LEGO Collectable Minifigures Series 19 Rumors, Speculation and Discussion

[Coopa182]

11 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

Not sure if it’s been brought up yet, but this is going to be the first unlicensed series with access to the teen legs AND the new skirt piece. I wonder how much they’ll take advantage of that. 

You raise a good point. I’m all for a whole lot of different coloured medium legs, they add so much value. We got a few in the Stranger Things set and I hope those colours come out elsewhere.

[Gorilla94]

I love costumed characters like gorilla, dragon or giraffe suit, but i really hope they are better than the other 2 from tlm2. The melon is in my opinion easily the most ugly minifigure i know. The fox suit from tlm2 or something similar would be awesome.

To be honest, i hope we won't get the new skirt piece or at least no metallic print so i can custom print the old piece. I hate the new piece and can't understand why Lego didn't just die the old one with Folge studs :/ The stylistic break on display is just awefull...

Every pair unprinted medium legs would be extremely welcome.

 

Edited July 12, 2019 by Gorilla94

[MAB]

1 hour ago, Itaria No Shintaku said:

Costumed characters. They can virtually do anything they want. They can use also the new teen legs to add more Halloween costumed characters (kid vampire, kid ghost, kid frankenstein kid whateveryouwant)
Geographical Specific characters. They have still room for dozens of characters. We have been talking about them for ages. Canadian Mountie. Russian Cossack. Venetian Gondoliere. Beefeater. We can go on forever.
Profession related characters. They can go on forever even here. I still haven't seen a Firefighter, a Newsagent, a Baker, a Grocer, a Dentist...
Sports characters. They still miss many, like a Rugby Player, a Basketball Player, a Waterpolo Player, a Volleyball Player, an Handball Player and so on.
Male/female counterparts of existing characters. They have done dozens of these, so they can go on like making a Groom (for the Bride), a Policewoman, a Cook (male), etc. I can really pick nearly any characters and wish for a gender swapped counterpart.
Evil/good counterparts of existing characters. They have done this too. Evil and good wizards, evil and good knights, and so on. 
Even reissue of old characters. We had several skaters, surfers, knights, gladiators, policemen, so actually there's room for anything.
More from used "subthemes". Circus? We miss an acrobat, still. Mythology? We miss harpies, centaurs (CENTAUR) (sorry I have to repeat it: CENTAUR!). Monsters? We miss a shrouded ghost. Fantasy? Still no orcs here. STILL - NO - ORCS! 
More from the subtheme "People with small animal". Like a shepard with a sheep, a pirate with a new parrot, and so on.
 

And then zombify them too.

So for any character it can be male/female, good/evil, normal/zombie - that is already up to 8x possibilities for each idea. I'm looking forward the the evil male zombie pastry chef. And combine that with short legs to give you evil zombie pastry chef boy.

 

As to orcs, I guess it means what you mean by them. There were loads of orcs/goblins in the licensed LOTR/Hobbit and all those Fantasy Era trolls, but also the goblin in CMF S13.

 

8 hours ago, sithewok said:

I'm surprised to see so much dislike for the costumed characters.  They are often my favorites from each series.  Then again, after the full series of costumes, I suppose I could see how there have been a lot of them recently.

I don't mind them so much when one or two, but there have been so many of them recently, they have become a bit boring. It wasn't just in the S18, but also TLM2 series had the giraffe, crayon and watermelon.

On 7/10/2019 at 7:14 AM, Grover said:

I share the same sentiment over the lack of historical themes as well.  I doubt we will have a castle theme while HP is out,

We had (historical) castle on the shelves at the same times as Harry Potter in the past, and also when LOTR was out. I don't think Harry Potter is stopping LEGO doing castle.

That said, I think we have had better historic figures in the CMF series than in the castle themes in the past.

[Digger of Bricks]

3 hours ago, Itaria No Shintaku said:

To be honest, I fail to understand the way TLG could run out of ideas.

Follow me.

Costumed characters. They can virtually do anything they want. They can use also the new teen legs to add more Halloween costumed characters (kid vampire, kid ghost, kid frankenstein kid whateveryouwant)
Geographical Specific characters. They have still room for dozens of characters. We have been talking about them for ages. Canadian Mountie. Russian Cossack. Venetian Gondoliere. Beefeater. We can go on forever.
Profession related characters. They can go on forever even here. I still haven't seen a Firefighter, a Newsagent, a Baker, a Grocer, a Dentist...
Sports characters. They still miss many, like a Rugby Player, a Basketball Player, a Waterpolo Player, a Volleyball Player, an Handball Player and so on.
Male/female counterparts of existing characters. They have done dozens of these, so they can go on like making a Groom (for the Bride), a Policewoman, a Cook (male), etc. I can really pick nearly any characters and wish for a gender swapped counterpart.
Evil/good counterparts of existing characters. They have done this too. Evil and good wizards, evil and good knights, and so on. 
Even reissue of old characters. We had several skaters, surfers, knights, gladiators, policemen, so actually there's room for anything.
More from used "subthemes". Circus? We miss an acrobat, still. Mythology? We miss harpies, centaurs (CENTAUR) (sorry I have to repeat it: CENTAUR!). Monsters? We miss a shrouded ghost. Fantasy? Still no orcs here. STILL - NO - ORCS! 
More from the subtheme "People with small animal". Like a shepard with a sheep, a pirate with a new parrot, and so on.

I can go on forever, but you get the point.
I could in 1 minutes list 50 different characters, enough for covering 3 series of upcoming minifigures.
And I even didn't list as much as I could have done.

So, no, I am sorry, I don't think they can run out of ideas if they don't specifically want to.

EDIT: PIRATE WITH PARROT. How good would it look with a neckpiece with a stud so you can finally put the fword parrot on the fword shoulder?
Don't blame me, it was pictured like that in a 1989 poster, with Redbeard having the fword bird on his shoulder, and it took me 1 hour to understand they glued it. 
I still shake if I remind that.

Well said indeed, not to mention how @Robert8's work only further bolsters this fact... 

[Robert8]

50 minutes ago, Digger of Bricks said:

Well said indeed, not to mention how @Robert8's work only further bolsters this fact... 

 

Sometimes I wonder if your are being paid by Robert8 to promote his ideas... 

Edited July 12, 2019 by Robert8

[Robert8]

2 hours ago, MAB said:

And then zombify them too.

So for any character it can be male/female, good/evil, normal/zombie - that is already up to 8x possibilities for each idea. 

Not really. You cant make an evil version of anything. Like there cant be an Evil Crayon Girl, unless its like a black crayon person who only writes profanity

[gedren_y]

[Big rant about Castle sets.]

When it comes to similar themes being out at the same time I think there are other considerations. You also have to look at parts production, particularly when you look at the LOTR and Castle themes. They lived together on the shelves because of market share intent, movie ratings made the LOTR sets marketed largely above the core Lego age range, so a theme made for younger consumers was warranted. Looking at the actual bricks they are made up of you can see that the sets didn't overlap much, but where they did it was usually the same color bricks. This meant that production facilities could be producing parts for both themes without having to change the color of ABS being injected into the molds.

Harry Potter, on the other hand, is directed at Lego's core consumers. The construction also overlaps more fully with Castle design, but in colors that wouldn't easily be transferable. Our only hope for a Castle type theme to live alongside Harry Potter would be if Lego were to acquire the license for a property that is aimed at a slightly older consumer group. The Wheel of Time would be the most obvious, but if that had happened promotional information would have been out by now.

[End of rant.]

As to the current idea of Fabuland resurrection, I doubt those will see actual figs. The inclusion in the movies as something for the adults purchasing the tickets is one thing, but for the core Lego consumers they wouldn't be much of a draw. For a toy company to effectively capitalize on nostalgia, the product would have to be of high dollar value.

Costumed characters, on the other hand, are something that do appeal to kids, so expect to see them.

Figs with animals have seen a rise, even in sets, so we could see more than one in this series.

The parrot is currently in a full production line (Xtra), so I wouldn't expect to see it here any time soon.

Medium legs are one thing I think we can be hopeful for. Just be mindful that you don't set your expectations too high.

[Itaria No Shintaku]

I meant there is no ORC in CMF.
And no centaur either.
I mean, I could buy the entire run of either minifigure.

[Digger of Bricks]

1 hour ago, Robert8 said:

Sometimes I wonder if your are being paid by Robert8 to promote his ideas... 

As suspected by many others, I apparently work for a lot of different people...  

[ToaIruini]

5 hours ago, Robert8 said:

Sometimes I wonder if your are being paid by Robert8 to promote his ideas... 

Are there any jobs available? 

I am totally not worried that they aren’t running out of ideas, if non-licensed series will be coming out only every couple years I’ll take anything (except maybe more costumes). I sometimes wonder though, if Lego may not deem there to be enough ideas 

[Robert8]

Pirate head leaked from Series 19! 

 

[Accio Lego]

15 minutes ago, Robert8 said:

Pirate head leaked from Series 19! 

 

Darn, I was hoping for a lady pirate 

[Robert8]

Ok now a SciFi chracter!

[Gorilla94]

Do we know this pirate head is from cmf 19? Could be a Ninjago figure, too.

[dimaks13]

36 minutes ago, Gorilla94 said:

Do we know this pirate head is from cmf 19? Could be a Ninjago figure, too.

That's definitely not a Ninjago figure.

[K_Tiger]

There's also a female hair piece. I like the eye-patched head. The scarred eyebrow is a nice touch, makes me want to make some kind of samurai with it.

Edited July 13, 2019 by K_Tiger

[Digger of Bricks]

6 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

6 hours ago, Robert8 said:

Pirate head leaked from Series 19! 

Darn, I was hoping for a lady pirate 

Hmmm, from the looks of it, I feel the head might not at all be Pirates-related, but belonging to a different kind of archetype group altogether. 

2 hours ago, Robert8 said:

Ok now a SciFi chracter!

Huh, that head looks so generically Sci-Fi that it's hard to assess what sorta archetype it may belong to. 

17 hours ago, ToaIruini said:

I am totally not worried that they aren’t running out of ideas, if non-licensed series will be coming out only every couple years I’ll take anything (except maybe more costumes). I sometimes wonder though, if Lego may not deem there to be enough ideas

Personally, I'd like to know which archetypes Lego considers too obscure for a place within a CMS. Technically the line's blind-bag packaging shtick can arguably accommodate anything and everything, but is that truly how Lego sees it? 

[BrickBob Studpants]

Those are not necessarily from series 19 since some of the other leaks may be from 2020 sets 

[Digger of Bricks]

30 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said:

Those are not necessarily from series 19 since some of the other leaks may be from 2020 sets 

Huh, in light of that Trolls head that also leaked yesterday, I could see that as a alternative possibility, even a more tantalizing one at that. 

[dimaks13]

54 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said:

Those are not necessarily from series 19 since some of the other leaks may be from 2020 sets 

Way too early for those.

[Digger of Bricks]

Just now, dimaks13 said:

Way too early for those.

Not in the case of that just-mentioned Trolls head; unless, that leaked part belongs to a set slated to release this year instead? 

[K_Tiger]

Any chance LEGO does the right thing, and just shows us the damn figures at SDCC?

[Digger of Bricks]

1 minute ago, K_Tiger said:

Any chance LEGO does the right thing, and just shows us the damn figures at SDCC?

Heh, in what way could Series 19 be of any possible interest to the pop-culture junkies at Comic-Con? 

[dimaks13]

1 hour ago, Digger of Bricks said:

Not in the case of that just-mentioned Trolls head; unless, that leaked part belongs to a set slated to release this year instead? 

That part leaking so early is an indicator it's indeed so.

[Digger of Bricks]

36 minutes ago, dimaks13 said:

That part leaking so early is an indicator it's indeed so.

Huh, interesting.

If that were indeed the case, makes me wonder if those sets will instead be based upon the first Trolls movie from 2016, preceding the sequel's sets for next year.