SheepEater

Amazing fortress, thanks! A shame the creator got banned, though.

Do you know of any Baldur's Gate 1 or 2 MOCs? Especially if there are cities/castles/dungeons... I'd like to see more than just minifig representation of characters.

Very interesting. Thanks for those tidbits of history from the mid 70s to mid 80s period - keep em coming! (the period from 1975 to 1985 is the most interesting to me because that's when the Lego we have today was really defined: themed Town/Space/Castles sets with lots of minifigs)

WOW. Much better than the Back to the Future set. Beautiful Ecto-1 car, perfect minifigs. Definitiely picking this one up.

I'll pass on that one. I'm quite pleased with the 8265 I already have.

Ditto. What a lazy choice. Why not galadriel, old Bilbo from LOTR... :wacko:

My niece got this one at a birthday party. It's not quadrupled in value. I just emailed my brother to tell her to REALLY take care of it

My two 2008 Gondorian crown knights beg to differ

Interesting to see my topic getting this big and still active. This one I get more and more often, especially in the past 2 years due to the advent of 3D printers: "Lego will be obsolete soon, people will just print their own bricks!" To which I answer: "...At 3 times the cost of buying the actual bricks and a tiny fraction of the quality. We're far from there yet, buddy."

Okay, I managed to get A4 size paper (with scissors) and all the mechanicals finally worked right. With the remote. Sadly, the technic cams that switch the touch sensors on/off constantly do so too fast for the program to register it as a rotation. So the plotter can't be programmed out of the box. Unless you rebuild it with proper rotation sensors... (which don't come with the 3800 set so I would consider it cheating to use them in the build)

I became a Count on Eurobricks. I guess that counts as Lego-related (pun unintended).

Beautiful. Love the debris on the perfect tile floor. Added to LOTR index

It's not dead and won't ever be, as long as people keep making awesome MOCs. Eurobricks LOTR MOC chronological index

Thanks Click on the links in my post! Those are mine, modified from the one found on lordofthebrick. These are what you see in the picture of the black gate in my room. Here they are again. Black Gate LXF file Minifigs only

According to rebrickable, I have 99.9% of the parts needed to build it (ignoring color), needing only 2 small parts. Awesome. :thumbup: Thanks for posting this, Sheepo.

Well, I bought two Uruk-Hai armys and two black gates (sort of, for my 2nd one only the bricks + Orcs from an ebay re-seller for cheap). Plus one of every other LOTR and Hobbit set, of course. And all polybags, even those not available in my country. I think I did my part so far.

Helm's Deep actually has a similar price-per-piece ratio than the preceding and succeeding generic castles.

So what do you guys think of Luke Evans as Bard the Bowman? I thought he was fantastic, and his role being largely expanded from the book was one thing I was quite pleased Peter Jackson did. His minifigure is pretty sweet, too.

This was my first 2014 must have set for me. When I got it right before xmas, there was only one box left. PN = Our own Pierre Normandin, from Quebec province, who got famous for his town MOCs and went on to work for Lego in Denmark :)

A question to Castle fans who don't care for LOTR movies/books/storyline: - Did you still buy some of the LOTR/Hobbit for the parts they provide? - Do you prefer the LOTR/Hobbit sets' minifigs, or parts, or accessories? - Which are in your Castle MOCer opinion, the best LOTR/Hobbit sets to use as parts pack for your own MOCs so far? - Do you like some of the sets because they also work as a generic medieval fantasy Lego set? (I remember reading a guy saying he hated LOTR but bought Orthanc because he needed an evil wizard tower for his layout)

Beautiful! But what is a dead man of Dunharrow doing there? Did he get lost on the way to the Pelennor Fields?

I added it to the LOTR MOC index, under the new section, "The Taming of Smeagol" because that's the chapter name in the book.

Congrats for an amazing MOC. Added to index.

Well, I always like to put a positive spin on all things. LOTR Lego will never die. It existed long before Lego got the official license ( I saw MOCs as early as 2002) and will continue to exist long after, thanks for MOCing. It's unfortunate about Faramir, Eowyn, Witch King and Gondor soldiers... but all those minifigs are relatively easy to make more or less the same as in the videogame, aside for the special gondor helmet (2008 crownies are cheap on bricklink and are good enough IMHO) and witch king crown. As long as people keep interest in the terrific story, book or movies, LOTR will always remain an official Lego theme, even without any new sets, still alive and being talked about. :) Those kids who did not get those sets today, once they see the movies/book when they're older, they're the ones who will REALLY feel the pain of missing out on this short lived but great theme. Mark my words, if 2 waves is all we get these few LOTR sets we've got will be worth a fortune in 4-5 years. And yes, I agree that Lego put ZERO effort in marketing the theme (compared to even The Hobbit)

Absolutely beautiful alternate model. Yes, I too would love instructions, or even better, an LDD file.