SheepEater

One of LEGO's biggest licensing partner, Warner Bros, don't seem to have a problem calling them legos. Proof... Look at the tab to the right, "The Lord of the Rings Legos" http://www.wbshop.com/category/wbshop_brands/the+lord+of+the+rings.do (By the way, as a side note this is the best way to buy LOTR sets (minus Orc Forge) for Canadian, UK, Australian and NZ residents since they charge us USA MSRP prices!)

I'd like to talk to a Megabloks manager tomorrow to ask him if they got the Barbie license specifically to compete with Friends, see what he responds

Fellow Canadian LOTR fans!! *oh2* Warner Brother's online merch shop now sells LOTR sets (minus Orc Forge) at USA MSRP price and apparently ships to Canada - you know what that means!!! I haven't tried ordering yet (I'm in the process of moving) and already have all the sets but I will definitely get my 2nd Uruk Hai army set from them if they do indeed ship to Canada. Anyone care to try it out? http://www.wbshop.com

Fellow Canadians!! *oh2* (EDIT:And residents from Australia, New Zealand and the UK!!!) Warner Brother's online merch shop now sells LOTR sets (minus Orc Forge) at USA MSRP price and apparently ships to Canada - you know what that means!!! I haven't tried ordering yet (I'm in the process of moving) but I will definitely get my 2nd Uruk Hai army set from them if they ship to Canada. Anyone care to try it out? http://www.wbshop.com

Poor Sam was completely left out of that poster. Is that a helmet-wearing Eowyn on the bottom fighting the Witch King?

Love it! I knew people couldn't resist giving Hobbit hair to female minifigs (gives them a soccer-mom look!)

8660 was my first ever technic set, followed by 8640 (my parents were poor growing up) so they hold a special emotional value.

Whi is Gimli guarding the King, and why does he have an identical twin? Just kidding, great MOC.

Fantastic Can you post pics of the innards of the mechanism?

One of the few sets I 'bricklinked' to get (ie: order each part individually) And one of the very few sets for which I don't have the original box. Love the blue/white scheme.

I am speechless.

This set reminds me of that movie from 1997

http://www.tu.no/industri/2012/06/03/reparerte-romstasjon-med-lego Text is in Norwegian. I credit 'helge' for this find, who posted this on the BrickLink forums. Gotta love those classic technic bricks!

Did you manage to build the extension, suggested by some technic instructions around that time? It uses the 855 as well as what appears to be the yellow 850 forklift. (This is from the 8857 motorcycle instructions) http://www.peeron.com/scans/8857-2/1 http://belay.peeron.com/scans/8857-2/30/ http://belay.peeron.com/scans/8857-2/31/

Actually, they roll along just fine on any smooth table! Those gears are not linked to anything (so, no internal friction). I've also motorized it and it worked surprisingly well.

Well 8862 is a big winner, no surprise. It boasts the largest amount of functions of any technic set up to that point, rivaling even today's sets. With 8865 very close behind.

Universal sets are excluded. (They tend to be small anyway)

I disagree, his staff is fine. Proof: Gandalf from the book (was drawn long before the movies) Besides, if the staff was any different, what could I have used as front axle in my wooden race car MOC?

Since I built it from scratch it's not a mod, but a MOC. None of the assembly for Gandalf's cart remains. Thanks. I fell in love with that part ever since I bought 6335 and saw the clever way LEGO used it to hold the entire upper back section of the trailer.

Complete garbage (the set, that is). Track this one instead.

You probably mistyped and meant 8459. You can try tracking down the re-releases, as well. I recommend 8464. That's the one I have. It will probably end up being 1977-1989 since for quite a few years, there were just not many sets, and not that many large sets overall. We'll see.

"This Lego set, made by LEGO, contains 736 legos."

Richie, I agree with everything you said. Yeah, maybe 8858 shouldn't have been included. 8462 does look too futuristic. But look at it this way, it's wheels are rare now. And it's a blue set. With TWO air tanks. That's enough to make it worth owning.

Great review. A few notes: 1) Mega Bloks never had the license to make LotR construction sets. Intelli-Blox did , and yes, they were horrible. 2) I'm a native french speaker and generally speaking, their French translations are horrible. On each booklet it even says "LEGO The Hobbit: Coming SPRING 2012" where in English and Spanish they have it correctly as Winter. 3)This set is even more awesome when putting it on a 48x48 baseplate. The Troll then becomes completely poseable that way.

Eh... not really. The Hobbit is classic literature. Clone Wars is franchise-milking trash.