Balrogofmorgoth

Yeah, I think a horse for the Mouth is a given, but I don’t want it to be a Nazgûl horse, I would rather get a screen accurate horse for him because that horse was really cool looking

I just have the one and it’s one of my favorite figures I own, easily top 5 at least. But the helmet piece has gotten pretty loose on the head and falls off easily. Hopefully the new one will be dual molded hard plastic and not rubber like the old one. Also, I would not advise anyone to sell their old Mouth of Sauron figures until we see concrete evidence of his inclusion.

Finally someone who gets it! If they include every figure everyone wants in this set then it’s a sure sign that they have no future plans for them. Saving some really desirable ones for later is a good thing

Let’s goooooooooo!!! Minifig lineup is solid, except one or two additional Nazgûl would have helped a lot. I disagree that it should have been the Witch King. There are already two highly desirable bad guy figures in the set that each require new helmet molds, it’s just not realistic. Also, it’s good that they’re saving some desirable characters for future sets. Last Alliance figures would have been optimal but I never had much hope in that. Hopefully someday. I’ll definitely be lining up on release day

It’s almost a guarantee that they will build the Eye so that it can be lit be a light brick. So probably made of trans orange/yellow/red parts with a light brick underneath

I wouldn’t expect a helmed Witch King, they’ll save that one if they actually do have plans with the theme. But I don’t see the other side builds being any less realistic than a fell beast. Each option would be about the same size. It’s like the Ent that came with Orthanc. Or the Leviathan that came with Avengers Tower. It happens all the time, those aren’t micro builds. I could see any of them happening honestly, especially with the inclusion of Frodo and Sam. Since they never go near the tower itself, I can see them giving those characters something to interact with

I’ve been thinking lately about whether Barad-Dûr will have a side build of some sort. If that’s the case, I think the likeliest possibilities are a Fell Beast, Shelob, or the entrance to the Sammath Naur.

“All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Dínen.”

I highly doubt it. If that’s a possibility at all then they were probably waiting to see how the other sets they released sell before they designed playsets. We’ve seen small rushed waves of sets in the past but it doesn’t seem like that’s happening or we likely would have heard something. I think we will have to wait until 2025 to see whether the theme sticks around I agree, it sounds like they have plans for the theme just based on comments from several different people. I still really hope for a full blown theme with playsets and dioramas and battle packs and such. But I think 2025 is the earliest we would see anything like that

You would think, and so would I, but clearly they thought differently. BH in general must sell well enough since they keep doing them. But they also probably haven’t had time to plan and design playsets for this year just going off of sales of last year’s BH and Rivendell. Barad-Dûr had to have been planned at least tentatively long before because they don’t just design and release huge D2Cs in a matter of months

We were always going to get more Brickheadz…between the BH and Rivendell people have shown lego that we simply want more LOTR products. Getting another BH pack doesn’t mean we won’t get anything else. It won’t be this year because they hadn't gotten a chance to see how the license sells yet. The BH didn’t even sell THAT well. Rivendell did. There will be more, especially if Barad-Dûr does well. I’ll be very surprised if 2025 doesn’t yield even more

Legolas and Gimli Brickheadz confirmed!

Reinventing the wheel does seem to be a trend with this theme though

I think these are some very unrealistic expectations. Also…you understand that they’re not going to make scientifically accurate dinos for Jurassic franchise sets, right? They’re going to make dinos with Jurassic franchise designs

I’m really not trying to sound like a jerk, I know I’ve been coming off pretty harsh lol. I do think it’s wild to think the green roofs look better than the grey. It makes no sense. Grey is accurate, it’s not even debatable. Green is not. And it really is just ugly to me. If some people like green better because of the nostalgia, whatever. Personally, I’m really happy to see the green roofs go away

Totally different. You were saying how much of a travesty it is that everything wasn’t at exact minifig scale lol which is clearly unrealistic I can’t even fathom this take. The green roofs are some of the ugliest things I’ve ever seen in lego form

It’s not even an opinion thing, Hogwarts doesn’t have green roofs, inaccurate is inaccurate

Now that we’ve thankfully moved away from the ugly green roofs, I’m actually really excited to see more of the Hogwarts sets in the new style

With the Grey roofs returning, I’m very excited to see the new Great Hall set. For that price, I’m sure it’s more than just the Hall. Ship and Carriage sounds very promising too! Hopefully we’ll hear some minifig lineups for these soon

Pretty stoked about the Marvel sets (except Groot obviously). Really hoping to get a solid Age of Ultron lineup in the $110 set. And I hope they do Surtur justice but the price kind of worries me

I’m very glad I already have Malgus and Revan, they will probably be even more expensive now

YES that face print is perfect

Yeah I’m in the same boat. I usually don’t like non-canon figures but Old Republic Sith and Jedi characters are an exception to that for me. I have the Revan poly bag and Malak is a really nice figure as well. And Fives looks great too. I’m really excited to see Cal. Leia I could take or leave but since we probably won’t get anymore Kenobi sets I’ll take it

I think the printed kamas actually look really good from the front. It’s just less than ideal from literally any other angle lol which is the frustrating thing about it to me. I have had issues with some of the cloth ones in the pst though. Discoloration and fraying and things like that. So I’m torn on what I would prefer

I think the figs still looks great. Not perfect, but still fantastic. Nothing remotely close to “absolutely awful” even enters my mind when looking at them