Altair1

Excellent review! I have bought all the LOTR sets but they are still patiently waiting in their sealed boxes as I am waiting for my son to be old enough to build them with me...

I think this set is more expensive than the Saturn V because of all the minifigs and animals included (while the Saturn V that I just received only includes a few identical astronaut microfigs). I agree that a boat (even a small one) needs to be added to perfect it. In any case it will be a day one purchase for me, especially as my son's name is... Anton :-)

I don't think the two main issues of the set (color and wings shape) came from rushing the design (which is overall quite good), but rather because they couldn't get all the right details from Disney before the movie was released...

Best sets: 70751 Temple of Airjitzu and 75094 Tydirium Imperial Shuttle

Excellent review, as always. I bought the set (found it on sale for only 90 €) and modified it so that the wings could take the V-shape. Now it's almost perfect (could be a bit darker indeed but that's OK).

I own about 60 sets for 32,000 pieces and 360 minifigs, mostly from Star Wars OT and Lord of the Rings themes, which allowed me to recreate most main scenes of my two (i.e. six) favorite movies. When I leave this world (hopefully in a Lego made coffin :-), my collection will go to my son, who should pass it on to his children, etc, etc..

Congrats, your Sandcrawler looks amazing! This is exactly what I have been dreaming of, and I believe I have most of the parts for it. Would you by any chance have an LDD file, or some more detailed instructions to build it?