{"id":23168,"date":"2000-07-16T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2000-07-16T15:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/07\/16\/news-from-vsda-2000\/"},"modified":"2000-07-16T10:56:35","modified_gmt":"2000-07-16T15:56:35","slug":"news-from-vsda-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/07\/16\/23168-news-from-vsda-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"News from VSDA 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! Thanks to J. Morris for this tip:<\/p>\n

“To Whom it May Concern,<\/p>\n

Not sure if this has been brought to your attention yet, but Bill Hunt’s DVD website “The Digital Bits” (www.thedigitalbits.com<\/a>) has posted some pictures from the Video Software Dealer’s Association Show in Las Vegas. A couple of the shots show a small display case from New Line, featuring some props from LOTR. The page with the pictures is here: <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thedigitalbits.com\/articles\/vsda2000\/vsdagallery4.html <\/a><\/p>\n

One of the “props” appears to be a model of the odd, bug-eyed creature first spotted on the computer screen in the LOTR teaser (the one some people mistook for Gollum).<\/p>\n

– J. Morris<\/i>“<\/p>\n

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This is definitely something that was missing from last week’s IGN report. I wonder what the large “King Kong” looking thing can be. Possibly the troll we have seen so much of in the Internet Preview? <\/p>\n

Another possibly idea: The Balrog? Doubt it. From all reports, WETA is guarding the Balrog tighter then Fort Knox. <\/p>\n

But then again, why was this image left out of the initial report? Hrm…very interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow! Thanks to J. Morris for this tip: “To Whom it May Concern, Not sure if this has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-spy-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-61G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}