LEGO Lord of the Rings MINIFIG COMPARISON (2012 vs 2023)
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- In this video, I'll show you the new LEGO Lord of the Rings minifigs from the 2023 RIVENDELL Set 10316 and compare them to the original Lord of the Rings minifigs from 2012-2013!
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New designs are good, but I feel like if you combine both old and new figs, they are golden 👌
Not gonna lie the original hair piece for Legolas looks more accurate to how it looked in the movies
@@The_Blue_Otaku I agree! The og hair, og head, olive green mando cape, new torso, cmf 20 Viking arms, old hip, new legs = perfection
@@HMDBrickCustoms Facts also you chould just put the old head and hair on the torso/legs from this new set
Definitely agree, some of the old figs were so much better and combining parts together will make near perfect figs for every character
That’s what I’m planning on doing
The old Arwen and Legolas heads look so much more realistic than the new ones.
Arwens head is the exact same one reused from the FRIENDS series sets Monica minifigure, probably thats why
Other minifigs from Rivendell also use reused heads, idk about Legolas specifically
Legolas is looking like he's wearing knee high boots now.
I prefer the old figures for pretty much everyone here. the way they were painted was so elegant and detailed. it perfectly evoked the movies. the new figures are a little bit watered down and generic. they are “more in line with other figures” but i loved the originals because they were so unique. the expressions on the old figures are also so in line with the character’s personality. Frodo’s “Vietnam stare” is basically his constant state after he gets the ring.
the new weapons are definitely better than the old ones though. and the dual mold legs are definitely an improvement. but pretty much all of the taller characters got done dirty in my opinion.
@@dimhollow55 I have all of the old ones and I will most likely swap the legs and weapons out on some of them. A lot of people say they don't need to put a lot of detail into them because it's a kids toy. I get that it's a kids toy and all but when it comes to collectors sets like this one I think they should put a bit more effort into it.
@@sirunclejim7217 Yeah I totally agree, and they have put in a lot of detail into the actual build for sure. i think what it comes down to is the balance between how Lego as a brand is supposed to look and how the characters actually look. and The old figures took more liberties with being accurate to the film and that’s just what I prefer at the end of the day
I agree but, for being in rivendell it kinda makes sense yk, in being in such a nice place it makes sense for them to not look so rugged since theyve been rested for a few days
Is it just me or is Lego oversimplifying there figures now ?
Your definitely correct. The amount of reused heads these days is insane
Unfortunately you swapped the swords for the newer Aragorn and Boromir. Other than that, nice comparisons!
And old Sam is from the 2nd and 3rd film
Absolute classic mistake. I still remember the original Brick Show Diagon Alley review where they had Ron and Hagrid’s heads mixed up!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed 😂
It's also important to note that these minifigures are from different points in the story from each other.
The new Rivendell minifigure are in their regal council clothes, while the clothes and facial expressions from the older figs are from when they were fighting orcs, Nazgul, and/or Shelob. Frodo and Sam's clothes showed progressively more wear and tear as the series progressed. Also, no one had their Lothlorien elven cloaks yet at this point.
Yep! Very important
The og Gandalf head is so much better!
The new one looks nothing like Gandalf😂
The hank pym head lol
@@tristan5162the new one looks like Santa, there are no wrinkles!
I see why they switched Merry and Sam's hair. Sam has gingery hair and Merry is more blonde so it is more accurate this way
I dont get it, neither Sam, Merry or Boromir are ginger in the films. Would have been fine for Faramir!
Yeah, but it's not that drastic. Imo of they gave Sam medium nougat (like the original) and for Merry they recolored it to flesh nougat (the pinkish nougat they used for Mola Ram and Kazim in Indiana Jones) it would've been perfect.
@@retrobrickreviews687 I agree
Totally agree. I don’t like the original Sam and Merry figures but I LOVE the new ones (except for Sam’s face. It doesn’t look like him imo)
I've become so used to the more vibrant-haired Merry since that color seems to fit his personality better - like the more toned-down color fits better to Sam's personality. In the movies, all seem to have the same hair color except Frodo, no?
Nice vid, but how can you be SO non-critical about the new figures?? Their heads are oversimplified and strays a lot from the originals. Aragorn is one of my favorites, but the new one just doesn't look like him. All his face details are off now. Especially the beard. Sad as I looked forward to getting all the ones I didn't get back in the day.
Would love to see you combine them to make the ultimate versions of some of these characters
I don’t remember Gimli’s hair ever being that silky 😭
I think all the new ones are better but there are a few issues with them, like the hairpieces for Arwen and Elrond.They have the same generic elf hair and that’s the problem with Lego now, they use the same thing consistently and it doesn’t work. Also I think elronds a great figure but I have one main issue which is the face. I think the face he has in the new Rivendell set makes him look 20. Also I think it would’ve been better if Elrond had had old hairpiece as well
The originals are mostly better. However the new ones have cleaner and sharper printing which is much better, but the hair molds and original face prints of most of the originals were definitely superior!
Great video!! 🔥🔥🔥
The problem with the old ones are all the brittle parts due to brown and red-brown pieces design defect of that time.. my Gimlis doen't survive shit.
It's kind of a case by case basis, but I feel like with Frodo I like the original torso more, the new one just looks too simple to me, though I love the detail added to all of the hobbit legs.
Gandalf, the old head is better, and I prefer getting actual legs to the skirt piece, but the new torso is definitely better. Gandalf did get a hair piece in multiple sets.
With Gimli I think the old beard color is better though I like that you can actually see his torso now. I do think that the new hairpiece doesn't really work though and if they wanted to give him hair they should have made a second beard piece that includes beard and hair.
New Legolas has better legs and torso, but the head and hair do not work with the new one at all, Classic Legolas definitely wins on hair and head.
Hair and face I prefer on Classic Arwen, clothes I like better on New Arwen, but they are completely different outfits so that's moot.
I think if you just switched out all the heads from the old minifigs onto the new torsos and legs they would be pretty perfect Minifigures.
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pretty much, wouldn’t’ mind if they kept the new Boromir head though
I feel like the old Arwen, Legolas and Elrond figures are better, mainly because of the hair pieces, faces and the overall prints on the figures.
I think everyone’s too smiley ! I’ve never seen Aragorn or Borimir do the Dreamworks face
Besides the new dual molded legs I'd say the originals are pretty much all better.
Gandalf came with a hair piece in a couple of sets and those had an alternate face print as well
I still don't understand why they swapped Merry and Sam's hair. It just doesn't look right in the new set
Both sets are great, of course, but it seems like the new art direction is cleaner and more streamlined. For me, personally, they come off as a bit lifeless but only when our next to the old ones. The unique weapons and dual molded pieces are an obvious technological improvement, though.
There's no way you said Aragons new fig is better 💀
You accidentally swapped boromirs sword and aragorns and the original Aragorns clothes is from weather top before he gets to Rivendell and the new one is after he gets to Rivendell and gets new clothes
Apart from Arwen and Elrond, I think all the new minifigs are improvements on the earlier versions. I just think the earlier versions of Arwen and Elrond looked more like Liv Tyler and Hugo Weaving.
I think elrond is an emprovement and Legolas is just plain awful. I also hate how Gandalf's face looks.
Agreed, Arwen especially
I like how you
Make everything so specific so we know exactly what you are talking about
Gandalf's head was also on The Minister of Magic figure from Harry Potter in 2019 and I believe it also came on a Jurassic World figure in 2018
That’s where I recognized it from! Good spotting 🙌🏼
The Jurassic World figure was Ken Wheatley.
Definitely like to see a purist custom/updated of the figures mixed with both old and new pieces.
6:02 From the last time Gandalf was in a set(excluding dimensions), he did have hair most of the time including the minifigure for Gandalf the White
Yes, I have the Wizard Duel set (the gandalf v Saruman one) and he had the old long hair piece (same as old Dumbledore)
I think Boromir’s and Aragorn’s swords should be switched. Apart from that, a perfect comparison. Thanks for the video!
I much prefer the new Hobbits, Gandalf & Boromir. I prefer the originals for: Gimli, Aragorn, Eowyn, Legolas & Elrond. The thing that ruins a lot of characters here in the reuse of generic faces, in the case of Aragorn and Elrond the old faces just seem more detailed and accurate. New Aragorn just like like Boromir but with brown hair instead of ginger.
To be fair, the original Sam we got was based on episode 3, his outfit was slightly different as he wasn't wearing the coat anymore
Episode 3?
@@jeffreymiller2882 return of the king...
@@KerioFive don’t get the episode part tho
@@jeffreymiller2882 it's pretty self explanatory, it's the 3rd one ..
@@jeffreymiller2882because he used a different word? better trim the neckbeard aight
The original Liv Tyler minifig has got her lips.
Old Aragorn is definitely better, I like his new outfit, but his old head is just miles better
I love the new gandalf, except the head. I wish they hadn’t swapped out the really accurate head, the original actually looked like Ian McKellen without the beard. I also like the new face for Legolas, the old one doesn’t look like Legolas. I think lego struck gold with these new minifigures. If I had the old and the new, I would probably mix and match them to make the perfect lotr minifigures
The new Gandalf head came on some Imperial Officers from Star Wars (specifically, I know it came in Darth Vader’s meditation chamber). I believe it also came on Cornelius Fudge in Hagrid’s hut.
Just thought I would point out that you mixed up Aragorn's and Boromir's' swords. The sword you gave Aragorn looks exactly like the one wielded by Boromir in the movie while the one you gave Boromir looks like the one wielded by Aragorn.
Is it just me or does the new Legolas head look more like Haldir?
Something cool is I'm actually related to Sean Astin, the actor who played Sam. He's my Mom's second or third cousin. My grandma actually knows him and talks with him when he goes to comic cons.
PO-TA-TOES!
To me I would say new torsos + old heads= the best. This fits on all the figures. I’m thinking LEGO is getting lazy on the heads printing. Not only this set, I can see so many facial expressions being reused in previous sets came up in these few years. That’s a large disappointment for me. This is a worthy set, and the designers can not even remake all the facial expressions of the Minifigures. What’s wrong LEGO…
Agreed.
Major dissapointment that they reused generic heads for so many of them. :/ luckily I have old gimli, frodo, legolas, gandalf, elrond, and arwen so I can min max those characters.
Oh btw you said you wasn't sure if Gandalf's new face was used before. It was, it was originally Cornelius Fudges face from the Harry Potter sets.
One video to rule them all
I like most of the new minifigures, but I think that the old Gandalf and Aragorn minifigures are better.
Except Legolas, Elrond and Gimli are the new ones better, in my eyes.
I feel like all of the new Gandalf is better except the face print. I think the old face print looks better. Also I don't like that they just used the new elf hair on all the elves. Legolas's old hair piece is so much better. Overall I think the new figures are better but a few things from the old ones are.
The old are in my opinion superior, the hair is oversized on the new lego figures, the clothes look to cartoonish, the colour on Boromirs beard is inacurate, sam and merrys hair souldn’t have been swaped, gimli doesn’t look like a dwarf he looks like a short man in tve new version, the weapons are good in the new but the boromir and aragorns new swords sould be swapped, gimlis new beard piece looks wierd.
Was hoping you’d put the old Elrond and Arwen hairs on the new and Vice versa. And switch the Legolas heads
I like the original Arwin more. The head and hair are more accurate i think. Aragorn's sword should be larger. Like the swords from the snow guardian mini figure. Otherwise they all look like improved looking figs.
No one cares about "the new ones fit in with modern minifigures", Just judge the f*cking minifigures off of the looks
Thanks for the great comparison! As others have mentioned Boromir has the wide bladed one-gander in the movie and Aragorn the long sword. I also like the new versions a lot. However I do prefer the old elvish hairpieces. Especially for Elrond. Where the crown is actually on top of the hair and Legolas old hair piece is also a much better representation of his movie look.
4:03 it’s not a brooch. It’s a pice of lembas bread unwrapped
You gave boromir the wrong sword. He's supposed to have the new broadsword.
Should have kept the Auburn hair for all , the ginger just looks odd none of them are ginger. Also old detailed torsos on some look way better than the new
“Thousand yard vietnam stare” is not a sentence I expected to hear in description of a Frodo Lego Minifig…
That new set where those new ones are, I think some people wished that set was out years ago
I absolutely hate the new elf hair piece the only positive is the dual molding.
lego messed up their instructions and gave merry, sam's hair, and sam, merry's hair
Did anyone else notice that he swapped Aragorn and Boromir's swords?
Gandalfs head appears on Cornelius fudge from Harry Potter
The Gandalf head isn't actually new, it was on Cornelius Fudge from Harry Potter but he is not a major character so I can understand the confusion.
It was also on Ken Wheatley from Jurassic World.
Old gimli and lego Las are really good new ones not so much I with they did hobbit hair in grey for bilbp
To be honest, most of the new minifigure faces are very inaccurate compared to the old ones. The only new faces that are better than the old ones in my opinion are Frodo and Boromir's. I think the major reason why so many of the new faces are worse than the old ones is because they are being re-used, like Legolas, Arwen and Gandalf's faces for example. If you look at the old figures, all of those faces were exclusive to just that one character which makes them more movie accurate
Why the Lego designers are so lazy now ??:/ Yes, the all old faces (except Boromir) are so much better than the new ones. Is it so difficult to put in this set old faces details? Maybe Lego designers are blind or don’t understand?:/ I can’t get it.
All the designs are amazing. I love a lot of the extra attention to detail. But a lot of it doesn’t sit well with me. Other than Boromir I found the old mini figures to be better. I don’t care for the new faces either. They all give them looks and designs that make them seem a bit childish. Like the printing and design for the faces look like that which Lego would normally do for child figures. Also not a huge fan of the new Elf hair pieces other than for Elrond and the extra 2 elves that come in the set. Another issue is that the hair swap for Merry and Sam is so odd to me. The way it was done originally was perfect and now they switched it for no reason and it looks less accurate. Other than that they are Amazing!
For me I give it to the original. But If I had both I would combine them together
except for the 4 hobbits, i think all the older minifigs look better.
6:01 The old 2012 Gandalf also had a hair piece (for when he loses his hat fighting Saruman and gets saved by an eagle).
New Gandalf head gives me Denethor vibes for some odd reason.
That is not the right sword for Aragorn, that is Boromirs sword. Aragorns is the one which is slimmer
Looks like he switched Aragorn and Boromir's swords
The swords are clearly out of the films
@@Penxa. you're correct
The new Gandalf head seems to be that if Cornelius fudge
And Ken Wheatley
Could you do a costume lotr fig showcase?
I would buy it... just so expensive
If lord of the rings line ever comes back as regular playsets, I just hope that LEGO keeps this as the standar. Specially with the exclusive tools and items that came with this awesome figs.
I would say the new figs with the old heads would look best
6:23 that new Gandalf head piece was used for a guy with a bowler hat in Hagrid’s Hut
Aragorn rarely smiles so I think the older version more accurate
I generally prefer the old heads, but everything else is better on the new ones.
12:58 I think that shield was used for Taskmaster’s comic book version in 2014.
You switched Boromirs and Aragorns swords
The original face prints were superior
You mixed up boromir and Aragons swords
but they like from game lego Lord of the Rings
The old hair pieces for the elves are far superior.
very nicee, do u think u could make a video about combination of those two figures (for everyone I mean) new and old
The new Gandalf head is from the new hayride hut and it’s the guy with the suit
The Minister Of Magic, Cornelius Fudge. It also came on Ken Wheatley from Jurassic World.
I have some of the 2012 ones
I really hate the reused elf hair on 5 minifigs, even tho better alternatives were possible in the past in much cheaper sets.
Definitely will give some of them the old hair and head pieces when I get my hands on this set. Plus Gimli needs his short legs back, the beard piece already made him slightly taller than the Hobbits, enough imho.
Great comparison!
You messed up the sword, you failed
The elvin bread!!
I know about that
Amazing that LOR Lego does brand new molds, meanwhile Lego Star Wars can’t even make a dark saber piece. Great review!
I love your Chanel your videos are amazing
I love the body on the old Boromir but the face on the newer one is more accurate.
3:52
I don’t think that’s Elven bread, if you’ve seen the movies, you know what the Hobbits are obsessed with… 😂😂
I never had any of the old figures but these new ones looks so good so im happy i can get those versions. Cant wait to buy this 😁
Dude, you gotta put the new hairpiece on the old Legolas and vice versa. It’s the only way to figure out if the Han face is truly bad for Legolas
I actually like most of the old ones better. For example, the new Gandalf doesn't have wrinkles like the old one did and is just to overdetailed.
12:55 If I remember correctly, the old shield was actually unique - as opposed to the old Boromir head and hair, which were not unique and used on other sets
I personally prefer the facial expressions on the original Frodo Baggins minifigure over the newer one. The alternate expression on the newer one looks a bit too cartoony.
The build is absolutely incredible. Basically perfect imo. I absolutely love the Hobbit figures too. The dual molded legs are amazing. I don’t particularly like any of the elves though, but honestly it doesn’t bother me that bad. I’m very excited to get this set!