Although Series 3 has just hit the shelves and Series 2 is still readily available, there is already buzz about Series 4 which is scheduled to come out in March or April of 2011.
I wasn’t as excited about Series 3, but now that I have gotten a full set, I really like them. 
The figures are as follows (not official names):
Skateboarder
Hockey Player
Bio Hazard Suit Guy
Musketeer
Punk Rocker
Frankenstein Monster
Artist
Surfer Girl
Garden Gnome
Geisha (Kimono Girl)
Werewolf
Navy Sailor
Viking
Mad Scientist
Football (Soccer) Player
Ice Skater
Just by looking at the pictures of Series 4 I know that I am going to want multiples of several figures and the new elements are amazing! I love the ice skates, the erlenmeyer flask, the silver trophy, fan, mo-hawk . . . well you get the idea. 
Its really hard to even say one that I don’t like in this set, maybe the skateboarder but even he has a new torso print. Some are saying this is the best series so far and I’d have to agree with them.
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December 6, 2010 at 10:11 am |
Not to be a know-it-all, but it’s an Erlenmeyer flask not a beaker. Beakers have straight sides.
See, I actually retained something from my few chemistry classes (and lots of mad scientist movies).
Someone needs to make a Tom Brady jersey for the soccer player. The hair and head are a spitting image.
December 6, 2010 at 10:22 am |
You’re right Matt, I wasn’t thinking. I’ll fix it, thanks.
December 6, 2010 at 3:13 pm |
The base of that silver trophy looks like a black version of the fez used in the Indiana Jones sets. Basically a tapered 1×1 round brick. That will be useful.
December 6, 2010 at 3:45 pm |
So far, every single piece with paint deco is unique to that specific minifig. None of the faces are found in regular sets, and none of them have been repeated (though some are pretty close). Even the Indian feather from S1 is unique to that minifig as the Western sets came with paint on both sides of the feather where that has it only on one side. On a guess, it’s going to be the minifig trophy or the microphone that break that tradition, since there are limits to the number of colors that they can sensibly produce those in (and they’re already at that limit for the trophy).
December 6, 2010 at 9:18 pm |
Someone get that Kabuki face on the S2 vampire, stat!