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    Castle/Medieval/Fantasy/Tolkien Superhero (both Marvel and DC) Classic Space
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    That is really cool I wouldn't open the curtain though for fear of the light affecting the colour of some parts.
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    I was thinking that . Voldemort's torso and gown piece from the same series would also make a good green priest. Some Church of Ireland priests wear green sacerdotal vestments today as did some orders/ranks of priests in Medieval times.
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    Indeed. Benthalls still has loads. I was at the Shepherds Bush/White City LEGO store a couple of weeks ago and they had lots too. I suspect that the most popular ones from this series have all been sold. So what the stores still have may be the less sought after ones. That's just a suspicion though; I haven't checked.
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    @WhiteFang: Thanks, Fangy. You're the best!
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    I have a mint in factory sealed baggy Mountain Lion from set 60174 Mountain Police Headquarters. It's from my reserve collection so is from a pet-free, smoke-free, mould-free home. Would like to swap for a mint in factory sealed baggy Sabre Tooth Big Cat from sets 60193 Arctic Air Transport / 60196 Arctic Supply Plane from a pet-free, smoke-free, mould-free home. UK trades preferred but not essential. Interested? Please PM me.
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    Brickmania doesn't ship small orders to the UK. It's possible that the dearth of Brickarms' historicals is a European problem and not to do with their (lack of) production.
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    Outstanding review and pictures as always, @WhiteFang! Thank you for the effort and care you put into this and all your CMF reviews. In relation to Chan's skin tone, I think you mean 'complexion', not 'complexity'. Thanks for the picture showing minifigures with the three leg sizes: small, medium (articulated) and standard (articulated). Could you please post a picture showing plain black short, medium and standard legs side-by-side without torsos and heads? It would help to show the height difference.
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    Emphasis added. In fairness, I did point out that I was speaking technically.
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    Please see: History vs prehistory. Also Wikipedia: 'Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools c. 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems' and 'History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation")[2]is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.' I haven't taken a history class since I was an undergrad which was a loooong time ago, but I'm pretty sure the definitions haven't changed.
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    A bit OT, but as you asked... Sensu stricto, history is since it has been recorded (in writing). Prehistory is anything before that. So mammoths are prehistoric and historic, but sabre tooth cats are only the former. I haven't checked whether EB considers prehistory as part of history and therefore falling within 'Historic Themes'. But as 'Historic Themes' includes fantasy for EB's purposes, I think prehistory is OK here too, hence my bringing up of the latest LEGO dinosaurs earlier in this thread.
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    I'm not a big fan of LEGO's mammoth. I saw one at a LEGO store last week and I think it's head is a funny shape and too far from its body. That said, it's definitely worthy of a mention in this thread. Mammoths are both prehistoric and historic animals. They didn't go extinct until 2000BC, well after writing was invented in roughly 3500BC. The smilodon, in contrast, is cool. I have one on order from BAP. It's not historic though: the last ones died out about 8000BC. As a fantasy creature though or in a prehistoric scene, it fits perfectly. I like @Wardancer's idea of one pulling a chariot but will probably display mine by my cavemen just as it is.
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    Has @WhiteFang reviewed the the HP/FB CMFs yet? I love Fangy's CMF reviews.
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    Agree regarding the quality. They definitely used to do historical weapons. The pointy rapiers of my musketeers and others below are Brickarms (the rest are LEGO). So is the dadao of the bley and dark blue assassin in the picture at the bottom. I don't know if they stopped producing historicals. They're harder to find than they used to be.
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    The long lags between when fans call for parts that ought to exist and when LEGO actually produces them never ceases to amaze me. Shorter, articulated legs are just the latest. Minifigure scaled skirt pieces are another. I think the record though may belong to the large cats. The time between when LEGO started producing moulded animals and the release of the first large cats for System was 34 years! A kid at the top of the recommended System age when the first moulded animals appeared would have to wait until middle age for a big cat
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    It's Pledge where I am too and slightly brown when poured out, but I haven't had the problems you describe. It sounds like you applied it too thickly. The coat has to be really thin and only works for scratches that cause cloudiness, not ones that can be traced with the human eye. As for ABS parts, I whitened some yellowing second hand white parts in 2014 using Vanish Oxy Action Crystal White powder, hydrogen peroxide and sunlight. Since then, I have kept the parts in the dark at room temperature and none of them show any sign of yellowing. At the time of writing (2018), they are indistinguishable from new white parts I bought back in 2014 to which they have been assembled.
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    I'm guessing that if there are 60 minifigures per box, the ratio will be 3HP:2FB. Of course, even if that's right, it doesn't necessarily mean that each HP one will be equally common, or each FB one equally common. Two questions: What are we calling the new, articulated mid-sized legs? 'Teenage legs'? 'Articulated short legs' (which is somewhat inaccurate in my view)? Do all the new legs - whatever we're calling them - have print/dual moulding or are any monochrome? If so, which ones?
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    Indeed. Even though I can make it to the Leicester Square store fairly easily from where I live, I just ordered the parts I needed as part of a B&P order a while ago. I already had a suitable head; it's not exactly the same but pretty close. So all I had to do was order: 6218242 torso assembly 4162916 hip/legs assembly 6210307 bowler hat 6171840 umbrella. Total cost (excluding head): £2.08. Even if you add a bit for the head, it's still less than the RRP of a CMF, so not terrible value for money. There was also P&P of course, but that wasn't much and it was part of a larger B&P order anyway.
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    Oooooh - good tip! Thanks Some of the parts are still not terribly easy to find because Brickset's search function displays the minifigures without accessories. Once you have identified the minifigure, you can go to 'Appears in', then the complete minifigure and finally through to the parts.
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    Really? My attempts at finding CMF parts on UK BAP, get this response: 'We’re sorry, but we can’t offer any parts from the Collectible Minifigure series.' The parts numbers of CMF exclusive parts on BrickLink do not seem to correspond to anything that BAP recognises. Searching online generally - not just on BL - for LEGO's own parts numbers for those pieces turns up nothing. Even if I could find the part numbers, it is unclear whether they can be bought on BAP. If they can, LEGO is doing a great job of making it as hard as possible to get them. It may be that, by chance, I am after certain CMF parts that aren't available through BAP while other parts that I am not looking for can be bought through BAP. It may also be that non-exclusive CMF parts are available on BAP, giving the false impression that CMF exclusives are too. Whatever the situation, I am tired of fighting TLCM (The LEGO Corporate Machine).
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    @cebelicamya, Eruptorr is from Power Miners, specifically set 8191.
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    It's just a matter of time before a YouTuber adapts the Pen Pineapple Apple Pen song but for LEGO and IKEA
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    Interesting find. Thanks @Thor Lund for the post. It seems though that the tie-up relates to kids' furniture, so not entirely clear that it will be of use to AFOLs. I already use IKEA shelf units for most of my display collection.
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    Also the HP 75950 Aragog set care of Allen Tran on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tormentalous/28688114108/in/dateposted/ I already have 9470 Shelob Attacks which is a more impressive giant spider. But if you don't have that set and still wanted a representation of Shelob or just want to build out 79001 Escape from Mirkwood, the HP Aragog set would be a good way to do it.
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    I'm afraid that @MOMAtteo79 is right and the legs aren't genuine LEGO. The authentic CMF Romans had side printing on their legs. It's possible that the entire minifigures aren't LEGO and are Chinese bootlegs. It's rare to have counterfeits being passed off as LEGO on BrickLink, but that happens quite a bit on Ebay where levels of seller honesty vary. Two telltale signs that they're bootleg are if they came in sealed clear baggies and if the spear heads detach from the hafts. Neither of those are true of real LEGO Romans.
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