Sideshow Collectibles has just revealed their next Lord of the Rings diorama: Aragorn VS Uruk-hai – The Walls of Helms Deep. This piece looks to be rather large in comparision to the first diorama (Frodo and Gollum – The Crack of Doom), but we’ll have to wait and see! If you didn’t hear about this announcement via email, make sure to join the Sideshow Collectibles newsletter, or, of course, you can just check TORn a lot too! [View Preview]
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Who is the mysterious Dr Grordbort, and what has he got to do with New Zealand’s legendary multi Academy Award® winning Weta Workshop? Well, it seems that Grordbort has reached out from his parallel universe and appointed Weta Limited to manufacture his awesome range of Rayguns.
With names such as the MANMELTER 3600ZX Sub-Atomic Disintegrator Pistol; the F.M.O.M. INDUSTRIES Wave Disrupter Gun, or even the GOLIATHON 83 Infinity Beam Projector, you know that these have been created by a truly warped mind! [More]
Craig writes: Angus McBride has passed away. Mr McBride created a number of pieces of artwork based on Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings for Iron Crown Enterprises Middle Earth Role Playing (MERP) game and Middle Earth Collectable Card Game (MECCG). [More]
From WETANZ.com: Weta Designer Stephen Crowe returns to the forums to answer as many questions as he can on NZ Thurs 31 May. Here are some of the highlights from last week’s blitz…
Here’s a snippet:
What was your first project with Weta and what was your best?
Stephen: “I was originally brought in to work on the Neon Genesis Evangelion live action movie – which was good fun, and a very steep learning curve for me. The BEST one is probably what I’m working on right now – which of course I can’t talk about!”
How do you find managing the often competing demands of a full work week, extra-hours freelance work, family, socialising and personal projects?
Stephen: “It’s really incredibly difficult to fit it all in, and to say that I’m ‘managing’ these aspects of my life would be grossly unfair to that word!
“Progressing some personal projects is becoming more and more important to me … in particular a graphic novel concept that I’ve been kicking around for a wee while now.. the book takes place somewhere else, or sometime else (is that specific enough?), or probably BOTH, and the main character is a freelancing engineer who is offered a lucrative and attractive contract to go and work on a nearby island that is populated by a mysterious but benevolent race of beings who have largely kept to themselves since their arrival quite some time ago. The engineer ends up becoming involved in a SINISTER PLOT, no less!
“So lots of fun sci-fi design opportunities to keep me happy, and some action/drama to pull it all together. The challenging part will be writing the thing – so maybe a collaboration is in order, as I’ve never written fiction. So utilising my spare half hour per month to it’s fullest, I should be done by about 2047! Keep an eye out…”
Weta Designer Daniel Falconer and a mystery designer also jumped onto the Forums to join in, too!
Congratulations to Weta Forum members Ulrik_fC, hsaunderson, Targos, oldduffer and Arranz, who won a King Kong poster signed by Stephen himself.
Stephen will be hopping on again tomorrow NZ Thurs 31 May (that’s Weds to those of you in North America), so make sure if you haven’t already, you sign up and create an account (free!) to chat to Stephen and the crew.
Very Cool RINGERS Props & Oscar Party Memorabilia!
Clean, used, or MINT – these items are like none you’ll find or collect anywhere!
Here you will find crazy items we dug up from the RINGERS “Prop Museum” including NENYA Galadriel’s Ring, collectible Lithos from Comic-Con, and more.
Thank you for celebrating our award-winning indie documentary RINGERS: LORD OF THE FANS. If you can imagine it, we probably filmed it for our B-roll! Here is your chance to acquire exclusive odd bits available nowhere else.
Check out the film clips (Quicktime required) and throw down your bids to own a piece of indie film history.
Check out these sequences from the film (Quicktime required) and join the auctions!
The “Mariachi Sing-Along”:
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The infamous “Very Secret Diaries” Segment:
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Visit our Official Site at the RINGERS Store: [Click here]
The newest series of RINGERS eBay auctions are here:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Ultimate Viewers Guide
FORREY ACKERMAN Sci-Fi Photo RARE (seen in film)
ROTK JIGSAW PUZZLE BOOK w/Bonus
TTT MERRY & PIPPIN Comic-Con Litho
GALADRIEL’S RING (NENYA) Noble Collection
Sideshow ORCS OF MORIA Medallion RARE
WOW! RINGERS EXCLUSIVE Microphone Flag
Lot of 3 Tshirts including the WELLINGTON PREMIERE, the LINE PARTY 3 and the RETURN OF THE ONE PARTY
Harry Potter’s moon-faced mug is plastered all over the front doors of the Borders bookstore in Altamonte Springs. A life-sized rendering of the star Quidditch Seeker stands just inside the store entrance, and the sales staff wears lanyards bearing more signs of Harry’s seventh coming. Area booksellers can be forgiven for baiting their hooks as the July 21 release of the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling’s series approaches. But in the meantime, a much older — and some say wiser — wizard has risen from a grave deep beyond Middle-earth. This one has slashed through the Hogwarts hoopla and claimed lordship of the best-seller ring, provoking glee among legions of his mostly older, Hobbit-formed fans. [More]