Balrogofmorgoth

Honestly it’s probably just generally Mordor-based Honestly I’d be thrilled if they did a $700 Minas Tirith. I’ll pay anything for it to be done real justice

On the contrary, I think there’s plenty of variation in designs throughout the films. The Hobbits alone have several options. Party attire, travel attire, jacketless, vestless, Gondor for Pippin, Rohan for Merry, Sammath Naur versions for Frodo and Sam (which I hope we’re about to get), as well as Orc disguises, coronation attire, outfits they wear as they re-enter the Shire, and Grey Havens outfits. Aragorn has his ranger attire, Rivendell attire (done), Ranger attire without the coat, Helm’s Deep chain mail attire, Black Gate outfit, coronation armor. Arwen and Elrond have a ton of beautiful outfits. Éowyn has a handful. Legolas has a few. Théoden has a few. Faramir has a few. Bilbo has a few. You get the idea. There are also plenty of soldier type characters they could do that might not fit in sets. Not to mention the sheer number of named characters that could take up several CMFs without any repeats with different outfits.

Agreed I think it had a lot to do with it, especially with the way The Hobbit films were received. Unfortunately that means it’s unlikely we’ll get anything from The Hobbit. While I would absolutely prioritize LOTR, it would be nice to get some things we never got from The Hobbit movies

I do genuinely believe there’s more demand and popularity around a LOTR theme than a lot of people understand. There are a lot of reasons why it failed last time. I strongly feel that it would be different this time. One thing last time was that there was a lot of repetition in minifigs. While some characters would repeat, I think they would focus more on exact outfits characters are wearing during different scenes, something they didn’t really do as much as they could have last time. They excel at this with Harry Potter, and judging by Aragorn’s Rivendell-specific attire in the D2C last year, I think they would do well with it here too, which could be a big draw to certain sets

I think the Harry Potter reboot theme was initially approached perfectly. Then the team became obsessed with revisiting all the same old things over and over and over again. There’s so much they just refuse to cover for some reason, always going back to the same stuff, with only one or two new things per year. A LOTR reboot would have to avoid that trap in order to succeed. I think there’s definitely enough material to cover and plenty of characters and variations of characters to keep it going long enough to cover everything important. A handful of solid years of good full waves of sets and D2Cs is all it would need with very little repetition. Throw in a CMF or two and it’s pretty much all covered

I do want to see the really big sets continue. But they’re very popular, I don’t see Rivendell retiring in the usual time frame. So it doesn’t make sense to have four or five $500 LOTR D2C sets on shelves at once if they do one every year. They’ll have to start skipping a year if they want to keep making those sets, which is fine with me as long as we have other LOTR sets in the meantime. I’m banking on a regular theme at this point. Playsets, dioramas, and definitely battle packs are all on the table. All I can say is I hope they do it

I’m not sure it makes much sense to compare it to two of legos most popular and successful themes ever. It hasn’t really gotten off the ground yet.

Everybody seems so convinced Minas Tirith would be next year’s D2C. I think Helm’s Deep would be much more likely considering it will be coming back to the screen with War of the Rohirrim at the end of this year

Oversaturating the LOTR D2C market would be a bad move for the theme’s survival. I agree that after this year we need playsets, and then do more large scale D2Cs in a couple years

Would be a dream come true

I think LOTR would be perfect for playsets, but would also have great diorama opportunities

To be clear, it’s going to be a day one purchase either way and I’m sure I will be extremely happy with it overall. I’m already very pleased with the shaping of the top section and the Eye! I just don’t think using brown pieces on a structure that should be straight black will look good for a set this size. I don’t think it will quite achieve the right effect. But we’ll see.

In the survey pic it was too blurry to see whether the actual pieces were those colors or if it was some render effect. And the Weta statues are different from lego models, I don’t think it will translate well in the actual model. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think I’m going to like what that looks like

If those tans and browns are in the final model I’m switching them out immediately. Dont like that at all. I don’t think it’ll look good at all without all the extra fire effects

Top of Barad-Dûr looks excellent!! The Eye looks really good too. My only concern is it looks like they may have used brown prices to make it look like the flames from the Eye are reflected in the top of the tower. Could just be for this teaser but I really hope it’s all just black in the actual set Not gonna happen

Not sure where you heard that. It’s only been stated that a Ringwraith is included, no one said it has the Witch King Also, don’t hold your breath for three new figures in the GWP. It’s most likely identical Ringwraiths or Orcs

Not a fan of Brickheadz but I’ve gotten all the LOTR ones and I’ll get these as well. Legolas looks pretty decent for a BH but Gimli looks a little rough. Oh well. I’m still determined to get every LOTR product they put out

The May SW sets are all reveled but we will still probably see the June SW sets before Barad-Dûr. Which I think is just the pilot Luke Mech, and the two Mando S3 sets. But yes, hopefully we will get either leaks or a teaser soon

I would honestly hate this. Don’t waste the parts on a midi scale Fell Beast. Use them for a bigger tower. That would serve no purpose at all. If they don’t do it right and do it justice, I’d rather they just didn’t do it I would be very happy if Gorbag and Shagrat are two of the Orcs, but there’s really nothing to base that hope on. They’re probably just random Orcs. Also, the gear for Frodo and Sam would need new molds that probably just won’t happen considering how many new molds are already going to be required for the set

Doesn’t mean it still won’t happen. I hope it does. The time is right

You guys are really putting stock in an April Fools post?? Yikes

Orthanc was 500ft tall, the text tells us as much. We don’t get an actual measurement for Barad-Dûr but we get enough textual clues to place it most likely around 3500ft tall, give or take.

If the GWP is something that goes with Barad-Dûr, then I could see another Ringwraith or more Orcs (all repeats from the set itself), which I would also be perfectly fine with. Something new would be nice but I know better than to expect it

I would be just as happy with a little set of Tolkien at his desk or something honestly.

Welp. LOTR GWP confirmed by BC, not the Legolas and Gimli Brickheadz