LEGO Collectable Minifigures Future Series Rumours

[Gorilla94]

7 hours ago, Robert8 said:

The next spot (May) should be Disney or Harry Potter. I think both will get a third one. Disney might even get a 4th, but I don't see HP getting more than 3

And if they get the Star Wars license of CMFs.... I think that would be 1 series per year. At this point it's more than proven that SW fans buy whatever TLG throws at them. At this point there is a collection of (I don't how many) Millenium Falcon versions. And that's a huge set. Can you imagine CMFs? They can make Luke yawning, Luke sleeping, Luke eating, Luke crying, Luke thinking, Luke having a seizure.....  and they would fly off the shelves. That would take the September spot every year

When I said I think Series 20 might have been the last regular one, I wasn't complaining or anything, it's just that it does look that way 

Disney had definitely the potential for 4 waves or more, but i can´t imagine this happen after the selection Lego did until now. Nobody wants Wendy without Peter Pan, Lilo without Stich... Phil and Meg without Hercules... This way they made so many potential figures impossible that I can´t imagine how a 4th series should be filled.

I think that will be the case, if Lego gets the licence... and i am also sure, that it will be done with about that interesting figures like the ones you described... Cool characters with printed arms and so on are the main selling point for terrible stuff like cloud city. I can´t imagine lego giving us Jango Fett with printed arms or stuff like that for 4€ separately.

Sadly it looks that way. Regular figures don´t sell as good as before since the ridiculous price explosion. Giving cmfs incredible popular licences seems to compensate that at least a bit.

 

Edited April 12, 2020 by Gorilla94

[Digger of Bricks]

12 hours ago, Robert8 said:

Well, I expect DC and Marvel to take turns. I don't think they would release 2 superheroes series back to back. 

So, let's say that would be the January Series: Either Marvel or DC

If we are to indeed see a Marvel-themed CMS here soon, I wouldn't even expect to see DC and Marvel share a year together, so I'd imagine they'd take turns releasing their own consecutive Series every other year after the other (i.e. Marvel Series 1 in 2021, DC Series 2 in 2022, Marvel Series 2 in 2023, and so forth)... 

[DarrellBricker]

 I could live with that ... :)

 

On 4/12/2020 at 12:00 AM, Robert8 said:

When I said I think Series 20 might have been the last regular one, I wasn't complaining or anything, it's just that it does look that way 

If Series 20 is to be the last regular series, *I* would complain. Quite bitterly, to be honest, and incessantly :D

[General Magma]

50 minutes ago, DarrellBricker said:

 I could live with that ... :)

 

If Series 20 is to be the last regular series, *I* would complain. Quite bitterly, to be honest, and incessantly :D

So would I. And thousands if not more would join, not doing any more regular series would be very unfortunate. Don't really get why
superhero CMFs would be needed anyway. There's already a bunch of superhero sets, why replace the source of cool, not-seen-yet minifigures,
among them being the pirates and the frontier and the historical and the many other kinds of figures that would otherwise not be released
in this sea of licenses upon licenses?

Edited April 13, 2020 by General Magma

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

Alternating years of Marvel and DC would be a dream for me! We'll see...

[Robert8]

On 4/12/2020 at 10:16 AM, Digger of Bricks said:

If we are to indeed see a Marvel-themed CMS here soon, I wouldn't even expect to see DC and Marvel share a year together, so I'd imagine they'd take turns releasing their own consecutive Series every other year after the other (i.e. Marvel Series 1 in 2021, DC Series 2 in 2022, Marvel Series 2 in 2023, and so forth)... 

Yeah that's what I meant but you explained better. 

The january series would be the superheroes slot. One year Marvel and the next year DC

[lifeinplastic]

On 4/13/2020 at 11:27 PM, DarrellBricker said:

If Series 20 is to be the last regular series, *I* would complain. Quite bitterly, to be honest, and incessantly :D

 

23 hours ago, General Magma said:

So would I.

Me too - I'd be moaning about it pretty much non-stop! The regular CMF lines give us so more to add to the Lego universe by including things that wouldn't get made into regular sets. Just think of all the special moulds that have been made for music instruments, sports equipment, animals (not to mention how many of these items that still don't exist). These things wouldn't be included in a regular set as the parts that make them worthwhile just wouldn't be deemed essential to justify increasing the cost of each set.

I find the licensed series rarely offer much that couldn't be included in a regular set (in my view super hero themes generally are just collectible figures with added bricks included). I acknowledge I'm generalising here and it's cool that we have all the Star Wars/Batman/Avengers main characters but I'm just not that interested in seeing 101 variations of Batman suits. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-comic books or against Lego having licenses - we all like different things after all. However, I just don't want licensed themes to monopolise the Lego brand and don't see why certain figures can't just be released with regular sets.

Edited April 14, 2020 by lifeinplastic

[jonwil]

I hope they never kill the non-licensed series. We have gotten so many things in the non-licensed CMFs that we would never get in a regular set.

 

[THELEGOBATMAN]

9 hours ago, jonwil said:

I hope they never kill the non-licensed series. We have gotten so many things in the non-licensed CMFs that we would never get in a regular set.

 

But we also got tons of wasted spots and lazy minifigures. They need to step up their game, or getting another lazy series in place of licensed series won't be worth it anymore.

[1Panda]

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

But we also got tons of wasted spots and lazy minifigures. They need to step up their game, or getting another lazy series in place of licensed series won't be worth it anymore.

There’s a lot of wasted spots/ lazy designs in the licensed stuff too... 

( like who actually asked for Ss2!?!)

it depends on what you like which clearly is licensed products and we have plenty already as said before and most of them could be shoved into sets.

I went to Walmart today and saw 2 box worth of Disney 2 series and 12 packs from series 20 left in the box.

[BigGuy4U]

2 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

But we also got tons of wasted spots and lazy minifigures. They need to step up their game, or getting another lazy series in place of licensed series won't be worth it anymore.

Just because a minifig doesn't appeal to you personally that doesn't mean it's lazy or a wasted spot. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

[Karalora]

42 minutes ago, BigGuy4U said:

Just because a minifig doesn't appeal to you personally that doesn't mean it's lazy or a wasted spot. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

Hear, hear! One of the most commonly reviled types are the costumed figures, but I can think of all kinds of uses for them:

• School plays
• Theme parks/carnivals
• Halloween parties
• Other seasonal scenes (we've got a few different springtime ones now, and I like putting the veggie-based ones in my farmer's markets)
• Sports mascots
• Hokey advertising icons

[Gorilla94]

1 hour ago, BigGuy4U said:

Just because a minifig doesn't appeal to you personally that doesn't mean it's lazy or a wasted spot. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I think that depends on how you define lazy or wasted spot. To me roller scater girl or series 19 mountain biker, Robot Programmer and Firefighter are completely wasted spots because they should have been in regular city sets just like that. The cmf moulding budget should be used for special stuff. A new helm/hat-hair Combo for female City figures should be in the City budget. The female Police officer got her hat/hair-combo from that budget back then, too. Cmfs are in my opinion there to give us stuff like the myrmillo- or viking-Helmet or Suit headgears and tailpieces... special music Instruments and so on. Things you would not produce anyways in that year. The HP series introduced as far as i can tell every new piece in the HP licence. With that and all the used stickers the sets should be even cheaper.

1 hour ago, 1Panda said:

There’s a lot of wasted spots/ lazy designs in the licensed stuff too... 

( like who actually asked for Ss2!?!)

I agree on that... Metamorpho 

If you mean Simpsons 2 I can say "me". I love the Simpsons. Of course the family outfits were not the best choice. Of course there were stupid choices like including Fallout Boy but not Skinner. Still we got great representations of many popular characters and the fact that the Simpsons are yellow makes them even usefull for people who dont like them. The hairy arms of Willie are easily one of my favourite parts of that year. In general there were tons of cool dual moulded arms and tripple moulded short legs. If we see how unique the moulded heads were the value seems to be much higher than for example with HP,  where every single new mould was reused in other sets. 

[gedren_y]

34 minutes ago, Gorilla94 said:

I think that depends on how you define lazy or wasted spot. To me roller scater girl or series 19 mountain biker, Robot Programmer and Firefighter are completely wasted spots because they should have been in regular city sets just like that. The cmf moulding budget should be used for special stuff. A new helm/hat-hair Combo for female City figures should be in the City budget. The female Police officer got her hat/hair-combo from that budget back then, too. Cmfs are in my opinion there to give us stuff like the myrmillo- or viking-Helmet or Suit headgears and tailpieces... special music Instruments and so on. Things you would not produce anyways in that year. The HP series introduced as far as i can tell every new piece in the HP licence. With that and all the used stickers the sets should be even cheaper.

The Robot Programmer was not a waste. The flannel shirt around the waist print, something I've wanted for a while, would never make it into a City set. Useful parts across the board.

[jonwil]

I am a huge fan of the costumed figs and wish I had had the foresight to pick up some of the earlier animal costumes like the Gorilla Suit Guy or the Panda Guy or the Penguin Boy.

Very much looking forward to the green brick costume and the pea costume (not a Llama fan so I wont be buying that one :)

 

[Robert8]

It all depends on one's taste 

For me Super Warrior is one of the highlights on Series 20 but the Brotherbricks review called him a "filler"

In my opinion Batman Movie Series 2 was a waste, with the exception of the dolphin. But I recall people calling it the "best series yet" when it came out

Also I clearly remember people complaining on facebook because Series 19 didnt have enough City characters. But for me, it was the complete opposite. 

[Karalora]

I for one think people sometimes get a little too excited about a CMF just because they like the accessory it comes with. I'm as happy as anyone to see new animals and items come with the CMFs, but in many cases I think those could be introduced in full sets and the figure itself is sort of bland. I would much rather have cool historical or fantasy characters with pre-existing accessories (maybe in a new color) than uninspired City figures that happen to have interesting toys.

[Roebuck]

6 hours ago, Gorilla94 said:

If we see how unique the moulded heads were the value seems to be much higher than for example with HP,  where every single new mould was reused in other sets. 

I do not agree that usage of parts in other sets devaluate the CMF that have used it budget for the moulds. The sets would be without a lot of nice details and it benefits the theme as a hole

3 hours ago, Karalora said:

I for one think people sometimes get a little too excited about a CMF just because they like the accessory it comes with. I'm as happy as anyone to see new animals and items come with the CMFs, but in many cases I think those could be introduced in full sets and the figure itself is sort of bland. I would much rather have cool historical or fantasy characters with pre-existing accessories (maybe in a new color) than uninspired City figures that happen to have interesting toys.

I partly agree with you, but to me the best part of the CMF is to get new animals and we would never have gotten all those in normal sets, they do not have the budget for it. I would of course rather have the new animal with a cool historical fig than a rather normal city fig, but I guess the kids love city.

[Anonknee Muss]

11 hours ago, BigGuy4U said:

Just because a minifig doesn't appeal to you personally that doesn't mean it's lazy or a wasted spot. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

Well said!!

Most minifigures are actually pretty fantastic!

6 hours ago, Karalora said:

I for one think people sometimes get a little too excited about a CMF just because they like the accessory it comes with. I'm as happy as anyone to see new animals and items come with the CMFs, but in many cases I think those could be introduced in full sets and the figure itself is sort of bland. I would much rather have cool historical or fantasy characters with pre-existing accessories (maybe in a new color) than uninspired City figures that happen to have interesting toys.

I also partly agree. I would love to see more historical minifigures. But that’s my taste, no everyone would agree. A plague doctor is a must.

[Robert8]

2 hours ago, Anonknee Muss said:

 A plague doctor is a must.

Rigth now I dont think that would be the best idea lol

But yeah, eventually

[Gorilla94]

3 hours ago, Anonknee Muss said:

Well said!!

Most minifigures are actually pretty fantastic!

I also partly agree. I would love to see more historical minifigures. But that’s my taste, no everyone would agree. A plague doctor is a must.

Brickwarriors mask and hat in the series 17 higway man and you have a great one ;)

[K_Tiger]

14 hours ago, BigGuy4U said:

Just because a minifig doesn't appeal to you personally that doesn't mean it's lazy or a wasted spot. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

I think the potential for disappointment in a given wave is amplified now that we're only getting one regular series a year. Perhaps it's not so bad if you enjoy one or both of a given year's licensed offerings. If you aren't, however, and the year's regular CMF is a dud, well now you've got a year to wait for another bite of the apple. I can understand some folks' frustration, especially when you're getting police officers and firefighters that aren't remarkably different than the ones coming in LEGO's yearly recycled City sets.

 

13 hours ago, Karalora said:

Hear, hear! One of the most commonly reviled types are the costumed figures, but I can think of all kinds of uses for them:

• School plays
• Theme parks/carnivals
• Halloween parties
• Other seasonal scenes (we've got a few different springtime ones now, and I like putting the veggie-based ones in my farmer's markets)
• Sports mascots
• Hokey advertising icons

Yup, all of this. My only issue is that, again, we're down to a regular series a year, we don't really need 2-3 slots dedicated to them. Unless they come with a pumpkin pail accessory, then it's full speed ahead.

Edited April 17, 2020 by K_Tiger

[Gorilla94]

12 hours ago, gedren_y said:

The Robot Programmer was not a waste. The flannel shirt around the waist print, something I've wanted for a while, would never make it into a City set. Useful parts across the board.

I agree with you that this is a usefull piece but it could have been also used for example in a good "player 2"-gamergirl including the Streamer-guys-controller. Then it would lhave looked a bit more like a 4€-cmf and a bunch of people want a girlfriend for series 12 gamer guy... the best thing would be that we would have a free spot for a historical figure like Leonardo da Vinci, a greek philosopher, Roman nobel lady or Marie Antonette... I'd also love to get a well made Einstein...

[Karalora]

6 hours ago, Roebuck said:

but I guess the kids love city.

This is likely because the kids already have City and enjoy opportunities to add to it. It is not always to the CMFs' benefit that they offer such unique characters. Not everyone is a MOCer, and of those who are, not everyone can visualize a scene from scratch without being inspired by an official set or theme. CMFs that don't belong to an existing theme can be great, but some people might view them as "orphans" with nowhere to go.

3 hours ago, Anonknee Muss said:

A plague doctor is a must.

At the present time, a plague doctor is a City minifig...they're just someone with a morbid and tongue-in-cheek sense of fashion rather than an actual medical professional.

...and now I suddenly want an assortment of Goth kids. I can probably build some decent ones with existing parts, but...

[Anonknee Muss]

10 hours ago, Karalora said:

At the present time, a plague doctor is a City minifig...they're just someone with a morbid and tongue-in-cheek sense of fashion rather than an actual medical professional.

I recommend looking up on medieval history.

A plague doctor probably isn’t the best choice right now.