Hi, I'm Rafał. I've collected CMF minifigures for a good few years — it started with the Wizard from Series 12. Today I have every series complete… except for a single Mr. Gold (if you know, you know).
And if you don't know: back in 2013 the manufacturer hid exactly 5,000 golden Mr. Gold figures in random blind bags — worldwide. You bought blind, at the price of a regular bag. Each one came with a unique code — you entered it online, got a certificate and pinned the place it was found on a world map. The map is long gone, and to this day nobody knows how many of those 5,000 were actually found. Today secondary-market listings run into the thousands of dollars. There's a spot in my frame waiting for it. It'll probably keep waiting.
Before FigGrid, I arranged my figures on a grid built from bricks. Building it, taking it apart and rebuilding it was a pain — and whenever a new series had a different number of figures, the whole layout fell apart.
So I designed my own 3D-printed template. Version thirteen is the one you get — and probably not the last. I print every single one myself.
FigGrid is a niche within a niche. I make it for the handful of people who, like me, want their collection lined up perfectly. Maybe you're one of them.
— Rafał