The Middle Earth LEGO Minifigure Catalogue
Posted by Huw,
Christoph Bartneck has been producing minifigure catalogues on Amazon's publishing platform Createspace for some 5 years now and has just released his latest volume The Middle Earth LEGO Minifigure Catalogue.
It's a complete and comprehensive guide to the minifigs contained in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets and given that LEGO is highly unlikely to release any more sets based on JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth it won't go out of date, unlike some of his other works.
It's available from Amazon: UK | USA | Canada. You can view a typical spread after the break.
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Hm. Let's hope Radagast is the only figure whose head is turned to one side, it looks awful. Also, where did he get those prices from? Because they are way too low, considering the secondary market (bricklink, ebay, amazon, etc).
And: I'd rather have this go out of date and get new sets and minifigs. Wasn't there a certain "Silmarillion" that has to be made into another trilogy?
Would love to see more models and figs in the future....alas probably a forlawn hope. They never even made the Witch King in his black LotR stylie. Such a shame.
This catalogue looks okay, but would like to see more info - from what models the figs came from, year of release, maybe which films the characters were in, maybe even some sort of rarity value or sort-after value based on price? Okay I've got to do it - how precious the fig is (apologies).
This would be better suited to a fan book rather than a catalogue though.
Agree with waylander. I wish the catalogue would point out rarity value or list which parts are unique. Including the year released and the set the minifig belongs to would be helpful. I'd like more info similar to the DK books. But, then again, that's not the purpose of this book, is it? What is the QR Code for, btw (a link to BrickLink, perhaps)?
I'm sad we never got Sauron. He was literally THE Lord of the Rings >_<
It does say the set numbers, and the year on the top, in the minifigures number.
The necromancer IS Sauron, vorwand13, but yeah, we never got Sauron in his battle armor.
@Dalek135 While the necromancer may be Sauron, when I think of Sauron, I don't think of a halloween costume ghost, I think of a figure that strikes fear into the hearts of men and elves.
Such a shame lotr ended so incomplete, while star wars has some scenes made 3+ times. Really a ucs minas tirith and 16 minifigure lotr series would pretty much keep all lotr fans happy. But of course thats probably never going to happen. :(
Such a shame that the Lord of the Rings Lego videogame has more minifigures (that includes Sauron in his battle armor and the Witch King) we have a small Limeted pool of characters.
@Lordmoral I think the video games team create what they like as its virtual. The latest Star Wars one has characters that they could never make in Lego, size, shape and almost luminescent as well as about 20 vehicles we will never see. Wouldn't Sauron have to be a completely different size though, not big fig but bigger than minifig...... Hagrid ish
If Lego would make about 3 more sets and pack them with the right minifigs, I think we could get basically everyone we need.
@Lego34s what most of us want to see, is a minifigure Sauron like the one seen in lego dimensions.
Although some figures couldn't have been made due to their size. There are plenty that could have. Such as Witch King, Faramir, Eowyn, Denathor, Gondor soldiers and rangers, etc.
I agree, unfortunately, but it will be out of date almost immediately due to including pricing. I'm not sure where they got their pricing information, but it doesn't seem to add up for some figures. As we all know, most figures will go up/down in price over their span, so that won't help.
It does seem odd to do a print book when so many websites have this information, although grouped differently.
Either way, I'm sure it would be fun to look at since this is my favorite theme (LOTR, not Hobbit).
Scrolled too fast. Read as "The Middle Finger Catalog"...
^ that would be an interesting catalogue.