The Hollywood Reporter has posted that the third of the four exclusive minifigures to be given away at SDCC 2014 will be Bard the Bowman from The Hobbit. It's pictured to the right alongside a human sized model of Smaug the dragon, also from The Hobbit, which will be on display at SDCC.

The article also touches upon the method that will be used to give away these figures - the badges of attendees will be scanned in order to "determine a winner" in a lottery style giveaway. It's certainly reassuring that LEGO seem to have given some thought to the method used for the distribution of these figures, after the claims last year that the raffles were rigged. Hopefully this new method will be completely random.

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