Category: Sets

Dark Forest Fortress

One frustrating thing about being a fan of Lego and living in Japan is not as much their price (more expensive than the US, but about the same as Europe), but the absence of deals. I often see on Reddit some crazy deals that people...

Exo Suit

  I bought the Lego Ideas set: Exo Suit. I had followed its development for a while, since the day I randomly learned that the project had been accepted. In short, if you don’t know Lego Ideas, it’s a section of Lego where you can...

Building Lego Orthanc – Part 13 – the End!

  It took me a few months but here we are, the last post devoted to building the Orthanc Tower in Lego, the biggest set I have ever built (and it will keep that record for quite a while I believe, at least until I...

Building Lego Orthanc – Part 12

  We’re approaching the top:                       Where is Gandalf waking up?       Almost finished…        

Building Lego Orthanc – Part 11: Here comes Gandalf!

    Gandalf pays a visit to his old friend, Saruman.     He decides to go check out the sixth floor of Orthanc that is being built.     As you can see with the next two pictures, I’ve been experimenting with different ways to...

Building Lego Orthanc – Part Ten

        After the lab on the previous floor, here is the study room, probably my favorite floor of the whole tower.         About those two skulls. You’ll see in a few pictures that a lot of things are devoted...

Building Orthanc – Part Eight

      Here comes Grima “Wormtongue”!   For this step of the construction, I tried something new: an animated gif made from Google+ autoawesome feature. What do you think?