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Normally, they would be leaked by now, but New Line have threatened to pull the plug on GW and/or lawsuits if the leaks weren't plugged. There was a thread on this a few months ago. But the timing for the minis is strange given that you would want people buying it for Christmas. A November release would have made sense.
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Except that you can get 3 GW River trolls for $47. Either they must be huge, finecast, or have a double dose of GW pricing. Knowing PJ and GW, all are solid options.
Dawnbringer wrote: Except that you can get 3 GW River trolls for $47. Either they must be huge, finecast, or have a double dose of GW pricing. Knowing PJ and GW, all are solid options.
Hm, huge lumps of finecast in all the sculpting glory of the Mutilators. That sounds about right for $90.
In other LOTR news, the Tolkien family is suing Time Warner over the fact they licensed LOTR themed slot machines. (Which was supposedly outside the agreed upon terms, as well as 'devaluing' the brand.)
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BaronIveagh wrote: In other LOTR news, the Tolkien family is suing Time Warner over the fact they licensed LOTR themed slot machines. (Which was supposedly outside the agreed upon terms, as well as 'devaluing' the brand.)
The Tolkien family are always suing film companies. It must get quite exhausting.
The only way I'm buying those trolls is if they also have 3+ sprues of terrain in the box. Well, the same goes for everything else, really. I figured I might get into the game this time round (I skipped LotR entirely) but at these prices... lol no.
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Dr. What wrote: I keep reading complaints about the 3 Trolls box.
Ever thought that they'd be some form of Special Character set? Especially considering their piece in the film.
I expect our normal troll kits will still be there.
Perhaps the trolls are massive so cost more.... perhaps GW scaled up everything in the hobbit strategy battle game since the hobbit and the dwarves are so small. Gandalf is 40mm high in the hobbit game.
"We must change, and change, until Change is our Master, for no being, not god, not mortal can catch and hold that which has no form."
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I'm hoping there was a bit of sarcasm in there given the terrible perspective of that shot for telling comparative heights. Then there is also the issue you'd have trying to do things to scale with lego, given everybody has the same size torso and head.
^Scale in Lego is a bit abstract - green dragon is an example
As far as I know it, from what I can conclude from the scale pic, trolls are massive - should be 70 mm in 28 mm scale.
Price spoils all the fun.
BTWlol they changed legs size for dwarves and bilbo.
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"We must change, and change, until Change is our Master, for no being, not god, not mortal can catch and hold that which has no form."
Liber Chaotica, Volume the Fourth: Tzeentch.
That model is listed by Lego as the Goblin King therefore most probably not even a troll. If they stick by the imagery from the Fellowship movie, we already know how big The Hobbit's Trolls are. The set might include Dwarves in sacks!
"We must change, and change, until Change is our Master, for no being, not god, not mortal can catch and hold that which has no form."
Liber Chaotica, Volume the Fourth: Tzeentch.
VenomBlood wrote: ^Scale in Lego is a bit abstract - green dragon is an example
As far as I know it, from what I can conclude from the scale pic, trolls are massive - should be 70 mm in 28 mm scale.
Price spoils all the fun.
BTWlol they changed legs size for dwarves and bilbo.
I'd say more like 60mm (twice the height of a man) which isn't really any bigger than the current cave troll, and while it is taller than the River Trolls, they are more squat looking, it looks perfectly doable to fit a taller torso into the same amount of sprue space. That's said, if they made the Great Goblin the size of a troll in the movie, I just hate PJ more.
Well, at least this trailer showed us something cool. Would be nice if they'd show some dang figures, but damn if that wasn't a pretty set. I'm going to pretend the starter set comes with some pretty pretty piers to use as scenery and fantasize on playing on that thing. Really looking forward to the 24th; I just hope it doesn't turn into another Chaos release.
I can confirm that the release and price lists are legit. No other main release in December except Hobbit.
New colour for the Hobbit tabletop boxes is gold brown, more precisely a colour gradient running from gold yellow to brown.
Radagast is indeed the limited miniature from the starter box. Starter contains indeed Gandalf, Bilbo, the dwarfs and a whole bunch of Goblins including an Ogre sized Goblin King. Goblins look different from the curent ones. Wearing loincloths, a bit bigger, a bit more deformed (Chaos star wasn't totally false ). Goblin King looks great, wears crown and loincloth, comes with a throne.
I assume that the non-limited starter will have a "soft release date" a few days after the limited edition is sold out (usually a week later).
Trolls are large and look similar to Ogres. Hunter Orcs mounted and unmounted have more cloths and armour, I like the look more than current Orcs. Goblin Town scenery basically is a set of wharf like wooden plank roads on different storeys, connected with poles and ladders (as seen in the second trailer).
So much from a first hasty glimps at the WD December.
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Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote: Normally, they would be leaked by now, but New Line have threatened to pull the plug on GW and/or lawsuits if the leaks weren't plugged.
What's that got to do with anything? What Newline and GW agree to has no bearing on what Mr. Jonny Advance Copy does with his iPhone camera.
well another Lotr variant I can't use my hobbit army in... that game's dead to me...
if it does go that way... GW has no more games I play (apart from specialist ones some they won't let you play in store)
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those goblins look like ghouls... as does that goblin-king thing
too bad you can't use Lotr in warhammer... I would have done a whole army of them, oh well
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Liber Chaotica, Volume the Fourth: Tzeentch. 
). Goblin King looks great, wears crown and loincloth, comes with a throne.
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