A rumor over at Eurobricks has surfaced regarding a special limited edition series of Collectable Minifigures dedicated to the German soccer (football) team in the same manner the Team GB back at the Olympics in 2012 series was done. Source

How you could order them when they are sold out?

19 minutes ago, mauro23 said:

I have checked my boxes - exactly the same date...

Holy sheet, as LEGO has currently increased the limit of Exclusives to 5 they would have at the moment no free capacity to produce a new batch (if they would really want to).

In such case the price will reach 1000 Euro soon for a full box...

The minifigs are made in China, so there's no conflict between sets and minifigs.

Is production capacity really so limited that they can only do one series at a time? I mean what else is being made now? Probably just Disney and maybe already some series 16 minifigs.

He probably ordered them on Friday.

Okay guys, you convinced me to go hunting tomorrow again , I will probably end up with an army of soccer players.

You are to late...

1 hour ago, c_rpg said:

The minifigs are made in China, so there's no conflict between sets and minifigs.

Is production capacity really so limited that they can only do one series at a time? I mean what else is being made now? Probably just Disney and maybe already some series 16 minifigs.

One shouldn't forget that the roster is already outdated by now.

Edited May 16, 20169 yr by Frank Brickowski

For a collector in the US, what would be a good price for the set?  Thinking I might just end up buying one.

300 Euro in the meantime...

2 hours ago, stackables said:

For a collector in the US, what would be a good price for the set?  Thinking I might just end up buying one.

…not sure what is, but the cheapest I've seen as of yesterday is $105 for the complete (open) set + shipping from Austria… there are other sellers selling 7-9 individual figs that are cheaper but then if you factor in the time in looking and buying the rest, it could very well cost more...

I have mentioned 300 Euro for full box of 60, this means 100 for a complete set of 16. It seems that the price for a full box of 60 is three times higher as for the complete set of 16.

Don't forget the fact that you get not only 3 complete sets in a SEALED full box of 60, but you get also in addition 12 further minifigs...

4 hours ago, mauro23 said:

I have mentioned 300 Euro for full box of 60, this means 100 for a complete set of 16. It seems that the price for a full box of 60 is three times higher as for the complete set of 16.

Don't forget the fact that you get not only 3 complete sets in a SEALED full box of 60, but you get also in addition 12 further minifigs...

Yeah about that, are the figures always identical? If you have a bunch of sealed boxes and you part them out to complete sets, wouldn't that mean you're going to end up with a bunch of extra Schürrle, Kroos and Khedira figures? In that case it might be worth it to bricklink some extra missing figures to get a few more complete sets. Or maybe it's better to just sell the common figures at a slightly lower price?

Apparently these will be back in stock at SAH at some point today, I was confidently told by CS rep.

In fact she said any minute

 

8 minutes ago, TheGallows said:

Apparently these will be back in stock at SAH at some point today, I was confidently told by CS rep.

In fact she said any minute

 

I certainly hope not. Did they find a lost shipping container some where? It's still showing as 'sold out' over here, not TOS.

still showing as sold out here. But apparently will be back in stock soon

 

6 minutes ago, c_rpg said:

I certainly hope not. Did they find a lost shipping container some where? It's still showing as 'sold out' over here, not TOS.

I also contacted Lego and they indeed said the new stock was underway. And available in the coming days (sounds like the Tumbler)

I'm starting to think the figure of 36000 boxes is BS.

Maybe TLG is just holding back stock and the scarcity is artificial. Now that the hype is building up they can release more stock and people will think they are lucky for getting some figures.

To be fair to Lego, they will be aware that a large portion of early buys will be resellers so it's sensible for them to not release all stock before the general public even know they exist.  After all this is meant to be a marketing exercise with the products ending up in as many hands as possible. 

Bricklink has nearly been wiped clean boxes of these in the last 24 hours, crazy!

My SAH order (16 bags) of last friday has been shipped, looking forward to those little guys...

17 hours ago, mauro23 said:

You are to late...

Well the 3 case in my trunk might have another opinion about that

11 minutes ago, Sozial said:

Well the 3 case in my trunk might have another opinion about that

Where are you getting those?

Euro 2016 discussion for those interested : 

 

1 hour ago, kobus said:

Where are you getting those?

At a local TRU, but all gone now

https://www.intertoys.de/lego-71014-minifiguren-dfb-die-mannschaft

 

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