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Actually Tolkien didn't design the dwarf names, they are taken from Edda, ancient Skandinavian folklore epic. These figures are lovely in all. I voted for Balin, he's always been my favourite of these characters and TLG did great job on him. I like Fili, Bifur and Bofur (Whose torso is a bit plain as Haltiamieli mentioned, but the hat is awesome anyways) too. Dori's hair/beard piece is fantastic, but I think it (And Ori's hair and Gloin's beard) should be reddish brown instead.

What about the Great Western LEGO show next weekend? They tend to reveal some new sets there, Mini modulars and Kingdoms joust on the last year for example. Haven't heard any rumours about hobbit sets to be revealed there, but then again the mini modulars and Kingdoms joust came pretty much out of blue... Well, at least we can always hope.

Woah! This is one sweet steampunk MOC. The color scheme is brilliant, details (crane especially) are noice and the big hull parts are used very well.

The scene will be on second movie as far as I know. The first film was supposed to end in the barrel escape scene, but when two movie plans were changed to the trilogy, the end of the first film was moved to -SPOILER ALERT- scene where the eagles rescue the company from the trees. This can be seen in New scroll wallpaper. Yet it is still unknown wheter these sets will be released on the first wave.

Thanks, hopefully this will help:

I used this piece as a helmet on Mr.Killjoy. You can see close-up of the head Here. The zamor idea looks very good!

I didn't know about this Great Being in disguise thing. I've lost my interest about "modern" Bionicle story after Bara Magna. I love things like MNOG and Bohrok animations, and really like the thing that Matoran Universe was the inner organs of very big robot, but after the other worlds were discovered, the story just became a strange and not very logical fan-fic. Things like main mastermind villain dying by smashing his head into a moon or Matoran universe's ridiculously small population (Not to mention the terrible "to sell toys" golden armour thing) made me happy about the fact that Bionicle was gone. Despite that the Bionicle was a expectionally rich world for a toy series. And about this Velika thing, I don't think that's very bad choice, he's the old riddle-speaker after all. But as Shakar said, I would have preferred Kapura. That character was awesome.

Pilkon Citymarket on Joensuu had loads of them (Also lot of serier 7). Only place where I have seen them so far, none of my fellow Finnish AFOLs have reprted them. Strangely Joensuu's centrum's Citymarkert didn't have them. I belive they are supposed to be released on the 1st of September.

These figs have come out in Finland too, picked up 6 today. Diver's helmet must be one of the best pieces ever made, conquistador's armour has a wonderful print and hamlet guy is a very beautiful fig overall. Great series, but somewhat lacks good female figs, opposed to series 7 which had viking woman, red riding hood and bride.

...Mustache is the eyes. And thanks. What comes to hair color, the black and dark red where only possiblities. I would have preferred reddish brown myself, but there isn't all those pieces in that colour or they are very hard or expensive to obtain. Last version of this MOC had a long black ponytail.

I haven't participated in Historica before, mostly due lack of time and amount of other LEGO projects, but I have been following all the amazing MOCs for a while. This contest was interesting but simple, so I made this beauty! Angol Gôrdaughter was born in Avalonia, but was accidently left sleeping in wagon that carried her to Petrea when she was young. She shortly became an outlaw.

I have always loved steampunk genre, so I made a steampunked version of my half-year-old MOC Qwena. She stands around 45 cm high and is built using both Bionicle/HF and SYSTEM parts. I also wanted to built a steampunk gun to fit this scale. More thoughts on Cyclopic Bricks.

I had this problem once and I have been extra careful with sand green parts since then. It was Fantasy Era orc torso, and I have noticed that the arms are harder to remove from them than from other minifigs. The minifigure of mine that cracked was likely from 2008 or 2009. I hadn't heard of this happening to other FOLs before, though.

No, it was not. They meet an unkonwn wizard with a hat on the edge of the forest, and when they later meet Gandalf IN the forest, he told that it was not him. The unknown wizard has always been a mystery to me, but I guess it was Saruman as Falconer said.

There were orcs, they came later and set the trees where heroes where hiding into fire. They also sang a song about fifteen birds on the five trees.

Nice project. I think using Uruk-Hai parts is fine, as longer as they don't look exactly like Saruman's Uruks. Try mixing heads and armours with other minifig pieces from older Castle set. When it comes to Mumakil, I'd prefer building your own in bigger scale. It isn't much more expensive than bricklinkin elephants, because those are quite pricy nowadays. Brick-built mumakil also look a lot more interesting and bigger scale makes them look more intimidating. I built this mumak in January 2011 and I'm quite happy with it.

If you mean 48x48 flat baseplate, it has been widely avaible in old gray, light bley and green (Grand Carousel) and not in any shades of brown or Darl Tan.

60USD, likely 80€ in Finland, isn't really that bad. Even I'm not the biggest fan of the interior (the maps and the red book are brilliant, though) the set looks very solid and well captured. The detail of the facade is awesone, not to mention the figures. Balin and Dwalin's beards are more than welcome, as are the Bofur's hat (Must be one of my favourite pieces ever!) and the capes. And if I end up buying this (or getting as a Christmas present) I don't have to pay 17€ for Gandalf arrives. Shire Frodo and cart aren't that interesting anyways, but Gandalf is must get - He's one of my favourite characters of the whole Middle-Earth.

Not sure is this new at all, but found This from German toy shop that listed the Bag End set. The prizes of the sets seem to be 100€ for every set, but the actual prizes are listed on sets' own pages. So, Bag End sees to be 80€ (60-70USD?) set. Sadly no pics.

That's good point, but MMV was exclusive that was not even sold in every country. 130-180€ Helm's Deep -sized flagship for very popular lizenced theme is completely different thing. For example, SW have never had a big peaceful set (not counting the statues etc). Sure, AFOLs would drool over gigantic Bag End, but I belive that the "target audience" of 6-12-year-old kids would take a big functional set of barrel escape and elven king's dungeons or some other action scene (Like Helm's Deep or Moria). Of course, this is just a speculating. Time will tell.

It looks a lot better than the original. I really like the real Parlament house architecture, but found the set rather ugly. Your MOC really gives the justice to the orginal. Great work.

This is great news, the pieces will be ideal to steampunk MOCs. Now I can't wait to get pictures from Comic-con.

I belive that Bag End would be same sized and priced as Weathertop (60-80€ dependin on the country). Moria had, as mentioned, the cave troll, and a big battle set would be better seller than a big peaceful hobbit hole.

...Okay, this is getting quite scary right here, my fellow finnjävel said exactly my thoughts. On both dwarf and warg topic. And when it comes to wargs, the Hobbit ones are from the northern Rhovannion between the Misty Mountains and the Mirkwood and the TTT wargs are from Isengard's surroundings. It might solve the continaution error. I wondering if these Hobbit sets will be released on Northern Europe during this year or the next. The LOTR sets haven't come out here yet, but I think that Hobbit set would sell well near the film's release when there's lot of fuss about it. Bag end set would be ideal Christmas present set.

I happy to present you my biggest action figure MOC so far. This viking warrior (who is not so historically accurate because of the horned helmet...) stands a bit over 40 cm tall and weighs around two kilograms. I used different building style, Bionicle, SYSTEM and TECHNIC panels to achieve different fabrics on the harness. Hope you like it! More details on Cyclopic Bricks and more photos on Brickshelf gallery.