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I imagine if this is not the case that someone from Lego must spend most their time working at TT to make sure their creations follow Lego's guidelines, styles, and principles or the TT developers must get some fairly hefty training and guidance from Lego one way or another if they do it themselves. I'd be amazed if Lego trusts even an experienced 3rd party like TT to have too much unilateral control over their visions for characters but then I guess they have been doing it many years now so maybe TT has earned the trust of Lego enough to be allowed to go ahead and make designs they haven't themselves made? I wonder if Lego then gets to use them? Must be some interesting back and forth meetings if that's the case :)
I've always found the little mocs dotted about the games to be particularly delightful. Plants, furniture, etc I actually wish there was a book with them all in. One of the things about the games I'd certainly like to see more of is behind the scenes making of videos showing the design process and concepts. Perhaps as an unlockable/reward for completing game areas.
As far as box art not translating to reality - that's just part of the reality of the games. There's never being any guarantee that what's in game will ever be made by TLG. By necessity a videogame needs a complete setting with a full cast of characters and locations in order to tell a story and play in. It's frustrating (extremely so) when you see just how great a fig could be. But I think Smaug is a much safer bet on this occasion... wasn't there a confirmation somewhere regarding the sets, that smaug would be in one, or did i invent that in my mind?
Just built this and is much better than the photo suggests.
(I don't know if this was the video I've seen, haven't watched it yet to check - but sounds interesting)...
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And I have to wonder alongside @Shib how much that is going to cost...
Both reasons why I usually avoid initial releases of most entertainment products, there are almost always extended/deluxe/'complete' versions within 12 months, and/or the price will halve. Sadly, that's been given a sturdy kick in the teeth, with the damn exclusive minifigs tacked onto the lego videogames, making me pay top whack on day of release. Booooh! How dare they?! :oP
Fortunately TTgames lego games have (so far) been one of the few titles out there complete on release, so i've been less concerned (no extensive DLC to bother about).
BUT if they did go down the route of extended content 12-months later 'with extra levels' type stuff, that'll be a sting I won't fancy repeating, and i'll probably go back to waiting 12 months (just in case) and ignoring the day-of-release bonus figs (picking them up in the aftermarket if i really want it). After all, its the game i'm buying here, and I want the complete experience, not some rushed-out half-baked glitchy underproduced...
It will be interesting to see whether There and Back again is released as DLC to the hobbit game, or they opt to make a whole Hobbit 2 game and 'double-dip' on the tale.
Just a word of warning before you go look; if you in any way have a Peter Jackson aversion, prepare yourself to vomit.
Bearing in mind, it's called The Hobbit, helping the exiled Dwarfs reclaim their ancestral home, stolen from them by the Dragon.
Yep, you guessed it...
Baaauueueuuelllaaaarggghhh
*wipes vomit from mouth*
BbBbaAAaAAaaaauuueeeeeellaaaeerghh
...Please, make it stop...
^^This romantic portrayal still turns my stomach.
Can anyone confirm my suspicions that the film got 'tarted' up and changed a bit since being in the cinema.
*Beware SPOILERS all who pass beyond this point*
Now, i know this generally happens with films anyway (usually to smooth out technical wrinkles and remove occasional clangers), but I couldn't shake the feeling that what i'd felt after watching at the cinema didn't tally with what I now watched at home.
It might be that I was just 'ready' for all the super elves and the lethargy this time, but several sequences seemed 'different'. I'm flippin' certain the necromancer's appearance has been changed.
Instead of a subtle fire-eye-pupil-becomes-shadowy-walking-figure thing (which i liked), this seemed more a fully-armoured-battle-sauron-with-golden-accents. The phrase 'gilding the truffle' sprang to mind. I also thought the spiders had had more to say at the cinema, and that Legolas had taken more of a beating at laketown.
Anyone else seen both movie at the cinema and on blu/dvd care to share their experiences, feel any different second time round?
Did your BluRay/DVD also come with a polybag? If so which one?
So it is out already on DVD/BluRay in the UK then?! I have not bought it yet, so I don't know.
ps.
Eager to get the 3D version.
I'm waiting for the special-edition-with-extra-dinosaurs version, but had i known he was looking, i would have suggested a lego poly edition... ;o).