![]() ![]() The set consists entirely of earth-toned pieces (tan, dark tan, brown, dark brown, light bluish grey, olive, and dark green), which is terrific for those looking to flesh out their landscaping collections. Despite its small size, it’s entirely brick-built, with no “wall” type pieces, and in fact mostly consists of 1×2 sized bricks. This allows it to be placed on either side of the tree-fort. The wall is small, with three articulated 6-stud segments for a total of 18 studs in length, and connects to the tree-fort via a pair of Technic pins. So it’s unnecessary, but extra parts are always a good thing.īag number 2 finishes out the set with the rest of the battlement’s wall, the two elf archers, and the remaining orc. Presumably this is for strength, but I tested the segment with and without the bar, and didn’t note any significant difference in strength. Oddly, the tree branch that’s thrown aside contains a bar 3L inside the brown 1×1 round bricks that make up the limb. When activated, a tree branch is thrown back, revealing the catapult. The catapult is actually a fig-flinger, which seems far less useful in a siege than the traditional methods of throwing rocks and fiery bombs. The top is covered in a mixture of crenellations and foliage, which disguise a giant catapult. The allows the entire top portion to rotate around the clickyturntable. The most interesting part of the trunk is the use of the new 1x3x3 arch, aka the gothic arch, in brown, which is the first time that piece has appeared in brown, and is only the third color currently available. You get 4 of them in brown with this set.Ītop the stump, which is about 8 bricks tall, sits the 10×10 octagonal plate on a turntable. The forest battlement is a large, brick-built, hollow tree stump, concealing a cubbyhole for a barrel full of green gems - well, one trans-green gem and one trans-green 1×1 round plate. The first numbered bag contains the warg rider, Elf-King Thranduil, and the generic Mirkwood elf, as well as the pieces for the tree-fort - ahem, I mean forest battlement. The box contains 2 numbered bags, a 10×10 octagonal plate with hole, an individually bagged warg (which is new here in dark brown), and one annoyingly crumpled instruction booklet that wouldn’t stay open without weights on the corners. It’s the Hobbit equivalent to the Lord of the Rings’ 9471 Uruk-Hai Army. With 276 pieces for its $30 price-point, it fares well for a licensed set, and only gets sweeter when you consider that it includes 6 minifigures. It’s under siege by a duo of orcs, one of whom rides a warg. We’re starting our reviews in the middle of the lineup, with 79012 Mirkwood Elf Army, the $30 set.ħ9012 Mirkwood Elf Army is a small forest battlement manned (elfed?) by a squadron of 4 wood elves. This wave consists of 4 sets, priced at $20, $30, $50, and $70, respectively, and are available for preorder from Amazon with a release date of Dec. The first wave of kits are rolling out to accompany part 2 of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, which appears in theatres next month.
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