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To me personally, I don’t have a blanket issue with artificial rarity, exclusives, or the like. It all depends on what the character is and the inherit across-the-board value of that character. On the side of artificially rare figures that I think are just fine, I’d list the following and give the reason as to them being fine: -Chrome Gold C3PO: just a cool version of an available figure. -Mr Gold: not a very desirable figure apart from the fact that he’s rare. Just a kitschy design really. -Retro Police Officer: again not a very desirable figure in and of itself. Also the actual old version can be acquired for not too much money. -CW SDCC figures: these border on being desirable characters, and I get that they actually are for some people, but I’d argue that that group of people is fairly small and the appeal of these particular character designs even less so. On the other side, here are the ones I think are pretty unacceptable: -Con-exclusive minifigures of iconic characters like Phoenix, Shazam, Bizzaro: the fact that LEGO made so few X-Men sets (just 2 proper ones?) which BOTH included Wolverine and Magneto, and made an iconic character like Phoenix a con exclusive, is absolutely a slap in the face. Comic/Marvel/X-Men fans across the board are made unable to obtain an important character who would go beautifully along Wolverine, Cyclops, and Storm. Likewise with Shazam (who I know we might get now) and Bizzaro, and even the first Green Lantern fig when it was made. -Percival Graves: this is another character who has general appeal and desirability among kid and adult fans alike. If you’re trying to play out the first Fantastic Beasts film, you need him. He’s a generally desirable and important character/design, so making him ultra rare is in appropriate. My opinion boils down to the thought that artificial rarity is fine as long as the item is just an interesting variant (ex. chrome C3PO, black suit Spider-Man and Superman, etc), a total novelty item (ex. Mr Gold and the police officer), or something else with very narrow and limited appeal (ex. CW superheroes). The Harry Potter CMF rare fig could’ve been the invisibility cloak Harry but with trans-clear head and hair. That would’ve been cool and desirable to be sure, but ultimately just a variant.

No worries, it looks like it was bumped down quite a bit. There’s so much going on with Licensed themes at the moment! Here’s the thread:

This is cool speculation but please keep it in the Wizarding World speculation thread

I'm sure it completely depends on a combination of region and luck of the draw. Where I live in Australia I see plenty of Ninjago Movie and Batman Series 2 hanging around and some shops still have Series 17 even, yet I don't see very much Series 18. Perhaps it was just an extremely popular one because the idea of costumed figs appeals to a wide variety of people while in other series some of the figures look appealing while others are either very niche or unappealing, which minimizes the regular consumer's desire to buy a blind bag.

You've got me there. I had honestly forgotten that Last Jedi picks up right after Force Awakens when I wrote that comment. That being the case it does make more sense for Lando to appear in Episode 9 (depending on how they handle it), but my other comments about there being no vision and keeping the OT characters apart still stand.

This is simply spectacular! I love the level of detail that makes it look almost carved from marble and smoothly finished but then it’s got enough details to not look too plain or fake. You’ve struck a wonderful balance.

There was/is no vision, that’s the whole problem. JJ aided by Kasdan put down a dumb nostalgia-fueled “mystery box” vision in Force Awakens, they might have had a vision of where that goes which was swiftly scrapped by Rian Johnson in favour of his “every twist possible in your face” vision, and now JJ is back to somehow finish off a “trilogy” that hasn’t been building towards anything nor feels ready at all to be concluded. In their infinite wisdom the Lucasfilm head honchos have seemingly had no vision and let the filmmakers keep the OT cast apart, so now Lando is coming in but wouldn’t it have made more sense for Lando to show up in the Last Jedi since he’d heard that his old buddy old pal Han had gotten offed by his son? Or does Lando just not give a rat’s ass about anyone anymore either. “Yeah I heard Han died, terribly sad about it but I was in the middle of swindling people for a while so whatever.”

While @Duffyoran shouldn’t be mini-modding, at the same I quite agree. Please end this very pointless debate which could carry on ad infinitum. For those that like the new figure with light grey - amazing, you’re all set. For those that like the new figure but want the hands to be dark grey - well hey you can change them yourself. And for people like me that find it too chunky and lacking in cloak - either you’ve got the old versions that you like, or tough, the new one doesn’t do it for you.

Whether or not the Dementors have light grey or dark grey skin, they are for a fact completely shrouded in a flowing tattered cloak and extremely skeletal - neither of which are captured by the new minifigure. Therefore I like the 2010-11 version much better.

Thank you for another amazingly throrough and playful CMF review @WhiteFang Overall there’s a lot to love in this series while there’s also a number of annoyances. It’s great to get some new characters like Cedric and Cho even if they’re not the most amazing (Cedric is just a bit bland with a dud accessory, and Cho has the wrong skin colour full stop). And the refreshed designs like Moody, Trelawney, and Gambonbledore are fantastic. However some of the inconsistencies between the CMF minifigure design and regular set minifigure design bug me. I get that a lot of the CMF budget goes into the amazing new parts, but characters like Dumbledore would absolute have backprinting if he was in a set, and likely reverse face printing as well. Also they deliberately gave teachers legs in the Great Hall set so that they could be sat down for playability’s sake, but are kids expected not to play with the teachers wearing skirt pieces from the CMF in the Great Hall? It’s a bit of a conundrum because I prefer the skirt-as-robe pieces to legs, but in this case I wish they’d included an alternate skirt for McGonagall at least. Maybe it’s asking to much. Furthermore, they’ve used the medium legs for Neville who is clearly based on years 1-2 (was it the first film? It’s been too long now since I’ve seen those). It’s in an easy fix and it’s great to get as many of the medium leg pieces as possible - but still odd. Having Percieval Graves be a chase figure is infuriating. He’s a desirable character with a nice hair piece who is very central to the first Fantastic Beasts film. He shouldn’t be a chase figure. If you’re going to have them at all, chase figures should be some random variant, like maybe the invisibility cloak Harry. The Classic Policeman was a fine chase figure because he was a bit dull and a reprint anyhow. I also love/hate that Nagini. Love because it looks cool and accurate-ish, hate because it doesn’t look like LEGO at all and now that you’ve said it only has one connection point, even moreso non-LEGO-like. Hermione looks nothing like Hermione, but she has nice useful pieces all round so who cares. At this point I’m just happy that I’m lucky to have bought LEGO Harry Potter sets all the way through from the beginning so that I can mix and match my personal favourite parts from different characters to make the best ones possible. It’s unrealistic to expect LEGO to be perfect every time.

There have been short legs with printing on the toes and sides of the leg, but never on the front leg portion. I don't think it would really be possible for them to print continuously down the hip portion and onto the leg and have it look remotely good. There just isn't enough space there to work with.

This is so amazing, and made even more amazing by the fact that you just posted it out of the blue (of course to you it wasn't out of the blue, but it was to the rest of us)! On a completely personal level, I can't thank you enough because now I have an index of all of my reviews once again. I used to keep one on my profile page years ago, but since a Forum software update a while back that has been gone and I have never gone through to find all the links again. Your project has also made me more committed to including ratings at the end of my reviews once more. I had dropped them because I didn't enjoy writing them and felt you can't really slap a number score on a LEGO set anyway, but in the context of comparing different people's thoughts at a glance I see now that they are useful, and not having scores makes all of my recent reviews somewhat useless to a project like yours. Maybe I should even go back and add number ratings to the ones where I didn't have any, if I have the time to do so.

Hi Plokman, Welcome back! Seeing as no one has replied to your post thus far, though I know there are EB members who can help out, I’m concerned that people might have been intimidated by your wall of text. It’s just a fact that people don’t like to read too much on the internet these days, even on forums like Eurobricks! I also think that the Minifig Customisation forum isn’t the best place for your question because it’s actually parts related, not minifig related. Therefore I suggest posting in the General LEGO Discussion forum: https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/forum/5-general-lego-discussion/ Keep your title specific and your post simple. For a title, something like Looking for Technic Part Dimensions, and then get right to your questions in the actual post. Our LEGO Digital Designer forum might also be the place to go. I never venture in there because I’m not into the digital stuff, but I imagine the people in there might know the dimensions of parts.

Let’s keep wishlists out of this thread please. It only makes this lively thread more confusing, and we have a dedicated thread for wishlists. Thanks

Those first two out a real smile on my face. Great job @Oky!

Hi there. Sorry if I have misjudged you, but digging up an old topic only to offer a very substantial amount of money for a MOC as your first post on Eurobricks comes across as quite dodgy. If you do wish to engage here legitimately, I suggest you join some discussions and have a few meaningful interactions before asking to buy someone’s MOC. Thanks!

This is absolutely amazing, all of you! I'm in awe of every single section. Also, awesome Groot-headed figures in the Earth Realm @MKJoshA

HEY! We already exhausted the D2C will it be won’t it be Hogwarts talk. Please don’t carry it on until there’s any actual new information to go on. Thanks.

I think Sally looks great but Jack looks odd because they've tried to round his head. Every human character has a rounder head than their Brickheadz do, not to mention LEGO minifigures who have been translated into Brickheadz. Having flat surfaces is part of the design aesthetic, so Jack looks out of place with rounded sides to his head. I think he'd look much better simply mod'd to have all flat sides.

Wasn't the CMF listed in that leaked retailer catalogue from a few months ago? I'm sure it was. I know things that appear in retailer catalogue can get canned later, but that's still as "official" of a leak as it gets.

Either point to where these "official leakers" have said something, or please drop the discussion for now. It sure hasn't been the people with accounts on this site with proven access to confidential information, so I'd like to see where you've read this.

This discussion is played out at this point. Some think the D2C will be Hogwarts, others think it won't, and ultimately... time will tell. Let's wait until we get any more real information to continue the D2C discussion. Thanks!

Not sure where he found these animations as I haven't seen them elsewhere, but @just2good has product animations in his video about that set that shows how the transformation from to suitcase to open area occurs. See it here around the 14 second mark. Overall I think it's just a brilliant concept for a set, and well executed. Personally I'm not too much into brickbuilt creatures, but the set and minifigures are cool enough that I might just get it. And especially that moulded niffler! I am glad I picked up the Tina Dimensions pack on clearance, though, as her Dimensions figure was much more desirable with the cool hair-hat combo.

It's hard to tell from this trailer, but I really hope that this one goes back to the more "realistic" stop-motion-esque style of the first LEGO Movie. Even this first one used some tricks with the minifigures here and there, but overall it sold the very limited range of motion. The LEGO Batman Movie and Ninjago Movie progressively added more and more cheating to the point where in the Ninjago Movie the minifigures were doing a lot of things and making a lot of movements all the time that minifigures just can't do. It shouldn't be a huge deal, but that was such a big part of the first LEGO Movie to me that it bugged me when they moved away from it. Overall, though, they seem to have captured a lot of the same irreverent and LEGO-centric humor that made the first one so surprisingly good, so I am starting to get excited.

Hi all, we now have a Rumors and Discussion Topic about the sets set up here in Special Themes. I'll leave this discussion open for now, but please take musings about the potential sets to that topic I linked. Thanks!