The raffle link is bad...or it’s already closed.

Never cared for the show, although, is that a new hair piece? I don't recall seeing that before at all.

Seen this on instagram last night, I'll never get one as its an sdcc exclusive yet again but I have a supergirl figure which I'm gonna change the wig on now lol... does anyone know what the Marvel exclusive is yet?

US Only... nice so Europe can only get some for inflated prices.
*sighs*

Does anyone know where instructions are to enter? That's the hardest thing about this--I understand the raffle hasn't started yet, but I also have no idea how to get in.

Gosh, that printing is awful! For once, I’m okay with this being a regional exclusive.

@Zordboy said:
"Never cared for the show, although, is that a new hair piece? I don't recall seeing that before at all."

I think it was used in the most recent CMF series.

@legoavenger14 said:
"Seen this on instagram last night, I'll never get one as its an sdcc exclusive yet again but I have a supergirl figure which I'm gonna change the wig on now lol... does anyone know what the Marvel exclusive is yet? "

There won't be a Marvel Exclusive as its for a DC event called Fandome!! We never got SDCC exclusive minifigs this year due to the event being cancelled!! The only "Exclusive" we kinda got was the "Bespin Duel" set!!

@Jack_Rizzo said:
"Really hope to win this. I've never had an exclusive like this before, and I'm not one to keep things like these in their original packaging. I'd love to add this particular version of Supergirl to the Justice League Watchtower MOC I have planned though, especially with that hairpiece.

EDIT: Just read that it's US-only, guess that "no regional exclusives" thing didn't last very long. Big sad :'("

Honestly I thought we werent getting any if these this year, which I was ok with, but because its 2020 its typical that Lego had to do it anyways!
Seriously nothing good ever comes of these raffles, their sometimes rigged by giving it to kids only from what Ibe heard.????

They probably should’ve made it available outside of the US, though that would drastically lower the chance of winning one.

Lego always always always supported the CW DC shows with a headline character as a minifigure for San Diego Comic Con. This makes almost a dozen produced. The Lego booth almost always held onto these for the kids that would come to the show and they are very nice but limited just for that show.

Do we know if there are any other minifigs (from SDCC or otherwise) yet to be revealed?

Truly hate to see all these exclusive minifigs and how prices minutes after go sky high. Yes, I wish to have them, but this only opens the door to disappointing.
This type of practice is really unfair to loyal fans who spend lots of money on lego products

@ResIpsaLoquitur said:
"Do you want the figure, or do you want THAT figure? And why?"

The collector's curse

Still would like to know when to enter this raffle.

Checked out the Fandome site - of course, No Firestorm! So passing interest at best.

I don't care about Supergirl but I'm still kind of offended that they keep doing these things

Doh! U.S. only! Too bad, I actually work vfx on the show here in Canada. It would be a cool figure to add to my collection.

Ugh. These SDCC exclusive minifigs need to stop already. And yet the cycle continues...

@Trigger_ said:
"I’ll try to come off as unbiased here as I can; .....
I have absolutely nothing against anyone here but this feels like the 4chan of the LEGO community, honestly. The majority (or at least a notable amount) of articles have some sort of argument in the comments that escalates insanely."

Thanks for at least trying to be sensible about things. Its sad that certain members seem to not want to do that so I I reluctantly agree with your 4chan comments right now because of them.

@GrizBe said:
" @Trigger_ said:
"I’ll try to come off as unbiased here as I can; .....
I have absolutely nothing against anyone here but this feels like the 4chan of the LEGO community, honestly. The majority (or at least a notable amount) of articles have some sort of argument in the comments that escalates insanely."

Thanks for at least trying to be sensible about things. Its sad that certain members seem to not want to do that so I I reluctantly agree with your 4chan comments right now because of them.
"

Thank you, although the 4chan comparison was a bit extreme now that I think about it. Arguments tend to happen on every site with comments (unless the mods are trying to delete everything) so I shouldn’t be too harsh. Sometimes people don’t mean any harm with their comment, even if it comes off as such. The moderation on here is actually better than quite a few sites I go on so I don’t have anything against the mods, either. I guess my brain has made some sort of strange assumption that the LEGO community is completely free of disagreement and I’m left confused each time a quarrel happens.

Based on the rules for the drawing, it appears at least 1496 were actually made. There are 1495 awarded as 'runner-up prizes' and an additional set as part of the Grand Prize so there are at least 1,496 of these sets made. It is also likely more were made for internal distribution by LEGO and DC Comics (Warner Brothers).

Oh I’m entering!

Honestly, if I wanted this figure (which I don't because I don't care for the subject matter), I would just buy a Chinese knock-off. By now many of those are of such high quality that it is hard to see any difference. Funnily enough, sometimes the quality of the knock-offs is even better than the originals these days. Speaks volumes about TLG's quality control of late.

@Zordboy, that hair piece seems to be a recolor of the one used on younger Hermione Granger in the more recent Harry Potter line.

Okay, just a couple basic facts off the top. This is not a regional exclusive, but an event exclusive. It was created for SDCC, which was cancelled. It has been repurposed for a different event, so it's still an event exclusive (and even if it wasn't, they already closed out production on this, so that's the worldwide supply of these minifigs). The first year of SDCC minifigs, it was just DC. Since then, Marvel has been the only other constant, with a couple other properties that got some one-off releases. So, this is the DC minifig, but they would have also created a Marvel minifig. We just don't know when or how that will be released, or what the minifig is.

The DC run has included two movie minifigs (Bale's Batman and Reynolds' Green Lantern). Five minifigs (Captain Marvel, Bizarro, Superman (black), Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, and Zebra Batman) are based on print media, with the latter two landing on the 75th and 80th anniversaries of the debut of Batman (we'll probably see a new Batman-based minifig every five years). And six minifigs (Green Arrow, Arsenal, The Atom, Vixen, Black Lightning, and now Supergirl) are all based on the Berlanti DC shows on CW, making them the largest grouping, but just shy of 50%. Until next year.

Oh, yeah, and because this is something they produced for an event that was cancelled, besides the Bespin set for SW, and the Marvel minifig that I already mentioned, expect to see one DC set and one Marvel set pop up somewhere else, since they've been doing those four out of the last six years as well. None of this is based on any insider info, but simple logic and historical releases for the last nine years. Next year marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of DC Superheroes (_if_ you count the SDCC and NYCC minifigs...which I do), and the year after marks the same for Marvel, so I kind of expect to see them do something special to commemorate those milestones, but I have no idea what that would be.

Sweepstakes = "Weep"stakes

@legoavenger14:
Nope, but I agree that there will definitely be one. This is being released through a DC-exclusive event, so I have no idea what even they would shift the Marvel minifig over to. Is Disney running a Marvel Fancrater event?

@Joefish:
Seasons. One series, multiple seasons. That's how it works in the capital of the entertainment industry. I mean, what word do you use in the UK to refer to the entire run, since you already used up the one that makes the most sense?

And don't blame the DCEU for the shift. Bright colors that work fine in print just look ridiculous in film. George Reeve wasn't so bad, because he was filmed in B/W, but Reeves looked like he was wearing a mid-tier halloween costume. Keaton's Batsuit is what really started the shift towards not only grittier productions, but less day-glo supersuits. The Blade trilogy followed, um, suit, as did Fox with the X-Men run. Even Routh's portrayal of Reeves playing Superman had a darker color scheme than Reeves did. And of course the Nolan/Bale Batman looked like he was dressed for spec-ops combat.

@GrizBe:
Besides the simple fact that SDCC is the biggest theme-appropriate convention, hands down, for this sort of thing, look at the box office results for films. Most of the time, the US gross is around 50% of the worldwide gross. So, when you subtract out the Asian, African, South American, and Oceanic markets, Europe alone doesn't really hold a candle to the pockets in the US market. China is going to end up being the second most dominant market for the entertainment industry, just based on strength of numbers.

@Rimefang:
Six from CW shows. 13 total SDCC exclusive DC minifigs including this one. This definitely feels like their default staple, but they skipped CW minifigs in both 2014 and 2019 when they released special Batman minifigs. Oddly, of those six, Black Lightning is the only other character who is still on the air, and they haven't touched any characters from Flash or Batwoman.

@Spartan_Ghost:
Yeah, Supergirl is the heaviest-handed political ad in the CW DC stable, to an eye-rolling degree. Legends is equally eye-rolling just for how bad the show is. Arrow felt like Batman with no Batman and increasingly less interesting writing (I "watched" the entire series, but honestly I really wasn't paying much attention the last two seasons and would mostly just let it run in the background). Flash is pretty good, in spite of how goofy they try to make the show (and the fact that it's got the best ratings of the CW DC shows backs that up), but Black Lightning is actually a pretty solid show (and, ironically, just a fraction of the identity-politics that drives people away from Supergirl). Batwoman...is going to be a completely different show next year with not only a new lead actress, but a new lead character going into the sophomore season, so everything they've built up for the first year is largely going to be wiped off the board, and I couldn't say what to expect of it until I've watched it. But, hands down, the crown jewel in the Berlanti DC lineup right now, is Stargirl. Weird as it sounds, considering how many of the characters were in high school during the first season (time jump going into S2 will probably fix that), it feels the least like it was written for a tweenage audience. And it definitely wasn't written for the CW network. My only concern is that now that it's shifting their for first run airings, I hope they don't meddle with it very much. They really couldn't for the first season, since it was produced for DC's soon-to-be defunct streaming service, and they just got to repeat it a day later.

That is some heavy lipstick. From a distance it looks like she has a mustache.

@Zordboy:
Yet the Marvel movies _also_ have darker costumes than the comics they're based on. Don't believe me? Compare the movie vs comics versions of Captain America, Iron Man, or Spider Man. Minifigs of these characters based on print comics feature primary red and primary blue. The same characters for the MCU are going to be sporting dark-red and dark-blue. MCU Hawkeye's costume is _black_, compared to his disco getup from the comics (don't expect to see a minifig of that any day soon). Or how about Falcon? Comics? Bright primary red. MCU? Grey. With dark-red highlights.

Any idea why lego don't make a CMF series based on DC tv shows like Arrow and Legends, I mean theres plenty of characters they can work with and going by the number of comments on this fig, the demand is certainly there. It just seems like a big money maker that they're ignoring except for the odd exclusive

i don't think I'll ever understand LEGO's quest to promote copycat brands by releasing exclusives like this. Whilst ever they avoid selling items like this to the widest audience they simply push hitherto loyal fans into the arms of those who will. And once those fans see what is available elsewhere and for how much it only serves to undermine their brand and dilute their following. It makes no sense.

@PurpleDave said:
" @GrizBe:
Besides the simple fact that SDCC is the biggest theme-appropriate convention, hands down, for this sort of thing, look at the box office results for films. Most of the time, the US gross is around 50% of the worldwide gross. So, when you subtract out the Asian, African, South American, and Oceanic markets, Europe alone doesn't really hold a candle to the pockets in the US market. China is going to end up being the second most dominant market for the entertainment industry, just based on strength of numbers."

You know, I may not always agree with you, but I just have to say thank you for being one of the few voices of reason and logic who actually takes the time to express and back up what they've said clearly.

I disagree that the sales amount is 50% of their market, as you've just pointed out though, the market as a whole is much bigger outside of the USA. While individually countries get less sales, as an entirety they do dwarf the US.

Thing is, I've not been talking about 'event exclusives' but exclusives as a whole. You must agree that if any item were to get a worldwide release it'd sell much better then dropping it in just one market, so why limit yourself to that single market and encourage scalpers and knock-off versions of it?

I'll note personally I've got no interest in this Supergirl figure and I'm simply pointing out that as we can see, region locking it for whatever reasons is causing unneeded arguement and backlash.

@ecleme11 said:
"Heres an idea, instead of making a figure completely exclusive, forcing people to buy knock off figs, why not release the figure at an event first, with a wee card stating SDCC exclusive no. x of x made. Then a year later release the figure either in a general set or as part of a CMF range. That way the SDCC winners get a reward of getting the figure early, as well as a unique certificate of it, while everyone else eventually gets to enjoy the same figure without paying a small fortune or buying knock offs? "

Think that'd be a better way of doing it, but then of course you'd get those arguing 'well whats the point buying the event one when I can just wait X time and print my own card' . With that though Lego could easily do a unique printed tile or accessory for said event that retains the exclusivity of the item, but doesn't upset the fan base as much as not being able to get an entire set, or the figure at all.

The link isn't the right one. This is it: https://www.dccomics.com/DCFanDomeSweepstakes

@Zordboy said:
"Never cared for the show, although, is that a new hair piece? I don't recall seeing that before at all."

Its was used on Hermione in harry potter...

The sweepstakes isn’t just for the Supergirl minifig. There are 7 different prizes, of which I’m only interested in 2 or 3 of. So I can see some of the Supergirls ending up on ebay.

I think it's a shame to have locked it to the US. A shame both for Lego and DC. I can usually understand it being exclusive to the comicon because the event takes place phisycally in the US. I don't like it but, alright.
But this time the event is virtual, online. It was a great opportunity to reach out to fans worldwide. There was no reason not to.
I'm really disappointed, not by not obtaining the fig, but by the decision to make an online event US locked.

@bananaworld:
He was making fun of a terminology difference where he's on the runt side of the argument.

And petroleum is the crude oil that is refined into various fuels, oils, and tar-like substances. Or it's the colloid sold as Vaseline. Petrol was originally a term used to refer to a solvent, and if the manufacturer hadn't waited so long to apply for a trademark, you'd be using a different term yourself. Maybe you'd still be calling it "motor spirits".

@GrizBe:
Eh, even when I hate how they're doing something, I can still try to objectively reason out why they're doing it.

US Box Office numbers are roughly split between domestic and world. Some movies tank overseas, while others (including James Bond) do a lot better outside of the US. But on average, it's pretty close to 50/50.

LEGO sales, on the other hand, yeah, the US may be the top buyer as an individual nation, but most of the other big players are grouped together in Europe. I've never seen any regional breakdown, but I'd be shocked if the US even accounts for 25% of their worldwide sales. But SDCC is more about the US box office these days than anything to do with LEGO sales. I believe the comic book industry is a lot more fragmented. DC and Marvel mostly sell to the US, where Japan has manga, and I keep hearing about all these European comic books that I've never even seen in the US. For that reason, DC and Marvel sets may actually see boosted performance in the US compared to the rest of the world

@aamartin0000:
The sweepstakes is primarily for the Supergirl minifig. The are going to hold one Grand Prize drawing, and the winner of that gets a prize package with seven items (including the first Supergirl minifig). Then they'll hold 1495 runner-up drawings (30, 35, or 40 per half hour raffle period, depending on which raffle period they're drawing for), and those winners will get just a Supergirl minifig.

Now, a bunch of these will absolutely end up on eBay, Bricklink, and Amazon. Many people only try to grab the minifigs at SDCC because they can flip them for easy cash, so now that you can be sitting anywhere in the US and do the same, it just opens up the gravy train to more people. And yeah, some people are probably only entering for the other Grand Prize items. But if I read the rules correctly, you can enter ten times per half-hour period, which gets you ten entries into each runner-up raffle that you enter. But only the first ten entries count towards the Grand Prize raffle. To that end, those who only want the big prize are probably only entering ten times and calling it quits. They would then miss out on all of the other runner-up raffles that they don't enter, meaning the vast majority of these minifigs will go to people who are actually after these minifigs, regardless of whether they want to keep them, sell them, or give them away to someone else.

@GrizBe:
Argh. I've been so tied up with trying to keep up with the half hour raffle periods, and it makes reading long threads difficult. I responded to the first part of your post, but not the rest.

Worldwide sales gets tricky. Look at the Forma crowdfunding project. They limited it to the US and UK, and while they meddled with the results by continuously trimming the number of each item that was available, in the end they only had a few left for UK availability. We have no idea how much more they could have sold in the US (I actually wanted to buy a few more skins but missed out), but they apparently maxed out UK sales. Some items have sold really well in one market, and just took up valuable warehouse space in others. Between distribution and storage, you're actually sinking a fair bit of money into making product available in a different market. Sell enough, and you cover those costs. Sell less, and you lost money on what you did sell. Now you're left with unsold product, and it'll cost you even more money to unload it in a different market because you have to pack it up and ship it a second time, and hope that there's enough market left to soak it up.

Bespin, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, and whatever the two Marvel releases turn out to be, are orphaned items. They were made for an event that didn't happen, but they've been produced and shipped. It's either unload them, or destroy them. The minifigs are being given away, so any further movement is just further expense with no tangible return. The two sets are being sold, and will almost certainly sell out in their current markets, so again, further movement is just additional expense. They had a slot in the production schedule, but that time is past, and trying to make _more_ at this late date might be more difficult than they feel it would be worth.

One other issue is that there may be legal entanglements. There might be contractual issues with the use of CW cast likenesses if they tried to sell the minifigs, where giving them away as originally intended might skirt that issue. The SDCC sets might have a clause that allows them to be sold off through other markets if SDCC doesn't happen, but which might not allow them to just start cranking out a bunch more. We don't really know the full story on that end, and I don't expect we ever will.

@PurpleDave said:
"He was making fun of a terminology difference where he's on the runt side of the argument."
No he wasn't. What he said was:

@Joefish said:
"Only seen the first few seasons of the show, [...] I much prefer the look from the earlier series.es.s.is.s."
He uses both words interchangeably (as people often do) and then (justifiably) pondered exactly how one pluralises the word 'series'. Serieses. Seriesis. Seriesia. Seriesices. Seriesies...?

What I will say though, Purp, is you've done a great job of reading & summarising a Wikipedia page, and, with an almighty "wooooosh!", you still haven't quite grasped that there are differences between British English and American English, no matter the etymological history.

Slightly back in topic, when a super-rare minifigure comes along that one has no chance of acquiring, just buy a knock-off copy from a cloner (be they Chinese or Kaminoan).

Rare and chase figures are such a pointless phenomenon and the only way to send that message is to not engage with that phenomenon at all.

I'm very happy with my three quid Mr. Gold :-D

@aamartin0000:
I just took a deeper look at the list of Grand Prize prizes, and it's a lot less grand than I originally believed. You get:

1. A "Lasso of Truth" XBox One X console...except it's for display purposes only. They do, however, give you a free standard console to make up for this, but it essentially means the fancy part of this "prize" is an empty box with a lasso molded on top, and a controller that's sporting that ugly poster that looks like it's advertising WWE "wrestling".

2. B/W Jim Lee Batman statue. Legit prize.

3. DC Fandome Blind Box. A box of random stuff, TBD at a later date. Maybe legit, maybe just a shirt and some stickers. There's no way to tell, but they put a lot of stuff in the header photo on the entry page that's not actually listed in the prize package, and you're supposed to assume it's included in this blind box. This includes a Funko Pop! Wonder Woman, a DC Fandome hat and shirt, some sort of DC Fandome card (can't tell what else is printed on it, but I see five bullet points), and a weird print of DC superheroes (it features a bunch of characters that prominently include Wonder Woman and Flash, but I can't spot Batman or Superman, and it looks like Supergirl and Batgirl in the lower corners are done in a much more cartoony style than the rest of the characters).

4. Batman: Dark Knights: Death Metal guitar. This is probably going to be the most valuable part of the prize package. Collectible guitars are expensive at MSRP, and a popular design is going to fetch high prices on the secondary market once it's sold out.

5. $100 DCU Online bucks. Neat, if you play the game. If you don't, it's eBayt or trade fodder.

6. B/W Jim Lee Nightwing...digital collectible. They show a picture of a physical statue, but you get a computer file that only works with the Veve app...whatever that is.

7. Supergirl minifig 1496. So at least anyone who's only submitting entries to get the minifig won't get shafted if they win the grand prize. You just get a bunch of bonus stuff that you can choose to keep or unload as you see fit.

If I actually land the grand prize, I'd probably just keep the minifig, and see if I could unload the rest of the package for enough to try to knock the Batpod, and last year's two SDCC DC exclusives off my want list.

Have they announced the winners yet?

@Wellspring:
The rules said five days. Today is only four days after the raffles closed on Sunday. They can't draw the winners from the Saturday runner-up raffles until they've drawn the grand prize winner, and they had to wait until the last raffle period ended in case they had any last-minute newcomers. During the week, they've probably been combing through the raffle entries to find any cheaters who tried to submit a slew of entries using a range of different addresses. But I'd expect winners to start being notified tomorrow, over the weekend, and into the beginning of next week, if that "five days" bit actually means anything.