LEGO Collectable Minifigures Series 17 Rumors and Discussion

[The lego fan]

1 hour ago, Cagast said:

 

But it's indeed bizzare when you first think about it, and I can see why Itaria would think the price will skyrocket. The only problem now is that it doesn't match any hinted letters if the remote is telecomando, but since he said he pasted it into google translate (and since google translate is often terrible) maybe it translated into 'remoto' and he didn't even notice while shortening it to letters. although he's Italian.

But then again, why would he use google translate for his own language? I still think that it might not be Italian.

I totally agree with you that the language still might not be Italian. I mean, I think that sevarel of our guesses may still be correct, but the language seems to be letting us down every now and then. Plus, why would he use google translate for his own language? 

I'm going to investigate what other languages it could be and then I'll probably post it here.

P.S. I'm glad someone else thinks google translate is often terrible!

The lego fan

 

[Giac88]

I was thinking, maybe he used google translate to translate the words from a foreign language into italian, and so to understand them... is it possible?

Edited January 16, 2017 by Giac88

[telaruhn]

With Google Translate, we have to consider both the origin language and the translation's language. I was using English-to-Italian before, but it might be something like Italian-to-Spanish. But I don't know Italian so I have no clue if I would be putting it in correctly... I'm hoping we'll just get the English list soon.

Regarding the Matador - If we can get a Cute Little Devil, I think anything is possible... it would make for an interesting cultural figure, but I wonder how they would do the red cape...

TV Remote Suit Guy and One-Man-Band Guy would be weird. One-Man-Band in particular. He would need a lot of molds, and they wouldn't be as useful as regular instruments, for sure.

[gedren_y]

The only thing I can say about the possibility of a One Man Band is that there is a part that might pass as a neck worn harmonica. Beyond that, I don't know.

About translations, we've had many a discussion, over many a thread, about names coming out wrong if a word has multiple meanings. Compound that with different multiple meanings in a second language. If you have to then go through a third language, the intent of the name can be lost. TLG is a Danish company, so Danish being translated into Italian can have some problems. If the original names were in English, but went through a Danish translation before going into Italian, more mistranslation could happen. English is such a polyglot language with many words that are similar, or even spelled the same, that mean very different things.

[Exetrius]

Something came to mind when imagining what a One man band could be like.. Anyone remember Friendly Felix, from LEGO Universe?  

[williejm]

4 hours ago, Robert8 said:

Anyway, we already got a spanish minifigure: the S6 Flamenco Dancer

 

Pretty sure we can have more than one - as we have for Japan, Scotland, Mexico, Egypt, England, etc...  

[gedren_y]

The Conquistador was a Spaniard, was he not?

[Cagast]

2 hours ago, Exetrius said:

Something came to mind when imagining what a One man band could be like.. Anyone remember Friendly Felix, from LEGO Universe?  

Something such as that would be way too many parts for CMF standards. Well, any decent one man band would require more parts than usual. If there is one in S17 then he probably has only two instruments.

Also, while there isn't anything that directly hints at One man band from Itaria's hint list, he could be the mysterious silhouette guy. The triangular hat is common for one man bands and that piece that is visibly attached on his neck could be for something that goes over his neck in front of him such as accordion like gedren_y said or something that is on his back, and that way he could hold a guitar or another instrument in his hands. 

Edited January 17, 2017 by Cagast

[BrickFit26]

3 hours ago, gedren_y said:

The Conquistador was a Spaniard, was he not?

Most definitely.

[The lego fan]

6 hours ago, Cagast said:

Something such as that would be way too many parts for CMF standards. Well, any decent one man band would require more parts than usual. If there is one in S17 then he probably has only two instruments.

Also, while there isn't anything that directly hints at One man band from Itaria's hint list, he could be the mysterious silhouette guy. The triangular hat is common for one man bands and that piece that is visibly attached on his neck could be for something that goes over his neck in front of him such as accordion like gedren_y said or something that is on his back, and that way he could hold a guitar or another instrument in his hands. 

I never thought of the one man band guy being in the silhouette! It's a great idea and is a certain possibility. Unfortunately though, as you say, if he is in the series, he'll probably only have 2 accessories.

The only thing that doesn't fit is the language-again!

[Yooha]

The one man band would require too many pieces. I would welcome it thought, but a guitar, a drum, cymbals (how do you attach them to the knees?), harmonica.

[JGuy]

4 hours ago, Yooha said:

The one man band would require too many pieces. I would welcome it thought, but a guitar, a drum, cymbals (how do you attach them to the knees?), harmonica.

Maybe it's the one no one expects... because it has a ton of pieces?  That could be why the price would skyrocket

[Loki221978]

One thing that I have noticed has been the minifigures that have a companion or an opposite. and most recently with the castle theme.   to me it almost looks like a sub theme could be pieces on a chess board. what if one of the minifigures is the Bishop, a minifigure with a pope like hat, a shepards crook and maybe a sheep. its something no one thought lego would do, but it would fit in well with the castle theme, as well as (my presumed) a chess theme.  

[TheBeefThief]

A one-man band would be great, I think he ought to come with a moulded banjo instead, because we already got an acoustic guitar minifigure

[The lego fan]

2 hours ago, JGuy said:

Maybe it's the one no one expects... because it has a ton of pieces?  That could be why the price would skyrocket

The one that no one expects is an object suit. I, my self, posted earlier in this thread on the fact that I thought it was an object suit and Itaria agreed.

The lego fan

[JGuy]

29 minutes ago, The lego fan said:

The one that no one expects is an object suit. I, my self, posted earlier in this thread on the fact that I thought it was an object suit and Itaria agreed.

The lego fan

Where? 

[Cagast]

2 hours ago, The lego fan said:

The one that no one expects is an object suit. I, my self, posted earlier in this thread on the fact that I thought it was an object suit and Itaria agreed.

The lego fan

Are you talking about this?

On 14.12.2016. at 8:03 AM, The lego fan said:

I'm guessing no13 is some realy random object suite guy as someone already confirmed 3 total suites in this series including the butterfly. Sounds interesting!

 

Itaria already confirmed no firefighters on page 7.

The lego fan.

 

To which Itaria replied: "Exactly. I'm impressed." I think you misunderstood him there. He probably referred to the latter part of your message when you pointed out that he already said there were no firefighters, yet people started speculating about firefighters after that. "Exactly" = I already said there's no firefighter. "I'm impressed" = I'm impressed because people keep talking about firefighters although I confirmed there won't be firefighters.

Is that right Itaria?

[Robert8]

There are 3 costumes in this series

[Cagast]

Right, but that doesn't mean the 'bizzare guy' is a costume guy

Also, I just realized that the silhouette guy has a cape, which means it's probably not One man band. Most likely Highwayman like we initially thought.

[BrickFit26]

I'm already thinking of what new moulds, like accessories and hairpieces we will see in this series.

[VaderFan2187]

You all are such great guessers!

But why isn't @Itaria No Shintaku saying anything?

[gedren_y]

Because his source thought he was revealing too much. So to preserve the trust of his source, @Itaria No Shintaku has stopped his revelation. I am content with all he has shared in this matter. We will continue to speculate.

To that end, in the silhouette I believe I saw epaulets under the cape. That leads me to believe the fig is someone more official. If the hat had looked to be a bicorn I might have thought him Napoleon. But it is a tricorn, so my guess remains Marco Polo.

[VaderFan2187]

33 minutes ago, gedren_y said:

Because his source thought he was revealing too much. So to preserve the trust of his source, @Itaria No Shintaku has stopped his revelation. I am content with all he has shared in this matter. We will continue to speculate.

But I thought he said he would just stick around and tell us if our guesses were right or wrong?

[Amazing Bricks]

3 minutes ago, VaderFan2187 said:

But I thought he said he would just stick around and tell us if our guesses were right or wrong?

Yeah, but it doesn't look like it will be happening anytime soon. Everyone is just better off waiting until we get official pictures.

[makoy]

3 hours ago, VaderFan2187 said:

You all are such great guessers!

But why isn't @Itaria No Shintaku saying anything?

We have to respect his choice not to disclose the list as requested by his informant... also, he didn't say that he will spill all the info immediately.

That's why if we are not adding anything new to the conversation I rather keep quiet as the topic will be diluted with all but empty wishes and guesses.