Interesting, but I don't want to think about new sets anymore. It's so frustrating!

Everyone should sign the petition to save the Lord of the Rings / Hobbit Lego theme.

http://www.change.org/p/save-lego-the-lord-of-the-rings

Meanwhile, on the change.org homepage...

but yes by all means, SAVE LEGO LORD OF THE RINGS

Change.org is a great site. I have signed many petitions before the LEGO Lord of the Rings one and many after. I would encourage fans to sign this petition but to also check out the site in general to see what other causes speak to you.

In 365 days we will know for sure wether this theme will have another wave.

As far as my LotR/Hobbit fandom, that's probably going to go into a dark age (no new films, and no new sets). But my Lego fandom will continue as long as there is a company named Lego. With Age of Ultron, SW episode 7, the pirates theme, and a much better wave for Ninjago, 2015 will be a great year for me. But having LotR would make it even better.

  On 10/6/2014 at 9:12 PM, bachamn said:

Meanwhile, on the change.org homepage...

but yes by all means, SAVE LEGO LORD OF THE RINGS

would sacrifice small island nation for several series of middle-earth minifigs

  On 10/6/2014 at 10:31 PM, Galactic13 said:

In 365 days we will know for sure wether this theme will have another wave.

As far as my LotR/Hobbit fandom, that's probably going to go into a dark age (no new films, and no new sets). But my Lego fandom will continue as long as there is a company named Lego. With Age of Ultron, SW episode 7, the pirates theme, and a much better wave for Ninjago, 2015 will be a great year for me. But having LotR would make it even better.

You make a good point. I too will be buying lots of stuff in 2015 - ep VII and Ultron sets, mainly. Pirates images revealed that the first wave is literal dog-doo but I'm sure the Avengers and SW stuff will be more than enough. So I won't be plunging into a fresh Dark Age like some people here, but I can't say I'll be looking at lego with anywhere near the same enthusiasm.

can we now say, the LoTR Lego's has pass on and went to see its maker?

It's not dead... just resting. It is pining for the fjords.

What if Lego did a CMS for LotR? They did that with Simpsons and that looks like it's not coming back (AWESOME!!!!!!!) I wonder if they would or even could do something like that for LotR.

  On 10/5/2014 at 1:22 AM, Shroffy123 said:

Blame yourselves for complaining about set designs and not buying multiples to sustain continued waves

Blame ourselves for Lego's poor set designs? Uhh, no, that is on Lego and it's designers to make appealing sets. Its not on us to force ourselves to like sub par gray walls and boring scenes being made into sets.

As for buying multiples, I think most of us did. I know I bought 20+ Uruk-hai Army sets, 11 MEA, 6 Orc Forge, 4 Council of Elrond, and at least 2-3 of EVERY other set (even Orthanc). AFOLS alone can't support a theme though. We only make up 5-10% of sales. Lego needs good sales with kids as well. To get that they would of needed more marketing (cartoon or some tie in) and more appealing sets (Balrog owns Council of Elrond a hundred times over in kids eyes, I am sure).

  On 10/7/2014 at 11:25 PM, Deathleech said:

Blame ourselves for Lego's poor set designs? Uhh, no, that is on Lego and it's designers to make appealing sets. Its not on us to force ourselves to like sub par gray walls and boring scenes being made into sets.

As for buying multiples, I think most of us did. I know I bought 20+ Uruk-hai Army sets, 11 MEA, 6 Orc Forge, 4 Council of Elrond, and at least 2-3 of EVERY other set (even Orthanc). AFOLS alone can't support a theme though. We only make up 5-10% of sales. Lego needs good sales with kids as well. To get that they would of needed more marketing (cartoon or some tie in) and more appealing sets (Balrog owns Council of Elrond a hundred times over in kids eyes, I am sure).

Exactly. It's been said to death in this thread, but after 2012, Lego's designers decided to get high and design sets like they were making a jackson pollack painting with their own fecal expulsions. Since it's lego, the stuff they put out was still passable and well-made to a certain degree, but as far as choice of minifigures, scenes, and general ideology, it was one of the biggest missed opportunities in their history. 3 consecutive waves fraught with failure on multiple fronts - a ship instead of Gondor, an EE character instead of the WK, an Elf armybuilder with crappy Elves, a BoFA wave with no soldiers at all, a poorly executed Erebor... the list goes on and on. All we can do is lament the fall of Middle-earth lego, pray for a final set, and get ready to shell out for custom armors from the 3rd parties.

  On 10/7/2014 at 10:50 PM, Galactic13 said:

What if Lego did a CMS for LotR? They did that with Simpsons and that looks like it's not coming back (AWESOME!!!!!!!) I wonder if they would or even could do something like that for LotR.

Simpsons Series 2 CMF is coming ...

  On 10/7/2014 at 10:22 PM, Blakstone said:

It's not dead... just resting. It is pining for the fjords.

Haha!

Look, matey, I know a dead parrot (Lego LOTR line) when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

;-)

LEGO Lord of the Rings has been a fun time for me. While I will miss not having new sets to look forward to, I will relish all the ones I do have.

It brought me out of my Dark Ages, but there will be no new Dark Age coming. There are all the modular sets I love, CMF, Castle or Pirates when they have them, and a few Superhero sets too. Still without LEGO Lord of the Rings, my LEGO purchases may drop slightly. I don't feel the need to buy multiples of any of those others (excepting CMF).

  On 10/7/2014 at 10:22 PM, Blakstone said:

It's not dead... just resting. It is pining for the fjords.

PINING FOR THE FJORDS! ITS STONE DEAD!

  On 10/8/2014 at 10:16 AM, MAB said:

Simpsons Series 2 CMF is coming ...

I know. Gah. Another waste of a CMF. It's monstrous.

  On 10/8/2014 at 12:05 PM, AFOLguy1970 said:

Haha!

Indeed ,spot on analogy for this discussion :)

  On 10/8/2014 at 3:23 PM, Darth Caedus said:

I know. Gah. Another waste of a CMF. It's monstrous.

Meh, to each his own. The Simpsosn CMFs are the only ones I collect other than the Tolkien-themed CMFs.

So why can't TLG make a LotR Cmf line, I keep hearing this arguments that their Action Figures ,but what classifies something as an Action Figure and if TLG can't than how come Minimates were able to ?

Minimates probably bought the action figure license. Lego bought the construction/building toy license for LotR and the Hobbit. There are multiple licenses you can get.. games, action figures, construction toys, etc. Lego almost never gets the action figure license because they are a building block company at heart. That is why you never see SW sets with just minifigures. They have to have at least SOME bricks or building component. Lego tried to release the magnets or whatever it was awhile back and got in trouble for it so that's why they started gluing them to bases.

Balrog = brick build

Treebeard = brick build

Osgiliath Ruins = brick build

Minas Tirith = brick build

mini figures = icing on the cake

PS ... Lets not forget how Art Asylum SHOWED ALL wave 3 COMPLETED/PACKAGED and it never got released. This was also around the time Gentle Giant was 6 Animated Maquettes in, confirming there were more and those never got released. And last but not least, Toybiz released the figure lists for Epic Trilogy waves 3 & 4, they were SPECTACULAR lists... and those never came out. BUT, at least ToyBiz hit ALL the main, B, C & even D characters. Those last 2 waves were just pipe dream stuff, so I wasn't upset at all when they didn't come out.

You guys CAN'T take the Brotherhood Workshop Facebook comments as official lore here. Until LEGO makes a statement, we are in the same boat we have been in all year. Guys internally are STILL saying that LotR is HUGE within Lego and none of them think its done or will say the line is done. So until that happens, all this "well it was good while it lasted" talk is moot...

I don't put much weight in the Brotherhood Workshop post. I made my decision based partly on no ad in Hobbit wave 3 sets, partly because Hobbit wave 2 sets said the adventure concludes in 2014, partly because D2C sets are generally the capstone on a line, partly because we haven't had a new LotR set since June 2013, but mostly because the 2015 retailers' catalogs says there will be no sets next year either.

I guess there could sets listed for Jan 2016

but released in Dec 2015, but I find that really unlikely.

Edited October 9, 201410 yr by Blakstone

  On 10/9/2014 at 1:42 AM, Blakstone said:

I don't put much weight in the Brotherhood Workshop post. I made my decision based partly on no ad in Hobbit wave 3 sets, partly because Hobbit wave 2 sets said the adventure concludes in 2014, partly because D2C sets are generally the capstone on a line, partly because we haven't had a new LotR set since June 2013, but mostly because the 2015 retailers' catalogs says there will be no sets next year either.

I guess there could sets listed for Jan 2016

but released in Dec 2015, but I find that really unlikely.

I mean that's pretty much it...

I'm sure if there was Lord of the Rings in the retailers catalog, we'd know about it. But we know the opposite; it isn't there. Plus all that other stuff... On top of all that, Brotherhood Workshop's comments...

He's dead, Jim.

Now for the real reason I'm commenting. Can I put that Sauron mini mates head on a LEGO body? I think it would look spiffy on Shredder from the TMNT movie line.

  On 10/9/2014 at 1:55 AM, Borador said:

Can I put that Sauron mini mates head on a LEGO body?

No. It slips over a standard size minimate head. It's literally a helmet, haha.

  On 10/9/2014 at 1:26 AM, atreyu2112 said:

Guys internally are STILL saying that LotR is HUGE within Lego and none of them think its done or will say the line is done. So until that happens, all this "well it was good while it lasted" talk is moot...

Really? I mean this sounds great but I can't see anything that supports this. All I can see is one really good wave and one "less than average" wave and not the smallest hint that we will get more. Why should they wait until 2015/16?

Because they don't want to take anything away from the Hobbit wave. They know that most hard core fans want LotR over the Hobbit and if they know that LotR will comeout the flowing year, they know that the fans will save their money for LotR and not buy as many Hobbit sets.