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Yes! The grandpa hair in colours other than grey and without the comb-over would be great. Male pattern baldness doesn't just affect those with grey hair. Also, more elf hair pieces with yellow ears. Yes, some do exist already (e.g. the CMF elves), but not in enough hairstyles and colours.

@matty33 It could be that the BrickLink seller made a mistake and, as @CopMike suggested, one is dark grey and the other dark blueish grey. Alternatively, depending on the age of the pieces, how much sunlight they they have been exposed to and the additives in the ABS, one may have darkened or gone slightly brownish just as some white parts do. Can you post a colour accurate picture of both parts?

I'm guessing that it will be a European style dragon that fits the wearer like Chinese dragon costumes do. This could be my favourite of the series. I'm with @Itaria No Shintaku in hoping that the unicorn knight and spider costume aren't too cartoonish.

1. What @MAB said. The child has one or two siblings who, depending mostly on age, may also be into LEGO. One or both of the child's parents have at least some higher education (post-secondary school education such as a university degree), a non-manual occupation and live in an urban or suburban environment. The parents are likely mid-thirties to late forties. They probably played with LEGO themselves when they were kids. The family takes at least one distant (possibly foreign) holiday a year. They hope their LEGO-playing children will go to university and get good jobs when they are older. 2. A combination of things: creative, aesthetic appreciation, geeky, a sense of belonging to a community of AFOLs that has become cool (or cool-ish in a kidult way), a sense of satisfaction when I've obtained specific LEGO that I have been after, a feeling of accomplishment when I MOC something and it's just as I imagined it would be.

Removed the batteries and key-chain from a licensed key-ring/torch, coloured the LEGO logo black, MOCed a jinbaori (Japanese jacket - which looks better in real life than in the picture!) and bound the sword's handle so the hand could grip it. This is what it was originally like:

@CadanOgden Not instructions for brick-building an oversized figure, so perhaps not what you were after, but here's an oni (Japanese ogre) with a kappa (Japanese water demon) from my display collection. The kappa is a minifigure; the oni is oversized.

Bingo! I had that confirmed by a manager of a WHS once. If you're an AFOL (not a kid or teen) and you ask them nicely if you can feel packets while standing by the till, WHS are happy to oblige. Yesterday, I bought two from WHS and five from JL (I would have got them all from WHS but I received some JL vouchers for Christmas). I now have all the CMFs from this series that I was after: Mermaid Bats x2, Zan, Dr Phosphorous, Black Vulcan, Swimsuit Bats and Jor-El

A lot of stores put them behind the till because they get stolen otherwise. They don't want to imply that you're a thief, so come up with excuses such as 'they're blind bagged anyway' for not letting you have any except the moment you purchase them. If you ask to feel the packets while standing next to the tills, they should understand by that that your intentions are honest. I've done that at my nearest WHS and they have always been happy to oblige. If a shop isn't willing to let you feel packets by the till, find one that does. It's surprising how customer action can change even a big company's mind. When S2 of the main CMF line came out, many branches of Argos were limiting the number you could buy per visit. The Argos near my office at the time had a limit of 4 per person. My response? Walked out of Argos with no CMFs. Went round the corner to WHS and bought loads there instead. I think lots of people went places other than Argos for that series. Argos soon stopped limiting the numbers you could buy at once.

Thanks for suggesting the channel. Not a great review, but as you say, we did get to see Jor-El's torso and it does have the S-like Kryptonian peace symbol. I would have preferred if it didn't. In TheBrickShow's review, they confirmed that Dr Phosphorous does not glow in the dark. Disappointing but not altogether unexpected. Any UK sightings of this series in the wild yet?

@Robert8 posted a picture of them on their Batman emblazoned bases a few pages back (see here). Have there been any sightings in the wild? If so, where?

I don't have the previous Cantina sets, but a post or thread with a side-by-side comparison of all three Mos Eisleys (2004, 2014 and 2018) would be interesting as would a MOCed mash-up of the 2014 and 2018 sets.

I fully accept that opinions will differ and that everyone is entitled to their point of view. In matters of taste, there is no right and wrong: de gustibus non est disputandom. But I was curious about the lack of love for the Hulk vs Red Hulk set ( @AntiKragle @ElectroDiva ). Sure the vehicles are goofy and not needed by enraged monsters that can bound faster and probably for longer than one of those trucks can go. But the figs in that set are great: a classic bigfig Hulk, with Red Hulk, She-Hulk and Red She-Hulk just as one would imagine them in LEGO. No?

Interested in a few of this series for parts, but none for the characters they are supposed to represent. Disappointed that Dr Phosphorous is likely not GitD Have any images been released showing Jor El's torso print underneath the armour? If so, can someone please post them in this thread? I'm hoping that it doesn't have a Kryptonian peace symbol - the S-like curve - but am thinking it might.

My brother-in-law used to work for LEGO in Billund and my sister created name card holders in LEGO for their wedding reception. They consisted of a few stacked 4 x 2 bricks on a plate against which the card rested. A 2 x 1 brick attached to the plate in front of the card stopped it from sliding off. On the front left of the plate was a personalised minifigure representing the guest. Something similar would work as a business card holder on a desk.

Good point! So traumatised was I by it, that it felt more recent. I have corrected the error in my post above.

Nod to @koalayummies as we seem to share similar tastes in LEGO: Best Theme: The Lego Ninjago Movie Best Minifigure: Elf Girl (Series 17 CMF) Best Minifigure That Isn't Really a Minifigure: The Black Panther (6193919) from the Jungle Half-Track Mission set (60159) Best Set: Green Ninja Mech Dragon (70612) (though I modded my mech to turn it into a model of a real dragon) Worst Themes: Minecraft and Angry Birds Worst Minifigure: All non-yellow minifigures Worst Set: Women of NASA

I only have a few CapeMadness capes, so don't have a wide basis of comparison. Capes4Minifigs capes are made to the same standard as LEGO capes but the colours aren't always exactly the same as LEGO's. They're not particularly expensive, so my suggestion would be to order a few of theirs, CapeMadness' and LEGO's and compare them. With pictures, a review of all three together would make a great addition to this thread!

A possible compromise is Arealight. They do rubbery capes in various colours. The capes allow for dynamic poses while not looking silly if the minifigure is standing in a neutral, non-dynamic stance. I have had issues with Arealight's production quality. It's usually OK, but some parts have indelible pale spots. Also, Arealight has deplorable customer service - so bad that I almost didn't mention them. All I can say is caveat emptor! If your heart is set on fabric, I can't recommend Capes4Minifigs strongly enough. They do a vast range of colours, sizes, styles and materials (polycotton, polyester and a kind of thin vinyl), all backed by excellent customer service.

{old timer voice}They had no movable arms. And no articulated legs. And no body printing. And no faces. And we liked 'em!{/old timer voice} The first minifigures that I got new, as opposed to ones that were originally my older brother's, were the cowboy slabbies in this set. Unfortunately, I don't still have the set or the minifigures. My first articulated minifigures were Classic Space astronauts from this set. Regrettably, I don't have the set or the minifigures anymore. The first minifigures I got after leaving my DA in 1993 - and a large part of the reason I became an AFOL - were the minifigures from this set. I still have all the parts for both minifigures in perfect condition, though only the ghost is in my display collection as it appears in 6034.

As @Foxw said, there's BrickLink. Generally, it's my first port of call. There's also LEGO's official service for purchasing individual parts, Bricks & Pieces. If you're after minifigure parts/accessories, FireStar Toys are good but expensive. If you're in France as your username suggests and are looking for minifigures, there's La Petite Brique. I don't know if they're any good - I haven't tried them yet. I really don't recommend Ebay. In my experience, you can't trust the LEGO sellers there.

The clutch of most joints can be completely restored using Humbrol Satin Cote. I explain the technique here in relation to minifigure legs, but it works just as well for other connectors. If the joint is hidden, you can use a cote other than satin. But the satin one when dry is the same lustre as LEGO parts, so is completely invisible. It is important to apply a very thin cote, allowing plenty of time for it to dry, testing it and, if necessary, applying another very thin cote. The mistake you want to avoid is applying too much at once. You may want to try it on some test pieces before you do it on anything expensive/difficult to obtain.

I was thinking the same thing. LEGO has already done it, albeit to a limited degree and only for a few sets. For example, this set from 1986: ...became this set in 2016: I would like LEGO to take that even further with new Castle and Space sets that make use of currently available pieces and the latest building techniques (plus maybe innovative pieces/techniques) but true to the flavour of the Classic ranges. In other words, sets that appeal at once to nostalgic AFOLs like me as well as to kids. Commercially, it makes sense: a parent/grandparent will be more inclined to buy a set - or a more expensive set - that kid/grandkid wants if the set also appeals to the grown-up's sense of reminiscence. The question then becomes whether there is sufficient overlap between the tastes of the two demographic segments (older and younger generations) to make it worth LEGO's while. ( @LegoMonorailFan my icon picture finds yours intriguing. It's only logical.)

Indeed: Since I took that picture, I have updated the cane to an official question mark topper and a different colour and style shaft. So do I! Apologies for the digression from the main topic of this thread.

I was thinking the reverse: creating a more impressive Atlantis by modding structures from the Lonely Mountain. I posted about it in July in the comments under BrickSet's review of the Battle of Atlantis:

Wow! There is such a thing as coincidence and as humans, we're not very good at reconciling ourselves to it. But even so, I find it hard to believe that LEGO's Rocket Boy wasn't based on Lemonone's Rocket Man. If LEGO has been 'inspired' by at least one of Lemonone's ideas, perhaps some of his other designs will see their way into production. As an aside and not in the area of design or in relation to LEGO, I've had job interviews where I gave the interviewer(s) ideas, they have said they hadn't thought of them and I didn't get the job but later found out that my ideas had been implemented by the organisation(s) I had applied to (presumably by the people who did get the job). It's stomach churning. If that is what LEGO has done, what little respect I had for them after they needlessly fired 1,400 people has dwindled even further.