Lord_Tyrannus

I would love a second D&D CMF wave...

I don't like the Ninjago sets either. But recently I've noticed that some minifigures from that line have interesting parts for those who like to customize Dungeons and Dragons characters. So I bought some random minifigs for this purpose.

Yes, I do believe that it was the case, as there is a "Dwarven Kingdom" in the same map, also in the bottom left corner.

I found the link for the image I was talking about. In the upper left corner appear the Elflands: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Flego-castle-map-first-time-posting-here-v0-im853pzvkmnb1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D1200%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D6bbc3e9dbf6375d4414e55d4220df1a8e33047eb If the link doesn't work you can search "promotional map art for lego kingdoms sets", is the third option on Google Images.

While I'm truly rooting for the triumphant return of the Castle Theme with a new faction, it's worth remembering that promotional box art doesn't always reflect LEGO's future plans. I couldn't find the link to the image I'm about to mention, but I remember that in some official art (if I'm not mistaken, from the box of a Fantasy Era castle set, or perhaps some promotional art from CMF series 03), there was a map with castles, roads, and a forest with an elf nearby. At the time, many people took it as a sign of elf-related sets, but in the end, we only received a few collectible minifigures with the theme, scattered throughout the years. That said, I'm really rooting for new medieval sets.

Thank you so much for this review!

This is EPIC, excellent job!! And I loved the minifigures, how did you managed to do them? Are they hand painted? Where are those red/flesh arms and legs from? Congratulations, everything is perfect!

He said that people would be more insterested in characters that haven't been made (like Faramir, Eowyn, Sauron, etc) than updating existing ones. But I agree with you, it would be nice to have a thead that assembles both options: purists improvements on existing characters and purists creations of new characters, like one Denethor we've seen using sith black robe and the grandma (collection minifigs) gray hair..

I have mixed feelings here: (1) as a person who likes light flesh characters, I'm unable to mix those with my LOTR dwarfs/elves; (2) I always hoped for elven nobility, something that doesn't look like wooden elf and looks more like high elves.

Fantastic work! My favorite is the wizard.

Loved your Dol Amroth army, and the Gondor torsos availabre in this store are great too!! I hope they made some Rohan torsos though..

I would love more elves! Especially nobility or some heavy armored soldiers. In the last years we only got some elven rangers, good to make ambushs, but couldn't fight in an open field. Besides that, I would like a monk (as "samtung" said above) and more peasants (especially it it is a female character).

Awesome!!! Represents perfectly the movie scene (I love this scene, by the way).

Jacked Lego Maniac, we've discussed this before =) The original idea was to make only 2 Hobbit movies (perhaps using only the book material). With this in mind, LEGO purchased the license and the plan probably was: 1st LOTR wave, 1st Hobbit wave, 2nd LOTR wave, 2nd Hobbit wave and a 3rd LOTR wave. That's why we got the odd set choices, including some irrelevant locations (they expected to have more waves and probably Gondor would be in the 3rd wave). Off course some choices are inexplicable (the Corsair shipp was expected to attract children's attention, but we can't understand other choices). In the middle of this, Peter Jackson decided to make 3 Hobbit movies, instead of 2. Probably LEGO had already started planing the LOTR sets, so they could't invert the wave order. So we got a fantastic LOTR wave and a very good Hobbit one. After that, as you can see in the movies, Peter Jackson had to put a lot of things that were not in the book, invent a little, etc. The movies didn't do so well (compared with LOTR), and LEGO couldn't attract children attention (as much as they expected). So we got a not so good 2nd LOTR wave and, with bad sales, they just did a not so good 2nd Hobbit wave (with a few new molds and poor set choices, in opinion of some). With bad sales, we never got the 3rd LOTR wave. Off course they could use the 2nd LOTR wave to add Gondor, but PEHAPS at this time things were going OK and a 3rd wave was still in the game.. Probably things started to go down hill with the 2nd LOTR wave, destroyng the chances of future waves (and Gondor sets). I hope you could understand (english is not my native language), but overall it's more or less what probably happened.

Amazing creation! I just don't get tired of admiring it..