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    My thoughts exactly. It's been lovely to look at. In the flesh it must be magical.
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    And what photos they are. Look at the massive Chima robo Mumakil-type elephant and the phoenixy dragon thing. If these parts don't end up in official Middle-Earth sets, at least there's some MOC potential for some dream sets.
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    A Pelennor Fields/War in Gondor set - Witch King, Fell Beast, Eowyn and some Gondorian soldiers. Ideally Faramir too, which is why I'd like to blur it from Pelennor in particular to Gondor in general. And if we're blurring things, then ideally they'd add a Balrog too, and Treebeard, and Mount Doom. And a tall armoured Sauron. And some Mordor orcs. It would be quite a big set.
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    As this is " dream" and therefore unrealistic I'd go for Judge Dredd, Breaking Bad and Justified. And Conan. And Seven Samurai. And then to be a bit more realistic How to Train your Dragon. And then back to dream again, Calvin and Hobbes.
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    Wow, tough call. If a Mordor battle pack was battle pack sized, it wouldn't be so big, whereas a Lothlorien set worthy of the name (ie not "The Mirror of Galadriel") would have to include a couple of decently sized mallorn trees. So Lothlorien it is again, just.
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    Thanks for that link - very helpful! My loyalty to my similarly colour-modified 7781 is now being tested. As long as you don't want the minifigures, you can already pick this Batmobile (and sometimes the dragster too) up on BL for a really good price. Gnnnh, It's. So. Tempting. Now.
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    This is a really great mod. I was wondering if there was a good Batmobile hiding under those garish colours, and you've shown that with a colour change and some clever mods there is! It makes for an impressive hyper modern-looking and suitably menacing vehicle. It'll look even better once you swap those gold hubs on the wheels for black or dark grey. What's the piece you used to make the engine? I ask, because thanks to seeing what you've done I might end up trying to pick one up and mod it. Oh, and I prefer cockpit A as it happens. Could you add a couple of printed tiles to be instrument panels along the side of the cockpit itself?
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    Noooooh! Poor Forestmen. When do the cavalry arrive to save them?
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    Great find. Emmet can be recreated with the CMF magician, and Wyldstyle is a sort of variant of her WIld West outfit, but the Benny outfit is completely new and just fantastic. They could do a whole series of Benny figures or sets and I'm sure people would snap them up. It would be great if a Benny Tuxedo figure is eventually made.
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    What, really? They're not all actors in costumes? I thought it was the actual actor being held by an actual giant.
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    I thought it was the actual actor before he went on set - he wouldn't wear that blue space suit unless they were shooting soon, and I think that smile would be hard to maintain.
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    A bit like George :Lucas, Tolkien liked to repeat some storylines. So the White Council drove Sauron out of Dol Guldur and he fled to Mordor, where he began to assert his power over the next 80 years or so until the War of the Ring kicked off, repopulating Mordor and making Southern Mirkwood dark and horrible again; while Gondor and Rohan went head to head with Mordor down south, the elves of Lorien and Mirkwood cleansed Southern Mirkwood and the latter threw down Dol Guldur's walls, and laid its pits bare. The quote I have in Appendix B is actually ""Celeborn came forth and led the host of Lorien over Anduin in many boats. They took Dol Guldur, and Galadriel threw down its walls and laid bare its pits, and the forest was cleansed." I would've loved to see that in a cut scene in LOTR, and I hope that PJ will mix it up a bit when he does the attack on Dol Guldur in TABA, because an amphibious Elven landing followed by an assault on a ruined evil fortress is just too fantastic to miss. But I do hope the Galadriel minifig that we get is one in robes that can be used in multiple scenes rather than in armour that can't.
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    Fire Station is the only one we've bought so far, which supports Faefrost's theory. My kids were completely fixated by it, and I love the look of it. And after a year and a half of loyal service, it's just been turned into a bank for Batman games by building some internal walls and closing up the front and back gates. I'm toying with the idea of getting the Town Hall, which might end up morphing into a museum. The only things holding me back are the price and the thought that a real museum set might be released. That would be wonderful - classical frontage and a couple of floors of art or antiquities. If an NY style Police Station was released, I'd buy it without hesitation though. Or rather, I'd save money to buy it without hesitation.
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    A very tough choice. Two of my favourite places in Middle-Earth. Lothlorien. Just.
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    918. One of my favourite ever lego sets, and one of the few complete sets I was able to rebuild from the bricks I salvaged from my parents' attic when they moved house. Bringing it back to life was great - it really is a perfectly sized set for kids to play with (as I see when mine swoosh it). And the colour scheme is wonderfully iconic.
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    Lionel Hutz "Mrs. Simpson, you're in luck. Your sexual harassment suit is exactly what I need to help rebuild my shattered practice. Care to join me in a belt of scotch?"
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    Absolutely fantastic. Great work!
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    I think my daughters are going to end up buying this with pocket money in a couple of months or so. They've been hooked by the movie, and have plans for it to double up as a "Joker's Ice Cream Surprise"-alike, the original being some way out of their price range...
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    Mine have been mixed. Nothing as bad as that though. The worst has been Abe whose legs are very very wobbly. "A house divided against itself cannot stand" and neither will he soon, so someone less important with black legs is going to be the victim of an involuntary transplant.
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    Isn't that the figure that already came with the Target exclusive AUJ DVD?
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    The finest in all England, as it happens, and where I received my first lego set in 1978.
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    7781 for me. I got it when it came out - on one view it was the set that brought me out of my dark ages - and it's still in regular usage with my kids who are 9 and almost 7. It has the size and lines that I think you need in a decent Batmobile, and the spring-launched missile is, literally, a big hit. We've tweaked it a bit over the years - replaced the sticker front lights with trans yellow slopes and the gold wheels and vents with grey ones - because our Batman "only works in black and very very dark grey."
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    Great design of a gorgeous building. Well done!. It would work almost as well as a Wayne Manor, which is an added bonus. I'd never thought of a Lego Tintin range before ... but now that I have, wow! That would be amazing. Just think of some of the models - fantastic minisubs, bikes, gyrocopters, cars, interwar planes. It would be huge!
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    Yep, that pretty much does it for me too. I love Middle-Earth, and I'd love to see masses of sets from LOTR and the Hobbit (Hobbiton, Bree, trolls, Beorn's house, Meduseld, Treebeard, Mumak, Lothlorien ..) but when it comes to it if we don't end up with these 3 key parts I'd have to agree that the LOTR line was a massive opportunity squandered by bad planning, some terrible set ideas, and some odd decisions about the look of minifigures, Because I still can't believe there could have been such an epic creative group-think fail that would lead an incredibly successful business to decide to produce and release the orc forge, black gate or pirate ship rather than Witch King, Balrog, and Gondor, I'm still convinced those last 3 (at least) are coming eventually.
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    I'm going to add my comments too, probably at the weekend. I'll be heartbroken if there's no wave 3. The signs looked so good when news of those 4 sets leaked, and I was sure they were going to be LOTR. If not then, I was convinced there would eventually be a third wave to round things off (because of what there hasn't been yet and because of what there was in wave 2). Now, it really looks uncertain. If it doesn't happen, whichever custom wiz manages to get the mould of a Gondorian helmet sorted out is going to make a fortune.
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