Greetings, Quickbeam here. <\/p>\n
After two years of speculation (and idle water-cooler debates among Ringer fans) we have answered the mystery at last! The “official” color of The Return of the King<\/i> is going to be BLUE. <\/p>\n
Well, to be more accurate: the “official” color of New Line Cinema licensed merchandise, found on packaging and other marketing materials, is going to follow a similar scheme as the first two films in Jackson’s trilogy — but with a primary BLUE background color. <\/p>\n
You will remember that all the Toy Biz action figures, the Applause novelty items, the Games Workshop miniatures, the Extended Edition DVD’s, etc. etc. were all colored GREEN for The Fellowship of the Ring<\/i>. It was a nice, Shire-type of green which suited the packaging for almost everything. Then all the goodies for The Two Towers<\/i> started showing up a year later in RED. Same exact layout, same package design, even the same movie logo — just with RED. <\/p>\n
If you don’t believe me go check out the Amazon.com page where you pre-order the Extended Edition of TTT<\/i>. It’s a muted, brick red color. <\/p>\n
Now it comes to it! My pal Flinch (divine editor and master guru of our Gaming Havens<\/a> section) and I have been going around in circles trying to figure out what would change this year for ROTK<\/i>. I took up the argument that all the merchandise would be SABLE with SILVER letters, just to match up with the standard of Minas Tirith. Turns out I was wrong in a big way. <\/p>\n