LEGO Collectable Minifigures Future Series Rumours

[Pop Star c o]

19 hours ago, Digger of Bricks said:

Though this one isn't "Renaissance" in any way, another idea for a CMF I thought of recently is one that could pay homage to Bionicle somehow. As a generic archetype, perhaps such a CMF could be named "Biomechanical Warrior/Alien" with a design similar to these:

It would be the worst CMF series ever.

[Digger of Bricks]

19 hours ago, Aanchir said:

That may partly be a self-indulgent wish on my part, though, since those are the sorts of parts I’d love to have for my sigfig. Certainly a biomechanical hero , while possibly a more bizarre concept to people who don’t know Bionicle, is more action-packed and exciting in terms of the type of play scenario suggested by their design and accessories.

While I don't know how constraction fans would feel about such labeling, giving such a hypothetical Bionicle-inspired CMF the "alien" label might make buyers who are ignorant of Bionicle less confused as to what such archetype it is more specifically, as they'd just accept it as another random alien CMF. 

19 hours ago, Aanchir said:

Really? Because most of the ideas suggested here on recent pages are derivative in one way or another — whether based on an idea LEGO has portrayed in a past theme (like Bionicle characters), an idea based o. real life (like a plague doctor), or an idea proposed in some past non-LEGO creative medium (like a Renaissance wingsuit). And any of these ideas could just as easily be something LEGO is already contemplating behind the scenes, since they have just as much access to the concepts that inspire us as we typically do. If people can moan about LEGO “stealing” the concept of a Helicarrier set from LEGO Ideas, despite that project being based on an ongoing licensed theme and widely available movies, and having a completely different scale than the eventual set, then it goes without saying that somebody who proposes a concept to LEGO for a archetypical, public domain concept like a Centaur or Medieval Bard, they might get irrationally defensive should LEGO release a similar-looking figure without crediting them.

I must confess, when I initially replied to @MAB's comment on the lack of original ideas, I impulsively misinterpreted it as implication that the Collectable Minifigure line is running out of steam, hence my comment. 

But, regarding this discussion of a CMS based upon fan designs, my original proposal was for not necessarily a "fans' choice" contest for most favored archetypes, but rather a submission contest where fans/artists submit their original character (not generic archetype) designs for a chance to be in a CMS made up of such. The end result could look more like an Overwatch-esque pantheon of heroes, rather than a typical non-licensed CMS that you would've seen otherwise.

4 hours ago, Pop Star c o said:

It would be the worst CMF series ever.

Um, I wasn't suggesting an entire CMS based upon/inspired by Bionicle, just a single CMF inspired after such. 

[Itaria No Shintaku]

Three more series confermed for 2020.
As if someone had doubts.

[Robert8]

C'mon LEGO! Release at least 2 regular CMFs next year! Like the good old days!

 

Edited July 17, 2019 by Robert8

[K_Tiger]

Do we have any info on next year's licenses to speculate on likely candidates?

[dimaks13]

3 minutes ago, K_Tiger said:

Do we have any info on next year's licenses to speculate on likely candidates?

Minions, Trolls, some unknown Girls IP.

[Roebuck]

23 minutes ago, K_Tiger said:

Do we have any info on next year's licenses to speculate on likely candidates?

HP/WW

[K_Tiger]

2 hours ago, Roebuck said:

HP/WW

Fantastic Beasts 3 got kicked until after 2020, didn't it? I've got to think hard about HP characters I still want in figure form that wouldn't already be allocated to sets. I suspect Harry , Hermione and Ron would show up in some form, naturally.

2 hours ago, dimaks13 said:

Minions, Trolls, some unknown Girls IP.

"Meh" on the first 2, I won't discount a girl-targeted IP out of hand, though.

[Accio Lego]

9 minutes ago, K_Tiger said:

Fantastic Beasts 3 got kicked until after 2020, didn't it? I've got to think hard about HP characters I still want in figure form that wouldn't already be allocated to sets. I suspect Harry , Hermione and Ron would show up in some form, naturally.

The fact that FB3 is delayed doesn’t stop them from including some Crimes of Grindelwald figures in a series. Plus there are dozens of characters and unique variations of Harry Potter characters that people have already been speculating about in the Harry Potter 2020 forum. 

[Roebuck]

5 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

The fact that FB3 is delayed doesn’t stop them from including some Crimes of Grindelwald figures in a series.

I agree, we are missing a lot of characters from CoG, so they could easily get e.g. 6 figs there even without reusing any from the first series.. Off course Lego may skip FB figs, but I prefer they do 16 HP and 6 FB like last time instead of 16-20 HP figs when they make the second series

[Robert8]

The franchises that have gotten a CMF line a quite big: Disney, Simpsons, Batman, Harry Potter. I think neither Minions or Trolls are at that level

Edited July 17, 2019 by Robert8

[Accio Lego]

13 minutes ago, Robert8 said:

The franchises that have gotten a CMF line a quite big: Disney, Simpsons, Batman, Harry Potter. I think neither Minions or Trolls are at that level

If you’re counting Batman you could theoretically throw the Lego Movies and Ninjago in as well - but yeah I think you’re right, all the licensed themes had proven themselves already (or were tie ins to Lego’s own licenses). They’re unlikely to stick their necks out like that for licenses that won’t appeal to teens and AFOLs as well. 

[Digger of Bricks]

12 hours ago, Robert8 said:

C'mon LEGO! Release at least 2 regular CMFs next year! Like the good old days!

Hey, now that Lego will have had their twentieth Series in 2020 for the theme's tenth anniversary, perhaps they will stop pacing out these CMS on a yearly basis for such commemorative synchronization. 

12 hours ago, K_Tiger said:

Do we have any info on next year's licenses to speculate on likely candidates?

I do hope a third Series for Disney will happen next year rather than later, as it's one of the more promising and worthwhile franchises the Collectable Minifigure theme has touched upon so far.

9 hours ago, K_Tiger said:

Fantastic Beasts 3 got kicked until after 2020, didn't it? I've got to think hard about HP characters I still want in figure form that wouldn't already be allocated to sets.

Tell me though, what HP/FB characters/variants could make up a second WW Series that couldn't just be slotted into a playset? *

* I haven't seen any of the films BTW.

[Accio Lego]

27 minutes ago, Digger of Bricks said:

Tell me though, what HP/FB characters/variants could make up a second WW Series that couldn't just be slotted into a playset? *

 * I haven't seen any of the films BTW.

Back when every other wave had a ‘Hogwarts Castle’ set in it that wasn’t really meant to depict any one scene that might have been a valid point (they had a habit of sticking major characters in there that wouldn’t fit anywhere else), but the theme’s reboot has been giving us very specific scenes from the movies, and if an important character (like Flitwick, Trelawney, or polyjuiced!Moody) doesn’t appear or play a role in a major action scene then they might fit in a CMF better. There’s also a whole bunch of outfit variations that collectors want - most notably the house robes introduced for Gryffindor in series 1 being done for the other 3 houses (although I’ve personally got my fingers crossed for Luna’s lion hat as well). Just look at how extensive Funko’s Harry Potter line is and you’ll get an idea of how many options there are. 

[Vindicare]

1 hour ago, Digger of Bricks said:

Tell me though, what HP/FB characters/variants could make up a second WW Series that couldn't just be slotted into a playset? *

* I haven't seen any of the films BTW.

As for HP, there’s a fair number of new minifigs we could get who were left out of the covered movies so far. We could get Gilderoy Lockhart, Ginny Weasley(short legs), Tom Riddle, Moaning Myrtle, Rita Skeeter, Crabbe & Goyle(short legs), other three House Ghosts(although Hufflepuff could show up later). They could also give us the Dursley’s, which would cover three spots. 

[Robert8]

Honestly? I don't think there will be a second Harry Potter CMF series anytime soon. 

They need the chracters for the sets, especially if they are going to release a wave every 6 months. Otherwise the sets will end up full of Harrys, Hermiones, Rons, Dumbledores, Snapes and Mcgonagalls 

Remember these are based on the movies, so the pool of characters is smaller. Peeves, Winky, Merope, Dennis Creevey, Marietta Edgecombe, Hepzibah Smith, Professor Binns, Charlie Weasley, Andromeda and Ted Tonks, most of the Death Eaters, etc are out

If they plan on going with these for a long run, then they can't throw the chracters just like that in another humongous series of 22 minifigures 

[Gorilla94]

1 hour ago, Robert8 said:

Honestly? I don't think there will be a second Harry Potter CMF series anytime soon. 

They need the chracters for the sets, especially if they are going to release a wave every 6 months. Otherwise the sets will end up full of Harrys, Hermiones, Rons, Dumbledores, Snapes and Mcgonagalls  

Remember these are based on the movies, so the pool of characters is smaller. Peeves, Winky, Merope, Dennis Creevey, Marietta Edgecombe, Hepzibah Smith, Professor Binns, Charlie Weasley, Andromeda and Ted Tonks, most of the Death Eaters, etc are out

If they plan on going with these for a long run, then they can't throw the chracters just like that in another humongous series of 22 minifigures 

I guess we will see next year. The question is: will Lego go back after sets for the last books and do missing sets like the Chamber of secrets or Fluffy´s room or will it be the end of the line. If it is the end i have no doubt there will be a second one for the missing characters.

[K_Tiger]

4 hours ago, Robert8 said:

Honestly? I don't think there will be a second Harry Potter CMF series anytime soon. 

They need the chracters for the sets, especially if they are going to release a wave every 6 months. Otherwise the sets will end up full of Harrys, Hermiones, Rons, Dumbledores, Snapes and Mcgonagalls 

Remember these are based on the movies, so the pool of characters is smaller. Peeves, Winky, Merope, Dennis Creevey, Marietta Edgecombe, Hepzibah Smith, Professor Binns, Charlie Weasley, Andromeda and Ted Tonks, most of the Death Eaters, etc are out

If they plan on going with these for a long run, then they can't throw the chracters just like that in another humongous series of 22 minifigures 

 

6 hours ago, Digger of Bricks said:

 

Tell me though, what HP/FB characters/variants could make up a second WW Series that couldn't just be slotted into a playset? *

* I haven't seen any of the films BTW.

That's what I was angling at. Without getting into the books' excised characters, you've got a smaller pool of to draw both set and CMF figures. Sure, it's easy enough to do (multiple) casual and uniform variants of characters with more than half-a-second of screen time(Lavender Brown using a recolored Dorthy hair piece, please!), and I'd be shocked if another CMF series came and there wasn't at least one of the Patil sisters in Yule Ball gown (Dress robes? Whatever.)

I dunno, thinking harder, and with a fresh viewing of the series under my belt, maybe I could plot out a list divided between sets and a CMF wave.

 

 

Disney would be a whole lot easier, though....

 

 

Edited July 18, 2019 by K_Tiger

[Roebuck]

23 minutes ago, K_Tiger said:

That's what I was angling at. Without getting into the books' excised characters, you've got a smaller pool of to draw both set and CMF figures.

Was the 4 founders or the architect in the films?! We are still missing a lot of characters that are in the movies from the first 4 films and next year they will start with 5-6, so plenty of figs both for a second CMF series and sets I would say..

For me personally 1 WW cmf and 2 normal ones would be perfect, but probably only 1 normal is coming I guess with only a Ms Gold if we are lucky

[K_Tiger]

Well, they stuck the founders in the big, expensive DTC, so.... Anyway, I too could live with 2 regular and a WW wave for next year. I would hope we'd get something special for the 10th anniversary of the CMF line.

Edited July 18, 2019 by K_Tiger

[Digger of Bricks]

50 minutes ago, K_Tiger said:

Disney would be a whole lot easier, though....

Harry Potter & Company may have a lot to offer, but it's nothing compared to the scope of the groundwork laid-out by the Disney CMS subtheme.

6 minutes ago, K_Tiger said:

I would hope we'd get something special for the 10th anniversary of the CMF line.

Ya know, Ms. Gold may seem like the safest commemorative direction for such, but awhile ago I had been entertaining another possibility: What if Lego decided to give us a Series 20 lineup that was patterned after Series 1, made up of reduxes and gender variations of that Series' archetypes? 

5 hours ago, Robert8 said:

If they plan on going with these for a long run, then they can't throw the chracters just like that in another humongous series of 22 minifigures 

Exactly. 

[MAB]

16 hours ago, Robert8 said:

The franchises that have gotten a CMF line a quite big: Disney, Simpsons, Batman, Harry Potter. I think neither Minions or Trolls are at that level

Have you seen how many minions Mega did in their line? They are up to at least series 13 https://www.megabrands.com/en-us/construction-toys/despicable-me-minions/micro-action-figures-series-13. The series vary in number but I think they have done well over 100 different minions already.

Of course the franchise itself is much smaller than the behemoths in that it was very popular then died somewhat after each movie was gone from the cinema. But in this sense it is not that different to TLM, TLM2, Ninjago Movie, etc.

 

 

[Itaria No Shintaku]

I wouldn't been surprised if they did:

JAN/FEB - THE LEGO MOVIE 2 SERIES 2

APR/MAY - DISNEY SERIES 3

AUG/SEP - SERIES 20

[Gorilla94]

I don't know. Are there any missing characters from TLM2 to fill a whole series? I just know about fox suit girl.

To be honest i doubt a Disney series 3 so soon. Which characters should be included? Goofy comes in the d2c. Roumors say Pluto, too.. I could see a Mulan but her antagonist isn't popular as the other villans. A series of mostly sidekicks to earlier serieses (like Megara and Phil for Hercules) won't sell that well.

Series 20 will surely come. I would love to see a Mr. Gold from Series 10 rereleased with one per box. It stopped so many from collecting. It would be smart to fix that problem... 

[MatthewRC]

On 3/26/2019 at 8:09 AM, Digger of Bricks said:

Though this one isn't "Renaissance" in any way, another idea for a CMF I thought of recently is one that could pay homage to Bionicle somehow. As a generic archetype, perhaps such a CMF could be named "Biomechanical Warrior/Alien" with a design similar to these:

 

To be honest, I’m open to the idea of Bionicle minifigures! Even though it already happened in 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively, I’d like to see it happen!

The Matoran can use short minifigure legs, the Toa with regular legs and the Turaga with medium-short legs introduced in the Harry Potter CMF!

Also, brick-built Rahi beasts would be interesting.