So about the rumoured LEGO LOTR Shire... 

This is a wild overthink. Lego isn’t making a flaming shire.

my guess is the fire refers to fireworks - Bilbo's birthday celebration and a big firework dragon as a setpiece with the Shire.

What about a Balrog set? "you shall not pass"= STOP sign?

While I have the original Bag End from The Hobbit wave and I believe that it’s still a great set, I have always wanted a full scale Bag End. The Shire is arguably one of the most iconic locations in all of Middle-earth. It’s where the films begin and end. Heck, it’s literally described in the first line of The Hobbit [book]! Please LEGO, make…IT…happen!!!

The beauty of the current LOTR sets is their size and detail...special. More of the same please, no need for little compromised sets. Thank you.

“LOTR theme isn’t what it used to be in 2005” … that’s adorable, us fans are creeping in the shadows waiting for anything we can get our hands on. Barad-Dur GWP goes for $250CAD… that only surprised the non-LOTR fans.

Lothlórien next, please.

I'm not sure why everyone thinks there “can't” be a pub when there was a pub & inn for the D&D set… but the pub isn’t a very big deal in LOTR as things go. Bag End is. Gandalf's cart, some fireworks, Bilbo's house, maybe all the dwarves from The Hobbit…the house would be quite sizable to stick them all in…and lots of plates (maybe even some flying through the air), wheels of cheese, and before you know it, we'll all hear Thorin singing. Maybe toss in 2 heads & hair for Bilbo (young & old), and add Sam & Frodo, a book, an envelope and a ring, and you can cover the start of both series.

Minas Tirith is what I am hoping for personally if we are only going to get one set for lotr

In my mind its gonna be another 450 dollar set, maybe 400 or 300 Because a lot of these would be figures that already exist and would cost less to produce. instead of something that is tall or long I think the shire will mostly be sort of like an uphill cake and sort of.. oval shaped maybe ? bag end and another hobbit hole (probably sam's) so you can recreate the final "I'm home" scene. A mill perhaps and a road that goes swirling left and right upwards thru the whole thing so you can ride gandalf cart thru the shire. (I'd love a green dragon but the mere fact it's a pub means it won't happen.) There will be some hollow space underneath the interior of the whole thing to store the parts for bilbo's birthday party such as the banners and the big cake and/or flamepieces because otherwise this space would be useless. (but I doubt lego would actually include the flamepieces.) As for the figures it would probably include: Frodo in his shire atire, Gandalf, Sam, a slightly younger Bilbo unless lego cheaps out and reuses the rivendell one, Merry, Pippin, Rosie Cotton, a Nazgûl on horse and 2 or 3 generic hobbits. Other things that might be fun could be a brick build fireworks dragon along with regular firework very simillar to how the disney castle did it, and alternate faces for merry and pippin when they get ash on their faces and get caught. some The Hobbit easter eggs would be fun, giving us all 13 dwarves may be unrealistic but a picture like the ones in rivendell with all the dwarves and bilbo on it would be cool. The mythril shirt obviously, the acorn he took from Beorn's garden, Maybe his drawing of himself, and of course the map of the lonely mountain is a must. Other details like the pictures of frodo's parents, the mark that gandalf leaves on the door, the red book of westmarch (preferably in dark red this time 😂) the food storage, bilbo's desk, his small chest of gold (throw an orc helmet in there for good measure), the sign on the fence, a drawer with spoons in it, sam's garden etc. And a light brick inside the fireplace to light the whole thing up. As for a gift with purchase I first thought gandalf's cart, but then you would have 2 gandalf's and it's pretty important to include in the set itself. But then I got it.. The treetrunk where they hide from the Nazgûl. It's fairly iconic but recognizable. It would only include the nazgûl on horse but it would be cool nontheless and the figure already exists. Yeah that's pretty much all i could come up with. obviously what we all want is just cheaper sets though 😂

Bilbo's Birthday so that they can include most the characters and we can finally get Old Bilbo, that and Bag End as the whole set

I can't lie, if they made the scouring of the shire from the books that would be incredible

We need the Pirates of the Caribbean ship back in UCS version and the Flying Dutchman!!!

bagend with unfortunate fireworks would be fun ...

I'd like smaller sets because I don't have the room to display them all.

I love these sets, I didn’t even know They had made previous sets before rivendale. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Give us a cheap Gandalf and Frodo wagon set 😊

I would love some smaller, more afordable LotR sets...

I would rather see Minas Tirith or Edoras. I think Shire wouldn't be in ideal scale to Rivendel and Barad Dur.

If we get the Shire it will be regular Shire, maybe flaming Shire mini will be a GWP at best. The scouring of the Shire isn’t in the movies other than a hint of that in Galadriel‘s mirror. But I am wondering whether the Shire will be something like Rivendell ot more something along the lines of the recent medieval market with a bunch of individual buildings

0, nay, -100% chance that LEGO would make a Shire set completely on fire and ruined as the only version to build out of the box.

No, we do not need a LOTR theme beyond the unique UCS style sets we are getting. These sets exclusivity make the current range very special. It is good to have some things in life that you aspire to. I remember my cousin raising money for months, and saving, to get the Ghostbusters station house. It is still a source of pride, achievement and joy to this day. None of the Star Wars sets survive to this day.

I would love a Shire, but definitely would prefer not on fire. Or fire optional.

Why not a rohan set with a size simllar to sanctórum ?

Greetings from the Derby City, here in Louisvile, Kentucky we have bourbon, baseball bats, and yes bricks. Found your channel, good episode, I like your predictions. As a fan of both LOTR and LEGO, I'll be curious about more sets. Wasn't there a time, and please correct me if I'm mistaken, where LEGO would feature multiple sets in a series on the last page of the instruction manual? If they are considering more LOTR sets, maybe one idea could be a single (32x32?) base of let's say Bag End, then several smaller (16x16?) of scenes such as the Green Dragon, the Mill, the Party Tree, Sam's hobbit hole, and even an expansion pack (like they do with SW) that offers additional minifig hobbits. Minifigs could be spread out to feature in each set such as: - Frodo/Bilbo in Bag End - Merry/Pippen in the Green Dragon - Gandalf and his fireworks, along with Peter Jackson's two small minifig hobbits at the Party Tree - Sam, Rosie and family in his hobbit hole - the Proudfoot clan at the Mill - for fans of the books, sneak in Saruman of Many Colors as a fun easter egg - and creators can do what they do best, be creative, heck I've got minifigs ranging from Abraham Lincoln, the Breaking Bad guys, and the Mythbusters duo all the way to Stan Lee, the Blues Brothers, Amelia Earhart, several renditions of The Doctor (with their corresponding companions), and Bad Santa in my shire MOC. I guess my thought is, by organizing one big theme in to several smaller sets, it give fans of all rangess and budgets options. Thank you for sharing your episode, your chanel, and your perspectives. I look forward to seeing more, keep up the good work and have a GREAT week!

I mean I just figured that meant we’d get the shire in 2025 and Minas Tirith in 2026

People want a super detailed Shire and or Bag end. And not on fire. I bought Rivendell day 1. But Baradur was an easy pass.

can we mention that people use the word "fire" interchangeably with "cool" so it's entirely possible he meant a cool shire set

I'd prefer the Golden Hall.

The sad part is that 6 of the minifigures will definitely be reuses of frodo Sam merry pippin gandalf and bilbo, as much as id like a new variant of frodo Sam and bilbo and many other hobbits, barad dur showed us they won't be doing variants of frodo and Sam

I want shire, minis tirith, Rohan, a Moria balrog set, helms deep

We have already had Bag End. I want the icons set. I want the Party Tree with fireworks and Bilbo Birthday banner. I want Bywater Bridge with Gandalf and his carriage. I want Green Dragon Tavern with Rosie Cotton. The minifigure lineup will just be a retrace of Gandalf, 4 hobbits, and Bilbo. Maybe we get a young and old version of Bilbo? If they do a a scouring of the Shire then maybe an updated Saruman and Grima? If they just rehash the minifigures, then I could see them releasing at least 1 more LotR set the second half of next year.

I hope that the Bags end/Shire will be affortable like 100-200 euros. I can imagine the quality and the size, will be bit more bigger style of a Star Wars dioramas. For example something like "training on Dagobah". I will definitly buy then.

Don't like this idea. I'm all for more lotr stuff. Don't think the shire should be downsized. I've been waiting for a d2c shire, and I hope that's what they do.

i would kill for a rivendell scope Bag End

Pure speculation on my side here. I think we might get something from The Return of the King - 3rd set as a representation of the 3rd movie. We got Rivendell - a major location from the Fellowship of the Ring, then Barad-dur from the Two Towers.

A hobbit battle pack

we need osgiliath

Smaller sets that people want lead to hellish pricing. While in the uk for you it’s only become sensitive in 2024 second half, in other countries there has been suffering for a while. The Jurassic park visitors center, the skiff / sail barge completion set.. bag end is probably going to be small set so painfully priced you won’t believe it. When they announced the visitors center pricing my reaction was “why stop there why didn’t they just keep going”. Anyway, welcome to second class Lego purchaser status. The grass is actually greener on the other side.

This is the most rambling you've ever rambled. 😑

How much is the LOTR license costing the LEGO Group? It'd be shame if the cost of license meant they thought smaller sets weren't cost effective for them.

Its honestly scummy how anti-consumer lego has become with certain themes

Seems like a prime candidate for a diorama-style set. No way I'm going to be buying Bara-Dur or Rivendell (as much as I would love the latter), and I have my eye on the diorama Hogwarts, so wouldn't mind having Hogwarts and Shire diorama sets next to each other.

Another LOTR UCS set? As long as they got the eyes details right, include more than a dozen figures including molded figures I'm all in.

Genuinely do not want a shire set. At least as the main big ticket year set. It would be repeat figures from Rivendell, maybe a couple nazgul and bilbo? I guess? Like I guess a Rosie Cotton or Ol' Gaffer would be cool, but still. Id prefer Gondor. That way at least the overlap of characters are dressed differently. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I think the palantir showing a flaming shire has more to do with the lore than a reference to the future sets. I am not a LOTR lore expert but I believe in the books Denethor has one of the other palantir, so it would make sense that Minas Tirith would be a place Saruman's palantir could see. At the end of the Return of the King book, Saruman and his remaining allies go to the Shire and cause trouble so maybe the flaming Shire is a reference to that.

Mona Lisa's googlie-eyes are distracting AF 🙂 (Hilarious)

Looks like right after watching this video, it is official we are getting a $400 Shire with 10+ minifigs jnn2025

Going to be honest, while a really detailed Shire sounds cool, we already have a fantastic Bag End set. Hoping for Minas Tirith, because Lego has been shockingly stingy on Gondor. I hope you’re right about both, because that would be perfect!

07:46 doubtful they’ll do the Shire on fire either as an option or as the set itself…. Lego: No weapons Also LEGO: let’s have a village on fire burning innocent men, women and children with Orcs going around killing and raping! 😂 In a word…..no. 😂

Let’s actually hope that they bring out both the minas tirith and the shire😂🙈

I think Minas Tirith should get the Hogwarts treatment; several sets of different sizes all forming one big place. Having said that: The Shire appeals much, much more to me.