How LEGO Barad-Dûr got made 

I’m excited for the person who was waiting to add this to their LEGO Batman Movie MOC

Minas Tirith, Lothlorien tree, the lonely mountain with Smaug,... I would love to see the complete shire village, even the argonath, or the bridge of Khazad-dum... So much more to do ...

Rest In Peace great king Theoden son of Thengel who died last week on 5th May, a true legend! No Nazgul or Fell beasts were sighted at the time.

The helmets are great, but I do not understand why Frodo and Sam are in all other aspects exactlty the same as the figures in Rivendell.

14:08 VEGETABLES ARE BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS

Great interview, your questions were well prepared.

this set is huge!! Looks awesome

Such an immersive looking set. I'm glad they got in a fair amount of color and lots of playability.

Only miss is tall legs for Sauron

Minas Tirith needs to be next. Overall barad dur is a great build.

Thanks! It was awesome seeing and hearing about the design process. This set is very imposing and huge. Can’t wait to pick this up!

I’ve wanted this set I saw this movie years ago. I cannot wait

Interesting how they have prototypes of Frodo/Sam’s Orc disguise helmets, but they didn’t actually commit to the idea. Kind of a shame they are instead direct reprints from Rivendell.

Can wait to get this amazing set will go perfectly with Rivendell

Wish this wasn’t backlit. Awesome set though! Great insight in the interview. Cheers!

Not to be that guy but in very early 2023 there were leaked preliminary images of the completed Rivendell set (which didn’t come out till mid 2023 and images of a barad-dur were part of that leak and they look almost identical to the final product- so they are lowkey lying… to say that they didn’t start on the set till “after” Rivendell was released

It is amazing and I bought it day 1, however my biggest complaint about it, that I see no one talking about for some reason, is why does the eye, the main focal point supported by a black bar? Did they not consider using trans clear pieces to give it a better illusion of it floating? I feel like that would have been the obvious thing to do considering your focus goes striaght to the eye. I guess it probably had something to do with it moving and possibly technic pieces . Would have been better @ $399 and frodo and sam should have had their full armor on.

You should do full-scale version of Mount Doom that way It can go with the eye of sauron

So what’s their next LOTR project?? Did they give any hints for next years release?

Great vid. Great set. Great figs. Great bookend to Rivendell. Great big price tag. 🤠

Does it light up?

If Lego went full LOTR, I think I would ditch Lego Star Wars 😂 but seriously we need LOTR battle packs that don’t cost $35!!!!

Love the set. Looks great. Minifigure mains i like but the orcs less so. What i am sad about is that the GWP just makes a lot of people buy it sooner than they might find comfortable.

Bro i cant 😭😭🥵🥵🥵

0:42 “Rivendell was already out when we started.” Well, that’s a lie. We got the prelim image for Barad-dûr from that big survey leak in February 2023, a month before Rivendell came out, and that design looks fairly close to the finished model. Not really sure why they would lie about something like that, but there you have it

This is the first exclusive set from lego i've been excited to purchase at full price that i have in any memory, its been so long. Knowing how i match up with mainstream lego consumers though, it will probably flop because its a really evil and forboding looking set. Im going to avoid any more spoilers for this and enjoy it to full.

I wish lego would use the "woody" length figures more often. Sauron should be a woody figure, as should Chewbacca...

Can I buy two and stick them together for full enclosure?

Am I the only one who hates the new gollum redesign? He just looks odd without the pupils and nostrils

Should’ve had easterling minifigure

It'd be respectful to give credit to all the Barad Dur Ideas submissions. That's where the real work started to bring the LOTR theme back! Can't wait to get this set!

I'm just not feeling this set. Basically it's only half a tower, as soon as you rotate it even just a little bit, you see the flat back. Did we really need an interior? The movies show one scene which is likely inside the Barad-Dur dungeons, and that's Gollum being tortured... yet I don't see a way to recreate that here? Also, if they included Sauron to represent the 2nd age, then why not go all the way and include Elrond, Isildur, Elendil and Gil-Galad? That would have been way more interesting than generic orcs. And why could we not get correct outfits for Frodo and Sam? It's just not as well thought out like Rivendell was.

I like everything about this set, except I think the old orcs looked better

its a nice set. but they could of been more excited in the interview to show there work.

Why are they so sad man

I am disappointed with this set. It just does not look appealing to me overal; don't get me wrong, it has some things I like about it, but the general vibe and look of it just isn't for me. If you compare the two, Rivendell is on a completely different level and it blows this one out of the water.

It's a pretty poor representation of what barad dur is suppose to be, it's the largest fortress in 3rd age Middle Earth, dwarfing Minas Tirith, this looks more like a mid sized iron trunk mostly there for the eye, which shouldn't really be there to begin with Compared to Rivendell I'm pretty disappointed by this, tho tbf imo Rivendell is the best set Lego ever made I hope people enjoy it tho, it is an iconic movie set and I could do with saving 450eur haha

Sauron in my opinion is extremely disappointing they should have given him the avatar legs and made his helmet and shoulder armor separate pieces😢

I have to say these two were pretty boring. Maybe after working on this project for so long they got bored seeing it and talking about the set. You’d think they’d be a bit more energetic!?

They could do a giant 1m wide Eye and this one here would still compare very well! That said, PLEASE MAKE A ONE METRE WIDE EYE!!! 🥹