$460, 5,471-piece Lego Barad-Dûr set comes for LOTR followers’ wallets in June

This is one thing for any Lord of the Rings fan with a tall, slender house obtainable on their tchotchkes shelf: Lego has introduced a $460, 5,471-piece rendition of Barad-Dûr, which viewers of the movies will acknowledge as “that enormous black tower with the flaming eye on prime of it.”

Sauron, Base Grasp of Treachery, will hold his Eye on you from atop the tower, which is able to really glow because of a built-in gentle brick. The tower features a minifig of Sauron himself, plus the Mouth of Sauron, Gollum, and a handful of Orcs.

The Lego Barad-Dûr set will launch on June 1 for Lego Insiders and June 4 for everyone else. When you purchase it between June 1 and June 7, you will additionally get the “Fell Beast” bonus set, with pose-able wings and a Nazgûl minifig. It does not appear as if this bonus set can be bought individually, making it a lot more durable to purchase the 9 Nazgûl you would wish to make your assortment story-accurate.

The designers at Lego had quite a lot of latitude to think about what the interior workings of The Darkish Tower may appear to be, since neither the books nor the Peter Jackson movies spent a lot time depicting or describing its inside. Lego’s promotional footage present some sort of be-skeletoned torture chamber, an armory, a Palantír viewing room, and a eating corridor for Orcs (there are some bones on the Orcs’ eating desk, however it’s not clear whether or not they come from people, hobbits, or one thing else).

And simply in case the bottom set is not tall sufficient for you, Lego says that the tower sections are totally modular and that you may make an excellent taller and extra imposing tower by shopping for a number of units and stacking them on prime of one another.

The Barad-Dûr set enhances the $500 Lego Rivendell set that the corporate launched final yr, which additionally borrowed closely from the movie model’s design. The primary factor the 2 units seem to have in frequent is an especially haunted-looking Frodo minifig, full with the One Ring. Each units even have a Samwise, however the Barad-Dûr model seems to be extra confident and heroic, as befits the character’s journey within the story.

Lego additionally sells a couple of LOTR characters as a part of its vaguely Funko Pop-esque “BrickHeadz” sequence, if that is one thing you are into.

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