Lord of the Rings Ongoing Discussion

[BrickBob Studpants]

Huh, I wasn‘t even aware of the issue with brown pieces until now!  Luckily, I was already in my 20s when the sets got released so they‘re all in good condition  Still gotta inspect them tho!

The only issue I had with brittle plastic was with the Z-95 Headhunter, also from 2013. I dropped that a couple of years ago and some of the dark red pieces shattered as a result. Hope that‘s a thing of the past!

Edited January 5 by BrickBob Studpants

[MAB]

1 hour ago, Khargeust said:

So true, big display sets are delightful to see but play sets are the best ! Come on LEGO, you can do it ! 

They have done play features in adult sets, the fairground collection especially Haunted House is probably the best example. But that sort of fits with the theme. For LOTR I imagine they will continue to do display sets with hidden Easter Eggs if you move something rather than proper play features.

[Black Falcon]

46 minutes ago, MAB said:

They have done play features in adult sets, the fairground collection especially Haunted House is probably the best example. But that sort of fits with the theme. For LOTR I imagine they will continue to do display sets with hidden Easter Eggs if you move something rather than proper play features.

It isn´t that uncommon for them to also include play features in adult oriented sets though, The Lion Knights Castle has quite some of those. 

But I do actually think that he was more referring to getting actual smaller Sets again. 

[kosnevmisha]

Now we can wait for a LOTR war of the Ruhirrim set

[zoth33]

1 hour ago, kosnevmisha said:

Now we can wait for a LOTR war of the Ruhirrim set

Never going to happen.  

[THELEGOBATMAN]

5 hours ago, kosnevmisha said:

Now we can wait for a LOTR war of the Ruhirrim set

Uh-huh, you can wait all the time you want to... 

[Gorilla94]

On 12/30/2024 at 4:09 PM, Jaromir said:

I wouldn't be so sure. We had a Bag End set from Hobbit before with 4 dwarves and a price tag less than 90 USD. In this case price is much higher, so we might end up with lots of minifigures and smaller piece count for such a set.

The issue isn't the price, but the licence (the other sets are lotr) as well as the question, if it would be popular. They have enough to fill the set. Old Bilbo, Gandalf, Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Rose, the old guy with a broom, who laughs and then gets an angry look by his wife, his wife..., a few of the party guests... especially Bilbos relatives... if they include a little party tent, they can put as many characters in it as they want. Also the Option of the experienced adventurers coming back in Gondor and Rohan armour....

[MAB]

14 hours ago, Gorilla94 said:

The issue isn't the price, but the licence (the other sets are lotr) as well as the question, if it would be popular. They have enough to fill the set. Old Bilbo, Gandalf, Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin, Rose, the old guy with a broom, who laughs and then gets an angry look by his wife, his wife..., a few of the party guests... especially Bilbos relatives... if they include a little party tent, they can put as many characters in it as they want. Also the Option of the experienced adventurers coming back in Gondor and Rohan armour....

There is also the issue of time. Previous Hobbit sets were plasets aimed a kids issued when there was typically one minifigure for every approx 80 parts in mid range sets. That ratio still is about right for smaller playsets although for mid range I think it is more like one figure per 120 parts. But for adult display sets with minifigures, the focus seems to be more on the build than minifigures and the ratio jumps to about 1 in 200 or 250. I cannot see them putting lots of minifigures into a mid range set (which is equivalent to a top end set of a decade ago), especially where new single-use parts are necessary.

[TheDoctor]

I never understood why they gave Sauron grey hands.

Finally updated mine with the Dark Pearl Grey hands.
Updated the mace and cape too (I understand the use of the single hole cape because any other cape would get squished beneath the helmet.)

The cape does make him look larger and more intimidating.
Was hoping that the 1x1 plate had been made in Dark pearl Grey to add to his feet and give him some height, but that will have to wait.



Still waiting for a recolour of this D&D mace piece for Sauron to use.

Edited January 9 by TheDoctor
Mace image

[Altair1]

I maybe overly cautious, but personally I will not take the risk of damaging my precious Sauron minifig just because the color of its hands is not perfect... Once you take off the hands of a minifig they often become loose forever and tend to turn or even fall when holding things (especially a large mace like Sauron's).

Edited January 10 by Altair1

[THELEGOBATMAN]

8 hours ago, Altair1 said:

I maybe overly cautious, but personally I will not take the risk of damaging my precious Sauron minifig just because the color of its hands is not perfect... Once you take off the hands of a minifig they often become loose forever and tend to turn or even fall when holding things (especially a large mace like Sauron's).

Never happened to me, especially on the newer minifigures. Hands are safe to take out.

[TheDoctor]

2 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Never happened to me, especially on the newer minifigures. Hands are safe to take out.

10 hours ago, Altair1 said:

I maybe overly cautious, but personally I will not take the risk of damaging my precious Sauron minifig just because the color of its hands is not perfect... Once you take off the hands of a minifig they often become loose forever and tend to turn or even fall when holding things (especially a large mace like Sauron's).

Yeah, I can't see any problem, if anything the wrist joint is stiffer than before!

I don't mind, I don't plan on selling it, and it's only going to be posed once and left in that position.

Edited January 10 by TheDoctor

[kuzyabricks]

9 minutes ago, TheDoctor said:

Yeah, I can't see any problem, if anything the wrist joint is stiffer than before!

I don't mind, I don't plan on selling it, and it's only going to be posed once and left in that position.

Looks great, people forget at the end of the day this is still a toy! We should be able to customize it to our liking as much as we want! Where is that specific cape from?

[TheDoctor]

1 minute ago, kuzyabricks said:

Looks great, people forget at the end of the day this is still a toy! We should be able to customize it to our liking as much as we want! Where is that specific cape from?

Thanks, it's been in loads of sets.
Part 86038

I tried a plain black cape, but it didn't look right.
His cape is actually pretty tatty and worn in the film and other merchandise.

[kuzyabricks]

1 minute ago, TheDoctor said:

Thanks, it's been in loads of sets.
Part 86038

I tried a plain black cape, but it didn't look right.
His cape is actually pretty tatty and worn in the film and other merchandise.

For some reason I thought it was grey at first and got confused, thank you! My Nazgul custom wears that cape, might have to offer it to Sauron instead)))

[TheDoctor]

So I guess based on previous teasers...

Rivendell teaser 7th Feb / Release 5th March
Barad Dur teaser 11th May / Release 1st June

We can expect the first Bag End teaser sometime in the first week of March.

Not long to go!!!

[kuzyabricks]

6 hours ago, TheDoctor said:

So I guess based on previous teasers...

Rivendell teaser 7th Feb / Release 5th March
Barad Dur teaser 11th May / Release 1st June

We can expect the first Bag End teaser sometime in the first week of March.

Not long to go!!!

Time flies! Can't believe Lord of the Rings has been "back" for two years now! Hoping for many more)))

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Wonder what will happen when the new movies start releasing, including the Gollum one. Probably might be enough to warrant more than just a single D2C set that year.

[zoth33]

2 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Wonder what will happen when the new movies start releasing, including the Gollum one. Probably might be enough to warrant more than just a single D2C set that year.

What other movies are you talking about I think we just know about the 2 Gollum movies.  

[kuzyabricks]

1 hour ago, zoth33 said:

What other movies are you talking about I think we just know about the 2 Gollum movies.  

Peter Jackson announced hunt for Gollum is going to be 3 movies. Each one is going to have three parts and extended editions of each one. So we're looking at 9 films at 3 and half hours each. Should be plenty of sets)))

[zoth33]

13 minutes ago, kuzyabricks said:

Peter Jackson announced hunt for Gollum is going to be 3 movies. Each one is going to have three parts and extended editions of each one. So we're looking at 9 films at 3 and half hours each. Should be plenty of sets)))

They can't be doing 9 films for gollum.  Where are you getting this info from?

[RichardGoring]

14 minutes ago, kuzyabricks said:

Peter Jackson announced hunt for Gollum is going to be 3 movies. Each one is going to have three parts and extended editions of each one. So we're looking at 9 films at 3 and half hours each. Should be plenty of sets)))

Really? I hope that's not a mistake. It was a great idea to turn three LOTR books into three movies. They had lots of content. It was an awful idea to turn a short single book into three movies, because there wasn't sufficient content and (to me) it felt like they had to expand things too much and add in a lot that didn't really contribute a lot to the main story or the overall experience.

That in turn caused it not to be nearly as popular. And so LEGO got burned by poor merchandising sales. And we lost LEGO LOTR for a decade.

I hope history doesn't repeat!

Edit: I read this as three movies, which sounds like a bad idea. Nine suggests you are joking? Clearly it's too late for me. Please say you're joking!

[zoth33]

Just now, RichardGoring said:

Really? I hope that's not a mistake. It was a great idea to turn three LOTR books into three movies. They had lots of content. It was an awful idea to turn a short single book into three movies, because there wasn't sufficient content and (to me) it felt like they had to expand things too much and add in a lot that didn't really contribute a lot to the main story or the overall experience.

That in turn caused it not to be nearly as popular. And so LEGO got burned by poor merchandising sales. And we lost LEGO LOTR for a decade.

I hope history doesn't repeat!

Yeah there is no way they are doing 9 films for Gollum that's just insane no one wants that.  I've heard two films for the hunt for gollum and nothing else confirmed after that.  

[THELEGOBATMAN]

LMAO no, obviously the nine movies part was a joke.

Right now we know only that they are doing The Hunt for Gollum, a single movie, and then they are also preparing another, separate movie too. Two movies in total, unconnected to each other.

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1847280177589465438

[zoth33]

3 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

LMAO no, obviously the nine movies part was a joke.

Right now we know only that they are doing The Hunt for Gollum, a single movie, and then they are also preparing another, separate movie too. Two movies in total, unconnected to each other.

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1847280177589465438

Ok I thought I was missing something.  I hope he was joking because that would be crazy.  Thanks for the clarification.  I really hope the hunt for gollum is good.  Good movies seem to be hard to find nowadays.   

Edited January 17 by zoth33