Latest impact of other themes on historic themes

[Exetrius]

Saw a Sauron fig on reddit, using Reinhart's helmet. It's beautiful:

Link to post: https://redd.it/ac8ut0

[Blakstone]

Good catch on Reinhart's helmet.

I am surprised that the new Lincoln top hat was not mentioned for the steam punk addition of the googles.

[Shroffy123]

Just picked up the set for same purpose of making a sauron fig 

Edited January 4, 2019 by Shroffy123
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[Artanis I]

Wow, Overwatch provides Sauron at last

[x105Black]

18 hours ago, Exetrius said:

Saw a Sauron fig on reddit, using Reinhart's helmet. It's beautiful:

It is indeed.  Nice to see it all put together.

[Lyichir]

That shoulder armor does complement the helmet nicely, and makes it look a little more medieval/a little less sci-fi.

[zoth33]

That's nice I picked up that set too.  The helm is great, I'm not sure what torso I'm going to use yet.  The Sakaraan torso does look good.  It will be interesting to see what people come up with.  

[Roadmonkeytj]

On 12/19/2015 at 5:11 PM, kabel said:

The sad but true thing is that someone like me who really despises the Friends mini dolls and all the purple and pink bricks and plates has started to buy into Elves and Friends just for cool parts. 41098 for instance has a piece I've imagined for quite a while already. So who wants my mini dolls?

I find the rubber hair of friends dolls work well on standard minifigs...  I too buy them for the cool parts...  Although I'm getting a bin full of pinks and purples....  Eventually I will have to find a use...  On a separate note a fellow lug member recommended using an filler sports and under elevation suports where it won't be seen. 

[Lyichir]

Having just gotten a Lego Movie 2 set with the new Lucy design, I think historic builders will really like her scarf/hood piece. It's one of the first neck/shoulder accessories I can think of that's designed to work in conjunction with the classic quiver piece. It also doesn't cover the face (just the "neck" on the minifigure head), meaning it should work well with a wide variety of hair pieces.

[MAB]

For anyone else wondering ...

[Exetrius]

So, do you guys think LEGO has introduced enough new parts in recent years for Fantasy Era II ? 

 

Let's see: we've got stuff for building actual castles and towers, a few items to add interior and exterior detail, some fantasy creatures stuff, gear and hair to make goblins, elves and forestmen, and some stuff to make wizards. How about the 2x2 crate in brown, or the 3x3 dome in pearl gold or tan, for a more Arabic theme? And reddish brown elfish hairpieces with yellow ears, or a red dragon! Wishlisting in it's purest form, but it's food for the thought. 

 

 

[x105Black]

I'd love to see them use everything you pictured and more (minus the creature heads, I prefer molded creatures).

[zoth33]

I think the possibilities are endless with what they've come out with recently.  I'm just hoping lego sees all these fantasy adventure movies coming out and the LOTR show coming and see the obvious passion people have for this kind of material.  I hope they are working on something now that will be exciting and possibly have a show to tie into a line of sets.  

[Agent Kallus]

Don't forget these ones. 

 

 

And most importantly.

 

These are all newish parts that i'd love to see recoloured and/or reused in any potential fantasy era 2.

 

Edit: fair enough, I just though it'd take up a lot of space.

 

Edited January 13, 2019 by Agent Kallus

[Exetrius]

@Agent Kallus wonderful! Get that list out of the spoiler tag, it deserves to be seen!

[x105Black]

Great list!

[Aanchir]

On 1/12/2019 at 4:27 AM, x105Black said:

I'd love to see them use everything you pictured and more (minus the creature heads, I prefer molded creatures).

I mean, since the creature heads in question are themselves molded, there's no reason LEGO couldn't use them with molded creature bodies. The new Ninjago Golden Dragon head even has a similar style of jaw hinge as the LEGO Castle dragons, which is a first for Ninjago.

With some of the licensed parts, I do have worries that they might be IP-locked, which would prevent LEGO from using them in in-house themes like Castle. But I guess there's no way of knowing for sure until we see whether or not they show up in other themes.

[LordBevis]

Is there a secret part list with part numbers out there somewhere?

[Agent Kallus]

 

9 minutes ago, LordBevis said:

Is there a secret part list with part numbers out there somewhere?

It's not secret but Brickset has one of those as do bricklink and some other sites.

[MAB]

The list is also on LEGO's website, though the replacement parts page for individual sets. In fact, that is where brickset gets the lists from.

[Exetrius]

The upcoming 75258: Anakin's Podracer includes the sorcerer lightning in trans pink. There aren't too many 'magic' elements in that colour, so that is nice.

By the way, I've staring at the 75243: Slave I , trying to figure out what colour the 1x2 jumper and the two cheese slopes are (under the earth green 'fenders'). I immediately thought they are copper metallic, in my eyes they appear a little pearly; ever so slightly less opaque, similar to pearl gold or silver metallic. Or is it just dark orange, with a bit of photography or post-production colour variation? 
It would be really cool to have copper metallic bricks to build shrines etc with, that's why I'm bring it up here. 

[Agent Kallus]

Looks dark orange to me. but I'd love more copper metallic to get some proper usage.

[Lyichir]

3 hours ago, Exetrius said:

The upcoming 75258: Anakin's Podracer includes the sorcerer lightning in trans pink. There aren't too many 'magic' elements in that colour, so that is nice.

By the way, I've staring at the 75243: Slave I , trying to figure out what colour the 1x2 jumper and the two cheese slopes are (under the earth green 'fenders'). I immediately thought they are copper metallic, in my eyes they appear a little pearly; ever so slightly less opaque, similar to pearl gold or silver metallic. Or is it just dark orange, with a bit of photography or post-production colour variation? 
It would be really cool to have copper metallic bricks to build shrines etc with, that's why I'm bring it up here. 

Looked copper metallic to me too. Great if so to finally get some non-accessory pieces in that color.

We haven't seen any of the physical Lego Movie 2 summer sets yet besides the very sci-fi Rexcelsior, but if teen vampire DJ Balthazar shows up in one of them (which I'd consider likely), his Trans. Blue with Glitter hairpiece could be good either for a fantasy fig or even as just a sparkly crystal. That goes double if the other two spa vampires show up, since they have at least one (maybe two) other similar hairpieces in Trans. Purple with glitter.

[AmperZand]

@Exetrius

I had the same idea of using Reinhardt's helmet for Sauron, but my execution is a bit different:

 

[Exetrius]

2 hours ago, AmperZand said:

@Exetrius

I had the same idea of using Reinhardt's helmet for Sauron, but my execution is a bit different:

-snip- 

I'm not sure why you bring this up now, in this thread, since your version relies partly on 3rd party elements, while the one shared before was 100% official LEGO already. It's not that there's anything wrong with that, but this is kind of the thread for celebrating the continuing expansion of LEGO's own parts inventory for castle/fantasy purposes, and the possibilities emerging from that.