LEGO Collectable Minifigures Future Series Rumours

[Lion King]

This is definitley unlikely but i wish lego would include Jewish minifigur with menorah. 

[Lyichir]

21 hours ago, Lion King said:

This is definitley unlikely but i wish lego would include Jewish minifigur with menorah. 

This has me curious just how a typical menorah would best be achieved in minifigure scale... you certainly couldn't use existing candle or flame pieces and have it be a reasonable scale with nine whole candles side by side.

[DarrellBricker]

I am rather surprised that Lego hasn't done a dedicated "Winter Holiday" series yet, although you could argue they came close with CMF series 23 where five to six of the 12 figures were all holiday-related. I would think with the popularity of the Winter Village theme, more characters to liven up MOCs would be well received.

But what do I know? I still want a follow up to the Series 14 Halloween/Monsters series. :D

[Lion King]

6 hours ago, Lyichir said:

This has me curious just how a typical menorah would best be achieved in minifigure scale... you certainly couldn't use existing candle or flame pieces and have it be a reasonable scale with nine whole candles side by side.

Isntead of using actual candlestick pieces, use a single-piece mold with just candle flames?

2 hours ago, DarrellBricker said:

I am rather surprised that Lego hasn't done a dedicated "Winter Holiday" series yet, although you could argue they came close with CMF series 23 where five to six of the 12 figures were all holiday-related. I would think with the popularity of the Winter Village theme, more characters to liven up MOCs would be well received.

But what do I know? I still want a follow up to the Series 14 Halloween/Monsters series. :D

I like idea of Winter Holiday seriiiiieiiiis just like Halloweeen Seres 14!

i’m still wishing for a proper snowman minifigure - not a man in snowman costume.  Instead of using a pair of plain white legs, they should introduce a new “skirt” dome that torso can be attached to jjjjjsut liiiiiike Queen from Series 15 (or 16?). 

And there are so many that we havne’t gotten such as Father Christmas in green uniform, little boy with drum, kid with advent calendar (similiar to the actual City Advent Calendar set),  a elf with reindeer fawn, etc.

[MAB]

6 hours ago, Lyichir said:

This has me curious just how a typical menorah would best be achieved in minifigure scale... you certainly couldn't use existing candle or flame pieces and have it be a reasonable scale with nine whole candles side by side.

I think the simple answer is that it shouldn't be done. If people want candles, they can use the existing three candle candelabra and religion can be left out of LEGO.

Religion shouldn't be in toys, the same toy could be seen as mocking or celebrating a specific religion depending on viewpoint. 

[Lyichir]

35 minutes ago, Lion King said:

Isntead of using actual candlestick pieces, use a single-piece mold with just candle flames?

That could be slightly more compact, but you'd probably want separate flame pieces so kids could role play lighting them a day at a time—and nine flame pieces side by side, while potentially smaller than using candlesticks, would still be almost four studs wide at a minimum!

I dunno. Probably getting a little off topic, but it is an interesting design challenge to think about.

[Lion King]

9 minutes ago, MAB said:

I think the simple answer is that it shouldn't be done. If people want candles, they can use the existing three candle candelabra and religion can be left out of LEGO.

Religion shouldn't be in toys, the same toy could be seen as mocking or celebrating a specific religion depending on viewpoint. 

Notre Dame says hello, even tho iiiiit’s not a 4+ set.  Sure, it lacks crosses and window display that depicts Jesus Christ, but Notre Dame is still recongiized as a Chrisitaiini site of worshipping. 

4 minutes ago, Lyichir said:

That could be slightly more compact, but you'd probably want separate flame pieces so kids could role play lighting them a day at a time—and nine flame pieces side by side, while potentially smaller than using candlesticks, would still be almost four studs wide at a minimum!

I dunno. Probably getting a little off topic, but it is an interesting design challenge to think about.

I think we are not on same page. i meant to say a single-molded menorah wiith separable candle flame piece. 

But yes, i would be very curiiiiiious how Lego do that menorah element too! 

[williejm]

5 hours ago, DarrellBricker said:

I am rather surprised that Lego hasn't done a dedicated "Winter Holiday" series yet, although you could argue they came close with CMF series 23 where five to six of the 12 figures were all holiday-related. I would think with the popularity of the Winter Village theme, more characters to liven up MOCs would be well received.

But what do I know? I still want a follow up to the Series 14 Halloween/Monsters series. :D

I mean, at this stage I assume we have all given up second-guessing the CMF plans, or trying to make sense of them, no? 

[zoth33]

4 hours ago, MAB said:

I think the simple answer is that it shouldn't be done. If people want candles, they can use the existing three candle candelabra and religion can be left out of LEGO.

Religion shouldn't be in toys, the same toy could be seen as mocking or celebrating a specific religion depending on viewpoint. 

Lego does christmas sets and easter so they've already have done it.   

[Clone OPatra]

15 minutes ago, zoth33 said:

Lego does christmas sets and easter so they've already have done it.   

And Daoist things in the Lunar New Year sets.

[zoth33]

4 minutes ago, Clone OPatra said:

And Daoist things in the Lunar New Year sets.

Exactly I knew there are others but I couldn't think what it was.  I'm sure there are even more if I look into everything lego has done.  

[Karalora]

Christmas and Easter LEGO sets are, to the best of my knowledge, based exclusively on the secular side of these holidays. Though it's debatable to what extent they can be separated from their religious legacy.

[Artanis I]

But... Christmas and Easter sets have never had anything remotely to do with Jesus Christ or Christianity. Nothing 'religious' has been depicted whatsoever. Coloured eggs, pointy trees, fat man in a red suit, yes. That stuff isn't "religion in toys".

 

The Chinese stuff might be a different matter.

 

 

NINJA'D!!!

Edited December 4, 2024 by Artanis I

[zoth33]

15 minutes ago, Artanis I said:

But... Christmas and Easter sets have never had anything remotely to do with Jesus Christ or Christianity. Nothing 'religious' has been depicted whatsoever. Coloured eggs, pointy trees, fat man in a red suit, yes. That stuff isn't "religion in toys".

 

The Chinese stuff might be a different matter.

So Christmas and Easter isn't religious?  That's an interesting take doesn't make much sense though.  And yes Christmas and Easter as holidays have a lot to do with Jesus Christ.  

They've also done sets of ancient egypt and made Anubis 

Edited December 4, 2024 by zoth33

[Robert8]

Notre Dame Cathedral...

[Clone OPatra]

Yeah, we've been down this road before and had to shut it down. There are always people who come out of the woodwork and claim that Christmas and Easter as depicted in LEGO don't relate to anything actually Christian.

Which to me is absolute bollocks (they're Christian holidays after all), but anyway... Let's not have this discussion again.

[Karalora]

You could also point out that people might not want the genuinely sacred parts of their religion commodified as, let's be honest, rather silly-looking toys.

[zoth33]

40 minutes ago, Clone OPatra said:

Yeah, we've been down this road before and had to shut it down. There are always people who come out of the woodwork and claim that Christmas and Easter as depicted in LEGO don't relate to anything actually Christian.

Which to me is absolute bollocks (they're Christian holidays after all), but anyway... Let's not have this discussion again.

Yeah that sounds like a good idea.  

[Clone OPatra]

I already said not to discuss it anymore. So don't discuss it. I have hidden the extra comments discussing it.

[Lion King]

Agreed on not to discuss.

I feel it’s a good idea to have “Winter Holiday” series just like Halloween-themed Series 14. There are so many minifigures from winter holidays that we never had before (i did mention some ideas in my earlier posts here0. Sure, some of minifigures might be more “City/Winter Village”.

[FinlayTheFaithful]

As a hypothetical, how would y'all feel about a Cartoon Network CMF?

[Lion King]

17 minutes ago, FinlayTheFaithful said:

As a hypothetical, how would y'all feel about a Cartoon Network CMF?

I want some characters, such as Ed, Edd, Eddie, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Dexter, Deedee, and some classic cartoons like Scooby, Jetsons, Flirtstone (characters from Ideas set are just meh). 

[FinlayTheFaithful]

Just now, Lion King said:

I want some characters, such as Ed, Edd, Eddie, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Dexter, Deedee, and some classic cartoons like Scooby, Jetsons, Flirtstone (characters from Ideas set are just meh). 

Gotta agree on the first 3, anything else would be a nice bonus

[Karalora]

40 minutes ago, FinlayTheFaithful said:

As a hypothetical, how would y'all feel about a Cartoon Network CMF?

Meh. Cartoon Network seems to specialize in characters with the kind of exaggerated proportions that would be hard to translate into proper minifigs.

[Lyichir]

18 minutes ago, Lion King said:

I want some characters, such as Ed, Edd, Eddie, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Dexter, Deedee, and some classic cartoons like Scooby, Jetsons, Flirtstone (characters from Ideas set are just meh). 

With some of those I'm not sure how well they'd adapt to minifigures... the varied art styles and physiques of many of those characters means that they might not look right with the much more limited variety of minifigure builds. Dexter's extremely short build and Deedee's twig-like torso and limbs in particular seem like they'd be a challenge to make into satisfactory minifigures.