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This is in the special interests > customisation section. Perfectly allowed.

Yeah, they are even more useful than the CMF gargoyle figure at that size. I imagine they will start appearing in many MOCs, not just in historical and fantasy gothic but also in Batman MOCs and even as little gothic statues in gardens.

Yeah, this looks great. The Gondor helmet really looks good in black. I'll have to get some of those dresses although I'll have to remove the neck and hips print.

Yes, it does. In some of the early series this happened, where apparently less interesting figures were expensive as they were not produced in such high numbers. Of course, the worst case is when an in-demand figure has lower production. Judging popularity must be difficult, as it is not just whether something is popular but also how many will people want? Some collectors want one of every figure whereas others want 10, 20, 50, 100, etc. Catering for army builders through CMFs messes up tge distribution.

What does quality mean? Quality of parts, quality of design of sets, size of sets? A Sauron minifigure with ten bricks to nake a tiny Barad-Dur would probably be a poorly designed build but the quality of minifigure parts would be the same as the big set. And if put in a polybag, would sell 1000s. Similar for a 100, 200, 500, 1000, or 2000 part set. They will nearly always be less quality than a bigger set as the designer can do more with more parts. The original Council of Elrond set is poor quality compared to Rivendell, but in terms if value was pretty decent.

Now LEGO is a bit more grown up than it was a decade ago, I'd hope they do a CMF series again and include Moe, Barney, Skinner as the big three that were missing, then maybe Lenny and Carl. Sideshow Bob would also be good. Obviously lots of other side characters they could do but the first three were huge omissions compared to what they did make.

He was a generic merman king. He is obviously based on mythology (whether Greek or not, other ancient people had similar myths), just as Disney's King Triton is presumably based on the mythological Triton, Poseidon's son. There were also mermaids in Greek and other mythology. Disney borrows a lot from many myths. Yes, I imagine it is that a groom is just too boring by himself compared to modern characters and probably too long since the original bride to make much sense now. There were so many male suit parts and top hats, I sold all my brides with a groom, plus LOTR rings years ago. They were always a good seller. II'ma bit surprised they haven't done another minifig set like 853340 for a bride and groom. I know they've done the brickheadz relatively recently. Maybe skin colour is more of an issue these days, if people want more realistic customizable skin tones for their wedding (as possible in the brickheadz) and that is not possible for minifig sets without swapping out heads, hands and of course skin printing on the bride which cannot be changed. Or maybe because they don't want to offend others outside of traditional male/female couples by having male and female in one set, again like brickheadz where you could buy brides and groom separately.

It is funny, there seems to be two groups presumably based on results rather than the principle. Those that get the ones they want as they scanned and found them and those that cannot find the ones they want as other people found them first. So much like the feel method, the dot codes and the bar codes that were used to identify CMFs in the past. Just quicker.

They already exist, they are just not legal copies.

Isn't it down to reducing the maximum thickness in a part? Thicker parts take longer to cool. Thinning the thickest part means slightly faster processing times so more parts can be produced.

For your own use, you can do what you like so long as you don't sell them as genuine parts in the future. I've successfully done a chrome job on lego parts using an airbrush. Clean the part really well removing the old chrome if there is some, then airbrush an acetone and water mix and let dry. Then a couple of coats of dilute primer (25% water ), then 3-4 coats of dilute metallic paint. It works well for minifig accessories where they are not going to scratch against other parts but wouldn't work well for brick surfaces where the parts will scratch easily when placed together.

And more expensive since people buying from other retailers would get tge same content. Plus then lego would beed another subject fir a GWP to make it attractive to buy early from them. A lot more than seven people Ideas, BDP, Chinese NY, Lego store, holiday sets and GWP. Employee gifts and Inside Tour sets are really the only limited ones these days.

If they had included the fell beast set inside the Barad-Dur set, then there is no incentive to buy the set on release and you might as well put off buying it for maybe two years if you don't intend to build straight away. And even if it is exclusive to LEGO on release, it could become more widely available later and so open to discounts. So no promo set on release would mean people waiting just to see what happens later, whereas a decent promo gives the incentive to buy early.

It might be that there are other reasons for increases in sales (if they have gone up, I don't know). Three full sets per box probably helps but I have also seen a large increase in people wanting one set discussing buying a complete box and selling the other sets, and resellers (whether LEGO resellers or anything resellers) buying multiple boxes to put away for investment based on past results. I saw one reseller on facebook (doesn't appear to have much experience with LEGO) with what appears to be 24 boxes of each of series 25 and 26. I imagine they are going to be sitting on those a while for their "guaranteed profit". There will always be winners in the CMF series, but investing in all of them especially at RRP seems to be becoming even more of a bubble than it was. I makes me wonder how many millions of unopened CMF there are out there. All good for LEGO though. It depends how they are marketed. Speed Champions sell well so there is money in racing cars. If these are small matchbox/hotwheels size cars done well with licensed prints on a couple of parts and with the promise of future collectability (marking bags or boxes as series 1), they could be a good money spinner. Car based polybags have sold well in the past, if marketed that way then they could be popular. But if dine as a short run CMF series, probably not.

I doubt even they know. They used to make large numbers of parts for the build teams so that they didn't run out and the parts that didn't get used were sold off. There have been lots of parts in colours that never appeared in sets discovered this way.

Presumably the same place you got them. Loads were made and not used, and sold off.

It is not clear what colour they are, but from the mould flow marks, they look like either what bricklink calls flat silver or pearl light gray. If so, they are worth a few euros each. Those are not particularly rare as many people were able to buy them. They are no comparison to solid gold Boba Fett figures.

That is the downside of being able to identify the figures prior to purchase. Some people want complete sets, others want an army. It is not really any different to when there were barcodes, dotcodes, or feelable packets. Spartans, elves, Romans, and most warrior type figures have been army builders over the years.

I've only got to episode 3 and she is not battle ready yet! Im enjoying it, but not the breaks having to wait for the new episodes. I can understand the not liking bright light yellow, some more tan pieces would be nice.

I assume they make fixed numbers of these and once they are gone, they are gone. Having them available at all times would probably mean they need to be in constant production. Of course some do come back, presumably where they weren't all claimed first (or second) time around.

I use this part in bright light yellow for Galadriel in RoP. She tends to have her hair down and braided at the back, so it is quite close.

What don't you like about it? I quite like the mix of historic and fantasy and a nice natural colour scheme. There are maybe too many CMF goblins in it and a few other similar characters may give slightly more breadth but overall it suits the sub-forum well.

The Viper looks great. Some of my first ever space toys (that I can remember) were Mattel Battlesrar Galactica ships in the 1970s. I had a couple of the Vipers and a Scarab.

That would likely lead to lower revenues though. The idea of the GWP is that customers order just that little but more to hit the threshold. If you want to purchase the GWP, there are plenty of options such as eBay and bricklink.

Shareholders do get to have some control of the direction of the company in that they have a say (by voting) in corporate matters at AGMs and if they have enough shares or group together with other people to have enough shares, can put resolutions forward. If 51% or more is retained by one party, the minority will never win a vote unless the majority holder also wants it. So they could put forward resolutions such as making 18+ sets depicting modern warfare, or trying to oust the current execs if they believe the company is not going in the right direction, and so on, but those resolutions would never pass if the family chose to block them with their majority.