Do you think we'll get a Lego LotR or Lego Hobbit brand?

[CorneliusMurdock]

It's true that we often don't know much about original themes far in advance. But how long have we known of Pirates of the Caribbean? With a big license like that, I think news would leak out of even negotiations to get it.

I also don't mean to sound harsh but in the Kingdoms 2011 thread it seems like every couple of posts someone says there won't be any sets. The OT Star wars doesn't have much more than rumors for next year but no one is saying there will be no OT sets.

[Gryphon Ink]

To whoever says there's no playability or memorable characters in the Hobbit, you should really reread the book and think about how it will look on the silver screen. There are:

A scene with wolves and goblins chasing the heroes down the mountainside, into a forest, surrounding them in a tall tree and setting the tree on fire right before giant eagles rescue the good guys.

A lengthy fight and flight inside a labyrinthine goblin stronghold, which includes Gollum's underground lake lair somewhere inside it.

A bit in a forest with three trolls sitting around a campfire, drinking beer and roasting sheep, then capturing the heroes.

An off-screen scene (which I bet won't be offscreen in the movies) with a GIANT WEREBEAR beating the snot out of a bunch of goblins, and said werebear's beautiful house complete with animal servants.

Rivendell, featuring one kind of elf.

The enormous forest castle of the Wood-Elves (a different kind), complete with camouflaged door, dungeons and river access.

Giant spiders attacking the heroes in the trees.

A dragon incinerating a human town built on top of a lake and being shot down by a mighty warrior.

The Lonely Mountain, which has at least three or four main areas that could be playsets.

The Battle of Five Armies - humans, elves, dwarves, goblins+wolves, eagles.

There are five or six different architectural styles, dozens of characters in about a dozen different main types, and three different kinds of oversized monsters including the mother of all dragons - and this is all without even thinking of madeup movie scenes and tie-ins with LOTR's larger world, which Jackson and del Toro both said that they were going to do. (For example, showing some of the wizards' fight with the Necromancer (Sauron) and bringing Radagast the Brown into the story). I seriously doubt that TLG are so poor in imagination that they can't think up a dozen or more totally amazing sets from all this.

Edited November 30, 2010 by Gryphon Ink

[Elander]

...showing some of the wizards' fight with the Necromancer (Sauron) and bringing Radagast the Brown into the story....

...Sauron the Necromancer in LEGO-style would be just amazing.

->Maybe like in a very small bionicle-version with long capes.

And Radagast the Brown would be a very beauty collectable minifigure.

[IAmWillGibson]

I'm not gonna weigh in on whether I think they will or not, as I really have no idea.

But I can say that I'd be all over a Hobbit line like a dirty shirt. I've always been wishy washy on larger Lego sets, never really "needing" anything. But Hobbit stuff I would have to get all of, affordable or not. Maybe they'd take the time to finally engineer mini-legs that have a hip joint.