Ringer Spy Bellerophon writes that the Tolkien Online boards have stumbled across this screencap from the FoTR EE DVD. What is it? It doesn’t seem to be from the first two films. We wonder if this could be a maquette of the Dead (just in the way we saw the early models of Shelob on the DVD). Or perhaps it’s totally unrelated to LoTR. Take a look! [More] Possible Spoilers!
Day: August 16, 2003
Vilyakeeper describes his excitement as the long-awaited Orthanc collectible from Sideshow turns up unexpectedly. So, they’re possibly in your mail now, if you’ve ordered them. [More]
TORn Staffer Ostadan recently spotted this post from someone who works for Hasbro on the usenet group rec.games.board about what’s happening with Risk for Return of the King. [More]
TORn Staffer Ostandan recently spotted this post from someone who works for Hasbro on the usenet group rec.games.board about what’s happening with Risk for Return of the King.
Subject: Re: Attn Rob D.: LOTR Risk news
Newsgroups: rec.games.board
Sorry to disappoint you but it will NOT be a two-player expansion. The new game will replace the game on shelf. It will have two more panels to the game to incorporate Gondor and Mordor. It will have a third deck of territory/adventure cards. It has a totally rewritten rulebook. It has new rules for “Alliance Play” and “Team Play”. It cleans up confusion on the cards. It clarifies rules in the game. It contains more pieces to account for the larger number of spaces.
The only thing I have not been able to do is figure out to get just the pieces you need if you already own the first version. Unfortunately, you would need:
- The new board
- The new rulebook
- The third card deck
- All the pieces again (since they are bagged in one bag, we can’t just send the extras)
Then I realized that you need the first two card decks since the copy has been clarified and modified. Then I realized that the card backs will be blue, not red, so you need all three decks. (The blue is keeping with the ROTK style guide and to ensure that the correct decks are put in the game on the assembly line.)
I also realized that the vacuum-formed tray is different to account for the larger number of pieces and cards.
So the only thing that carries over is the ring and the dice. Everything else is significantly new.
So it is a re-release. On shelf in December.
-Rob
Hasbro Games
Apparently more than 20,000 people were at the Westpac Trust Stadium in Wellington, this afternoon to do some screaming and shouting for LoTR. Ringer Spy NZBoy reports that an LoTR sound crew was at the Rugby match, and came out after the game, and got the crowd to chant several different human and orcish war chants. Check out our report for some pictures and a very cool soundbite of one the chants! [More] Minor Spoilers!
Ringer Spy NZBoy reports:
Today at Westpac Trust Stadium in Wellington, Wellington was playing
Southland in a normal NPC rugby game, which Wellington won. After the game, the LOTR sound crew came out, and one the big screen there they got the crowd to chant out the sayings on there while the sound crew were around the outsides of the stadium.
The first chant was ‘DEATH’ a human chart. [What’s the odds that this will be something screamed by the Rohirrim at the Pelennor Fields? – Dem.]
The following chants are Orc ones – GROND, KATMUDA, GURUT. When the crowd got going, it sounds really cool!! Even though in the pics it doesn’t look like a lot of people where there, there were a lot on the side I was taking the pics, that side is the cheap seats.
The guy in sunglasses was the guy leading the chants. Other pics are of what was chanted, and the sound crew. I have also included a sound recording of Katmuda, not the greatest but you get the idea.
You can listen to the chanting right here!