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  1. williejm
    I don’t really mind the ‘not quite real but adjacent colours’ of animals: think the same blue bunny was okay, as was the sane blue owl & the dark red one! Squirrel recolours I think would work are: white, dark grey, orange, & reddish orange at least: At this stage though it’s just *silly* that we haven’t had a brown bunny!
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    So very bored of the white bunny by now … and the squirrel is overdue a new colour too ;)
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    100% this. I also feel like my only true skill in life has become worthless
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    There has also been an explosion of Lego themes and types of sets in recent years, and the range and diversity of minifigures has grown exponentially. That was not the case accompanying early series, so they probably filled more of a hole at the time than they could in retrospect. Certainly also used to be the case that big retailers in the U.K. sold CMFs at competitive discounts even from the start of their run, you don’t see that now. I think people are more discerning about which figures they want for a bunch of reasons, not least the financial outlay as @MAB says.
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    Funny that Series 5 was a pretty solid series too - with some great figures, including the first ‘new in a CMF’ animal mould with the baby chimp!I feel like some of the early series’ ‘filler’ figures have a lot to answer for … maybe they should have moved to 12 per series sooner. I have quite a lot of pretty much all the past series, collected at the time, in storage … and stockpiled some figures. You’re never really sure what you’re going to want / need in following years, and whether any of them will be seen ever again. Have never really been one for selling them, but assume that I’d have the same issues you’ve mentioned.
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    I feel like kids didn’t care about that figure though - making it more easy for AFOLs to snag Yeah, I know horses for courses and all that - but if I find a ‘full’ box early on I deliberately leave at least some of the desirable figures in the vain hope that some bairn has a good day. At this stage in the release though - I’d take what I found in open boxes
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    The Spartan was still in the initial era of barcodes, but it was also only series 2 of CMFs, so I don’t think the hype or expectation was there from collectors in any way the same level. As I’ve said before, I think the Beastmaster is a new paradigm for CMFs, having a desirable army-builder figures, with a desirable army-builder animal - plus it is very appealing to the casual collector or kid (kids still get these right?) as one they’d want.
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    I’ve just remembered I was also bitten by a squirrel once. This may explain their hate-filled vengeance conflict
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    I was bitten by a penguin once, I have nothing to say to them until they apologise.
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    *edit* can do up to seven figures
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    They did us dirty by introducing a mammoth, a sabretooth cat and no Sid or Scrat! Sadly I don’t speak penguin. Though their main language seems to be ‘rage’
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    They can’t even remember. They’ve been battling since the Ice Age when some prehistoric squirrel caused mayhem chasing a nut.
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    Largely in battle scenes where my army of squirrels can face off with my army of penguins
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    Not unexpected, but would have been a nice place to see the current foal reused, maybe the pig recoloured, and potentially the introduction of a smaller chunkier ‘pony’ … ah well. It’s very tumbleweed-y and quiet on the animals front
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    Guess this is the best place to bump this, just in case
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    All penguins are meat eaters - just that the ‘meat’ is fish meat, mollusc meat or crustacean meat ;)
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    I would love to be in the Lego design meetings where they decide on what animals get angry eyes and what don’t.
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    🚨🚨🚨 I dunno about keeping your dreams alive buddy, but I have to police the rules! Given that glyptodonts were about the size of a small car, you’ll need to change your Glypto-slot. baby Glypto or a modern day armadillo maybe? #harshbutfair
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    If we are onto alternate hairy ginger beasties - I’d be after a highland cow calf instead ;)
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    My turn. And -yes- I’m cursing my own rules! 1) FOX - I would assume a red fox but with a white recolour later for an Arctic fox 🦊 2) KANGAROO - I think this is fine size wise if we assume it’s a grey kangaroo, not the huge red ones🦘 3) PIGEON - so overdue 🐦 4) BEAVER - dam overdue 🦫 5) IGUANA - central and South American representation, works as a pet, and could stand a few recolours. Lizards are the only main reptile family we don’t yet have🦎 6) (small) DEER - not hugely fussy if we get a ‘baby’ for the existing deer or an adult smaller species like Roe 7) perched EAGLE - golden eagle, perched with wings held slightly open. Can be repurposed as a Roman Standard🦅 8) BOAR - useful in castle and historic themes as well as general wildlife / outdoors 🐗 9) PUFFIN - in the same style as the existing toucan, can you imagine how CUTE it would be? 10) RING TAILED LEMUR - wrestled with all the ‘popular zoo type animals’ but this won out. Also heckin cute! 11) VULTURE - wide geographical use, and someone has gotta be clean up crew! 12) BABY MAMMOTH - just cos.🦣 (Close runners-up: big shaggy dog, tortoise, capybara, eel, duck, swan, kingfisher, raccoon, meerkat)
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    Hello. I’ve collected a bunch of the CMF27 Wolfpack Beastmaster figures, but I’m only really interested in having multiples of the wolf, not the figure itself. So I’m wondering if there’s anyone with the opposite ‘problem’ who might be willing to swap their spare wolves for my spare Beastmasters? I’m just proposing a one-for-one trade, and can do up to ten figures, though it doesn’t have to be all ten!
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    Can definitely see the existing ‘baby gorilla’ being recoloured and printed to be a baby ‘rangy-tan! Freshwater animals generally are absent from the Lego ark, with the otter being pretty much the main exception other than all the crocagators. It’s a shame the kingfisher building kit didn’t spawn a kingfisher figure too!
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    Not points - I mean where my list agrees with yours! * though I do think your llama is cheating 😜
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    Pretty sure the technical term is ‘capybabas’. You’re welcome. Dude, a Pygmy hippo was *right there* So far I’m 6/12 with @Roebuck, 3/12 with @Black Falcon & 4.5/12 with @lifeinplastic 😂
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    The series has been out a fair while, so no restraint was merited
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