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This thing is massive! A single building on this is probably larger than my entire parts collection! I love how the octagonal towers are coming along. About how tall do you plan to build the castle? (looking up) Also, nice use o those new flat round studs. They add a lot to the cobblestone floor. Now I must get some!

Firstly, I would like to make sure this project does not get confused with Nuju Metru's inspiring set series (Go look for them, if you haven't seen them already! ) I felt I knew exactly what sets I'd want to be released in the second wave of LOTR (Which I am now sure will come out), So I made an Excel table of the contents of all of the sets. I'm slowly building my way through all 18 of them, from the most easiest to hardest. So here they are! Note- some of the creatures in these sets must look a a bit weird, because obviously LDD doesn't have a Warg, Oliphaunt head, Ent, Mountain Troll or Great Beast mould, so I'm replacing them with either other parts or brickbuilt alternatives. Pictures link to my Flickr. Fellowship Of The Ring Rivendell (Exclusive)~ Coming soon Amon Hen In the ancient ruins of Amon Hen, at the throne, Boromir is under atack by Saruman’s Uruk-Hai. Lurtz, the captain sent to hunt down the Fellowship, shoots his bow at Boromir. Will he fight back or will the Fellowship be broken? Includes 3 minifgures- Boromir, Lurtz in armour and an Uruk-Hai. I was worried this set'd resemble too closely Nuju Metru's, but I tried not to look at their cool design. The horse in this set should be the HP griffin peice, to be more movie-accurate. Gates of Moria Gandalf and Frodo are outside the Mines of Moria. Gandalf must say the password to open the doors. But the Watcher is hiding in the water... And it grabs Frodo! Now Gandalf must save Frodo and escape through the door! Includes 2 minifigures- Gandalf the Grey, Frodo, plus a skeleton. I wanted The Watcher to be smaller than Shelob, so that I could fit a larger cave entrance into the set as well. I need feedback- should Bill (The horse) be in the set as well? Tell me, please! Balrog Fight Gandalf has met his match in Moria! The fiery Balrog is a demon who has a flaming whip and giant sword, and wants to stop the Fellowship from escaping the Mines. After fighting off the Moria Orc, you must use all your magic to stop this dark foe! Shall you pass? Includes Gandalf the White (Though I might replace him with ... the Grey) and a Moria Orc. Sorry if I've dissapointed you with this set, I'm rubbish at Hero Factory stuff, especially digitally. I will never surpass the awesomeness of N|uju Metru's Balrog, but I thought the set'd be perhaps a little more realistic design-wise if it was Ultrabuild. I guess it'll be the same with Ents. The Two Towers Hall of Edoras~ Coming soon Capture in Isengard (Exclusive)~ Halfway done Warg Ambush While riding to Helm’s Deep, Gimli and the Rohirrim are ambushed by Orcs riding vicious Wargs! Can the brave Rohan Soldier and a Dwarf defend the kingdom? Contains 4 minifigures- Gimli, Rohan Soldier, Sharku, Warg Rider The bears represent a new Warg mould. The set also includes bricks to 'fill in' the horses without a saddle, and one to allow Gimli to ride the other horse. Fangorn Forest Merry and Pippin accidentally stumble into the ancient Fangorn Forest while trying to escape Grishnakh, an Orc. But they didn’t guess the trees would come alive! Now the two Hobbits must stop Treebeard the Ent from thinking they’re Orcs too! Includes 3 minifigures- Pippin, Merry and Grishnakh. I thought this would be harder thanit turned out, with Nuju Metru's beard technique. I wanted to include annother Ent, but I replaced it with a tree for more scenery. This set also comes with a rock for throwing at Orthanc. OOPS! This boxart still says 'Warg Ambush!' Imagine that it instead reads 'Treebeard the Ent'... Return Of The King The Witch-King The evil Witch-King is attacking Theoden on his huge Fell Beast! He cannot be defeated by any man- but can Eowyn and Merry manage it? Includes 4 minifigures- Eowyn in armour, Merry in Rohan armour, King Theoden and the Witch-King of Angmar. There would hopefully be a new, less bulky head mould on the Fell Beast and new helmet for him. I couldn't decide whether Eowyn should have hair or armour or a cape, so I tries to include all of them. The Beacon At the top of Minas Tirith, Pippin is on a mission! Can he sneak past the guards to light the Beacon, to alert Rohan that they’re under attack? Or will the Gondorains catch him and send him back to the Steward? Use the Power Functions light-up brick to alight the beacon! Contains 3 minifigs- Pippin (In Gondor outfit) and 2 guards. I knew this set needed a light brick, so I put one into the rockface. It has a simple mechanism to light the fire when a hidden trigger is pressed. Seige of Minas Tirith~ This'll take a while, but working on it. Ruins of Osgiliath~ Coming soon Paths of The Dead When the evil Corsair bring their ships to attack Gondor, Aragorn must use the magic sword, Narsil, to bring the Army of the Dead to help! Can the skeletons stop the boat from arriving at Osgiliath? Contains 4 minifigures- Aragorn and 3 Corsiar sailors, one of which is Peter Jackson. It also has 3 skeletons and the King of The Dead, because they don't quite count as minifigures. The set also includes a reforged Narsil and a small cave antrace with green flames. Wolfhead Attack The walls of Minas Tirith are under seige! The Orcs are rolling in the Wolf Head battering ram to try to break open the gate. Will the walls stay strong or can the massive lumbering Great Beast and Mountain Troll smash their way through? Protect the walls by firing the Gondor soldier’s catapult! Connect to 1234 Battle of Minas Tirith for an even bigger castle! Includes 3 minifigures- 2 orcs, a Gondor soldier, plus one mountain troll and Great Beast I hope that the Great Beast will be recognized by other people who meticulously scan every 5 seconds of the LOTR films, and this one I would like to be built similarly to the Dino triceratops. There might be a little too small an amount of minifigures and too large an unimportant creature in this set to satisfy some people. Orc Battlepack The army of Sauron is coming! Build your forces of Mordor Orcs carrying the battering ram, flag of Sauron and flick-firehook launcher! Roll in the ballista and fire the hook to scale the walls of Osgiliath! Combine with 1234 Rohan Battle Pack for a conflict! Contains 4 Mordor Orcs with armour. This set was basically designed to improve on the current Uruk-Hai Army, by making it cheaper (By three times!), only including one faction and coming with Orcs instead. The hook launcher in this set is more functional as well, as string can actually be attached and used. I would imagine those would be new shield and helmet pieces as well. Rohan Battlepack The mighty Rohirrim army is ready to help fight the Orcs attacking Gondor. The Rohirrim soldiers are putting up camp for the night before battle. You can help prepare their weapons in the tent and be ready to battle the Orcs (Set 1234)! Contains 4 Rohan soldiers and a horse. Originally I wanted to include Lorien Elves in this set, but after re-watching ROTK I've decided there shouldn't be any. Imagine the tent-shaped thing is the same as the Adventurers one (Or more recently the Indiana Jones one) with different printing. Also the two flags atop it would have Rohan printing. The horse has a helmet in hope of a new part for the new horses (Of which I have none yet ) Oliphaunt Ambush~ Coming soon, if I can decied how much will be one peice Cracks of Doom~ Halfway done I will be updating this hopefully regularily, so keep tuned!

Could I create a scene from a SW book/comic? I remember one funny part and would like to re-visualize it in plastic.

Okay, so I made my own: Sory about making Aragorn float! When the evil Corsair bring their ships to attack Gondor, Aragorn must use the magic sword, Narsil, to bring the Army of the Dead to help! Can the skeletons stop the boat from arriving at Osgiliath?

Good! Now I need to schedule a trip to Liverpool! Also, I think (Hope) a Lego Oliphaunt would be more like the Dino T-Rex in leg, head and tail connections, but have a largely brickbuilt body. That'd allow us to easily mod different pagoda's onto them.

So you don't recoginze them? They're Easterlings! ...I think

When I look at this set, I get the feeling TLG is trying to keep people on CUUSOO with the minifigs. The chef's torso is a perfect purist option if you want to make Shaun of the Dead (You know, the Winchester project which they decided not to make) and the sheer amount of zombie heads and torso's in this suggest they don't want to deprive annoyed fans of getting the minifigs, by pretending bloodstains are spilt soup. Another awesome thing about this set is that it's neither flesh-coloured nor yellow-skinned, as all the minifigs will be able to look fine (If you ignore their undead grossnes) next to any other minifig.

This is HUGE! I wish I could build as large as this! I love the rock work here too.

Nice colour schemeing here, and I love your combinations on the knight in 'Falsely Accused'! Keep building, 'Multiverse'!

I'm wondering... Will the video game come out for PC? It doesn't show the logo on the webpage Also, I was originally disgusted by minifigures having voices in Batman 2, but I'm fine with it now beacause we can hear such quotes as, YOU SHALL NOT PASS! They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard! and MY PRECIOUSS! I'm also happy ot see the videogame will have the proper soundtrack.

The thing I've got to say is- why should the rest of the world (Even Denmark) have to wait while you Americans have already had these sets for months? I'd buy all the LOTR sets now if I could, but seeing as I can't, the Team GB 'figs will have to make do for now. (Though not as replacement LOTR 'figs )

One small request here... Has anyone still got any of the original prelim images? I don't remember what they look like and would like to compare them to the sets now. The Youtube video got blocked so I can't find them anywhere. Also, I'm very annoyed that we in the UK have to wait what looks to be two or three months before we get any of these sets! At least we have the Team GB figs!

Grrr... Us in the UK still have to wait 11 days before these come out! I'm trying my best to ignore all these multiple reviews coming up, and somehow add £200 to my Lego fund! I want a completely fresh view on these sets but I couldn't help watching some of ArtiFex's animated reviews (Serious spoilers, those- but they only make me more excited!) Also, on the theme of promotional figs, I would also love to see a Tom Bombadil one, though that'd be very unlikely, but I'd also love to get the Sword that was Broken (Not sure where to capitalise there), so we needn't ruin our re-forged ones (Which I'm guessing we'll get, from those promotional posters)!

I'd say (Or hope), a minifig of Sauron in human-ish form? But I'd say an old Bilbo would also be quite likely. Let's just hope that those aren't just given away at American comi-cons this time!

The Archer is the only minifig I really want, but I hope to get a couple just to be patriotic. But I wish the Equestrian didn't have 'Team GB' printed on her torso, otherwise that torso/leg combination would be perfect for steampunk or old fashioned MOC's!

Yay! Thanks! I'll be printing off all of these as soon as I can!

ED-209, I don't mind, it's up to you. I know it'll look good if you have as much attention to detail and get the 'Lego-y' feel to it as well as you already have with the rest.

I was at the BAM area in Cardiff recently, and was pleasantly surprised to find- trans-pink chef hats S1 astronaut torsos, legs and heads laptops S2 Dracula and Mime torsos red sausages printed shakos and Imperial guard torsos S2 Witch's legpeice Chrome gold crowns and greatswords Also, on impulse I bought 114 black scorpions from the PAB wall No idea what I'll do with them though...

The Stunt Devil in series 7 has the letters 'mf' written on his hips. Initals of 'minifigure'?

Just what I wanted! Thanks! You've recreated the spikes on the sheild very well. I'm glad I can have something to put on that horrible plain torso on him! I hope we'll at some point get a suitable torso to 'carry on' the hip printing upwards. ... Are there any Boar's Head flag and banner decals yet? I need some for my standard-bearers...?

I for one am excited about the newhorse- and it also seems cheaper than the old one. Now the only se to have more than one horse at only two costs £100, while Weathertop comes with two for much cheaper. I'm very happy about new barding and helmets! It's just a little shame that the new ones might make the oold ones look primitive and rubbish, and dampen the glory of Dastan's horse from PoP or the Western Native American horses.

Well, I've now added another photo. It's not edited but I hope you can see how huge the amount of stuff on him is.

Awesome! I wish I could build like this. (I might be able to, but my part selection is terrible.) I wonder why the inn is called the Armoured Goose, could we see the bar sign ?

Personally, I'd love to see some new licensed themes in castle. One of the main reasons I disliked Kingdoms was because of the childishness of the design- large wall peices, less attention to historic detail because it was not required, and the buildings where designed like City sets- lots of play value, no story and primary colours all over. What I love about LOTR is the fact that if I want to build a new castle from Helm's Deep it doesn't have to have a red or dark blue roof and either light bley or black walls, but in better colours such as dark tan, dark grey, sand green, dark brown and OLIVE. What I think the Lego world needs more of is Greek/Roman architecture. We already have the peices but the best way to get them was to get Atlantis sets, with no suitable minifigs or scenery. Also those sets where too obsessed with play value, such as filling half of the City Of Atlantis with a door-opening mechanism. Lego Clash of the Titans? What we should have is a series of micro- or minifig scale Architecture sets, depicting actual castles. That'd be a dream.

I noticed that it was actually possible to combine both the Ninjago neck armour/katana sheath with the PoTC sword holder, but it looked so jam-packed I thought I'd add to the overladen look of this minifig. Most of his weapons are simply hung off other ones, so in truth sir Issac would be unable to remove one without all the rest falling off. if you want to try that connection it's hard to pull off and puts LOADS of stress on both parts. I wanted to take this picture as quickly as possible becuse I was scared of damaging them irreversably. Now I've de-assembled sir Issac it's fine. One of the kingdom's most paranoid knights, sir Issac (The Heavily-Laden) would carry the following- 1 Scimitar 1 Crossbow 1 Bow and arrows 1 Mace 2 Sheilds 2 Daggers 1 Spear 2 Shortswords 1 Katana 1 Cutlass 3 Flags ... And that's just to walk to the grocery shop! Here he is from the back. Comments and C+C welcome!