Simpson Series 2 Minifigures rarity Guide

I've only seen a fleeting glimpse of these up here in Alaska.  But here is the observed rarity from various box breaks

Common = 5 per box
Uncommon = 4 per box
Rare = 3 per box


1. Groundskeeper Willie - Common
2.  Mrs. Krabappel - Rare
3. Julius Hibbert - Uncommon
4. Comic Book Guy - Rare
5. Fallout Boy - Uncommon
6. Professor Frink - Rare
7. Waylon Smithers, Jr. - Uncommon
8. Patty Bouvier - Rare
9. Selma Bouvier - Rare
10. Hans Moleman - Rare
11. Martin Prince - Rare
12. Homer (Sunday Best) - Common
13. Marge (Sunday Best) - Uncommon
14. Bartman - Common
15. Lisa with Snowball II - Uncommon
16. Maggie with Santa's Little Helper - Uncommon

Mini Bang Theory!

Yesterday Lego released some photos of it's new Ideas set that will come out later this year.  And it's the Big Bang Theory. 

I'm a big fan of the show, but I'm also a big fan of the Simpsons and I didn't rush out for those sets. I guess we can assume that the set will feature Leonard and Sheldon's apartment and probably be priced around $60-70?  Just a guess since the Ghostbusters Idea was a 50 dollar set and this will have one more minifigure. 

Edit: Sure as soon as I write this Lego goes ahead and posts a few more photos and I was right on the money this set will retail for $59.99.  And it looks like we also get to see two more minifigures of Bernadette and Amy.  So 7 in all in the set, that's not too bad actually.

Simpsons Series 2 Minifigures finally announced.

While most of the lego blogosphere is super excited for the first official pics of the Kwik-E-Mart, I'm more excited for the image of the new 16 minifigures that will be featured in the second series of Simpson blind packs.

MOLEMAN!

Anyways here's the breakdown

Groundskeeper Willie,
Martin,
Professor Frink
Dr Hibbard
Patty
Selma
Milhouse as Fallout Boy
Smitters
Hans Moleman
Comic Book Guy
Edna Krabappel
Maggie with Santa's Little Helper
Bart as Bartman
Marge
Homer
Lisa with Snowball II

Figures should be in stores by May 1st.

Here are the minifigures included in the Kwik-E-Mart set ($199)

Minifigure Spotlight Series 13 Alien

Lego has had a couple Alien/Space themes.  The last one Galaxy Squad had an alien menace that was more insect.  Alien Conquest had a more little green man theme to it. I'm not sure where this alien fits in, but he's got a great head sculpt and some really printing on both the torso and legs.  

I also really like the florescent disc on the gun.  When it's in the sunlight it really looks like it's glowing.

Rise of the Micro-Minifigures

It only seems fair after reviewing some Kre-O' microfigures we look at Legos.

Lego's Micro Minifigures are not new. Lego has been using them for their board games for a while now. But I think that with the release of the SHIELD Helicarrier it might be the first time they've been put to use in a regularly released set.  I'm sure some other Legophiles out there can confirm or refute this.  

Like I posted before with my look at the Jumbo minifigures, having a smaller scale minifigure also makes sense, especially with a large set like the Helicarrier where it would be prohibitively large to have it at the normal minifigure scale.

These don't look poseable, but I could be wrong on that too.  It'll be interesting to see what kind of collectablility this guys have.  As a big fan of Ironman I wouldn't mind adding the Micro to my collection, but I doubt I'd pay the premium it'll cost coming only from such a large, expensive set.

Kre-O CityVille Invasion Kreon figure 2 packs.

Ok I'm a sucker sometimes for these random blind packs.  I've been meaning to pick a couple packs up of Kre-O's new Transformer blind packs, but instead I found these.  I've never played Cityville so I'm not sure what the premise is for the characters here other than it looks like you have normal guys and monsters.  

You also get two figures per pack so that was a double bonus.  Only I didn't really look too hard at the figures themselves until I opened them up.  Ummm well there a little small.

Here we have the Mini Kreon next to a full size Lego minifigure for comparison. 

And while the bodies are really small the head and accessories will work on full size minifigures.  Here we have Steve Timber.

He's pitted against Willy Werewolf.

Hazmat Henry vs....

Toxic Zombie.  You also get one Kre-O block and one of these  motion blocks that I guess work with Cityville Invasion play sets.  I don't know how they work, I guess magic.

Next we have Walter Wetsuit.  His goggles move up and down.

and he fights the Wavecrawler.

Jumbos

With the soon to be released SHIELD Helicarrier we got a first look at Lego's new Micro-Minifigures,  The figures were scaled to the play set, but it also included regular sized minifigures to enjoy.  This is probably the future of things to come with sets that large that can't be scaled up to minifigure size for obvious reason.  

But we also have been seen the rise of the Jumbo minifigures being featured in the SuperHeroes line for characters that are much larger than the average character.  Most notably was the inclusion of a Jumbo Hulk in the first Avenger movie sets.  But we got another one, with pant color variation,  with the Avengers Assemble - Hulk Lab Smash set, a great set with some great minifigures in it.  

This year we've gotten 3 new Jumbos, 2 in the DC line and one in the Marvel Spider-man line.  I don't count the Sentinel or the Groot figures as they are a combination of pieces, like the Mixels.

It makes sense to have the Jumbo scale available for sets that have characters that are much larger than their counterparts.  I still wish we'd get a more traditional comic book style Green Goblin.