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Made another set of figures from The Rings of Power to celebrate the season 2 finale:

Late reaction but thanks! Sadly none of the pieces here are actually available. The hairpieces, crown, quiver, bow and cape are all existing pieces but these specific colors haven't been made (yet). The heads, torso's, arms and legs are all custom graphic designs I did myself.

Would be a neat piece usage but this figure is based on her season 2 look (picture below for the sake of not taking up unnecessary space) I also absolutely despise bright light yellow lol so I would never use it either way. Thank you!

Several reasons: - Jurassic World Rebirth is one of the most aggressively rushed Hollywood productions in recent history. It wouldn't be at all surprising if LEGO got concept art or other material to base sets on way too late to make a full wave. - Kids love Owen and Claire, which LEGO recognised and acknowledged by making made-up sets with them in the off-years between movies and even included them in the Camp Cretaceous sets. While the brand new cast of Rebirth would be more of a gamble these characters are pretty much guaranteed to catch kids' attention. - Despite not being that old Jurassic World is a beloved movie that still has a lot of untapped potential with the Mosasaurus, Apatosaurus, Dimorphodon and much requested remakes of the Raptor Squad. Not capitalizing on this anniversary would be a big mistake. Especially as the one factor that made sure the JP30 wave flopped doesn't apply here.

Aside from Gareth Edwards and the cast literally everything about this movie is a giant red flag to me so let's just hope that between the sets for this film and the 10th anniversary of Jurassic World (which I highly doubt will go ignored) LEGO will at least give us some decent sets to smile through the pain.

I don't really frequent this thread despite being a huge fan of Tolkien (Rivendell and Barad-dûr are amazing sets though and I'm so happy to own both of them) but I made a little something to celebrate the release of the 2nd season of The Rings of Power and thought why not share it in here as well. I figure LEGO will never pay TRoP any mind so here's a look at what Season 2 Annatar and Galadriel could look like in minifigure form. For those who care about details; yes I did want to use the Rivendell elf hairpiece for Annatar but none of the digital LEGO programs have added it at this time so 2012 hairpiece it is

"A dragon will only accept a dragonlord to ride it, or so say the histories." - Rhaenyra Targaryen Introducing my newest MOC: Rhaenyra Targaryen and her son Jacaerys Velaryon in the Dragonstone library, a cavernous hall filled with scrolls and documents dating back to the time of Old Valyria. I love the A Song of Ice and Fire universe and always wanted to create a little display based on it. When watching the current second season of House of the Dragon my attention was immediately grabbed by the exquisite set design of the library in the ancestral Targaryen castle of Dragonstone. The towering scroll-filled shelves with their diagonal diamond-shaped layout were a challenge but I'm very pleased with the result.

Hello there, Thank you for taking a look at this MOC. While many Marvel fans might tell you 2021's Eternals was a dud it's one of my personal favorite MCU movies. I've been obsessing over the designs of the Celestials ever since the movie came out and always thought LEGO did a fine job recreating the main Celestial 'Arishem the Judge' in set 76155 "In Arishem's Shadow" considering the constrictions they have to work with. Shortly after the movie released and I had collected sufficient reference material I set out to create a MOC of Arishem that's a bit bigger than the set and as close to screen-accurate as possible. Although this first attempt would be abandoned a few months later after hitting roadblock after roadblock I restarted the project again in late 2023 with newly required skills and techniques resulting in what you see below. Despite his elongated limb Arishem is remarkably sturdy and he has just enough posability to recreate most of his movements in the film. And a small extra: as the model was initially designed digitally I asked a good friend of mine if he could take a crack at recreating the final scene of the movie.

Fairly decent wave, though I am continuing to question how long they want to drag this theme out. I disliked just about everything about the 2021-2023 Hogwarts system so a new system closer to the 2018-2020 one could provide a breath of fresh air but I'm not sold on it yet. The boathouse looks pretty good for what it is but the Owlery looks very <insert that tiresome argument>, unappealing and inaccurate. We'll have to see what this new system brings to the table, jury is still out. Hagrid's Hut feels like a set from the golden days of this reboot (2018-2020), it's really great. I love the new Hagrid variant, Norbert(a) and Fang though I would've much preferred Fang to be dark brown. Price is a bit rough but nothing waiting a few months won't solve. LOVE the idea of portrait prints (Sir Cadogan and Phineas Nigellus Black please!!) but I'm a bit bummed out by their randomized nature. It made sense for the CFC but I don't see why these portraits couldn't just be included in specific sets, much like each Infinity War set in 2018 came with a specific Infinity Stone.

Gringotts looks pretty good and I'm impressed/surprised they actually managed to put it on a baseplate, though I can't help but also feel a little underwhelmed after 3 years of hype. The model makes a very striking first impression but as a hardcore fan the longer you look at it the more you start noticing a lot of small flaws that are just hard to ignore once you've seen them. It also feels weird to me to sacrifice screen-accuracy to include parts of the Universal park, the hybrid-Menagerie looks a bit wonky and the wall/lockerroom feels incredibly out of place. The underground section looks fairly good for what it is but I can't help but see it as a tacked on addition to a ~$250 Gringotts because they know the fans will buy it anyway. I personally would've much rather seen a separate underground set with the Ironbelly, which despite having some serious flaws still looks incredible. With Avengers Tower on the horizon and Rivendell still on my wanted list I'm not 100% sure if I'll pick it up yet but if I can I'm definitely getting it and going crazy modifying it

My Ideas project based on the amazing Netflix show 'The Dragon Prince' just went live! I would love your support so please go check it out! https://ideas.lego.com/projects/96f097ad-d691-45b3-9118-032207252495

Haven't been on the forum in a while, here are my thoughts on the new sets: Thestral Carriage I love the Thestrals, both of them look fantastic. The figures and build, while pretty good, don't do much for me. I want to get 2 sets of these Thestrals but I'm undecided on wether I'll just buy the set twice or wait for them to hit BL and buy the 4 of them separately. 7/10 Sirius' Escape This is without a doubt the worst Hogwarts section they've made since they rebooted the theme, the gaps in the walls and the exposed backs of the panels and arches look really bad. The figures are pretty bland and uninteresting to me, though I do like Sirius' new head. The white recolor for Buckbeak doesn't really work for him but that's totally fine with me as Hagrid had a whole herd of Hippogriffs in the books, I want to get 2 copies of this new Buckbeak to put alongside the 2019 version (which I'll keep using as Buckbeak). 2/10 Dumbledore's Office This is probably one of the better looking sections of the new Hogwarts system but I still dislike it, it doesn't look or feel like Hogwarts to me. The figures are a bit of a mixed bag, Pince looks amazing and Filch looks good but I don't like how they reused the underwhelming Moments Snape figure and I'm getting tired of Dumbledore variants. Ms Norris should've gotten a new mold but I think she looks decent enough, also have to say I absolutely adore the little baby Fawkes. I'll get Pince, Filch, Ms Norris and baby Fawkes from BL. 5/10 Ministry of Magic I still think the Ministry, the Atrium in particular, should've been saved for a $200-250 D2C but for what's presented here at the pricepoint I think the build is good. I don't really have much to say about the minifigures other than that this is an absolute treasuretrove and without a doubt the best Potter set we've ever gotten minifigure-wise! 9/10 Hungarian Horntail This set was never going to satisfy me as it's based on the terrible movie design but I guess it's a decent representation of that version. The Harry figure doesn't do much for me as it's just a slightly better version of the 2019 figure but I do love the new broom piece. 6/10 Shrieking Shack I'm very mixed on this set. The Shrieking Shack itself looks absolutely amazing but the Whomping Willow feels ridiculously tacked on and wasn't at all necessary. I get why they wanted to include the WW but it feels useless considering this new version is only slightly better than the 2018 version, which was already subpar. The minifigures are also a mixed bag, I love the new (human) Lupin and Padfoot but the rest of them either don't do anything for me or just feel like huge downgrades on past figures. They also dropped the ball on Werewolf Lupin. I want to get the set eventually for the Shack, (human) Lupin and Padfoot but definitely won't do so until the set is on sale. 7/10 12 Grimmauld Place Definitely one of the best looking builds we've gotten in this theme and I love that this set comes with 3 of the figures I wanted to get most (OotP Sirius, OotP Tonks and Kreacher). Some of the figures are a bit bland though and I feel like the interior might be a little too colorful, that's easy to change though! 9/10 Hogwarts Express Don't really have much to say about this set. I never cared for trains and while I do want to add the HE to my collection someday a $470 version is an easy skip, this should've been $250 at best. It's also safe to say a huge chunk of the budget will be taken up by the inclusion of motorisation, which is really annoying as it's really expensive and plenty of people don't care for it. Overall this year definitely feels like a much needed improvement on last year, which was just depressing really, but the Hogwarts sets are still crap. The LEGO Harry Potter team has been making some questionable decisions lately so I can only hope they'll be able to keep these improvements up and prevent a shocking drop in quality like last year from happening again.

Haven't been on here in a while, I don't really feel the need to adress every set individually so here are just some general thoughts: - The builds are overall much better than what we're used to, they feel more realistic and are therefore more useful. - The dinosaurs all look great. Really the only complaints I have are that Blue, though she looks great, should've used the smaller mold and the Dilo should've gotten an updated print. - LEGO dropped the ball hard on a lot of the minifigures, Soyona is literally the only figure with a fitting hairpiece. The grey shirt Owen getting reused so much also really annoys me. - The Jurassic Park set is worth getting for the display and cars but the brickbuilt Rex looks terrible and the figures are sadly a downgrade on their 2018 counterparts. Overall very satisfied with the wave so I've already preordered most of the sets. I'm waiting on a sale for the JP, Trike and Rex sets and the 4+ Rex set is definitely a pass, though I'm getting the figures.

Redesigned Frank to look more natural and be more accurate:

The €12 treshold is only to bypass the €6 euro service fee, shipping has been changed to €5,95 on orders below €55.