LEGO® Minifigures Series 10Warning!FIND MORE PRODUCTS LIKE THISMinifiguresCollect every mystery minifigure in the exciting new Series 10!According to Brickset, a couple of collectors in North America have found the elusive Mr. Gold minifigure from the Series 10 Collectible Minifigures (71001) line. The minifig was found at Walmart in Ontario, Canada so if you’re wondering if they could be found in normal retail stores and not just LEGO stores, there’s the proof. The image above shows Mr. Gold that was found from a collector in Georgia. If you’ve been lucky few to find Mr. Gold this early, now’s your chance to make some quick bucks on eBay or Bricklink. There was an auction on eBay that ended just today that sold for $1200 from a seller in Oregon.As toy fads come and go, one company continues to design products that are simultaneously addicting, challenging and boatloads of fun for both kids and adults. We're talking, of course, about Lego. Though Lego's tiny, interlocking bricks have provided hours of entertainment to millions of people since 1949, it's the minifigure, first released in 1978, that brought life to this childhood favorite.
See also: Stop-Motion Video Features Lego Ninjas in Fierce Battle In honor of 35 years of Lego people, we consulted Lego Minifigure Year By Year: A Visual History to learn more about this iconic toy. Check out 15 fun facts we learned about the little inhabitants of Lego world.Join Now LoginCreate collections and submit products.Lego Series 10 Mr. Gold Minifigure prevnext For the uninitiated this is the very rare Lego Series 10 Mr. Gold Minifigure which is limited to only 5,000 pieces worldwide. And yes it is not made of gold, is over priced, highly sought after by hardcore Lego fans and I dare say very cheeky and shiny! More stuff you might like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab Like Grab LikeLego Minifigures Series 16 Complete Set Identified, Lot of 16 ALL SEALED !To celebrate the tenth series of LEGO Minifigures, LEGO decided to do something special for their fans by creating a special edition minifigure: the elusive Mr Gold.
Only 5,000 Mr Golds were made, before being hidden in packs and distributed across the world. To celebrate this release, LEGO asked us to make a game to promote Mr Gold and the sixteen other new minifigures. They wanted to ensure that we included an element of hide-and-seek, or searching, for Mr Gold and we also had to make sure that although he was often visible throughout the game, the players would have to work hard to find him. One of our first ideas was to go for a Where's Wally style game, where we'd hide Mr Gold amongst groups of other minifigures; but we eventually decided that the best way to showcase each of the minifigures would be to create a multi-level platform game, where each of the characters had their own level. In order to play as the next character, the player would have to collect the parts to construct them. As you'd imagine, with collectability playing a huge role in LEGO’s appeal, the client was very enthusiastic about this. Style-wise, we decided to keep it incredibly simple, so that the focus could be on the minifigures themselves.
This enabled us to focus on level design. Each level was more difficult than the last and as the game progressed, different obstacles were introduced. We tested and tweaked each level to perfection and ensured that the degree of difficulty was right. The aim was to make each level completable, but to ensure it wasn't too easy. Who doesn’t like a good challenge? Mr Gold proved to be a hugely popular game and was featured on the LEGO homepage for over a month.In this article we are going to be taking a look at how exactly to find one of the rare Golden Minifigures contained inside Lego Series 10 Minifigures. We will tell you all about these limited edition gold figures and how you can get your hands on one, plus how likely you are to find one in the mystery bags. Plus we will tell you a little bit more about Lego Minifigures Series 10. Lego Minifigures have been going for around four years now. Each series contains sixteen collectable figures which come is sealed mystery bags.
Although the toys are still considered very popular Lego have come up with an idea to give Series 10 some special significance. They have made a 17th figure, this will be a rare limited edition golden figure called Mr Gold that is going to be highly sought after. This is likely to increase interest in the series and get people out there hunting for the rare items. So let’s tell you just how likely you are to find one of these.How To Find A Golden MinifigureSo the news of these new figures was announced at the London Toy Fair in January. Lego have said they are going to be making five thousand Mr Gold special limited edition Golden figures. The five thousand will be placed into random mystery bags and then spread out over the boxes and then shipped all over the world. So we are likely to see some of these rare Mr Gold figures turning up in some unusual locations. So in reality what are the chances of you opening a mystery bag and finding one of these rare figures? Well the odds are not in your favour.
Lego sell millions of these figures every year and so the odds of finding one are extremely low. Even if you opened every packet in one of the cases that you find in the stores, chances are you will be disappointed. Hundreds of thousands of these cases ship all over the world, so there is no way of pin pointing where the gold figures could be. So if you really want to get your hands on one of these Mr Gold special figures what can you do about it? Well one option is to spend thousands of pounds buying Lego Minifigures and hoping for the best, the more sensible option is to head to eBay. Chances are these figures are going to start popping up on websites such as eBay and Amazon, just how much they are going to start going for is open to debate, but it will certainly be interesting to see when Series 10 is released in May.When & Where Will They Be?A clever move that Lego have also announced is the fact that with each limited edition Golden Minifigure there will be a special code provided.
This means the new owner can log onto the website and record where they found their rare figure. This will be very interesting to watch as it means we should be able to keep track of how many figures have been found and how many are still out there waiting to be opened. It reminds us of the Golden Ticket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. As to exactly what the new limited edition figure will look like this is now confirmed and we do have a picture up of the rare Mr Gold minifigure. As you can see he looks like quite a cheeky chappy and he is sure to be very popular with fans. Series 10 of the Lego Minifigures go on sale in May so it should be soon after that when we start seeing the first gold figures turn up. Along with the rare figure there are of course going to be sixteen other figures and some of these include ones such as Medusa, a Sad Clown, Bumblebee Girl, a Paintball Player and a Tomahawk Warrior. This series looks like being a very good one and the fact that there is now going to be a rare seventeenth figure only increases the level of anticipation around these new collectables.
So whether you buy these Lego men just for fun or you are a serious collector I am sure you will agree that finding one of these rare Mr Gold Minifigures from Series 10 would be very exciting indeed. Although the chances of any one of us coming across one of them is quite slim it will be great fun tearing open those mystery bags and hoping to see something golden glimmering inside. All we can really say for now then is, happy hunting. More by this AuthorLEGOsWhat Do The Lego Item Numbers Mean - Catalogue Number SelectionA look at what the item numbers mean on Lego sets. We try and find out how the numbers are chosen and why each Lego set has it's own catalogue or product number. LEGOsNew Lego Sets For 2014 - Star Wars, Ninjago, LOTR, Super HeroesA look at new Lego sets for 2014. We check out new Star Wars sets, LOTR, Ninjago, Super Heroes and other new sets to be released in 2014. My Allergy to Melted or Cooked CheeseCan you be allergic to melted cheese? Why do some people have a cooked cheese allergy?