Amusingly, our local toy stores are fully on board with the 'check with the app' approach. They check and (discretely) mark each pack so you can get what you want. It also lets them sell complete sets to people who want them.
@@Longfang91 it was a little tricky when they first moved to the box format and the app didn't work. In they end, carefully slicing open the box, peeking at the contents, then resealing it with tape got the job done.
Trivia fact: Official LEGO stores (or at least the one I visit) have no trouble with people scanning the boxes. Heck, the last time I was there they went into the back to get another case for me to check out so I could complete my set!
I remember when the minifigs were in the little bags, and LEGO employees would help you feel them out. So it's good to hear that even with the switch to boxes they seem to still help you find the ones you want.
I'm mostly inured at this point to the "obscure nerd thing from decades ago as a collectable" thing, but as someone who got into D&D in the 3e era when Planescape was a forgotten TSR era experiment, the Lady of Pain minifig feels like a fever dream.
There is also a big set called Lego Ideas: Red Dragon’s Tale that you need, it features a tower and a tavern, a big red dragon, a Beholder, an Owlbear, a displacer beast and a bunch of minifigs of course. You NEEED it @apocrypha5363 !
A couple of years ago Lego Ninjago did a spin on a D&D inspired series. Each of the boxes in that line came with rules and a floorplan which you used together with the kits. The ninjas got armour and shields and faced off against Geckles and Munces (goblins and orcs). You rolled a special dice based on the Ninjago spinners. I used a lot of this stuff when teaching D&D to my kids.
Switched the masc bard head onto the warlock body and the feminine warlock head onto the Dragonborn body and gave her a sword from Strad to have pretty good Astarion and Lae'zel approximations
I was not expecting two heads for the minifigs but it's such a no-brainer (the Mindflayer got it!) that I should have seen it coming. I _dearly_ hope they keep making more of these, being able to make a figure of _your_ PC is a significant draw and more variety can only be a good thing.
A great many years ago, when Lego just did generic lines line Castle and Space instead of kits based on specific IPs, a friend of mine saw the potential for a tabletop skirmish game with various settings, using Lego buildings as terrain and minifigs (or just 'people' as they were then called) as combatants - a sort of application of the GURPS principle to Necromunda-style gameplay spiked with an excuse to keep collecting Lego as he got older. He tinkered with the idea for a long time and even desktop-published some rules he got me to proofread...but then he saw Akira, got into anime, and spent the rest of our association peering up ninja cyborg petticoats. I lost several friends like that; the mid-'90s were a weird time.
I'm calling it. Within the next five years, GW will loan their IP out to Lego and release blind-box Minifigs. These D&D ones are very cool though. Finger Guns possibly still illegal?🤔
Personally I'm okay with this. If they make a lego version of the table top game complete with various kits and stats, I could consume them faster than the tyranids eat an undefended jungle world.
My group has been using my Lego mini figures for years. I brought three of the blind bags to the last session. Now I’m afraid that my level seven hexblade will have an encounter with Szass Tam.
Funnily enough, when I decided to pick up one for a laugh figuring "I like enough of them", the man on the till in our cities Lego store *actively informed me* of the code scanning being a thing, so it can very much go either way^^ ...and good for him, would have never gambled more than maybe twice, but I walked out with three that day. And came back for five more.
With minimal search you will also find plenty stores offering the full set - some even give you a small discount compared to buying 12 individual blind boxes.
Doing my part here to plug Brikwars as a lego based tabletop wargame, one of the most popular factions created within our little community are legally distinct Orks called Brootalz. Instead of being based on a fungus, they're jacked up coffee beans, which should also tell you the kind of humor we deal in.
I can confirm having a tiny LEGO intellect devourer is wonderful. As amusing as it would've been to get three LoPs from the three boxes I got. Well, guess the Rule of Three don't work on demand.
Love Lego's creature figs. Orcs can be beaucoup, but themes like Castle, Nexo Knights, Ninjago, Monkie Kid and Power Miners have some wicked characters and parts. Korg, Groot, Man-Bat and Clayface would be great, too. I have a burgeoning Blood Bowl Wanted List over at Bricklink. Someday. Gleck. Oh, and obligatory "Eye fits on torso neck post, if you're careful; braindog on a minifig head if you're Half-Life" remark.
The lego and ttrpg crossover i always think about is Irregular Webcomic - even though his main two themes eventually did find bespoke minis, Space did use minifigs for a while and Every other theme was lego as well
Having a Strahd minifig come out when I’m playing Curse of Strahd is insane and I can’t wait to show my players our next session after buying him this week 😔
They did a Plaguebearer minifigure back in the day. It was a green-grey monster with spots, a horrible sword, one eye and one horn. It was clearly a Nurgle Plaguebearer but they just brazened it out and idk if GW noticed or did anything.
@@BurnyToast Yes and having checked it is nowhere near as close to a Plaguebearer as I remembered lol... just needs a weapon swap tho and it would pass
The fact they did these makes me hopeful for the future. The big DnD set is great, but I hope they are smart enough to make a few 3-4 DnD sets per year - and then make a lot of non DnD sets that you can "conveniently" use to craft DnD scenarios. (so they don't have to pay the DnD license for those as well - and sell them to us a bit cheaper )
Hoping they make more dragonborn head colors. While they have technically released four of them, 2 are long oop, 1 comes in a super expensive set, and the cmf one is by far the most popular, being resold online for double the price.
I'm building our campaing party to give my brother as christmas gift. The bard will become our elf mage with simple swap of acessories because he has those f*ckboy-elf vibes. Our Leonin ranger with dual rapiers needed a bit more hunting on the 2nd hand bricks sites. Sadly the blue dragon head from older vidiyo-series has become astronomically expensive.
... okay so, ordinarily for D&D figs I like to have custom ones in a more standard mini-style... *but I'm not gonna lie this idea intrigues me greatly*
I managed to get all of them save Tasha due to the help of a friendly man in a toy store. I got a duplicate of Strahd only so that was forunate. Though half of me is tempted to get more mindflayers to make a lego mindflayer colony
So what are the chances that, the first time I even heard about this mini figure was at the local grocery store today (I bought one and got Strahd) then this video pops up in my subscription feed just as get home.
Not sure if you knew this yet but the intellect devourer can fit over a minifig head so it can eat their brain. :D First time finding your channel, gonna have to check out some of your WH40k content here following this viewing. Knowing you’re Lego fans and wargamers I wonder what your thoughts would be on Mike Rayhawk’s Brikwars wargaming ruleset, especially now that it’s being published by Modiphus.
Me buying out every dragon paladin I see for my knight army: 😈😈😈 (I feel bad because it limits other people from finding them but I am NOT trying to enter that resale market and buy them)
Hey I want to ask a question: Cubicle Seven is hosting a Book Bundle on Humble were they selling all of Rogue Trader and Deathwatch (As PDFs) , and I would like to hear your opinion on Deathwatch specifically: have you played it and would you recommend it? Btw love your stuff and I wish you too a very spoopy October!
I realise you were asking for their opinion, rather than mine... but Deathwatch isn't the greatest. The system is really struggling at that point, and has lots of cludges to make it work. It's still playable, we still had fun with it, and I bought the entire line, but mechanically and thematically I think Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader worked better. Imperium Maledictum also looks good (basically a modernisation of the themes of Dark Heresy), though they haven't touched Space Marines yet, so I don't know how they work under that system.
ca. 4:38 : I would rather describe the set as thrown out Money for one of Legos extremly loveless and shitty Sets: The Adventure is an PDF, most Pictures are Stickers and in combination with the price this thing is Lego spitting their customers directly in the face. (But I also bought the complete Space and D&D Minfigure-Series...)
Blind boxes are always terrible and a complete scam. I feel no regret using a handy QR code scanner to get the mini's that I liked (without paying way too much)
Amusingly, our local toy stores are fully on board with the 'check with the app' approach. They check and (discretely) mark each pack so you can get what you want. It also lets them sell complete sets to people who want them.
That's a great way to handle it!
@@Longfang91 it was a little tricky when they first moved to the box format and the app didn't work. In they end, carefully slicing open the box, peeking at the contents, then resealing it with tape got the job done.
There is definitely an 'orange transparent chainsaw' to 'Mastercrafted chainsword' Pipeline
Hello fellow Brickwars survivor
Trivia fact: Official LEGO stores (or at least the one I visit) have no trouble with people scanning the boxes. Heck, the last time I was there they went into the back to get another case for me to check out so I could complete my set!
I remember when the minifigs were in the little bags, and LEGO employees would help you feel them out. So it's good to hear that even with the switch to boxes they seem to still help you find the ones you want.
same here in france
I'm mostly inured at this point to the "obscure nerd thing from decades ago as a collectable" thing, but as someone who got into D&D in the 3e era when Planescape was a forgotten TSR era experiment, the Lady of Pain minifig feels like a fever dream.
Friendly reminder that the Lego D&D adventure is free to download for everyone.
It's just the paper version that requires purchasing that set.
I don't think the set even comes with the paper version; it was just a limited print run for sale previously.
@@jamesmorgan3623 I think you're right. My bad.
I'm in the process of building the DND dragon/castle kit at this very moment. It's bloody awesome
Ohhhhhh frikk.... I *really* don't need to add Lego to the list of things im obsessed with.
We are sorry for informing you of these. But not *that* sorry.
There is also a big set called Lego Ideas: Red Dragon’s Tale that you need, it features a tower and a tavern, a big red dragon, a Beholder, an Owlbear, a displacer beast and a bunch of minifigs of course. You NEEED it @apocrypha5363 !
Too late
Do it
A couple of years ago Lego Ninjago did a spin on a D&D inspired series. Each of the boxes in that line came with rules and a floorplan which you used together with the kits. The ninjas got armour and shields and faced off against Geckles and Munces (goblins and orcs). You rolled a special dice based on the Ninjago spinners.
I used a lot of this stuff when teaching D&D to my kids.
That Lady of Pain mini is the most WTF thing I've seen on this channel, which says a lot!
I can honestly say it was not something we ever expected to see!
Yeah, of all the characters from D&D that could have found their way into a licensed Lego product, the Lady of Pain was not remotely my first guess.
Lego: Let's give the fans something that would make them go "wtf?"
WOTC: May I present "The Lady of Pain"
At this point there is nothing that is an 'unusual topic' for this channel, Wib.
We like to be a very vibes oriented Warhammer channel.
Robots fighting about tomato juice underwater?
@@SnipeandWiband the vibes are good!
5:00 I wasn't the only one to make the Baulders Gate 3 connection with the bard.
I've never even played d&d and have no idea how it works, but I WANT that dragonborn paladin minifigure SO BAD.
Get an app and go hunting
@@rmo9808 my local stores most likely don't have it. But I will try to check my nearest large Walmart or target
oh hey OG baldur's gate music on a D&D video.
Snipe's reaction to the Lego Lady of Pain was my reaction to the Lego Lady of Pain. Wtf and also I simply must have her.
"Curse of Strahd but with my 90's Lego castle" Is something i now want to do.
I wish this had come out before I started my COS campaign. 😔
Switched the masc bard head onto the warlock body and the feminine warlock head onto the Dragonborn body and gave her a sword from Strad to have pretty good Astarion and Lae'zel approximations
I was not expecting two heads for the minifigs but it's such a no-brainer (the Mindflayer got it!) that I should have seen it coming.
I _dearly_ hope they keep making more of these, being able to make a figure of _your_ PC is a significant draw and more variety can only be a good thing.
A great many years ago, when Lego just did generic lines line Castle and Space instead of kits based on specific IPs, a friend of mine saw the potential for a tabletop skirmish game with various settings, using Lego buildings as terrain and minifigs (or just 'people' as they were then called) as combatants - a sort of application of the GURPS principle to Necromunda-style gameplay spiked with an excuse to keep collecting Lego as he got older. He tinkered with the idea for a long time and even desktop-published some rules he got me to proofread...but then he saw Akira, got into anime, and spent the rest of our association peering up ninja cyborg petticoats. I lost several friends like that; the mid-'90s were a weird time.
The lego store (physical ones) will tell you what model is in the box. BTW
I'm calling it. Within the next five years, GW will loan their IP out to Lego and release blind-box Minifigs.
These D&D ones are very cool though.
Finger Guns possibly still illegal?🤔
Personally I'm okay with this. If they make a lego version of the table top game complete with various kits and stats, I could consume them faster than the tyranids eat an undefended jungle world.
I used Lego for TTRPGs waay before it was considered cool by them!
My group has been using my Lego mini figures for years. I brought three of the blind bags to the last session. Now I’m afraid that my level seven hexblade will have an encounter with Szass Tam.
Funnily enough, when I decided to pick up one for a laugh figuring "I like enough of them", the man on the till in our cities Lego store *actively informed me* of the code scanning being a thing, so it can very much go either way^^
...and good for him, would have never gambled more than maybe twice, but I walked out with three that day. And came back for five more.
With minimal search you will also find plenty stores offering the full set - some even give you a small discount compared to buying 12 individual blind boxes.
The Lady of Pain
Doing my part here to plug Brikwars as a lego based tabletop wargame, one of the most popular factions created within our little community are legally distinct Orks called Brootalz. Instead of being based on a fungus, they're jacked up coffee beans, which should also tell you the kind of humor we deal in.
1:45 careful! That is getting perilously close to worship. Wouldn't want you getting mazed.
I’m loving these, even gettibg repeats, really good for character creation mix ups
I opted to get the ones I really wanted then rolled the dice on the rest
I love that you had OG Baldur's Gate soundtrack in the background
1:58 Oh look, it's Us the adorable brain doggo!
4:33 If you make a lego account and sign up for insider, the adventure can be downloaded for free, no purchase of the set necessary!
Oooh, ghost hunting video AND Mobile Frame: Zero mentioned in one video? Happy day!
Been using Lego figures for a variety of DND characters for a while now - extremely handy things to have around!
Finger guns! Total highlight! Great vid!
I can confirm having a tiny LEGO intellect devourer is wonderful. As amusing as it would've been to get three LoPs from the three boxes I got. Well, guess the Rule of Three don't work on demand.
“The actual honest-to-God Lady of Pain.”
_Worship detected. Dabus deployed. Prepare to be banished to The Maze._
Love Lego's creature figs. Orcs can be beaucoup, but themes like Castle, Nexo Knights, Ninjago, Monkie Kid and Power Miners have some wicked characters and parts. Korg, Groot, Man-Bat and Clayface would be great, too. I have a burgeoning Blood Bowl Wanted List over at Bricklink. Someday. Gleck. Oh, and obligatory "Eye fits on torso neck post, if you're careful; braindog on a minifig head if you're Half-Life" remark.
The lego and ttrpg crossover i always think about is Irregular Webcomic - even though his main two themes eventually did find bespoke minis, Space did use minifigs for a while and Every other theme was lego as well
Having a Strahd minifig come out when I’m playing Curse of Strahd is insane and I can’t wait to show my players our next session after buying him this week 😔
calling it now they're gonna do a critical role set too . but defo gotta get me some those mini-figs been a while since I picked up any
They did a Plaguebearer minifigure back in the day. It was a green-grey monster with spots, a horrible sword, one eye and one horn. It was clearly a Nurgle Plaguebearer but they just brazened it out and idk if GW noticed or did anything.
What was it called? What set?
@@BurnyToast It was in one of the first few batches of blind bag Lego Minifigures. Early to mid 2000s?
@@ted_splitter is it the cyclops from series 6?
@@BurnyToast Yes and having checked it is nowhere near as close to a Plaguebearer as I remembered lol... just needs a weapon swap tho and it would pass
The fact they did these makes me hopeful for the future. The big DnD set is great, but I hope they are smart enough to make a few 3-4 DnD sets per year - and then make a lot of non DnD sets that you can "conveniently" use to craft DnD scenarios. (so they don't have to pay the DnD license for those as well - and sell them to us a bit cheaper )
I love this set, the lady of pain is sitting on top of my monitor standing under a lego Portal to the land of Mythica from Legoland,.
The must've done something right, when I saw these figure and my utterly immediate thought was "How do I use those pieces to make my D&D party?"
I'm not a big D&D guy, but that Jarnathan but with white feathers one is calling to me
Hoping they make more dragonborn head colors. While they have technically released four of them, 2 are long oop, 1 comes in a super expensive set, and the cmf one is by far the most popular, being resold online for double the price.
I hope we get more d&d waves because they are all sooo good. As long as the scanning app continues to work...LEGO
I'm building our campaing party to give my brother as christmas gift. The bard will become our elf mage with simple swap of acessories because he has those f*ckboy-elf vibes. Our Leonin ranger with dual rapiers needed a bit more hunting on the 2nd hand bricks sites. Sadly the blue dragon head from older vidiyo-series has become astronomically expensive.
I really like how you guys use light these days :)
I am looking forward to the Dungeons and Dragons minifigures
... okay so, ordinarily for D&D figs I like to have custom ones in a more standard mini-style... *but I'm not gonna lie this idea intrigues me greatly*
Pew pew pew, finger gunzzz!
Thank you for that moment specifically 😂
I managed to get all of them save Tasha due to the help of a friendly man in a toy store. I got a duplicate of Strahd only so that was forunate. Though half of me is tempted to get more mindflayers to make a lego mindflayer colony
Why is it that after after I got rid of most of my Lego, LEGO makes cool shit.
I don't have space nor funds for both it and 40k, DAMN IT!
The Lady of Pain reaches her final form: LEGO.
This video is adorable. Also you guys have a loyalty card at the toyshop by now, right?!
They changed the bags to BOXES? Oh man, that sucks. I got really good at feeling out which minifig there was in each bag.
Brikwars! You've got to try Brikwars!
I was one of the few that got lucky and got all of them first try! Definitely gonna get more still tho
If you piss her off, she will send you to a LEGO maze!
AWESOME VIDEO, Instant Fan 🙏
So what are the chances that, the first time I even heard about this mini figure was at the local grocery store today (I bought one and got Strahd) then this video pops up in my subscription feed just as get home.
Tiny plastic figures on this channel? 0_o
Nothing wrong with ladies of pain as long as you remember your safeword
I'm kind of surprised with the Lady of Pain.
Love the BG1 music
combine elf bard with githaianki warlock and you have lego astarion
also bard githianki which is nice
Not sure if you knew this yet but the intellect devourer can fit over a minifig head so it can eat their brain. :D
First time finding your channel, gonna have to check out some of your WH40k content here following this viewing. Knowing you’re Lego fans and wargamers I wonder what your thoughts would be on Mike Rayhawk’s Brikwars wargaming ruleset, especially now that it’s being published by Modiphus.
My son has just got into dnd and he has one of those as his table top avatar
ICE PLANET YOOOOO
Me buying out every dragon paladin I see for my knight army: 😈😈😈
(I feel bad because it limits other people from finding them but I am NOT trying to enter that resale market and buy them)
Hey I want to ask a question: Cubicle Seven is hosting a Book Bundle on Humble were they selling all of Rogue Trader and Deathwatch (As PDFs) , and I would like to hear your opinion on Deathwatch specifically: have you played it and would you recommend it? Btw love your stuff and I wish you too a very spoopy October!
I realise you were asking for their opinion, rather than mine... but Deathwatch isn't the greatest. The system is really struggling at that point, and has lots of cludges to make it work. It's still playable, we still had fun with it, and I bought the entire line, but mechanically and thematically I think Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader worked better. Imperium Maledictum also looks good (basically a modernisation of the themes of Dark Heresy), though they haven't touched Space Marines yet, so I don't know how they work under that system.
i like em too! nice video :)
Oooo! Love lego!
ca. 4:38 : I would rather describe the set as thrown out Money for one of Legos extremly loveless and shitty Sets: The Adventure is an PDF, most Pictures are Stickers and in combination with the price this thing is Lego spitting their customers directly in the face. (But I also bought the complete Space and D&D Minfigure-Series...)
Snipe and Wib spending unnecessary amounts of money on plastic things? That seems totally in character for this channel 🤣
Finger guns at 07:02
Just found your Channel. Great Video and wonderful job. I love these figures for use at conventions for custom designs. Do you all use IG too?
Blind boxes are always terrible and a complete scam. I feel no regret using a handy QR code scanner to get the mini's that I liked (without paying way too much)
It's way better than the alternative. Being a piece of crap ripping open boxes until finding that particular minifig.
So they'll do D&D but not The Owl House? Well, I'll take what I can get
Neat!
Mildly disappointing for the win.... This is a great video. My favourite is Strad by a mile.
👉👉 Finger guns
🤠
Man can Lego just buy the rights to d&d. They seem to understand the fan base a lot more
Well, fuck the shops who don't like that, since it was done by Lego on purpose
Uh oh, sigil mispronunciation alert ⚠️
Thank you, for correctly pronouncing Sigil incorrectly.
1:43 You forgot to add Planescape: Torment.
Torment is just one of the stories told in the Planescape setting. But then Torment also goes into Numenera... it's a bit weird.
@@SymbioteMullet It's still worth the honourable mention.
@@azuredragonofnether5433 Very much so!
That Baldur's Gate music... *le sigh*
:+ D
I'm afraid the mystery box aspect kills my interest. Just sell me the complete set, Lego.