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Female zombie toy soldier. On a skateboard.

If you don't like them, then don't get either. There will be more in the future.

I still can't quite work it out - is the dog person male or female? The lips look a bit red but the face is kind of squashed, maybe turning the nose up at the smell. But the torso doesn't have the usual hips/curves, so could be usable for a man too. We have already had the zoo keeper, the vet, the animal controller - all female. Do we have any male animal workers through CMF? I guess there was the dog show winner, although that is a bit off theme. I'd like to see more male workers there, and female workers in jobs such as plumber and mechanic. I guess a female mechanic will be off the menu for a while due to Corner Garage.

It did already happen with Series 14. There were a couple that could just about fit into City builds - the trick or treat skeleton boy and the cat costume girl. The gargoyle body was also useful for old style buildings. Other than that, they were pretty much useless as complete figures outside of the horror/scary theme as presumably intended. But there were some nice parts for other themes - I used the fly ones as aliens for example. I think past series have had a better balance of figures. Pick almost any other series and there are at least 1 or 2 historical, 1 or 2 fantasy, 1 or 2 space / aliens, 3-4 modern day, and often more than this. I quite liked the previous job type civilians - painter, plumber, carpenter, mechanics, animal control, waiter, janitor, diner waitress, librarian, etc. as more often than not these have a uniform or something similar to define the role and were not just "a random person". There are plenty of torsos available through City sets and packs that can be made into random people with no specific role, which is why I'm not a fan of receiving too many bland ones in the CMF. Even though I think I've owned every regular CMF ever produced (just not all at the same time), I'm glad I gave up collecting them all for the sake of collecting a long time ago, somewhere between series 10 and 13.

It'll be interesting to see how many version of Mickey and Minnie they can make, they'll probably be in every series ... which will be first, Mickey dressed as Batman or Batman dressed as Mickey?

Yeah, it is nice as it makes the boxes complete all around, with no tubes showing. Of course they could have had normal tiles with print and a plain inverted underneath for the same effect.

The strange thing here is how many new pieces debuted in the CMF series but then have not been used again or have only been used in non-retail productions. I'd love the Roman shield to be reused. The Batman TRU set showed they still had the mold and led to some hope that we may get a new more common one, but nothing yet. Another big one is the CMF Queen's lower body / dress part. Three years now and not reused. But then there was also the ruff piece, it has appeared three times but only in the CMF and not regular sets. I wonder if some of this has to do with the location of the molds. For example, the caveman's club has appeared in 6 CMF sets and the "iconic" cave people set but not in a regular set. Presumably this means the mold is in China and they don't have the same mold in Europe or Mexico. There haven't been many clubs made outside of CMF recently, but this one from 2017 went back to the old carrot style club - all other uses of this club part since 2010 have been as orange carrots, not clubs:

They are from Friends sets https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=11203pb027

Thanks, that's good to know. I just looked them up. The space sets don't really interest me which is probably why I hadn't noticed it, but at least this means it should be widely available and probably on bricks and pieces too, whereas many CMF parts are not. It is also good it is in white, as that means it can be dyed to almost any colour.

Softer parts tend not to take up RIT dye anywhere near as well as the regular ABS parts. I tried dying handcuffs and some of the leaves that way, and the dye rubbed off. Hands are similar - they don't take up dye as well as other parts. Presumably there is a different composition to make them less breakable. I would instead go with an alcohol based marker.

The downside of using these for chess would be that you would need to keep them on the larger bases to stop them falling over or leaving the round plates forming the legs behind when you move them.

For brickheadz that might well make sense. Brickheadz seem to be aimed at slightly older builders than playsets, more for collectors than for play. So aiming BH at adults for nostalgia might work. Although I imagine a David Tennant for younger fans and a Tom Baker for older fans would be a good combination.

I imagine you will have a different feeling about / connection with them than an AFOL that had them as a kid at the time of release. For nostalgia, it is more than just having the set. It is seeing them on the shelves, it is seeing them in catalogues and longing for the sets for birthdays / Christmas, it is remembering the adverts on TV, it is going to your friends' houses and playing with them there and so on. Personally, I was too old to buy them at the time they were released and so have no nostalgia for the original sets. I think Imperial Flagship is way better than anything that ever came out of classic pirates. If I was ten years younger and had grown up with the Black Seas Barracuda, I would probably see it in a different light.

I'm glad there is another unlicensed series, but for me also this is one of the worst unlicensed series. The knight is great, or at least he will be when he gets a decent replacement head and the transparent parts are removed. But other than that there is not much to interest me. I'll probably get 8-10 of them as suits of armour for fleshies rather than as the figure supplied. I'll get a couple of mummies if only for some variations in costumes with all the mummies that have gone before. It is nice the dog walker comes with two dogs, I'll probably get a few of the dogs but the figure itself is rather plain. I'll get one rugby player. I'll probably get a couple of the rainbow tiles, a shower cap, a green duck and the video game controller on BL. But for me, the knight is the only one I'll be looking for. I bought more figures from the last Disney and TLM2 series than I will from this series, and I'm not that big a fan of the licensed ones. I'm not really sure my kids will go for them either this time. The Care Bear will be popular with my daughter, but aside form that, not much else.

I picked both. If I could only pick one due to budget limitations, I'd pick neither. I'd spend that money on something else like the fishing store.

If applying stickers, I tend to apply them on brand new parts, so they are free from dirt and oily finger prints. However, I normally buy a second copy of the sticker sheet if they are important to me, and take a photograph of the sticker sheet so I can print off my own in years to come if need be.

There is a huge difference between a few AFOLs getting bored of LEGO Batman and sales of LEGO Batman. Kids love Batman. When they get older and get tired of him, younger kids take their place. Personally, I have enough Batman minifigures to last me a while. I'm bored of him. But me not buying LEGO Batman sets is not going to make the slightest difference to LEGO Batman sales, as kids that did not have sets that were released in 2012 or 2015 or 2017 will want sets released in 2019 and 2020. Kids that are playing with Duplo Batman now will want LEGO Batman in 2021 and beyond. But then I was bored by LEGO Superman in 2013. I bought 6862 and that gave me one Superman (and Lex Luthor and Wonder Woman). I got the Clark Kent minifigure in 2013. That was all the Superman figures and sets I ever needed. The minifigure is all you need. He flies about regular buildings, which are available in other themes. Of course, kids of today might want a Superman figure too, and they could have got one at any time since 2012, as he has been in multiple sets since then and always available on the shelves.

What do you mean by fatigue. The market for Batman is not in fatigue, probably the opposite.

Miriam Margolyes didn't do Triptaka but did most of the females. I'd love a Lady Whiteadder figure though.

Worse still they can copy it before it gets to review. Plus someone else will copy and sell them.

The RRP will not drop. What normally happens to sets in your country as they approach retirement? Go with that. But if you cannot miss it, but it now.

I bought a used 16x32 one on Saturday for 10p at a car boot sale.

It's going to look rather naff on a smaller track anyway. How big is the area? You could always display it going backwards and forwards on a straight piece of track. You can use an arduino to reverse it and stop it falling off the ends.

In the UK we regularly used to get free poly bags with newspapers. So zero. Or if you want to include the newspaper cost, about half a penny, considering you could often get two lots per newspaper. For sets in sales, I've had many at a penny a part of so.

For me, modern City beats old Town.