The LEGO Battle of Five Armies 79017 set also includes another LEGO Legolas minifigure, a LEGO Gwaihir the Great Eagle figure (the third time LEGO has released a LEGO Great Eagle), and another LEGO Bard minifigure. You might think that’s it, but there are yet more minifigures with this set.
I would’ve liked a little variance in the torso prints, but it is nice to be able to easily build a LEGO Orc army. We got a bunch of these last year (including in the excellent LEGO Mirkwood Elf Army 79012 set that I reviewed), and these look to be exactly the same to me as last year’s releases other than the new faces. Two more LEGO Gundabad Orc minifigures make their appearance in this set. Azog doesn’t appear (alive) during The Hobbit book at all, but I can only assume he’ll be playing a critical part in The Battle of Five Armies (otherwise, the character would have no point). The second mass-release LEGO Azog minifigure also appears with this set, and this time he’s got a new face print with a scarier open mouth. Strange as it might sound, this Thorin may legitimately be my favorite part of this whole set! The Thorin Oakenshield LEGO minifigure looks absolutely fantastic wearing his crown, both here and in the 79018 LEGO The Lonely Mountain set’s throne. You didn’t think we’d get through an entire wave of LEGO The Hobbit sets without the King Under the Mountain, did you? While some might groan at another LEGO Thorin minifigure, this is actually definitely the best one yet.
The other Dwarf included with this set is yet another LEGO Thorin Oakenshield minifigure. We have so, so many Dwarfs now that I didn’t get I’d excited for one more, but I love the chest print and and the angular helmet that comes on the LEGO Dain minifigure. I don’t believe we’ve seen Dain appear in the first two The Hobbit movies, so presumably he comes to help Thorin in The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (hence why he’s in the set with that name).
The one totally new character in LEGO 79017 The Battle of Five Armies is the LEGO Dain Ironfoot Minifigure. That said, I think I can we get a pretty fair idea of the five armies based upon the assortment of minifigures (and one not-so-mini LEGO Eagle) included with this set. I’ve been purposely avoiding re-reading The Hobbit for the past half-decade so that I wouldn’t spoil the movie for myself (I’m senile enough that I can barely remember the details of the novel, despite the fact that I took a graduate level course on it and analyzed it thoroughly), so I’m a little hazy on exactly what the five armies that make up the “Five Armies” are. Last but not least, we come to the LEGO The Hobbit set bearing the same name as the final The Hobbit movie: The Battle of Five Armies.
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