Balrogofmorgoth

Yeah Queer Eye is 40% off at shop at home right now. If the Hogwarts Express was discounted too I’d get it but I think it’s selling better than those other two, although not phenomenally well either

The D2C supposedly falls into the Lego Icons theme, which has its own product page. So why make a LOTR product page for the Brickheadz? Especially since Brickheadz also have their own product page. It makes sense if it’s Brickheadz for a theme that already exists on its own, but doesn’t really make a lot of sense for LOTR right now unless they know there will be more coming. Could be absolutely nothing, but it is certainly a little strange

Not sure if this means much but shop at home added a Lord of the Rings product page for the Brickheadz. Did that happen with other themed Brickheadz? Also the Black Panther bust and Hulkbuster are 20% off on shop at home right now. Need any more proof of their abysmal sales?

There are a lot of variants of characters I’d love to see at some point, namely Lucius in the Department of Mysteries among others. But yeah, as far as characters in general the list is pretty short. Although I would personally add Bill Weasley and Rufus Scrimgeour to that list

The theme is evergreen now…a third CMF will not happen. Lego is going to drag out the theme as long as they possibly can and they aren’t going to release a CMF and dig themselves into a hole of running out of characters to use for sets sooner than they have to. From their perspective it makes absolutely no sense to do another HP CMF at all. Of course I’d love to see another one, but it won’t happen. They need new characters and new variants of characters for their sets every year or people will lose interest and they know this

No no no I’m not trying to say anything about you here, apologies if it came across that way. I was just trying to communicate that I really like the Gunship without people thinking I’m in the crowd of people who moaned and whined about it not including a Cody figure or who demanded everyone vote for it from the beginning. Wasn’t trying to insinuate anything about you here at all. I only replied to your comment because it’s the one that mentioned the Gunship

Honestly the Gunship is a fantastic set, I genuinely have idea why people hate it. I in no way endorse the MandR crowd of demanding certain things from lego, and I couldn’t care less about minifigures in UCS sets, they’re simply an added bonus and nowhere near the purpose of the set. Cody would have made no sense in that set anyway. But the set itself is artfully designed and looks superb, especially in person. I’ll never know why people don’t like it

That was almost certainly part of their thought process

I think Rivendell could make for a good little microscale set, about the size of an Architecture set. But I’m really having a hard time seeing it in microscale at such a large size. It’s just not that kind of massive structure. Maybe it can be done and look good, idk. I just can’t really picture it. I think it lends itself much better to a large minifigure compatible scaled set. But the piece count is definitely puzzling in that regard

I would be very happy with that if we had other sets too. But I would definitely be disappointed if the only other LOTR figs we get are golden figs. They’re really cool to collect as “special edition” figures, but if they’re the only figures we get, it would certainly be a bummer. I would understand more if it was a Return if the King set using that to celebrate the film anniversary. Which is another strange thing, I wonder why they’re releasing a $500 Fellowship of the Ring set on the year of Return of the King’s 20th anniversary…

These are A LOT of assumptions. When there were plenty of LOTR toys on the market, almost every kid I knew was getting them, myself included. There’s no reason to think kids wouldn’t still like LOTR toys just because there aren’t currently any on the market

I understand that. But that’s not the same as parents just randomly thinking about lego themes. They only think about what their kids ask for. Their kids ask for something that they’ve seen and want. If LOTR was on the shelves, kids would be asking for it and more parents would have it in their minds Besides, LOTR is very common household title, everybody knows what it is and a lot quote it, even if they aren’t necessarily fans.

I diasgree. The average soccer mom doesn’t think about any lego theme, let alone LOTR. That doesn’t mean a child isn’t into it and wouldn’t love the chance to get them. I’ve seen a ton of kids in the lego aisle at target or Walmart just show up with a parent or grandparent to pick something out for their birthday or Christmas and a ton of them look for swords and horses and battles. Idk how many I’ve seen point out the Medieval Blacksmith set and are shot down because of the price.

I still think you wildly underestimate the amount of kids that like LOTR. You keep talking about LOTR as if it’s Game of Thrones. There’s no reason for it to be afols only, that’s just silly to me. Why do you think so many afols love LOTR? Because they loved it as kids

If they made it an evergreen theme like they did for HP then yeah it wouldn’t work well for them. But if they planned on just a handful of years with a cmf or two along the way it wouldn’t matter. That’s exactly what they were doing with HP before it became evergreen. And there is actually a lot of outfit variation in the films for a lot of the characters especially the hobbits, not to mention plenty of generic characters as well as named. I’m not saying they would do it, but it could definitely be done easily. I’ve personally mapped out 12 series of CMFs for LOTR and The Hobbit each with 22 figures (obviously I know it wouldn’t actually look like that, I just went with the highest CMF count we’ve had). That’s without any sets, but if you put the right amount of the characters in sets, there are still plenty for a CMF including variants. Also I still say plenty of kids love LOTR, or at least fantasy style toys, and would buy more of these than you think

Agreed.

It would have been cool if the second task set had come with a printed 1x1 round tile or something to represent the gillyweed. Also, would it kill them to print the Hufflepuff crest on the Horcrux cup?

Best choice for a character we didn’t get before in a Rivendell set would have to be old Bilbo. I mean we got The Hobbit version, but it’s completely different. I would love an alternate scary Bilbo face too Definitely plenty of examples. Beorn in Dol Guldur comes to mind since we’re in the topic of Middle-earth. But Sauron in Rivendell would be a weird choice, not that I wouldn’t love a Sauron figure.

I’d much rather see the Second Age versions from the Fellowship prologue

A CMF series for LOTR would solve a lot of our problems. Especially if it came alongside waves of sets. It’ll never ever happen though.

Definitely some good movie sets. I still despise the current modular Hogwarts design, I think it’s insanely ugly but the RoR set has some redeeming value for sure. The figures are really good for one thing. I think the figures across the board are very good. The banner sets are kind of dumb but not too bad when displayed as Common Rooms and the figures are pretty good. I particularly like those Quidditch sweaters. Angelina is great. I think overall the Grey Lady stands out as possibly the best figure of the wave. I’m really glad Draco had a new face print, great to have Blaise, Harry and Hermione get DH scene accurate printing which is awesome. But now it feels like Ron is missing. I’m sure a summer wave will rectify that. I’m liking what I’m seeing here for the most part for sure

I’m not holding my breath. I was hoping for House ghosts in the banner sets too, but like you said, Helena being in the RoR set makes that very unlikely. But I’m sure there will be some sort of desirable minifig aspect to those sets. I doubt the Common Room builds will be good though. Lego seems to have something against the House Common Rooms

Cool to be getting a Helena Ravenclaw figure, and Blaise will be nice as well!

I totally agree with this, which is why I’m hoping for a regular system scale. More of a Master Builder Series type of set would be perfect for this

I got two of the set and bought a few more Death Eaters on eBay for only a couple bucks each. Turned one of them into Lucius