After rigorous search for a way for me to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy extended editions in remastered 4K format I finally had to give up. If I would stick to that requirement my LEGO Rivendell set would have never got built.
It seems all the streaming and online rental services only offer the remastered theatrical versions here in Finland. I was so desperate that I actually considered giving in and getting them from Apple TV, the only one that seemed to have them available. Unfortunately it seems it's so hard to make a working streaming application for Android that only 4 out of 5 major streaming providers have been able to do that.
So my options were either watching the theatrical versions with better quality, or watch the extended editions in lower quality as I already own those original DVD boxes. The problem with the later option was that it would have required me to get a DVD player as we haven't got one for years in the house.
The set is estimated at around 12 hours build time, just perfect foe the runtime of the extended editions which total just a bit over 12 hours. The theatrical versions run only for 9 hours, so there will be 3 less hours for me to complete the build.
Challenge accepted!