The LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 16 (71013) was just officially revealed and are now available in LEGO Brand Stores, Shop@Home, and at other retailers. Here’s my traditional feel guide post for this new series of minifigures. Below is the box distribution of what you can expect in a full, unopened box. Please note that the dot method on the back of the package that people have been referring to does not work and isn’t reliable as they change with every batch. The easiest way to find the Ice Queen is to feel for the large sloped dress piece as she is the only minifigure in Series 16 to have it. The Desert Warrior’s only signs are the scimitar and the turban pieces. The Cyborg should be easy to find with her armor piece and the blaster. The Cute Little Devil has a few indicators such as the trident, large wings, and the pumpkin piece. Use his short legs to confirm. The easiest way to find the Spooky Boy is to feel for the book piece. The little spider is also good to feel for.
The Hiker should be fairly easy to find with the 2×2 map tile piece combined with his large backpack and 1×1 compass tile. For the Wildlife Photographer, you should feel for the camera and the little penguin. For the Kickboxer, I suggest feeling for the two glove pieces and the helmet. The Scallywag Pirate is fairly easy to feel for. I would suggest feeling for the sword and confirm with the 2×2 tile. The Penguin Boy is the other minifigure in Series 16 to have short legs. He should only have six little pieces in the bag. The most notable thing for the Rogue is the bow and arrow piece. The Dog Show Winner should be easy to find as he has a large trophy piece and the dog. The guitar and large sombrero is easy to feel for when finding the Mariachi. The Spy might be somewhat difficult to find but he does have some indicators like the little gun and the rope. The Banana Guy is easy to find with the large banana suit piece. The Babysitter should be easy to feel for as she also has the baby minifigure.
The pigtail hair piece is also a good indicator.You give a person too much and they will abuse it. Such is the case with Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old VP at Palo Alto-based software company SAP Labs, who has been arrested for the nerdiest crime in recent memory. His abuse of power: computer skill-based. It is reported that Langenbach had been using his computer savvy to reproduce bar code stickers, the kind Target uses to price their items, which he placed over the original bar codes so he could purchase LEGO at a lower cost.The multimillionaire software exec sold the LEGO sets on eBay, under the username TomsBrickYard. (For whatever it's worth, he is a top-rated seller with excellent feedback.) His seller page shows 1,475 completed sales in all, with the most recent feedback left today and the earliest dating back to May 1, 2011. NBC Bay Area reports that Langebach's home, at 8 Sudan Lane in San Carlos, CA, was searched by the police, who found "hundreds and hundreds" of LEGO boxes inside.Mr. Langenbach is expected to be arraigned tomorrow in Santa Clara County court;
the official charge is four counts of burglary. It is not immediately known whether he used company computers and/or software, at any point, to facilitate the scam. The next line of Lego’s blind-bagged minifigures is all about the upcoming Lego Batman Movie—and just like everything we’ve seen of both the film and the Lego sets so far, it’s looking both absolutely delightful and jam-packed with goofy reference to decades of Bat-pop culture. The full set of 20 minifigures—available, as ever with the collectable minifigs line, as individual blind-bags—features some deep cut references to Bat-lore, specifically relating to members of Batman’s extensive rogue gallery that we know will make cameo appearances in the movie, judging by recent trailers. There’s classics like the Red Hood, a version of the Joker in his Arkham Asylum jumpsuit, and even a Nurse Harley Quinn, but then there’s amazing obscure characters like King Tut, the Calculator, March Harriet, and the Eraser.
Then there’s some of the hilarious different Batmen (and Batgirls) we’ll be getting too, from Glam Metal Batman, to Lobster-Lovin’ Batman, to Caveman Batman. Some of the accessories. Dick Grayson comes with his very own Bat-Shark repellent. Check out a few more pictures of the figures below, and then see the rest over at Lego’s Facebook page. Dick Grayson, with BAT SHARK REPELLENT OH MY GOD TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY You can see individual pictures of the rest of the series over at Lego’s Facebook page. The Lego Batman Movie wave of collectable minifigures is due for release in January 2017.UPC (Universal Product Code) is a numeric symbology used in retail applications. UPC has two variations, an 11 digit UPC Type A barcode and and 6 digit UPC Type E barcode. A check digit is automatically calculated by the barcode generation software in both UPC variations. Each can be appended with a 2 or 5 digit supplemental code. UPC-A symbols consist of 11 data digits and one check digit.
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