Bought my niece a book ('The Hobbit') for her birthday and figured that I'd pair some Lego with it, considering her age class, but couldn't find a single (affordable) Lego tie-in. So I tried 'Lord of the Rings' instead, same story. Then I tried 'Rings of Power' as a last resort, and the only results were 'Lord of the Rings' tie-ins, rofl.
You can buy a shitty plastic Gandalf pipe to smoke some Shire weed (left over garbage from The Hobbit era), but not a single 'Rings of Power' piece of merchandise.
The Harry Potter franchise on the other hand is still going strong. They're even releasing new Lego kits each year, although each of them is paired with a little Harry Potter Lego figure, resulting in a Harry Potter clone army if you are foolish enough to buy them all as gifts.
Lego doesn't think that LotR can carry a full lineup by itself, so they only release big sets for collectors. I hate it, because they did used to make very cool playsets for cheap but they've been out of production for so long the prices are ridiculous.
And then some.
Just buy some african fetish and say it's the dwarven queen action figure.
haha, yeah, they would have probably insisted on including a DEI character in each Lego set.
Don't I know it. I've been looking for some rop tat to make a shitty bday gift for my friend.
And on the note of gods dammed Gandalf pipes. From a guy that used to make and restore them, please don't buy one. They're mostly either Chinese or Ukrainian for some reason, the wood used is questionable at best, toxic at worst. If you want a LOTR themed pipe then the German company Vauen does a line, they're expensive but good quality. Or a Missouri Meerschaum Cobbit.
160 bucks for a pipe. Bit expensive, indeed.
How do you make a hobbit in Lego?
They have half legs that don't bend.
Looked it up. They shortened the legs.
They solved one problem imperfectly. The dwarves are taller than hobbits.
With every female Lego figure looking like a trender. That's the least you could expect from them. :')
I don't even know a thing about Rings of Power. Like, I've never seen the Hobbit movies but I know most of the plot and runtime through osmosis and memes around the time it came out.
The literal only thing I know about Rangz is there is a black dwarf woman. Not even hate memes (like House of the Dragon) from people mocking it, or true believers trying super hard to push it.
Literal silence since it came out.