DofS box setYet more information on all those different versions of the Blu-ray and DVD of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug!  Various versions are available for pre-order in the US; Target has the Limited Collector’s Edition (with the Noble Collection bookends) and the set of Blu-ray/DVD/Ultraviolet with LEGO Legolas figure listed as available for pre-order online. (They will also be selling the 3D Blu-ray/DVD/Ultraviolet pack, the regular 2 disc DVD and the regular Blu-ray/DVD/Ultraviolet combo pack in stores.) Check out all Target’s Hobbit Home Video sales info here.  (Thanks to Ringer spy Nathaniel for sending along the information.)

Also – see our post above for a great offer to buy the Limited Collector’s Edition from The Hobbit Shop at a discounted price!  If you were wondering if you could afford to splash out – now you can!

 

 

Lego Hobbit game trailer Here’s a funky new trailer for the Lego video game for The Hobbit, done in the style of Ocean’s Eleven. Pretty neat. It does seem to emphasise the teamwork element of the game, something that IGN’s reviewer of the just-released playable demo wrote about approvingly just the other day:

Already in this small section of Goblin Town, buddy-up was used in a handful of ways, and and considering Thorin, Fili, Kili, Oin, Gloin, Dwalin, Balin Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Dori, Nori and Ori all have different ways of interacting with the environment and one another, I’m excited to see how else the mechanic will play out.

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