LEGO’s biggest Lord of the Rings set ever is out. 11377 Minas Tirith landed for Insiders on June 1 and hit general release June 4: 8,278 pieces, standing 59cm tall, at $649.99. It’s a full build of the white city itself, tiered levels and all, and it’s the clear new flagship of the LOTR sub-theme.
Early buyers who ordered between June 1 and 7 also got 40893 Grond, an exclusive gift-with-purchase model of the siege ram from the Pelennor Fields battle. A nice add for anyone building out the full Return of the King scene.
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Large-format Icons sets in licensed universes have a track record worth paying attention to. 10237 Tower of Orthanc and the 10316 Rivendell set both held value well past retirement, driven by limited print runs relative to demand and a fanbase that skews toward display-building rather than part-out. At $649.99 and 8,278 pieces, Minas Tirith is priced and scaled to follow the same pattern. This isn’t a set I’d expect to show up marked down at Target six months from now.
The 40893 Grond GWP is the other piece worth not overlooking. Early-window exclusives like this tend to get orphaned from secondary-market attention until the parent set’s fanbase starts hunting for it specifically. Worth grabbing if you were in that first week’s order window.
I haven’t built this one yet. A full review with a real verdict score will follow once I’ve got it on the table. For now: if you’re a LOTR collector or you buy Icons flagships to hold, this is one to have on the list before the initial release window tightens up.
Sources: LEGO.com official news, Jay’s Brick Blog, Stonewars FAQ