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What shade of blue is it? Maersk, medium blue or another colour? I think the head of Kai’s Fire Dragon is new though I’m not sure.

@Zoshi, I’m not a mod, but I’m guessing the EB forum dedicated to minifigure customisation might be a better place for this thread. @1963maniac, Unless I got the wrong end of the stick, Zoshi was talking about the Overwatch character Pharah, not a pharaoh.

@Aine, Third party. I think it’s Little Armory from its long discontinued medieval weapons range. @Exetrius, The new Hidden Side two-headed minifigure is the first LEGO has done with unmodified heads. Hopefully, it will do more.

Great creation! ? Not only is it beautiful, it also conjures a tale. I reckon the tall, gloomy ones are saying how ugly the newcomer is. The moral of the tale? Change - even when it’s later recognised as an improvement - is often feared and disparaged at first.

I was thinking exactly the same thing: mouse costume guy/girl in light bley with pink ear printing - possibly with a new tail piece.

@The Indecisive Clutch, I’m not sure how light up bricks work but it sounds like a battery inside has leaked due to age. Not sure if you can save the brick but you probably don’t want to be touching the leakage directly and you certainly want to wash your hands after any kind of contact.

@Corellian Corvette, For future reference and for anyone else digging up this thread, there’s already this thread for help with IDing parts.

@Herts Womble, For future reference and for anyone else digging up this thread, there’s this existing thread for help with IDing parts.

It can be quite disappointing when you think you have invented something only to discover that someone else got there first. ? Before the internet age, you could go on thinking you were the first indefinitely. Ignorance, as they say, is bliss. Nowadays, it takes moments to discover you may not be as original as you thought. With apologies to the OP for being OT: It can also be quite annoying when you create something and LEGO creates something suspiciously similar a few years later. You can never be sure if LEGO was 'inspired' by you. ?

@koalayummies, I’m not into monochromes myself but I can see the appeal. Must say that your collection so far is very cool! I especially like the colour matched hat, hair, body-wear and accessory pieces. Your display will look fantastic when it’s complete. I haven’t checked, but I’m pretty sure you can get most - perhaps all - of the missing parts on BrickLink. Looking forwards to an updated picture when it’s all done. ?

@rob-cubed, There isn’t an ‘old old’ grey as far as I know. It sounds like the kind of degradation from age that is accelerated by sunlight and/or heat. The reason it is uniform is likely because all the parts came from the same batch or formulation of ABS and additives.

Some of the minifigures and some of the parts from the latest Collectible Minifigure series, S19, are or can be repurposed for 'historical' (fantasy/horror) themes. Also pictured are the new torso and skirt vampire pieces from a BAM selection. Please disregard the non-purist parts.

Here are some of my modded Series 19 Collectible Minifigures along with minifigures that have benefited from S19 parts and thematically related minifigures. All of them are undead, so just in time for Halloween! ? I should have included a picture of the back of the violet vampire: she has a spider crawling up her cape. ? Questions? Comments? Creeped out?

@Actionfigure, Cool creation! You have capture Cthulhu’s shape perfectly. ? This MOC bigfig would feel at home in a city with your Lovecraftian statue in it:

Clever use of parts. Very sculptural! ?

You want to avoid heat if you can as well as sunlight. Don’t know about cockroaches, but where I have had my display collection for some years there are quite a few spiders. They haven’t done my LEGO any harm. More generally, I have had some minifigures and builds assembled since I became an AFOL over 25 years ago and they’re all in perfect condition. I expect they’ll still be that way when I’m a DFOL and thereafter for many years.

@Robert8 Brilliantly illustrated! Excellent artistic skills. ? The Landscaper’s ‘scissors’ are called shears. It looks like Mr Stars and Stripes/Uncle Sam has tails, so the parts count should be 8. If this series were real, I would be after the Chupacabras, Ninja, Eris, Prince Charming and Polymath/da Vinci for sure and possibly the black Chess Piece and Mr Stars and Stripes. I doubt LEGO would ever do a jockey: too closely associated with gambling. Even if they did, I don’t think they would include a riding crop, an instrument for beating a horse to make it go faster (or for hitting other jockeys to make them go slower!)

I think the Fright Knight might have been ‘inspired’ by my Death Knight. Can’t prove anything of course.

Window cleaning solution. On the rare occasion I use stickers, I place them using Windolene. Works a charm. But don’t take my word for it, take LEGO’s. Window cleaning solution is the method they recommend. The following is from lego.com: Best way of applying decals or stickers to LEGO® models Our designers have shared this trick for applying decals: lightly spray a window cleaner on the surface of the parts to be decorated. This will allow you to adjust the decal without damaging it. Once you have the decal in the right place, use a flat edge to smooth out any bubbles and let it dry.

@Aine, I’m pretty sure there is nothing gentle about how LEGO’s automated assembly process attaches arms to torsos. In all likelihood, they just get pushed into place; no delicacy involved. If you gently ease the arms out and replace them equally carefully, you’re probably stressing the torso less than when the arms were put in in the factory. Of course, the more you do it, the more you stress the torso. But you would need to do it a lot to crack a torso. The exception is if the torso is old (older torsos were moulded differently and prone to splitting between the waist and the armpit) or if the arms come from a different minifigure (some very small differences in tolerances can make arms too tight or loose in some torsos). But if all you’re doing is swapping the arms and you slowly ease them out/in, the risk of torso cracking is very low indeed. The worst you can expect is that the arm becomes slightly loose. If that happens, you can easily fix them with Humbrol Satin Coate.

@WhiteFang, Great review and images Like I always say: A CMF series ain’t a CMF series until Fangy has reviewed it! One small note: While the flamingo could be used as an animal, it’s meant to represent a lawn ornament.

My faves starting with the most: Monkey King Fright Knight Mummy Queen Fox Lady I already have at least one of each of the above. I also have the Explorer for parts and am considering the Gardener mainly for the flamingo.

Indeed. I think it's meant to be a scrum cap.

Indeed which was a poor decision in my view. Its faintness is made worse by being obscured by the helmet's grill. LEGO should have used bold printing so you could clearly see it. The Monkey King is excellent in real life, every bit as good as online reviews make it seem. The Mummy Queen is cool, too. When I saw the minifigure in reviews, I thought I would use the death mask face. But now that I have the minifigure, I'm not so sure and am inclined towards the mad mummy visage. Sure, you can use the Fright Knight's head for ghosts and there may be some uses where subtle printing is desirable. But on balance, a conspicuous face would have been better.

Magnificent creation! You have brilliantly captured the refined aesthetic of elven architecture and landscaping. Even without the minifigures, I would have guessed it was meant to be elven.