Here is my entry for MEC Category A: Durin's Bane. Recreate Gandalf's glorious battle with an ancient Balrog!

The part count is around 300 and consists of a mighty Balrog and Gandalf. My plan for Durin's Bane is that a balrog is big enough to be a set without any fluff and could be packaged like a Hero Factory or Bionicle set. The bridge of Khazad-dûm would be great but huge and spendy and could still be a separate set with generous helping of Moria orcs.

Play features are super important and Durin's Bane is fully articulated, can stand easily without tail support (but the tail helps a lot), has a light brick for an inner fire effect, has a platform for Gandalf to stand on to reenact the falling scene and has a removable chest that Gandalf can break off with Glamdring to expose the weak point!

Things that would be improved by LEGO could be a break apart, light up sword (it shatters against Glamdring), possibly a different fire whip and various other parts such as wings and the fire mane.

Thanks for looking! Here's the flickr set -- https://www.flickr.c...157648682553027

Edited November 2, 201410 yr by Uspez

Awesome Balrog! It's going to be hard to choice the best in this category. Congrats!

I like it. I want all the Balrogs made for this contest.

Truely awesome, Uspez! I would totally buy this if it were real. Great job and good luck in the contest!

That's a really well made Balrog. Great job.

Really awesome balrog :)

Wow great design! The light brick in the chest is a cool feature

Great balrog, I would love to see this as a set. However if it were an actual set I feel like there would be some sort of small rock structure, probably with a launching feature to launch gandalf.

Really great job!

Awesome balrog.

Great balrog, I would love to see this as a set. However if it were an actual set I feel like there would be some sort of small rock structure, probably with a launching feature to launch gandalf.

A collapsing bridge, surely!

You did a great job with this Balrog, good luck for the Contest!

awesome!!!

Awesome!! I want instructions for Balrog. :))

Well, if you like to see this as a set, put it in Lego Ideas.

Good luck with the contest, looks great.

Thanks for the comments everybody!