Pile of gold is big and shiny but Smaug is good part of this MOC. Iz is so flexible!

you are god!please watch my creation too.

cool. how'd you do his eyes?

Amazing! I like the head design.

Nice work on the head! I love the way the floor was done too. Amazing!

well done, I like all the treasure, might just try for the stone...

I love dragons, and your its the best what i ever see. I would die for an instruction for it....

Great Job! I like the head!

Wow, this is AWESOME!! Those details are spot on, the eyes are terrific, the gold foil is ingenious, and I like how you hid Bilbo Baggins in there. Do you think the directors of the Hobbit will choose your design for Smaug in their movie?

This is amazing! My wife is a huge Smaug fan, is there anyway you'd be willing to part with the parts list?

Congratulations on a well deserved MOTD! Spectacular Smaug, clever trick with the gold, and stunning floor design. Bravo!

The fully posable dragon is quite impressive. But I have to be honest, for me the real hero of the build is that floor! I would never in a million years thought of building it that way... but it looks incredibly cool! I can't wait to try to replicate it. Very well done. Attack!

Oh man. That is WAAAY too cool!!!

Wow here did you get all the gold!!!

Nice MOTD! Smaug is great!

Wow! Great job, I love all the expressions it has. :)

A wonderful and accurate interpretation. The eyes are great! The gold foil, albeit not Lego, is used to great effect! Congrats on MOC of the day!

Excentlent MOTD!

Awesome! The gold foil is very convincing. How did you do his eyes?

Still stunning a few months later! Great work.

Ah, a magnificent Dovah! Also, that is a LOT of gold.

Brilliant! I love the eye detail and the high level of articulation. excellent job FT! Congrats on MOTD!!

Congrats on MOTD!

Fantastic job! Congratulations on MOTD.

Ingenious! The foil is definitely convincing! Awesome! The dragon is really spectacular! Especially all of its flexibility!

Very nice! But like Quad??? said, is that a ghost?

A golden piece of art!

Nice job! I thought the foil was LEGO gold and said 'wow he's got a lot of gold!' bit then I read that and was like, 'oh'. Nice work on the head and the floor too!

AWESOME!! one of the best dragons ive ever seen

Superb.

I know I Rated this amazing MOC ages ago, but just wanted to congratulate you on MotD! =P

Excellent build! That dragon looks just like the one in the movie!

Have you seen the 1st hobbit moovy its epic and so is that.

congrats on MOTD!

Run Bilbo!!!!!

Fantastic! While I understand the monetary advantages of using foil, a purist pile of coins would have increased the "wow factor" of this scene, but your dragon makes up for that. Fantastic work!

Awesome job!!! Do you have some instructions of it?

Awesome!

That's a lot of gold! I thought it was all LEGO Gold at first! Good Job!

Amazing! I can't wait for the movie to come out.

Tremendous indeed!

That's a lot of gold. Fantastic positioning of smaug

The gold cheat seems a great cheat, and worth fit for the effect. Smaug himself is a lovely build, lots of great muscle modling.

You better give Lego the design for this if you want them to sell something worth buying. Plus half the pieces you get now are rubber. Yum.

Truly excellent work!

Cool!! Nice work with the gold foil!

Great work. Nice trick with the gold foil and I spotted the invisible Bilbo in the 4th picture ;)

Blogged again! http://www.lordofthebrick.com/2012/08/smaug-the-golden/

You sold me on the gold effect. Very well done!

WOWW!! lot of gold...Excellent work!

Very good job! Telling that Smaug is in the story isn't a spoiler because in the very beginning when the dwarfs are in Bag-End they tell how they are going on the quest to take their gold back from Smaug.

Original, creative, and the base is great! Z

Are all the golden pieces from Lego? Great job!!! Thanks for sharing.

Very convincing! And a really neat floor technique. Ad am I crazy, or is there a little ghost of a minifig in the 4th picture?

Fantastic MOC! The dragon looks really good. And you tricked me with that gold :P

Very nice! I love the floor design. Awesome job. :)

in the 4th pic i see an invisible hobbit! nice touch!

Clever.

I was a little dissappointed about the gold foil, but the dragon is awesome! I hope lego makes a decent Smaug, assuming they make one at all, too.

Very cool idea! 5/5

Very much amazing.

awsome

Excellent Smaug! Great idea for the gold in the bag. Blogged on BrickEnd: http://brickend.blogspot.com/2012/08/smaug-tremendous-by-fat-tony.html

This is by far the best Smaug I have seen.

Great snakes! Someone has a lot of gold pieces...the build looks awesome! Well done.

Amazing work on the dragon himself, and a very clever idea for the treasure pile! The tail looks a little segmented, but I know how difficult that is to fix without losing pose-ability.

Smaug is awesome! But where did you get those gold pieces???

Wow! So much gold and smaug is awesome!

just love the dragon!!!!!

Impressive! Smaug looks great, and the floor is quite good too.

Amazing dragon

stunning work... ! if he looks like yours in the movie... i like him!

Forget LEGO designing one, why don't they just use this amazing one here!

This is brilliant!

The dragon could have better wings, but the best thing is the gold solution. I would prefer purist, but that does not mean that I do not believe your idea is clever.

I think you know that lego will disappoint on their version of Smaug ;) You, however, have definitely not disappointed me! I remember seeing the head and thinking it looked really good, but this is, well, a masterpiece! The gold foil is a very clever idea too. Would it be possible to see Smaug on his own with a white background? Not a problem if not ;) Great work!

That open eye is the icing on this cake of awesome.

Beautiful, lots of character in this guy.

Fantastic! I like your deceptive techniques! >:]

It's amazing! Great design and great bignette ( I guess it's bignette). I also can't wait to see him in the movie, but I think we'll have to wait for the third one...

Fantastic build and the floor is amazing!

You had me fooled for a second regarding the treasure! Excellent work on the dragon, he sure looks evil and tremendous :)

That's Tremendous! (Bad Pun intended) Keep it up! God Bless ~ Mr.Doo

awesome!

Lovely floor & dragon design! :)

Excellent design on both the dragon and the floor! Amazing creation!

Wow, this is fantastic! Smaug is just awesome, but I also really love that floor pattern.