Pre-order Book of Boba Fett sets and get a discount and free custom minifigure

@colay said:
"I do not need a custom figure. i do not need a custom figure. i do not need a custom figure :)
"

Neither do I :)

I can't find the mini figure mentioned anywhere on the site. Maybe all the order number has already been reached...

@audaver said:
" @ChrisBricks81 said:
"Well I do need it so placed order :)"

As somebody who just placed an order, I take it you had to pay 20% over the displayed prices due to VAT once you stated you resided in the UK?

Looks like the discount will get wiped out by customs. From the checkout page.

"By placing the order I recognise that my order is shipped from Germany to United Kingdom. The local VAT, costs of customs clearance and customs duties are not included in the total amount of the order and have to be settled with third parties. I bear the costs."

Sounds like they're not registered for VAT so instead of orders over €135 going through customs with extra charges all orders will. If I'm correct that means VAT is charged on total amount incl. shipping and then a fee on top from the courier/postal service UK side."

No I'm not a UK Resident. VPN makes it appear so. So, no extra costs :)

Does anybody know if this is a “purist” custom fig? Or is that a totally original print?

Much as I want this I don't want the import costs, VAT etc, will wait for the Lego May 4th promotion and get them then

@EriktheRed :
As soon as I looked at the torso, I figured it was all stock part designs, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t copy the deco and just print their own, especially for those quantities. Unless they just happened to be sitting on those parts, that’s at least $3-5 per minifig just to get the printed parts, plus you’d need the hands, arms, hair, machete, and the rat. Throw in shipping from multiple sellers, and I don’t see how original prints could be obtained _now_ for less than $10/fig, which combined with the discounts being offered, would wipe out a huge amount of profit margin.

@PurpleDave

Yeah, would be worthwhile if you were looking for other parts and could pick up the pieces to make the fig at the same time. I might do that only because I feel like it should be possible to pick up the 75326 set on the 2nd hand market for less than retail once it's been out for a while!

@EriktheRed :
For _one_ minifig, yes, this is a very easy pattern to make your own copy without having to buy sets from Europe. But they offered 525 of these guys. They’re located in Germany, which has seen bulk lots of rare parts pop up before, but the torso is old-school CMF, which were exclusively produced in China, with no reserve stock of parts to dump on the market. On the other hand, if those dwarves were unpopular at release, and had already been parted out, this is a way to use up some of those parts.

@PurpleDave :

That's fair, though in my case (as well as anyone else who frequents bricklink) I can find people with the exact torso listed for under $1 so I'm better off parting it out myself. I've done it for countless figs already so it's not something I'm unaccustomed to! Plus swapping out the arms and hand pieces won't cost much extra since there are no unique printing on those pieces (from what I can see in the picture above). Now if it was revealed that there was some special back printing to the torso piece that would change things! lol

I thought this was official at first and was wondering why they’d bring back a head from over a decade ago.

@EriktheRed said:
" @mattb3033 said:
"Does anybody know if this is a “purist” custom fig? Or is that a totally original print?"

Would love to know this as well!

EDIT: Seems the torso is from 8805-12 (Evil Dwarf), so makes me think all these pieces could be purchased separately. Also the legs seem to be from the Lucy minifigure (LEGO Movie). For the torso you'll have to have an extra set of black arm pieces to swap out the silver ones that normally come with that torso.

EDIT2: The head is from Kazim (Indiana Jones Last Crusade). You'll also need the nougat colored "hand" pieces as well.

EDIT3: The hair is piece 36806 on bricklink."

Awesome. Even if you can't get this particular figure, we can at least make our own Official Danny Trejos. Dannies Trejo? Danny Trejo-figures.

@EriktheRed:
I have the rat somewhere, a spare Kazim, probably a few unopened Evil Dwarves, and the black arms and hair shouldn’t be a problem. I don’t think I have a spare set of the legs, and I’m uncertain about the machete, but yeah, for many people this will be easy to pull together with maybe one or two Bricklink purchases to supplement their collections.

But it’s this large batch that has my attention. One other possible source is if the torso or legs popped up in BaM, but otherwise I expect they’ve been sitting on the torsos and heads for a while. Maybe they got the torsos on the cheap to use the arms on a previous minifig, or maybe they got a lot of these parts (excluding the torso, of course) on B&P.

@audaver said:
" @Huw, given the hellish landscape UK people are now in would it be possible at all that for these articles the company can state what to expect for UK buyers.

A while back I did enquire with MinifigMadness but the response was vague and I couldn't determine what to expect if I purchased a full box. As a result I didn't pursue it any further.

Nobody wants an unwelcome surprise after all."

It's pretty much the same as it always was.

You'll most likely get hit for VAT/Import Duty and a handling fee, before it's delivered.

@PurpleDave said:
" @EriktheRed:
I have the rat somewhere, a spare Kazim, probably a few unopened Evil Dwarves, and the black arms and hair shouldn’t be a problem. I don’t think I have a spare set of the legs, and I’m uncertain about the machete, but yeah, for many people this will be easy to pull together with maybe one or two Bricklink purchases to supplement their collections.

But it’s this large batch that has my attention. One other possible source is if the torso or legs popped up in BaM, but otherwise I expect they’ve been sitting on the torsos and heads for a while. Maybe they got the torsos on the cheap to use the arms on a previous minifig, or maybe they got a lot of these parts (excluding the torso, of course) on B&P."

I really hope this is the case! It would definitely force my hand if there was anything unique to this figure lol

I was expecting the rancor keeper to be the same as in Return of the Jedi, who we see crying when Luke kills it. Not having seen any episodes of The Book of Boba Fett, I thought the figure looked more like an actor from From Dusk Till Dawn (Danny Trejo). Imagine my surprise when I found out it is indeed the same actor! I have never thought minifigures look much like the characters they represent, but this was a true blind experiment for me, so now I'm sold! Well done Lego!

The minifigure could be proposed for May the 4th?

@EriktheRed:
If there’s anything you have trouble sourcing, remember that you don’t have to precisely match it.

@bassplate:
It’s a custom, not an official minifig. If it was, the torso and leg prints would probably be unique, the head head might be updated (and maybe a different color), and it would probably be packed in a polybag that would be available in much larger quantities across several different markets.

@EriktheRed said:
" @mattb3033 said:
"Does anybody know if this is a “purist” custom fig? Or is that a totally original print?"

Would love to know this as well!

EDIT: Seems the torso is from 8805-12 (Evil Dwarf), so makes me think all these pieces could be purchased separately. Also the legs seem to be from the Lucy minifigure (LEGO Movie). For the torso you'll have to have an extra set of black arm pieces to swap out the silver ones that normally come with that torso.

EDIT2: The head is from Kazim (Indiana Jones Last Crusade). You'll also need the nougat colored "hand" pieces as well.

EDIT3: The hair is piece 36806 on bricklink."

Exactly! It is made out of 100% LEGO parts, no custom prints.
Unfortunately it is already sold out, we “only” had 525 copies.
But all the rest of our offers is still valid!

Greetings and all the best,
Hendrik

@mickywrx said:
" @audaver said:
" @Huw, given the hellish landscape UK people are now in would it be possible at all that for these articles the company can state what to expect for UK buyers.

A while back I did enquire with MinifigMadness but the response was vague and I couldn't determine what to expect if I purchased a full box. As a result I didn't pursue it any further.

Nobody wants an unwelcome surprise after all."

It's pretty much the same as it always was.

You'll most likely get hit for VAT/Import Duty and a handling fee, before it's delivered."

We didn’t used to have to worry about any of that buying from Europe, so saying it is as it always was is just wrong:)

Placed my order in a few minutes after the post came online on Brickset.com and there were already no minifigures left. Asked about this through the contactform and was offered a refund/cancellation of the order.
So basically, people didn't even have a chance to get one.

@Sir_von_Lego:
Since it appears you’re associated with the company behind this offer, I’m mildly curious how you go about sourcing these parts, in a general sense. Possible sources I could come up with were Bricks & Pieces, Build-a-Minifig, unsold CMFs, leftover parts from previous custom minifigs, or buying on the secondary market. Being in Germany, there’s also been talk about leftover parts being unloaded through the PAB wall in the past. I don’t expect you to state specific sources, but even a vague general sense might be interesting to know.

Yah if it was custom printing, I assume that would be a copywrite violation. Using real LEGO parts seems the only way to do it legally to me.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Sir_von_Lego:
Since it appears you’re associated with the company behind this offer, I’m mildly curious how you go about sourcing these parts, in a general sense. Possible sources I could come up with were Bricks & Pieces, Build-a-Minifig, unsold CMFs, leftover parts from previous custom minifigs, or buying on the secondary market. Being in Germany, there’s also been talk about leftover parts being unloaded through the PAB wall in the past. I don’t expect you to state specific sources, but even a vague general sense might be interesting to know."

Hey @PurpleDave!

Yes I am part of the JB team since it exists..(-;
We do use all ways to get the minifigure parts. Own collection, other collectors but of course the most important source is BrickLink.

Greetings Hendrik