Name: The Lonely Mountain
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 79018-1
Rating: 81 (8 reviews)

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Recommendations

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A review is considereded a recommendation when its score is above the reviewers median score or if it's explicitly said so in the review. Read more in our article about recommendations.

Price Per Part (PPP)

worse

Average PPP for System in 2014 is 0.13. PPP for this set is 0.16, which is worse.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPP is a guide, not a rule, and affected by the type of parts included. A set containing small generic parts generally have better PPP than one containing larger specialized parts.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

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Average PPM for System in 2014 is 18.1. PPM for this set is 28.08, which is worse.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPM only takes the number of minifigs into account and discards everything else. It's a guide, not a rule.

Review breakdown

Scored reviews

Eurobricks Recommendation: yes 9 / 10 → 90 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.3 / 5 → 86 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: meh 4.3 / 5 → 86 / 100

Brickpicker Recommendation: meh 7.2 / 10 → 72 / 100

Eurobricks Recommendation: no 7 / 10 → 70 / 100

Unscored reviews

BZPower

The Brothers Brick

JANGBRiCKS

Set information

Set ID: 79018-1
Name: The Lonely Mountain
Parts: 866
Minifigs: 5

Retail price (USD):
Original: 129.99
Inflation adjusted: 140.38

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.15
Inflation adjusted: 0.16

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 26.00
Inflation adjusted: 28.08

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: yes 9 / 10 by kaelthas

The Smaug made up the whole value to this set. I bought this because of the dragon and others are a bonus to the set. Smaug is very pose able but need great skill to take good shot of him. Most of the angle makes him look ugly. The build is adequate to the size of the dragon and of course you can buy a few more sets to enlarge it. The minifigures are all exclusive to the set and makes this set much more worthy to get.

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Brickset

Recommendation: yes 4.3 / 5 from 4 reviews

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.3 / 5 from 93 reviews

This is an awesome set! I had enough extra pieces to make another arkenstone and loads of treasure! If you like to collect the main characters like me, then Smaug is a must have!!

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 93 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Brickpicker

Recommendation: meh 7.2 / 10 from 1 review

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: no 7 / 10 by WhiteFang

Get this set and don't miss it for the sake and love of Smaug especially if you are a Hobbit fan.

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BZPower

by Andrew

Separating it from being in the wrong movie and the book inaccuracies, this is a good set. It's the only way to get Smaug, and you get some Dwarves and Bilbo with new designs. There's lots of good parts, especially sand green. Is it worth $130? While there's less than 900 pieces, there are a lot of bigger ones, and Smaug adds at least $20 of value on his own. I'm happy with my purchase.

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The Brothers Brick

by Nannan

Overall this is a great set for parts, minifigs, and Smaug is an attractive beast to most fans. A decent number of play features mark this as a good playset, and the sand green bricks make it stand out among other less brightly colored sets from the same line. My only complaint is the huge price tag, which is largely a result of including Smaug, whose new parts drive up the production cost.

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