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    Yeah I’m confused by the cat colour - it looks white to me too, but then the inside of the ears looks ‘lighter’. I think the reason the croc and lion are shown as they are is that they have attached tails, or maybe just a super long mane, behind.
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    Pleasantly surprised by most of these. I like the fact that several so far make use of the ‘mouth’ as the opening for the minifig face, it makes them much more useful in customs and to use elsewhere. Surprised that the peacock head is a single mould - I assumed they’d somehow use a hole and an existing accessory for the crest.
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    @Roebuck said a deer (with Santa)
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    I think we need a whole CMF of just Jeffrey Combs & Susie Plakson aliens to feature in it 🤣
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    I can only surmise that it’s something along the lines of the sets they already released as ‘family tree’ and ‘ travel map’, but this one has a Christmas theme - in an effort to make it a kinda Christmas tradition set … who knows
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    Transporter room is such a good call, would be perfect for figure display.
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    I still have a random bunch of spare gorilla arms. Gonna put them in a vault.
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    Oh yes I forgot about those!
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    What if you don’t have Santa in your family tree? I’m confused.
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    I also think one of the ongoing challenges there is that - even if they did have ideas and designs to include more figures from those cultures - the ongoing use of yellow as a ‘standard’ skin tone.
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    We can only dream of such an announcement
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    I don’t know if I’m an outlier here - but I think Ro Laren is a real fan favourite, and would probably beat all the others you suggested in any poll. Not that I’m happy with Tasha erasure, of course. She could have come with an amorphous black blob build …
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    Not at all. I am a friend to aaaaaaaall nature! Just that some species appeal to the great unwashed is greater than others. On the specific issue of tapirs though - Lego has an appalling record in giving us any ungulates. What do we have? Elusive camel, elephants, and a stag; then the domesticated crew 🐄🐑🐖🐐🐎**. In any logical world I’d think tapirs would have to be behind bison, moose, giraffe, zebra, donkeys, rhino, hippos and probably antelope and llama on the missing ungulates list. ** dolphins and orca are technically ungulates, but they are such outliers they don’t reeeeeeally count.
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    A lot has happened in the intervening decade and a half, especially regarding what is acceptable in terms of representation, in terms of cultural appropriation, and Lego’s own policies in those regards. What was acceptable in early CMF series may not apply now. You can do a lot with putting alternate heads & a turban on the existing ‘swashbuckler’ figure. Makes a pretty good Sinbad, especially for fans of the Harryhausen movies.
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    I hear you. And I don’t disagree. Which also makes me wonder why they didn’t bite the bullet at some point and make moulds / prints that really worked across both. I’m also keen to see a toucan recolour - and really thought they’d have done that with the Encanto sets. I think red pandas are in the same ‘group’ as koalas, sloths, capybaras, ring tailed lemurs, meerkats - which is that they have a general popularity in popular culture. They’re crowd pleasers, which makes them popular in zoos and animal parks, and very merchadise-able. That’s why I think we will see them but unlikely to see less glamorous or positively-PRed cousins
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    Updated macaw, sloth, jaguar. Maybe a capybara? I think tapirs and anteaters are very unlikely to ever show up, but the others have been made in Duplo/Friends/Disney styles
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    Agreed. I’d have to rank Outback as my preferred destination over the others for that reason, much as I also *need* a giraffe, beaver & moose
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    Both of those appear to have the minifigure face showing through the mouth of the costume head. I expect that might also be true of the dolphin, and possibly the lion, and frog, too.
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    Yeah I mean more - all the Lego big cats together, all the Duplo big cats together, all the Friends big cats together that makes it possible to see the range without being visually disparate (to me) I had a kernel of an idea that I haven’t fully fleshed out whereby you could have a display background that had not a vertical and a horizontal axis … kind of like it’s a real world graph or chart. So you could have say horizontal strata of ‘type of Lego’ set, and the type of animals … so you could simply see the animals beside their kin in both the system type and the species type. eg: DUPLO 🐮🐮 🐐 🐑🐏 🐷🐷 🫏 FRIENDS 🐂🐄 🐐🐐 🐑 🐖 🫏 CITY 🐄🐂 🐐🐐 🐑 🐖🐖 CATTLE GOATS SHEEP PIGS DONKEYS ETC
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    I love her stuff, and am also a bit jealous of some of the animals she has in bulk! To @pinar’s point though, I think those sort of enclosures are too ‘busy’ to really display lots of animals well. If the goal is to display the animals, I’d stick to simpler environments or backdrops, and I’d also give good consideration to the colours used for the background elements - that they properly complement and show the critters. Am curious as to how you will do this. Especially when it comes to separating or integrating animals across themes and systems. For me, I find it easiest and most gratifying to see ‘like for like’ against each other, but that may just be an aesthetic thing No warning needed. It’s as good a place as any, and this thread long since stopped being just a guessing game. It’s also pretty relaxed, compared to some others :)
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    Yeah, my hunch is that they are moving towards them all being the whole minifigs face visible. Otherwise why bother making the new cat head mould rather than recolour the one from s18? I do think the downside to that is that the costume figures (to me, anyway) are these days looking a bit ‘samey’, and have lost a lot of their charm. I love the full head of the gorilla and OG bear costumes, and it’s a bit sad we don’t have any more in that vein. Another factor for me is how useful any of the parts are in isolation, in that regard a shark or lizard costume type (where the minifigs face is in the ‘mouth’) is of more use to me than one which has an animal head atop an unnatural opening.
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    You’re just trying to score extra points! Meanwhile I’m mourning the lack of any actual animals (clam notwithstanding) in this series. 😜
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    I mean, yes to all of this, but at the end of the day I don’t know how we judge a guessing game in English, unless we have some agreed understanding of the words used? It would be like us saying contemporary ‘blacksmith’, ‘barber’ and ‘surgeon’ minifigures were the same because they historically once were. Common names for animals are a total crock (just think about US buffalos, elk and robins, named by European settlers already familiar with like species, yet they chose different names 🤪) , and totally yes it’s unfair on those without English as a first language … aaand it’s also silly because one of the figures we are discussing from the new series is just called ‘fish costume’ which is both wildly unspecific, yet also somehow conjures a generic animal we expect. Yet by any measure ‘fish’ is by far more a diverse group of animals than ‘monkeys’.
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    I’m legit curious as to how they will do the fish costume. I assume something similar to the ‘shark suit’ head, dorsal & tail piece, but they may do something different
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    I mean, even allowing for that (and I honestly don’t know how you do, given the range of potential first languages and idiosyncrasies with common names, which range much more than just by language) ‘orangutan’ is one of three closely related, and very visually similar, species, ‘monkey’ is a broader group of (hundreds of) species.
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