Hi all, as you can see I’m still not fully recovered and not posting at all regularly yet. I did get back home finally after an almost 3 week trip up and down the West Coast. And once I’ve managed to upload all my images to Flickr I’ll be posting about the trip in more detail. But I wanted to post about the recently released Hobbit movie on Blu-Ray and the Target exclusive version with the Bilbo Baggins minifigure. I won’t go into a full review of the movie, as others such as FBTB have done a very good review already. No what I want to talk about is the small featurette on the making and designing of the LEGO Hobbit Models that is on the Target Blue Ray and the Bilbo figure — cause let’s face it, that’s really the main reason I got it at Target. Its not that I “must have all minifigures!” But since I was going to get the movie anyways, I might as well get it with a Bilbo minifig. 🙂 Its a pretty cool fig, with a nice blue waistcoat and printing on the back. Th
ere’s even an alternate scared expression on the other side of his head. What I found that interested me more than I thought was the featurette about how they designed the LEGO Hobbit models. Now as I’m not as tech savvy as some, I took pictures from my TV while I watched the feature so that you could get an idea of what it shows. The thing I thought that was coolest to me was the original prototype of Bag End, Bilbo’s house. You can see how it differs from the actual set and what stayed the same. They also talked about how they designed the Goblin king and his minions. Its only about 15 minutes long, and there’s scenes from the LEGO Lord of the Rings Video Game at the start and end of it. What I’m hoping and predicting will happen is a LEGO Hobbit game about the time the 3rd Hobbit movie finally gets released. for $24.99 in the US. I found it at my local Target for $22.99 so if you want it, I’d recommend getting it there before the week is over and they jump the price up to $29.99.
Is it worth it? Well the feature was interesting, I don’t see myself watching it over and over again. I’m of the reluctant Blu-Ray crowd. I don’t care all that much that my image is that much crisper than the DVD version. However, it seems that is the way the world is going and that’s why I picked up a PS3, so at least I could play games and watch movies. I do like the exclusive figure, and I imagine that it will cost as much as the movie once it starts making its way to Bricklink. But if you are going to buy the movie any ways, you might as well get this one.9474-1: The Battle Of Helm's Deep The Lord of the Rings / The Two Towers / 9474-1: The Battle Of Helm's Deep Packaging (L × W × H): Standard: 22.90 x 14.90 x 3.40 Metric: 58.20 x 37.80 x 8.70 Weight: 5.31 lbs / 2.41 kg 9474-1 The Battle Of Helm's Deep Price Guide Values $ 170.55 (2.78% ) $ 133.93 (0.13% ) $ 0.12 PPB New $ 0.10 PPB Used $ 0.10 PPB Retail
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