[Weapon XIX]

I'm sure they're making a Smaug. Unlike the balrog, which was a cool monster that fans fought long and hard for and eventually got one from Neca, Smaug is a main character, a voiced character, and now a titular character - the second film is called "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug."

Since he is one of titular characters of the second film I don't know how much of him we'll see in the first, which is why I don't believe we'll see his toy on shelves this winter. I wonder if we'll even see a mold at Toy Fair in February or if they'll save it for an SDCC reveal.

As to the size, I don't know exactly what PJ's scale is. I'm sure he'll be huge, but in scale may mean ML Fin Fang Foom size for the 1/18 figures. The trickiest part will undoubtedly be the wings, which will suffer the most from the scale issue. My favorite dragon wings so far have been on the Mega Bloks Battlemorph Dragon Eggs. They're large but articulated well so that they can fold up and hug the body. Hopefully Bridge Direct does something like that rather than large unarticulated wings like Neca's Balrog or single point articulated wings like most dragon toys (chap mei, Avatar TLA, Dragonheart, etc.).