Here are the other seasons since Lemmy doesn’t allow for multiple images:

“Yes, my potion turned you into a chicken, but just look at what happens when your enemies attack you!”

Here are the flame pieces: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=18394pb01&name=Wave Rounded Curved Wing with Bar End (Flame) with Marbled Trans-Yellow Pattern&category=[Energy Effect]#T=C

I originally was trying to have the pot suspended over the flames, but that’s hard to do given that the pot takes up 2/3rd of a stud. I like how these flames seem to flow around the pot.

In my case, it means I’ll be buying less from them. If they were in the bags, I’d have gone to the LEGO store with my older son (who has a 95%+ success rate at feeling figures in the bags) and would have gotten all the figures I wanted.

Now, I’m going to buy a 6 pack (to ensure no dupes) and if I don’t get everyone I want them oh well. Maybe I’ll buy the others from BrickLink, but likely not.

On the other hand, it might finally give me the kick in the rear to start a local “minifigure trading group.” If I got two Wolverines and someone else has an extra Moon Knight, we could swap so we each get closer to a complete set. (It would need to be local because the cost of shipping the figures back and forth wouldn’t make it worth while - not to mention keeping people honest about actually shipping figures instead of getting a figure and then ghosting.)

When I heard that were moving to boxes, I had the (I’m sure not very original) idea for LEGO to print codes on the boxes. Determined fans who wanted a particular figure could look up the code and purchase boxes based on this. Fans who wanted the full blind box experience could ignore the codes.

It wouldn’t be anything obvious like “this box contains Wolverine.” Instead, it could say something like MCMF2-3200 and fans would need to decode the numbers to tell which figures had which codes.

For a short time, it looked like there might have been codes on the packages and I was happy that LEGO did this. Then, the codes got disproved.

I still think this would work. Think of it like the alien alphabets in Futurama. That led fans to rewatch episodes over and over to decode the language. This would be the LEGO version of this - only not as complex because there would only need to be 12 to decode.