Name: Witch-king Battle
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 79015-1
Rating: 83 (8 reviews)

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Recommendations

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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 5.4, which is better.

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 46 / 50 → 92 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 → 92 / 100

Just2Good Recommendation: yes A → 90 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 4.1 / 5 → 82 / 100

From Bricks To Bothans Recommendation: meh 3 / 5 → 60 / 100

Unscored reviews

BZPower

Jay's Brick Blog

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Set information

Set ID: 79015-1
Name: Witch-king Battle
Parts: 101
Minifigs: 3

Retail price (USD):
Original: 14.99
Inflation adjusted: 16.19

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

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 5.00
Inflation adjusted: 5.4

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Eurobricks

Recommendation: yes 46 / 50 by Blakstone

This is an excellent set for fans either The Hobbit films or Lord of the Rings. I plan on getting at least one more set to make a purist custom of Eowyn in Meduseld. None of the torsos have fleshie bits which makes these a good idea for tradition Castle fans as well.

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.6 / 5 from 71 reviews

Built it, enjoying it. Nice small set with 4 mini figs! Each character is special in this set. I like the hair for the elves, it also includes their ears. I built my set to make a complete skeleton character but you can follow the directions and keep it in pieces too. Neat dungeon style bricks with stone type patterns adds a great touch to the old keep.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 71 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Just2Good

Recommendation: yes A → 90 / 100

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Brickset

Recommendation: meh 4.1 / 5 from 7 reviews

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From Bricks To Bothans

Recommendation: meh 3 / 5 by Nick Martin

Unless you're really trying to build a somewhat pointless and annoying scene in a movie full of them, Dol Guldur isn't a battle that will be imortalized in a bunch of great MOCs. There are a few decent parts, but nothing overly spectacular to justify the $15.

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BZPower

by Jason

Really, this boils down to a set with three excellent minifigures with a few bricks thrown in to make sure we don't feel too cheated by the price. But for $14.99 USD, I would expect a higher quality set in terms of design. The problem, I think, is that Dol Guldur isn't a very exciting location to recreate out of LEGO Bricks, and even then there wasn't enough included here to really pull it off.

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Jay's Brick Blog

by Jay

While it looks pretty alright on display, I will most likely harvest it for parts as soon as I need to clear up some space on my display shelf. I might just keep the minifigures around and assimilate them into my display population.

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