RichardGoring

At this kind of size, you could easily do the outside and then a cut away into the interior. You'd be missing a lot of the path, but you could get to the last stand room and I think it would be very satisfactory to have those two major scenes shown together with just a thin mountainside wall and door between them.

Definitely!

They've pulled it off really well. Taking up most of the inside for a single scene allows it to work extremely well, and then the hidden scenes are a lovely bonus. The exterior looks great. It's pretty deep, so I wonder if there is a way to secure the front walls rather than them sitting loose. If not, display may be a challenge, although one that I look forward to tackling.

Correct. I got these last week and the elephant legs and arms are red, brick suit is coral.

It's very tempting, but getting the torso print in the correct colour will be a pain.

Avatar would be great, and maybe Netflix will be the bridge they needed to do it again.

This is gloriously menacing!

New leaks suggest TMNT and Monsters, Inc. will be getting BrickHeadz. Could those be the IPs for the new sets, alongside K-Pop Demon Hunters?

It looks terrific!

Had a notification that my replacement sticker sheet has been shipped. I wonder if it will be the second (also incorrect) version, or a third iteration that is fully corrected.

I am hoping they do a pink butterfly at some point soon, to use as blossom on a bonsai tree.

I loved that movie, although the book was better Brickset looked back at polls of popular licenses from five years ago and many have since been made into sets - LEGO licensed sets: What is left to do? | Brickset Some good choices for future CMFs in there, several of which have been discussed as possible 'series 30' ones, per the rumour.

Or, to put it another way, leakers used diffusion models to generate leaks before AI used it to generate images. Ahead of their times. I was so fascinated by that leak and thought it would have been great, but for the fact that the boxes had no identification on them. I bought a (cheap) gram scale for that series and it was entirely unreliable. So glad they've got QR codes now.

You mean people on the Internet might... lie to me?!

The problem with Orthanc is that the previous set was really large and fairly well detailed. It's only a little smaller than the more recent Barad-dûr, so I can't imagine a new version being a different size. Which means they'd end up with something pretty similar in all ways to the original set. That really limits the market potential for an Orthanc set, because there are lots of people who already have it. Whereas a UCS set of any other location is not owned by anyone, so a much larger market potential. Then there's the balance with demand, but there are at least half a dozen locations that are in equally high demand (if not more) than Orthanc, so I suspect it either won't happen, or it will be a long way down the list. The real driver of value for Orthanc set is the figures. You can buy the pieces for the tower for about $250. And you could easily place all the figures in other UCS location sets except probably Saruman. Saruman could be in a $100 booknook/diorama wizard's battle set very easily. And I think even those who have Orthanc would buy a new version of that at $100, but may not stretch to a $400 set.