We Build LEGO The Lord of the Rings: Sauron's Helmet, a Menacing Display Piece

LEGO Lord of the Rings: Sauron's Helmet is disposable to acquisition some connected Amazon and straight done the LEGO Store for $69.99. It is different summation to a increasing lineup of LEGO show sets, featuring the helmets (or, successful the lawsuit of Wolverine, claws) of fashionable characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and DC. However, this is the archetypal Lord of the Rings LEGO acceptable to get the display, not play, treatment.

The 538-piece Sauron's Helmet is simply a reasonably brisk acceptable to enactment together, taking maine astir an hr and 15 minutes to afloat complete, from unboxing to placing the last brick. The container is amazingly ample for a acceptable of this size, and includes six numbered bags of pieces and a 122-page acquisition booklet.

Like astir licensed LEGO sets for adults, the acquisition manual includes immoderate inheritance accusation connected Sauron, including the infinitesimal we archetypal laid eyes connected him successful 2001's The Fellowship of the Ring during the Siege of Barad-dûr. It was present that helium struck down King Elendril earlier having the One Ring chopped from his digit by Isildur, frankincense destroying his carnal form.

The talented LEGO designers partnered with Warner Bros. to make a buildable, standard exemplary based connected the archetypal prop helmet Sauron wore successful The Fellowship of the Ring, and it looks awesome.

With the contents of the archetypal bag, you'll assemble the basal connected which Sauron's helmet volition rest. If you've built immoderate of the different LEGO show busts, it's a precise acquainted process. The quadrate basal and mediate operation operation supply a sturdy instauration for the helmet, with a tiny tilting portion for the plaque, and built-in basal for Sauron's minifigure, but much connected that later.

After assembling the base, you'll physique the interior framework, which connects straight to the basal and allows you to cautiously connect each conception of the helmet. Because it's each 1 piece, it's incredibly stable, and ensures that the helmet doesn't determination erstwhile it's built.

The remainder of the physique is solely focused connected piecing unneurotic the full helmet successful sections, which are mostly attached via a hinge mechanism. This is however the helmet is capable to execute a "rounded" look, contempt being built wholly retired of angular bricks.

The bulk of the helmet's exterior is comprised of the flat, glossy pieces, galore of which are rounded to make immoderate precise absorbing movement, peculiarly connected the front. The sections astir the oculus holes travel seamlessly up into the beforehand spikes, and the country covering the rima has immoderate unique, curvy spiked pieces that adhd immoderate bully texture to the bottommost of the helmet.

Because the helmet is symmetrical, you'll beryllium gathering "mirror images" of each section, often 1 aft another. None of the techniques present are precise difficult, but you'll privation to wage adjacent attraction to immoderate of the angular pieces to guarantee they are facing the close direction.

The singular, spiked portion connected the backmost of the helmet is the archetypal clip I've ever seen that circumstantial mold. It perfectly blends a modular integrative LEGO portion with a rubberized tip, apt to guarantee that you don't accidentally poke your oculus retired with it portion building, contempt being an 18+ rated set.

The last sections that you'll enactment unneurotic are the two, monolithic spikes adorning other sides of Sauron's helmet, each lasting astir 9" tall, to implicit the iconic silhoutte.

While the last merchandise is striking, and looks large connected a shelf, it's a precise monochromatic acceptable that's astir wholly grey connected the exterior. It whitethorn not popular similar immoderate of the champion LEGO Ideas sets available, but it definite arsenic hellhole looks cool.

One large crushed this acceptable volition apt beryllium fashionable amongst collectors is that it's lone the 2nd acceptable to ever see a Sauron minifigure (the archetypal being 2024's Barad-dûr set), and offers a acold little costly mode to adhd it to your collection. Sauron's minifig features his afloat armor, achromatic cape, and a custom-molded pauldron and helmet combo that slips implicit the head.

This acceptable besides includes the One Ring that tin connect to the apical of Sauron's hand. Well, it really includes 3 "One Ring" pieces (presumably successful lawsuit you suffer one), which ironically makes it consciousness little special, but makes for immoderate large photograph opportunities if you privation to embellish the spikes of Sauron's helmet.

LEGO The Lord of the Rings: Sauron's Helmet, Set #11373, retails for $69.99 and is composed of 538 pieces. It is disposable to acquisition from Amazon and the LEGO Store.

Matthew Adler has written for IGN since 2019 covering each things gaming, tech, tabletop games, and more. You tin travel him connected the tract formerly known arsenic Twitter @MatthewAdler and ticker him watercourse connected Twitch.