Brickset forum
Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Categories
You must be 16 or over to participate in the Brickset forum. Please read the announcements and rules before you join.
Comments
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·Star Wars
Superheroes
Lord of the Rings/Hobbit
Cars (anything past the early wave?)
seems about right, there were 4 in 2011 as well:
Star Wars
Pirates of the Caribbean
Cars
Harry Potter
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·How about an ultimate set of The Argonath! The possibilities are huge!!
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·After months (years?) of speculation some people are going to have serious egg/smug looks on their faces.
June is soon! Look forward to the orcs and other castley accessories, But guess kingdoms might indeed disappear for a short time.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·1. Both are a part of the WB license.
2. Both have a "children's" set of stories (HP 1-4; The Hobbit) and an "older" set of stories (HP 5-7; LOTR)
3. Both series cross generations. I read LOTR in grade school and as an adult. I also remember seeing many other adults reading HP (didn't they even have an adult cover version for the UK?).
4. The last series of HP sets, along with the Tt games, seem to have sold very well.
So, this seems like a similar partnership. I hope that it works well.
Also, I am guessing that a Tt game is in the works, given the WB license history.
Finally, as someone else mentioned. I wonder what they will use for The Rings? Some kind of bracelets? The minifigs have no fingers, which seems to be the one issue to me when considering a storyline focused on Rings of Power.
EDIT: Or maybe they will try to avoid actually dealing with a ring at all and just have a print of it on Frodo's necklace (and just say it is in Bilbo's pocket)!
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·Also: I was not impressed how MF dominated some Star Wars sets became. I respect the collectable end of the hobby but perhaps the CMF bags would suit licensed themes for MF collectors and get some more bricks back in to the standard sets to justify the over population of MFs to buildings and settings.
Or perhaps I'm just sore that MF collectors pillage sets and sell them on minus MFs?
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·A Lego Smaug, Beorn, Balrog, Shelob or Giant Eagle would be a massive disappointment with too many 'one piece' bodies.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·I hope he won't be like the first Sebulba.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·And I wonder what kind of Lego original sets they'll market with rehashed parts exclusive to the LOTR series. Just how the made PQ out of Indie Jones. Or they can keep us speculating with what new minifig series they'll spawn.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·I can only imagine how awesome LEGO games will be with this and hopefully LEGO Batman sequel and or Marvel/DC game...
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·I think this theme will rival the popularity of Star Wars. If so, this could lead to a very large set that to replace the Death Star. Still, I hope TLG will still find room for original Castle themed sets too.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·This is license overload. Very sad to see.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·HP could have, and perhaps should have, given how popular it has been, but LOTR has been around for decades, it has staying power, it really should get equal billing next to SW.
What LOTR is missing, I'm afraid, are vehicles... My son loves the Star Wars vehicles and ships, the play sets not so much. Given the lack of ships and tanks and such for LOTR, they have to do the play sets right. That means big and detailed, so you can have proper pitched battles in them.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·carriages, uhhhh... hmmm...Ok, now that I'm thinking about it LotR definitely is lacking in vehicles. Horses a-plenty, for sure. Um, eagles? Wargs? The whole damn series was basically traveled via foot, lol.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·But in the middle ages, everyone DID travel by foot. :)
Doesn't make for a great Lego experience, so they need to wow with the play sets... That is why I think the time is ripe for a 4,000 part play set along the lines of 10188
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·#12881 - "Rohan Foot Pursuit"
4819 pcs (4706 of which are grass and rock pieces)
Minifigs: 3
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·"I don't care who you are, that there is funny..."
:)
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·I enjoyed the books, enjoyed the movies, and am looking forward to these sets, as someone who is in his 30s. But don't these need to need tons of kids begging their parents for them to sell palette loads?
Unlike Star Wars or even Ninjago, there is no cartoon tied to them that immerses kids in them every week. As someone mentioned above, there are not a ton of iconic vehicles. Even the sets we assume they will make will consist of: the top of a hill, a forest, a field, a swamp etc. Yes, there will be some cool castle based sets, and battle stuff, but how many different Helms Deep sets can they make?
This seems like another "dark" series, similar to Pirates of the Caribbean. Yes, it's 'popular,' but every kid at school doesn't have a LotR backpack as they do a Star Wars or Super Heroes backpack.
Both of these other franchises hook kids when they are super young and continue right through adulthood. They have lots of cartoons and movies to provide storylines, and machines working to pump out new characters, storylines, etc. Its not unlikely that your 8 year old will be eating a Superman branded or Captain Rex branded fruit snack. But I doubt that there will be a Frodo fruit snack anytime soon.
Also: this license has an expiration date that licenses with cartoons don't worry about as much. The new Hobbit movies will come and go in a couple years time. Then what?
Again - personally I am looking forward to these, but don't feel they have the same potential as other big themes LEGO will have over the next few years.
Thanks everyone for your enthusiasm on these sets!
-Dan
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·From the movies (which is where my knowledge of the stories come from, unfortunately) the means of transport I remember were Gandalf's carriage, the boat where the halflings escaped with, the boat that Aragorn and Legolas travelled with, the mercenary ships ( am I correct? Maybe another QAR-like ship in the making) those big mumakil, the eagles of Manwe, and the ships where the elves sailed back to their homeland.
Anything else?
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·apparently sucked...and a spoof:
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·I think there's enough to make regular size sets. Not that I'd complain about UCS sets.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·I don't think Kingdoms is on the way out though, as there hasn't been a January Castle release ever in my memory. I'm thinking we'll get more Kingdoms info at the Toy Fairs with the summer sets.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·Neil
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·The Kingdoms line was just a stopgap, a filler between Castle and LotR. IMO, it even felt like a last minute substitution as the sets were mostly rehashes and very uninspiring. The only thing I really liked was the MVR and this comes from someone who owns 2 of the Kingdom's castles!
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·The one ring as a piece: If the teaser picture is honest, its possibly an actual chunky little gold chrome ring that can be just about held (usually fires out of MFs hand) but could clip firmly atop the entire hand. Im hoping it might clip on either the MF's finger or thumb (which is which?!) for typically chunky representation. In which case we'll be tying thread to it for safer keeping.
- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·- Spam
- Abuse
0 · Like ·