Lego and Warner Bros. have just announced that the Danish toy company has picked up the rights to produce playsets based on both Peter Jackson’s original Lord of the Rings film trilogy, along with both new Hobbit movies.
For people who like hobbits and toys, this is good news. For people who like Lego video games and Lord of the Rings, well, it’s 99 per cent likely to also be good news. While the initial announcement doesn’t mention video game tie-ins along with the Lego toys themselves, this is Lego. And Warner Bros. And Lord of the Rings. If there aren’t multiple games based on the franchise I’ll eat my large hairy feet.
The toys will begin appearing in late 2012.
hazza
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 10:37 AMabout time
Joshy206
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 11:02 AMI can’t wait!!!
ben
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 11:46 AMWill they make smaller scale lego people for the hobbits? Hope so!
Steve
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 4:02 PMThere are also minifgure leg pieces that are shorter and don’t have hip joints, which they use for dwarf or children characters (eg Yoda, kid Anakin, Ewoks in the star wars line). I’d guess they’ll be using this for the hobbits.
Mad Danny
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 1:34 PMAlways assumed this was going to happen – here’s hoping my other assumption/hope is correct in that we might see a Lego LotR game which has The Hobbit included like what Lego PotC did
(Since Lego Hobbit/LotR would be perfect for classic Lego SW style swordplay and magic)
Smurf'vi
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 2:09 PMMy bet is that we’ll see two games – one based on the LOTR trilogy from a few years back, and another based on the two upcoming Hobbit movies. The first will probably be released in the same year as the first Hobbit Movie (2013?) and the second will be around the same time as the second movie. And there you have it, that ends my report from the scene.
Steve
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 3:58 PMTraditionally, Lego Licenses that don’t have much set or vehicle potential (eg. Cars, Avatar: Last Airbender, Spider-Man) have tended to fizzle since you can’t just rely on the strength of your minifigure characters alone. You NEED vehicle playsets (eg Pirates, Star Wars) for a strong line.
FitzBatman
Sunday, December 18, 2011 at 2:26 AMElephants, horses, fell beasts, gandalf’s cart, lothlorien canoes, wargs…