It took me all night but the short video clips showcasing the features on the new sets from Toy Fair have now been added to Flickr. As I was uploading these along side Ace uploading the hundreds of photos, things are a bit out of order in the timeline but you can conveniently browse all of these clips right here.
The Lord of the Rings sets are in the process uploading as I type this. I have to admit that the printed details on the minifigs, helms, shields, and armors are pretty impressive. The LotR line also introduces an articulated horse that can stand up on its hind legs.
And here’s a sneak picture of the Lord Of The Rings sets too … again, quite a small photo, but you can see the scale of the sets. I should add, the display stands /scenery in the background are not included in the sets!! This again comes from this website. Let’s hope there’s more to follow …
… but they also impose a strict photo ban, so this might be it!!
Photo borrowed from this site (be warned, the site is in German!).
They didn’t have these at the UK Toy Fair last week … shame, cos they look pretty cool. You’re also getting a bit of a glimpse of the Shelob model there too. Maybe we’ll get other pictures of the outside of the stall at the Fair too?
As usual, LEGO’s giving the AFOL sites sloppy seconds. You may have noticed this on other sites like collider earlier today, but I finally received our assets to share with you. Gollum looks FANTASTIC. That’s one minifig I look forward to getting my grubby little paws on.
Now, before I try to write this up, I’m going to qualify this post by saying I’ve only seen the first hour of the first LOTR film! I got bored, so stopped watching the rest. Yes yes … I am a heathen … get over it. With that in mind, forgive me if I miss any important bits out.
However, despite this lack of knowledge, I was bowled over by these sets. Fans of this licence are going to LOVE these sets. It’s another line where the minifigs are the star, but even so, I found some of the supporting buildings to be very cool too, the Helm’s Deep castle being a particular stand out. They’re well constructed and detailed.
You’ll need to buy all 7 sets if you want to get the complete Fellowship and the prices start at 11.99 to 99.99.
9469 Gandalf Arrives … a scene I recognised!! 
You get Frodo and Gandalf with cart and fireworks. A pretty cool opener of a set and a way to get the two most obvious (at least to a noob like me) from this range, all for a measly £11.99.
9470 Shelob Attacks … Gollum! Now, even with watching only a hour of the first film, I know what Gollum looks like … the fig is a custom mould, with Gollum in crouched position with articulated arms, smilar in connection to the main body as skeleton / battle droid arms. Printed face and “clothes” (i.e. bit of cloth round his nether regions!!). The big spider (Shelob) is also pretty cool, with a winch being used for her spider silk, meaning she can be hung up if you want. You also get Frodo, with ring (which is a gold chromed ring, sized perfectly to fit on a minifig hand) and Samwise Gamgee. Priced at £19.99
9471 Uruk-Hai Army … Comes with Eomer, Rohan soldier and 4 Urak-Hai and a small section of wall, siege machine and one of the new horses, which features articulated back legs (which is an excellent new feature for the horses). It’s designed to be joined to the Helm’s Deep castle, via technic pins. The minifig printing was beautifully detailed, especially on Eomer. Priced at £29.99
9472 Attack on Weathertop … Most of my time looking at this was marvelling over the new horses and moving them from stood normally to being on their hind legs only. Even in that position, they were very sturdy. This is a great inovation. You get Frodo, Merry, Aragorn and two Ringwaiths on horseback. There’s a small section of Weathertop, which includes a spiral staircase and ruins at the top. Priced at 49.99.
9473 The Mines of Moria … Comes with a great selection of minifigs, such as Pippin, Gimli, Legolas, Boromir, a cave troll and two Moria orcs. The troll is pretty awesome and detailed … great printing on the rest of the figs. Priced at £69.99.
9474 The Battle of Helm’s Deep … The castle here was really cool … pretty large and well constructed with curved walls. There were new modified 2 x 2 bricks to simulate bricks, mixed in with the walls, which was pretty cool to see. I can see people wanting these bricks on their own for added detail in building MOCs. The castle comes with the “side door” feature, which I was reliable told is important to the story?! It comes with 8 minifigs – Gimli, King Theoden, Haldir, Aragorn and 4 Urak-Hai warriors. Priced at £99.99
9476 The Orc Forge … reminded me a little of the Dwarf Mine set from a few years back … comes with 5 orcs and a various forge related stuff and has a light brick, which was a nice feature. Priced at £39.99.
All sets are due to be released in August. There was mention of Hobbit sets coming later in the year, perhaps January although that might be a little late with the films release in December … who knows, they might land early.
Anyone want to lend me the films?
Blogomatic3000‘s got a preview of London’s 2012 ToyFair, with the best looks yet at the Fellowship from Lord of the Rings as well as two of Marvel’s finest.
In my opinion, the Fellowship looks *perfect*. The weakest of the bunch is probably Boromir, but even he looks great. The hobbits looks especially amazing. Also, I can’t wait to HULK SMASH everyone with that awesome Hulk figure.
Thanks to forum member Blue Squadron for the hot tip!
Updated: Keep up with the latest happenings with Brickset‘s Huw as he tours ToyFair and uploads his photos. We’ll have our own coverage later today by our very own bigospedros. And remember, New York ToyFair 2012 is less than a month away! FBTB will bring you our annual coverage of this huge event.
This poster popped up on theonering.net yesterday, but I was waiting for confirmation from my LEGO contact before posting it. It didn’t look up to snuff so at first I thought it was a very well done fake, but now that I got the official PDF file, I realize I’m wrong. It’s just a badly done official poster. I guess I shouldn’t be too critical, but the left hand really bothers me as well as the hair/quiver/bow situation. Legolas had long hair but how they’re going to integrate a quiver pack remains to be seen.
I was just sent the above image promoting LEGO Lord of the Rings. I can only guess that a poster for each member of the fellowship will be made.
It begins. With the looming release of Hobbit themed LEGO sets, I expect to see many fantastic creations pop up between now and next year’s release and this is a good place to start. Fat Tony 1138 started re-reading the Hobbit and got inspired to build another Smaug and has plans to finish the dragon though I think the presentation of what he’s already finished is great the way it is. The look on Smaug’s face as he lays atop his lonely treasure captures the creature perfectly in a neat little package.
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