Jump to content

MAB

Eurobricks Archdukes
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    8,552

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by MAB

  1. MAB
    I have now placed votes for most Minas Tirith sets, but I have also told Lego what I would pay for them - $10 to $50. I cannot see them doing a $400 ideas set. I cannot really see them doing a $100 ideas set, not for an existing theme. If there are not going to be new molds used, then it might as well be a cheap set to get a few missing minifigs with existing parts in a new print. Not that I think it will happen anyway.
  2. MAB
    Adults shold also stop playing computer games, reading kids books like Harry Potter, watching kids movies, drawing, painting, making models, doing any craft, riding bikes for fun (transportation to from / work is fine, so long as you don't pull a wheelie), ...
  3. MAB
    Awful set but .... re-releasing the Batmobile dragon wings. Excellent. A pair of them new on bricklink is currently about half the value of the set or more.
  4. MAB
    If they made a fell beast (with a Witch King on his back) the same size as Smaug, I'd buy it. Have you ever placed Frodo or Bilbo next to Gandalf and realised the scale is not quite right? That happens with Lego, but for the most part looks fine.
  5. MAB
    Quite a few of the existing LOTR minifig parts were made in China.
  6. MAB
    That was a licensed set, so they called them what they are known as in Toy Story. The other modern soldiers that lego have made are also licensed - in Indiana Jones. They are integral to the story, so are in the Lego sets. It is still a jump for them to do modern warfare in their own lines. Why is he dressed as a clown?
  7. MAB
    Sometimes it seems they staff pick things for a laugh. After all, they are currently featuring the Imperial Hot Tub too.
  8. MAB
    The Council of Elrond is a fairly significant movie scene, as it is the creation of the Fellowship. They always have a range of set sizes, so one of them has to be small. Of course, we could have done without Gimli as he is in other sets, same with Frodo but he is a key character, but otherwise I find it a nice little set.
  9. MAB
    This is how it happened: Design group meeting: We should have a Witch King in this wave. Designer 1: OK, I'll do him. Unfortunately the designer couldn't be bothered to sit through nine hours and watched the films on 30x speed, mistaking Mouth of Sauron for Witch King. Designer 1: here he is. Design team: Perfect (also not having sat through nine hours). Designer 2: And here is a pirate ship from the film (also having skipped through at 30x, randomly stopping on one scene with a ship in it). Design team: that's us done on LOTR, let's get busy redesigning Azog's face for a major update.
  10. MAB
    Not much use to lego fans though.
  11. MAB
    That was the awful "First Knight".
  12. MAB
    I doubt it will be adult builders. It will probably be a kids show featuring kids.
  13. MAB
    LOTR is alive and well. It is just Lego LOTR that is dead. You are not the first person to say that MegaBloks completely outplayed lego this year either. Both fans and non-fans of lego seem to be saying the same.
  14. MAB
    Not only bricks are useful - I regularly use castle walls under mountains. If you get two sets of walls and put a 16x8 duplo plate on top, then you have a 32x16 equivalent lego studs mountain top to build off, which is strong but light.
  15. MAB
    It would be funny if lego signed a completely new agreement with Shell to start when the current one ends, without telling Greenpeace. It would be like Greenpeace execs flying short haul for years without telling anyone instead of using the train, even though they officially oppose short haul flights.
  16. MAB
    Mine are exactly the same as the Minotaur from S6, and can be used for either left or right.
  17. MAB
    The brand consultant (Mark Borkowski) that "wondered why Lego with such a strong brand and such dominance would get into bed with Shell" and thought that "Greenpeace have done an outstanding job, to apply the pressure" just happens to be employed by Greenpeace. Although it seems The Guardian forgot to mention that.
  18. MAB
    Simpsons Series 2 CMF is coming ...
  19. MAB
    You do have to watch out a bit. They will often ship the rest anyway if you don't cancel the order after being told about rare parts not being ready to ship, then they cancel the rare parts later as they cannot supply them. It is a right pain if it turns out they ship you parts worth a few dollars / pounds and cancel the rest as they will charge postage at full rate. I know it is only £2 for postage, but if they send parts worth £2 (after cancelling rare parts worth £50) and you end up paying £4 for them, it doesn't look as good. They had the MF rigging a few days ago showing as in stock. Of course, it wasn't really.
  20. MAB
    Get a glass shelf and display Orthanc on that, with the forge below.
  21. MAB
    It is because if that makes it to 10000 (unlikely any time soon) and it passes review (even more unlikely) then lego will make something that looks like that. Sure they will redesign a few bits here and there but the finalised set will have the same spirit. They won't throw the original design away and build just the gates, or just the citadel, for example.
  22. MAB
    The problem with it is that it is about as big as 4-5x Mines of Moria sets. So that is $400 right there. Plus it is a gate with extended side walls but no Minas Tirith inside. Would large numbers of people (especially people not into LOTR) really pay $400 for a gate, lots of figures (with many repeats) and nothing inside? It is nothing like a normal lego set. Lego sets tend to have small number of figures to get to a cheap price point, but allow the user to combine multiples together. Now that Minas Tirith might have worked as a gate, with the fell beast and a few minifigs, and 4x Uruk-hai Army style add on wall sets with a troll in each. I reckon that is how lego would have approached this as a set, in the same style as Helm's Deep.
  23. MAB
    I don't think it came out of nowhere. There were the pictures of it on the shelf (Autumn 2012) and very grainy images of the side box art months before it was released.
  24. MAB
    Bart has already come with #1 Radioactive Man comic, so I hope they don't do it again.
  25. MAB
    Or alternatively buy multiple sets and sell off the other minifigs that are not wanted on BL. And maybe the bricks too.
×
×
  • Create New...