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Heh, no wonder I don't have it. I never owned any pirate sets.

Heh... not sure what I think of this. Looks a bit baby-ish, even to me... I saw my nephew play with his heroica board game and it looked way cooler and more intricate than this. With weapons, battles, etc

at Wonder Woman being set up as a damsel in distress for Superman to save, is that really true?

I really want that little boat now. From what set does it come from?

It's been said many times how the Orc Forge feels a little out of place among the 7 lotr sets. I have my own theory as to how Lego debated this. In their eyes, everything they produce has to appeal to little kids and little kids see things as "good guys vs bad guys". We already have a huge "good guys base" with Helm's Deep so the Orc Forge was the closest thing to a "bad guys base" they could do from the first two movies without producing an Isengard/Orthanc set.

Yup, but still not at toysrus.ca ...

I'd LOVE a Hobbit Battle Pack! Along with the usual short-sword wielding, short cape clad hobbit, Put in the old gaffer and give him a shovel, wheelbarrow filled with 'taters and other vegetables to throw at Orcs! (In the spirit of the "Mill Village Raid" set). And some female hobbit peasants as well! I WANT FEMALE HOBBIT MINIFIGURES! :wub:

Here's some nice classic John Howe art to go with the set All we're missing from the art is Gollum lurking somewhere in the cave.

Available? Here in Canada that set is everywhere - even in small remote toy shops.

Well, it has a link to the LOTR site, so there's that.

Since I only own 1 copy of every set (I got other themes to collect too! Like city and technic... and The Hobbit coming soon), I used all my orcs from the Orc Forge set to attack Helm's Deep. My 9476 came with 4 orc swords instead of just 3, so every minifig in the set has one. - The generic Uruk-Hai is wearing a full set: white hand shield, white hand helm, armor, sword. - The bald mordor orc, I gave him a white hand helmet, armor, and sword. - The mordor orc with hair, I game him a white hand shield and sword. - Lurtz is his normal self with hair & sword. I like how both Orc Forge and Helm's Deep come with enough swords to arm EVERY orc coming with the set, so even my Berserker Uruk-Hai wields one. But yeah, I know Lurtz died long before the Helm's Deep siege, and there were no Mordor Orcs there....

I provided the link only as a way to entertain folks, but by no means do I agree with the majority of the comparison points listed on the site.

Approved! :wub: Sam's expression is perfect for this! And I think Frodo's face is the "worried" face from his shire version, correct?

... What the heck is Qui-Gon Jinn doing there?

Thanks, those brickfilms are excellent.

Huh... maybe because I HAVE read the book FIFTEEN years ago (yes, before the movies were even announced), and only ONCE, and as such cannot remember every tiny little detail? Further, I'll point out that my book looks like this so that's how I always viewed Gandalf, and when people complained that his staff from set 9469 was not elaborate like the movies I'd point out how simply depicted the staff is on the book cover. In any case, I started re-reading it again last week (right after I finished reading The Hobbit for the first time). Good stuff!

Yes! But that didn't stop him: he did his own medieval fantasy movie a few years later, featuring "hobbits" knockoffs. (Not allowed to directly use the hobbit name, of course, calling them "nelwyns"). You get a knockoff Frodo and Aragorn as main characters. It featured a big "hobbit" village, like Hobbiton. They were played by actual midget actors (or little people, if the term midget offends you)

Most interesting website I've seen this month. Even more so if you're into one of the Lego themes (or both!) http://www.listal.com/list/ring-wars-star-wars

Well it made sense for them to make Haldir because 1) We were gonna get a Legolas in at least one set anyways. 2) Haldir is most likely never gonna appear in any other set again, ever, so they threw him in since that's his most significant movie appearance. (The other being Lorien). He's also the closest to a "generic elf warrior" we got in the first wave. Where as for Elrond, he hasn't been made yet. So if a nobody like Gil-Gahad or whatever his name is, would appear in a Final Alliance set but a minifig everybody has been desperate to get (Elrond) wouldn't, everybody would cry murder. There are 3 main characters people remember from the Final Alliance: Elrond, Isildur, and Sauron. And maybe Isildur's dad.

I agree. And while the anthromorphic bunny from the vid looks OK, the same legs would look really bad on dwarves and hobbits for the reason Lyichir said. Maybe Lego should invent a new shorter torso that would allow enough space for short legs to have a hinge outside of it, like in the regular minifigs? About Elrond vs Gil-Galad: be serious people, it's ELROND. There is NO way Lego would ever make a minifig of a minor character barely anybody remembers (I'm a huge LOTR nut and I didn't) over a hugely important iconic character like Elrond that not only everybody knows, but appears in the upcoming Hobbit film.

I talked to the owner of the local Montreal toysonfire.com shop. He had Kre-o transformers. I told him they just got the Star Trek license. He said he wouldn't order any of them, because the Kre-o he already has don't sell. I said, good for you, I saw them and the figures look horrible. I for one am happy they got the Star Trek license because that means Lego won't get it! Star Trek has sucked a big one ever since the TNG seasons ended.

As much as I despise the quality of Megabloks, (their HQ is in Montreal, the city where I live!) I would find it interesting if someone posted a review of one of their set, in this thread. I know 2 guys who used to work there. One is Pierre Normandin, famous for his town mocs, and he now works for Lego. The other guy used to be a forklift driver in their warehouse.

I used to live in a crappy college dorm, so I know the dread you feel. However, I had begun my "dark ages" then. Still it would have made no difference if I hadn't; there's no way I'd leave ANY Lego in a crappy college dorm.

For a while I had given it to Boromir and Boromir's brown cape went to Aragorn.

Yeah, funny how 8043 was the 'flagship' set of 2010 when the 8053 mobile crane has 164 more parts.