Lord of the Rings Ongoing Discussion

[GeoBrick]

1 hour ago, RichardGoring said:

And there is a portfolio image with all four recent sets. It really does make Bag End look small!

What did you expect? The set was made for Hobbits.
Besides, footprint-wise Bag Ends seems to occupy the same area as Barad-dûr.

[Black Falcon]

2 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

Tiago Catarino has a designer interview video up. At about 6:10 in the video, he talks about the original concept had the Balrog incorporated into the back wall of the book nook in a 2.5D style, as we speculated might be an option earlier. Then they thought it would be a shame not to have it as a full figure and they could use the wings from the fellbeast GWP. And the size of it was build around the wings.

Have to say I like the set better now after seeing the video - I especially liked how the wings oben and close together with the book nook. 

[RichardGoring]

4 hours ago, GeoBrick said:

What did you expect? The set was made for Hobbits.
Besides, footprint-wise Bag Ends seems to occupy the same area as Barad-dûr.

Made for Hobbits. Priced for Elves.

Although it is a problem when you're following something of both the scale and quality of Rivendell. In isolation it's generally an excellent set (trees notwithstanding).

[Jarreth2]

I'll never understand why Lego won't seem to produce pieces in a specific colour to match the general colour of a particular part of the build. My main point is the wrist joints on the Balrog, they're kinda jarring in light blue grey. Make them in black Lego .. you HAVE the capability to. 🙄

[MKJoshA]

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[Kaijumeister]

Seeing reviews of the Book Nook, my opinion on it isn’t as favourable as it used to be. Seeing it compared against the Sherlock Holmes one and pictures of the HP one just highlights how bare this is. 

My main concern when it comes to scenes or properties that are highly requested like this is the amount of effort that goes into their corresponding sets seems low as a result. Again, we get the 18+ black box branding and fancy formatting within the instruction manual, only for the set itself to be so lacklustre.

A £110 pricepoint allocated towards a playscale set of even a full diorama would have worked so much better here.

 

Edited May 28 by Kaijumeister

[hikouki]

5 hours ago, Kaijumeister said:

Seeing reviews of the Book Nook, my opinion on it isn’t as favourable as it used to be. Seeing it compared against the Sherlock Holmes one and pictures of the HP one just highlights how bare this is. 

My main concern when it comes to scenes or properties that are highly requested like this is the amount of effort that goes into their corresponding sets seems low as a result. Again, we get the 18+ black box branding and fancy formatting within the instruction manual, only for the set itself to be so lacklustre.

A £110 pricepoint allocated towards a playscale set of even a full diorama would have worked so much better here.

 

It is funny that according to the designer interview, they designed the Balrog around the wings and really wanted this set to be a book nook more than anything else.

Agree, they could have just designed this as a *nice* set rather than force it to be something else.

If this is a book nook, what is the Shire? A collection of paperweights? 

[kuzyabricks]

Yeah after reviews this will be a skip. I’ll just PAB the balrog eventually

[Blazej_Holen]

I hoped that reviews will make the set better in my eyes, but nah, its just skip. I am not interested for that riddiculous price... My last purchase was Barad Dur few months ago.. still in the box. This and Shire, is just something beyond my willingness to pay. Shame on Lego with this pricing policy. 

[McMurder_them_softly]

I quite like the book nook, just not for the price and agree with sentiment here - could have been better served as a set in a different style and feels rather forced as a book nook. I would like to get it on a discount.