AmperZand

I'm not Muslim, but the slender minarets seen in Turkish mosques like those at the Selimiye are my favourite of all architectural features. You have really capture their look beautifully here and I look forwards to seeing the brick built version. Nice work!

Thanks, Neville! I was thinking of eventually getting Fishface through BrickLink but only if the orange part could be removed. As it can't, I won't get this minifig.

Is the orange part of Fishface's back and gills area (that I'm guessing is an air breathing apparatus) a separate element that can be detached or is it simply a painted part of the minifig's back and sides?

I like your priestess, jFox. You wanted to see other elf minifigs. Here's mine from some time before the CMF elf: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AmperZand/Fantasy/lego-elf-impulse-moc2.jpg Non-LEGO parts by BrickForge.

5 out of 6 ain't bad for the S9 - S11 category, so I'm pretty pleased with that. However, I think extra credit should have gone to those who listed ideas first. Not in a million years would I have guessed the bee suit woman. If more than two people listed that, the first person should have received more credit than the second. It's much harder to guess from all possible minifigs than from those already proposed. And no, I don't want to do the re-counting! :~P

bekindsorewind, I'm not an expert, but there are two basic ways to do it: injection moulding and 3D 'printing'. Injection moulding of ABS is what TLG, BrickForge, BrickWarriors, Brick Arms et al do. TLG does it itself. I'm not sure about BF, BW and BA. I believe that BW provides the master sculpt to a specialist injection moulding company, but I could be wrong about that. The other approach is 3D 'printing' which can be done in ABS. Injection moulding usually produces neater, more detailed parts but is very expensive and best suited to large runs, i.e. hundreds or thousands. 3D 'printing' produces rougher, less detailed parts and is better suited to low production runs, i.e. a handful at a time. It is worth noting that the quality and detail possible through 3D 'printing' is improving all the time. Amps

Received the two-headed ogre armour yesterday (and other parts). Haven't tried it out on a minifig yet because most of my LEGO is still in boxes from having moved earlier this year. But just holding the piece in my hand made me chuckle with glee! Can't wait to create a two-headed orc/Uruk. Chortle!

Agree with Darkdragon: black would be great for the back piece to go with black wings and tail. Dark red would be cool too as the wings and tail already exist in that colour. In fact, that may be a good colour to start with. The back piece should be fairly neutral in design so it can go with different kinds of wings such as dragon or bird, or other appendages such as tentacles or spider legs. Amps

Ryan, I received the dragon wings and tails and they're even better than your picture suggests. Fantastic design and production quality. Excellent parts! I'd love to see them in black, as well as the demon armour. Another part I'd love to see is a simple back brace for the wings and tail, that is, a back part to hold the wings/tail that looks like part of the minifig's body and not a piece of armour. I didn't order the lance even though the design looks great because I'd rather get it in black, dark brown and silver. If you did it in those colours, I'd get quite a few. Thanks for the great products and service! With hope for additional colours and a new back piece, Amps

Apologies if this has been answered before, but what is the best way to attach wings to a minifig's back? By wings, I mean ones like Buckbeak's from HP a few years ago: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=48284 What's the best way to attach them so it doesn't look too clunky or bulky? What parts are required? Mods, Please move this thread if it belongs elsewhere.

I moved home in April and haven't had the opportunity to display my CMFs and other minifigs at my new place yet. So for now, they're in Really Useful boxes or their original LEGO bags/boxes. But I'm planning to display my favourites on eye-level shelves outside of sunlight. The rest I will keep individually bagged in the Really Useful boxes along with duplicate minifigs and loads of spare parts.

If true, I'm guessing that: - Dr Splitz is an Einstein-like character - Fortune teller is the evil witch-queen from the tale of Snow White looking into her magic mirror - Downtown cop is a uniformed New York policeman - Maid Marrion is a female analogue of the Series 1 forestman

Picked up the Thor polybag with The Sun today. Went to three WHSs as they were on my way to where I was going anyway. There was no restriction on the number of polybags you could get at any of them. Saw one bloke get 12! All three WHSs were in south London.

Not originally a D&D thing: Elrond and some others in Middle Earth already are half-elves. Nice idea but I still can't stomach the idea of fleshies for any demi-human or human-like race (wizard, elf, dwarf or hobbit). After all, in the films (if not the books), all had the same skintones. So if LEGO humans are yellow, the other Tolkienesque races should too.

The only Sidan stuff I have is from their knight & samurai ranges. The quality of the plastic and the standard of manufacture are fine. The problem is that they're not 100% compatible with LEGO minifigs. For example, to get a jinbaori to fit, I had to enlarge the collar hole. Apart from that, I've had a good experience with Sidan. Incidentally, all the Sidan parts that I have I bought from Minifigcat over a period of months. I have found the service top class. Be warned that they ship in small, chunky boxes which can be a problem if you have a particularly narrow mailbox.

Has to be the CMF elf because: - of the great face and body print - he was first and for some time the only elf - his head/ears/hands are the right colour for a LEGO minifig Yes, I'm unashamedly anti-fleshie.

I've just been in contact with Huw at Brickset and he reports that the promotion isn't being run starting this Saturday. It's not yet clear when it will be on but it's definitely not starting Saturday 6 Oct.

Apologies for posting twice in a row, but this is on a separate topic... Can anyone confirm that the next LEGO promotion in The Sun starts this Saturday, 6 October with the Uruk-Hai polybag followed by the MF ghost on Sunday?

You're only assured of being exempt if your commercial import from the US is £15 or less including P&P. Note that HMRC doesn't use the market rate for its FX; it uses a rate that makes it more likely to push you into tax liability. If you are above £15 and your order gets inspected by HMRC, you will be subject to VAT at 20% + duty (roughly 10%) + a Post Office handling fee of £8 (the last of which has already been mentioned). If your import from the US is marked as a "gift", is under £40 (including P&P), appears outside and inside the packet to be coming from an individual (not a company) and isn't insured for more than £40, you won't have to pay tax/the postal charge.

Absolutely brilliant! You brought a smile to my face.

Playability is a consideration for me but not when I'm buying for myself. It's only important when I'm buying for my young nephews. While minifigs are the greatest draw for me personally (I collect them), fleshies are a real turn off especially fleshy parts that don't have a yellow equivalent such as Legolas's hair/ear-piece. I do sometimes keep packaging either because I like it - such as for the CMFs - or for storage.

Interesting point about having to know the local market. In the UK, apart from LEGO brand stores, try John Lewis department stores. Argos and the Entertainer aren't bad, and some branches of WH Smiths and Tescos are decent. I understand that Toys R Us are pretty good for LEGO, but can't say from personal experience; I've only ever been to TRU in the US where the selection was good and some of the prices were great. Apologies to Sammael for the digression.

They don't sell LEGO in Denmark. I don't even think they've heard of it. All joking aside, when I was in Denmark a few years ago, I had to go to toy stores to fing LEGO and the selection wasn't as impressive as stores in the UK or US. I understand that things have improved since then but I suspect you're better off shopping for LEGO in other countries. The posts above confirm my suspicions. I feel sorry for Danish FOLs. Denmark is the home of LEGO but TLG doesn't serve its domestic market particularly well.

A lovely idea, lifeinplastic, but I suspect that larger accessories would necessitate bigger bags. If the number of minifigs per box remained the same, TLG would need larger display boxes and shipping cartons. The extra parts combined with the additional packaging and logistics costs would put the price up significantly. I wish the CMFs did come with more accessories but I don't see it happening. What I suspect is that we'll see more of the themed minifig box sets such as the beach, rock band and horror monsters we've already seen.

I have a couple of red wizard hats. You can see one of mine here: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/AmperZand/Fantasy/wizards_witch_and_druid.jpg Not super rare, but not that common either. I believe the wizard's hat in red never appeared in a set. I think they were test pieces for a new mould.