MAB

It is also 20% off at £160 in the UK, but even at that price I'm leaving it. I got goats from the CMF series, superior Wolfpack figures from the CMF series, I picked up a few torsos online and I have plenty of bricks already. It almost went in the cart, but £160 feels like the price it should have been. Even with an apparently good ppp ratio for parts in colours I.often use.

Yes, infrequent updates to get new sounds or to change the use from City to Ninjago for example would be fine. Although of course even that dies when LEGO stops selling the sets and support and downloads of the app. Look at how fast they dumped the companion apps for Hidden Side and Vidiyo. Having to download apk files from what could be dodgy websites is never good.

I imagine NFC as that is quite cheap to implement (not that Bluetooth is that much more). Funny enough, I have a load of the blank Dimensions 'data' tags that I use for NFC arduino and raspi projects as they were cheaper to buy than importing the cheapest tags from aliexpress. When all the Dimensions sets were sold off cheap, BL sellers were getting rid of them at about 5p per token. If these are for kids I really hope they don't go down the bluetooth via app on tablet or phone again like with vidiyo, especially if they only support the latest expensive kit again.

Maybe LEGO are being clever here. They probably know that the Castle sets are for adults and that kids are perfectly happy with the licensed sets and Ninjago. Let BDP do the work, as this almost guarantees them sales of probably 50000 copies of a £250 set twice a year. Here, they have had to put 20% discount (combined with Insiders points and a GWP) on MTS to clear it.

It doesn't sound that interesting for AFOLs, it sounds like a trigger and response type toy. Put the trigger part close to the sensor and it makes a noise. Fun for 60 seconds but not much use after that. And no doubt it will massively increase the price of the sets it is in.

Three years later, they have done the new Brickheadz of the boys. I am also a bit surprised they aren't cashing in on the final season which is coming soon. I doubt they'd do a series of sets but with minor characters that have become main, they have maybe 12-14 characters so could surely do a $300 16+ or 18+ set.

If the larger one is the top, then I cannot really see how they could be combined. Unless of course you need to buy 10 of a smaller lower section to create a base for the big top section to be added. But then most of those would be covered up.

You could also get a baseplate or build a base out of plates and use that to store minifigures, or torsos and legs.

Proof? There were also discussions at the time that the split from 2 to 3 movies for The Hobbit messed-up the time line for the LOTR sets and they only signed a short term deal. Again, speculation. It would be Minas Tirith in the sense that it is a bit of Minas Tirith, just like Rivendell wasn't the whole of Rivendell but bits of it merged into one. Some people want the whole city with presumably no figures due to scale and hence that would be a very static architecture set. Others want the action of specific scenes which happen in certain parts of Minas Tirith with minifigures. Which of course leads to ... Yes, some will be pleased they get minifigures and minifigure scale buildings and the white tree while others are unhappy that they miss out on the microscale whole city, or vice versa. If they are only to do one Minas Tirith set, some won't be happy how it is done. Doing none is no better, and doing a bad hybrid is also likely to be worse than either option.

Yes but Barad-Dur is a tower, so it makes sense to have rooms inside.They are completely the wrong scale but they feel right because towers have rooms and so it works. There is not really anything that suggests scale on the outside so it just feels like the tower and minifigures work together even though the reality is that the tower should be much much larger. Whereas if they did the same with Minas Tirith, it would look pretty stupid since it would be a (presumably) single room inside the city. Any rooms should be inside a building, not inside a whole city. And given that most of the action takes place outside rather than inside, the minifigures should really be on the city side, not the inside. But any minifigures would seem out of place if placed on the microscale side, which is presumably why they used the smaller trophy figures in the Hogwarts sculpture set.

They did that first time around for whatever reason. I think it would be better to do something and please some rather than nothing and please none. To me, doing an architecture style microscale set when there are no other architecture style microscale sets would be a bit off as it wouldn't fit with everything else and still leaves a big gap. Whereas if they did a minifigure scale set it does. Once done and 'complete', they could always revisit and do a microscale set without minifigures if they think the demand is there.

It has been 15 years! I don't know if they still sell green but take a look at their website for the product range http://www.brickarms.com and look at the distributors and find one you can buy from.

If they were happy paying $400 for it, then yes they got a good deal.

Barad-Dûr sort of worked because it is a single building (albeit huge). So having rooms inside the tower works even though the scales are different. Whereas if they do Minas Tirith city like that and have rooms inside it, it wouldn't look right. Plus as you say, most of the important scenes happen outside so would need to be done on the microscale side. This is why I'd prefer minifigures with some buildings rather than microscale with no minifigures. I cannot see microscale with minifigures working. So yeah, I agree, it is going to disappoint one camp or the other.

Especially if five spots go to the family.

I would also prefer a Minas Tirith set based on scenes from the movies in minifigure scale rather than a very micro microscale set of the whole city.

I thought that was because they were produced and packaged in a different factory to most other parts destined for sets and so don't make it to PAB.

I doubt it. Would they have known about the film coming out a year before the release of Krusty Burger? If they knew, other merchandise companies would have known and it would have leaked long ago.

Here you can buy the torsos on BL or ebay for about £2.00-2.50, when the PAB is about £1.20 I think. So double the price but if you are building an army of 10 then five of each at least helps break up the same details on the torsos. But it would be better still if they didn't add those derails to the torsos in sets, or had alternative torsos with and without. I got lucky through trades and finding them in store, I got I think 12 of the wolfpack men (but not wolves). I found two on a supermarket shelf just last week, they must have found an old box in the storeroom. I'm keeping them anyway as I want them, but they aren't really worth flipping anyway as on BL complete sets are only £7, just double RRP. They are not like the Tournament Knight or Viking.

Even with the variations in accessories, I find using the cheaper torsos you can buy on PAB is too repetitive as they have that print of the pouch and money bag on the belt. This is why I prefer the CMF torso as it doesn't have those details, so it works much better for army building.

Indeed. The boxes indicate that they license it from Warner Bros.

And Warner Bros would want it to look like what is in their movies.

For me, there are not too many colours so long as all basic parts are readily available in all colours. It is very annoying when they do some but not all (basic) parts in a particular colour. It happens especially with new colours when it might take years for sets to need those parts in those colours.

They've tweaked it again today and made it worse.

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