Mini review: 30212 Mirkwood Elf Guard

 

  • Mini review: 30212 Mirkwood Elf Guard

    Posted by Huw, 03 Dec 2012 09:48. Filed under Set review.

    30212 Mirkwood ElfWhile you're waiting for me to review the last boxed Hobbit set, Attack of the Wargs, I thought I'd take a quick look at 30212 Mirkwood Elf Guard, which I now have in my possession thanks to DaveBey.

    It's one of the better polybags to have been released recently, for two reasons. Firstly, the minifig is excellent. It's generic which means you can never have enough of them, and it features a piece in a new colour: the dark green cloak hood. It would have been better had it come with a dark green cloak as well, but I guess that would have increased the price too much for a polybag.

    Secondly, the parts that make up the tree are all good and useful. Polybags with vehicles in them are all wheels, axles and tyres and not much else, but this one is full of useful slopes, arches, a plant limb and a mushroom top, as you can see from the parts list.

    If you're in the US, and you haven't done so already, get on over to TRU and snap some up while you can.

    30212 Mirkwood ElfHere's the elf in all his glory.


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Posted by rmarkworth in Germany, 03 Dec 2012 10:03

Thanksalot! I'd love to have this poly! :)

Posted by Carlq in United Kingdom, 03 Dec 2012 10:22

Looking forward to receiving my traded-for and purchased polys from the USA - this will be ideal to base a "Robin of Sherwood" character on!

Posted by rosney in United States, 03 Dec 2012 11:18

Where does the trans green stud go?

Posted by petitetoilonrouge in Canada, 03 Dec 2012 11:20

Doesn't the Gandalf polybag have a cloak?

Posted by cjg in United States, 03 Dec 2012 11:26

@tensor: This is just a guess, but perhaps it goes in the middle of the mushroom?

Posted by blounty23 in United Kingdom, 03 Dec 2012 11:33

@tensor and cjg it's a little green jewel, not a stud. nice little review. Thanks. You can get a dark green cape from the quidditch match set on the Slytherin players and from the series 3 CMF Elf guy. Good to know that Lego are more frequently using the wine glass piece- in lots of the Hobbit and LOTR sets, as well as a few Monster fighters sets I think.

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 03 Dec 2012 11:41

There's a trans green 1x1 plate in the barrel.

Posted by blounty23 in United Kingdom, 03 Dec 2012 11:42

I thought they meant the green thing at the base of the tree

Posted by CCC in United Kingdom, 03 Dec 2012 12:15

They are getting dangerously close to alcohol here. A wine glass and a barrel of wine. I thought alcohol was one of their no-no subjects.

Posted by cjg in United States, 03 Dec 2012 12:15

I think we both meant the green stud in the parts list.

Posted by The Green Brick Giant in United States, 03 Dec 2012 12:48

alcohol is a Lego no-no as much as violence is. Meaning that it really isn't. lol

I love this set, might be the only LotR set I buy. Is it $4 or $5 at TRU?

Posted by Tzi in Canada, 03 Dec 2012 12:51

Can't wait to get my hand on it in Canada... Whenever it will be :(

Posted by Graysmith in Sweden, 03 Dec 2012 12:51

A pretty nice polybag, though I really wish they'd given him a cloak too since the hood looks so awkward and incomplete without one.

Huw, if you have the CMF Elf (or Eomer from the Uruk-hai Army set), could you let this Mirkwood elf borrow that cloak and take a photo of it? Just so we can see how much more awesome he'd look with a cloak.

Posted by Orthobotrex in Philippines, 03 Dec 2012 13:03

@CCC- He is the guardian of the mead, har har!

Posted by rosney in United States, 03 Dec 2012 13:26

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no cloak currently that can be used with the quiver*, so it's one or the other.

Though there should be!

Posted by binaryeye in United States, 03 Dec 2012 13:36

@petitetoilon: Yes, the Gandalf polybag includes a (gray) cloak.

Posted by obiron17 in United Kingdom, 03 Dec 2012 14:04

Some of the film concept art for the Mirkwwod Elves shows them with hoods on their tunics and they're not wearing cloaks so looks like the poly bag's correct.

Posted by blounty23 in United Kingdom, 03 Dec 2012 14:06

@tensor the quiver can be worn over a cape.

Posted by TheConverter15 in United Kingdom, 03 Dec 2012 14:07

Is it a unique head on it? Can't think of a minifig with the same one. But its a damn good polybag anyway, would probably turn up in a Sun promotion next year.

Posted by rosney in United States, 03 Dec 2012 14:12

@blounty23

Doh, hmm, ok, I'm with Huw then, where's the cloak?

Posted by legoDad42 in United States, 03 Dec 2012 16:37

Great little poly and great review!
Got one at my local TRU (Rego Mall, Queens). They had a ton of them last Friday if anyone is interested in getting a few.

Posted by blars82 in United States, 03 Dec 2012 17:18

I picked up 4 of these and 4 Gandalf bags at my local TRU and they honored the BOGO offer for all of them!

Posted by SerfBored in United States, 03 Dec 2012 20:18

I picked up a couple of these for a CA Brickset user that wanted them for his kids, but he never got back to me. Anyone from across the pond need some?

Posted by The_Creator in United States, 04 Dec 2012 00:36

Anyone spot these in the Midwest? Are they even going to be avaible for regular sale or are they going to be promos? Also my TRU has Gandalf free with $25+ of LEGO games...

Posted by Sethro3 in United States, 04 Dec 2012 12:29

Midwest is unfortunately a very broad term. I'm in Nebraska and we are considered the Midwest also, but so is Ohio... Anyway, we had tons here in SE Nebraska, but they were all gone the other night I went in. Luckily I picked some up for the BOGO sale to soften the price.

LEGO doesn't want modern day violence or alcohol, but more ancient times it is okay. Just look at castle and pirate themes in general. They always have mead and killing folk with their broadswords or muskets. And the Barrel Escape set has one of the Elves looking sloshed with multiple bottles laying on the floor and giant barrels of wine. So there ya go..

I hadn't considered putting the cloak on and then the quiver. That actually makes more sense since I'm pretty sure Legolas had the cloak on underneath the quiver anyway...granted the elf hair doesn't help anything. Time for a new quiver mold for LOTR??? But I think they didn't include the cloak in this set is because they did include a quiver. Can't give away too much to people ya know. But the dark green hood, as cool and rare as it is, doesn't really fit in with the rest of the figure. I'd almost want an olive green hood or a dark brown hood to go with the torso coloring. That might look better than a random dark green hood. But as stated above, maybe it is more movie accurate having the hood on the tunic than a cloak. I can't help but wonder why it wouldn't be olive green as I said then. But an Elven hairpiece would have made this polybag significantly better, even if not movie accurate. I like what AC did on Eurobricks and put the dark green hood on the CMF Elves and switched the CMF Elves to the Mirkwood body. It actually looked perfect.

Posted by acuranutter in United States, 04 Dec 2012 12:33

I have been to TRU quite a few times the last few weeks and I was never able to locate this. I found plenty of Gandalfs though :(

Posted by blue_squadron in United Kingdom, 04 Dec 2012 13:26

I'm hoping this particular polybag makes it to the UK soon. Ho-hum...

Anyway, it occurred to me that a custom elf blending elements of this guy with the S3 collectible elf would make for a truly great elf, if not one that was movie-accurate. I'm not surprised that pictures of various degrees of mash-up between the two elves are starting to appear on the web.

Personally, I'd use the head and hands from this guy combined with the torso, arms and legs of the S3 elf and that would be just about right! You could still fit the quiver over the cloak like the S3 elf, but in conjunction with the hood from the Mirkwood elf. What would be great is the ability to pick up LotR/Hobbit elf hair-pieces from BrickLink at sensible prices a few months down the road. Alternatively, if anyone could find an acrylic paint to match the tone and finish of Lego ABS in light flesh then it would be possible to make the hair-piece from the S3 elf match the fleshie heads!

Posted by blue_squadron in United Kingdom, 04 Dec 2012 13:42

Just looked at AC's pic on Eurobricks -- that's *exactly* what I had in mind! :o)

Posted by murphquake in United States, 04 Dec 2012 14:07

I'm just like @legodad42, got a half dozen there last week, probably pass by to day, want to snatch up a gandalf if they got them in

Posted by The_Creator in United States, 05 Dec 2012 01:19

@Sethro3, Midwest as in eastern North Dakota.
I hope my TRU doesn't miss out on some great polys AGAIN…

Posted by Totenbett in United States, 10 Dec 2012 14:22

I cant find it on TRU.com anymore seems i'll have to get it from ebay or amazon for like triple the price.

Posted by Erinlyn80 in United States, 11 Dec 2012 01:05

I never saw this anywhere in Minnesota. Maybe they will sell another run of it? Boo

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