71021 - Minifigures - Series 18

[Dr Jedi]

I like it.  Sounds like a fun set.  17 is a curious number of figures for one of the "regular" CMF series - don't think we've seen that since Series 10 with Mr. Gold. 

[Will 4]

2 hours ago, MrToes16 said:

I'm guessing these two are supposed to "hook" up?

Yep

[TheOrcKing]

On ‎1‎/‎5‎/‎2018 at 4:02 PM, Alpinemaps said:

Blue Unicorn Knight – male dressed as a blue unicorn. lol. Comes holding a gold sword and a white shield with a white unicorn printed on it.

It is official. LEGO made a Brony.

[CathyVT]

So... when you say things like "male dressed as a blue unicorn" or "Blue Brick Girl", how do you KNOW the gender? The face on the minifig head? Just wondering...

[TheOrcKing]

1 hour ago, CathyVT said:

So... when you say things like "male dressed as a blue unicorn" or "Blue Brick Girl", how do you KNOW the gender? The face on the minifig head? Just wondering...

LEGO has more defined their minifigure faces over the years and come a long way from the ever classic unisex smiley face. Back then the main way to make a difference between males and females was the hair and sometimes torsos but mostly it was the hair really. Now guys' faces can have chins and dimples while girls with eyelashes, beauty marks, and pronounced lips.

Anywho I am assuming the report Alpinemaps posted whose information was taken from Eurobricks which in turn took theirs from The Brick Show's news had seen certain facial features more feminine on some while masculine on the others.

[CathyVT]

I was just curious, because I am a woman with short hair, and sometimes I'll try to make a minifig kind of look like me, and it makes me ponder gender and hair and all that. I recently bought Treehouse Adventures (31053) and there are two children minifigs, and short hair, long hair, and a ball cap. I put the cap on the boy, and then put the short hair on the girl. But if you look at the faces, they are EXACTLY the same other than a tiny bit of extra eyelashes on the girl (no lips, both have freckles). So similar - and yet we identify one as boy and one as girl. I just find it interesting. I'm curious to see these CMF faces, and the official Lego descriptions.

[TheOrcKing]

On ‎1‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 8:33 PM, CathyVT said:

I was just curious, because I am a woman with short hair, and sometimes I'll try to make a minifig kind of look like me, and it makes me ponder gender and hair and all that. I recently bought Treehouse Adventures (31053) and there are two children minifigs, and short hair, long hair, and a ball cap. I put the cap on the boy, and then put the short hair on the girl. But if you look at the faces, they are EXACTLY the same other than a tiny bit of extra eyelashes on the girl (no lips, both have freckles). So similar - and yet we identify one as boy and one as girl. I just find it interesting. I'm curious to see these CMF faces, and the official Lego descriptions.

I see what you mean regarding the two included minifigures of the treehouse set there as an example. Their faces may very well be the same with the exception of slight single eyelashes and a closed smile on the one we identify as a girl's head. To add upon this while the one has exclusively been used on lady characters, the other has also been used for some females just as well and in those circumstances it was the hair styles and sometimes torso printings used to help determine gender.

LEGO's minifigures are comparably characterizations of regular people like that of a cartoon with certain features being more pronounced or done in certain ways simply because we interpret said features as such being representative of one type or another. Why these instinctual processes of cognizance are hard ingrained is a bit beyond me though I do remember having familiar discussions when studying art and animation relating to the subject of personification in particular.

As for making a minfigure look like oneself, well, I'm a guy with long hair usually as a ponytail but in LEGO form, the ponytail hairpiece on a guy's head just looks odd so I end up going with a short cut.

[Alpinemaps]

Confirmed today 71021 - Series 18 with 17 minifigs in the series.  Coming April 1, 2018

[pharmjod]

http://www.collectibleminifigs.com/series.asp?s=18

 

Don't know how long that will last, but holy cow. Those are great. The translucent balloon animals for the clown are particularly brilliant.

 

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[Poison Girl]

I think this might be the first series where I get all of them

[buidee]

Wow, really nice figs, except for the generic police officer 

[oneknightr]

31 minutes ago, Poison Girl said:

I think this might be the first series where I get all of them

Ditto! Wow, just wow. I can only imagine this series will bring up the value of the older costumed figures as people will want to "complete" their collection of these. I don't this series will be a peg warmer like the recent series (Lego Batman included).

[Alpinemaps]

44 minutes ago, buidee said:

Wow, really nice figs, except for the generic police officer 

That's in honor of one of the very first police minifigs, from 1978's set 621.  If you look at his hand, you can see him holding a copy of that set.

 

[The_Collector]

Looking forward to getting the Cactus Girl so I can make a Pickle Rick fig.

Edited January 26, 2018 by The_Collector

[TheOrcKing]

These are all absolutely brilliant. The nod to the very first Police set with the Officer is a nice touch, the brick couple is perfect, the birthday kids are adorable, the Balloon Artist Clown reminds me of the Mad Hatter character in general, Dragon Suit is awesome, and Cactus Girl is Cactaur from the Final Fantasy series more or less. Each series of Collectable Minifigures could always double as costumes for Halloween or themed parties and stores but it's interesting here to see deliberately designed costumed characters.

And oh yeah, Brony Knight for the win!

[seapotato]

I MUST GET THEM ALL

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[tacsniper]

nice! love the new balloon piece. Also love the classic police with the classic set

[Dr Jedi]

I can't say I care for any of the cop, either kid, and maybe not the clown, but the rest of this set is great.  So long as they don't massively overproduce this series, (as complete conjecture, I wonder if the significant number of large, unique pieces will limit production a bit) I think Series 18 will be gold in years to come.

[CathyVT]

Yeah, they look really awesome! (still not sure how they know that the person in the cat suit is a "guy"...)

[donbee]

Yeah, they look really awesome! (still not sure how they know that the person in the cat suit is a "guy"...)

Because he doesn’t have eyelashes

[Huskers1236]

5 minutes ago, CathyVT said:

Yeah, they look really awesome! (still not sure how they know that the person in the cat suit is a "guy"...)

Really?  This again?  You're trying to make something out of nothing.  

[CathyVT]

Just now, donbee said:

Because he doesn’t have eyelashes

Are you serious? A Lego minifig head is only a female if it has eyelashes??

[CathyVT]

29 minutes ago, Huskers1236 said:

Really?  This again?  You're trying to make something out of nothing.  

I was just curious how they assign gender. Sorry I didn't put a smilie face at the end of my post to indicate that I wasn't totally up-in-arms about it. [eyeroll emoji]

And if you're going to say eyelashes=female, no eyelashes=male, then that cat person does look (from our limited image) to have eyelashes.

Hey, I'm not criticizing anyone, or TLG's decision to use "guy" and "girl", and it would be kinda dorky to say "cat person" (although the knight, clown, and cop don't indicate a gender) - I'm just curious. I guess I'll go ask my college classmate, Tara Wike, who is in charge of CMFs for Lego. (a woman - so I'm not saying TLG's decisions are sexist or anything - I'm just CURIOUS. Sheesh...)

Edited January 26, 2018 by CathyVT

[Pebble&Park]

6 minutes ago, CathyVT said:

I was just curious how they assign gender. Sorry I didn't put a smilie face at the end of my post to indicate that I wasn't totally up-in-arms about it. [eyeroll emoji]

And if you're going to say eyelashes=female, no eyelashes=male, then that cat person does look (from our limited image) to have eyelashes.

Hey, I'm not criticizing anyone, or TLG's decision to use "guy" and "girl", and it would be kinda dorky to say "cat person" (although the knight, clown, and cop don't indicate a gender) - I'm just curious. I guess I'll go ask my college classmate, Tara Wilke, who is in charge of CMFs for Lego. (a woman - so I'm not saying TLG's decisions are sexist or anything - I'm just CURIOUS. Sheesh...)

I think the gender was assigned by the website, not Lego. It looks like a female figure to me, due to the creation of hips on the torso.

[BricksBrotha]

15 hours ago, pharmjod said:

Fireworks guy, cactus girl, race car guy, birthday cake guy and either brick suit round out my top five!