mpaisana

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  1. I noticed the passenger train has somo cool looking headlights, if you can fit some led lights there this is definitely a win. I was really apprehensive about the nose piece but i really like it.


  2. Does that mean the new high-speed train will have two cars and a motor car (like HE does)?

    I think he says "similar to the HE" in terms of shape or appearence (i.e. a high speed train).

    I doubt they would launch a regular passenger train with a motor and two carriages only. it'll probably have the same structure as the 7938 passenger train IMO (two engine wagons and one passenger wagon).


  3. Hi everyone,

    I've read in a LUG forum that we might have some train news in the second half of 2014. I've also noticed that on Brickset's Price Comparison the availability for 7938 and 7939 intermittent (right now, amazon UK has no train sets available - directly sold by Amazon). Could this mean they are slowing production of these sets, and planning to launch new ones?


  4. I only collect regular sets. They're less expensive and have more play value, I think. I love to see how they recreate small ships and scenes with few bricks and pieces! If you have a kid I sugest you get regular sets. I don't have kids yet but I plan to build a "legotheque" and for that, I want them to have as many different pieces and ships and scenes as possible (I also collect LOTR and Hobbit to get castle / pirate pieces)!


  5. Does anyone else noted that the 2012 Lego sales report doesn't even mention the Lord of The Rings? I've been looking at the document (the large and boring file), I've word searched it and there is no mention to LOTR or the Hobbit...

    You need to read the appendicies. :wink:

    Remeber - the entirety of the Dol Guldur story was added by Tolkien *after* he'd originally published The Hobbit.

    He never set out with the intention of continuing the story, but rather was "encouraged" by the response & popularity of The Hobbit.

    You can see this plainly evident in Gandalf's character alone - for the most part, he's a fairly useless character in The Hobbit itself and his constant disappearing is simply because Tolkien didn't really know at the time what/where to take this character!

    Right now I'm on the aftermath of the Pelennor Battle. It's awesome. And we'll never see minifigs of the swan prince of Dol Amroth, he wasn't even in the movies.. Gandalf is like god, he his everywhere in all eras. Gandalf's involvement in the Hobbit was merely as a conspirator, I think! he's awesome :)


  6. I'm reading the books for the second time, in english (first one was many years ago, in Portuguese).

    It is not clear to me wether the Uruk-Hai were created by Saruman, by crossing Orcs with Savage human tribes, but I think not. Jackson clearly indicates that Saruman is indeed their creator (as depicted in The Orc Forge set). Tolkien mentions that they were first used by Sauron in the third age, and it is common to see companies made both of Uruks and Orcs in the LOTR (like the ones who kidnapped Merry and Pippin), but I think there must be some difference between the so called "black uruks from Mordor" and the so called Uruk-hai, like some genealogical derivation, don't know.

    You could write three more books trying to write down every imprecision on the movie adaptation by Jackson. But he is very honest relating to that. One of the most interesting facts about the Hobbit, is that it is the only fiction novel I've ever read that doesn't have one single female character. When I realized this I had to go back and make sure it was so, it's very uncanny. Tauriel was Jackson's invention, just like Galadriel's presence on the Hobbit. Saruman doesn't show up either.


  7. I may be mistaken but I remember reading how the orcs from Minas Morgul were different than the orcs at Cirith Ungol.

    Ok, so (quoting):

    All Orcs:

    Orcs of all kinds would not carry blades of Westernesse, which were "wound about with spells for the bane of Mordor". It is possible that these spells caused the glow in the presence of Orcs rather than any particular metal alloy or other physical ingredient.

    Goblins/ Northerners/ Misty Mountains/ Moria Orcs:

    Northern Orcs came from the Misty Mountains and said they were from "the Mines", Moria, on the hobbit march. They come for killing and vengeance, not interested in the idea of taking the hobbits or their spoils to either Saruman or Sauron, but only in getting rid of the prisoners and going home.

    These smaller orcs were referred to as goblins by the narration during the first dominance fight with Ugluk. When the time came to stand against the Rohirrim, Ugluk allowed the Northerners to run into the Forest, leaving the hobbits with the Isengarders, although some of the larger and bolder Northerners remained with him.

    Uruk-hai:

    The Orcs of Saruman, who called themselves Uruk-hai, used an S elf-rune wrought in white metal on the front of their iron helms. Their shields had a small white hand centered on a black field. Aragorn commented that their gear was not in the manner of other Orcs at all. Instead of curved scimitars, they used short, broad-bladed swords. Their great bows were made of yew wood, in length and shape as those of Men.

    They also appeared different physically: greater stature, swart, slant-eyed, with thick legs and large hands. Although they did not like the light of the sun, they could withstand it better than other orcs.

    Mordor Orcs of the Tower:

    Orcs in the Tower of Cirith Ungol used the symbol of a white moon disfigured by a death's face. This referred to the tower's once having been Minas Ithil, the "Tower of the Moon", before it was taken from the Gondorians.

    Mordor/Morgul-orcs:

    The Orcs in the service of Barad-dur, the folk of Mordor, used the symbol of the Red Eye, for Sauron. The Red Eye was painted on their shields. Sauron did not use his right name, nor permit it to be spelled or spoken. He did not use white.

    Shagrat called these Mordor orcs "morgul-orcs".

    At least one, a guard on the march with Merry and Pippin, had a black knife with a long saw-edged blade that was later used by Pippin to cut through the ropes on his hands.

    These Orcs of Mordor referred to Sauron as the Great Eye.

    Grishnakh was their Captain.

    They were all long-armed and crook-legged, not as tall as the Isengarders but larger than the Moria Orcs. They could see better in the dark than the Isengarder Orcs could.

    Via Here

    For such a huge Tolkien fan, Jackson sure was a bit too inventive, in my opinion. The real biological difference between orcs is the separation between Uruk-Hai and regular Orcs. Other than that, only garments, weaponry and symbols.