Frodo is the only one I don't mind without the pupils. He was stabbed by Shelob and went into a catatonic state. This scene at Barad-Dur takes place after that, so I don't mind it too much. Gollum on the other hand....
I was hesitant to get this set because of the price…..but once it was built and put together I truly had a “wow” moment that I finally had it built and how impressive and massive it was. Really iconic set and I’m glad I saved the money to buy it.
Bro you are by far the best Lego reviewer the detail you put into your review and extent you go to to source other sets for comparisons is so impressive. Keep up the great work and don’t forget your bread and butter - the reviews!
Another thing I wish they did with the figures, is the Sauron minifigure NEEDS the tall legs and long arms. He is very tall! And this figure makes him look short.
Vader's Castle was probably based off of Barad Dur. And while it's a cool idea, Barad Dur would completely dwarf Vader's Castle and make it look really lame on display.
A Wizard is never late. Nor is he early. He reviews a set precisely when he means too. I got this set on day one at the Lego store and I love it so much! Managed to snag Rivendell with the Amazon Prime Days and I cannot wait to get that beauty!
I picked Rivendell up a week and a half ago on the last day of 2x pts for LOTR sets. In retrospect I wish I had waited but there was really no way of knowing that deal would come.
Lego's insistence on removing pupils has got to be the most needless and annoying thing they do, right behind insisting on cheaping out on prints and putting stickers in premium priced sets
Hey Ryan, I don't remember what part of Florida you and your family are from, but I am hoping you all stay safe. My prayers go out to all the folks who are being impacted by the hurricanes. Thanks for making awesome content dude!
Fortunately Ryan isn’t all too near where the Hurricane will hit, (I should know, we live in around the same area) so luckily he won’t be impacted too much as the unfortunate folks in Tampa.
@@johnnybaxter1953 "I hope you're okay". "Stay safe". Stuff like that. Not forcing your cult beliefs that mean absolutely nothing to anyone who isn't psychotic.
Yeah, I actually complained to LEGO about the box battery warning because none of the pictures or reviews around release time actually showed it. They gave me some VIP points...blah.
They got me, I was teaching my french neighbor how to eat batteries since I knew they wouldn’t be able to read the english warning, but now that it’s in other languages they refuse to
All Lego minifigures have pupils, the white dot is just to give them more life. The colored eyes still have the white dots, the way they are doing it makes sense if a character really has different colored eyes but this means most characters are stuck with black eyes
Ah. Now THIS is my area. Unlike Star Wars, I still deeply love the works of Tolkien so I do have nerdy things to say 😅 1 - The build is great, the use of the dégradé on top works really well, and the film-created eye of Sauron is pretty clever (there's no giant eye on the top of the tower in the books). 2 - the minifigures are underwhelming. I get that adding orcs is cheaper but I think everyone would have been happier to get at least a couple of Nazgûl instead. 3 - the proportions of the tower are clearly off. The bottom two sections are wider than the top two sections. Which makes the tower get suddenly thinner in an unnatural way, 'cause in the film the tower is much more proportional. Now, if you're a Tolkien purist like me, you'll be adding more stages to between the bottom 2 sections and the top 2 anyway, as well as removing the eye on top of the tower. But for the casual LotR fan, I think it'd have been nicer to at least have one more section in the tower. 4 - still, my biggest complaint about the set is NOT any of that. It's the same as I already had with Orthanc. The open back. It's awful. This is a display piece. LEGO knows very few people are buying these giant 500€ sets for kids to play with. And so, like UCS sets in Star Wars, I think these sets should NOT have interiors and focus everything on the exterior build which is what will be displayed anyway. Anyway, 9/10 set, and definitely one of my favourites of 2024. Oh and by the way, Orthanc should NOT be bigger or more complex than Barad-Dûr. So having them next to each other does look good. Because Orthanc is, in canon, in fact, smaller and much more plain looking than the Dark Tower. And for a more than a decade old set, I say Orthanc still holds up incredibly well.
One thing I am glad about regarding the Orcs is that they're actually accurate to the movies. Back in the 2012 line of sets, they made some Orc minifigures in the leather tunics they wore at Isengard in the pits and forges. When they made more sets the next year, they just reused these Isengard Orcs rather than making actual Mordor Orc soldiers. Very lazy and disappointing. So, this set is actually the first time we've ever had Orc soldiers and I'm hoping they get rereleased in a cheaper set so we can build armies of them.
That first paragraph resonated with me so much. I recently called it quits with Star Wars after The Acolyte. I couldn't take it anymore. It's such a relief, but it saddens me too. Now we can only hope that Lord Of The Rings isn't ruined too. Rings Of Power is already trying.
@@TheFirstCurse1yeah. To me the Obi Wan series was the straw that broke the camel's back. Fortunately, the Tolkien fandom is far more resilient and ruthless than the Star Wars fandom. We turned The Rims of Prime into the biggest financial flop in TV history and successfully reduced its viewership to no one. I doubt anyone else will dare to try to do another high budget film/series that doesn't respect the Professor's works.
Gollums eyes are a fantastic addition to his minifig. Dont forget that hes in Mordor, literally where he was brutally tortured. And he is also plotting to take the ring from Frodo. The pupil less eyes are a good thing.
these sets are incredible, but i am waiting to see which ones they do before sinking money into one or two. i think my favorite way to get the entire fellowship would be a barad-dur bridge of khazad-dum diorama with the balrog, but honestly mines of moria is my favorite arc in the whole trilogy and any set based around it would be amazing, it's the 1 adventure we get the entire fellowship for and it's the foundations of DnD in my opinion. My favorite castle would have to be helms deep but I just don't know how they could pull it off without the backdrop feeling entirely empty, and without a massive uruk hai army to go with it. So much of helms deep aesthetic is being tucked up into that mountain, but also same issue with minas tirith. I hope they keep making these.
Yeah and some people even had the Fell Beast in their basket when they ordered and then it was removed later after they'd already paid. Pretty scummy tbh
I have one kislux bag I got in 2019, it's the LV white catogram speedy. It's counter quality and it has a nice honey patina now, so the leather is real. I think whatever makes you happy go for it. I've seen LV with plastic leather and blood red glaze...
I love how more authentic this review is compared to others that did it. Please keep reviewing more non-Star Wars! Would love to see the nightmare before christmas set review
Really goes to show how good Lego can be when they care and put in the effort like the Nintendo sets and lord of the rings and then you look at the crappy minifigs, stickers, and sets that’s are overpriced and crap for star wars
You know a set is good when you need a custom deiagn case for it to fit. When I got my UCS gunship we had to get a shelf just for it. With dimensions of 20 in by 20 in, its larger than my cat
Technically, they do have pupils. The issue is that they were left as white which blends in with the lighter eye colors. They are indeed the same pupils as all other mini figs have, the white just stands out more when the eyes are all black.
No, they have irises. For other minifigures with black eyes, the black IS the pupil. These figures have coloured irises with no pupil. For me it's the fact that they do coloured eyes at all that's the problem. They should all just have the standard black with the little white highlight.
The Frodo alternate head isn’t really an issue as it is trying to convey Frodo when the Eye finds him, or it could also be him after being poisoned by Shelob
4:15 it seems to me like this (Frodo with the Ring) is exactly the case where the vacant eyes are needed. I think it was the same in the nice little set with the spider, Shelob.
13:02 that’s a cool detail. In the books, they burn the shire, but they cut it out of the movies for time and simplicity (which I think was a smart decision). And that planning sheet is like it’s cannon that in the lego lotr universe, Sauron was planning to burn it, but didn’t fsr lol
Frodos pupiless eyes are actually accurate as they are like that when he was poisoned. They gave him those eyes in an original lotr set that came with Shelob and sam
If you look at Marion Raven from the old Lego Indiana Jones, she had the colored eyes back then, I think the weird part is adding the black circle around them
Am I the only one who thinks having the lower numbers in the white box is stupid? Like, why not put the higher numbers in the white box so I can just start building the set without needing the open the white box yet? Would make it really easy to build the first half with less bag organization
![ประสบการณ์ จ้าง Developer ที่ผมจะไม่มีวันลืม [ภาค2]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pZbsSDRrmXA/mqdefault.jpg)
![[Live สด] การออกรางวัลสลากกินแบ่งรัฐบาล งวดวันที่ 16 ธันวาคม 2567](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dNTiBBthKgQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Dang. Up until these warning labels, I was eating the batteries.
Now I know... Thanks LEGO!
Man, now what am I supposed to eat while building my Lego sets, food?
American law requires it
They aren't after-build-mints?! I thought Lego was giving us a treat for completing the build... guess im not a good boy after all 😞
I remember as a kid for whatever reason I decided to lick a battery and it tasted like lemon and vinegar.
Its the little things that show a company cares....or huge and intrusive-on-the-face
Took bro as long to review this as it took Frodo to get to Mordor 😭🙏
Nothing but respect for MandR but this comment wins😂
Lol classic comment
Bro is tardy to the party 😭
W review though
Bro has best review
Frodo is the only one I don't mind without the pupils. He was stabbed by Shelob and went into a catatonic state. This scene at Barad-Dur takes place after that, so I don't mind it too much. Gollum on the other hand....
I came here to say this!! Pupil-less is actually more accurate for him! They did it back in 2012 too
I like the no pupils for minifigs depending on the character
And in the Shelob Lego Set he had those same eyes for when he got stung before Lego went to pupiless eyes so it is accurate and doesn’t bother me
Was going to say… Frodo without pupils is accurate to what we see in the films.
Without the pupils he looks in a trance, which would fit when he's wearing the ring.
I was hesitant to get this set because of the price…..but once it was built and put together I truly had a “wow” moment that I finally had it built and how impressive and massive it was. Really iconic set and I’m glad I saved the money to buy it.
Bro you are by far the best Lego reviewer the detail you put into your review and extent you go to to source other sets for comparisons is so impressive. Keep up the great work and don’t forget your bread and butter - the reviews!
Wow, thanks!
Another thing I wish they did with the figures, is the Sauron minifigure NEEDS the tall legs and long arms. He is very tall! And this figure makes him look short.
i was thinking the same thing as I was watching the figure for Madame Maxime on the Harry Potter 76440 Triwizard Tournament The Arrival set.
@@onescomment Agreed. If Lego is telling us that Sauron is shorter then Jake Sully (the Avatar sets) is taller then him. I'm like, "no".
Where is Rivendell? We've been waiting for 19 months for that review now...
Womp womp
@@InhabitantOfOddworldAn evil Fox News host hearing about a horrible tragedy be like:
@@TheFirstCurse1
A leftard when the 13% commit another crime be like:
Dude has reviews up his sleeve for this hurricane. He is killing it on this daily upload trend.
SO THAT'S WHY THERE'S AN UPLOAD STREAK
I just realized how much this set reminds me of Vader's Castle, and I love it. I need them next to each other now...
💀
Vader's Castle was probably based off of Barad Dur. And while it's a cool idea, Barad Dur would completely dwarf Vader's Castle and make it look really lame on display.
A Wizard is never late. Nor is he early. He reviews a set precisely when he means too. I got this set on day one at the Lego store and I love it so much! Managed to snag Rivendell with the Amazon Prime Days and I cannot wait to get that beauty!
I picked Rivendell up a week and a half ago on the last day of 2x pts for LOTR sets. In retrospect I wish I had waited but there was really no way of knowing that deal would come.
I waved back to your reflection in the ring lol
7:57 WOAH YOU GOT WAY TOO COMFORTABLE THERE
Fun fact, in Poland there is no sign on the box warning about batteries
Lego's insistence on removing pupils has got to be the most needless and annoying thing they do, right behind insisting on cheaping out on prints and putting stickers in premium priced sets
They didn't remove pupils. The figures have all black eyes or colored eyes
@KerioFive bro they literally remove pupils from characters who have had pupils in the past, and it always looks horrible
@@bluegoose7832 I get that but I think it fits in better with Lego designs and all the black eyed minifigures to have them be a solid color
@@KerioFive Who cares if it's vaguely "consistent" when it's clearly inferior to how it was before?
4:07 waving in the ring's reflection 😂
Hey Ryan, I don't remember what part of Florida you and your family are from, but I am hoping you all stay safe. My prayers go out to all the folks who are being impacted by the hurricanes. Thanks for making awesome content dude!
Fortunately Ryan isn’t all too near where the Hurricane will hit, (I should know, we live in around the same area) so luckily he won’t be impacted too much as the unfortunate folks in Tampa.
"tHoUgHtS aNd PrAyErS"
@@TheFirstCurse1 What else you supposed to say lol
@@johnnybaxter1953 "I hope you're okay". "Stay safe". Stuff like that. Not forcing your cult beliefs that mean absolutely nothing to anyone who isn't psychotic.
@@TheFirstCurse1as an atheist, what exactly about giving someone to ur thoughts and prayers forcing your beliefs?
Yeah, I actually complained to LEGO about the box battery warning because none of the pictures or reviews around release time actually showed it. They gave me some VIP points...blah.
The battery warning is a US thing. The large warnings aren’t on packaging in other countries. It’s not Lego’s fault.
@thewinenut9800 America need to be warned
Well of course the freebie copies they pass out would be better than what you’ll buy lmaooo
It's not on my country's. Only American kids eat batteries. It's why they can't be trusted with Kinder Eggs either.
1 vote for no stickers on any set $200 or more
Can't deny that display case is amazing.
LOL “the other side tells you not to eat batteries in other languages”. Classy 👌🏻
They got me, I was teaching my french neighbor how to eat batteries since I knew they wouldn’t be able to read the english warning, but now that it’s in other languages they refuse to
I honestly don’t know how Ryan keeps up the daily uploads, while still maintaining top notch quality.
One thing that's disappointing is the height. I wouldn't mind paying extra for a taller tower, but overall, it's good for what it is.
By removing pupils from Gollum, does this, by LEGO’s logic, make him a Sith?
I actually built this set last weekend. It's really darn good and very much warranted being at this size
I got this 2 weeks ago. It's amazing!
All Lego minifigures have pupils, the white dot is just to give them more life. The colored eyes still have the white dots, the way they are doing it makes sense if a character really has different colored eyes but this means most characters are stuck with black eyes
Ah. Now THIS is my area. Unlike Star Wars, I still deeply love the works of Tolkien so I do have nerdy things to say 😅
1 - The build is great, the use of the dégradé on top works really well, and the film-created eye of Sauron is pretty clever (there's no giant eye on the top of the tower in the books).
2 - the minifigures are underwhelming. I get that adding orcs is cheaper but I think everyone would have been happier to get at least a couple of Nazgûl instead.
3 - the proportions of the tower are clearly off. The bottom two sections are wider than the top two sections. Which makes the tower get suddenly thinner in an unnatural way, 'cause in the film the tower is much more proportional. Now, if you're a Tolkien purist like me, you'll be adding more stages to between the bottom 2 sections and the top 2 anyway, as well as removing the eye on top of the tower.
But for the casual LotR fan, I think it'd have been nicer to at least have one more section in the tower.
4 - still, my biggest complaint about the set is NOT any of that. It's the same as I already had with Orthanc. The open back. It's awful. This is a display piece. LEGO knows very few people are buying these giant 500€ sets for kids to play with. And so, like UCS sets in Star Wars, I think these sets should NOT have interiors and focus everything on the exterior build which is what will be displayed anyway.
Anyway, 9/10 set, and definitely one of my favourites of 2024.
Oh and by the way, Orthanc should NOT be bigger or more complex than Barad-Dûr. So having them next to each other does look good. Because Orthanc is, in canon, in fact, smaller and much more plain looking than the Dark Tower.
And for a more than a decade old set, I say Orthanc still holds up incredibly well.
One thing I am glad about regarding the Orcs is that they're actually accurate to the movies.
Back in the 2012 line of sets, they made some Orc minifigures in the leather tunics they wore at Isengard in the pits and forges.
When they made more sets the next year, they just reused these Isengard Orcs rather than making actual Mordor Orc soldiers. Very lazy and disappointing.
So, this set is actually the first time we've ever had Orc soldiers and I'm hoping they get rereleased in a cheaper set so we can build armies of them.
Also you can get the Nazgûl on Pick a Brick now
That first paragraph resonated with me so much. I recently called it quits with Star Wars after The Acolyte. I couldn't take it anymore. It's such a relief, but it saddens me too.
Now we can only hope that Lord Of The Rings isn't ruined too. Rings Of Power is already trying.
I mean, I play with it 😅😅
@@TheFirstCurse1yeah. To me the Obi Wan series was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Fortunately, the Tolkien fandom is far more resilient and ruthless than the Star Wars fandom. We turned The Rims of Prime into the biggest financial flop in TV history and successfully reduced its viewership to no one. I doubt anyone else will dare to try to do another high budget film/series that doesn't respect the Professor's works.
If you have multiple copies of this set you can stack the middle tower multiple times to make it taller.
And a lot of expensive spare parts 😅
and it looks shit and goofy if you do that
@@chucky7399yup dunno why anyone actually would for display
I wish they threw in 2 easternlings 😢 would be a sick figure and would feel like a whole army
That display case makes an already amazing set look ever better, now we just need that Rivendell review…👀
Interesting! All of my bags were in paper (Netherlands)
With the 30% off from the star destroyer in Amazon I'm starting to think that Ryan is the one watchful eye of Lego Star Wars deals.
When is the lego wooden duck review coming
Frodo’s eyes are more accurate because it was like that in the Shelob set in 2012 and it looks good on him
Gollums eyes are a fantastic addition to his minifig. Dont forget that hes in Mordor, literally where he was brutally tortured. And he is also plotting to take the ring from Frodo. The pupil less eyes are a good thing.
Great review!
The case is beautiful! I love the access for the back. I wish the studs on the base were black to blend in better.
As someone who is getting this for Christmas, This guide was very useful and I can't wait to get it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
these sets are incredible, but i am waiting to see which ones they do before sinking money into one or two.
i think my favorite way to get the entire fellowship would be a barad-dur bridge of khazad-dum diorama with the balrog, but honestly mines of moria is my favorite arc in the whole trilogy and any set based around it would be amazing, it's the 1 adventure we get the entire fellowship for and it's the foundations of DnD in my opinion.
My favorite castle would have to be helms deep but I just don't know how they could pull it off without the backdrop feeling entirely empty, and without a massive uruk hai army to go with it. So much of helms deep aesthetic is being tucked up into that mountain, but also same issue with minas tirith.
I hope they keep making these.
Gollum just looks too cartoony and goofy with the pupiless eyes
Following release the set was gone within 3 days, 1 month backorder and naturally we were all told to pound sand regarding the not-free Fell Beast.
Yeah and some people even had the Fell Beast in their basket when they ordered and then it was removed later after they'd already paid. Pretty scummy tbh
Love when you do other sets outside of star wars that are just too cool to deny.
16 days in a row
I’ve been waiting for this for months now finnaly
Make a video of comparison of all Sith Infiltrador (1999-2007-2011-2015-2024).
This looks like one of the best lego sets to smash with a sledgehammer, I will not elaborate.
I literally just finished building this set yesterday, perfect timing for a review 😂😂
I am one of the 500 people that got the Wicked Bricks Limited Edition case of this set.
"Whoop Whoop, Pull up" 8:42
4:07 The wave in the reflection 😂
I got to get this set at some point and add Batman characters as seen in the LEGO Batman Movie.
stay safe with the storm brotha🙏
That warning label is disgusting, glad my box never had that
I have one kislux bag I got in 2019, it's the LV white catogram speedy. It's counter quality and it has a nice honey patina now, so the leather is real. I think whatever makes you happy go for it. I've seen LV with plastic leather and blood red glaze...
Man. I remember when youtube had no commercials and decent quality. I also remember when houses were affordable. What a wild stupid time we live in.
4:07 Ryan waving lmao 🤣
Now this is a review I have been waiting for.
With this size and level of detail, imagine how awesome a MBS Vader's Castle from Rogue One at this scale would be....
I love how more authentic this review is compared to others that did it. Please keep reviewing more non-Star Wars! Would love to see the nightmare before christmas set review
Oh my god, this is probably the best case I have seen for a lego set...
Really goes to show how good Lego can be when they care and put in the effort like the Nintendo sets and lord of the rings and then you look at the crappy minifigs, stickers, and sets that’s are overpriced and crap for star wars
He did it. He got The Two Towers
"A plane has been hijacked in LEGO City!"
@@TheFirstCurse1 oh no… lmao
@@jodanger37 George W. Bush: "Oh yes!"
You know a set is good when you need a custom deiagn case for it to fit.
When I got my UCS gunship we had to get a shelf just for it. With dimensions of 20 in by 20 in, its larger than my cat
I loved seeing Ryan waving at us through the reflection in the ring 😂
im not even a LOTR fan but i would still buy this set it looks so good
If i remember this correctly, frodo, as a minifigure, already didn't have pupils in this catatonic state.
16:25 I think they’re still in scale with one another. Barad dur is much bigger than orthanc in universe
If they REALLY wanted to be accurate then I believe Barad Dur would be around 8x the height of Orthanc.
We need more lotr sets these are fire 🔥
exactly my thought we need battlepacks of LOTR.
I’d love the case. But no way I’m spending almost the same price the set alone is for it
The second I saw Ryan walking in with the box and saw that box art my immediate thought was: classic lego. Ugly warning lable ruining the box.
When bro realises he never actually reviewed Rivendell lol
I shaved a good chunk off either side to fit it into one of the 40cm wide billy bookcases like you have.
Technically, they do have pupils. The issue is that they were left as white which blends in with the lighter eye colors. They are indeed the same pupils as all other mini figs have, the white just stands out more when the eyes are all black.
No, they have irises.
For other minifigures with black eyes, the black IS the pupil. These figures have coloured irises with no pupil.
For me it's the fact that they do coloured eyes at all that's the problem. They should all just have the standard black with the little white highlight.
The Frodo alternate head isn’t really an issue as it is trying to convey Frodo when the Eye finds him, or it could also be him after being poisoned by Shelob
Finally, now will we ever get the Rivendell review?
Cool sticker bro, good thing we don’t have it in Europe 😂
Be safe during Milton.
Fell beast box perfectly blocks the warning label on the main box
16:31 the moment you saved middle earth!
The fel beast was the only reason this was a day 1 buy for me.
The set is great--they've really done a good job with these first two big sets.
4:15 it seems to me like this (Frodo with the Ring) is exactly the case where the vacant eyes are needed. I think it was the same in the nice little set with the spider, Shelob.
13:02 that’s a cool detail. In the books, they burn the shire, but they cut it out of the movies for time and simplicity (which I think was a smart decision). And that planning sheet is like it’s cannon that in the lego lotr universe, Sauron was planning to burn it, but didn’t fsr lol
What a case!! 😵👍🏻🙌🏻
14:00 The 3 Elven Rings was pretty neat, always liked some of Legos restrictions. A 1/2 inch tiles all ya get
ah yes I love Bear of Door
Omg. That case is awesome. My thing with these cases are that they are always about the same price as the set.
This is nice and all, but what I wouldn't give for a LOTR set under 100 dollars AUD
Frodos pupiless eyes are actually accurate as they are like that when he was poisoned. They gave him those eyes in an original lotr set that came with Shelob and sam
Best LEGO Batman movie set by far💯💯
The goat uploaded again
I was thinking about getting this set, this review came out right on time!
As somebody who owns the set, it fits in with any Lego Batman movie set
I think the battery warning needs to be larger, I almost missed it and was eating my second battery before I noticed! :(
The glaze on every non Star Wars set is crazy, but well deserved. Sadly I feel star wars just gets the short end of the stick. This set is amazing
ah perfect just a couple months behind! 😂 Keep on the uploads man we love it!!
If you look at Marion Raven from the old Lego Indiana Jones, she had the colored eyes back then, I think the weird part is adding the black circle around them
W mans great review. Never too late for Rivendell
Am I the only one who thinks having the lower numbers in the white box is stupid? Like, why not put the higher numbers in the white box so I can just start building the set without needing the open the white box yet? Would make it really easy to build the first half with less bag organization
Quality review by a decidedly non LOTR fella. Good job Flounder.
About damn time
case is almost the same price as the set??
If true that's crazy!