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"With a BrickScore of 71, the Fell Beast is a genuinely impressive GWP that earns its praise from those who built it — but the score is dragged down by a wave of justified anger over LEGO's botched promotional rollout, not the set itself. Separate the product from the promotion and this is one of the most exciting LOTR GWPs LEGO has ever produced."
The Fell Beast (40693) is widely praised as one of the best gift-with-purchase sets LEGO has produced — a first-ever LEGO Fell Beast, movie-accurate in scale, with articulated head, wings, tail, and legs, soft printed vinyl wings, and an exclusive Ringwraith/Nazgûl minifigure. However, the set's reception is heavily distorted by a botched promotion: many buyers who purchased Barad-Dûr (10333) within the advertised window never received the GWP, flooding reviews with low scores based entirely on the availability fiasco rather than the product itself. Those who actually built it are nearly unanimously positive, with criticisms limited to the lack of eyes, limited wing articulation, and the minimal Osgiliath base.
Where they split: There is a stark split between reviewers who actually received and built the set (almost universally enthusiastic, rating it 80–100) and those who never received it despite purchasing Barad-Dûr within the promotional window (rating it 20–40, with complaints aimed entirely at LEGO's fulfillment failure). Expert reviewers (Hoth Bricks, Brickset) agree on both the set's strong qualities and its specific flaws — namely the missing eyes, limited wing pose range, and weak Osgiliath base.
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"This little promotional product therefore seems sufficiently worked out to trigger my immediate purchase of the LEGO ICONS set 10333 The Lord of the Rings: Barad-Dûr"
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"Overall 40639 The Lord of the Rings: Fell Beast satisfies my requirements for an enjoyable gift-with-purchase. We have never seen the winged beasts of Sauron's forces in physical LEGO form before and this set complements…"
Brickset Reviews"This little promotional product therefore seems sufficiently worked out to trigger my immediate purchase of the LEGO ICONS set 10333 The Lord of the Rings: Barad-Dûr"
"Overall 40639 The Lord of the Rings: Fell Beast satisfies my requirements for an enjoyable gift-with-purchase. We have never seen the winged beasts of Sauron's forces in physical LEGO form before and this set complements 10333 The Lord of the Rings: Barad-dûr thematically, despite their differing scales. The exclusive Ringwraith is a welcome inclusion too."
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