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Lego Lord Of The Rings & Hobbit vanish from sale

LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™

Based on The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy, LEGO® The Lord of the Rings follows the original story-lines of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, taking players through the epic story events re-imagined with the humor and endl

As is becoming disappointingly common with games based on movie licenses and whatnot, Lego The Lord Of The Rings and Lego The Hobbit seem to have been pulled from sale on digital stores including Steam without warning or explanation. Folks who already own them can continue to download and play them on Steam, but newcomers will need to track down a boxed copy or download code from another store if they want ’em. I know what you’re thinking–that the LOTR and Hobbit movies were boring empty spectacles of “and then… and then… and then…” so w/e–but the plasticised adaptations from Traveller’s Tales are fun, and it sucks that this keeps happening.

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