Review: 71049 F1 Race Car collectables

I found some early at a local store. They are very durable and I am thinking about collecting them all. They kind of remind me of the little football helmets that they make which my cousin uses to line up for the playoffs. I also wonder if they will release Audi and Cadillac in poly bags next year.

Will probably get the top teams.

Maybe a full grid, if they get discounted.

Not getting the generic or academy cars though.

Regarding the helmets, I don't mind them.
Team logo helmets are in the Speed Champions sets so available if wanted, more variation in them would have been nice though.

And I agree,the actual drivers would have been preferable as well.

"Do you plan to collect them all?"

No.

I might get one just for the heck of it, most likely the Ferrari (for the prints) or the Alpine (because I like the colour scheme), but that's about it. The generic helmets are a major let down imho.

@AustinPowers said:
""Do you plan to collect them all?"

No.

I might get one just for the heck of it, most likely the Ferrari (for the prints) or the Alpine (because I like the colour scheme), but that's about it. The generic helmets are a major let down imho. "

exactly the same here. I'll get one so I can try to use the chassis for a cool but of a MOC, kinda how I use https://brickset.com/parts/4523339/motor-1x2x2-3, but I have no interest in collecting them, or really any of the other pieces.

Do they have a pull-back motor? I'm guessing not as it wasn't mentioned in the review, but when these were revealed I thought that's what they would do with these.

Apparently the generic helmets are because of the RB and VCARB with their Red Bull logo's? With the Speed Champions those are 18+ whereas the others are 10+, but obviously that doesn't really work with blind boxes....

Apart from that, I think they are fine for what they are, and might just pick up one or two whenever I don't find anything else interesting at the toy store. Certainly not gonna get them all....

I do think it's a missed opportunity that the new base doesn't have a pullback motor, like they did with the Shell polybags about 10-15 years ago. That would make them even better toys.

And I'm kinda surprised the review doesn't show the instructions......which based on what I've seen from RacingBrick are unlike any other instructions....
(effectively turning these in pretty advanced builds actually!)

Oh, and having that generic and F4 Academy car in this series is rather random......couldn't they have done something more interesting instead?

@Huw, are they in blind bags or boxes? If so, are the bar codes scannable to reveal the car identity within?

I'm not a F1-guy, but I lke the helmets. I think I'm going to buy one only, either McLaren or Sauber.

@person_that_uses_brickset said:
"I found some early at a local store. They are very durable and I am thinking about collecting them all. They kind of remind me of the little football helmets that they make which my cousin uses to line up for the playoffs. I also wonder if they will release Audi and Cadillac in poly bags next year."

Is there rumors of more LMP cars being released? Historically, the SC polys echo a full size model. So hope there is a full size Ferrari LMP car coming.

As far as the the series, I will pick up a couple. Ferrari, Alpine, Mercedes, and Aston Martin.

@person_that_uses_brickset said:
"I found some early at a local store. They are very durable and I am thinking about collecting them all. They kind of remind me of the little football helmets that they make which my cousin uses to line up for the playoffs. I also wonder if they will release Audi and Cadillac in poly bags next year."

An Audi v Cadillac poly could be fun actually, especially if they do a little starting line to scale.

They’re not minifigures so my completionist brain feels no obligation to collect these. At least the Unikitty series was built figures, but I don’t even display those alongside my CMFs. As with others, expect I’ll get one just because, either Ferrari, Mercedes or the generic F1 car. Unfortunately due to my brain telling me I do need to be buying minifigures, I’m now trawling eBay to make up full sets of previous series instead - which will probably cost several times as much as a normal series! Thanks, LEGO!

These kind of remind me of the Mario blindboxes, in that you get actual building parts instead of minifig parts and accessories.

@woosterlegos said:
" @Huw, are they in blind bags or boxes? If so, are the bar codes scannable to reveal the car identity within?"

They're blind boxed and are popping up in the scanner app updates.

@Huw is there an anti-stud on the underside of the front wing? Just thinking that would be a great set of wings for a mech minifig.

@tne328 said:
" @ToysFromTheAttic said:
"Happy there's a CMF series for car fans. Which I am not, so I don't have to hunt down highly sought-after castle figs for a change, and awkwardly scan dozens of boxes while getting weird glances from people around me. Curious how well these'll sell, though."

It would be fun to see this remixed with the usual blend of CMFs: an animal-themed car, a castle car, an ancient soldier car, a futuristic car, a sports-themed car, and a couple of cars themed on ordinary jobs."

Yeah, that would be fun indeed, but LEGO already kinda did that with 60458 Pizza vs. Fire Truck Race Car Pack.

Quite cute, but probably an either/or with the Speed Champions, so not for me.

Those green helmets would make great Halo Spartan helmets.

Absolutely zero interest in them for me as I'm not an F1 fan, and I can't see much use for the parts or printed tiles. I also don't know of very many kids who have an interest in F1 these days so I think these might bomb as a series.

I won't be getting any. It is nice they are trying something different as CMF have become rather boring aside from maybe 1 or 2 minifigs a year, but these are not for me. I think they would look better with no helmet at all, it is too far out of scale, with a bit more detail put into the prints instead.

These might struggle when sold next to £1.50 / £1.70 Hot Wheels.

Although my local WHSmith had a sign up saying "preorder a complete set now, selling fast" and are taking deposits. Presumably someone will be taking complete sets out their boxes to try to avoid ending up with the duds.

Awful.

They should be pull-back like the Stuntz motorbikes were.

I might just go random pick for one of these - just for that 1x2 tile with long stud part!

Shame there wasn't a review for Series 27 CMF.

I'm a massive F1 fan, watching if at all possible every practice session, F2 and F3 support series sessions and all the programming around a race weekend. And yet even I have absolutely zero interest in these. I could understand some polybags that would cater for a similar market to the one these are aimed at, and I think having a basic £10 car in the City line is quite nice. But I just cannot wrap my head around why anyone, other than those that have every CMF figure to date, would feel the need to get every last one of these. I can easily see these going on heavy, heavy discounts.

Got all 12 for all 12 nieces and nephews dor Christmas. Christmas shopping is done!

I came upon an issue where one scanned as the generic F1 but had the McLaren inside.

@CCC said:
"Presumably someone will be taking complete sets out their boxes to try to avoid ending up with the duds."

That someone would have to be a sorcerer. ;o)

I dor one am glad the helmets are more generic. Perfect for sci-fi minifigs, and also probably the only reason any AFOL in their right mind will actively search for these

I was disappointed when the rumors started last fall, but these are some of the sets I'm most excited for. It's Xalax 2.0. There's a collectibility factor that we really haven't seen since Bionicle G2 ended, besides the $27 F1 sets that are too expensive to get all of for most people.

The build is more simple than I'd like. I was hoping for something like the Speed Champions polybags. But these are fun.

F1=NASCAR=Yawn

>>Cute, but buying one will be sufficient unless you're a die-hard [...] CMF fan.<<
I'm a CMF-fan since day 1. I don't even know if I need a single one...

@PDelahanty said:
"This seems like one of those things that will pop up on Random Set of the Day in 10 years and most people will have forgotten all about them."

Even weirder if they end up as random minifigure of the day.

I quite like these, and can definitely see uses for some of the prints.

I feel the generic helmets are a good thing and open up for possibilities for MOC usage.

It's a unique and, dare I say, cute concept. But the lack of some form of originality hurts here. Like most everyone else here I too would have rather seen a set of drivers (a mix of current drivers AND classic drivers like Senna, Lauda, Prost, Fangio, Jackie Stewart, etc.).

Unless these sell, as a whole series, like hotcakes, I can only see them as a lost opportunity.

@woosterlegos said:
" @Huw, are they in blind bags or boxes? If so, are the bar codes scannable to reveal the car identity within?"

The omgbrick app has them already and I've picked mine up today!!

@yellowcastle said:
" @CCC said:
"Presumably someone will be taking complete sets out their boxes to try to avoid ending up with the duds."

That someone would have to be a sorcerer. ;o)"

I assume staff will scan boxes and sell sets of 12 for the preorders.

Wait, these are eating up the second CMF slot for 2025? Not cool.

Anyways, new handlebars will plug into hollow/recessed studs on a 1x3 spacing. Front ends look disproportionately large, like Tooned Hot Wheels. I may get a full set and strip the cladding to make go-karts, but the chassis doesn’t interest me. The return of the neck tile is neat, but are they all black?

@Gibbo1959 said:
"They’re not minifigures so my completionist brain feels no obligation to collect these. At least the Unikitty series was built figures, but I don’t even display those alongside my CMFs."

Unikitty didn’t fit within the CMF release schedule, though. Same year we got 41775, we also got 71020, 71021, and 71022. The packaging was also completely different from both the old packets that preceded it, and the new ones that followed. Mario also doesn’t eat up CMF slots, and they’re six series in at this point.

@ShilohCyan said:
"I was disappointed when the rumors started last fall, but these are some of the sets I'm most excited for. It's Xalax 2.0. There's a collectibility factor that we really haven't seen since Bionicle G2 ended, besides the $27 F1 sets that are too expensive to get all of for most people.

The build is more simple than I'd like. I was hoping for something like the Speed Champions polybags. But these are fun."

Xalax 2.0 is just my thought on it. A little less fun since the drivers aren't as fun, but the parts are pretty nice.

i'll pick up the Williams, Ferrari, and F1 Academy cars. the rest, we'll see how the packs' RNG plays out

I’m no avid F1 follower but regardless I find these woeful disappointing. I fail to see any redeeming feature for them. They wouldn’t be as bad if they were at least a driver minifig dressed appropriately for each manufacturer. These, these are pretty redundant.

@lost_scotsman said:
"I love 'em and don't care!"

Same. Feels a lot like when I was the only fan of the Vidiyo CMFs XD

@Onatu said:
"Xalax 2.0 is just my thought on it. A little less fun since the drivers aren't as fun, but the parts are pretty nice."

These helmets do lack the personality those lil guys had, but the Xalax cars themselves were pretty bad builds, compared to these or Tiny Turbos, or ESPECIALLY the Speed Champions polybags. 4579 was the only real set, and even that was painfully simplistic.

...wait, what if I put the Xalax "minifigs" in these and combine the best of both worlds?

Can confirm - The box scanning app I use scans the boxes successfully

Probably because I'm not really a racing fan, but I'm glad the helmets are generic. They can be repurposed much, much more easily this way.

These would have been awesome for McDonalds Happy Meals!

Winter Village go karts...

I quite like these as a fiddle-around-with-kinda-toy, but I'm not getting any because I don't want to support the blind boxes concept. Although preferences won't be as strong as normal blind boxes, just looking over these I already have some favourites. Red Bull (obviously) Academy (for the colours) and Ferrari (because Ferrari).

I want the white frictionless axle pins from these sets. Fun synergy when these toys make Bionicle Bahrag set a much cheaper to bricklink.

I like them and have bought a box to get them all. I will line them up alongside the larger ones. Yes, a real fig in colours preferable, but, we have that fig in the SC sets. Also, i guess licences and image rights ups that price, so, yeah, good for all involved

@TheOtherMike said:
" @DoctorUmbra said:
"I want the white frictionless axle pins from these sets. Fun synergy when these toys make Bionicle Bahrag set a much cheaper to bricklink."

The ones in 8558 have friction."

The set works quite well with frictionless white pin axles too.

@followsclosely said:
"I will get them all as I have every "collectable minfig" with the excption of Mr. Gold. But I am dissapointed."

“The Sorrow of The Completist”

Picked up two, used Brick Search to get ones w/ red helmets so I could try them out with classic space minifigs.

The helmets look a little goofy, though, so I'll probably try them out with other minifigs and some sort of torso armor to see if they look better.

The cars are fun little desk toys, like other people have said. It'd be fun to see which ones I just get at random after this when I go grocery shopping.

@DoctorUmbra said:
" @TheOtherMike said:
" @DoctorUmbra said:
"I want the white frictionless axle pins from these sets. Fun synergy when these toys make Bionicle Bahrag set a much cheaper to bricklink."

The ones in 8558 have friction."

The set works quite well with frictionless white pin axles too."

Friction is what keeps the axle-pins from rotating. Without it, these parts will get out of allignment with the 2L axles that are used to represent other teeth. With friction, you can keep them all lined up in the same orientation.

I think the "generic" car is based on the FIA 2022 concept car
https://cdn-2.motorsport.com/images/amp/24v8rOd6/s6/the-2022-formula-1-car-launch-.jpg
F1 academy is an all female racing class to get more women into F1.

@RocketRacer said:
"F1 academy is an all female racing class to get more women into F1."
....which is never gonna work, since F1A now is their own F4 class with no proper path moving up from there. Or they have to join the regular (mixed) F3 and F2 competitions, which rarely happens. So now you have ladies already in their 20s still competing in F4...
(and when you think of it......that also means older, more experienced drivers are keeping younger talents that might actually have a future beyond F4 out)

It's good for getting some more attention (which in itself is a good thing!), but dare I say actually holds them back from moving up. At least the W series they had before was F3 based, so this is already a big step back.

@pocketone23 said:
" @followsclosely said:
"I will get them all as I have every "collectable minfig" with the excption of Mr. Gold. But I am dissapointed."

“The Sorrow of The Completist”
"

These are not a CMF series. You do not need to waste your money on these if you are either aCMF fan OR an F1 fan

They would be great if they are pull-back

@CPbrickHG said:
" @pocketone23 said:
" @followsclosely said:
"I will get them all as I have every "collectable minfig" with the excption of Mr. Gold. But I am dissapointed."

“The Sorrow of The Completist”
"

These are not a CMF series. You do not need to waste your money on these if you are either aCMF fan OR an F1 fan"

71046-0, 71047-0, 71048-0, 71049-0...numbers say otherwise. The fact that no mid-year CMF series has even been hinted at also suggests this is a legit CMF wave. And they have the same packaging. 41775-0 had a one-off packaging design, strayed well outside of the CMF numbering schedule, and didn't take up one of the 2018 CMF slots.

Our local supermarket had them this week, with a 20 percent discount.
I bought the Ferrari and yes, it's cool as a little novelty item.
But I definitely don't need more than one.

@ra226 said:
"Those are cute--I wonder if they're compatible with Hotwheels tracks? That'd be something..."

I saw a post on one of the Facebook groups that I'm in stating that the poster was able to snag a few early and YES, they are compatible with Hot Wheels tracks. Which took them from a mild hmmm, maybe if I've got a few spare bucks to HMMM, definitely something to keep in mind when I'm out shopping or need to meet a GWP threshold.

This is a no for me. But they could've made an exlusive golden one or something that you could look for. Or like a special version for an older model or team as a secret mystery thing. Lego used be good at that sort of stuff... :P

@davidredjoy said:
"This is a no for me. But they could've made an exlusive golden one or something that you could look for. Or like a special version for an older model or team as a secret mystery thing. Lego used be good at that sort of stuff... :P"

Don’t give them ideas…!

Oh no, the core part of the car is a big ugly piece... I didn't realized that until now.
I bought a couple of these cars (still have to open the boxes), but I think I will not repeat the purchase.

The first in the CMF series that does not have a minifig baseplate!

@tne328 said:
"At first these reminded me of the 2009 McDonald's Racers that were nothing but a chassis piece, a mid-section piece, and a top layer piece."
Reminds me more of the smaller Drome Racers sets like 4582 , 4583 , 4590 , 4591 and others. They were built off a single piece pull-back chassis and even have a similar "half minifig".

@Dash_Justice said:
" @tne328 said:
"At first these reminded me of the 2009 McDonald's Racers that were nothing but a chassis piece, a mid-section piece, and a top layer piece."
Reminds me more of the smaller Drome Racers sets like 4582 , 4583 , 4590 , 4591 and others. They were built off a single piece pull-back chassis and even have a similar "half minifig"."

I thought of the exact same thing when these were announced.

I bought them all, but it would have been great the safety car and the medical car instead of the two generics.

I would have also been happy if the minifigures were legendary drivers with unique race car skirts like Race Car Guy in series 18.

I'm a Collectable Minifigure completionist: am I required to purchase this series?

@Goujon said:
"Personally Im all for generic helmets. Let people get the fancy ones in the fancy sets, these ones have amazing customs capabilities and theyre cheap and readily available. Im really happy with these and intend to pick a couple up to make some cool sci fi custom figures!

Just my perspective anyways."
Agreed. I can't understand getting annoyed at not having a bunch of advertisements on your Lego.

@Gyula78 said:
"I bought them all, but it would have been great the safety car and the medical car instead of the two generics."

They couldn't have done those with the same base piece, though.

@Dayv said:
" @Goujon said:
"Personally Im all for generic helmets. Let people get the fancy ones in the fancy sets, these ones have amazing customs capabilities and theyre cheap and readily available. Im really happy with these and intend to pick a couple up to make some cool sci fi custom figures!

Just my perspective anyways."
Agreed. I can't understand getting annoyed at not having a bunch of advertisements on your Lego.
"

I can't understand not getting annoyed at having a bunch of advertisements, even when they're accurate. I eyeroll every time I see someone wearing a soccer jersey in public, because you can't even tell what team it is unless you're a soccer fan.