Ringer Spy LC sends along this great pic from the Toy Biz booth at Comic-con 2001. Take a look! [More]
Month: August 2001
I thought I would give a small update on Barlibash, seeing as I attended the reception last night. I am sure full reports will come in as people return home from the festivities.
Despite inclement weather in the Greater Chicagoland area, everyone arrived safely at the introduction reception. Many flights were delayed, and a number of the Bashers had been in airports and planes for the entire day.
The scheduled event for last night was the reception. From my view point it seemed like everyone had an excellent time, with the possible exception of Barliman the reception’s bartender. Many of the meetings that I witnessed reminded me of long lost friends meeting once again. The type of things you would see at class reunions and the like. I think I will leave it like that, seeing as I am at best an infrequent visitor to Barliman’s.
After the reception, the group split up for a bit. I went with Jincey and Balin to Jincey’s room so I could set up Internet for her laptop. Like a child entering a candy store, or a drug addict getting a fix, Jincey’s eyes simply lit up once her laptop was on the Internet and she could stop in at Barliman’s. After that, being a working slob, I had to head for home. By the time I had arrived home and logged in to check up on things, it seems the party had moved fully into Jincey’s room. Most everyone stopped into Barliman’s and said hi.
Today the Bashers are heading into downtown Chicago for the day. I will be meeting up with them once again this evening. And I am sure there will be further reports to keep all of you appraised of the goings on.
It was wonderful putting faces with many of the nicks (and even some voices), that I have been dealing with over the past 3.5 years. Hopefully at the next Bash, all of us will be fortunate enough to attend.
From: Barbarshop
Tonight (August 2nd) on Extra TV they did a short spot on the importance of the internet to movie studios and how the internet buzz can either boost or kill box office sales. LOTR was one of the films mentioned (other films included the new Harry Potter movie, and the Blair Witch Project to name only two) as having a huge internet push. They showed about 2 seconds from the new teaser trailer and a quick shot of the official LOTR website.
Fabius Fëadûr sends along word that the Argentinian Tolkien Society have been invited to view the 26 minutes of LOTR seen at Cannes. I’m not 100% sure this is accurate, as I heard that the footage was taken from Cannes, shown in New York, and flown back to NZ in a sealed safe, and if it is true, New Line should let some OTHER unfortunate soul who could NOT make it to Cannes to watch this footage! (me! me!) [More]
Fabius Fëadûr sends along word that the Argentinian Tolkien Society have been invited to view the 26 minutes of LOTR seen at Cannes. I’m not 100% sure this is accurate, as I heard that the footage was taken from Cannes, shown in New York, and flown back to NZ in a sealed safe, and if it is true, New Line should let some OTHER unfortunate soul who could NOT make it to Cannes to watch this footage! (me! me!)
I´m from Argentina, i´m a memeber of the Argentinian Tolkien Society (Asociación Tolkien Argentina, ATA) and i are invited to view the Cannes´ Trailer this Thuesday 7, yes, New Line Cinema is represented by Warner in Argentina and they will play the 26 minutes trailer, the great one. I will be there, i am a Tolkien fan, and i will write something to you about this.
Another thing, in August 18 we´ll do TheTolkien 2001 our great party about the writer, there´ll be live music, fan art, movie trailers, middle-earth products, and much more, in 1999 and 2000 we do that and more than 2000 people come to us.
Ringer spy Dave sends along news on some new LOTR Board Games coming soon. Take a look. [More]