have an increase in arm print or some accessory. If I'm honest as well, I don't see the big deal in dual moulding legs. I understand *why*, but I'm not on the hype train for it. It is what it is. It just gives people another reason to be picky about the lack of something when it 'could have had it'. You're right, it is a first world problem. Because we're in the first world economy. Buying a first world luxury item. Doesn't mean we can't have our first world gripes about it. If I had a business to make money, and I made money, if I had enough to live the rest of my life comfortably, and provide a decent fund to provide my kids the ability to chase their dream job without a lack of money to stop them, then I'd pack it in. I wouldn't feel the need to have more money than I could spend in a lifetime. Short sighted? Yeah you could say. But in the grand scheme of things, I'm just a blip in a timeline of millions of years. As is TLG. The world will continue to revolve.

Shortened the quote, but entirely agree with everything you said.

In this day and age, TLG are fast moving away from many precedences they've previously set for many scenarios, and pushing through new barriers. While this specific precedence might not be one that requires much thought to agree it being upheld, it wouldn't surprise me if somehow in any light manner it was also sidestepped to some degree. It is difficult to know where TLG draw their lines given how they wouldn't do moe's tavern likely because promotes drinking, but they did the star wars cantina, where literally its a place for drinking. Both are in a fantasy universe, but one also had murder and dubious business occur at it. And that's the set they made. Brick bank had money laundering included. Am sure there's a lot more that could be stated too.

My bad, seems they're 3.50...coukd have sworn I've bought some at £4 probably marked up I guess... Lucky you're able to find them at discount. If I don't go to a TLG store, I'm lucky to find them at all around here, let alone at discount. And now there's so few boxes put out that they don't make it to discount.

I was going to say I love the pumpkin patch, but there's just so many nice details to love about this it's difficult to say just one of them! The scarecrow pumpkin is a neat little touch! The trellis next to the shed with the vines growing up it is well carried out, the one random sunflower, all the different flower beds, the glass greenhouse, the little stand on the left (I presume?) selling the vegetables, the little flower pots hanging from the shed... Just so much!

Then just throw my guess in amongst the other millions of hopes and wishes for what is coming next. Makes no difference, we will get what we will get. Thanks, it does, I actually prefer it if I'm honest. I hadn't seen it done in cool yellow before, and thought it'd be cheaper than bricklinking the original colours. How wrong was I

@ReplicaOfLife Love the look of your top left signature building! I think that easily shows cool yellow can indeed work by itself as the 'main' colour, with other darker shades to compliment it. I've also done a recolour of the Townhall to cool yellow, and it mixes very well with white. Doesn't seem too much on its own at all as far as I'm concerned. (don't have a pic of it by itself I'm afraid) I do wonder if @Factioneer is onto something we keep forgetting about... That contest winners car being included with the next set... Which might hint at what we could be getting. Going from that? A 1950's car show room on ground floor and some random other business on the first floor. That'd be my guess that I'd happily put a wager on.

TL:DR TLG getting greedy. I've been a fan of collecting the cmfs for some time now. Missed the first few series, collected all up until the licenced ones started-I think disney series. I literally had no care for any of the disney cartoon superhero characters, and one of them, I'd never even seen before, let alone its fig was bland and uninteresting. Was nice getting Donald, daisy, micky and Minnie, and the chipmunks. I got all the simpsons figs because simpsons fan, and they pulled them off nicely. But I see the prices rising 'apparantly' because of licenced themed cmfs. But those price rises stay with the non licenced ones, for the same level of unlicensed figs as before, but often with less interesting 'filler' cmfs. (at this point I literally don't understand a filler cmf. They have an opportunity to make something special, and they chuck a firefighter in or a policeman/woman/generic city fig that can be found in some city set/ etc. Why?!) The price rising to £4 per fig has now doubled the cost of getting a full series. That s**t gets expensive really fast, that's without the ones you want multiples of! £64 for a full series, that has around 5 or 6 of them as fillers that you don't actually care about? That's just over 1/3rd the cost of the full series wasted on figs you don't really care about. Now they're pumping out licenced ones about as equal as unlicenced series. But has the price dropped? I think it only ever dropped back down once, and we were fooled into thinking they'd drop it back down after every licence to unlicensed. But that was it. It crept and crept. They'll blame it on licence, production costs increasing, small profit margins, economy, inflation... Everything other than greed. But I'm seeing this more and more now. And not just with cmfs. The pattern of TLG's greed is becoming a lot clearer now, I am concerned to say. It's literally like they've become star struck sith their own success and can't get enough of it. Look at how many multiple thousand piece sets are available now. All at the same time. How many sets available that are over £130 (or $160ish). People are spending, and buying it so they're filling the 'demand'. (it's not a demand, it's literally a created demand. They make it, make it look enticing, so people will then want it. The need/want for it wasn't there before it (any given set) was designed so there was no demand for it before its inception). So many factors have assisted with providing TLG's success outside of the company (like the Internet, more 'disposable' income, easier to get loans etc), as well as marketing items towards adults. Everyone says lego is a kids toy. And it is. But what kid can realistically afford these £130+ sets? They can't. It's the parents that buy them. Tap into the market of parents willing to fork out that kind of money on their kid, bring them into the lego fan fold, and you just increased your ability to scrape an adults pockets a lot cleaner than when you were scraping them just for the kids purchases. But now you've also tapped into the realm of making them fight with themselves and justifying something that *they* feel an attachment to. A lot harder than saying 'no' to a child. I've had barracuda Bay in my shopping basket for ages, but I can't bring myself to pull the trigger. Why? Because I want it for nostalgia reasons. Its an excellent set. Its excellent value. The box colours/design hits me right in the nostalgia feels. Is this set for kids? It's lego, of course. But adults like me who grew up with pirates, wanting to get something to scratch that itch of going back to their childhood with a new set from a well known theme are the target, because we find it harder to say no. We're the easy food. But what next? There'll be another set. Either a star wars set. Or a Harry Potter set... The new rumoured HP wave list comes in at $810 if its true, and that's immense. 'oh but it's variety, you don't have to get it all'. You know as well as I do, there are people that will scrimp and save and go without, or perhaps get into debt, just to get it. TLG doesn't care where your money comes from. As long as it ends up in their pocket. So back to cmfs. Similar thing happens to games workshop figures. It's seen as a luxury. The moment you question them raising prices and pricing people out of it, they get slammed and shoved 'it's a luxury, if you can't afford it, don't get it, simple as!' in their face. GW increase their prices. Instead of lowering them to sell more, they risk the 'raise the price more and hope same amount of people buy them, or the increase in price outweighs the amount of people we priced out' method. It appears TLG are doing the same. Instead of reducing the price back to reasonable, they've hit market cap at what's seen as maximum price potential before it seriously affects sales, and keeping it at that maximum price cap, and so reducing the amount of figs in a series. If there's less to collect, you're more likely to buy the whole series. Still giving TLG maximum profit margin. Imagine (i know they're not £5 (not far from it)... This is hypothetical) 16x£5=£80 a set. People aren't going to be spending that. Not on unlicensed. And only really once on a licenced (little requirement to army build). Let's hypothetically say they get a £1 net profit (20%) per fig. So that would be £16np per set. Oh, but let's drop the price and keep 16 figs a series. £4 a fig, £64. £12.80np. What about 12 figs at £5? £60 a set. £12 np, BUT with the design/production costs of 4 figs removed, which outweigh the +£0.80 16 figs would gain them. Then not only that, 12 is a lesser total to collect all of, so fans are more likely to fork out to collect them all. And if you're talking true numbers (such as 4.99 instead of 5), then it'd actually fall into the £50 bracket. Which *appears* less than 60. Which it is, but entirely negligibly irrelevant. Hence the age old trick of .99 instead of rounding up. Sure, they're a business, I'm glad they're doing good. But f me, if it doesn't feel like they're squeezing the life out of us now for every penny we can muster available to give straight to them and no one else. TLG is starting to show symmetry with The Lego Movie (1) and the clutch that Lord business had on the world of TLM, how it was in every aspect of its inhabitants lives... (edit: yes, I also acknowledge its possible coronavirus has part blame, but I think TLG had already started reaching the peak price/market squeeze potential, cv just sped up this realisation. I myself would have likely gone out and bought at least some of the most recent unlicenced cmfs, like the power ranger and a few others, but despite my reasons being different for not wanting to go out into the shops and feel for them, cv has impacted people to not going out and getting them one way or another a lot more than if it wasn't around. I'll continue in my daily life without those few figs no different than had I ended up with them. Except with more money left in my pockets.) Second edit* This is all just my opinion and view, expressed on my experiences of seeing these prices and amount of extremely large set availability simultaneously to other large sets, and the world we live in today compared to what it was and how its changing. Your opinions and views may differ, and you're welcome to :)

Unless they make another run of them and sell/give more away, as time goes on, yes, they will go up as they were quite limited to start with, in a manner of speaking.

That certainly adds a new literal meaning to studs not on top! That's pretty cool! The front face of the shop certainly pulls off an elegant diamond/ring shop, I'm struggling to figure out what those corner 'pillar' pieces are? Good use either way! The roof looks clean, the walls have a good level of texture to them too. The corner tan colouring is a nice touch, although I wonder if its too linear, and if the staggered corner might present a final touch of finesse to an otherwise already on point build I really like it

It's literally something I'd expect to see at a display exhibition... But as an actual set? I just can't see how they can think this is so interesting that soooo many people would buy it given how huuuuge it is (the outer front wall has 1x4 brick arches so that gives a sense)... And how costly it will be, given how it'll be competing with a ton of other stuff that already has a strong following! I get the architecture sets, nice little desk display pieces.... I don't think even Hagrid would have a desk big enough for this... Don't get me wrong, it looks 'nice', but that's about it. It's just 'nice'. It's almost the size that has the wow factor, and that doesn't last long.

No one gets any points for being right or wrong, if it is cho, you can be happy knowing it is cho. If it turns out not to be cho, it doesn't really change anything, I'm sure it'll be good whatever the outcome. I think what is more important and needs to be figured out, is wth is going on with how bent that toe finger is that's holding the page down