Altair1

But you take the risk of missing the GWP this way, if there are too many people in front of you at the physical store... It is much safer to order on lego.com, I never missed a set or a GWP I wanted in 15 years of ordering Lego online. You just need to do it as soon as the set becomes available. I had to stay awake till 1am last night, but it was worth it as the Fellbeast only lasted a few hours before going out of stock.. .

I am just curious, why do some people still go through the hassle of queuing in actual stores to get their set? It is so much easier online.

Same for me, I think it is more faithful to the 'real' thing. Will put it in front of my Barad-Dur :-)

I just ordered successfully Barad Dur with the Fellbeast GWP, can't wait to receive them :-)

I think you guys are a bit harsh on the Fellbeast, to me it does not look that bad actually. And in any case so much better as a GWP than the ugly Brickheadz we got with Rivendell:-)

Oh, I am buying day 1 more than ever :-)

Amazing set !! Can't wait :-)

I could not disagree more. I really hope they will continue releasing one big set every year, starting with Minas Tirith next year. This does not prevent them from releasing also smaller sets if they think there is a market for it.

I would not hold my breath on this. These two will more likely come in a future Minas Tirith set.

I had planned to buy this set on day 1 anyway (as I did for Rivendell). Bring it on :-)

That would be amazing, but I will believe it only when I see it :-)

I really hope Barad Dur is not delayed. In the mean time I have just bought the Dune Ornithopter and I am planning to get also the Milky Way and Notre Dame de Paris. If Lego keeps releasing great sets at this pace, I am gonna end up broke before Barad Dur is released :-)

This Joconde looks just awful! The face in particular is so ugly... they should really fire the person who designed it.

I own all of the existing LOTR sets, except the BrickHeadz, as I don't want to spoil the rest of my collection with this crap :-)

I disagree, if they can do Rivendell and Barad Dur they can do Minas Tirith! But this has been an ongoing debate in this thread, and everyone seems to have a different opinion about this :-)

As we already have a Helm's Deep and a Bag End, these are not a priority for me. I hope that they will make first Minas Tirith, Edoras or Lothlorien.

They destroyed Smaug's mold?? No way!! I am glad I bought the Lonely Mountain set at the time, I love this dragon, much better than the one in the D&D set which just came out.

These are relatively small MOCs examples. If Lego decides to do a Minas Tirith on the scale of the upcoming Barad'Dur (5400+ pieces) I am pretty sure they can do much better than that (starting by increasing the number of wall layers), Here are a few bigger examples (but again, Lego has the means do do better) https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/58660122-6eea-44ec-bfb4-a0d26f4015fa/application/030a16d1-7cf4-42bc-aa24-211c9d433129 https://hpnonline.org/LEGO-Minas-Tirith-by-Nicola-Bozzolan-1-1-The-Brothers-Brick-2503472.html https://www.brickfanatics.com/minas-tirith-lothlorien-lego-lotr-contest https://www.brickfanatics.com/minas-tirith-lothlorien-lego-lotr-contest

That would be amazing! It would make it very expensive but I would pay pretty much any price for a well designed Minas Tirith :-)

Here are a few Minas Tirith MOCs below - totally doable with 5000+ pieces (which should be the piece count of Barad Dur for example according to the leaks) https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2020/05/27/108093-collecting-the-precious-what-if-a-lego-minas-tirith-was-made/ https://ideas.lego.com/projects/c8ea2aec-39a3-426e-9951-8fee9a759e67 https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-104144/GJC15344/the-white-city/#details

I could not disagree more. There have been amazing MOCs of Minas Tirith made in recent years, and it is totally feasible - I really hope it will be next year's LOTR big set! Edoras or Lothlorien would be fine too, but Helm's Deep and Bag End are not priorities as we already have them. Exactly this!

Same here, bought two 79007 at the time to be able to make one real big Black Gate ;-) Not sure why they would put the Mouth again in the Barad Dur set, but it's OK, no big deal. Very nice idea! Would love to add it to the GWP tributes I already have (Charles Dickens, Galileo Galilei, Amelia Earhart, Jane Goodall...)

I actually don't understand while he would not do also a movie based on the Children of Dune, it is excellent too. It was included in the mini-series which were not bad considering their budget.

I bought it on day 1 but have not built it yet. I will wait for my two sons to be old enough so we can do it together. For now I just keep smiling looking at the box and thinking it is the most beautifu set Lego has ever made :-)

This year has been tough on my bank account! I bought: Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night 21333, Avatar Toruk Makto & Tree of Souls 75574, Hokusai The Great Wave 31208, Executor Super Star Destroyer 75356, Back to the Future Time Machine 10300, Tales of the Space Age 21340, LOTR Rivendell 10316, Hogwarts Castle and Grounds 76419, Tranquil Garden 10315, Dunes Atreides Royal Ornithopter 10327 (and as I bought most of these on the Lego Shop, I got many GWP offered in addition).