Some awesome SNOT work here and I love that tree design :) Great work :D

Aside from the Minifigs, your version is superior in every way. The main thing I don't like about the official LOTR sets is the jumbled-up, patchwork look that many of them have. Your version looks much better aesthetically and is more recognizable as Weathertop. TLG should take a lesson from you.

Love this design, and I'd def buy it over the official set!

I'd buy yours! Excellent build:)

Awesome :)

Woah!

Nothing like putting your brick where your mouth is man. Seriously nice work! As we've all discussed before, really the ONLY reason to get the sets is for the figs. Nice "one up" on TLG here! ~ Chris.

Yes, pretty sweet. I'm not sure which I'd rather buy, yours is more movie accurate, the other has nice colours and such that I'd like to have. I won't be buying weathertop any way, I just want the Uruk-hai army and Helms Deep :)

Yes, pretty sweet. I'm not sure which I'd rather buy, yours is more movie accurate, the other has nice colours and such that I'd like to have. I won't be buying weathertop any way, I just want the Uruk-hai army and Helms Deep :)

Nice alternative set! My favorite detail is the staircase. I will use that technique at some point.

Yeh man, way better. Their design teams sit around patting each other on the back alot, but really, same pieces, way better, what gives? Oh, they'll tell us how they have a budget bla, bla, bla, but how would this blow it? And if this is too complex, then we have no hope as a species, hahahaha, great stuff mate.

All that in 430 pieces?! And it opens up?? I want one!

Wow amazing moc the best weathertop i have ever seen!!!!

Cool set, Dude! Especially the fact that it's the same number if pieces. I agree with what Leda's saying, with the staircase and all those shortcuts they take nowadays. Well done!

I think just the fact that it is a brick built staircase is enough to make me buy it. I have one of those old spiral staircases from a HP set and used it once in a moc then it got picked up by my 7 yr old neice one day and was no more... now its just a heap of weird shapes that no matter how hard I try does not connect back onto the main shaft. This set is great, heaps of playability, lots of great parts. I agree with the official sets are making me mad too, I will end up buying the figures by themselves on BL, because the price of those sets here in NZ will be through the roof!

Excellent design!

The new set looks pretty cool, but this is way better. :D

Definitely go with yours, even though I think the Attack on the Weathertop is a poor choice for a set in general. But hey, that's not your fault :) Great job!

Cool! I would but the LEGO set for bits rather than play though, and make my own for "playing with". I wouldn't buy yours at the price LEGO would give it but it is still a good build!

Fantastic!

I would totally buy yours, although, I agree with Deus, I wish you used more dark green. However, I am not a fan our your ringwraith. He needs a hood

Looks very nice Great job!

nice set i like the sword on the ring wraith even though it doesn't look like its sword. and just to let you know lego lord of the rings comes summer this year check out lego.com for more

nice set i like the sword on the ring wraith even though it doesn't look like its sword. and just to let you know lego lord of the rings comes summer this year check out lego.com for more

nice set i like the sword on the ring wraith even though it doesn't look like its sword. and just to let you know lego lord of the rings comes summer this year check out lego.com for more

Yeah, yours has a much better look and playability factor. Go be a set designer.

Cool creation, but since I buy sets for bricks and I really like dark green... The official set wins.

Great lair...

Great lair...

So, first of all I think that is a very interesting idea to recreate an official Lego set with the same number of pieces(I may have to try that some time!). That being said, the build itself is much cleaner, and as stated earlier it is more easily recognizable as the setting in the movie. Really nice job on this!

Excellent, one of the cleanest Weathertops I've seen. Definitely better than the official version, I'd certainly rather this one!

Great job!

Very cool MOC!Very well done!:)

I'm with Jon, a much better realisation of the scene. Love the functionality of the hinged interior, and the neat curve on the stairs.

Nice build Shannon. Ok, taking the minifigs out of the equation, the choice is obvious for me. Your version is more recognisable and more accurate to the movie (which most people will be judging this on), and personally I prefer more useful parts for use in my own MOCs when I buy an official set - for starters, the spiral staircase pieces in the official set would probably disappear into the recesses of my collection, so you win there too.