Latest CMF series impact on Historic themes

[AmperZand]

5 hours ago, SirBlake said:

That mixup of Orc parts looks great!

Thanks ☺️ 

In case anyone was wondering, the three weapons and the shield on the left are third party pieces, not LEGO.

[zoth33]

6 hours ago, AmperZand said:

Thanks ☺️ 

In case anyone was wondering, the three weapons and the shield on the left are third party pieces, not LEGO.

Yeah brick warriors has some nice stuff.  I like the paladin sword, some of the helms are nice.  The elven sword and dragon sword are also good additions to any army.  

[Follows Closely]

Found another three archers and orc's at Wal*Mart today. I scanned the bag with the Wal*Mart app and still no match.

 

The bags were located in the LEGO isle.

Edited January 14, 2023 by Follows Closely

[SirBlake]

3 hours ago, Follows Closely said:

Found another three archers and orc's at Wal*Mart today. I scanned the bag with the Wal*Mart app and still no match.

 

The bags were located in the LEGO isle.

Good intel, thanks!

[Follows Closely]

Another 12 falcons. Apologies to anyone in Woodbridge VA Lego Store that searches in vain.

They had three boxes out. Replace one as I was heading out.

 

[Aanchir]

I recently realized that besides being a great companion to the black falcons, the new falcon piece also feels kind of like a modern counterpart to the black or grey parrot pieces that appeared in a lot of 90s Castle sets!

There are a few cases (even in the Castle theme) where that piece might have believably been meant to represent an actual grey parrot — namely, sets where it accompanies Majisto, since a wizard is the sort of wise and well-traveled individual who might be expected to own an exotic pet from distant Africa. But whenever that piece appeared in a Wolfpack or Black Knights set, I always understood it as a stand-in for native European bird species like crows, ravens, owls, vultures, or falcons.

[SirBlake]

10 hours ago, Aanchir said:

I recently realized that besides being a great companion to the black falcons, the new falcon piece also feels kind of like a modern counterpart to the black or grey parrot pieces that appeared in a lot of 90s Castle sets!

There are a few cases (even in the Castle theme) where that piece might have believably been meant to represent an actual grey parrot — namely, sets where it accompanies Majisto, since a wizard is the sort of wise and well-traveled individual who might be expected to own an exotic pet from distant Africa. But whenever that piece appeared in a Wolfpack or Black Knights set, I always understood it as a stand-in for native European bird species like crows, ravens, owls, vultures, or falcons.

That’s how I interpreted things too. This new Falcon is pretty great. 

[Frike]

Everyone is praising this new Orc, but I find it really disappointing that they went with olive green instead of sand green. I already have lots of the trolls from the old Fantasy theme that this guy is an iteration of. But other than the new shield, they don't merge well at all in my opinion.

The Black Falcon looks amazing, though! But I was sad to see that they did the absolutely awful printed cape, just like the CMF Viking.

[Aurore]

2 hours ago, Frike said:

But I was sad to see that they did the absolutely awful printed cape, just like the CMF Viking.

I fully agree with you. That fig still is my favourite CMF minifig ever because of the falcon, extravagant cloth caps and nice and versatile hip/leg part, but I was very disappointed by the printed cape.

[Follows Closely]

2 hours ago, Frike said:

Everyone is praising this new Orc, but I find it really disappointing that they went with olive green instead of sand green. I already have lots of the trolls from the old Fantasy theme that this guy is an iteration of. But other than the new shield, they don't merge well at all in my opinion.

The Black Falcon looks amazing, though! But I was sad to see that they did the absolutely awful printed cape, just like the CMF Viking.

I agree, I have a dozen or so Orc's and I am not sure why.

[SirBlake]

7 hours ago, Frike said:

Everyone is praising this new Orc, but I find it really disappointing that they went with olive green instead of sand green. I already have lots of the trolls from the old Fantasy theme that this guy is an iteration of. But other than the new shield, they don't merge well at all in my opinion.

The Black Falcon looks amazing, though! But I was sad to see that they did the absolutely awful printed cape, just like the CMF Viking.

While I can appreciate how a direct match to Fantasy Era trolls would be fun, the fact that this new Orc doesn’t match a 15 year old theme faction 100% shouldn’t keep it from being a great minifig in its own right. 

[zoth33]

7 hours ago, Frike said:

Everyone is praising this new Orc, but I find it really disappointing that they went with olive green instead of sand green. I already have lots of the trolls from the old Fantasy theme that this guy is an iteration of. But other than the new shield, they don't merge well at all in my opinion.

The Black Falcon looks amazing, though! But I was sad to see that they did the absolutely awful printed cape, just like the CMF Viking.

I actually don't mind it at all as it gives my troll army some variety and actually there would be slight variations in color in a real world application.  I do agree on the printed cape thing but that can be easily covered up with other capes or armor.  

17 minutes ago, SirBlake said:

While I can appreciate how a direct match to Fantasy Era trolls would be fun, the fact that this new Orc doesn’t match a 15 year old theme faction 100% shouldn’t keep it from being a great minifig in its own right. 

Agree and like I said gives the army more variation.  Just look at the orcs in LOTR there are variations in their coloring and size, armor, etc.  

[Aanchir]

1 hour ago, zoth33 said:

Agree and like I said gives the army more variation.  Just look at the orcs in LOTR there are variations in their coloring and size, armor, etc.  

Even the Fantasy Era giant trolls came in Sand Yellow/Dark Tan, so there is precedent for having them in different colors. But I guess if you're someone who feels that Olive Green in particular clashes visually with Sand Green that's not much consolation.

[TeriXeri]

I think this orc color matches a lot better with warcraft/warhammer orcs, something LEGO would Never make.

[zoth33]

4 minutes ago, Aanchir said:

Even the Fantasy Era giant trolls came in Sand Yellow/Dark Tan, so there is precedent for having them in different colors. But I guess if you're someone who feels that Olive Green in particular clashes visually with Sand Green that's not much consolation.

Yeah the big figs were different colors.  The minifigs only came in one color.  As for the olive green and sand green thing if you think they clash to much just make them a different tribe or clan of trolls and problem solved.  

8 minutes ago, TeriXeri said:

I think this orc color matches a lot better with warcraft/warhammer orcs, something LEGO would Never make.

Yeah I was thinking that mouthpiece part just screams WOW orcs.  I mean lego does have a license with blizzard so you never know.  But I doubt they would do WOW.  

[AstroFalcon]

22 hours ago, Frike said:

Everyone is praising this new Orc, but I find it really disappointing that they went with olive green instead of sand green. I already have lots of the trolls from the old Fantasy theme that this guy is an iteration of. But other than the new shield, they don't merge well at all in my opinion.

I'm treating them as a slightly different species/race from a different region, being closely related with some features that set them apart. The olive green/yellow eyed orcs are from the plains, while the sand green/red eyed trolls are from a more mountainous woodland area. They will be allying with each other and the goblins and forming a sort of "horde". 

13 hours ago, zoth33 said:

Yeah I was thinking that mouthpiece part just screams WOW orcs.  I mean lego does have a license with blizzard so you never know.  But I doubt they would do WOW.  

I think the time for that has been and gone, unfortunately. There are other fantasy IPs that are more popular right now, and given the state of the Overwatch 2 sets a year later I don't see it happening maybe ever.

 

[Wardancer]

An unusual sight nowadays: Empty CMF boxes. 

[Aurore]

Promobricks released the list of the next Disney CMF, and many of them sound interesting: Tiana, the Queen of Hearts, Aurora (with owl), Pocahontas and the Evil Queen - and maybe even Pinocchio, Robin Hood and Prince John may include minifig parts reuseable in any fantasy setting!

Given my current storyline in the Guilds of Historica, I certainly have high hopes of the Evil Queen, the classiest Disney Villain ever. 
 

[MAB]

42 minutes ago, Aurore said:

Promobricks released the list of the next Disney CMF, and many of them sound interesting: Tiana, the Queen of Hearts, Aurora (with owl), Pocahontas and the Evil Queen - and maybe even Pinocchio, Robin Hood and Prince John may include minifig parts reuseable in any fantasy setting!

Given my current storyline in the Guilds of Historica, I certainly have high hopes of the Evil Queen, the classiest Disney Villain ever. 
 

I guess the Robin Hood and Prince John might be useful, depending on how much animal fur they have on them. I find the Disney charaare a bit too cartoonish. I had a lot of hope for Hercules as a Greek soldier army builder but they didn't look right.

[SirBlake]

Yeah I wonder if we’ll get a forestmen hat in a new color for Robin. 

[AstroFalcon]

21 minutes ago, SirBlake said:

Yeah I wonder if we’ll get a forestmen hat in a new color for Robin. 

Robin and Louie will most likely have specialised hat+head pieces

[SirBlake]

27 minutes ago, AstroFalcon said:

Robin and Louie will most likely have specialised hat+head pieces

Yeah I figure. Just hoping for something more useful. 

[MAB]

20 minutes ago, SirBlake said:

Yeah I figure. Just hoping for something more useful. 

I doubt it. The other Disney animal characters have tended to be quite accurate but not traditional LEGO style.

[Rjbricks]

On 1/15/2023 at 10:35 AM, Frike said:

 

The Black Falcon looks amazing, though! But I was sad to see that they did the absolutely awful printed cape, just like the CMF Viking.

I seem to be the only person who likes the cape. Reminds me a bit of the old school 80s one.

[Triceron]

59 minutes ago, Rjbricks said:

I seem to be the only person who likes the cape. Reminds me a bit of the old school 80s one.

I think he was talking about the prints on the minifigure torso.