LEGO Collectable Minifigures Series 10 Discussion

[blueduck37]

Any NYC sightings this week?

[r4-g9]

For anyone in Canada, I found some in Calgary today (15 boxes) after going through 4-5 boxes and a store manager talking to me I left, but there wasn't any Mr. Gold in the boxes that I went through.

[8BrickMario]

I call her Paris Hiltion.

I apologize for being so slow on the uptake. Before just a while ago, I had no idea who Paris Hilton was! Now that I know about the unfathomably popular woman, I think the comparison is accurate and funny! I don't know why I never got around to looking Hilton up earlier... Edited April 24, 2013 by 8BrickMario

[Good Cragger Fan]

For anyone in Canada, I found some in Calgary today (15 boxes) after going through 4-5 boxes and a store manager talking to me I left, but there wasn't any Mr. Gold in the boxes that I went through.

What was the name of the store that you were at there when you found some Minifigures Series 10? Wow, that is a lot of collectable minifigure boxes of Minifigures Series 10! I have never, ever seen that many at one particular store at the same time! Anyway, I thank you for this information, and therefore, it seems that they have finally shown up in Western Canada at last!

Here is an edit:

May I suggest in you using the "Collectable Minifigures Sightings and Availability" thread or even the "Canada Eh?" thread for discussions such as this?

Edited April 24, 2013 by Good Cragger Fan

[CM4Sci]

Any NYC sightings this week?

I got a few from the TRU there. FAO Schwartz...

-Sci

[Itaria No Shintaku]

Here is an edit:

May I suggest in you using the "Collectable Minifigures Sightings and Availability" thread or even the "Canada Eh?" thread for discussions such as this?

This. There's a topic just for that, I don't want to sound whiny, but it's a bit annoying browsing messages and messages of "Series 10 surfaced in XXX".

[r4-g9]

What was the name of the store that you were at there when you found some Minifigures Series 10? Wow, that is a lot of collectable minifigure boxes of Minifigures Series 10! I have never, ever seen that many at one particular store at the same time! Anyway, I thank you for this information, and therefore, it seems that they have finally shown up in Western Canada at last!

Here is an edit:

May I suggest in you using the "Collectable Minifigures Sightings and Availability" thread or even the "Canada Eh?" thread for discussions such as this?

I found them at Walmart

[8BrickMario]

Well I have made a thread for Mr. Gold findings!

[Alfadas]

@chadmin: I do not see it????

[Kai NRG]

@chadmin: I do not see it????

That's strange; I see it fine. Are you sure it doesn't have something to do with your browser settings?

[KyleJohnson11]

Just bought 14 baseball players from a buddy. Should be receiving them next week. I can't wait to start swapping gloves over to the Clutchers!

[MicroJow]

600 packets searched, no Gold. I know the number is 5000 world wide, but I wonder what the ratio per figure is. (I.E. One in every 3000.)

[The_Duke]

I thought I found a fresh case at TRU yesterday but it turned out to be a case someone went through and put back carefully. How do I know this you ask? Because every third figure package was ripped open. The jerk who was there before me used the figure stand as a knife to open the package up quickly. So, no Mr. Gold but I was able to get the remaining figures I wanted. Medusa, Bseball Player, Old Man. Basically the entire series except for Xena and Paris Hilton, though I may pick up Paris for the phone.

Edited April 24, 2013 by The_Duke

[8BrickMario]

To break the monopoly of the sightings discussion, I will post a question.

For those of you who have Series 10 Minifigures, how have they lived up to your expectations? What did you like, and what could be better?

For Medusa, almost everything was just as I had hoped. However, I wish the snake hair was ABS and that she had back printing with shoulder blades and something securing her armor.

Sad Clown: Simple yet cute. What I didn't like was his face (the chin bugs me), so I gave him the Mime's sad head. For mine, the pom-poms on the hat were slightly off-center.

[MicroJow]

For those of you who have Series 10 Minifigures, how have they lived up to your expectations? What did you like, and what could be better?

I was surprised in that I'm not a fan of the grandpa's bald headpiece. I always thought a bald headpiece would be a good idea for the Lego world, but there's something not right about it IMO. Maybe it's the way the piece makes his head look like he is recovering from brain surgery.

On the whole, I found Series 9 to be much more satisfying than Series 10. My favorite series is still #4 with #6 a close second.

- MJ

[8BrickMario]

I do like 6, 4, and 9. I guess this series is less interesting to me is that many of them (Medusa excepted, of course) are based off of real-life things. C'mon, LEGO, you should've given us more fictional stuff this series! Somehow, I'm not a fan of the pamphlet either. The front and the display of the minifigures isn't eye-catching to me, and I miss the idiot-proof "How to build a minifigure" ( ) tutorial. I liked that it showed the parts separately. The Mr. Gold ad is necessary but garish.

Feel free to respond to this, but please continue with your "expectations vs. reality" opinions as well!

[ursharkbaituhaha]

Well darn, the second Target in my area (Maryland) finally put a location on the Series 10 figures. I went through my second 120pcs box and nothing. The Sea Captain and Medusa seemed to be pretty light in supply in this box.

My local TRU still does not have these in stock but other TRU stores in MD do.

[peterab]

Has anybody got a distribution for the 30 set boxes?

[thmy]

I wonder what is the distribution of the box with Mr. Gold in it. Is there 61 bags in the box or it just 60 bags?

[8BrickMario]

That's what everyone is asking. What we need is a person who can access an unopened box with a Mr. Gold in it!

[KyleJohnson11]

Has anybody got a distribution for the 30 set boxes?

Series 9 was the same as a 60 box, but divided by two. I would imagine a 30 box would be the same.

[The Brick Rat]

For those of you who have Series 10 Minifigures, how have they lived up to your expectations? What did you like, and what could be better?

If I could make three changes to series 10, they would be:

1)Grandpa: replace the plain coffee mug with a hooked cane.

2)Librarian: design a minifig sized book that can be held in the hand (I really hate the old Belville/Scala sized book).

3)Sad Clown: switch the Sad Clown and the Toy Soldier. The Sad Clown is a neat fig that would be great as the exclusive for the forthcoming CMF Encyclopedia. And the Toy Soldier is an army builder that should be six to a box.

[escortmad79]

Thats the best picture I have this site says it has to be under 100k

Better pic of Mr Golds packaging:

Not mine, found it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdoupe/8679176037/in/pool-lego

Another one:

Found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/odinsda/8676106389/in/pool-lego

[TheLegoDr]

As much as I love Mr. Gold, I don't particularly care for the chrome gold look. It makes sense to have it that way for a rare figure, but I actually prefer how it looks pearl gold in the stock photos more than the chrome gold official look. Clearly if I come across one will be a different story, but after seeing it in the wild, I'm not as crazy about "gotta have it."

I've heard someone mention scratches on it, and I think scratches will be quite common because doesn't the chroming pick up all of the surface scratches more easily? I have a few TC-14 and they all look scratched even though they are still in the package and never touched.

None around me so far though, but maybe I haven't looked at enough places. But most stores around me never got in series 9 (and the few that did had a very limited run of it).

[Alfadas]

I agree with TheLegoDr, I do not really want to have it, but if I do, I am happy. I would like to have the Roman Commander or the Warrior Woman, or both.