Olympic Minifigures, UK exclusive

[Hotspur]

Brickset's front page has info on a UK exclusive set of 9 Olympic athletes, all sporting the UK Olympic colors and uniforms. The sports represented are swimming, judo, boxing, equestrian, tennis, archery, gymnastics, weightlifting, and track.

The pics on brick set are a little blurry, but there looks to be some fairly interesting parts. Boxing gloves and headgear in blue, Superman hair in orange. Pretty neat!

[nick91884]

sooooooooo..... who in the UK wants to pick one up for me?

[unclephn]

Wow, those are pretty cool. As luck would have it, my girlfriend is taking a trip to the UK later this summer, and this will definitely be on my shopping list for her!

[Legobrandon]

There is a lot of debate weather or not these are real on the Brickset Forum. Cheesy lettering and image of the minifigs. But professional box and packaging design.

[nick91884]

From the OP (before the picture was posted) I thought this was a boxed set of minifigs, not a new extra limited CMF set.

[evo8hks]

no compound bow for the archer? It also shows them on the package wearing the new CMF swimmers medal. I am very interest and hope to see boxes of them on Amazon.uk

[JabbaT]

Wow, nice figures. Too bad its only uk.

[beethead]

Anyone else notice the copyright symbol on the bottom right corner says "(C) 200 The LEGO group". Somehow I don't think TLG would slip up like that. Even the box and polybag art don't look right. Look at the boxer minifig and polybag image, the headgear has a logo. As well, the polybag art portrays them all wearing a medal but no medal on the minifigs.

[slacker]

Does anybody know when they become available? A week or two before the Olympics or in the next two weeks? I got a buddy who's heading to UK in a month. I can get him to pick some up for me.

[legitimatealex]

I hope these are fake because there's no way in heck I could ever be able to get hold of any : |

That said, most of them don't appear to be too different from any of them that are in the CMF series, so I wouldn't miss them too much, although it would be nice to have a boxing partner for my red buddy.

[Rhodebrick]

Not sure is this real or not. And why just available in uk. Everyone watches Olympics. Anyway, just had a friend get back from London and no sign of these for sale there now.

[Toys N Bricks]

Well, it looks like these upcoming LEGO Team GB Olympic minifigures are not fake! Today, Toynews-online.biz reports that these £1.99 collectable Minifigures will be available for sale beginning July 1st. These minfigures have been created in celebration for the upcoming London 2012 Olympics and 9 Olympics Minifigures have been created including a boxer, swimmer, relay runner, judo fighter, tennis player, weightlifter, horse rider and an archer. (via Eurobricks)

LEGO Team GB Minifigures


Article Link: http://toysnbricks.com/confirmed-lego-t ... nifigures/

[nick91884]

This is both awesome and disappointing.

Awesome that it is real.

Disappointing they are UK only.

[evo8hks]

If anyone finds a link where you can order a case, please post it or message it to me.

[dilbert12]

Want. I expect they'll show up on ebay and BrickLink at a huge markup. I'd order a box too with some people if we could order it from let's say Amazon.uk.com.

[Brickred]

Want. I expect they'll show up on ebay and BrickLink at a huge markup. I'd order a box too with some people if we could order it from let's say Amazon.uk.com.

That's a great idea dilbert12, what should we do next - take a head count to see who's in?

Thanks

[nick91884]

I wonder how many complete sets each box would have

[Goldmonkey]

Whilst I tend to prefer the weirder CMF like the gorilla or the rabbit, I really do love the look of these. I think it's crazy of Lego to be making them U.K. exclusives. I say that despite living in the U.K. with, I hope, my nearest stockist a few minutes walk from where I work.

[fanjo]

I wonder how many complete sets each box would have

There are 60 bags in a case split up by:

•6 each of the Boxer, Weightlifter and Horse Rider
•7 each of the Swimmer, Relay Runner, Judo Fighter, Tennis Player, Gymnast and Archer

That makes 6 complete sets in a case.

[roarimapanda]

I am making a post on all the olympic threads, i am not really a forum poster here but long time follower of the site, i have en ebay account "roarimapanda" and a flickr of my lego "funshitisland" i recieved a full box from the Uk (I live in delaware usa) and sold a few full sets, now i have a 3/4 set of 6 and a few singles that i would be willing to offer to people for cheap. (about 5 bucks per minifig and about 4-5 dollars shipping for one, or if you get more still only 5 dollars shipping for 2 or more.) pm me on here or flickr or ebay to exchange a word with me or barter if we must. I don't want to seem to money hungry so am willing to offer, but the box itself plus shipping from UK didn't leave me with much of a profit from what ive sold on ebay