Where to get Monchromatic Lego minifigs....

lfty888

Hello there, can anyone help me on where to buy some monochromatic minifigs? I tried ebay but only a few sellers are selling and at a prohibitive price too...... does anyone know of any online shop selling them exclusively? or shall i have to also resort to checking bricklink? thank you very much!

EddieDoesntMind

I don't think a lot of people sell whole figures, but this BL store sells parts to build one: http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=FigBits

lfty888

@EddieDoesntMind‌, thank you very much for the link. I wonder why Lego doesn't sell them on their PaB sites at all....... :(

Shib

Probably because they are quite a niche interest, and one far more appealing to AFOLs than kids. Meaning its a small number of their secondary demographic.

caperberry

I would use Bricklink to track them down part by part.

@q_159‌ is an enthusiast; every once in a while he makes useful charts of what's available in each colour. http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0092009/photos/[email protected]/14239862507/

Check his beautiful pics of them too
http://www.flickr.com/x/t/0094009/photos/[email protected]/sets/72157634798024769/

klatu003

Oh dear, another thing to get sucked into collecting....

CCC

Start by looking through your excess minifigs. Be prepared to pull off arms and hands and sometimes legs. For some parts you will be paying a seller a large markup for doing this if you are not prepared to do it yourself. You might also want to learn to wipe print.

madforLEGO

CCC said:

Start by looking through your excess minifigs. Be prepared to pull off arms and hands and sometimes legs. For some parts you will be paying a seller a large markup for doing this if you are not prepared to do it yourself. You might also want to learn to wipe print.

I'm guessing this is one reason why people buy figures, even those that have major print wear or are a bit beat up to use in the MOC or with a set or on display.
I'm guessing the really difficult parts are likely the hands and heads?

BrickDancer

Heads are plentiful in variety, it's the hands and hips that are limiting.

bobabricks

I just want a full transparent minifig, almost there! We have heads, arms, hook hands and a left leg. :P

CCC

BrickDancer said:

Heads are plentiful in variety, it's the hands and hips that are limiting.

Yes, hips especially.

legogal

It doesn't help that there are so many colors and it takes an ungodly number of rare parts. FigBits in Canada is quite helpful, and has posted a link to these figs on his Bricklink Splash page. I am in the process of building 34 or more colors and am making a couple of spare sets, but the cost will be quite high due to rare parts. There will be ones I can't find and just replace with white parts to get a more uniform look. They are stored in Friends' azure cases and look wonderful so far. Fortunately I began collecting plain torsos 8 years ago and have a head start!

Can folks who have tested various methods of wiping print off a fig reply with a link to the method that works the best for them? So far I have just resorted to turning a couple of rare pieces backwards so the print does not show. 

i love it when LEGO reintroduces a rare color of a fig part, but then I am not sitting on  a BL store full of overpriced fig parts. Pink arms, hands or heads to spare, anyone???

madforLEGO

Yeah, if I were to do monochrome I would not invest much in it and do only the figures that can readily (more to the point cheaply) be completed otherwise it does not strike me as much fun to do something like this.

AllBrick

bobabricks said:

I just want a full transparent minifig, almost there! We have heads, arms, hook hands and a left leg. :P

I have been hoping for such a thing myself. Here's to hoping we get an invisible man CMF one day...... Even if we just get hands. I do remember reading somewhere that trans hands are prone to breaking when tools etc are inserted. Clear plastic is more brittle or something like that.

legogal

Wow! An invisible man and woman CMS would be wonderful! And don't even think of collecting the matching micro figs where possible...they can be priced in the stratosphere! (And are about the size of a booger blown out of your nose....no kidding!)

legogal

I have been purchasing many monochromatic parts on BL from several countries during the past two weeks and have run into a problem with wiped printed torsos being sold as plain ones-973. One way that you can tell is to use a dremel to polish the torsos that are dull and look carefully for the remains of printed patterns. 

If this happens to you, take photos of each torso, and show the seller what it looks like before and after polishing, especially if you paid more than a dollar for it. Sometimes the seller is not aware that the parts have been wiped or that they look dull because they did not check them when they received them from someone else. And sometimes the sellers themselves have wiped the torsos and listed them in their BL stores for sale as plain ones.

I send the photos to the seller, tell them that this is a fraudulent sale and ask them to resolve the problem before I file negative feedback. So far they have resolved the issue by reducing the price quite a bit, refunding me the difference, and removing the other similar torsos from their BL stores. 

It really irks me that a few sellers can ruin the reputation of BL by selling items that are not what they are supposed to be. If we all are vigilant, we can reduce such sales on BL. PM me if you have questions. I will not ID the sellers at this point, but am keeping an eye on their stores to make sure that they don't try this again any time soon. With over a thousand BL purchases behind me, I hope that we can continue to trust BL sellers. 

BrickDancer

^Had the same thing happen to me over a year ago on a Dark Tan Torso piece that was only found in the Ewok Village set at the time. The Torso arrived without neck print and the a slight shadow of the former print still showing. Immediately showed a pic to BL seller and described the differences, so he quickly pulled the remaining ones in his store and sent a full refund.

This is one of the reasons why I refuse to collect any non-officially released parts, like claimed prototypes. All pure here so I need providence for my pieces.

Ayliffe

Where to get monochromatic minifigs? At a monochromatic store!



#sorrynotsorry

CCC

BrickDancer said:

^Had the same thing happen to me over a year ago on a Dark Tan Torso piece that was only found in the Ewok Village set at the time. The Torso arrived without neck print and the a slight shadow of the former print still showing. Immediately showed a pic to BL seller and described the differences, so he quickly pulled the remaining ones in his store and sent a full refund.

This is one of the reasons why I refuse to collect any non-officially released parts, like claimed prototypes. All pure here so I need providence for my pieces.

There shouldn't have been neck printing anyway. Plain torsos don't need them.

AllBrick

Found a near complete #3409 today, It had a dutch sticker saying there were 5 extra guys inside wearing orange. It actually had 6 solid orange torsos in it. No markings at all.

CCC

Bartman is also plain orange, which made the price of plain orange torsos drop significantly.

Diggydoes

Does anyone knows if Stitch form the Disney CMF´s comes indeed in "Medium Blue"? I´ve read a lot of reviews but none states the colour! If it is indeed Medium Blue that would bring the prices for the hands down significantly!

CCC

Apparently it is very, very close to medium blue. So good enough!

ARo2891

Just opened mine and it matches!