LEGO Collectable Minifigures Series 27. Rumors and discussion

[cosmic]

3 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

Yes Marvel S2 was completely blind and the first unlicensed series in boxes was a mix (or blind depending on region), but since the latest two series (Space and DoD) have you actually had any problem with the apps?

It's quicker and easier than feeling the packets ever was, and I was quite good at feeling the packets...

So I guess my comment may be outdated but I last tried the apps when I went out to buy Series 25 (the one with the black and white detective, and the Harpy), and none of the boxes I found were compatible with the app. Happy to hear the newer series have fixed this problem. But it was still frustrating to deal with at first, especially for Marvel. I really didn't want to have to get Beast on the after market but here we are.

[Clone OPatra]

1 hour ago, cosmic said:

So I guess my comment may be outdated but I last tried the apps when I went out to buy Series 25...

Yeah frustratingly Series 25 only had the unscannable codes in Australia. I took a scale to the store....

But you should really give it a go now. The apps are great and easy. omgbricks has been my go to.

[VinnieCannoli]

On 12/7/2024 at 8:27 PM, Accio Lego said:

I think the really interesting thing about those Cupid wings, now that the reviews are out, is that their attachment point is an anti-stud. Having them attach to a neck bracket instead of the neck bracket being built in makes them much more versatile than previous wings. You could combine those with the white foal from a couple of years ago to make your own baby Pegasus, or literally have pigs fly! It will be very interesting to see where they show up in the future – I suspect we’ll be seeing an army of small flying animals in Dreamzzz someday. 

Oh yeah i was so happy to see that update!

so gonna use these wings to make scary Biblically Accurate Angels 

Edited December 11, 2024 by VinnieCannoli

[cosmic]

2 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

Yeah frustratingly Series 25 only had the unscannable codes in Australia. I took a scale to the store....

But you should really give it a go now. The apps are great and easy. omgbricks has been my go to.

Thanks, I'll be sure to give it another go and I'm happy to hear they eventually got it right. That said, time has flown by super quick this year (maybe I'm just aging) and I was so busy focused on work that in the blink of an eye, a couple more CMF Series got released. Still think that a Marvel CMF Series is like one of the worst Series to launch boxes with, given how lucrative most of the figures in said wave are/tend to be. But hopefully not an issue moving forward.

but on the topic of theft, I wonder if all those images of broke boxes at stores may push the company to return to bags in the future. Feels like people open up CMF figures much more than before since they switched to boxes. But from what I heard, it can take a few years for a decision like that to kick in effect given how far in advance they plan their sets.

[MAB]

1 hour ago, cosmic said:

But on the topic of theft, I wonder if all those images of broke boxes at stores may push the company to return to bags in the future. 

I doubt it. I rarely see opened boxes on shelves so I doubt it is that big a problem. Where it is, retailers need to change how they sell / where they put them. 

Going back to foil bags would be a serious dent in their eco-pledge plus they would have to reinvest in machinery to produce and seal bags.

[Lion King]

Are there wing pieces with balls instead of arms or clips? I mean i think wing pieces with balls would be more posable to move around on minifigure’s back. 

[williejm]

2 hours ago, Lion King said:

Are there wing pieces with balls instead of arms or clips? I mean i think wing pieces with balls would be more posable to move around on minifigure’s back. 

Not that I know of, unless maybe such things came via Bionicle? You’re right though - a ball wing joint would be more poseable and organic 

[Robert8]

Someone pointed out in their review that some of these characters like Cupid or the Jetpack Racer should have included the clear angled piece to display the minifgures like they did in Series 20..... and you know? They're right

Whatever happened to that piece?

 

I thought they said the change from bags to boxes was to include more pieces....

[Lion King]

21 hours ago, williejm said:

Not that I know of, unless maybe such things came via Bionicle? You’re right though - a ball wing joint would be more poseable and organic 

Yeah, the way I look at the Harpy from Series 26, the wing pieces bother me a lot - less organic and possibly.  ‘M pretty sure other peole want something more natural about posability of the wings for their own MOC purposes.  Yet…we have two new wing pieces so far - that eagle dude from D&D and Cupid from Series 27.  I don’t think they would make wing pieces wiht balls?

[williejm]

36 minutes ago, Lion King said:

Yeah, the way I look at the Harpy from Series 26, the wing pieces bother me a lot - less organic and possibly.  ‘M pretty sure other peole want something more natural about posability of the wings for their own MOC purposes.  Yet…we have two new wing pieces so far - that eagle dude from D&D and Cupid from Series 27.  I don’t think they would make wing pieces wiht balls?

Yeah the harpy is a mess. By rights it should have come with new wings as arms though 

[ILoveSeatron]

Series 27 looks mostly good. By the way, has anyone else found Lego putting the figures in small paper boxes annoying? Lego is going into a "Let's chop down way more trees than before so we can make everything paper" rant. So now the series minifigs are in small paper boxes. What is SO BAD about it is that now you CAN'T feel the bag to see what's inside! I gusse Lego is just trying to make it more of a mystery.(or more like just going for their goal of chopping down all the trees in the world, so they can make paper everything.) Soon Lego IS GOING TO MAKE PAPER BRICKS!!!

[Accio Lego]

3 hours ago, ILoveSeatron said:

Series 27 looks mostly good. By the way, has anyone else found Lego putting the figures in small paper boxes annoying? Lego is going into a "Let's chop down way more trees than before so we can make everything paper" rant. So now the series minifigs are in small paper boxes. What is SO BAD about it is that now you CAN'T feel the bag to see what's inside! I gusse Lego is just trying to make it more of a mystery.(or more like just going for their goal of chopping down all the trees in the world, so they can make paper everything.) Soon Lego IS GOING TO MAKE PAPER BRICKS!!!

No. I don’t find it annoying.
 

Lego has made a public commitment to be more ecologically friendly and switching to packaging that can be recycled or at least biodegrades is an important part of that. Sure, we can’t feel the bags anymore, but Lego reportedly tried paper bags and found they weren’t durable enough to take that kind of handling. They quickly figured out how to compensate for that with the data matrix codes that can be read with a simple phone app - which makes fans’ search for specific figs even faster and less error prone. They didn’t have to do that, but they did to keep the fans happy. There are plenty of truly blind box/bag/capsule toys out there, but Lego has never been one of them – it’s just that now you can scan the box with your phone instead palpitating germ covered bags.

Frankly, the days of being able to feel bags at your leisure were already dying thanks to the pandemic – many secondary retailers where I live started storing them exclusively behind the counter. I for one will not be mourning the end of awkward interactions where I’d ask to search through the case only for the cashier to get more and more peeved at me as I took 10+ minutes to feel all the bags. Scanning them with my phone looks far less unhinged. 
 

And I know that last bit about paper bricks was supposed to be a petty dig, but Lego started integrating plant-based plastic parts into their sets years ago. They made a big deal about announcing it when it started (the only time a Lego store employee has given me multiple promo items because I went X times over the threshold was the ‘Plants from Plants’ pack - I was quite giddy). You probably have some plant derived Lego already. And they’ve also been vocal about developing bricks from recycled plastics too (although I haven’t heard anything about those being used in sets yet). 

[Lion King]

On 12/14/2024 at 8:54 AM, williejm said:

Yeah the harpy is a mess. By rights it should have come with new wings as arms though 

100% agred. 

[zinnn]

On 12/14/2024 at 11:07 PM, ILoveSeatron said:

Series 27 looks mostly good. By the way, has anyone else found Lego putting the figures in small paper boxes annoying? Lego is going into a "Let's chop down way more trees than before so we can make everything paper" rant. So now the series minifigs are in small paper boxes. What is SO BAD about it is that now you CAN'T feel the bag to see what's inside! I gusse Lego is just trying to make it more of a mystery.(or more like just going for their goal of chopping down all the trees in the world, so they can make paper everything.) Soon Lego IS GOING TO MAKE PAPER BRICKS!!!

What an odd rant. ‘DEY TOOK MER PLASTIC!!

 

btw I’m surprised the steampunk guy is number two in the poll right now, I thought it’s such a niche theme. 

[Lyichir]

15 minutes ago, zinnn said:

What an odd rant. ‘DEY TOOK MER PLASTIC!!

 

btw I’m surprised the steampunk guy is number two in the poll right now, I thought it’s such a niche theme. 

Sometimes novelty can have its own appeal. Steampunk has been a popular MOCing genre among AFOLs for ages but it's rare for an official minifig to specifically cater to those sensibilities—often steampunk builders have had to make do by combining historical and sci-fi parts. So a steampunk CMF sort of hits the sweet spot of a highly popular "theme" that nonetheless has little competition/comparison among existing minifigures.

[ToaIruini]

3 hours ago, Lyichir said:

Sometimes novelty can have its own appeal. Steampunk has been a popular MOCing genre among AFOLs for ages but it's rare for an official minifig to specifically cater to those sensibilities—often steampunk builders have had to make do by combining historical and sci-fi parts. So a steampunk CMF sort of hits the sweet spot of a highly popular "theme" that nonetheless has little competition/comparison among existing minifigures.

Precisely. The best CMF figures are ones which cannot be found in current themes with sets. 

[williejm]

On 12/14/2024 at 11:07 PM, ILoveSeatron said:

16 hours ago, ToaIruini said:

Precisely. The best CMF figures are ones which cannot be found in current themes with sets. 

 

Also those polls need to be taken in context. This is a very self-selecting group, and folk only get to choose one 

Edited December 17, 2024 by williejm

[Lion King]

Ignoring poll and still refusing to vote, since we have Santa Claus and Cupid in CMF series, I wonder if we will see New Year’s baby, Mother Nature, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny. We have Sandman from Dreamzzz.

[DarrellBricker]

25 minutes ago, Lion King said:

Ignoring poll and still refusing to vote, since we have Santa Claus and Cupid in CMF series, I wonder if we will see New Year’s baby, Mother Nature, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny. We have Sandman from Dreamzzz.

Perhaps one day ... you never know!

[VinnieCannoli]

On 12/17/2024 at 5:07 AM, zinnn said:

btw I’m surprised the steampunk guy is number two in the poll right now, I thought it’s such a niche theme. 

I don't think the "niche" theme can put an effect on the minifiigure demand. Castle/fantasy is also kind of a niche theme for example (we don't even have any new popular movies in that genre - just some TV-shows on streaming platforms...i would say that even Horror genre is more alive than Fantasy or "Medieval" genre of pop culture). SteamPunk guy is just a cool minifigure that looks awesome - this is one of the main factors that makes a minifigure desirable. You see him and you think "oh nice!!".

Edited December 18, 2024 by VinnieCannoli

[zoth33]

4 hours ago, VinnieCannoli said:

I don't think the "niche" theme can put an effect on the minifiigure demand. Castle/fantasy is also kind of a niche theme for example (we don't even have any new popular movies in that genre - just some TV-shows on streaming platforms...i would say that even Horror genre is more alive than Fantasy or "Medieval" genre of pop culture). SteamPunk guy is just a cool minifigure that looks awesome - this is one of the main factors that makes a minifigure desirable. You see him and you think "oh nice!!".

Fantasy is very popular and it's evident with the fact that we have several book series that are popular and tv series and movies like LOTR, ROP, WOT, the Witcher, Shadow and bones, GOT, HOTD, the Sandman, Outlander, etc.  
 

[DarrellBricker]

Well, Merry Christmas to me! :D I was in my local grocery store in Central New York when what to my wondering eyes should appear - Series 27 was on the shelves! Picked up seven, and got 2 Wolfpack Beastmasters, 2 Pirate Quartermasters, the Steampunk Inventor, the Boogeyman, and the Cat Fanatic. The codes are current and came up easily in the search apps, I am happy to report.

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, DarrellBricker said:

Well, Merry Christmas to me! :D I was in my local grocery store in Central New York when what to my wondering eyes should appear - Series 27 was on the shelves! Picked up seven, and got 2 Wolfpack Beastmasters, 2 Pirate Quartermasters, the Steampunk Inventor, the Boogeyman, and the Cat Fanatic. The codes are current and came up easily in the search apps, I am happy to report.

Great luck for you! And great news for all of us that the apps are up to date and working for this series already!

 I’ve got plans to go to my local Lego store on January second (there’s a gift card under the Christmas tree with my name on it and I’ve got over 18000 saved up), so it’s nice to know the apps already work now (whether there will be any beastmasters left once I get there is another matter entirely). 

[williejm]

12 hours ago, DarrellBricker said:

Well, Merry Christmas to me! :D I was in my local grocery store in Central New York when what to my wondering eyes should appear - Series 27 was on the shelves! Picked up seven, and got 2 Wolfpack Beastmasters, 2 Pirate Quartermasters, the Steampunk Inventor, the Boogeyman, and the Cat Fanatic. The codes are current and came up easily in the search apps, I am happy to report.

A Christmas miracle!

[cosmic]

On 12/14/2024 at 9:24 PM, Accio Lego said:

No. I don’t find it annoying.
 

Lego has made a public commitment to be more ecologically friendly and switching to packaging that can be recycled or at least biodegrades is an important part of that. Sure, we can’t feel the bags anymore, but Lego reportedly tried paper bags and found they weren’t durable enough to take that kind of handling. They quickly figured out how to compensate for that with the data matrix codes that can be read with a simple phone app - which makes fans’ search for specific figs even faster and less error prone. They didn’t have to do that, but they did to keep the fans happy. There are plenty of truly blind box/bag/capsule toys out there, but Lego has never been one of them – it’s just that now you can scan the box with your phone instead palpitating germ covered bags.

Frankly, the days of being able to feel bags at your leisure were already dying thanks to the pandemic – many secondary retailers where I live started storing them exclusively behind the counter. I for one will not be mourning the end of awkward interactions where I’d ask to search through the case only for the cashier to get more and more peeved at me as I took 10+ minutes to feel all the bags. Scanning them with my phone looks far less unhinged. 
 

And I know that last bit about paper bricks was supposed to be a petty dig, but Lego started integrating plant-based plastic parts into their sets years ago. They made a big deal about announcing it when it started (the only time a Lego store employee has given me multiple promo items because I went X times over the threshold was the ‘Plants from Plants’ pack - I was quite giddy). You probably have some plant derived Lego already. And they’ve also been vocal about developing bricks from recycled plastics too (although I haven’t heard anything about those being used in sets yet). 

I appreciate this perspective. Their pledge is commendable and the inclusion of the codes was actually a wonderful way to make up for our inability to feel the figures out for ourselves. I figure it helps avoid boxes being ripped open because in time, more people who learn about the apps can use them and avoid breaking store property. So its good for theft and consumer satisfaction at the same time. I will say that it was annoying at first, but they handled the roll to quite well. Only issue is I don't always have an easy time finding a Series, but this was an issue even with the bags. Looney Tunes was hard to find and similarly, felt like some of the newer Series, namely the Space series came and went very quickly. like it was in stores one week gone the next. Maybe they just sell well.