2025 So Far

[DerBum]

I'm not the first to re-appear after an absence. I see posts on Facebook and X, but I think forums serve a purpose and they're still a great place to share topic-specific information without the clutter of recipes and political posts.

That said, I thought I'd mention the two traditional castle-related items that came out in January.

Everyone knows about the Wolfpack Beast Master CMF. I have all of the OG Wolfpack sets from my waning days of childhood before I fell into my first dark ages. I think loved the Wolfpack as a kid, but I think they're overhyped these days. This is a solid CMF, but I don't personally get the obsession people have with it. I bought one and a spare using a scanner app, I left the remaining ones at the store (6-ish). I don't believe in keeping kids from getting toys just so I can "army build" as an adult and I sort of hate the way TLC markets these few and far between castle figures. Either way, he's a neat figure and the wolf is a cool piece.

Now, the Medieval Dragon 3 in 1 is a different story. This thing looks great built and was fun to put together. Some people don't like brick built creatures, but given that Ninjago is the only other medieval adjacent theme out there, we only have largely brick built dragons to compare it to. I have the black fantasy era "large figure" dragon and it's neat, certainly full of play value, but it's less impressive to me compared against this 3 in 1.



Obviously my recommendation is to buy both, but the dragon is the real star as far as I'm concerned.

I'll be curious to see what happens late Summer with the Unicorn Castle and Horse Knight Castle 3 in 1s that are rumored. TLC really needs more in the $10-$125 USD range for Castle sets, so hopefully these rumors bear out.

[jtooker]

I didn't see the dragon! It looks great. I fixed the image you linked:



I'm looking forward to getting some of these wolf pack guys myself. While the torso can be got on PAB, the shield is CMF only, I believe.

[DerBum]

...I fixed the image you linked:

Thank you. I guess I don't have resizing software on any of these photo apps on my phone. Haha

I believe the entire figure, except the sword, is exclusive to the CMF.

[Kurojaki]

I'm not the first to re-appear after an absence. I see posts on Facebook and X, but I think forums serve a purpose and they're still a great place to share topic-specific information without the clutter of recipes and political posts.

For me it's just some youtube channels and forums (mostly CC really). Still think forums like these are the best place for discussion when it comes to the format (not fan of how for example Reddit works, Facebook is even worse). Just shame about low activity.


I think I can agree with everything you wrote about new Wolfpack CMF, also despite my avatar I'm actually not that huge fan of the faction. But It's nice and in my opinion easily the best minifig in current series, partly because I find series 27 relatively weak. Got to say it's mostly the shield I'm interested in. Wolf is nice as well.

As for trying to get one... I was shopping a few days ago and went to several large supermarkets etc, checked lego in each of them too. The only sign of CMF series was an empty box in just one shop. I have no idea if the other shops even had them yet, but I've seen past series in all of them. That was while buying other things, so wasn't and not really going to put in any effort. Might or might not order online-

The dragon looks quite good but I won't buy any. I mostly go for interesting parts first, and don't see anything useful for me there, for now.

[DerBum]

...But It's nice and in my opinion easily the best minifig in current series, partly because I find series 27 relatively weak. Got to say it's mostly the shield I'm interested in. Wolf is nice as well.

As for trying to get one... I was shopping a few days ago and went to several large supermarkets etc, checked lego in each of them too. The only sign of CMF series was an empty box in just one shop. I have no idea if the other shops even had them yet, but I've seen past series in all of them. That was while buying other things, so wasn't and not really going to put in any effort. Might or might not order online-

Series 27 is actually pretty horrible in my view. I found a couple of the pirates to mail off to my brother, and the Steampunk Inventor is neat looking, but there's just nothing else that's interesting. I still have my City sets from childhood, but none of my kids have any interest in the modern equivalents. My son does the City Space stuff, so I got him a Jetpack Racer CMF, but it doesn't do anything for me. Obviously I'd live to see an entirely medieval CMF series, I did buy a complete set of the DnD CMFs plus a few extras, but I struggle with $5 minifigures that are supposed to be blind bags since they're so hit and miss in terms of theme.

I found the Series 27 CMFs on an endcap in the bike section of the local Walmart. They were only sort of near the toy section, I suspect that's why there were still so many Wolfpack figures when I bought mine.

[Kurojaki]

Series 27 is actually pretty horrible in my view. I found a couple of the pirates to mail off to my brother, and the Steampunk Inventor is neat looking, but there's just nothing else that's interesting. I still have my City sets from childhood, but none of my kids have any interest in the modern equivalents. My son does the City Space stuff, so I got him a Jetpack Racer CMF, but it doesn't do anything for me. Obviously I'd live to see an entirely medieval CMF series, I did buy a complete set of the DnD CMFs plus a few extras, but I struggle with $5 minifigures that are supposed to be blind bags since they're so hit and miss in terms of theme.

I found the Series 27 CMFs on an endcap in the bike section of the local Walmart. They were only sort of near the toy section, I suspect that's why there were still so many Wolfpack figures when I bought mine.

Indeed. The pirate got to be my second favorite out there. Just always liked the theme although only ever had like two sets (other one being one of those Jack Stone-like sets, which did have really good accessories). And that's about it for Series 27. A few decent parts here and there on some figs, but not enough to justify that 4-5 bucks or so.

Think I wrote here at some point I'll get DnD CMFs, but in the end I missed out the whole thing. Did look for them in stores but way too late. But to be honest, I don't mind.

My focus is on historical themes, and with medieval/castle it can go both historically accurate and fantasy. I just wish for sets that have good portion of useful parts for such. Kinda rare these days in my opinion, with smaller sets at least.

[Elephant Knight]

I agree that this latest CMF series is one of the weakest ever. I usually like at least half of them, but this time around, at best, 3 interest me. Even as a big pirate fan, the Pirate Quartermaster just does do it for me, and is probably a very misleading name. I live the Wolfpack, but I only need one or two. Wolfpack don't need huge armies, they are a band of outlaws.

I also agree that the dragon looks really cool. I haven't gotten it yet, but it is on my want list for sure.

EKnight

[Wolfpack7]

The Black Knights are back!
https://brickset.com/article/121877/ide ... -announced

[jtooker]

I'm very excited for this! I can't wait to see what they do for the sail and the minifigures.

[Elephant Knight]

It's about time Black Knights get some love from Lego. I think just about every other theme has had some reference before the Black Knights. I hope they have a shield print. I'm not going to get my hopes up on having a cloth sail like the original, but I can see myself getting this.

EKnight

[Kurojaki]

The Black Knights are back!
https://brickset.com/article/121877/ide ... -announced

Great news... The original is one of the coolest castle sets in my opinion. That whole year of 1992 was just excellent for Castle. I'll definitely try to get this.