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Shakespeare's bald head hairpiece was recoloured in tan and used for the bust, which strictly isn't a minifigure (although is on a minifig head), in the Classic TV Batman Batcave.

To me, it is just yet another TV show diorama. Whether that is good or bad, I don't know. They have chosen quite a few now. I wonder if sales of Scooby Doo sets will influence their decision. If they sold well, then maybe it helps this project whereas if the sales were less than expected it could hinder its chances.

Due to how they are made. Large parts like baseplates are easier to make by vacuum forming. Personally, I don't use baseplates either, as I prefer plates too. Don't you mean the UCS Modular Haunted House? :-) Of course, UCS is another term that people throw around meaning big or detailed or better than something else.

I think that is the problem with monorail in general. Outside of Asia, they aren't really in widespread use and when they are it is often as a relatively slow tourist attraction. It is not the monorail as such that is of interest than the attraction itself. For example, would a LEGO Disney monorail set sell any better than a LEGO Disney train set? Probably not. And while Classic Space monorails may be of interest to men of a certain age, they are essentially a vision of the future from 40 years ago that hasn't happened. Kids these days don't see them as futuristic. Maybe if LEGO becomes much more popular in China, there will be demand for realistic monorail sets comparable to current trains sets.

Very cool. Now all you need to do is steal some liquid soap from the bathrooms at The LEGO House to have it generate purist LEGO bubbles.

That's has been available for quite a while as it is the same as the one in #75105. It depends on your country, but BL might be cheaper. Some sellers have 1000s of them.

The problem here is that different people have different uses for the CMF series. Personally, I don't collect them as a series any more. There were just too many figures being produced that I don't care for, and so see no point in having. However, put a decent army builder in the series, and I will buy loads of that one. If everyone wanted just one of each and wanted all of them, then equal distributions would work. But that is not the case. Supposedly in more recent series, LEGO do try to identify which ones they think will be popular and skew slightly in their favour (Banana) but I'm not always sure they can identify what will be popular.

The problem then is that regular buyers will not get Spartans, for example, and will just end up with loads of traffic cops and ringmasters. Which is what happened for series 2. Scanning barcodes is very quick, and people were able to strip out all the sought after / resellable figures from a box in a few minutes.

It says LIGHT BLEY 48x48 in the OP.

Yes. Just look for "used" on ebay. Or bricklink, loads of used sets are sold there too.

If the whole figure was missing, then it sounds like someone opened the set and removed it, then returned it.

Remember the sets were 2001, the same year as the movie. LEGO often gets descriptions of the movie in pre-production to work from and it is likely that it was already decided to include Peeves in the sets before the final cut of the movie was made. Also I don't think LEGO actually named him. Bricklink does, but this was a time when LEGO didn't name characters on the box, just in the minimal set descriptions or set titles. And LEGO never sticks a character into an unrelated set, just because they have nowhere else to put them ...

Very clever use of the dress slope, given the subject matter.

Me too. In fact, I tend not to even bother looking at the rest of the photos or pictures if the "VOTE FOR ME" request is at the top.

I see quite a few kids buying them, or having them bought for them. Whether they go for the whole series, I don't know. But one offs, definitely. They are £2.99 / £3.00 here, and often a (LEGO) magazine with a figure or small build costs £4.50, so they are in line with those in terms of value. Polys are typically £4.00 too. Although many stores will end up selling the CMF for £2 or so (3 for £6) in an offer. I agree with that, it is annoying to buy one only to find it completely scratched up inside. If they really wanted to make them blind, they need to stick them in a harder casing (kinder-egg style). It is not a policeman, but that policeman. Most kids into lego will probably have some modern day police figures. This one is just out of date and very plain compared to the modern ones. If you stuck all the figures in a box and asked kids to pick out the ones they wanted for play, I doubt he would be picked very much at all. I'm not particularly fond of the firework guy, but he is brightly coloured and a bit different. Although I'm not particularly impressed with most in this series. The dragon is nice, and the cowboy is OK for a city MOC with a couple of kids playing, but for the most part the rest of them are a complete miss for me. I've got the suited figures from other series and for the most part liked most of them, but sticking them all in one was a step too far for me. I know many people like the cake, flower pot and brick figures, but I don't think I'd ever use them. I am a use them in scenes type collector rather than a collect them all and display them collector. I gave up collecting them all back at about series 12, and started selling off the ones I never used.

The kids would have loved that. Get rid of the fun ones and put in very plain retro ones instead.

I'm not sure if this part has been confirmed. It is a strange number. 20 in a series makes much more sense, as it is then 3 of each per box, just like the two Batman Movie series, and TLNM series.

You already have the bricklink parts numbers in your post. Is there any reason that you cannot just buy the missing / broken original parts? I didn't check them all, but the ones I did seem relatively common. You can even get the booklet. It is probably better to get the original parts rather than modern equivalents that need modifying.

I doubt many little kids are buying it for the retro feel though. In fact, I doubt many kids want the policeman at all unless they are collecting the whole series.

It is actually BrickHeadz, not Brick Headz. Bricks Headz (or BricksHeadz) doesn't sound right, just like "bricks built" doesn't sound right, as in a brick built creature versus a bricks built creature.

You have translated these very nicely into minifigures. But looking at them and comparing them to the real Friends figures, I completely understand why they went down the minidoll route to attract girls that were not playing with minifigure based sets.

I think they will definitely do Harry, Ron and Hermione as CMFs (as variants not in sets), but probably try to keep some of the more sought after ones in the sets rather than the CMF. Maybe Dobby, for example. Probably not have Hagrid in the CMF either (due to big body). And then put some odd surprises in the CMF that leave people thinking why did they include that.

Yes, exactly. They give examples of common usage that appear in print, often newsprint or similar. The OED reference to the 1968 Scandinavian Times quote is particularly interesting ... Christiansen likes to joke that ‘someone has yet to come up with something that cannot be built with Legos.’ I've not seen the original quote, but the quotation marks appear to suggest that Christiansen actually said Legos. Anyway, I am going back to legoing my house.

John Lewis.

Tesco have in the past, although I cannot think of anything current. JL seems to be the major player these days when it comes to exclusives. Although Argos have the new Elves range as an exclusive. TRU have had their own exclusives (Geoffreys etc) and the Bricktober type sets, and then occasionally the retailers used to get one set from a range as an exclusive (eg. TRU had, I think, Barrel Escape from the Hobbit range). But this who range as an exclusive seems to be new. I'm really hoping HP is as wide a distribution as possible and that one retailer is not allowed to dominate.