Along with all of the exclusives, non-exclusives, and 2014 LEGO sets being shown for the very first time at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con, there’s also a lone late 2013 set making its debut. That’s right–we still haven’t seen all of the 2013 LEGO sets yet! You see, many of us LEGO fans are forgetting that the LEGO The Hobbit sets release during the holiday period of each year. As such, here’s our first gander at one of the Winter 2013 Hobbit LEGO gets: the LEGO The Hobbit Lake Town Chase set!

LEGO was planning on keeping this LEGO Hobbit Lake Town Chase a big secret until they revealed it at the convention, but then it went and got spoiled anyway when MTV showed off video of the set before LEGO had the chance to unveil it at the show. Go figure! I’m sure that wasn’t what LEGO was planning on, but at least it enabled me to take some screenshots of the upcoming Hobbit Lake Town Chase LEGO set and its minifigures that are better than the awful photo of the set that LEGO released themselves.

The Winter 2013 LEGO Lake Town Chase set is sort of, well… boring. Like the LEGO Star Wars 2014 AT-AP set that LEGO debuted a few days ago at the convention, I feel like the LEGO The Hobbit Lake Town Chase set is just sort of “there”, and not really anything to get excited over. The buildings are pretty plain and small, and the boat itself is neat, albeit bare-bones.

You get five minifigures with the LEGO Hobbit Lake Town Chase set. Bilbo, Thorin, Bard, The Master of Lake Town and a Guard minifigure. We’ve got plenty of LEGO Thorin and Bilbo minifigures already, so they’re not terribly enticing. However, I am definitely pleased that we’re getting a LEGO Bard minifigure for sure with the set–without spoiling anything, Bard the Bowman is a pretty pivotal character in The Hobbit movies, and should be a central character in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” movie. The Master of Lake Town minifigure also looks really well-done, though I’m not sure how prominent that character is going to be in the movie.

The set includes just 334 piece for a retail price of $49.99, which seems like a really bad price per brick on paper. Maybe when I get a chance to build this set and spend some time up-close and personal with it I’m going to be blown away by the variety of pieces that make it up and thus understand its high price-point, but from afar this definitely seem like a $39.99 set that LEGO has priced ten dollars too high.

The Lord of the Rings LEGO Hobbit Lake Town Chase set is scheduled to be released in stores in November/December 2013. I’ll update with better photos and more information about the other sets in the Winter 2013 LEGO The Hobbit wave as more details are made public.