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Are you a 5-10 year old child though? Some kids will like it, and ones that don't can buy unswapable vehicles.

I think the biggest problem with doing the Mines of Moria again is the minifig selection. They have already done the whole Fellowship in their regular outfits and the Balrog. So the only missing characters (for the recent releases) are a cave troll and some orcs. I think that could impact sales quite badly, especially if it is just a large grey room. Doing just interiors is difficult as so many bricks are needed to enclose the space. Not particularly good architecture and repeated minifigs wouldn't be a good combination. Maybe if it was two sided and had the Watcher in the Water and the Doors of Durin on one side and the mines as a single open room on the other it could be a little more interesting.

There was loads of fantasy /sci-fi Space in City in 2024-25. If they do it too frequently it becomes boring.

I doubt it, Mines of Moria is the only location like that in LOTR and they've already done the Balrog set this time around.

I like how the plume and helmet have gone together. Did you have to drill the Gondor helmet or remove the point, or is the plume just cut and glued? I thought the sword was the Brick Warriors flamberge at first sight. I'll have to take a look at Loongbrick, I'd never heard of them.

Give it a few weeks and it will be back in stock at LEGO.

Aren't bagpipes just a dead haggis?

I'd go for 'animal' :-)

I see. For reviewers I think there is a 'you must not sell this' type agreement anyway. I still think it is a bit bizarre that they are only in certain countries as it is not like there is an app that can only be used in some regions or languages, and presumably stock all comes from the same warehouse within a region.

I doubt that would work. Once a product is sold, they cannot really control its resale. And they never tried that when they did regional exclusives in the past, or if you currently buy from LEGO House. Especially if a child buys a set, they cannot force them into signing a contract. I really doubt the regional exclusivity is because they don't want them sold in those regions but more about testing and promoting markets where they can do it easily.

For the picture, white for the building on the left and tan for the one on the right might work. It really depends on the lighting. Same here, especially for the in-between LBG and DBG.

Characters like that often have splats to emphasise the role such as the various mechanics, the cake boy, artist, etc.

It is a bit late for that, this is BDP. If you didn't order it at the time, your money is better spent on current sets.

There are the old light grey and dark grey too plus some rarer variants for some pieces. For that building, I'd go for DBG.

But not if it has chocolate splashes on the torso and legs.

For sure, no doubt people will want her set if there is a decent animal. But I'd put her up there with the goatherd, where the accessory is the star and the figure is fine for a one off but not really needed in quantity. If it is the unicorn foal from the Creator set, it is less interesting for me as I find them too small to be useful, and they are already quite plentiful. There seems to be a bit of a gap in the market for something a bit bigger than CMF but 'collectable' / pocket money containing a figure plus a full sized animal. It would be interesting if they did a more expensive small box series (maybe £5-6) of things like knight plus horse, farmer plus cow, princess plus unicorn, horse rider plus horse, pirate plus shark, zoo keeper plus alligator, or groups of animals like farmer plus 5 chickens, diver plus turtle and some fish, etc. Whether there is demand I'm not sure. There probably is for AFOLs but for general public maybe not if it costs more than CMF but doesn't appear to be much more.

I imagine that is a umour based on similar rumours for SW. The contracts are never made public so we never know what agreements they have made.

I don't think the minifigure is really missing from SW Helmets, or if it would be a big deal if one was included. I think all the characters that had SW Helmets had readily available minifigures in cheap sets. That is where Sauron is different. I already bought a fake Sauron as I wanted to customise him by cutting and painting him anyway but I was also considering buying a genuine one "for the collection" as I don't really care for Barad-Dur so wasn't going to buy the set for myself. The figure appearing in the Helmet set makes it a no brainer for me. I wouldn't mind it if they do the same thing with the Witch King. Have him in a big set, then later repeat in a Helmet set.

If she comes with a unicorn, presumably it will only be a foal to fit in the pack. I imagine a shield or some other object like a printed tile is more likely. As to the recent pattern, I'd say: Falcon, good animal and very good figure that can army build as male or female, fleshie or yellow. Goat, excellent animal but not a great figure, figure not really an army builder and still available at a liw price without the goat. Wolf: excellent animal and excellent figure, a good army builder for fleshie or yellow, very useful parts. Whether the unicorn elf is sought after will really depend on the accessory. She'll look good as a one off yellow castle/princess type figure but I don’t think that she will be sought after as an army builder unless there is a great accessory, and that would make her less of a chase figure.

Yes I do. And that is my point about the Tower of Orthanc numbers. Not everyone puts their collection on there and not everyone on there tells the truth.

And 10421 own Helm's Deep, which suggests a remake of that wouldn't sell well especially if that group overlap a lot with the (only) 10996 people that bought Rivendell. Or maybe brickset stats need to be taken with a big pinch of salt as they are not representative of the market.

It sounds like another series I'm going to skip altogether. Thank LEGO for PAB figure parts.

I don't think there are lots of people with the original, not enough that sales wood be low for acre-release. It was the most expensive set of the original releases, I don’t think it was ever discounted and was from a time before LEGO had really taken off.

The other issue is going out of stock as soon as they come back in stock. I had to wait about six months to get any Black Falcons torsos, not because they were long term removed but because people kept buying them all as soon as they came back. Of course, after a while stock settles down.

Take them apart and you'll get the fun of building them again.