Ringer Fan Sharon tells us that the Norwegian VG article we linked to yesterday also included the premiere date for the theatre trailer for RoTK. The section translates: The world premiere of the “Return of the King” trailer is the 26th of September. In Norway it will be shown before the Norwegian romantic comedy “The woman in my life” with Thomas Giertsen in the main role.
Month: August 2003
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!
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!