Cyprinus

That is a bit different - March 25 is Tolkien Reading Day, and they wanted to lean into that. Barad-Dur was revealed on the 14th of May.

No. Just estimates that it will be mid may.

Probably not. Don't think it did anywhere near good enough for them to bother. Plus lego LotR targets adult fans, and nostalgia is a factor there. The anime is far too new for that.

GWPs don't have new moulds. And generally are limited to 2 new prints (a sticker sheet can take the place of one)

That was a rather silly mistake. I wouldn't hope for another happening...

They didn't. The Brickheadz was a January release and Rivendell came in March. They made a retail set a gwp, not turned a gwp into a retail set.

If the legs are only for riding Shadowfax, them being unprinted wouldn't be much of an issue.

What would they print on the skirt? I'm kinda sad Gandalf the White has regular legs and not a skirt piece...

Yeah, you can be sure Lego will go after this, and hard. But the video is genuine. And the set marvellous. Wouldn't be too hopeful - previous gwps didn't exactly have much of a connection to their sets.

She also has a unicorn horn pendant. could get a matching wand or something.

We do?

Most likely scenario - leaker/source got told it is a 2026 movie without getting a name and it got delayed later on.

They failed, hard, last time. Why would they do "fine" now?

That time came quite a while ago :P

Rivendell is vastly different from Minas Tirith (or Barad-Dur for that matter) in that the look of the location as a whole is far less iconic than individual scenes playing out there. MT is the exact opposite - all the scenes playing out there are nowhere near as iconic as the city as a whole. Lego definately doesn't want to skip that. And how do you propose an amalgamation of scenes would look like? A scaled down courtyard of the white tree, with some facades in the back and a tiny bit of wall with a gate right below it? Don't think that would look great...