Lord of the Rings Ongoing Discussion

[hikouki]

I wonder if anyone has tried replacing those rock "stair case" with dark bluish gray and pearl dark gray?

[BJG2411]

On 7/7/2024 at 9:55 PM, LegoThomas85 said:

I think i'll give it a shot. I'm going to sit down and have a look at bl studio next week. 

Amazing - I am hopeful you will succeed as you’ll get my money straight away for a parts list and instructions list!

[BrickBob Studpants]

Take this with a huuuuuuuuge grain of salt as it could mean many things, but @TandNbricks said he was „ready for another adventure“, showing the ME map sticker

[Agent Kallus]

Adventure is an interesting word,

“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”

“Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea – any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!”

“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them.”

 “This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils – that has been more than any Baggins deserves.”

'This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.'

 “I’m going on an adventure!”

Adventure is a word that makes me think of Baggins.

Team Bag end?

[NoOneOfImportance]

 

19 minutes ago, Agent Kallus said:

Adventure is an interesting word,

“Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on the story.”

“Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea – any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!”

“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them.”

 “This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils – that has been more than any Baggins deserves.”

'This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.'

 “I’m going on an adventure!”

Adventure is a word that makes me think of Baggins.

Team Bag end?

I'm very much hoping for a bag end set, perhaps even Hobbit themed? Would be a cheaper option depending how they did the set, and the adventure quote does align with Bilbo the most. 

Edited July 10 by NoOneOfImportance

[Lordhelmet]

Seeing the dungeons and dragons minifigure line really makes me wish they would do a LOTR one.  

[zoth33]

4 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

Seeing the dungeons and dragons minifigure line really makes me wish they would do a LOTR one.  

Maybe one it would be nice.  I hope they do more DnD series also.  

[GarmadonFan]

On 7/10/2024 at 8:16 AM, BrickBob Studpants said:

Take this with a huuuuuuuuge grain of salt as it could mean many things, but @TandNbricks said he was „ready for another adventure“, showing the ME map sticker 

What if it was like the World Map set and literally a map of Middle-earth? I don't think I would particularly enjoy that as a set (my preference would be a highly detailed Bag End with the full compliment of Dwarves) but it would still end up on my wall.  

[hikouki]

2 hours ago, GarmadonFan said:

What if it was like the World Map set and literally a map of Middle-earth? I don't think I would particularly enjoy that as a set (my preference would be a highly detailed Bag End with the full compliment of Dwarves) but it would still end up on my wall.  

I would take both!

[MAB]

13 hours ago, Lordhelmet said:

Seeing the dungeons and dragons minifigure line really makes me wish they would do a LOTR one.  

I doubt a LOTR CMF line would be as interesting as it might sound, at least for existing LOTR LEGO fans. CMF have to appeal to a lot of people, unlike the large 18+ sets, so almost certainly they would repeat the nine characters in the Fellowship. This is what they did with the Simpsons CMFs (repeating the main five each time, and having them in the Simpsons House) and the Harry Potter series (repeating Harry, Hermione, Ron). It woudln't be so bad if they gave them new outfits, but even if they did, it would probably be just slightly different prints like going from the 2012 sets to Rivendell. For anyone that already has the original figures or the newer figures, that would probably be not so inspiring. Then what do they do with the other three places (or 7 if they go for 16 in the series). That could make or break it for existing fans.

A CMF series would be a nice way to introduce a lot of characters not seen in the boxed sets and I am sure a lot of existing LOTR LEGO fans would like this, but given there are no small sets then the number of people wanting incidental characters if they don't already have the main characters is going to be relatively small compared to those for other licenses where the CMF can be used by themselves or to add to widely available sets.

[unclejeffie]

That dragonborn paladin from d&d series just screams gondor to me.

as soon as the scancode comes out i’m hitting the stores ( the one and only that sells them in my area)

[MAB]

6 hours ago, unclejeffie said:

That dragonborn paladin from d&d series just screams gondor to me.

as soon as the scancode comes out i’m hitting the stores ( the one and only that sells them in my area)

Due to the armour? I bought loads of the Heroic Knight CMF for the same thing. 

[CloneCommando99]

A new ROP S2 trailer just dropped. It looks better than the first season. Elrond’s armour looks fire.

Hopefully it actually is better than S1. I quite liked it, especially the music, Arondir and costume design, but it did have a lot of flaws.

[zoth33]

8 minutes ago, CloneCommando99 said:

A new ROP S2 trailer just dropped. It looks better than the first season. Elrond’s armour looks fire.

Hopefully it actually is better than S1. I quite liked it, especially the music, Arondir and costume design, but it did have a lot of flaws.

I will have to check it out.  Season 1 was terrible to me bad acting, script was not coherent, story broke lore several times,  lots of issues with season 1.  I don't have a good vibe from what I've heard about season 2.  

I did like seeing the Dwarves city in season 1 and some of the visuals were good but the sets looked bad and a lot of the armor and costumes looked cheap and not on the level of GOT or HOTD.  

[mirkwoodspiders]

If there's another big set coming out, when do you estimate we'd hear about it?

[Blazej_Holen]

5 hours ago, mirkwoodspiders said:

If there's another big set coming out, when do you estimate we'd hear about it?

I guess that first rumours will be around at the end of the year… Depends on how TLG manage to guard their secrets from leakers. LAN members will know around Septwmber/October (same as last two times). Possibly we would get more details during January/February 2025 ;)

[hikouki]

7 hours ago, mirkwoodspiders said:

If there's another big set coming out, when do you estimate we'd hear about it?

 

2 hours ago, Blazej_Holen said:

I guess that first rumours will be around at the end of the year… Depends on how TLG manage to guard their secrets from leakers. LAN members will know around Septwmber/October (same as last two times). Possibly we would get more details during January/February 2025 ;)

Is Lego now committed in releasing a big set one year after another? I would not mind though.

[mirkwoodspiders]

30 minutes ago, hikouki said:

Is Lego now committed in releasing a big set one year after another? I would not mind though.

Not necessarily. There's a slight pattern with two now, but definitely not enough to guarantee another. I was just wondering if there were another one coming, when people's guess is that we'd start hearing about it. Rivendell and Barad-Dur were released about 15 months apart. If they were to release another one based on this gap, I suppose it'd be around fall of 2025, but I'm not sure when news might leak. If I'm being honest, I'm just craving another set and want to talk about what might be on the horizon lol.

Edited August 2 by mirkwoodspiders

[hikouki]

15 minutes ago, mirkwoodspiders said:

Not necessarily. There's a slight pattern with two now, but definitely not enough to guarantee another. I was just wondering if there were another one coming, when people's guess is that we'd start hearing about it. Rivendell and Barad-Dur were released about 15 months apart. If they were to release another one based on this gap, I suppose it'd be around fall of 2025, but I'm not sure when news might leak. If I'm being honest, I'm just craving another set and want to talk about what might be on the horizon lol.

I really have this feeling that Lego has been "winging it" all this time. I think Rivendell was "testing the waters" and Barad-dur was "riding the wave", so to speak! LOL

I feel like they might wait before releasing another set, although, as I have said, I do not mind at all if they release one early next year.

[Roebuck]

They probably have one set more or less finished now, if they release it depends on sales etc on the ones already on the marked..
I assume they will show it of during the RLFM days in September if it comes out 1HY next year..

[PsychoBuilder]

Exabricks has confirmed that more is coming, so we know it’s at least soon enough for leakers to know that something is coming. The question now is simply what that something is.

[Black Falcon]

4 hours ago, mirkwoodspiders said:

Not necessarily. There's a slight pattern with two now, but definitely not enough to guarantee another. I was just wondering if there were another one coming, when people's guess is that we'd start hearing about it. Rivendell and Barad-Dur were released about 15 months apart. If they were to release another one based on this gap, I suppose it'd be around fall of 2025, but I'm not sure when news might leak. If I'm being honest, I'm just craving another set and want to talk about what might be on the horizon lol.

I wouldn´t put to much thought on the time gap between the other two Sets. If they choose to make another one, and at this point I would take it at almost granted they will do so, they will just put it up for next year, with the month decided by many factors. Same as waves of themes don´t have fixed release dates, and change from year to year. That beeing said, they could aswell go back to releasing it sooner again.

[Blazej_Holen]

On 8/2/2024 at 8:13 AM, Brickroll said:

Exabricks has confirmed that more is coming, so we know it’s at least soon enough for leakers to know that something is coming. The question now is simply what that something is.

I Guess Minas Tirith. Since they mentioned tht playscale sets are more fun (see the interview with Rivendell designers), I think TLG go big, probably full slice of Minas Tirith with 800+ USD price point. I think the set will be more focused on overall shape like Barad Dur, since its extremely large. So detailed gate, courtyard and tower with theone room accesible and playable with minifigs and the rest will be scaled down significantly. My guess is 7-8000 pcs. + 20 or so minifigs. Some orcs (perhaps 4-6), Witch King, Theoden, Eowyn, Pipin, Merry, Gandalf, Faramir, Denethor, 2-4 Gondorian soldiers, 1-2 Rangers, maybe 1-2 Rohan soldiers or Army of the Dead soldiers, and possibly Fell Beast + couple of horses.

Bag End and Helms Deep was already done decade ago. And from what we know, they would go with the path of other unreleased never before seen sets… Edoras is not as iconic as Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul or other Mordor sets doesnt make sense, with Barad Dur released this year. So big conflict scene is inevitable :)

On 8/2/2024 at 3:57 AM, hikouki said:

 

Is Lego now committed in releasing a big set one year after another? I would not mind though.

Not sure. I think they arent committed to anything in this regard. But you know… meat is back on the menu 😀

[Roebuck]

10 hours ago, Blazej_Holen said:

+ couple of horses

For a 800+ set?! Nah they can probably only afford to include 1

[hikouki]

10 hours ago, Blazej_Holen said:

I Guess Minas Tirith. Since they mentioned tht playscale sets are more fun (see the interview with Rivendell designers), I think TLG go big, probably full slice of Minas Tirith with 800+ USD price point. I think the set will be more focused on overall shape like Barad Dur, since its extremely large. So detailed gate, courtyard and tower with theone room accesible and playable with minifigs and the rest will be scaled down significantly. My guess is 7-8000 pcs. + 20 or so minifigs. Some orcs (perhaps 4-6), Witch King, Theoden, Eowyn, Pipin, Merry, Gandalf, Faramir, Denethor, 2-4 Gondorian soldiers, 1-2 Rangers, maybe 1-2 Rohan soldiers or Army of the Dead soldiers, and possibly Fell Beast + couple of horses.

Bag End and Helms Deep was already done decade ago. And from what we know, they would go with the path of other unreleased never before seen sets… Edoras is not as iconic as Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul or other Mordor sets doesnt make sense, with Barad Dur released this year. So big conflict scene is inevitable :)

Not sure. I think they arent committed to anything in this regard. But you know… meat is back on the menu 😀

They could always do Bag End and Helms Deep in a much grander scale and with better features, just like what Lego is doing with the Star Wars theme. But I am with you, that newer locations are more likely like Minas Tirith, etc.