MAB

There are literally 100s of easily available heads for less than 50c if you want to change the females to males.

The downside here is that nearly all of them rely on a 2x4 decorated tile that doesn't exist. Obviously here they are taken from the equivalent existing torsos but you'd still need to make decals to get them looking good.

There isn't a line of people waiting to buy the figures though. There is a load of people wanting them but they aren't in the store but they arent indicating they want them. If there were a load of people in the store all saying they want a specific torso from the BAM bar, then maybe the manager would do something to control it. Otherwise the staff will sell what people want to buy. Setting a time limit would be very difficult as it means someone has to monitor each customer. And if it is a race, parts will be dumped all over the floor in the rush to find the desired pieces. And remember that BAM parts are cheap items that are not individually monitored. So long as nobody is stopping others from using the BAM, I really doubt staff care if some parts sell faster than others. If they wanted to ration them, they can just put a small number of popular ones in at a time and drip feed them over the day or week. That wouldn't take long and they don't need to dedicate a member of staff to monitor the sales of a cheap product. If there were 500 cartons of eggs and I needed 500 cartons of eggs for my business and there was nobody else in the store wanting eggs, I'd buy all 500. If they only had 250, I'd ask if they had more. If they say they want to retain stock on the offchance others might come later in the day, I'd jbuy the 250.

As I am both a consumer and reseller, I see both sides of the argument. If I want 20 of a BAM then I'll take what I can find. Not that I have ever seen that many of a sought after piece in BAM. If I wanted 20 then I'd pick 20 and if I can see there are still more, I'd probably take them to sell on. Im not going to stand there sorting through them all, but if they are easy to spot I'd do it. Selling them on will make mine cheaper / free. If there was only 20, I'd still take them all. I don't go to a lego store much, so I wouldn't take 10 and leave 10 or take 1 and leave 19 for others to have a chance and have to return myself when I could have got them first time. It is similar when products go on a discount. If I see a shelf full of lego that is 50% off, I'd clear it. Leaving it for others to have a chance is leaving it for someone else to clear the lot. Everyone had the same opportunity.

The team logos are made up. I cannot see anything else. I hope they are unlicensed, and the start of other sets with fleshies that are in-house instead of licensed. Keep City yellow but more easily available and generic realistic heads would be good.

Blu-tak, removable sticky pads, use string to dangle it from the mirror, ... Any solution that works for non-Lego items could be used.

I used to do it on business trips to the US. A decade ago it was $100 = £65, so a £65 purchase there could get you £5 off here. So about 7.5% instead of 5%. Even better if they had double VIP when traveling.

Nice, but I think this shows the issue if they do the whole Fellowship. 4x Hobbit figures that are exactly the same aside from a lock of hair here and there, just done in different colours and are identifiable through a different decorated 2x4 tile on the front.

There is also 3. Discouraging people from buying in-demand items from replacement parts and instead buying full sets at retail stores. 1. Also discourages collectors buying up large armies just because they can, whether they intend to flip them immediately or not.

Minifigure collecting is an interesting topic, as there are many different forms of collecting. I used to collect all the CMF (until I got bored with them as a whole) but I also collected army builder figures from them in quantity. The best (or worst, depending on viewpoint) I ever did was the S6 Roman, where I collected over 100 at one point. And it probably only took me 3-4 months to get that many, while the figures were out in stores and they were cheap in stores on on ebay. I always intended to use them in a giant scene but I never got round to it. Some were never even opened. I was finding I preferred smaller scenes as I simply could not display even temporarily a 1m x 2m scene in my house to do a huge army justice. When I buy CMF, I have to say I don't really care about others and their collections. Other people have the same opportunity to buy as me. If other people want to put the work in then they could have bought what I bought or they could have bought one of every figure. Their need for one more figure to create what they want (such as a complete set of CMF) is not any different to me wanting one more figure to create what I want (whether that is a small army of 10, or a large army of 100). Different collectors have different aspirations as to what they want their collections to be. They want one each of many, whereas I want many of one. And sure, the joy of getting a first minfigure might be higher than they joy of getting the 101st of the same one for someone else, but then they joy of getting any figure is probably high for them, If it is their first, why not get a common and less in demand figure. Towards the end of my collecting all CMF ( I stopped around S12-14), I was buying them just because I needed them to be complete, rather than because I really wanted them. To me, that is more damaging than someone buying armies because they want them; that is buying as I felt the need to be complete rather than because I wanted them. Minfigures are also very different to houses. I can use 10 minifigures at once. I can also use 100 minifigures at once. To equate them to houses, where everyone needs one, is wrong. Nobody needs a minifigure. And those that want a specific minifigure to add to their 100s of different figures is no different to me wanting another one to add to my 1000s of similar ones. Is the Personally, I am not at all interested in armies assembled on a baseplate without any building. Especially photos and posts of the same minifigure on a baseplate, as they often come over a bragging. To me that is hoarding and often showing off of wealth. Whereas put the same army in a build, and it is much more interesting and creative. But the same is true of CMF collections. A display of every figure is not that interesting any more. There are so many now, they all just blur together. There is no more creativity in buying every minifigure in a series than there is in buying multiples of one figure. For me, the CMF were great for inspiring ideas. I used to build an 8x8 vignette for each one, inspired by the character. Sticking them all in a row on a shelf is not really different to sticking 100 Black Falcons in a row.

Buy white ones and dye them.

I doubt they would reuse the old designs for minifigs. They updated the old HP ones and come out with lots of variants for SW.

It wasn't just you doing that though.

I have no doubt they will go out of stock very quickly. But they will come back. Look at what happened with the Black Falcon parts. They were hard to get originally but regularly come back into stock and are easy enough to get hold of now. If you don't mind waiting there is no reason to overpay when the army builders and resellers buy 200 at once.

If there is a lot of brick built landscape, and castles or other historic style buildings around I'd agree. That type of thing does look epic at a show and you sometimes need a lot of minifigures to flesh out the scene to make it look real. A 1m x 2m display of brick built terrain with only 10 figures is going to look very bare but with 100 will look more alive. Whereas if it is just baseplates with figures lined up on them, without any actual bricks/building, then to me they look more like figures arranged for sale on a simple display stand than a convention display. I don't think it is jealousy, but more wanting to see creativity in LEGO builds and not just shows of how many figures someone has bought.

Yeah, and it sort of makes sense for event / holiday type figures. Three figures with a limited time frame in which they are likely to be popular, they want to sell through as many as they can quickly and make them easy for people to look at, see a Halloween "set", and buy quickly. Same with Santa and elf type figures before Christmas - prepared packs at a specific time of year would make sense. But if they put a monster in the BAM at Easter, I doubt they are worth packing into the clam shells as there would not be a high demand. No doubt they see the soldier/viking torso in a similar light, just like a police officer of a baker, dump them in as randoms rather than assembling prepared packs.

I guess it depends on how you define a playset. The big Hogwarts 71043 (to me) is not really a playset. It is not as much a display set as the Icons 76391 but not as much a playset as all the small sections of Hogwarts. I really hope for a minifigure scale Minas Tirith, minifigure so hopefully the top section(s) or a few of the buildings and courtyard done well, rather than all the levels at microscale. But they could also do something like the two towers in microscale, or even if there is just to e one set it could be lots of locations in microscale.

What is stopping you from doing that, if that is what you want to? They have been running this series of adverts promoting doing that for 3 or 4 years now.

The stackable build trays / display stands is a nice idea. Although it does look like they have been massacred!

So they'd need to take a guess at how many different people would buy each item then sets limits per item? That would make BAM very complicated if you could buy 100 police torsos but only 10 soldier and so on. And if they have limits, someone needs to check them at checkout. That is a lot of time consuming work compared to the alternative which is to sell what they have to whoever takes it to the cashier. They don't want to be busy identifying and counting individual parts when they should be busy serving people with $200 sets i the queue behind you. And it only takes one message from one person to a local group to say such and such is in stock and the estimates of how many people will buy will be totally wrong. If they can make such accurate predictions abut how many people will visit and how many each would want, then it might be better to predict that if one part is likely to be highly sought after than others, then they should make more of that part. If they had 60 left and you wanted 50, would you take them all, that is almost all their stock so nobody else could build an army? What if they had 50 (or less) and you want 50? Is it OK then to buy all they have, especially if you have to travel to get to a store so can only go once per month. If an individual store wants to keep stock back, they can easily impose limits by simply not putting them all out at once. If the employees really care that someone keeps buying them all and keep telling other customers this, they could easily do this. Or even put some by for a customer that keeps going in and asking and leaving empty handed. I buy for personal use but I also buy to sell on, so I have a foot in both camps. It is quite funny to see complaints that if someone else buys loads of one product and especially if it is all they have in store, they are bad because they must be scalping. Whereas buying loads (or everything) is justifiable if it is for amassing an army, even though the end result is the same. No stock for others. Eurobricks members were doing it, showing how many Black Falcons torsos and legs they were buying huge armies even though they were going out of stock. They are no better than people buying to sell on. Not on in-store BAM stock they cannot, as each individual part is not recorded when the sale is made. And even if it was (which would take forever to checkout), they would then have to restrict sales to VIP account holders. This then leads to problems with denying people purchases in store if they do not join. Even then, they would have to take time to assemble and/or package them and keep them behind the desk to ensure that nobody tampers with them. And if they are not behind the desk, someone has to check them at checkout to ensure that nobody has opened the packs and put three of the same in one packet. Plus people that want the other figures and don't want the soldier are just as annoyed. If stores return complaints to a head office that adults keep buying all the stock of some BAM parts and other adults are complaining about it another way of solving the problem is to not make the parts. Leave BAM for the more generic random parts that kids love and put the ones they predict adults will be interested in into expensive sets.

You call other people a jerk and call others scalpers, yet you do not know what they are doing with these items. If someone is building a 500 minifigure army, they need 500. Are they any more of a jerk than someone building an army of 50? If you took 50 and someone else wanted just a few, they'd probably think you were the jerk taking them all. 50 is a lot. Is someone buying 50 really a "regular person"? Someone buying 50 is just as likely to be selling them on as someone buying 500. Why not set it at a much more reasonable 10 or even 3, the size of the blister pack. And limits don't really work in store, as people just go around twice, or get family and friends to join in. And it would mean someone in store has to check every piece to see what it is. And online, you can just return to place multiple orders. Having to set limits on individual pieces on online PAB is also unlikely, as they would need to ensure there was another variable per part that restricts the number of items you can buy instead of the global 200. And that would need to be set, and then checked in repeat orders. They don't even seem to have the functionality to check if you have gone over limits on sets based on past purchases at the time of placing an order, let alone individual parts in a PAB cart.

The head is certainly interesting. It looks like a separate neck mounted piece like a normal beard or scarf/bandana/mask that a regular head slots into.

Which lego leaks account are they on? As there are so many copycat ones on there.

I have a number of stores reasonably near me. I only really buy PAB and BAM from them. With free shipping for online purchases, buying larger sets in store is pointless as I have to transport them home. Whereas if I get them delivered I also get a free shipping box to use again.

Build a Minifigure. Built displays to look at. Toys like City Stuntz to try out.