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It would be pretty lame if specific countries/videogame shops/console versions had different minifigs; Lego itself having released the black&white image of the Elrond fig for a good months now. I myself only have a xbox360 and that's what I'm gonna get it for.

Very interesting MOC and idea, to build a MOC of oneself while doing his/her daily activity. Wish I'd see that more often.

Yesterday I bought a 48 x 48 bley baseplate. The Mines of Moria set looks SO MUCH better on it, it's not even funny. The troll can pose any way you want without falling over, and it actually look like a real section of a cave now!

I want it

You know, I started participating on the Historical (aka Castle) forum only to talk about LOTR, but since then I heard that set mentioned SO many times that I finally caved in and received mine monday. Opened the box but haven't opened the individual bags yet. All those shiny brown bricks call out to me... "free me from those bags! I can't breathe!" The photographied scenes depicted all around and under the box are hilarious. Lego knows how to make any of their sets silly and cartoonish, in a good way. The old peasant cracks me up, always walking around with his cane and a hunched back.

Again, I'm not entirely sure Quebec consumer laws are not the same as the rest of Canada. But the "Office de protection du consommateur" I keep referring to, appears to be a Quebec site. http://www.opc.gouv.qc.ca/ Site on "Loi sur la protection du consommateur" http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=2&file=/P_40_1/P40_1.html I found no equivalent sites for Canada itself or the other provinces for those. As for TRU sales, thanks for the heads up but I'm only interested in their sales for LOTR (for the 9471 - I'd like a 2nd one), City (for the 4207 city garage) and Technic (for the newest helicopter and 4x4 crawler), and those won't get discounted for quite a while.

Does that mean the line isn't selling well?

That was a long read, but interesting. thanks!

I agree about LOTR being very similar to Castle. But let's face it, 99% of the posts there are currently about Castle or LOTR. And Castle itself has had fantasy (ie non historical) elements since the early 90s. IMHO, the forum should be called "Castle and Historical" to not alienate fans of Western, Samurai and ancient greece/rome and such. In Quebec province, it's most certainly illegal. I confirmed it when I called Office de Protection du Consommateur right after I placed the order. Even just today, at the grocery store there was a pricing error with a large onion I bought. I LOVE it when I discover pricing errors - I developped a photographic memory for it so I notice any errors as the cashier scans every item. They had to reimburse me the FULL price instead of just the difference. Free onion! Quebec customer claws don't screw around! But if you're sure that I am mistaken about some detail I might have misunderstood, feel free to correct me. As for credit card charging, they did, and I could prove it. I called my credit card company to confirm they charged me, and took a screenshot of my credit card account, mere minutes after I placed the pre-order. Yes, it was a pre-order. Someone alerted me TRU might cancel it so I took all precautions.

I loved that movie. Awesome find, and nice that some Lego designers are fans of Monty Python!

I agree, a truck stop would be great. I never got the one from 1987. I'd love to see it done in today's style. You said we almost got one in 2010, are you referring to the time when Lego asked us what we wanted for a new 2010 set and the Public Transport idea won out? 8404 was a killer set.

BRILLIANT!!!! :thumbup: The Jesus and Mary statues made me :roflmao: :iamded_lol:

Wonderful MOC! Love the different colors. Is that Frodo's torso on the bottom right corner of the first image?

Beautiful! Have you thought of incorporating a mechanism that makes it crumbles in the same way as in the movie when the ring is destroyed?

Nope! And I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I was right in not including my even more "controversial" set ideas... a riot/protest and a funeral procession are actually benign compared to some of the other stuff I could come up with... Have you ever seen the Brick Testament, aka the Brick Bible by Brendan Powell Smith? I'm not trying to troll. Ever since becoming a Brick Testament fan, I just always found it extremely hilarious to see very serious subject matters rendered with little adorable blocky plastic figures. Even LEGO does it sometimes. That box always cracks me up.

It's cute!

Great MOC. I love how the SNOT, round bricks, and "brick" bricks give a nice effect.

Yeah, correct, early june. The mixup lasted about 2 days. I actually found out about it from an EB member on the LOTR topic in the "Historical" (*chuckle, that forum title is so lame*) forum. If you dig around to around page 300 you should find it (the topic is almost 400 pages now). But that's not the whole story - most people didn't end up getting the $79.99 deal. TRU canceled the order of everybody by email (by claiming some bogus issue that the credit card info was invalid) and gave them a $45 rebate to smoothen the deal. What they did was actually illegal, so that didn't sit too well with me- I'm as vicious as an enraged pitbull when I notice people are trying to rip me off. I called them. "Sir, we canceled your order because there was an error with the pricing." "So there WAS no credit card problem after all! Can't say I'm surprised. Pricing error huh? How is that my concern? That's irrelevant to me. I placed an order, you have to honor the price." I told the sales rep that cancelling my order was illegal - they had to honor it by law, and I demanded to talk to the manager. At first he tried to get me to accept a $45 rebate, I said.. "No deal, I want 9474 Helm's Deep for $79.99 or I'm filing a complaint via the office of consumer protection. I expected such a move from you guys minutes after I placed the order, so I took a few precautionary steps and already called the Office and got all the info I needed from them in case such a thing would happen and it did, and I have all the required proof of my initial order. So you WILL sell it to me for $79.99." He did. If he had refused, the actual steps required by the Office of consumer protection to be able to file a complaint would have been to buy it at the price they asked, THEN file a complaint to ask for the difference, using all the information of the original order as proof. (ie: confirmation emails from toysrus)

Didn't happen to me so far, but contact LEGO and let them know about the problem.

Good review. I own and love that set. However, as a nitpick, I dislike it when the reviewer adds in pieces that are not in the set (the tree and the fishing pole for example).

Monday I went to a local EBGames and asked the clerk about Lego games and lego minifigs. He said that, yes, they would give them out to people buying games and showed me a Harry Potter polybag as example, I think it's that one and I've seen tons of them at TRU. (Sorry, not too knowledgeable about Harry Potter)

Since around 2002 many Racers sets qualify for being technic. Notably, the classic 8461 BMW Williams (pretty much a recoloring of an actual "Technic" set, 8458), and the two awesome RC cars 8475 and 8366 which I still think are the fastest official Lego models yet, with arguably the most powerful technic motor yet (also used in 8421 and 8287). There were many others but those 3 were my favorite "Racers" technic. I love the 8275 the way it is. I wouldn't add linear actuators to it (I LOVE the way they did the mechanisms using only lots of gears ) and pneumatics would have made it unnecessarily complex and too expensive, considering the amount of PF parts in it. Well, actually, there's one thing it lacked - headlights! But that is very easily solved with the PF part, with no additional part. Just remove the 1x2 yellow plates!

So last reply was 20 May 2012, huh? No wonder I didn't see it or remembered seeing one.

Here's what I'd like to see: - A factory/assembly plant. With tons of machines and gizmos inside. Possibly with a technic motor to have some part of the plant motorized. Includes the expected usual city stuff: forklift, and delivery truck. Minifigs: several factory workers, the forklift operator, truck driver, and the boss in his office. EDIT: to make it even more ambitious - make it modular to combine with a train set, with an exterior crane to load containers! - A ski station, complete with a small mountains made of white BURPs and motorized chairlift. minifigs: skiers, chairlift operator. - A big summer water park, including a brand new part that I've wanted Lego to make for decades: a water pump! The pump, which would me powered by a motor, could provide water to many different contraptions by using the existing technic pneumatic tubes and t-pieces. Minifigs: A lifeguard, tons of parents & kids in swimsuit. - A riot/protest (we had so many of those in Quebec province for the first half of 2012 that it inspired the local Lego club to include two protests in their layout). Include shops with broken windows (along with several dark red 1 x 2 plates next to them), police car ( to arrest protesters), police van. Minifigs: 5 protesters (some with masks!), 4 anti-riot policemen with special shields, and 1 tv reporter. - a skydiving set, with a plane and working Lego parachutes minifigs: pilot, 2 skydivers - a shopping complex with motorized escalators! minifigs: shoppers, mall cop - A massive passenger cruise liner. minifigs: captain, 4 x sailors, 6 x passengers. - A flower shop. Would work great as a "female minifig" pack. Minifigs: Female shopkeeper, old lady, little girl, 2x adult female customers - a power plant. Includes a part of the set that had an accident (toxic spill!), with lots of trans lime green parts and a skeleton. Also includes a little river next to the plant that is dark green instead of blue, and dark gray plants/foliage. Minifigs: 4 x engineers/technicians/electricians, 1 x skeleton - Funeral procession. minifigs: hearse driver, widow (with this head ), two crying kids, priest, skeleton.

The sticker on the box is cracking me up. "Girls toys" indeed