Lego builds Lord of the Rings collection Lego has confirmed it will bring Frodo and co. to its block party this year, with a Lego Lord of the Rings collection set to launch this summer. A Lego The Hobbit range is also earmarked for late 2012 to coincide with the film's cinema release. Lego: The Lord of the Rings Gandalf the Grey, Aragorn, Legolas, Boromir and Gimli …
The image I saw on (Engadget?) of The Fellowship of the Ring figures had the taller figures (Strider, Gandolf, Legolas, Boromir) with a colour-matched [1 x 1, 1/3 height block] on each foot, thus making them taller than the hobbits and dwarves of the party.
The image ElReg has used is of higher resolution, though.
There was no Avatar Lego - though the spacecraft, ducted-helicopter things and walker make great MOC models!
There is no Dr. Who Lego - although there DAMN WELL SHOULD BE!
There was no Dances With Wolves or Bodyguard Lego; for which we should be eternally thankful (although we could have had a Lego bathtub piece - is it too early for that?)
Some more Lego series we should have - Lego Cthulu, Lego Starship Troopers, Lego Blakes 7
Some Lego series we SHOULDN'T have - Minecraft (seriously), Cars, Toy Story, Batman
Ah, you are right, of course. There was no Lego game IIRC produced for the tie-in to Toy Story. Or Spiderman.
However, games released where Lego has had a tie-in to a film:
Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Batman, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean.
And if you are making a Lego wish list, what about Thunderbirds? All those crazy pod vehicles...
was also going to note that the Hobbit figures are going to be completely the wrong scale
also, why is Helm's Deep the large set? surely a full working model of Minas Tirith, or Mount Doom would contain many many more pieces. and be quite awesome too.
i hope they do a Isengard set, if only so that then someone will inevitably do a youtube video of a Lego version of the "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard" song/video/meme which cracks me up everytime I see it... almost as much as the "What's tatters?" one...
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Actually, whilst the Two Towers and Return of the King were 12 rated, the Fellowship of the Ring was PG rated!
So I let my kids watch that (currently 4 and 7).
And yes, they'll probably be 10 and 7 when they watch the rest.
Hmmm.... I wonder if Lego LOTR the game will be out soon....
FYI That's how the kids got into Star Wars/Indiana Jones via the Lego games on the Wii / PS3
My six-year-old was almost inconsolable when we reached the end of the Hobbit. The Neverending Story is keeping us busy for the time being but there's nothing really suitable to bridge the gap to the LOTR. Smith of Wootton Major, maybe...
...or else we just dive in with the Nazgul and the Balrogs...
Impressive - yes. But all you can do with them is make the specific design on the box. If you mix these with other blocks, then you probably won't be able to even do that again, and all the 'custom' blocks that make this look good probably can't be that re-used.
When I were a kid*, lego mainly came in a big box where everything went. You could build whatever you wanted out of it, as long as you wanted something slightly blocky and in varied colours. With these sorts of sets, surely kids just are always wanting their next fix. It can't be good to train kids to anticipate these things like their next crack fix, certainly not for the parents wallet.
* Here we go…
Though they still do make the big buckets of generic mixed bricks - and since you aren't paying for content licencing fees, they represent quite good value, compared to the themed kits.
I find a few big generic sets with some carefully-selected smaller thematic kits mixed in (for some esoteric, but re-usable specalised parts) is good mix.
I will usually build the thing on the box once just-because then loose the instructions and never care to build the 'official' model again.
What, you only follow the instructions?
"You could build whatever you wanted out of it, as long as you wanted something slightly blocky and in varied colours."
And what has changed?
" It can't be good to train kids to anticipate these things like their next crack fix, certainly not for the parents wallet."
Kids? What kids? Children would just get dirt in My Precious! And I can give up my Lego habit ANY time I want.
"You could build whatever you wanted out of it, as long as you wanted something slightly blocky and in varied colours."
When I was young I had a spaceship under my bed, an alternative universe in the wardrobe and our rockery was an offshoot of Mars. I don't recall any problems of scale with a Action Man battling alongside Major Matt Mason and a horde of Mr Whippy keychain figures. A ruler, pencil and elastic band made a first class rocket. Wooden alphabet-blocks were pretty frightening robots, walls and bombs all rolled into one.
I despair for children if blockiness or colour of anything has so limited imagination these days.
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