LEGO Lord of the Rings #9472 Attack on Weathertop Review

Theme: Lord of the Rings

Name: Attack on Weathertop

S/N: #9472

Year: 2012

Pieces: 430

Minifig: 5

Price: RM349.90, USD59.99, GBP49.99

 

Box

Another pricey set, which the price is mark up ridiculously in our local market. The front box art shows the serial number and the set name together with the cast on the bottom left. Thanks to that, I learnt about the characters as I'm not really a fans of this theme to be frank. The top side of the box shows all the 5 minifigs in their actual scale while the back of the box shows us the playability, accessories and the interior of the Weathertop.

 

Content

There are for numbered bags of bricks inside the box together with a manual to guide you on the building process. Also, the minifigs is separated into different bags.

 

Brick Separator

This set comes with a brick separator that worth RM10 here. This new kind is slightly smaller and have more functions. Anyway, I think next year instruction book will teach us how to use it (maybe).

 

Accessories

This set comes with plenty of accessories and some of them even have spare one. Nice eh?

 

Animals

Here we have two black horses with printed design that suits the horse of Ringwraith. Sorry am not sure how the Ringwraith's horse looks like, but nice head print and it looks pretty cool. Extra bricks are given just in case you removes the saddle. I think we will no longer see horse head armor huh?

 

Minifigs

We have Merry, Frodo, Aragorn and two Ringwraith. The hobbit all looks alike to me, maybe they all shares the same hair piece. This time round Frodo have different color of cape compare to the one in Shelob Attacks.

Frodo - both side of his torso printed, nice details and have two expressions printed on the head.

Merry - both side of his torso printed, nice details and have two expressions printed on the head.

Aragorn - both side of his torso and leg printed, nice details and have two expressions printed on the head.

Ringwraith - torso printed on both side front and back, no face expression, like the Clone Trooper head, the cape is really something that gets in the way, hood cannot be attach properly and cape will stick out from the back. Really not cool.

Bush and Bricks

Here's something extra that are given and I don't know if this something important in the movie or not. Anyway you get a tan bush and and a few dark green parts to represent moss? 

Weathertop

This is what we are looking for in this set after the minifigs, the side dish maybe? Anyway, I like the way it was design though I have no idea how the real Weathertop looks like but there definitely is a something that makes me feel like it is some sort of ruin. Another thing to like about this is the shape, which look rounded with gap in between the wall.

Here's the top part of the Weathertop and it seems broken. No roof, broken walls and the standing windows. There are some tan bricks with pattern to signify the bricks and some microfigs been use to design the ruin. Trapdoors are attached with tiles so that the minifigs can fall when the trap is sprung.

 

So here's the trapdoor, and to open it, we just need to pull the button (the dark brown cone) and the trapdoor will open. Whoever that stands on top of it will fall down into the ruin. But there is always an exit at the bottom.

 

There's a little interior for the Weathertop and there is an entrance at the front of it. At the side we have a mouse hole and there is where the the technic pin holds the Weathertop closed together. This is where we will need to open to spilt the Weathertop open and reveal the interior. Let us enter into the Weathertop.

This is how the interior looks like,  there is a weapon shelf that holds a sword and a spear, torches hanging on the wall and a mouse. I have no idea what is that black round thing inside it and of course, to flick the arrow we have to flick from the inside.

Next, there is some space for these three friend to camp and to cook some food. There is a small fire setup and space to put the carrot and bags of supplies. There are stairs beside it where they can climb to the top of the ruin. Neatly implemented by the designer and I like the stairs.

However, beware if you camp there, there are arrows close to it and it might be fatal if they got shot. The arrows (the flicking playability that commonly use in playset) are install right beside the campfire. there are two of them and it was very well hidden.

Extra pieces

Here's the leftovers after I completed the Weathertop and whatever things that need to be completed. We have extra gold ring and weapons leftover too.

Completed model

I'm not sure how accurate is this but this Weathertop looks very nice, really. I have fun building it especially when I see the outcome. No regret getting this set at a lower price than the retail price here. Nice minifigs and nice ruins.

 

Playability: 8/10 Actually not much playability other than trapdoor, flick-fire and splitting the building

Building experience: 8/10 Different way of building a ruin, rounded shape.

Parts: 6/10 Price per piece is not that nice here but you can get a lot of grey parts here.

Value for money: 2/10 Don't bother the price here, is just crazy.

Overall: 6/10 Nice amount of minifigs and nice buildings but bad price.