I spend a lot of time realistically defending Peter Jackson, the man is no saint but I don’t abhor the work he’s done with Tolkien’s world for the most part. However, seeing this Sauron being sold as “The Hobbit 3” was a bit too far. The extremely heavy handed “foreshadowing” of the Necromancer as Sauron was acceptable, but not having outright Sauron in The Hobbit. I was relieved when I purchased it to learn that it’s actually from the Lord of the Rings line.
I’ve gone a little overboard on buying Pop figures, and some of the Funko plushies. Stuffed Gandalf is my favorite, I like him a lot more than the Pop Gandalf, it makes sense to me that Gandalf would be fuzzy as opposed to hard plastic. On the other hand, Pop Gollum makes more sense than plush Gollum.
Pop Smaug is missing a scale, much like the movie. I also have the ridiculous Smaug covered in gold figure. I wholeheartedly wish that sequence had been left on the cutting room floor, but the visual of a dragon covered in molten gold and shaking it off in midair is a beautiful one. I just wish there hadn’t been a terrible Rube Goldberg-esque battle to net that result.
Bonus Game of Thrones figures. Arya, Jon Snow, and Ghost of course.
