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42. CarsonBrick - 3 48. rodiziorobs - 2

16. LukeClarenceVan - Where's Solo? - 2 points 18. Pablo94 - The Statue of Darth Vader - 3 point

13. ACpin - Yoda's Legacy - 3 points 12. pedro - Escape from Na Shaddaa - 2 points Very good entries.

5. Freighter over Ice Planet Biodome - Lt. de Martinet – 3 points 6. Ice Planet Colony - Dark_Alamez - 2 point.

5. Duh-Nuh - madLEGOman - 3 Points 15. Chicken Moonbase - vecchiasignoraceppo - 2 points.

4. Kristel - 3 Points 30. Holodoc - 2 Points

#3. HundredHander - 3 points. #3 Etzel - 2 points. Great entries all around.

#11 Life on Gotham Street by whataboutlego 3 Points.

#9 by Captain Nemo, 3 points. Knocked my socks off.

My Christmas hope: the LEGO R2D2 that's out. That said, good pie and the company of tiny dog would be wonderful too!

Simply built but well executed and a pleasure to look at. The inside is a little empty though but you get props for using my favorite mustachioed minifigure.

While I'm happy with the LOTR license, I'm sad about the designs themselves and the sets that were chosen to be made. My first problem is that they are so terribly drab and boring. Castle has always had a problem with tending to have too much grey and not enough of another color added to them but LOTR is really exacerbating the problem. Helms Deep might as well just be generic grey wall set. The specific scenes that were chosen to be recreated aren't the best either. There are a ton of more colorful and exciting scenes, like Rivendell or Lothlorien that could have been chosen. Isengard would have been a great choice, or anything with ents.

Looks great. Good luck in your contest. Who is the fellow in purple supposed to be? Is he the ambassador?

Two Robie houses and you will have all the brick red you need : ) Either that or a great Pick A Brick experience. Good luck! I think you should definitely build this.