But Gandalf the Grey, is bleyKev wrote:No, lego actually has the figure labeled 'Gandalf the Grey'Aliencat wrote:Gandalf the Bley, no?Kev wrote:Looking at "Gandalf the Grey"
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But Gandalf the Grey, is bleyKev wrote:No, lego actually has the figure labeled 'Gandalf the Grey'Aliencat wrote:Gandalf the Bley, no?Kev wrote:Looking at "Gandalf the Grey"
lol, I believe the kitty was toying with you, KevKev wrote:No, lego actually has the figure labeled 'Gandalf the Grey', which means that a 'Gandalf the White' figure is already being planned.Aliencat wrote:Gandalf the Bley, no?Kev wrote:Looking at "Gandalf the Grey"
I dont think this will be the case at all. TLG have shown year after year that they're only interested in a license for a year or two before halting production completely. Harry Potter and Batman have gotten reprieves, certainly, but I think the fans expecting a decade long Star Wars-esque handling are delusional.DaleDVM wrote:I would agree Kev. It is purely speculation but I would imagine that LOTR will take a tact similar to the Star Wars license. The continued release of new versions of the minifigs over the next few years, will encourage sales of the sets over the entire run of the line.
I agree that would be delusional. However, anyone who considers the word few (commonly meant to be 3 or possibly 4) to mean 10 years is absolutely misreading my post.RichardAM wrote: I dont think this will be the case at all. TLG have shown year after year that they're only interested in a license for a year or two before halting production completely. Harry Potter and Batman have gotten reprieves, certainly, but I think the fans expecting a decade long Star Wars-esque handling are delusional.
As someone with more than two feet in the Tolkien fan community, I can attest to the fact that there *is* a Middle-earth Collector demographic, and the ones that I know have definitely been excited by the appearance of The Lord of the Rings LEGO promotional posters--and we're talking about a non-AFOL demographic getting excited a half year in advance about the release of a LEGO line-up, so I would agree that there is definitely a collector's market beyond the normal "a new movie is out right now" hype, such as with Pirates of the Caribbean, which is only a decade-old franchise.Bruce N H wrote:The real question is, will these sets take off in the non-LEGO community. The general Star Wars collector community seems to have really gone for the LEGO sets, and they're willing to get sets with really obscure characters (sometime Google "Willrow Hood Hasbro"). If Tolkien fans do the same, we'll have many years. If not, not.
I disagree. When I was 8, I loved LOTR & utterly despised Star Wars, and I expect that there are plenty of other kids to whom swordfights and large epic battles are more appealing than spaceships and lasers. Not only that, but I bet that there are even more kids who like both, and having already collected their favorite SW characters would like a few LOTR people for a change.Kev wrote:6-10 year olds love Star Wars.
6-10 years do not like LOTR.
Elbadar wrote:I disagree. When I was 8, I loved LOTR & utterly despised Star Wars, and I expect that there are plenty of other kids to whom swordfights and large epic battles are more appealing than spaceships and lasers. Not only that, but I bet that there are even more kids who like both, and having already collected their favorite SW characters would like a few LOTR people for a change.Kev wrote:6-10 year olds love Star Wars.
6-10 years do not like LOTR.
Altough this is a very old comment and clearly a bit of topic but yes I don`t understand why Lego was in hurry to remove all Kingdoms. I have been looking on shop@Lego.com, there is nothing, just Joust and a queen keyring.AK_Brickster wrote:Yes, Kingdoms sure seems like it disappeared in a hurry, doesn't it? I may be way off, but it seems like the blacksmith attack and mill raid didn't come out all that long ago. *sigh*
I (sadly) pretty much agree here. I was a pretty advanced reader, and I first read Fellowship in the fifth grade (after which I was hooked). Our teacher read the Hobbit to us in the third grade, and it seemed to be well received.Kev wrote:
You are the exception, and, of course, there are exceptions. I've been an elementary school teacher since the mid 90s, and the children that like either the LOTR movies or books are few and far between, even during the peak of the movie popularity. The most I could ever get out of the kids when mentioning LOTR is "my dad likes those movies."
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Out of the 800 kids at my school, I can name maybe three that are fans of LOTR. None of them were interested in the idea of LOTR legos when I mentioned the new sets to them. They all said they had outgrown them.
Hopefully, the Hobbit will change this.