Disney Collectible Minifigures Series 1 Discussion

[LEGODalekbuster523]

The mindset of "lego started in yellow so everything should be yellow" is outdated. Lego moved on, changed, and adapted for i think the better. Yellow just doesn't work for licensed characters. Yellow Mickey? Yellow woody? Yellow mace windu? Yellow nick fury? Yellow Asoka? Figures like those need to be represented the way they look, plain and simple. Some things just don't work in yellow. Some people need to move on just like Lego did.

Agreed. Who really wants a yellow Donald Duck?

[Clone OPatra]

The whole 'yellow or fleshie?' debate is such a tired one. There's nowhere to go with it. LEGO uses flesh tones for Licensed properties and yellow for in-house stuff. 'Nuff said.

[Ardelon]

I dont think the Macy dress piece would be used ina CMF series, as its too bulky and identifiable, even more that the slope piece. *Maybe* if it was a niew piece thats only 1 stud wide, instead of the 2-stud wide piece used in Toths design, but even then I wouldnt expect to see it in a CMF blind bag. But otherwise I agree, its a great piece and I hope to see it used as an alternative to the slope skirt somehow somewhere someday.

And yeah, flesh-colored is the only way to go. Having said that, I hope the series will avoid fleshy triangles and skin prints on the torsos as much as possible. But if we get figures like Aladdin for example, there wont be any way to avoid it.

Also I don't really think Disney could own the rights to the long legs. The long legs are just a taller version of the regular legs. There's nothing special about them, nothing that link them directly to Woody either. It would be one thing if the legs had been sculpted to be extra skinny like Wood's, but there's nothing other than printing distinguishing the piece as belonging to a Disney character. I think it's as generic as the short legs, so it would be strange if they had rights to it.

I would have thought the same would go for the PotC baldric, and yet...

[Actor Builder]

I dont think the Macy dress piece would be used ina CMF series, as its too bulky and identifiable, even more that the slope piece.

I don't know... There have been larger more identifiable pieces in a CMF Series. My best examples for this are Medusa's snake legs, and the Aztec Warrior's helmet. Those were super easy to find. I don't think LEGO worries too much about that. People will feel the ones they want no matter how easy or difficult it is, or they won't if they want it to be random. It doesn't really affect sales, I would think.

[Dannylonglegs]

I don't know... There have been larger more identifiable pieces in a CMF Series. My best examples for this are Medusa's snake legs, and the Aztec Warrior's helmet. Those were super easy to find. I don't think LEGO worries too much about that. People will feel the ones they want no matter how easy or difficult it is, or they won't if they want it to be random. It doesn't really affect sales, I would think.

I agree... and it also may be a 1-4 as opposed to a 2-4. Too suspicious that they included it in the tvshow clip. Too suspicious!

~Insectoid Aristocrat

[x105Black]

it also may be a 1-4 as opposed to a 2-4.

The proposed piece in the original artwork was 2 x 4 (with 2 cheese wedges behind the torso to simulate a bow), so I would expect that if we get it at all.

[Dannylonglegs]

The proposed piece in the original artwork was 2 x 4 (with 2 cheese wedges behind the torso to simulate a bow), so I would expect that if we get it at all.

It wouldn't be the first thing they changed from prelim art to final.

I'd prefer it to be 2-4, buy the picture makes it look flatter. Also it might make the piece more likely.

~Insectoid Aristocrat

[8BrickMario]

A 2x4 dress brick would have the proper poofiness to it. A 1x4 would make the figure look too flat. Hopefully, it'd have leg pegs, since the clutch power on a 2x4 would make it impossible to life the figure off a plate by the torso if it attached by studs.

[x105Black]

A 2x4 dress brick would have the proper poofiness to it. A 1x4 would make the figure look too flat. Hopefully, it'd have leg pegs, since the clutch power on a 2x4 would make it impossible to life the figure off a plate by the torso if it attached by studs.

That's one issue I always had with the standard skirt pieces. I think they should use a variant with the leg pegs so that they will stay together better. And maybe it should be the same height as legs so that skirted characters aren't taller than other minifigures.

[BrickOn]

Oh I did't read all this before I posted on the CMF series 15 thread, but the piece already exists?

IMG_9048, on Flickr

And just to be sure I popped her into an open CMF bag and she seemed to fit to me... and if two characters had the same piece as they easily could in Disney then that could also eliminate the "oh its so obvious what's in here issue" not that I thought it was any more obvious than a standard skirt.

[CptPJs]

Face-wise I assume that they'll be something like this:http://s3-media3.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/u4ZEdIiZkf24RQBO03u2Sw/o.jpg because that and the Belle sculpture at a similar scale are made by Lego themselves aren't they?

[Huigberts Builds]

Oh I did't read all this before I posted on the CMF series 15 thread, but the piece already exists?

IMG_9048, on Flickr

And just to be sure I popped her into an open CMF bag and she seemed to fit to me... and if two characters had the same piece as they easily could in Disney then that could also eliminate the "oh its so obvious what's in here issue" not that I thought it was any more obvious than a standard skirt.

I knew I had seen that piece before, but we haven't seen it in a long time I believe. Didn't they used it in green back in the day for things like bushes?

[Sven F]

It was a "lego basic" brick, early 90's there was also an arch brick to fit over. I think it's way too bulky for this use. The dress slopes are bad enough.

"Basic' was a kind of bridge between duplo and normal lego, it had large simplified pieces and came in large tubs of mixed elements.

Edited October 10, 2015 by Sven F

[Dannylonglegs]

I had a couple of those pieces. I agree they wouldn't really work here. It needs to be a new piece, I think, with usual leg grips as per Medusa tail and genie wisp. I think if it has 4 studs on top, the non-leg connecting ones should be lower. Otherwise a sloping "rear" area would be nice.

I really do think we could see a 1-4 piece though. Just look up the wiki article of "pannier" to see what I mean.

~Insectoid Aristocrat

[Robert8]

That piece looks huge for a Disney princess gown

[kevkipo]

remember those, got a whole bunch lying around. but i don't think they'd work... how about that Star Wars Princess / Queen? what is she called...

EDIT: Queen Amidala? apparantly

Edited October 10, 2015 by kevkipo

[CM4Sci]

remember those, got a whole bunch lying around. but i don't think they'd work... how about that Star Wars Princess / Queen? what is she called...

EDIT: Queen Amidala? apparantly

I'd like that and not a slope/that piece.

[DarthPotato]

I'd prefer a new dress mold all together. What bugs me about the current slope piece is that it makes a figure slightly taller than figures with normal legs. I think that arched piece would probably do the same.

[x105Black]

I'd prefer a new dress mold all together. What bugs me about the current slope piece is that it makes a figure slightly taller than figures with normal legs. I think that arched piece would probably do the same.

That's an issue I also have with the dresses / skirts. I hate how they are taller. I'd prefer a new piece, too. But I doubt it will happen. We might be more likely to see this piece repurposed.

[Oky]

Yeah, if we get a new type of dress, I hope it's a completely new mold like Queen Amidala's, but I'm guessing they will stick to the slope.

And yes, it would be good to get a skirt piece that doesn't make the fig taller than other minifigs. Otherwise this issue will be especially problematic if they include the Beast along with Belle and Belle ends up being taller than him.

[Actor Builder]

To be perfectly honest, I would hate it if LEGO made a new dress piece, unless it was a completely different style, like the Star-Wars one above. If they were to just update the slope to "leg pegs" and be a bit shorter, to match normal figs, I would not like that.

I'm having a hard enough time figuring out what to do with all my obsolete horse molds, now my book pieces...I just don't like pieces that can't be used near each other without one being obviously newer and more realistic than the other.

[x105Black]

if they include the Beast along with Belle and Belle ends up being taller than him.

I doubt that will be an issue, since he'll probably have a big molded head if we get him.

[Blondie-Wan]

I would have thought the same would go for the PotC baldric, and yet...

Just because it hasn't been used again yet doesn't mean Disney owns it. It just means they haven't used it again.

It's possible they just haven't used it again but can anytime they want. It's also possible they've discontinued it for reasons having nothing to do with Disney. Maybe they found a technical flaw with the part - maybe it doesn't work well in regular, play-based use, as opposed to the more display-based use practiced by most people here (is it easy for kids to remove and reinsert cutlasses into it?). Or perhaps the mold broke.

[CM4Sci]

The series will be grey.

Edited October 13, 2015 by CM4Sci

[Robert8]

Gray?

Gray like CMF S9 or lighter?

That's an odd color for Disney