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I'm hoping for a grey order from bricklink, to extend my roman fort. Santa can help too if he wants. I'm currently on the road, so can only build with my microscale kit.

At least someone understands :-)

I found the Simpsons CMFs were great for parts for MOCing other city characters. The Simpsons' skins are the same yellow as lego-folk, so the parts are easily changable, they gave us some nice new colour torsos, new dual colour arms and short legs, the new torso shape for Maggie, which is great for a small child in lego city ... there's plenty of integration in my book.

Yes, I know. I also know the Lego customer rep confirmed it was not three beard.

Official confirmation that it is not three beard. Dr Who will probably be big competition for the next ideas round.

People that buy the set that don't have others will complain about the lack of eagles. Plus added expense for two or three new molds - wings and torso. Maybe, although it would probably be a reprint normal head, rather than a new molded head like Azog - unless they reuse Azog's headpiece and call him Bolg. But where is Legolas for people that buy one set? He's a key character ... Dain Ironfoot is a dwarf, in armour. And again a named character that people will want. If they put an Ent in a set and don't call him Treebeard, people complain that there is no Treebeard. Sure you can downsize a build and replace with minifigs / animals, but lego is meant to be a construction toy.

He'd get better focussed and bigger pictures by using a larger container such as a biscuit tin. Sure, you can use lego to do many things - but is it actually better (or at least as good as) the current alternatives. You can make a wonky table steady by using a few stacked plates under one of the legs - but is it any better than using a few beer mats?

I'd buy at those prices, but they are rather low. Your Gondor Army set at $35 - 6 minifigs plus a troll plus a wall. Their Uruk-hai army set $30 a few years ago - six minifigs plus a horse plus a wall. Although they seem similar, the bigfigs add a lot to the cost and they do not come in small boxes / sets. Think about Hulk(s), Green Goblin, Goblin King, Mines of Moria troll, ... all bigger sets. Maybe $35 if you remove the troll. Set 3: 5 minifigs, plus a larger fig (Balrog - presumably brick built) and a collapsing bridge of Kazad Dum - that is going to need to be at least as big as the $60 a few years ago Weathertop set, if not bigger.

Unfortunately, your plan fails at step 1.

9475 is also missing in the number sequence for LOTR, although this is the same number as a much older set. Same with the poly bags, 30214. I doubt we will ever see them filled.

Did it? I seem to recall quite a few "meh" comments on multiple forums about both Weathertop and Mines of Moria at the time. Then only looking back after what came later did these sets turn out to be better than they were originally.

If there is a way of re-using the part, they also do it. They have done it before, such as the SDCC Azog. Now a new headpiece for LOTR Sauron is probably too specific to be reused, but it would be possible to do a flame version of Sauron, using Infearno's flaming headcover.

LEGO can make new moulds for exclusives, they choose not to.

The actual present would just be the ticket, which I thought was a bit boring so I put something fun instead. I'll upload something else. I've removed the original submission as I don't want to break the one entry only rule.

The easel is ice, as is the painting. But they don't really match each other. Mondrian didn't display his work on an easel like that. He used very functional plain vertical easels to work with and liked his work displayed on white walls.

Going on recent retail set trains, it would never be made like that. You'd get the engine, tender and one carriage. I find it quite boring to be honest. This is mainly down to you concentrating on showing the carriages over and over again and not the engine, combined with the fact that the carriages are so plain. Compare it to one of the better trains of recent years - the Emerald Night - and the carriage design is just so plain to the point that there is little of interest in them. They are a plain single coloured box built completely studs up with windows and standard train wheels.

I guess it depends where the existing molds are. The CMF are manufactured and packaged in China, so it will probably be cheaper for them to make a new mold for a hair plus crown plus beard, than it is for them to make a new crown plus hair mold and a new beard mold. Remember they make a lot of new molds for the CMF, especially headgear - we now have many types of exotic headgear due to this range. I'm really hoping it is separate, so the beard can also be used for dwarves and the crowns for castle themes.

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Hopefully the crown and the beard are separate parts, and not like the combined one from Abe Lincoln.

I've supported it. I like it more than the Minas Tirith sets on there. If anything, I'd prefer it to be smaller and lower cost. Lose the left arch, and two orcs (they are common enough anyway).

I'd like to see the signs you need to place around it. DO NOT TOUCH. DO NOT EVEN APPROACH. IN FACT, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT BREATHING.

DOS gets more than four. AUJ only got four. Barrel Escape and Mirkwood Spiders were clearly marked preview sets - these were both from DOS. Also the Smaug set is really DOS, or shared between DOS and B05A. So DOS has the most sets dedicated to it out of all the three films. Sure, the timing of the sets don't match but that is down to the film being split into three rather than two, and the timing of the production of the lego sets. Lego clearly didn't want vast numbers of the two early scenes from DOS sitting in warehouses until the film was released. I don't mind the Smaug set being in the last wave. It is the highlight set of the series. They might find sales pick up at the end rather than in the middle, which may help to sell the middle wave sets. If Smaug was in the middle, the later sets may not have sold so well. Who knows - lego would have modelled this. The omission is of course the armies of B05A, but lego has history here. We know the key armies of LOTR ROTK are missing, same here. The Rohan soldier now stands out as an anomoly - even though for AFOLs he is probably in the best army building set. Lego presumably knows that they should concentrate on key characters and not do battle scenes for most of the population. To do a battle well you need, what, at least 20-40 minifigs on each side. That puts battle scenes out of reach of the main audience. They'd prefer to have an identifiable main guy rather than an unidentifiable one.

And that is my point too - LEGO will go on putting Shell (and Mobil) stickers on their sets and promoting these companies to kids, but they can say that they have no relationship with Mobil and Shell if they are targetted by Greenpeace again.

I'm normally a show your studs kind of builder, but at this scale it may be better to cover the studs on the rocks with tiles. Having a turret in the corner as mentioned above may also help get rid of the fact that masonary bricks do not look good at corners.

Yes, some people actively avoid watching trailers before seeing the film. There is a spoiler option that can be used for this very reason.