Darth Caedus

That version does look 10x better. Of course, I'm biased as a huge Arrow/Flash fan, but I'd buy entire waves of sets based on those shows. The bright yellow hair in the Darkseid jet set feels kind of off. Too overpowering. Appreciate the lowered hood piece though, since dark green hoods are a dime a dozen thanks to the Hobbit kits.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaamn you man, I had forgotten about the Imperial Dignitaries and now I want them in Lego so fervently. Lego Sate Pestage, by the Force...

Big updates. Have a lot more stuff now. NUMBER ONE NEED IS LOTR MERRY!

Normal and angry matches pretty closely to the expressions most frequently seen to the Stephen Amell Arrow, and that's the only one that'll ever matter to me. I like the expressions.

I'm systemically purchasing almost all of the jan 2015 wave (a big resurgence after several years of minimal Lego Star Wars consumption, all income was directed towards hordes of Middle-earth figures). Got the Ghost and the Phantom for myself for Christmas so I'll be picking up all the new Rebels junk to complement it, but for now, just grabbed a Shadow Troopers, a Senate Commandos, and the set I wanted the most, the Azure Angel. Shadow Troopers and Senate Commandos are both stellar battlepacks - those Shadow Stormies are easily the most detailed Lego has ever made, the Shadow Guards are aesthetically killer, and the Commandos are perfect armybuilders: distinct and cool en masse. The new dot-fire minigun thing is freakin' sweet too, and hilarious when you adapt it to be held by a minifigure (Chima Ice armor did the trick).

You da real mvp. Gian speeders are so tight, Lego really needs to make one. It'd be a great speeder to include only generic Naboo troops - picture a $25ish battlepack with a Naboo pilot, Security Guard, Palace Guard, Gungan soldier, and Handmaiden (red/orange outfit). So hyped. Yularen! Finally! Another Clone Wars hole filled.

The Shadow Guard is no longer canon, so they're irrelevant. Grabbed the Ghost+Phantom for a total of ~$60. Wouldn't have paid full price but figured I'd bite the bullet because they were half off.

+1 for Slegengr. Clear and honest trader.

When he said price list I think he meant for the whole wave - I'm looking for the same thing.

Is the price of the Dol Guldur set jacked up in Canada? In the states it's a very reasonable $14.99 for the 3 unique figures, which is pretty solid as far as LOTR/Hobbit stuff goes. TDOS was better as an Extended Edition, and I think the whole trilogy will work better when watched all the way through - at least reviews are positive on TBOFA.

Heavy updates after a long hiatus!

Well done sir. This just highlights even more acutely how The Lonely Mountain should have been basically identical, but set in the Prologue of AUJ and included Thror, Thrain, 2x Dwarves of Erebor (recolor Gimli's helm), young Balin, and maybe toss Girion in there as well. (armored Balin and armored Dwalin are pretty irrelevant, and armored Fili/Kili ought to have been put in a Battle of Five Armies set).

Just pointing this out for its retroactive hilarity.

If it is indeed $350, I would actually rather have it include Winter Soldier characters, that's much more fertile ground to draw from. Especially if it's UCS and we're denied play features, at least give us cool minifigs (just new prints, no new molds besides falcon) -Nick Fury (sunglasses and incognito garb) -Winter Soldier (2 heads: goggles&mask/mask and no-mask-angry/no-mask-confused) -Alexander Pierce (smile/frustrated) -Maria Hill (serious/angry) -Falcon (2 alt heads: goggles determined expression head and goggle-free happy head) -Crossbones (smirk/rage) -Agent 13 (smile/angry) -Captain America (Cap 2 dark blue outfit) -Steve Rogers (plainclothes) -Black Widow (plainclothes) -Agent Sitwell

No play features/figures is a massive dealbreaker for me. The Helicarrier just isn't iconic enough or important enough for me to justify that kind of money on a giant grey paperweight. Same reason I've never bought any of the expensive UCS like the Super Star Destroyer. I think the only way you'd even get my attention even if it was playable is if the play elements were exciting and intricate and the figures list included: -Nick Fury -Coulson -Maria Hill -Bruce Banner -Tony Stark (jacket and tie) -Iron Man Mark VI (heavy damage from Helicarrier rotor) -Steve Rogers (plainclothes) -Hawkeye (possessed) -Guy playing Galaga

You want to know the irony of all this? The irony that really rubs the diehard LOTR fans (myself and many others on here?) This is the same crap that happened with the Lord of the Rings Tradeable Miniatures Game (which I'll maintain to this day is the best skirmish game ever made, in figure quality, gameplay, variety, and fun factor). The Return of the King wave - the final wave - was produced in far too limited a release, had to fill some gaps from the previous movie, and didn't cover all of the bases that people really wanted, and just didn't quite do justice to the spectacular end of the franchise (well, the end of the franchise at that time). And here we have a weak BO5A wave that doesn't do the movie justice by a long shot, is dominated by holdovers from TDOS (TLMntn, the Laketown set, and the rehashes in the $60 set), and will likely never get a followup to properly finish out the trilogy. I've given up on Gondorians at this point - I'd just love to see one more Hobbit wave of 4 to fill in the gaps of that movie, since Hobbit is more likely to sell since it's the current film trilogy. Bolg, those catapult trolls, a proper armybuilder with Elves, IH Dwarves, and new Orcs, Armored Azog (new print for his chest and new armpiece), armored Thranduil, a Sauron minifigure...that'd probably do it.

No, the idea is to get Knight Faramir, so you can swap out Faramir's head and armybuild Gondorians. Any Faramir is fine, it is (or would be, in a world where this could happen) getting Gondorians that's the priority. Faramir's Ranger torso is pretty unique, more than one is a waste.

For my part, I couldn't give a hoot if we never get a Minas Tirith set. The set I've been dreaming of for over a year now would be a $30 Osgiliath Ruins set with Armored Faramir, Gondorians, and some (proper) Mordor Orcs. I don't think you can ever do Minas Tirith justice at this point, all that really matters is the missing minifigs.

Granted, no LOTR fan in their right mind would ever touch the theatrical editions again, the EE's are infinitely superior in almost every way (Oathbreaker surprise is undercut but that's about it). The problem with including the MoS is not that he's an EE character, it's that he's still incredibly minor compared to the Witch-King.

"BoFA is great" - clearly it's not, or there wouldnt be people trashing it. "addition of IH Warriors & a couple others" - well, yes, those are rather critical. Addition is also a tricky term - substitution for the filler crap to avoid price-buffing would be more appropriate (Legolas, basically identical Azog that's now not even film-appropriate, minor Bard reskin, garbage Orc rehashes) -and $60 is already too expensive as it is. "Mirkwood Elves & Thranduil" Yes to the Thranduil, an armored one would have been nice but is by no means necessary or expected. But the MEA set was kind of a bust too - dull, boring Elves, mostly ruined by hoods. The Elves that make Mirkwood unique are the masked armored sentinels or the ones who actually go to the battle in the third film. "Orcs we have are fine" Sadly another point where Lego has failed utterly. They waste significant Orc variations in printing on Goblintown (without ever making a Goblin armybuilder either!), and yet they literally only give 2 different Orcs for BOTH LOTR and the Hobbit, a tan Orc, and a slightly more orange-than-tan Orc. Orcs are all about variation. At least a Dol Guldur Orc in a darker shade of grey or green would have gone a long, long way. As to the rest, yes, those are all solid sets........and pretty much most of the only solid sets in the line. It's not just a Eurobricks circlejerk here that's bemoaning the failure of Lego with the M-E license. Hop over to the TORN forums and you see people saying the same thing: Lego really started putting less and less effort into the line after the first LOTR wave, which was well structured and contained mostly solid sets. Hobbit Wave 1 also was predominantly decent, though with a few more flaws (Attack of the Wargs' tree was kind of a brown turd TBH, and Riddles for the Ring was a 0/10.) But after that, the mistakes started piling up - the Corsair Ship, the Mirkwood Elf Army's failure to succeed UHA as a proper 30-dollar armybuilder...almost every set after 2012 has one or more major flaws. Then 2014 rolls around and Lego just decides to betray the fans utterly. No LOTR wave 3 with so much left to do, and a crappy TBOFA wave: Smaug ends up being an overpriced set because Dwarf reskins are kind of irrelevant outside Thorin and maybe Fili and Kili (seriously, Balin is basically identical) and the build itself is a Dwarves Mine rehash with little coherence (only iconic part of Erebor is either focusing solely on the Throne, or doing the Gates); the Battle set itself due to the minifig failure and the crappy build (gimmicky oversized siege weapon and stunted tower); a Laketown of pure meh (Tauriel variant and Orc hair molds too little too late, also Bain looks like a doofier Ron Weasley). The only good set is the WKB. I am sorry if that comes off as a little put-out, but it's because I (and many others in this thread) am quite put-out. Was just rewatching the beginning FOTR in beautiful bluray 1080p tonight and it stung to know we'll never get a Last Alliance battlepack - or even any proper armored Elves of any kind (Mirkwood Sentinel? Mirkwood Army? Rivendell Cavalry? Galadhrim? Bueller? Bueller?). And yet, Lego totally could have made those sets. It's a cruel irony. I've always been a diehard fan of the Mouth of Sauron. But I never dreamed I'd see a line where the MoS got a special mold just for him and so many other characters and armies with actual screentime would go neglected. On a slightly more positive note, I'm trying to decide how to proceed with WKB. Strongly considering buying 9 of 'em to get 9 Twilight Ringwraiths and selling the excess Galadriels and maybe some Elronds too. Seems like it might be worth it to pull the trigger on 9 of em, since we're never getting a proper Witch King from ROTK, or affordable standard Nazgul.

It's a stock image, people. They reused a still of Uruks marching and thought nobody would notice. They were wrong. End of story.

God I'd go nuts for that. AoS has rocketed from being "that part of the MCU that nobody talks about" to "the stories and characters I care about the most in the MCU". I honestly don't care what sets we get from the Phase 2 movies. But I'd buy every single set from a proper AoS wave. Skye, May, Coulson, Fitz, Simmons, Ward, Bearded Inmate Ward, Garrett, Girl In The Flower Dress, and Deathlok would be a decent place to start.

I know. Gah. Another waste of a CMF. It's monstrous.

Exactly. It's been said to death in this thread, but after 2012, Lego's designers decided to get high and design sets like they were making a jackson pollack painting with their own fecal expulsions. Since it's lego, the stuff they put out was still passable and well-made to a certain degree, but as far as choice of minifigures, scenes, and general ideology, it was one of the biggest missed opportunities in their history. 3 consecutive waves fraught with failure on multiple fronts - a ship instead of Gondor, an EE character instead of the WK, an Elf armybuilder with crappy Elves, a BoFA wave with no soldiers at all, a poorly executed Erebor... the list goes on and on. All we can do is lament the fall of Middle-earth lego, pray for a final set, and get ready to shell out for custom armors from the 3rd parties.

would sacrifice small island nation for several series of middle-earth minifigs You make a good point. I too will be buying lots of stuff in 2015 - ep VII and Ultron sets, mainly. Pirates images revealed that the first wave is literal dog-doo but I'm sure the Avengers and SW stuff will be more than enough. So I won't be plunging into a fresh Dark Age like some people here, but I can't say I'll be looking at lego with anywhere near the same enthusiasm.