Disney Collectible Minifigures Series 1 Discussion

[benderisgreat]

Good luck! :)

Thanks for the info !

How many of each minifigure are there per box? I'm asking because it hasn't been asked and answered multiple times, including once graphically ( http://www.eurobrick...75#entry2539501 ), in this thread already.

Sorry that I asked very common question, I didn't have time to read 140 pages of this topic.

[AmperZand]

Sorry that I asked very common question, I didn't have time to read 140 pages of this topic.

Apology accepted. In future, you may want to go back a few pages before posting in a long thread, searching the thread or googling for an answer before posting.

[rob-ot5000]

[Robert8]

The Brick Fan's review is up

[BrickFit26]

By the looks of it, the printing rubbing off once you touch it sucks.

[Tech Artist]

Apology accepted. In future, you may want to go back a few pages before posting in a long thread, searching the thread or googling for an answer before posting.

This is actually a good rule of thumb for any message board. Search before posting any question and/or topic(except for stuff obviously you know hasn't been posted because you made it). 9 times out of 10 you'll find what your looking for and save the post accumulation.

Edited April 26, 2016 by Tech Artist

[Brickity]

I touched the face and the eye peeled off. Has anyone else noticed anything similar on any of these?

Crap, I've been there! It felt like a nightmare and I thought I'd leave LEGO behind, no kidding! But it was just a feeling of that moment. It happened back in 2010, I bought a minifig pack of 3 at the lego store at the Galleria, Houston. I was so excited to have one of those minifigs, as soon as I touched his face, his teeth and the white bits in his pupils came off like butter. My poor heart turned into a nut in that moment.

[Blondie-Wan]

I have yet to experience any such horror stories myself, but the recent plethora of such poor quality reports in this thread and others has been most disheartening. :/

[benderisgreat]

Wow this series of minifigures are bestsellers already! Visited my local Lego store, where sales started yesterday, and they are almost out of stock already! 4 boxes sold in 1 day, just a few leftovers were left. So I wasn't able to get every character that I wanted. Even Simpsons series didn't sell this well, so Disney minifigures series 2 are pretty likely to happen now.

[barneynedward]

Wow this series of minifigures are bestsellers already! Visited my local Lego store, where sales started yesterday, and they are almost out of stock already! 4 boxes sold in 1 day, just a few leftovers were left. So I wasn't able to get every character that I wanted. Even Simpsons series didn't sell this well, so Disney minifigures series 2 are pretty likely to happen now.

Maybe that means we will end up getting Goofy at some point.

[xboxtravis7992]

Yeah I went back to Wal-Mart to see if I could find Mickey or Stich... And they are %100 gone. This is going to be a knockout series.

[Master_Data]

Does anyone think LEGO will supply replacement parts for this series considering that it's a licensed series? I'm quite disappointed about my Alice figure, especially as I've never had a problem with printing ever.

[Robert8]

They didn't do it for the Simpsons series I think

So, I'd say no

[telaruhn]

Unlikely, to be honest. Any correspondence I've had in the past for replacement parts in a Minifigures series resulted in a free blind bag or two, and you don't decide which ones you'll get. It never hurts to ask, though.

[Brickity]

I just called a local toystore to ask them about the release date for these, and although they didn't know the exact date, they did guess I'd be asking about the disney series lol. So I'm sure I won't see them until June or miraculously, late May. Veeva Mehico.

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

There are some weird issues with these figures. My Cheshire Cat came with two tails, and I had a Maleficent come with two hads. Luckily, these were just extra parts, and none were missing in my figs.

Unlikely, to be honest. Any correspondence I've had in the past for replacement parts in a Minifigures series resulted in a free blind bag or two, and you don't decide which ones you'll get. It never hurts to ask, though.

Yes, this experience is consistent with mine. I asked them to replace my Jester fig because its hat came lose. They first promised they would give me a replacement but I only received a blind bag. I wrote to them, because I was upset, and told them that as a customer I shouldn't have to pay extra for what is effectively a factory mistake. They took a few days to respond because they were "figuring out a solution", until someone at customer service voluntarily gave up their own copy of the minifig.

Honestly, I'd just ask Lego for a refund. Or if that's not possible (not sure of how the legal tidbits work if you don't buy directly from them), a refund from your vendor.

I just called a local toystore to ask them about the release date for these, and although they didn't know the exact date, they did guess I'd be asking about the disney series lol. So I'm sure I won't see them until June or miraculously, late May. Veeva Mehico.

Totally know what you mean. I'm actually a Latin American, just not living there right now, so I know the pain of having to wait for new products forever.

Edited April 26, 2016 by BrickHat

[Robert8]

Yes, this experience is consistent with mine. I asked them to replace my Jester fig because its hat came lose.

Yeah, that was pain in the neck in Series 12, but I never heard of them sending replacements until now

Good for you!

[Captain Nemo]

Well moral of the story is that Lego cannot send replacements for CMFs, and we've known that since the beginning. They're not typical set products; they are produced in China (exclusively?) and are blind bagged, which makes it exceptionally hard to acquire a replacement. BrickHat's story even goes to prove this--a customer service rep had to send their own personal minifigure to appease the customer (I really don't agree with that action).

Granted to be honest, this whole issue of replacements for CMFs seems a bit...whiny? That's perhaps too harsh a word, but really, why not just chalk it up as loss and get another one? These are $4; they're not a missing radar dish off a UCS Millennium Falcon or anything, let's be honest here.

[Duncan Young]

This is disappointing:

I touched the face and the eye peeled off. Has anyone else noticed anything similar on any of these?

I had this happen to the otherwise amazing Deathstroke figure, I can't speak for the Disney series though.

Edited April 26, 2016 by Duncan Young

[benderisgreat]

I had this happen to the otherwise amazing Deathstroke figure, I can't speak for the Disney series though.

That's probably Chinese factory quality issues, I recently compared printing on 2 figures : one made in Europe, one in China. The quality of European is way better, but no arm printing can be on European one for some reason. I don't understand exactly why only Chinese figures can have double molded arms or hand printing?

[KCMatze]

Well moral of the story is that Lego cannot send replacements for CMFs, and we've known that since the beginning. They're not typical set products; they are produced in China (exclusively?) and are blind bagged, which makes it exceptionally hard to acquire a replacement. BrickHat's story even goes to prove this--a customer service rep had to send their own personal minifigure to appease the customer (I really don't agree with that action).

Granted to be honest, this whole issue of replacements for CMFs seems a bit...whiny? That's perhaps too harsh a word, but really, why not just chalk it up as loss and get another one? These are $4; they're not a missing radar dish off a UCS Millennium Falcon or anything, let's be honest here.

While I understand what you try to say, I think at any price quality control should be taken seriously for the largest toy company in the world. And 4 bucks is a lot of money for a plastic figure made in China for about 0,05 cents a piece (wild guess, but I suppose you know what I am trying to say here).

[Rookie875]

I touched the face and the eye peeled off. Has anyone else noticed anything similar on any of these?

That happened to me a few years ago with the Nightwing figure in a Batman set. I tried to turn the head and the face just peeled right off.

[Blondie-Wan]

Granted to be honest, this whole issue of replacements for CMFs seems a bit...whiny? That's perhaps too harsh a word, but really, why not just chalk it up as loss and get another one? These are $4; they're not a missing radar dish off a UCS Millennium Falcon or anything, let's be honest here.

I can understand that, I really can, but I personally would be disinclined to look at it that way for a number of reasons:

- LEGO has a certain reputation for quality, above and beyond what one might expect from other toy vendors. They promote that reputation and use it as a selling point. It's only fair to hold them to it.

- They seem to promise a level of customer service they aren't delivering. Note that when they first started these things, way back with Minifigures Series 1 in May of 2010, they didn't have all the same customer service notices on them that they do now. They added the customer service info to the little fold-out sheets several series ago, when the first few series didn't have it. Someone who collected these from the beginning might reasonably interpret that to mean that they will now offer a level of customer service for the blind-bagged Minifigures that they originally didn't. The fact they now offer so-called "CMF" parts in Build-a-Minifigure kiosks in LEGO Stores only reinforces this perception.

- Even a small amount of money is a lot to some people. There are surely some buyers out there for whom $4 is all they can justify spending on a toy, and they may very well opt to spend it on one of these figures that they just love, and have to have, and want more than any other single thing they could get with that measly $4. If such a person chooses to spend that money on one of these and it's defective, that will really suck.

- The blind-bagged Minifigures have shorter production runs and availability windows than other LEGO sets. It's entirely possible someone could buy the figure(s) they want while they're available, then encounter an issue after these have disappeared from stores. Even if the total availability hasn't quite ended yet, if it's far enough along then all the copies of one particular figure might have disappeared from shelves, which sucks if that happens to be the particular figure you need a replacement for.

- We invest a lot more in these than just money. Since they're blind-bagged, we practice all sorts of strategies to get the ones we want. Some of us (such as myself) stand in stores feeling packets, sometimes for hours at a time, in order to get all the ones we want; sometimes when I'm nearing the end of a particular series, I might spend an hour or more feeling packets trying to get just one single figure. Others try those bump marks on the packets. Still others buy blindly, and then trade their dupes and unwanted ones for the ones they want, like everyone who ever collected trading cards as a kid did (which is presumably the idea behind the whole so-called "CMF" line). And still others resign themselves to just buying and buying, possibly amassing large numbers of dupes they don't necessarily want, until they finally have all the ones they need. If one goes through a series of minifigures over a period of weeks or months, spending hours at a time on acquisition, possibly investing a huge amount of time to collect that one particular desired figure, and then it turns out to have a problem, that has to be pretty deeply frustrating.

Edited April 26, 2016 by Blondie-Wan

[pittpenguin123]

That's probably Chinese factory quality issues, I recently compared printing on 2 figures : one made in Europe, one in China. The quality of European is way better, but no arm printing can be on European one for some reason. I don't understand exactly why only Chinese figures can have double molded arms or hand printing?

They print on hands now! cool.

[8BrickMario]

They print on hands now! cool.

There is no hand printing. I think that was a typo.