75827 Ghostbusters Firehouse Minifigures

If you haven't heard the news then you don't follow Lego on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or read any other Legocentric blogs, but Lego has finally released images of the new Ghostbusters Headquaters/Firehouse set.  It's a huge set with 4,634 pieces and a hefty price tag of about $350.

Other blogs have already dissected the set pretty well so since this is a minifigure blog lets focus on the minifigures included with the set.

You get all four Ghostbusters.  They all appear to be the same as the ones you got with the Ecto-1 set except for Venkman which features a slimed variation.  Included in the set are all the other primary cast members and then some.

Dana Barrett

 Louis Tully

 Janine Melnitz

 The Zombie Cabdriver

 The Library Ghost

 Slimer and blue and red ghosts.

The Slimer appears to be identical to the one featured in the Dimensions Fun Pack.  But at least there's no small Stay-Puft Marshmellow Man.

I was thinking of who else they could have included and came up with Walter Peck, the ConEd guy, a Terror Dog, maybe a couple police officers and the mayor.

Here's also hoping your Ecto-1 fits in the garage.

Mega Blok - Call of Duty sets

I think it's pretty clear here at the Minifigure Collector that I love Lego. And I do. But I love all things buildable and that includes all the other brands out there.  Lego has a strict policy of what it will feature in it's products and one of those limitations is depicitons of war and modern warfare.  So it's no surprise that plenty of the other building set companies have come to fill that niche.

Mega Blok has gotten the Call of Duty license and I finally saw the first sets on the shelves a couple days ago.  So  I figure I'd do a quick run down of the new Call of Duty sets Mega Bloks is offering.

Really these Micro Figures are just tiny action figures with all those points of articulation. And with all the detail each figure gets they really are very well done.  I'm sure that Mega Bloks will also be offering blind pack series with various variations and war themes to add to the set.  You can read more at Mega Bloks website.

The first few set are what I call the army man sets. Each features 5 micro figures and some small structure.

 There are two small construction sets featuring a micro figure and a vehicle.

 The medium set is the Chopper Strike. Which looks really cool.

 The two larger sets are the Humvee featured Light Armor Firebase

 And the Dome Battleground

 The really big set is the Heavy Armor Outpost and features the Main Battle Tank.  Which looks really cool from the photos on the Mega Bloks website.

There are also a couple Zombie Themed sets, because you need some Zombies to blow up.

I'm probably not going to go after any of these sets unless I find them on clearance, mainly because I'm after the micro figures and in these more adult themed sets, like Call of Duty, Warcraft, and Halo the microfigures are just so...I'm not sure I have a good word for it, but not unique.  I guess there's just not the personalization and character recognition.