LEGO Collectable Minifigures Future Series Rumours

[Roebuck]

20 hours ago, rebelpilot said:

There's obviously quite a lot of CMF parts and accessories that have made other sets better, do you mean CMFs released almost concurrently or with in a few months of release that the designers intend to complement the set? As in your foal example?

I do not mean sets that take advantage of parts existing in the CMF, that is of course what you would expect when the designers find a part they find useful in another theme.
I mean when there is a more or less obvious collaboration between the CMF designers and another theme, e.g. either they make a fig that fit so well it could have been in the set and/or make new parts that are made so they can use it in the set to make it better

[Accio Lego]

On 7/23/2022 at 11:41 PM, Roebuck said:

I do not mean sets that take advantage of parts existing in the CMF, that is of course what you would expect when the designers find a part they find useful in another theme.
I mean when there is a more or less obvious collaboration between the CMF designers and another theme, e.g. either they make a fig that fit so well it could have been in the set and/or make new parts that are made so they can use it in the set to make it better

That tends to be more noticeable in the licensed themes. I could give you a long list of characters from the two Harry Potter series that we clearly made with sets released at the same time or the next year in mind. It’s harder to tell in unlicensed themes where the archetypes are more broad. 

[Roebuck]

4 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

That tends to be more noticeable in the licensed themes. I could give you a long list of characters from the two Harry Potter series that we clearly made with sets released at the same time or the next year in mind. It’s harder to tell in unlicensed themes where the archetypes are more broad. 

Yes that is right, I forgot about them, but they definitely made the niffler and snitch (probably more also) in CMF so they could include them in sets (maybe we even got the sets first if I remember correctly)

[Accio Lego]

On 7/28/2022 at 10:23 PM, Roebuck said:

Yes that is right, I forgot about them, but they definitely made the niffler and snitch (probably more also) in CMF so they could include them in sets (maybe we even got the sets first if I remember correctly)

That was also around when the new rat mold was introduced. It first appeared in a city summer set and a couple of Harry Potter sets before the cmf, but I have no doubt it was made with the Harry Potter theme in mind so who knows where the budget for that was ultimately taken from. And the snake that came with Voldemort appeared a few months later as a microscale basilisk in the D2C Hogwarts, so yeah, the designers the designers definitely leveraged the CMF mold budget to its full extent to really reboot the theme properly. 
But they kept doing it in series 2 as well. The most obvious example being Ginny Weasley. The cmf variant of her is in her Slug Club Christmas party outfit, which is the scene depicted in the Astronomy Tower set released the same year. She also came with a new ice cream dish mold, which then showed up recolored in that year’s Diagon Alley D2C. 

[Inyria]

I just heard from user Brick Clicker on Youtube that there's rumors of the January 2023 series (71037) being Series 24.

Since it's very odd of LEGO to ditch the whole "1 unlicensed series per year" thing, could this possibly be the consequences of them switching to cardboard packaging? Meaning there may even be a series 25 next year before we get a licensed series again? Just some thoughts I had.

[Robert8]

Yes!

Can't believe we're getting Series 24 right after 23

When was the last time we got 2 regular series back to back? Was it 14 and 15? 

 

Anyway, great news for me! But I do wonder what happened. This doesnt feel normal

Edited July 31, 2022 by Robert8

[Anonknee Muss]

Maybe with the Muppets and Looney Tunes series, LEGO realised there isn't anymore licensed series they could do? They've drained Disney and HP of characters, DC didn't too well, Marvel did very well but LEGO doesn't try doing two of the same in back to back years. In other wise the bottom of the barrel has been scraped for licenses and there's nothing left?

Cardboard series isn't coming until September 2023.

[Robert8]

I asked someone I trust and..... it seems to be true: Series 24 is the January 2023 series 

I'll open a thread for it soon

 

Then the lineup for 2023 would be

January - Series 24 

May - ???? 

September - ??? (I guess Marvel S2 because What If season 2 is coming next spring)

[brimbolet]

Well let's hope series 24 has some new animals to offer. 

[SirBlake]

3 hours ago, Robert8 said:

I asked someone I trust and..... it seems to be true: Series 24 is the January 2023 series 

Sounds good to me. Fingers crossed we get good companion figs for the 90th space/castle sets. Or does that idea make too much sense?

[Robert8]

10 hours ago, Anonknee Muss said:

Maybe with the Muppets and Looney Tunes series, LEGO realised there isn't anymore licensed series they could do? They've drained Disney and HP of characters, DC didn't too well, Marvel did very well but LEGO doesn't try doing two of the same in back to back years. In other wise the bottom of the barrel has been scraped for licenses and there's nothing left?

Cardboard series isn't coming until September 2023.

 

There are for sure more licenses they can do, but one has to wonder why this shift back to regular series is happening. 

Maybe the price? We know TLG is raising the prices soon. Maybe they'd need to raise the price of the CMFs again because of the license fee but they considered unfeasible? Like we are at the limit of what a customer is willing to pay for a single Minifigure

Or maybe the recent regular series have been more profitable than the licensed ones? 

Maybe this a side effect of the pandemic somehow?

 

If Series 24 is followed by Series 25 in May 2023 then something definitely happened ....

Edited August 1, 2022 by Robert8

[1Panda]

Fun times I’ll take all the unlicensed series I can get!

I wonder if the want to get to series 25 so they can stop for a bit then do a reboot of some kind like some people were discussing about earlier  without the numbering.

 

[rebelpilot]

9 hours ago, Robert8 said:

I asked someone I trust and..... it seems to be true: Series 24 is the January 2023 series 

I'll open a thread for it soon

 

Then the lineup for 2023 would be

January - Series 24 

May - ???? 

September - ??? (I guess Marvel S2 because What If season 2 is coming next spring)

Series 24 being the series after next sounds great.

Let's hope the May slot is for series 25, got to get in as many as we can before the non-feelable packaging is introduced ;)

[Accio Lego]

I can’t help but think we’re seeing a larger number of unlicensed series right around when there’s a switch in packaging might be because they weren’t 100% sure when the change would happen when they were designating which series would be released when, and the issue of writing up licensing contracts when you aren’t certain whether the product is going to be blind bags or blind boxes would probably be painfully complicated. Easier to just schedule a bunch of unlicensed series in a row so you can switch over whenever without having to worry about if you’ll be violating a massive contract because you said they’d be sold in boxes but the boxes weren’t ready yet so you ended up putting them in the old bags. 

[Roebuck]

On 7/31/2022 at 4:17 AM, Robert8 said:

Can't believe we're getting Series 24 right after 23

When was the last time we got 2 regular series back to back? Was it 14 and 15?

Excellent news, however series 23 is more "regular" then regular

10 hours ago, brimbolet said:

Well let's hope series 24 has some new animals to offer. 

Yes it think it would be back to normal with a new animal or two after the disappointing series 23

7 hours ago, SirBlake said:

Sounds good to me. Fingers crossed we get good companion figs for the 90th space/castle sets. Or does that idea make too much sense?

The ones linked directly to the sets normally come out before or at the same time as the set like the series 22 bard and series 23 "knight", however a fig or two that is a good companion fig is definitely possible A civilian Castle fig would be great, maybe a sheepherder or goatherder

3 hours ago, Robert8 said:

There are for sure more licenses they can do, but one has to wonder why this shift back to regular series is happening. 

Maybe the price? We know TLG is raising the prices soon. Maybe they'd need to raise the price of the CMFs again because of the license fee but they considered unfeasible? Like we are at the limit of what a customer is willing to pay for a single Minifigure

Or maybe the recent regular series have been more profitable than the licensed ones? 

Maybe this a side effect of the pandemic somehow?

 

If Series 24 is followed by Series 25 in May 2023 then something definitely happened ....

Good question, but i think we need to see the hole 2023 lineup to know if it is a permanent change. If the 2 last series next year is licensed, the only odd one out is series 23  I for one do not mind (other than my wallet) a change back to several normal series a year. I will probably stop buying costumed figs (there are so many of them and I really do not have any use for them) and just focus on figs with animals, Castle, Pirates and Western ones in addition to City figs that fit in nicely in the modular street So from series 23 I plan on only getting 1 of the "knight" instead of 10-12 of the figs if i still collected costumed ones

[Lion King]

This….doens’t make sense. Why on the Earth they will release Series 23 this year instead of next year? 23 = 2023, 24 = 2024…

Bu whatever….

I’m so glad that we have more regular series! I hope they would offer some new animals we never saw before. Like wolf, llama, fawn, etc.

[Lion King]

and I think Marvel Serie 2  would be released in May 2023 becuas What If… tv show will be scheduled to be released in the next spring. Just like they did with Series 1 and Marvel tv shows in summer/fall 2021.

[DarrellBricker]

Are we assuming that Marvel Series 2 is going to be solely based on What If, or have some kind of inside info corroborating this? I ask because the last Marvel series was based on that show as well as WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki. By next Spring they will have a LOT of Marvel TV shows to draw from, and they could still go back and produce some of the main characters from the older ones - Agatha Harkness and U.S. Agent, most notably - that missed being in the first series. I'd much rather see figures of Agatha, Hawkeye, Kate Bishop, Ms. Marvel, She Hulk, Kang, etc. than What If? variants, personally. 

But then again, I'd much rather have a DC Series 2 over a second Marvel series, so what do I know? LOL

Edited August 1, 2022 by DarrellBricker
Another thought ...

[Robert8]

But last time almost half of the line-up came from What If? 

I assume because those characteres wont appear anywhere else and therefore are highly unlikely to be revisited on sets and such. So, they work better as stand alone minifigures

The CMFs are revealed around a month before the release: an april reveal could be too early/spoilery for the What If Season 2 characters

This is my guess, of course. I could be wrong about it

Edited August 2, 2022 by Robert8

[Lion King]

To be honest, I’m not interested in Marvel Series that based off tv shows. I love that DC seires based off comic, pretty cool! Mix of classic and modern comic characters. I kinda Marvel series gonna be based off comic. 

Just saying. 

[Roebuck]

9 hours ago, DBlegonerd7 said:

This….doens’t make sense. Why on the Earth they will release Series 23 this year instead of next year? 23 = 2023, 24 = 2024…

Bu whatever….

The number of the series really has nothing to do with the year it is released. The first years we got 3-4 series a year and none of them matched, when the CMF numbers caught up to the actual year we got more licensed series and for some years only a normal series a year that match the number of the year. Maybe it was conscious decision or maybe it was random, anyway it is nothing that stopping them from doing more than one normal series a year again if that is the most financially wise move

[rebelpilot]

2 hours ago, Roebuck said:

The number of the series really has nothing to do with the year it is released...

Yep.

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Is there a connection to the number of the series, and the year they’re released? Also, how does the LEGO Minifigures team choose the colour for each series?

Astrid: Actually, the number of the series and the year, that’s purely a coincidence!

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[Lion King]

18 hours ago, Roebuck said:

The number of the series really has nothing to do with the year it is released. The first years we got 3-4 series a year and none of them matched, when the CMF numbers caught up to the actual year we got more licensed series and for some years only a normal series a year that match the number of the year. Maybe it was conscious decision or maybe it was random, anyway it is nothing that stopping them from doing more than one normal series a year again if that is the most financially wise move

Oh, I’m perfectly aware that (prior to 2015)) the first five years (befused to have 3 series per year. When I said “doesn’t make sense”, I mean that Lego suddenly change their plans for some unknown reasons, just competely unpredictable. I just thought it was strange. But I didn’t ssay that it’s a bad thing - I’m just glad to see another regular series right after Series 23. :)

Edited August 3, 2022 by DBlegonerd7
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[Jaromir]

Hi guys, I am quite new to this topic and I have no idea what is happening with minifigure series this year. Is there gonna be next wave this year, apart of series 23? 

 

[Umbra-Manis]

3 hours ago, Jaromir said:

Hi guys, I am quite new to this topic and I have no idea what is happening with minifigure series this year. Is there gonna be next wave this year, apart of series 23? 

 

We've already had Series 22 and Muppets this year, so Series 23 will be the last release of 2022.