Balrogofmorgoth

I’ve saved up and plan on getting the Venator and Gringotts during double vip points

Venator looks incredible!!!

Ok I’m definitely getting several of that clone and droid battle pack set

I would adore that, but not at the cost of actual playsets

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the passing of J.R.R. Tolkien. Thank you Professor for your legacy that allows us to escape at will into your brilliant and beautiful mind. Some of the best lego sets ever made would not exist without his incredible work. Hail the victorious dead! 🍺

I agree. I can imagine something like an exclusive print on a tile saying “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” As you say, a GWP like that wouldn’t take anything away from the set for people who can’t get it right away. It would also be very meaningful to Tolkien readers. That’s very true. I also don’t think a lot of people really needed to be given the extra incentive to buy Rivendell. First legit LOTR set in 10 years plus being so beautifully designed and including plenty of minifigures, I think it was bound to do well regardless.

Absolutely. Either a little scene that can add on to Rivendell, or something like Professor Tolkien at his writing desk, similar to the Eiffel GWP

I just hope we hear something, anything, about LOTR soon

It will feel so good to finally get it after all this time. The Eye is certainly iconic (even though it’s not like that at all in the book), and it will look fantastic with a light brick, which I’m sure they’ll incorporate somehow. I just hope the tower is taller than Orthanc. It’ll be a little embarrassing if it’s not…

Absolutely! New Orcs and a new variant of Frodo and Sam are really great bonuses too. Heck, I’ve been wanting a huge Barad-Dûr set for so long that I’d buy it even if it came with no figures. But that Sauron is long overdue

The survey leak said it includes Sauron, Sam, Frodo, and some Orcs. I’m hoping more were added later in the process but I’m not holding my breath. I would definitely like to see those prologue figures the most. Bringing back the Eagle mold with the longer wings again for Gwaihir would be splendid. But at this point I’m just throwing around wishlist material. A lot depends on whether we’ll actually get other sets later on

I’ve made tons of purist and slightly custom LOTR minifigs, but official figures will always be 100% better. I would take an official Frodo and Sam in Orc disguise any day because it’s not just the same Orc design and we need the helmets badly

I still don’t think it’ll happen. But ideally I picture three battle packs. An Orc pack, a Númenorean pack, and a Noldorin Elven Warrior pack. The only problem is that we still wouldn’t have the main heroes from the scene. I’ve always thought they should turn a Barad-Dûr set into a Last Alliance set and then have battle packs with it. So instead of Sauron, some Orcs, Frodo and Sam it would include Sauron, Gil-Galad, Elrond, Elendil, Isildur, and some Orcs. And then the battle packs to broaden it out. Heck, be generous, throw Frodo and Sam in there too. Licensed D2Cs have included characters from multiple points in the story’s timeline before

It would be such a smart move for lego to release Last Alliance battle packs alongside the Barad-Dûr set.

I’m not too bothered by the underside of the T-6. I would probably display it from the one side anyway. The figs are great. My one complaint is how small it seems compared to the previous one. I think that’s a bigger issue than the underside. Everything seems so scaled down nowadays. You get so much less for the price. I tend to side more with Jang’s approach to value. How much mass are you getting for the price rather than going by piece count

I actually really don’t mind all the studs on the ISD. I mean, it is lego. I kinda want it to look like lego

Honestly I’ve never had an issue with any of my UCS sets falling apart. That said, I’m really anal about how carefully I move them so maybe I’ve just been careful enough and gotten lucky nothing happened. I get so scared moving the Falcon, AT-AT, and Star Destroyer. I hope the Venator is stable

I’m just gonna say it again, I LOVED Dex as a kid, and always wanted a Dexter’s Diner set. That being said, I understand that kids now aren’t growing up with those movies. But I don’t believe that means kids wouldn’t find it desirable. Just my own experience. As to sequel sets, I agree that they should make sets they never made from the sequels, but I don’t want more remakes of ST or OT until we’ve had more PT sets we never got

When I was a kid, I wanted a lego Dexter’s Diner really badly. Still do. It was actually a dream set for me when I was younger Honestly I really have trouble believing some people actually want sequel remakes more than prequel sets we’ve never gotten

I think it’s ridiculous to say that lego is sabotaging the prequels lol, but no one can deny the OT is pretty well covered while the Prequels have so much material that has never been touched

I’m not saying they would call it a battle pack. Just $20 sets with those characters. Personally, I would gladly sacrifice a year of actual battle packs for those characters in cheap sets like that

I mean, would anyone actually complain if they released a $20 set with Phase 1 Fives, Echo, Jesse, and Rex? Or one with Phase 2 Hardcase, Tup, Kix, and Appo? Nahhhhhh. But we know it would actually just be some random blue clones that have nothing to do with anything, but still specific enough that it doesn’t make sense to mass them

Can’t wait to get an MTT, an ARC-170, a STAAP, a Separatist Landing Craft, and a Crab Droid in this $30 set. Lego is very generous this year

Gosh I would kill for a new FULL SCALE ARC-170 with new P2 pilots and freaking Oddball

Oh I definitely agree! I don’t want them in battle packs. I just want them in general