Black Falcon
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2 hours ago, sebastian666 said:And LEGO had the resources to do this minifig justice. The long legs - which they just used in a standard release Harry Potter set for a half-giantess who is a foot shorter than Sauron - were mandatory in my opinion. Sauron should have also had a long unique cape to add to the feeling of height. And his mace should absolutely have been a new mold. It’s just as iconic as Sting or Anduril. I can understand the need to make helmet and upper body armor one piece, but longer legs would have made the whole thing feel less squat and chonky.
Honestly, I am very glad they didn´t use the long legs, because, to me minifigs with those just look very strange as those legs are out of proportion. You would need a upper body that fits to it, to maybe look better, but even that might still look strange. So yeah I would guess they tested the legs and decided that it just doesn´t look good, which I would completely agree with. Maxime, the half giantess you mentioned above, is the best proof that it doesn´t work well.
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15 minutes ago, JohnTPT17 said:It really is bizarre that Lego seems to have gotten allergic to traditional Battle Packs over the pack decade (with a few random exceptions here and there). If anything, I would think those are fantastic "gateway" sets to getting into new themes. And if they wanted to test the waters/limits the releases, just keep the packs exclusive to lego.com and don't do full retail releases with them (which they kinda did with some of the Build a Minifig options, but that doesn't work for those of us who live far away from stores).
I don´t think they are "allergic" to it, since it isn´t that long ago they did those for the Harry Potter theme. Aside from that I think they always only made them for people to be able to add more figures to other sets of a theme, and as they are not doing the classic themes like castle or pirates as themes anymore they are doing less traditional battlepacks.
15 minutes ago, JohnTPT17 said:At worst, Lego could just go back to the old minifigure chessboard strategies, especially for something like Castle. 32 minifigs, even with repeats, if a great way to quickly fill out numbers. But, no, we have to play the Pick a Brick restock waiting game to maybe be able to get the figures...
Honestly, once the first waves of avaiability at pick a brick are over you can order them quite well, no need to play a waiting game you just need patience till resellers and army builders have their stocks filled with the first waves.
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On 5/14/2024 at 10:55 AM, Yperio_Bricks said:Here's hoping that it does not turn out to be just a Titanic style display piece.
I would actually think that this is the most likely option. I just don´t see them doing it in Minifig Scale.
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Both Standard and Bestsellers worked before, though no idea when they actually changed it. But would guess it hasn´t been that long ago.
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Yeah I checked and indeed only bestsellers do count. Strange change IMO, especially since they just merged both shops and made the change that they count one or two years ago. Well thankfully at least Bestsellers still count.
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6 minutes ago, zoth33 said:Your right I have no idea what you are talking about. It seems Lego has the rights to Jacksons LOTR trilogy. I was saying I don't think they have rights to any upcoming LOTR movies yet as they are just announced. Also it all depends on the Tolkien estate and Warner bros on wether they let lego do merchandising for what they have right to. Lego can't just do whatever they want.
War of the Rohirrim was already announced way back. And noone said they could do whatever they can. And at this point, if they would do sets for that film, likely there would have been leaks for it already, though I would still not completely rule them out. If they will do for Gollum, who knows. Though honestly for me that film overall sounds less appealing than LotR , the Hobbit and even the War of the Rohirrim - which doesn´t mean it can still become a great film, but it is hard to imagine what they would do with it at this point.
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1 minute ago, zoth33 said:I don't think you know how licensing works. Just because they are releasing LOTR set doesn't mean Lego has the rights to any upcoming movies or video games to make sets off of.
I don´t think you got what I meant. My point was, no matter if the Licensing they originally made when they started with Rivendell included possibilites to make smaller sets, or Sets based on anything else than the Lord of the Rings at all, it does seem unlikely to me that they wouldn´t get they licensing for those, if they wanted to have them. Warner and New Line are companies that need to make money and with big IPs Merchandising/Licensing doesn´t make a that small part of it IMO. Not to mention, that for new Films Sets also would also be advertising those.
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On 5/13/2024 at 2:01 AM, Balrogofmorgoth said:I’m not sure it makes much sense to compare it to two of legos most popular and successful themes ever. It hasn’t really gotten off the ground yet.
It will very likely depend on how good the sales of the two Sets we got are. Also more Big Sets doesn´t mean they will have to be that big, they could also do Sets in the 200€ range.
On 5/13/2024 at 2:12 AM, Balrogofmorgoth said:I do want to see the really big sets continue. But they’re very popular, I don’t see Rivendell retiring in the usual time frame. So it doesn’t make sense to have four or five $500 LOTR D2C sets on shelves at once if they do one every year. They’ll have to start skipping a year if they want to keep making those sets, which is fine with me as long as we have other LOTR sets in the meantime. I’m banking on a regular theme at this point. Playsets, dioramas, and definitely battle packs are all on the table. All I can say is I hope they do it
Such big sets usually tend to stay around longer than smaller ones, and, to compare it again with Harry Potter, there are 4 Sets in the 400-500€ Range avaiable, + a 300 one and this years Big set isn´t even included. That beeing said, for Lego it does seem to make sense.
On 5/13/2024 at 2:47 AM, zoth33 said:I really don't understand why we are getting 2 gollum movies coming. I don't think this is a good idea for LOTR. That being said I hope we get sets for the War of the Rohirrim and the Hunt for Gollum. But we don't know what lego has the rights to and if they even can make sets from those movies.
I don´t see an issue there. Sure we don´t know how exactly that contract looks like, but it would surprise me if they wouldn´t be able to make sets for those if they would want to make them. In the end the Warner/New Line would have interest to make money with their films, both in the cinema and through licensing.
On 5/13/2024 at 3:20 AM, Balrogofmorgoth said:I think the Harry Potter reboot theme was initially approached perfectly. Then the team became obsessed with revisiting all the same old things over and over and over again. There’s so much they just refuse to cover for some reason, always going back to the same stuff, with only one or two new things per year. A LOTR reboot would have to avoid that trap in order to succeed. I think there’s definitely enough material to cover and plenty of characters and variations of characters to keep it going long enough to cover everything important. A handful of solid years of good full waves of sets and D2Cs is all it would need with very little repetition. Throw in a CMF or two and it’s pretty much all covered
I think Lord of the Rings has more Places to display in the end than Harry Potter does. The Castle is the main place where most of the scenes happen, so naturally it will be included in every wave - though they also show different scenes even if they use the same rooms. But overall I would say that there is actually not that much real repetition as you would think would happen.
Anyways, one issue with Harry Potter IMO is that it has 3 main Characters and pretty much all Scenes in the Movies are about them, so they also are hugely presented in the films, wheras LotR has more main characters it can chooses from with less repetition among the sets from a wave.
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Honestly, I am kinda disappointed in the Sets. When I look back at the T-Rex and the Raptors, those are really great Dinosaurs, Triceratops and Ankylosaurus, Gallimimus, Stygimoloch, Dilophosaurus (the movable one, not the statue) also. Last years Brachiosaurus was already very disappointing without movable legs and the big gap to move the throat. It is just much more conspicious that with other Dinosaurs - and with the Allosaurus it is quite visible too, though not as much as with the Brachiosaurus. Aside from that the legs seem a bit to big to me and the colour just isn´t doing great in my eyes.
I am very happy that the Stego got movable legs but sadly it seems like that is the only thing that can move, not the jaw, the head nor the tail. I don´t know I just expected more but I think the biggest issue I have is the plates the middle ones seem a bit to big, but overall the biggest issue is that it is just to plain, the Stego would hugely benefit from prints for the plates.
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I would also love if they would bring some of the older CMFs back, like they have done before. Though since it would likely be a 5 pack, there is always the risk only one or two of them appeal to you really.
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I´ll put some raptor eggs on Tuesday then. Dunno, just a feeling really. I wouldn´t mind if we would not get any leak in advance since it is only two days left now to that, though very likely we will get them at least some hours in advance anyways.
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30 minutes ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:Oversaturating the LOTR D2C market would be a bad move for the theme’s survival. I agree that after this year we need playsets, and then do more large scale D2Cs in a couple years
If we look at Star Wars and Harry Potter that doesn´t seem to be an issue, although surely many buy just some and not all of them.
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55 minutes ago, Lion King said:40th anniveary in 2018, not 50th. And the first minfigures were introduced in 1978.
You marked the wrong word there. I meant the 50th but made an error with the year. Of course I meant 2028. ;)
55 minutes ago, Lion King said:Not sure what you mean by lego not onsieeirng as minifigures? Series 18 tell us that they do celebrate - birthday cake, party hats, clown, ballooon, orange baseplate, and even classic policeman.
I meant exactly this. The first minifigures that Lego made were done in 1975 with the heads used now, though without face prints. They had no movable arms or legs and those would celebrate their 50th anniversary next year. Though, as also mentioned above the first costume-series from 2018 was labeled as 40th anniversary, so Lego doesn´t consider those first minifigures as such but the minifigure as we know them today, first made in 1978.
Hence why I said, they could still celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lego figure next year (with clearly wording it figure but not minifigure) though they might just not celebrate it at all.
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12 minutes ago, Captain Pirate Man said:I'm going to say something that might surprise some, but... I hope Lego does NOT release another big LOTR set for a while, at very least until after they retire either Rivendell or Barad Dur. Sure most people would LOVE Minas Tirith, but let's think about this from a consumers perspective. Lego is about to have TWO MASSIVE LOTR sets on shelves, one is good the other is bad. Do they REALLY need Minia Tirith at this point? I would argue no. I think it's time for sets under $100, to fill out the theme, not another $500 plus set. I'm not saying they should be "playset" style, they could be diagrams, or CMF, etc.
What do you all think? Agree with me or no?
In the end, it doesn´t matter, since they keep doing them. Look at Star Wars, where they make two big Sets every year, Harry Potter also gets one, so they will keep doing the same with Lord of the Rings as long as people buy it. We shouldn´t forget the Sets don´t necessarily aim for people to buy all of them, there are also people wo will buy Rivendell but not Barad-Dûr etc.
From a customer sight, of course it is to much to buy. Hence why I didn´t get Rivendell yet, though it really is a great set. But Lord of the Rings isn´t the only theme around I like and space and money are limited.
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Basically you could do several things with this theme they have done with others. Playsets, dioramas, buildable figures/creatures, microscale sets etc.
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I just realised that Lego might actually not celebrate it next year, because the 50th anniversary is actually just 2028. Stonewars stated it would be next year in their article about the Ideas Minifig-Prize-Machine. But actually next year it will be 50 years of the minifigures that had no faceprints or movable arms/legs and if we look at the first costumed minifigure series for the 40th anniversary it is clear that Lego doesn´t consider them as minifigures. They could still celebrate 50 years Lego figures though, just not sure how likely that is.
Anyways, I would really hope for a retro series instead of yet another costume one, though of course the costume series also gave us great minifigures.
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7 hours ago, Pirate_King_1982 said:Hi all, in my voyages of the vast ocean that is the internet I found this horse barding for the Raven Knights faction https://www.picklebricks.com/product-page/raven-knights-horse-barding . Anyway I was wondering what others make of it. Is it a LEGO piece with aftermarket printing or is it a third party piece both in construction and design? Has anyone purchased these? If so, what are your opinions of the product? A while ago I read somewhere that connecting minifig feet to third party studs can damage your minifig because other companies don’t have make their products to the same standards and tolerances that LEGO does? Is this true or is it BS? I like the look of them. However, Raven Knight minifigs are both rare and expensive as far as minifigs go and wouldn’t want to cause damage to them for the sake of having some cool cavalrymen.
Those are clones of Lego Pieces (the website also states they are not Lego pieces btw). Those usually have more clutch power meaning the studs are a little bit bigger than the ones from Lego Pieces. Might also be they have higher tolerances so it is possible that it damages your minifigure, though normally it shouldn´t happen. Since it isn´t stated who the actual manufacturer is, noonw will be able to tell you how good those actually are unless he bought it himself.
Personally, aside from the different clutch power I wouldn´t buy them for the reason alone that those are clones, but to each their own.
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With the Lego Minifigure celebrating the 50th anniversary next year, I wonder if they will do a special series to celebrate this - a Series that brings back (updated) Minifigures they formerly did. Then I could see them doing one normal CMF, a 50 years Lego Minifigures one and one Licensed.
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4 hours ago, Darth Shadowthrone said:Also because some sets have been having multiple dinosaurs would anyone else like it if there were 2 identical dinos included in the same set? I’m thinking it’d be cool to get 2 gallimimus, pterodactyls or raptors at once to help build herds or packs
The more dinosaurs in a set the better - won´t mind much if it is the same species, even if it is the exact same dinosaur.. I mean raptors are often hunting in teams in the films anyways, and most of the herbivores live in herds, so more dinosaurs in a pack are always welcome, especially if that were to mean less vehicles and such.
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18 minutes ago, Felkin said:Not much call for an Owen Grady minifig in a Jurassic Park line... unless they included the kid at Alan Grant's archaeological dig who calls raptors a "six foot turkey" (who some fans are convinced is a young Owen!)
Not much more than for Chaos Theory I would guess, since I doubt he will have an appearance there ;).
Just now, FinlayTheFaithful said:That was just a lil joke about TLG overusing him in their Jurassic sets a lot
Not as much as Harry Potter ;). Though I see why they do it, since first of all they are main characters so they are in most of the important scenes and a such you need to include them if you want to show the scene. That and they also consider that not everyone would buy all Sets.
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So far I don´t remember that I ever had any strange pieces, though I heard from other people that they encountered wrong bricks in their sets. Would still guess that this is a quite rare thing to happen, but likely it was even more rare back in the time your set is from.
As for unexpected parts there is a quite fun one, where Lego made an error with several Sets from the 10000 Legends Guarded in, where they put the Western Indians Horse into the Set instead of the White one. The white one was sent in an extra bag with the order though.
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15 hours ago, Space78 said:I guess some will, though not me. Not worth $100 in other Lego to get the orange torso and helmet for my interest. I'd rather get double Insider points and/or a GWP that is more interesting. I've got one orange astronaut from a DK book. Can't say I need more. We'll see if the parts show up on PAB, including oxygen tanks. If so, I'll put in a PAB order along with other parts I need. I can only guess the interest in this GWP will be way below the Micro Rocket Launch set back in February. It will be interesting to see if they run out of these or they last the whole two weeks.
The Airtanks are still avaiable on Pick a Brick (they were used for the city underwater theme) but I don´t have much hope for the torso, unless it would be included elsewhere since it would be very rare that a GWP-Minifigure shows up in Pick a Brick (the blacktron pilot actually is the only one I remember)
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9 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:I knew the wands would be in an accessory bag! Creating 6 new moulded pieces would have been madness, and the pieces that come in accessory bags technically only require one mould
Unless I’m overlooking something, HP is thus the first licensed theme to get two of these in parallel, the other being the spell effects (which I still hope show up in other colours). If they make a set depicting the climax of OotP, they could even include both of them in the same set! 
Still curious why they didn‘t introduce the Elder Wand here. Granted, having it in multiple colours wouldn‘t make much sense, but it‘s more important and visually distinctive than all of the other wands and thus worthy of a unique design. Or they could create a unique moulded piece just for that in the future
Wouldn´t make sense to have the Elder wand sitting around on Display in Olivanders Shop IMO.
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1 hour ago, FinlayTheFaithful said:Hands up, who else is expecting a mandatory Owen minifigure?
I don´t. Why should there be one included if the sets are not based on the films?
1 hour ago, Koolkoalas said:wouldn’t be a jurassic wave without one
We didn´t had one last year either though ;).
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That wouldn´t solve the problem. They will always be timelimited, as every Lego-Set is - sure a longer run would make them better avaiable but in the end it wouldn´t solve anything. Neither would "no blindness". High demand minifigures will always be the first that are gone. If you can see what is inside it would just make more people able to get what they want, as not everyone knows about the codes or is going to use them. But at the same time there would also be more people that would be picking the more favourable figures and would IMO increase the problem as you would still need luck to get there when they are placed - else the best will be always gone.
Now you are planning to increase the time to solve this, but for how long are you planning to have them on the shelves to reach that? With people collecting several and in some cases hundrets of a figure for Army building, it would take a very long time to reach that point. And we shouldn´t forget that the other figures would still be sitting on the shelves so which retailer would order more boxes, to sell 1-3 favourable figures and sit on a mass of the rest?
So IMO, the main "problem" is that there are more and less demanded minifigures, which you always will have. So to solve it you would need more figures produced of the high demand ones. and less of the others.
That beeing said, the equal distribution isn´t a bad thing on one side, especially for those wanting a complete series and oder them to share the minifigures. And of course they won´t change it. So to solve the issue IMO they would have to either sell them through Pick a Brick. Or let people preorder them so they can produce the demanded figures. Both won´t happen either of course, but that really is the only way I would see how you could get Army-builders and resellers out of the Shops.