This is a labour of love! Jon writes, “Over the past year I have been constructing scaled down Locations and Character Minifigures from Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings out of stock Lego Bricks and pieces. I browse TORN religiously, and thought that other Tolkien fans might like to have a gander at what I’ve constructed.” [More] Cute fun!
Day: September 14, 2002
News from Chino in the Philippines: “Hello. I went to a toy store here in the Makati,Philippines this morning and saw the new Two Towers Action figures. I saw all of asst. 1 except for Easterling (which is sold out), the twin packs and the 12″ figures. The Eowyn is nearly sold out. The Legolas 6″ is also nearly sold out.”
Annette sent a link to this pic of Elijah Wood shaking hands with a lucky fan. [More]
Thanks to Monica for this link to one of the guys who worked on some of the LOTR digital effects, including the fireworks dragon, the cave-troll and the ‘fell beasts,’ which he really likes…He says film II will be ‘Dark, powerful and massive….’ [More]
Sarntolias has an Eye for toys: I’ve been keeping an eye open for any TTT merchandise available in England. The only thing so far is a 360 degree ‘magic’ Jig saw puzzle which i spotted yesterday for sale at £8.99 in Toymaster.
From Ringer wizardlex: Here’s an interesting story on Marton Csokas from the Sat. Sept. 14 edition of The New Zealand Herald online. [More]