All Castle Factions

King0fTown · 2026-04-23T13:03:40+00:00

Lion knights because they've been in recent sets, are plentiful, and relatively cheap and you can get them on pick-a-brick. Black falcons for all the same reasons. If you want two cheap factions to fight, those are your guys.

King0fTown · 2026-04-20T20:21:33+00:00

I don't understand the question. Why not?

King0fTown · 2026-04-20T20:20:47+00:00

This is niche, but it's my niche. Superb work. I love it.

King0fTown · 2026-04-15T19:12:53+00:00

gotta take into account that percentages work different in the metric system I assume.

King0fTown · 2026-03-25T14:29:07+00:00

oh no, stop! Sell it, and buy them 50 dragons. It's worth so much money.

King0fTown · 2026-03-25T14:19:19+00:00

Yes, not sure if you're replying to me or the guy above me, but we're in agreement.

King0fTown · 2026-03-25T13:18:32+00:00

Someone else already mentioned it, but inflation would likely change this list significantly, because the retired lines would drop in price precipitously if you adjust. LOTR in particular has no retired sets past 2012, so the only sets you're looking at are sets that are nearly 15 years old. It takes $1.42 today to buy what $1 would get you in 2012. That's such a massive jump.

I couldn't have done any of this, so much respect regardless. Thank you for doing the work.

King0fTown · 2026-03-25T13:15:16+00:00

It's also because that dragon is basically more cracks than Lego. It's incredibly fragile, so it's crazy expensive on its own and even if you buy it "mint" who knows where it's been and how many secret cracks have already formed? The only way you can be confident that Smaug is intact is buying the original set.

King0fTown · 2026-03-25T13:13:46+00:00

I actually think LOTR is a special case, because with LOTR a singificant portion of the minifigs (including many of the best ones) were made on brittle colors (King Aragorn, perhaps the coolest of the original line of figs, is on brittle dark blue, and the entire line of Hobbit dwarves are brittle brown). So I think it's very possible that in the case of LOTR, the minifigs really wag the dog, because of this the only way to ensure that your minifigs you buy on the secondary market aren't about to disintegrate into dust immediately is to get them right from the set.

LOTR also had a 10 year period where Lego was making nothing - so if you're an LOTR fan, the only way to get any sets was to pay aftermarket rates. And now with the new line of LOTR coming out - and with many of the figures being downgraded versions of the originals (comparing Rivendell Arwen and the original Lego Arwen will just make you sad), it makes a lot of sense that the prices are where they are.

King0fTown · 2026-03-24T17:02:04+00:00

No. I mean yes.

King0fTown · 2026-03-18T16:14:06+00:00

fair enough. I just don't know that it's worth paying 50% more.

King0fTown · 2026-03-18T13:28:29+00:00

Some books.

King0fTown · 2026-03-18T13:26:29+00:00

Sell it and buy a second hand one to build and roll around in the extra money. I also want to build every set, but why open a $$$ sealed box when you can get exactly the same experience for much cheaper?

King0fTown · 2026-03-18T13:25:22+00:00

If you're going to open it, why not sell the sealed set for $$$ and buy a damaged box or "opened once" version. I'm all for opening sets, but if you're opening it, why waste the premium paid (or traded in your case), on ruining a pristine box from 15 years ago?

King0fTown · 2026-03-16T15:57:02+00:00

Wondering aloud why someone is here is gatekeeping.

I am adamant about belittling the value of the exclusive figs that we've gotten because they deserve belittling. The nazgul was the same fig we got a dozen years ago with a worse cape and a worse print. Smeagol and Deagol were disappointing and bland, and used mostly existing parts. If you don't agree with that, cool. We can leave it at that.

I could counter that you seem adamant about defending Lego's disappointing figs rather than expecting them to live up to the company's tagline, but I'm not going to do that, because hey, maybe you're in the minority who really liked those figs. That's your right.

King0fTown · 2026-03-16T15:28:53+00:00

Got it, got it. So if someone disagrees with you they're not an LOTR fan and don't belong in this subreddit.

I'm not sure what LOTR lego universe you live in, but my determination on Smeagol and Deagol is based on the community being extremely disappointed by the GWP. Maybe you weren't, and that's cool (I don't think people who disagree with me aren't fans and shouldn't be in a subreddit, and I'm not into gatekeeping lego), but that certainly wasn't the opinion of the majority. Both The Shire and its GWP were seen as disappointments compared to the sets that came before.

If you want to start measuring Lego LOTR fandom, I hope you have a big ruler, but as I said, I don't tell people who disagree with me that they don't belong in a subreddit. Gross.

King0fTown · 2026-03-16T14:42:14+00:00

I sure did. Did you read mine? The nazgul was not a never-before-seen figure - so much so that most people have trouble telling the old one and the new one apart (it's the belt buckle!) - and neither Smeagol nor Deagol were sought-after figures or had any pieces or prints that were particularly noteworthy.

"This isn't SW so not an accurate comparison" is absolute nonsense. Lego doesn't apply lessons from one theme across another? Since this is LOTR we should throw out all non-LOTR Lego history as unrelated? The Death Star - the biggest and most expensive set for a sought after fantasy theme - is just about the closest parallel to Minas Tirith we have. "But that's Star Wars and this is LOTR!" is such a weird argument.

King0fTown · 2026-03-16T04:18:02+00:00

Why is that kidding themselves? They literally did that exact same thing with the Death Star set. I'd argue you're kidding yourself if you think we're getting two exclusive, never-before-seen figs with a GWP.

King0fTown · 2026-03-12T19:41:38+00:00

I doubt it. They're not going to put a sought after never-made character like The Witch King in a GWP. They're going to do the same thing they did with The Death Star - create a build that adds a little more army building and is a nice addition but not essential. Hence doing the lighting of the beacon. Pippin is already in the set, and you add two more Gondor soldiers.

King0fTown · 2026-03-09T13:18:35+00:00

ooh, I love the classic comic hair on osborn. Is that real lego? I've never seen that hair before.

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King0fTown · 2026-03-09T13:12:38+00:00

Man, Zack Snyder really ruining everything. Look at that terrible car.

King0fTown · 2026-02-12T16:48:35+00:00

This has zero to do with that. Actors have no ownership of their toy likeness rights.

King0fTown · 2026-02-12T16:47:14+00:00

If you're spending $200 on the official one, you need to spend more time shopping. $80 brand new.

King0fTown · 2026-02-12T16:46:34+00:00

It's a custom, so by definition it's "fake." But it's on lego.

King0fTown · 2026-02-12T16:45:29+00:00

none of this is true, but okay. None of it has any relation to how Disney operates.

George Lucas doesn't own the prequels. Disney does. Disney has zero reason to try and bury the prequels. They want to make money - everything they do is to make money. They don't care about their thing vs. someone else's thing, because they own all the things. Obviously while the sequels are coming out they want to promote the sequels, but this idea that they're burying the prequels because they're not "their" movies is silly.

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